Saturday, May 19th, the Singularity held a collaborative art experience.
Housing over forty artists of various medias from the Jackson and surrounding areas, we are acknowledging and celebrating that the 517 underground art culture exists, needs, and can be provided with a place to work, study, and display their work.
On behalf of the Singularity, I would like to thank all of the artists and writers whose work is on display, musicians, everyone who participated in the drum circle (you guys vibe so well together!), Kristen Andrews for taking charge, filling in the gaps, and putting together the music line up, Nate Norris for also filling in the gaps and helping out so much, Art 634 for giving us a place to throw such a wonderful event, Maggie Riggle for putting up with our scatter brains, Cuppa for basically fueling everyone who came through, anyone who snapped photographs to help…
View original post 380 more words
I would like to mark this day in my life, today I sold my first piece of art. It felt amazing, not only to make a profit from something that I genuinely LOVE doing, but that this person wanted something that I made.
It seems like forever ago, one drunken night I expressed to a room full of men that I wanted to make a painting of a woman touching herself, which as expected they all encouraged. I started this painting early February & finally finished her mid April. I had so many people tell me that they wanted this painting, which was extremely flattering, but for some reason I never really pursued their interest in her. I have been attending the art institute of Novi for a little over a month now and ended up making friends with a man named Brian in my design fundamentals class. When we were chatting one day, me being a painter came into conversation and at the time I had just finished the painting so ended up showing him. His exact reaction was “I need her!!” & that is what brings me to writing this post right now. When I sold the painting to him today it took everything in me not to have the biggest, cheesiest smile on my face. I told him thank you, and he told me “continue what you do, I want you to be great.” I can’t express enough how happy, & confident this has made me feel, and I will continue to do what I do, and I will be great.
Thank you Brian, enjoy her.
Yesterday was one of the best days that I have had and will remember for a long time. This town is filled with talented people, they are everywhere, and standing in the gallery at Art634 I had goosebumps surrounded by the beautiful art, and music.
I would like to give such a big thank you to to The Singularity for making all of this possible. You have no idea how grateful I am for all of your hard work, you are making things happen in our town, I am proud to brag about Jackson MI. I can honestly say that I was shocked by the amount of support that turned out, 400+ people were able to view my art because of you. Thank you so much & thank you to every single one of you 400+ people this would not have been possible with out you. I was so nervous and excited leading up to the show, I have always painted because I enjoyed it I never thought about showing my art to people, or even selling it. I usually just gave it to family and friends. I am so grateful that I was given the opportunity to share my passion for painting with all of you.
If you did not make it to the show, please be sure to stop by the Art634 gallery and take in all the amazing work there. Open gallery starts tomorrow noon to three. I know there have been many times that I’ve wanted to purchase art but couldn’t afford it. With that said I posted a note with my paintings that read “when I started painting, I never painted with the intention of making profit from my art so asking me to put a price on my work has brought me to a dead end. So really the question is… what can you afford?” If you are interested in purchasing any of my paintings, or getting a custom painting made please feel free to email me at coll33nyy@gmail.com. Also be sure to check out The Singularity; http://singularityhouse.wordpress.com/
colleenmpeterson 