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Want to learn how to better use Social Media? Stay tuned for Social Media Saturdays, where we turn the world wide web into a comprehensible marketing guide. Todays Topic: Mastering Memes What is a meme? 1: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture 2: an amusing or interesting … Continue reading Social Media Saturday: Mastering Memes
An Ode to MFA Your floors have seen many feet Since the word on ol' Main street is that MFA supports art from living artists- best part is how you do it all so well. Your walls never hang and tell the secrets artwork whispers back to make the show never lack in variety, oh … Continue reading Thoughtful Thursday: An Ode to MFA
Want to learn how to better use Social Media? Stay tuned for Social Media Saturdays, where we turn the world wide web into a comprehensible marketing guide. Todays Topic: The 80/20 Rule The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, basically says that 80% of an outcome stems from 20% of the work put … Continue reading Social Media Saturday: The 80/20 Rule
MFA Members are making the world more creative! MFA highlights members’ art events and exhibitions weekly on our Blog so the world can follow us. MFA Member Mary Ellen Geissenhainer "Making a Move on the Utz Girl" has been accepted into Hill Center Galleries Regional Juried Exhibition by juror Annette Polan, Portrait Artist and Professor … Continue reading Member News: June 24th, 2018
MFA Members are making the world more creative! MFA highlights members’ art events and exhibitions weekly on our Blog so the world can follow us. MFA Members Carol Donahue and Gail Higginbotham Carol Donahue and Gail Higginbotham are exhibiting at the Woods Gallery "Under One Sun" May 27- July 8, (Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church 611 Baltimore Annapolis BLVD Severna Park, … Continue reading Member News: June 17th, 2018
MFA Members are making the world more creative! MFA highlights members’ art events and exhibitions weekly on our Blog so the world can follow us. MFA Members Carol Donahue and Gail Higginbotham Carol Donahue and Gail Higginbotham are exhibiting at the Woods Gallery "Under One Sun" May 27- July 8, (Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church 611 Baltimore Annapolis BLVD Severna Park, … Continue reading Member News: June 10th, 2018
Paint Annapolis 2018 Winners After a week of both working and playing, the artists have all finished their incredible pieces and it's time for accolades! After much thoughtful deliberation from both, Juror Richard Niewerth made the selections for our Nocturne awards and Juror Al Gury made the final overall awards decisions. We would like to … Continue reading Paint Annapolis 2018: Nocturne and Overall Award Winners
John Shipman, the juror for Dueling Brushes recently said at our Paint Annapolis event that most collectors with millions of dollars worth of artwork started out collecting at festivals and plein air events. Other than knowing where to find artwork, however, how does one even begin to collect art? There are many factors at play … Continue reading Thoughtful Thursday: Collecting Artwork For Beginners
MFA Members are making the world more creative! MFA highlights members’ art events and exhibitions weekly on our Blog so the world can follow us. MFA Member April Rimpo Rimpo was selected for the Baltimore Watercolor Society's 2018 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition. Limited to aqueous media on paper, the exhibit includes selected works created by … Continue reading Member News: June 3rd, 2018
Let's welcome Roberto Gato, an artist with a great youtube that you can access here, and an adorable pet bird named Butters. I learned how to make art doing theatre production/design around DC for 20 years. Learned how to paint, build things, metalworking, electrical, etc. I can make almost anything out of anything. Starting about … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Roberto Gato
To prepare for Maryland Federation of Art's 2018 Paint Annapolis event, David Diaz, a local artist, clues us into what Plein Air painting entails. Click here to watch the video! Social media can seem like a menacing, popularity contest at first. I'm here to give some tips on how you can turn your perspective of social … Continue reading Thoughtful Thursday: How Plein Air Can Boost Your Social Media Presence
MFA Members are making the world more creative! MFA highlights members’ art events and exhibitions weekly on our Blog so the world can follow us. MFA Member Bill Schmidt Schmidt is featured in THE SHAPE OF WATER exhibition, at the California Art Club, in Altadena Town & Country Club (2290 Country Club Drive Altadena, CA 91001), June 1 - … Continue reading Member News: May 27th, 2018
