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Welcome to my online artist's journal!
Visit my journal often as I will regularly add musings, information about my exhibitions and presentations, current classes and retreats, new art, ideas, and thoughts on my current work and daily life.
I believe every person is an artist, a creator. Mine is a holistic approach where the body, heart, and mind join to welcome creative possibility, where intention and intuition are honored, and where doing work that matters with wonder, grace, artistry, and love is valued. Art is inclusive, an inherent part of who we are as human beings; it is our universal language. Art cultivates the whole person, expanding the richness of meaning in life, reuniting outward experience with our inner selves. Through our creative capacities, we have the power to transform our lives.
Happy New Year to all! May 2009 bring you peace, prosperity, and joy! As the snow falls in Carver on this New Year's Eve, I am reminded of the beauty of Nature and the many ways in which the world is continually transformed.
This coming year, I am looking forward to teaching my newest offering--online art classes, titled Art Where You Are, for adults and high school students. Perhaps this will be the year you decide to explore your creative development, and now you don't even need to leave home!
My January and Spring 2009 art classes at the barn studio are also enrolling, so check the Art Classes page for the current dates and times. I teach classes in my studio for grades 7-12 and adults of all levels of experience. With no more than 6 students per class, the instruction is tailored to each student's needs.
Have a wonderful, creative 2009, and may the New Year be a work of art for you!
New! Online Art Classes and Art Distance Learning
As a teacher who has worked with hundreds of students over 33 years, I am well-aware of the challenges of time, travel and personal constraints. My company is now pleased to offer Art Where You Are™, creative and artistic guidance in an interactive distance learning format. Today's technologies make it possible to access learning no matter where you live, but Art Where You Are™ is unique because it tailors instruction to YOU personally rather than a large-group online class format. It is a responsive experience of mutual exchange, and your work is accomplished according to your own schedule and at your own rate of speed.
I am seeking a limited number of participants in the continental United States (excluding Alaska) for this new interactive distance learning pilot program in visual art and/or creative writing. Please read more about it at www.virginiafreyermuth.com and click Art Distance Learning. Apply and register before December 31, 2008 to receive a special offer.
November and January art classes at Cranberry Barn Studios in Carver are currently enrolling. Gift certificates are avaialble for the holidays!
Please read about the head-and-shoulders portrait special that is offered through December 31st under About Portraiture.
I have just completed work redesigning the website and hope you find it easier to navigate through the many instructional, artistic and professional offerings. My web designer at Auxano Creative did an outstanding job and was a true pleasure to work with. The link for Auxano Creative is found at the bottom of the website.
Announcing A New Line of Affordable Portraits
By popular demand, I am offering a new line of portraits that are smaller in size, are available more quickly, are offered at affordable prices, and are archivally framed.
Portrait Studies are slightly smaller than life size, and are created with archival materials. They are offered in pastel and mixed media on paper, head & shoulders only, with white background and solid-color clothing in simple styles, thus keeping prices low. Pricing includes a photography session at the artist’s studio at 4 Cranberry Rd, Carver, MA. The artist will recommend selected photographs to choose from as a point of departure for the portrait.
Portrait Studies are completed in approximately 3 weeks after the photographs are taken and selected. Discounts are offered for multiple subjects in one portrait.
Prices start at $399, archival framing included.
New Portrait, "Isabeli," Added to Website Gallery
Please visit the online gallery to see my newest portrait, "Isabeli." This pastel & mixed media portrait shows Isabeli dressed in a smocked brown velvet dress surrounded by greenery. This portrait was a beautiful collaboration between myself, Isabeli's family, and of course, little Isabeli herself who was the perfect model. It is the ideal time of year to commission a portrait within natural surroundings. Portraits commissioned before summer's end make exquisite gifts.
Portrait of "Grampa" Receives Award of Excellence
My portrait titled "Grampa" received the "Award of Excellence" this weekend at the South Shore Arts Center 's signature annual event: the 2008 Arts Festival in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The pastel and mixed media portrait was exhibitied in the Members' Show. The award, sponsored by Diane & Patrick Kennedy, is an honor for which I am most grateful.
The juror's written comments at the exhibition were: "The technical execution is beyond impressive, rendered as it is with what feels like photographic 'accuracy.' What I find even as compelling is the psychology of this piece. The gaze of the man and the bird towards us, the viewers, are both telling and questioning. I very much appreciate art that asks as many questions as it answers."
