Denver Wilson Contact Information
D3d1c@chartermi.net
989-835-6833
For instruction, Denver Wilson is teaching painting classes at Creative 360.
Sign up for his courses that start April 30th for beginners to intermediate painters.
Creative 360
989.837.1885
email at creativity@becreative360.org
1517 Bayliss St., Midland, MI 48640
Mon-Fri 9:00 am – 4:30 pm; call for evening and weekend hours.
Rainbow Row, Charleston SC by Charles Bonham
Purple Bubble by Heather Deogracia
Almost Spring by Cora Hartman
Nature’s Gifts by Cora Hartman
Lion Cub by Nancy Nickerson
Morning Brew by Barbara Plezia Doepel
Patron of Central Park by D. Joanne Rummel
Nuzzling by Carole Steffens
The Space Within by Jan Wegner
A Goat Named Loretta Lynn by Kathy Wertz
These pieces all had 5 or more votes each.
Winners will be announced at the MAG meeting on Wed. April 18th.
In the very hot visual artist interview, Victoria Miller, is proudly promoted by the Midland Artist Guild Artists blog website as the perfect artist to get to know. In March 2017, she earned the highest award-winning Best of Show, the Grand Selection for “He Who Has the Key” for last juried event at Creative 360. Miller is the blazing individual to be the one to watch and to witness her artistic flare of originality, play of foreshortening and unique subject manner.
“From the first conception of an idea, art usually comes to me as a flash and the actual starting point.” Victoria Miller
In her three words to describe her artwork is: imaginative, ambition and motivated. Miller’s significant piece “He Who Has the Key”, she quotes “successfully pulled together so much information and imagery to tell a story to the audience.” In addition, she wanted to create a complete environment to pull the eye to curiosity with a color pallet with the background music of modern piano.
As for her educational background, she earned a Bachelor’s of Art study at Saginaw Valley State University. Now Victoria has 30 years of freelance art experience in drawing, sculpting and graphic design.
Starting at drawing at the age of four, she had a long love of drawing her creative ideas. Art means to her as what is creative process of conception, starting point, and manifestation. Her idea come from a quick mental picture in mundane activities and has to jot it down a description. The final product may include mistakes yet she enjoys the progress and the final product is an enjoyable progress.
She loves to collecting different viewpoints towards from other audiences and artists solidify her feelings to be more confident. The feedback about her art, even derogatory, still evokes an emotion in that viewer so portraying the exact vision and feelings.
When Miller moved into the area and was viewing local galleries searching for a that wanted to join a group to socialize and share inspiration been a member of the Midland Artists Guild since 2002.
Awards of Merit
Charles Bonham – Angel Oak
Pat Smith – Gnarled Branches
Janice Wegner – Homage To The Black Dalia
Jasminka Blazina – Imagine
Awards of Excellence
Don Rulf – Serenity
Rebekah Doepel – Floral Impressions
Victoria Parker – Son, I’ll Be There For You
Members Choice
Joanne Rummel – Forlorne
2nd Place
Allise Noble – July: She Is Free
1st Place
Carol Buller- Table For Two
Best Of Show
Jody McDonald Ryder – Ashley
The People’s Choice will be awarded after the exhibit ends on April 22.
The Midland Artists Guild would like to present the new “Artist of the Month” for February 2018. The selection is Natalie Lodicobond of Midland, MI. The artist of the month is a full-time freelance photographer with an astounding body of artistic images working in the location of Midland. Most of her work covers in the Tri-city area for newspapers, on-line marketing and portraits that are “introspective, raw and intimate”.
Natalie earned a Bachelor’s of Art degree from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia with a concentration in Photography. She originally started with a major in philosophy and wanted to be a writer. After one class of Photography 101 she “took the plunge…it was like everything I’d ever done made sense”. The photo professor challenged and critiqued her harshly at the beginning and then he praised her for her gifts of artistic vision. At that time, she also earned money shooting photos on the side.
With a regular tendency and practice of creative skills, her imagination started at a very young age. At the toddler age of 2 she was drawing, making stories and curious enough to use a screwdriver to open her parents camera. At six, after years of begging from her parents, they bought her own 110 film camera. Taking family trips in her early adulthood were more about taking pictures then the journey to California. She was prepared with 5 rolls of film and the permission to borrow her parents 35 film camera.
“Anytime someone looks me in the eye and says they hate having their photo taken, and I manage to get them to relax, and they end up having fun and loving their photos. Nothing beats that. I live for it.”
On dual sides to getting herself into the art world, she has the incredibly tenacious attitude and tenderness about the subject matter. In public she is welcoming, warm and gregarious with people and in private she is sequestered in her work and process.
In her heart after a compliment, she has a “sense of rest, like what I am pouring my everything into is being seen. Like I can stop what I’m working on in my mind for a moment and just enjoy breathing for a second.”
She learned about the Midland Artists Guild in high school with a trip to the Northwood gallery. Being a part of the Midland’s artistic community, she is excited to shoot and gets excited about what is next. Her future in the photography within the Midland community is why the Midland Artists Guild wants to congratulate her for her genuine time and artistic effort.
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