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The Artist's Roundtable

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23rd 2013, 3 − 4:30pm

Artists nurturing artists...at LuminArte Gallery
1727 E. Levee St, Dallas, Texas 75207

Join us for creative comraderie, sharing, brainstorming, and refreshments!

The Artist's Roundtable serves as a casual and fun forum for sharing, mingling, and creating dialogue with other artists and art insiders to fosters a sense of community and bond with your artist peers. Share with us whatever creative endeavors you have in the works; bring laptop, portfolio or any means to share your website or images, and questions to pose for our creative brainstorming sessions. Also on the table ~ how you can participate in our live art auction! No fee to attend, bring a guest if you'd like.

APT Workshop at LuminArte

Two talks in one workshop at LuminArte Gallery
1727 E. Levee St, Dallas, Texas

SATURDAY APRIL 27th, 2013 | 2 − 4pm

Photo Correction Made Easy
Excellent photographs are a must to show your work at its very best! In our next photography demo and workshop, fine art photography expert Trevor Kobrin will show the artist how to present images of one's work in the most professional way possible, utilizing accessible software for color correction, simplifying an image's background, and demonstrating the influence of different light sources when photographing your art. Bring laptops and questions!

Marketing Art From the Heart
Do you know what it is you want to convey with your art work? Is that message coming across? Bring pen and notebook for this brief half hour participatory workshop with writing exercises and tips to help define and encourage your own personal branding!

International photographer Trevor Kobrin, winner of prestigious photographic awards throughout South Africa, Europe and America, has had his commercial and fine art photography featured in international publications Elle, Marie Claire, numerous South African magazines; and locally in D Magazine, D Home, Dallas Design Book, and Cottages & Bungalows. His fine art photography has been exhibited in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Little Louvre Gallery, the Canvas Gallery in Dallas, and may be viewed at www.trevorkobrin.com.

Guest speaker Marie Hastings, small business strategist and Personal Consultant, with clients in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angelos and Texas, will share secrets of how CFO's, CEO's and business owners get results, in both their personal lives and their pocket books.

LuminArte's artist studios and workshop serve to promote local talent, education and invite community participation in the arts.

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$15 admission for members
$25 admission for non-members

A Night at the Muzeion

SATURDAY JUNE 15, 2013 7 − 10pm

APT Art Auction
Fundraiser & Lecture

This celebration benefiting local Texas artists of APT, held at the Muzeion Gallery, encourages collectors to invest in the future of the Texas Art Market!

7pm - Silent Auction, Small Works
8pm - Lecture by Muzeion owner, Guillermo, on the conscientious placement of art.
8:30 - Live Auction, larger works.
9:30 - Final Bid on small art works

Refreshments and wine served. RSVP to info@artprotx.com to be on the guest list, or no admission. 214.327.2436 No cover.

Muzeion is a purveyor of object d'art for the modern day collector and top of the line decorator.
Muzeion ~ 1113 Dragon Street, Dallas, Texaswww.muzeion.com Hrs: Tues. - Saturday 10am - 6pm

Open Call for the Artist...Deadline: March 15th, 2013

Live Art Auction:
Artist receives 50% of sales made from larger works submitted by artist, with 25% to APT, 25% to gallery. Art not purchased goes back to the artist. Kay Dalton, Nic Noblique, and Cassandra Fink have entered art works for the live auction. We are seeking more small to medium-sized art works by other APT artists.

Small Works Silent Auction:
Participating 2D or 3D artists will be provided an 8" x 8" canvas in advance. (Sculptors working in heavier media may request reinforced backing.) This art is created as a donation to raise funds for APT. Bidding starts at $50, or works may be purchased outright at $200. If not sold by 9:30m, buyers may purchase these works at lowest bid above $50. Works not purchased go back to the artist. Artist will have at least 8 weeks to create this small piece, works should be finished by June 1st.

Contact us to be a participant in either or both auctions if you want some great exposure, and a chance to have your work auctioned at one of the most gorgeous galleries in Texas by a Heritage House auctioneer! (For live auction - please submit images of work, with title, medium and dimensions you would like to sell. For silent auction, simply request your 8" x 8" canvas.)

Into the Golden Mean ~ APT 2014 Exhibition

Into the Golden Mean is an art exhibition to be held in February 2014 for APT members at the Fort Worth Arts Community Center (formerly known as the Ft. Worth Modern Museum) and will include both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of contemporary and fine art. These art works should embody, imply, or include the Golden Ratio or logorithmic ratio of 3-5-8 found so abundantly in nature and also known as the Golden Mean, either literally or metaphorically. The exhibit celebrates this mathematical perfection of design that is prevalent around us; within the human body, the way leaves grow from a plant stalk, in pinecones or shells, and all throughout the universe from fractals to galaxies. In philosophy, the Golden Mean is the desirable middle between two extremes or a quest for the perfect balance, and beauty derived from symmetry, proportion, and harmony.

For the purpose of this show, either the spiral, or the philosophical interpretation of the Golden Mean must be present in each work submitted. Both representational and abstract works are welcome. One of our Featured Artists, Nic Noblique, will be presenting awards along with our honorary jurors. Download Prospectus here.