Summer Sampler Challenge Details

Creative Arts Community presents the first Sampler Challenge. Do you have a hard time picking just one workshop for the week? There are so many great classes, it can be hard to choose. Have you ever attended camp and wished you could just take a class from every instructor? Well this year we are not making you choose! Our 2020 Summer Sampler Challenge, offers virtual arts lessons from some of our incredible instructors.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
PLEASE READ EACH STEP OF INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

Step 1. Purchase the "2020 Summer Sampler Challenge" on our website. You get 5 challenges for one price of $100. Each challenge will focus on inspiration, experimentation, and process in a particular medium and will include:

Material supply list
PDF overview of the challenge
Instructor demonstration video

You must create an account on our new website to access the challenges on our website. You will be prompted to do so when you checkout.

Step 2.You will receive 2 emails. One with a receipt for your order and another that will ask you to confirm your new account by clicking the button "visit our store" and it will lead you back to the CAC website.

Step 3. You can then access the challenges from the homepage by clicking "Step 2: Access the Challenge" or You can choose "Summer Sampler Challenge" in the menu. It will lead you to a secret page where only purchasers of the challenge can see the art lessons. You can then download the pdf of instructions, watch the videos, and make some art! Challenges will remain available online until October 31, 2020.

Step 4. Post finished or in-progress images from challenges on our Facebook group for the rest of our community to see.

BONUS: Earn virtual raffle tickets!
For every picture you post of art made from a completed challenge you will received 5 virtual raffle tickets. For every comment you make on other members' posts you will will earn 1 virtual raffle ticket. Every Friday in the month of August, we will count up your virtual tickets and enter you into a raffle. One lucky person each week will win a CAC t-shirt or tote bag featuring our new logo.

READ THE CHALLENGE DESCRIPTIONS:

"Random Tube Challenge" - Ruth Armitage

Are you tired of following a ‘recipe’ type color palette of complements or triads? Want to add some variety to your palette and shake things up? If you’re ready to move beyond painting the colors you observe, this challenge is for you! Follow along as Ruth shows how you can achieve an exciting painting using 3 randomly chosen colors plus black & white. Suitable for any medium.

"Stitched Incantation Scroll" - Carolyn Hazel Drake

An experimental textile designed to be a protective talisman based on a text that holds personal meaning for you. For this creative challenge, you’ll create a protective talisman based on a text that holds personal meaning for you. You’ll loosely translate the ideas and themes from your poetry or prose into a color palette and abstracted shapes, lines, and textures rendered in stitch on fabric. The finished piece can be rolled into a scroll and carried with you or gifted to someone you love.

"Abstract Yourself" - Trish Harding

We all look in the mirror every morning but do we really observe what you look like with someone else’s eyes! We will think outside the box and delve honestly and deeply into our true self abstracted!

"Representational Collage" - Susan Schenk

Create realistic 2D art using paper and glue and a secret method which bypasses the need for drawing skills. Collage is a forgiving medium. The only rule is that it must make you happy. This challenge introduces the idea of creating a realistic image that might be cheerfully confused with a painting. You’ll produce a frame-ready 8 x 10 gem.

"Accordion Book: Thinking as Form" - Sarah Wolf Newlands

Do you ever feel boxed-in by your store-bought sketchbook? Do you make drawing, take notes, and gather inspirational materials, then lose track of them in boxes and portfolios? If you answered yes to either of these questions, the “Thinking as Form” challenge is for you! For this challenge, you will explore a theme or concept by constructing an accordion book. Merge thinking and making through the process of constructing your own visual research field guide.

While we are still so disappointed that our regular programming has been canceled this summer due to the pandemic, we are excited to have the opportunity to stay in touch through social media and offer these awesome challenges from some familiar faces. Are you ready to accept the Summer Sample Challenge? Click here to purchase it now!