When you are multicultural it's sometimes hard to know where is home. Is home with my mother? Is it with my family in the States? Is it where I grew up, or where I made a home? I don't know, I guess that I'm lucky to have a home in two beautiful places, but it can be hard too. You're always missing someone.
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| Article in April/May 2023 issue of Swedish Press "Kurbits Painting - Then and Now" by Kajsa Norman |
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| The Empress by Tina Rawson |
Also News on the Class Front!! I am offering a second class on this Swedish Art Form at 14 Cedar Street in Amesbury MA. You can come three Wednesdays, and we will have fun making art. I do hope that you will come have fun with us, whether you are Swedish or not. Scandinavian folk art is fun and colorful. You can make it perfect or not, it's up to you. We will enjoy the downstairs space which is full of light and smells like coffee.
I will teach you about the origin of "kurbits" (Swedish folk art with scroll like shapes) and how to incorporate it into your own art using stencils, or painting free hand. I meet you where you are in your art practice whether you haven't picked up a brush in decades or are a practicing artist. The idea is to have fun making art together in a calm and pretty place. ~ Tina
https://form.jotform.com/230295587044157 Sign up here! Only $25/class
Hej everyone! I had so much fun yesterday at the Swedish Folk Art class with three lovely sisters.
The Greater Haverhill Arts Association interviewed me and I'm so excited to have been on my first podcast! Please check it out:
Also more press for "Creative Connections: Contemporary Art" by Tina Rawson at The Newburyport Art Association. WOW! Can't believe that this is almost here! Please come to the show 11/23 - 12/4.
Please check out my Open Studios this weekend with the Amesbury Cultural Council. There's a lot going on, I'm so thrilled that you are following me on this journey. Feel free to come visit me at 14 Cedar St, Studio 319B, Amesbury MA on Saturday from 10 - 5 or Sunday from 11 - 4. Also we can always stay in touch "socially" on Instagram at https//instagram.com/tina.rawson.art and Facebook on https://www.facebook.com/tinarawsonart. Thank you!
Thank you!
I just taught Basic Kurbits to a class of excited newbie artists at the Ingeborg Lodge and it was well received, take a look at the kind words that I heard back from Barbara.
"Tina, on behalf of Ingeborg Lodge, I want to thank you for a VERY enjoyable program yesterday. We loved it. Down the road, we would hope you could come and conduct another class. I think you released the artist in us. Again, thank you for continuing to share our heritage. Keep up the great work. Takk"
These words and these pictures sum it up. We ALL had a great time. Thank you so much for letting me come teach you at the Viking Lodge and I hope to see some of you again in the near future at our Christmas Fair on November 19th at the Hamilton Community Center.
In June I hosted a "Midsummer Madness" class at Museum of Old Newbury with 20 participants, they all had a lot of fun too and I got rave reviews which was very kind. We were fortunate to have had the support of the museum and access to their amazing gardens. We were lucky to have that to help our paintings come alive and everyone had fun coming up with their folk art paintings
As my work in this field progresses I will keep you informed, here's what I wrote in May on my art blog about the Seacoast Art Spot class that I held in May, http://tinarawsonart.blogspot.com/2022/05/kurbits-class-continues-and-is-going.html The women in that class were fantastic! It was a four week class so we had a lot of time to explore other mediums as well as the basic kurbits gourd. We used shoes, wood to make signs, painted Dalahorses and completed a painting. They were on fire!
Get a load of these lovely artists! All of them finished and embellished their beautiful kurbits paintings at Greater Newburyport Adult Educ...
