Artist Demo
Archive 01/01/2022 to 06/01/2022
Best Practices, Artist Demos, Seminars, and Discussions
Third Tuesdays at 3 pm and Select Dates and Times
Join the Guild in watching the creative process of one of our fine artists. You will get to see them working for about an hour and explaining why they do what they do. You will be able to ask questions. Since our artists work in a variety of media, over time, you will be exposed to a large number of processes and approaches. The program may be a simplified “how to do” something or it may be a broader demonstration of how to start something, how to finish something, how to fix something or how to proceed when they are stuck. This program is usually held on Tuesdays at 3pm but it can be pre recorded and shown another time upon request.
Please refer to the Calendar for details about specific upcoming events.
Artist Demonstration
Panel Discussion
Best Practices
To Lease or Not to Lease?
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at 3 pm
Zoom link:
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 842 9410 6011
Password: 926317
Artists are invited to a panel discussion led by Susan and David Honneus on zoom about "Leasing Space for Making, Selling, or Exhibiting your Art”.
Topics might include:
Financial, Legal, Insurance, and Marketing Issues in the Rental of an Art Space.
What topics would you like to consider in future seminars and panel discussions? Bring your ideas!
Possible future topics which have been proposed include:
"What did you learn “The hard way” and can share with other artists”
“Licensing art”
and many others.
Artist Demonstration
Panel Discussion
Symbiotic Art Relationships
Tuesday February 8, 2022 at 3 pm
Zoom link:
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 842 9410 6011
Password: 926317
Artists are invited to a panel discussion led by Susan and David Honneus on zoom about "Symbiotic Art Relationships”
Symbiotic Art Relationships involve the use of space, shared space, or collaboration with other artists, including art-based or other non-profits organizations, or any other way artists can work together with others to benefit everyone involved, including sharing or co-use of resources, efforts, and facilities.
What topics would you like to consider in future seminars and panel discussions? Bring your ideas!
Possible topics which have been proposed include:
“licensing our art”
“What happens to our art when our heirs get it?”
“how to ship large artworks?”
“What did you learn “The hard way“ and can share with other artists”
“Color Interaction using Josef Albers course“ (five of us met weekly from January to June, learned a lot and plan to continue this fall and want to share this with other interested artists willing to work in small groups (we zoomed!).
What are YOUR ideas?
Artist Demonstration
Mark Olshansky
Needlepoint Artist
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at 3 pm
Co-Presented with:
Lenox Library, Lenox
Bushnell Sage Library, Sheffield
Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield
Ramsdell Library, Housatonic
Mason Library, Great Barrington
Zoom link:
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 843 7074 1985
Password: 002957
"I have a passion to create in wool these pictures from my mind, and now that I’ve been doing this for 40 years (with a brief 20-year hiatus), I have the skills to express my ideas in the medium of needlepoint. I do it in needlepoint because I can’t do it in any other medium.
My work is intuitive, I don’t try to figure it out. It works for me, and the end result is all I care about. I study music while I work: I study the constructions of Verdi operas, Brahms chamber music, Bach, and on and on.
My work is all Persian wool stitched on 10″ or 12″ scrim. I design each piece as I go along: I put a blank scrim on the wall and try to visualize what I want to do, and then I always do something completely different. Now that I’ve reached 80, I realize that I chased the wrong things. But it’s really never too late: creating these things is now my life, and it’s a joy."
"I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., was educated, drafted, married, started a family, and went into business. At about my fortieth year, a friend introduced me to needlepoint at a party. It was meant to be a light-hearted accompaniment to the more serious activity of downing martinis with stylish canapes. Ten years later, I had created many tapestries, pictures, a large rug, and more. Everything was designed as I went along and was made from Persian wool.
In 1980 I stopped my art when my wife and I decided to wet our toes in the wine importing world. Twenty years later, we retired, and I immediately picked up where I had left off. The procedure and material are the same today. In the past ten years, I have produced many pieces of various sizes, and I have exhibited in over 100 shows, both juried and galleried. My favorite way of working is creating pieces in series, such as Art and the Fugue, Mahler and Infant series.