We're bringing in the New Year with our evening Sketch Club again! 

Come join us Tuesday, January 12th from 7-8:30 PM. For $5 per person you can sketch from a live model in our studio downstairs. Tell a friend! Please call us to RSVP 770-536-2575. See you there! 

 'Tis the Season

The holiday season is off to a great start with the annual Christmas on Green Street Celebration on Sunday, December 6th.  Created by the Hall County Historical Society, Christmas on Green Street is an opportunity for the community to tour the homes on historic Green Street in downtown Gainesville and partake in some holiday cheer. Each year a classic car parade starts the evening at dusk, complete with Santa on a vintage fire truck. Performances by local groups, carolers and much more at each home on the tour. At the Quinlan this year, we had many treats to delight the children of our neighborhood. Free train rides (provided by the Hall County Historical Society) and free crafts for kids sponsored by the Georgia Art League. We entertained a record breaking 140 children this year at the Quinlan and I can show you the glitter, sequins and sparkles to prove it! High priestess of fun, Fox Gradin of Celestial Studios, helped us to create pine cone Christmas trees for each child.

Quinlan receives contribution to children's programs

Thank you Publix Super Markets Charities for the continued support of children's programs in art education at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, recently receiving a grant in the amount of $1,500.

Mitch Freeman to join “JUMBO” plan to save the Asian elephant

The Quinlan Visual Arts Center supports artist fundraising initiative to “Get Mitch to London!”

For one night only, Friday, November 20th from 6-8 PM, Quinlan artist Mitch Freeman will be showing his art work at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, raising awareness (and patronage) for his goal to participate in Elephant Parade London, 2010.

Freeman is one of only 200 specially chosen international artists, a eclectic collection of creative talent, who will take part in what has been billed as London’s biggest outdoor art event on record. On view from May through July 2010, Elephant Parade London will see a herd of 200 fiberglass elephants descend on the parks, streets and squares of the capital. The unique sculptures will then be auctioned in the summer of 2010 by Sotheby’s, with all funds raised going towards conservation projects across Asia.

 In the last one hundred years, Asian elephant populations have plummeted from 200,000 to circa 30,000 with 66% of those losses occurring in the last ten years. Elephant Parade London aims to channel funds into buying strategic habitat, which is the only real way to save this species from extinction. www.elephantfamily.org

 For more information and details on how you can help “Get Mitch to London,” please see http://www.mitchfreemanart.com/ or attend the free charity event at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center on Friday, November 20th from 6-8 PM.

An Evening with Local Artist Chad Shore

Quinlan artist Chad Shore has just been named an "Essential Artist" by 1800 Tequila. As one of only 12 artists selected from a nationwide search, Chad's painting "My Angel" is being featured on a limited edition series of 1800 ® Tequila bottles. To mark this event, Chad is having an art show at the Quinlan one night only, Friday November 13th, 6-9 PM. 

Please come celebrate with Chad and see his latest work! See Chad's new website at www.chadshore.com

You can also read an article in the Get Out section of the Gainesville Times featuring this event HERE.