Artrepreneur Spotlight
Marcia Morse Mullins • Fiber Artist | Basketmaker
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Marcia Morse Mullins is a fiber artist and basketmaker who has gathered, manipulated, and woven natural materials for more than 40 years. Her preferred medium is black ash splint, which she prepares by hand according to the teachings of a Potawatomi elder who passed tribal traditions to her in the 1980s.
Marcia sees creativity as an extension of her botany degree. Since most natural materials have to be manipulated before weaving, it helps knowing how they are "put together" in the first place. Ash and oak trees grow in layers under the bark so their growth rings can be separated. Bark slips easily from vines and trees; fibers can be extracted from leaves and stems. "It’s all a matter of knowing the characteristics of the individual plant," Marcia notes.
Her work has been featured across North America in art galleries, juried exhibitions, books, documentaries, and a larger-than-life ArtPop billboard. She presented a seminar on split woven basketry at the Epcot International Festival of the Arts and manipulated living vines into a temporal collection of weavings for Polk County’s inaugural Art in the Park installation. Her signature woven antler sculptures are in numerous private collections.
 
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Arts in Medicine Program Offers Workshops
The Arts in Medicine Program of the Watson Clinic Foundation is offering a series of four workshops for breast cancer survivors. Two of the workshops will focus on art experiences: one at the Polk Museum of Art and one with Florida Dance Theatre. Click HERE to find out more information about the upcoming workshops. |
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Art Guilds Sponsor Artist Garage Sale
On Saturday, July 23, the Lakeland and Bartow Art Guilds jointly sponsored an Artist Garage Sale. Vendors sold extra art supplies as well as original works of art at the event. In a partnership with Bartow's Leisure Services department, the day featured food trucks and plenty of conversation and camaraderie among the many visitors and exhibitors. To find out more about the art guilds, check out the Bartow Art Guild and the Lakeland Art Guild. |
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Upcoming Events | Aug 1 - Aug 15
- Monochromatic: A Juried Art Exhibit | Awards Ceremony • Aug 4, 4:30pm | Lakeland Art Guild, Lakeland • Info HERE
- Date Night Class: Pottery • Aug 5, 6pm | Lake Wales Arts Council, Lake Wales • Info HERE
- Point of View Gallery Talk: Rodin • Aug 12, 12pm | Polk Museum of Art - Lakeland • More info HERE
- Brian Smalley Live at Florida Wildflower Studios • Aug 14, 2:30pm | Florida Wildflower Studios, Frostproof • More info HERE
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