Art League of Henderson County - Art League of Henderson County

2026 ArtScape Sponsorship
12/1/2025 - 5/31/2026

What if?
1/5/2026 - 1/26/2026

Instructor: Mary Alice Braukman
Dates: 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26
Time: 10 am - 4 pm (1-hour Lunch Break)
Member: $540 Non-Member: $595

This workshop is designed to encourage you to take your art in new directions. The class will be working with a wide variety of mediums, colors, collage, and experimenting on different surfaces with various transfer techniques. Each student will be encouraged to find his or her unique personal direction, whether working abstractly or representational. Individual guidance and critiques will be offered daily, as well as a class critique on the final day.

This class is open to anyone who would like to explore mixed media techniques, layering, collage, transfers, and how to apply these into your paintings. If you feel you are stuck, let's hope this will open up new ideas. Ask yourself “what if” and begin exploring those ideas.

Creativity is bigger than you.
Curiosity is the basis of creativity.
If you have passion for art that’s you.
If you’ve lost it you can get it back with curiosity,
EVERYONE CAN BE CREATIVE … YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CREATIVE
-Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

Supply List:
Brushes:

I like using flat brushes: 1`”, 2”, 3”- or larger.
Foam brushes or inexpensive ones for glue etc.

Colors:

Prefer Golden fluid acrylics and their heavy body ones, but I do use some Liquitex. Golden’s colors are best.
Nichol Azo Gold or Quinacridone Orange or both
Quinacridone Magenta, or Red, Phthalo Turquoise
Black (gesso or paint)White (gesso or paint)

Note: (These are three transparent colors that I will show how you can make all your colors and never have mud. BUT - Bring any you like using. - how you can tell if the color is transparent: If you paint a color over a black line the opaques will cover it but if transparent you will see black line.)

Painting material:

1 (Two) Birchwood cradles 16” x 16” or Panels 16” x 16” Can use canvas if you prefer. I’m rough on them and I like the wooden panels or cradles. If you cannot find the16” ones - Then any square but not smaller then 10” x 10” or larger than 20” x 20”
If you have an old painting you would like to re-work - bring them along. I love painting over old paintings and giving them new life. We will be doing collage in this class!
Freezer Paper (grocery store) or palette paper - prefer you not use paper or plastic plates
Scissors or X-acto or single edge razor blade
Colored pencils/crayons - I prefer Stabilo pencils and crayons also like oil pastels (Many of these supplies i will have and you are welcome to try.)
Gloss Fluid and Matt Fluid Mediums
On loan: Gator Boards for support of your collage substrates
Collage materials but the student may bring their own pieces.
Black India ink (small container)
Newspapers
A magazine (Architectural Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, etc.)
Rags to use for buffing and cleaning your brush
Paper towels
Scrapers (old credit cards, room keys, or and thing you use to scrape paint even shapers.)
Sketch book one with paper that will take paint. I like the spiral ones - they will lay flat.
Sand Paper (fine and medium)
If you have a brayer, bring it.
Masking tape - the blue 1 or 2”
Shipping tape - transparent 2” wide or 3”
Geli plate if you have one. I have 5 and we can share do not buy one.

Many of these items can be found at Walmart, The Dollar Store, Michaels, and Lowe's. Starving Artists carries all of these as well as Jerry’s Art Online.

Most important material:
COME WITH AN OPEN MIND. READY TO EXPLORE AND OPEN NEW DIRECTIONS IN YOUR WORK..WHAT IF?
GO WITH IT!

Any questions, feel free to call or text or email me.
Mary Alice Braukman - 727/418-3041 braukman@me.com

Artist Bio:
Braukman, a native Floridian, now makes her home in Pisgah Forest, NC.
She is a member of the Florida Watercolor Society and holds signature status in the National Watercolor Society. Mary Alice has a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education and Fine Arts from Florida State University. She continued graduate studies at the University of Colorado and Eckerd College in the Tampa Bay area. She is a past president of the Florida Watercolor Society and was director of the Kanuga Water-media Workshops for 15 years. Mary Alice was invited to be guest editor of the American Artist Magazine’s Special Issue: Experimental Approaches to Water-media and Watercolor in 2001. In 2022 she was one of three selected jurors of the National Watercolor Society International Open Exhibition and served in selecting those receiving their NWS signature status. As a painter Mary Alice’s primary focus is on texture and color. Her life experiences and everyday visions get filtered through her artistic eye and transformed into an abstract body of work. Her experiences come forth in a myriad of techniques - a pour of transparent colors or by layers of collage and brush strokes which she unearths the colors beneath bringing color and texture into her paintings. She believes a painter must paint the way he or she feels - they must paint in spite of themselves not the way you think you should paint. There is no one method that will guarantee success or acceptance in a show - it is not that simple. The painter paints because it is who they are - it is their journey.
Location: Art Place Studios
2015 Asheville Hwy
Hendersonville, NC 28791

The attendee limit has been reached for this event.

January Member Show at Art Place Gallery
1/7/2026 - 1/31/2026

Registration for the January member show is now open!

Space will again be limited so register early! We will need to cut off entries as soon as we hit our capacity based on sizes of work. We hit our capacity last month and had to turn registration off. You may register 2x this month.
Note- We are changing gallery pick up and drop day to MONDAYS to give us more time to prepare the show.

Application details:

Art League Member Registration Fee: $20
Commission: 30% to the Art League.

3D Artists (including jewelry) - you may bring in 5 pieces of work for your registration fee.
2D artists working small- You may submit multiples up to $300 retail value in artwork for your registration fee with a max of 5 pieces.
*Please note due to our hanging system very small pieces may be displayed on a table or shelf.

PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THESE DATES:
Registration Deadline: Sunday January 3rd, MIDNIGHT (or when we fill whichever happens first)
Art Drop Off: Monday January 5th, Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Opening Event: Friday January 9th 4 - 7 pm
Pick up of unsold work- Monday February 2nd, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Size limitation- 60 inches in any direction
Display requirements: If your work requires a special display component, please provide it.
See below for additional requirements.

Important Please Read - New exhibit rules (not guidelines, but rules that will be enforced):
All wire must be plastic coated. Our new hanging system requires coated wire in order for artwork to hang securely.
All wire must be tight enough and installed low enough so that when you hold the wire as if hanging work it does not show above the frame.
No sawtooth hangers.
No eye hooks - D-rings only
Hanging rods or dowels require loops that can be suspended from a hook. (no nailing in to walls can be done in the new gallery)
Every piece of artwork must be securely labeled on the back or attached with artist name, title, price, medium, size
All artwork on 7/8 inch thick canvases (the really thin ones) must be framed and edges painted.
No plastic, damaged, loose, or poorly repainted frames.
All deep gallery wrapped (1-1/2 inch plus) artwork must have edges painted.
No wet or tacky paintings will be accepted.
All paintings must be signed by artist in appropriate location.
The Art League reserves the right to remove any work from the exhibit that does not meet these rules or that is deemed inappropriate.

Location: Art Place Gallery
730 Locust Street
Hendersonville, NC 28791

Online Registration has closed for this event

ArtScape 2026 Artist Application
1/8/2026 - 3/8/2026

The Call for Artists - Application Deadline is March 8, 2026

Please read all information before applying to ArtScape 2026-2027

ArtScape Hendersonville is an annually changing, outdoor public-arts project that enriches the appeal of Hendersonville. Forty banners displaying the original artwork of Art League artists are hung on Main Street, the downtown avenues and the Historic 7th Avenue District.

ArtScape is corridor of colorful, waving banners brightens and enlivens Hendersonville’s historic downtown area and creates a unique outdoor art gallery for tourists and locals. The ongoing support of this annual display confirms Hendersonville’s commitment to art, creativity, and culture. They demonstrate tangibly the strong connection between the arts, local businesses, organizations, and individual art lovers.

ArtScape Hendersonville was founded in 2017 and is a program of the Art League of Henderson County.

Application Requirements:

Artists must be eighteen years old or older and be a member of the Art League of Henderson County.

Only original artwork will be considered—no reproductions or giclées.
Artwork may be 2D, 3D, fine crafts, or photography.
When selecting entries, artists should consider:
- Banner-display area is square—about 24 X 24.
- Any size 2-D artwork or 3-D artwork can be submitted
- You do not have to create a piece of work that is square, but keep in mind that the image on the banner will be square.
- We do not squeeze an image to fit a square, but crop the image to square. 3-D images should have a suitable background to work in a square format.
- Banners are displayed up high on a light pole. Thus, vibrant, high-contrast entries will be most appealing.
Artists may submit two pieces for one entry fee. But only one entry per artist will be accepted.

All submitted artwork must be available for the exhibit, for sale and priced accordingly.

Before you apply:

You will be required to provide the following during the application process:

Upload an image of your artwork (up to two entries). The ArtScape Committee reserves the right to crop artwork to square if you do not crop your own images. The banner images will be square.
Your images must be properly named: Last Name-First Name-artwork-title (Example: Doe-Jane-Walk-In-The-Woods).
It is recommended that you apply on a computer, not on your phone so that you have access to your images and ease of renaming images.

Provide Contact Information on the application form as you would like it to appear for marketing purposes:

Each artist will have two lines of copy on Art League website.
The first line is the artist’s name, as the artist wants it to appear in the banner.
The second line is the artist’s contact information—a TOTAL of 42 characters to be used for (pick one): email, website, or phone number, as artist wants them to appear in marketing materials (this information will not appear on printed banners).
Please proof read and spell carefully and count characters to insure information is included accurately.

Application Fees:

$40 - Art League Members

ALL current Art League Members are eligible to apply regardless of county of residence.

Submission deadline is March 8, 2026

The Art League reserves the right to crop images that are not square.
No frames or mats should be visible in your images.

Notification Process:

After the jury has completed its selection, artists will be notified of results by March 25, 2026.

Accepted Artwork:

The artist’s work and name, along with the name of the banner’s sponsor, will appear on both sides of a durable-vinyl banner. Sponsorships are solicited by the ArtScape committee and provided by local businesses, organizations, and art lovers.
The City of Hendersonville hangs the banners annually on Main Street, the downtown avenues and the Historic 7th Ave district. The City maintains the banners throughout the duration of the exhibit.

Reveal Event:

The Reveal reception of the printed banners will be held at the Art Place Gallery at 730 Locust Street on June 5, 2026. All original artwork will be on exhibition at Art Place Gallery from June 6 through June 29. Further details will be provided prior to the event.

We look forward to your submission.

Location: Art Place

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