celebrate mindfulness with chair yoga and art therapy exercises

celebrate mindfulness with chair yoga and art therapy exercises

by | Mar 15, 2023 | Homepage, Past Events

mental health awareness mindfulness event

Celebrate Mental Health Awareness in the Month of May!

Meditate & Create

Date: May 8th
Time: 7 – 9:00pm
Free event! Open to high school students and up!

This May, The Art Guild, is  hosting island wide events during May Mental Health Awareness Month. Please join us on May 8th as Sandy Wilding, yoga instructor from YogaLife, starts off the night leading chair yoga and breathing exercises. Pamela Schindler-Thomsen, licensed art therapist, will follow up with a mindful art project. Space is limited so please RSVP. Free event! Open to high school students and up.

Sold out! Sign up for waiting list.

IN COLLABORATION WITH

sandy wilding yogalife

Sandy Wilding – yoga instructor

Several years ago I was mentally drained and physically beat up from my job. I decided to take some time off to heal. I wandered into a yoga studio in Port Washington and never looked back. I knew that after just two weeks of practice I wanted to become an instructor and was certified to teach within 6 months. I hold several certificates, including Yoga Alliance RYT-200, Health and Wellness Coaching, Restorative Yoga and Reiki. Besides teaching yoga year round, I spend my summers teaching kids’ yoga at Port Day Camp. During the school year I am a Teacher Assistant in the ENL program at Schreiber High School. Please join me on a journey to a place where the heart is open and the mind is free.

Namaste


Pamela Schindler-Thomsen – Licensed Board Certified Creative Arts Therapist

I’m a licensed Creative Arts therapist specializing in helping children through adults identify obstacles in their lives that cause conflict in their day to day lives.

I like to think outside the box and use creative thinking in helping my clients problem solve.  In session I like to use mindfulness.  Whether that means focusing on our senses instead of the chatter in our minds to help be in the moment, or deep breathing to quiet that chatter.

We can’t solve tomorrow’s issues with todays information.  I stress the importance of being present, because we CAN handle anything in the moment, but cannot change what happened in our past, or control what happens in our future.

In session, I use breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and hypnotherapy to help with anxiety.

Together we will work to identify, challenge and replace  thoughts that don’t work in your benefit.  We replace these thoughts with healthier, more realistic ones which help improve overall quality of life, and a greater sense of joy.I love to use metaphor, storytelling and art to help in this process.

I have worked as a licensed therapist in various settings for over 20 years helping people with various mental and emotional difficulties.

We are so much stronger than our fears and negative thoughts.  We all have goals, which are important..but the HOW TO attain them is the important part..and that’s where I come in.  We all get stuck, but that’s only temporary, we can all become unstuck and grow.

2022 Nassau County High School Student Juried Competition & Exhibition

2022 Nassau County High School Student Juried Competition & Exhibition

by | Sep 12, 2022 | Exhibitions, Homepage, Past Exhibitions

Adult & kids workshops in painting, urban sketch, watercolor, acrylic pour, printmaking, yarn, photography, oils, iphone

2022 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit & Competition

On View: November 6 – 26, 2022
Reception & Awards: Sunday, Nov 6th  3-5pm
Deadline for Submission: Monday, October 17 midnight EST

SPONSORED BY

square the circles

Square the Circles

College Counseling, Test Prep Tutoring, Essays, & Interview Prep
Achieving Success One Student at a Time

 

Congratulations to the following artists for their acceptance to the exhibit!

Roy Arunima (Valley Stream North HS)  Behind Her Eyes
Melad Asli (Great Neck South HS)  Lost In Translation
Katherine Bachmann (Manhasset Secondary)  Perfect College Numbers
Quinn Cacioppo (Manhasset Secondary)  Advenal Zone
Brigitte Calderon (Oceanside HS)  Colorful Taste
Gabby Cardone (Herricks HS)  Female Rage
Madisen Carpentier (Paul D. Schreiber HS)  Jackpot!
Iris Chen (Manhasset Secondary)  Under Going Perfection
Yue Chen (Syosset HS)  Faded
 Raw
Isabella Chvasta (Syosset HS)  Succession
Madison Cohen (Portledge HS)  Living Through A Prizm
Bryan Da Silver (Manhasset Secondary)  Making The Wrong Decisions
Ava De Angelis (Oyster Bay HS)  Feeding The Beta
Daniella Dell’Aquila (Manhasset Secondary)  False Shelter
Amelia Diminico (Oceanside HS)  Untitled
Maya Flam (West Hempstead Secondary)  Time managment
Sela Goldfarb (Paul D. Schreiber HS)  Me Stepping
Emily Gross (Paul D. Schreiber HS)  Self Portrait
 Grandpa
Cassidy Gulliksen (Oceanside HS)  You Are My Dad
 Strawberry Fields
Saamia Hassan (Hicksville HS)  painful Begining
Brianna Hayes (Manhasset Secondary)  Beautiful Predator
Natalie Hayes (East Rockaway HS)  Hide Out
 I Just Want to sleep
Roselyn Ho (Manhasset Secondary)  A Maid Serves Its Master
Gloria Hsia (Great Neck North HS)  Imagination
Alyssa Huang (Syosset HS)  broken
 Euphoria
Olivia Im (Syosset HS)  Stuff
Soraya Jabir (Syosset HS)  Sculpture Study
Brian Jaco (Hicksville HS)  Art Supplies
Riya Jassi (Hicksville HS)  Have You Seen Me
Esther Jung (Syosset HS)  Shopping Spree
Lily Ke (Syosset HS)  Me Myself And I
Sammar Khwaja (Locust Valley HS)  Nancy Franke Study
Avery Ko (Great Neck South HS)  Distorted Fruit
Willaim Koch (Locust Valley HS)  The walls of our Youth
Lilia Landaverde (Glen Cove HS)  Eat Me
Kenneth Li (Manhasset Secondary)  The Forgotten
Ming Yan Liu (Manhasset Secondary)  Sweet Facade
Sienna Loiacano (Our Lady Of Mercy Academy)  The Hunger To Survive
Katrina Ludwikowski (Syosset HS)  Duck
Camryn Lyttleton (Baldwin HS)  Coral Skies
Yael Madjar (George W. Hewlett HS)  Breakfast Club
Grace Maldonado (Oyster Bay HS)  The Darkness Of The Eye
Elena Mingorance (South Side High School)  Seeds Of Hope
Julia Molina (Hicksville HS)  Teeth
Natalia Monsale (Glen Cove HS)  Blossoms Of Gardenia
Sadie Muller (Paul D. Schreiber HS)  June
Julianna Nabet (Locust Valley HS)  Open Me Carelessly
 Dormant
Minkyung Nah (Great Neck South HS)  Music Is Mother
Lauren Oliver Boppert (Oceanside HS)  Dreaming
Marley Parmely (Hicksville HS)  I Love Butter With My Pop Tarts
Veer Patel (Manhasset Secondary)  Old Vs Young
Phoebe Pinder (Glen Cove HS)  Opacare
Julia Punzone (Oceanside HS)  Desolation
Olivia Rapaccuiolo (Paul D. Schreiber HS)  6 Am dream
Leyla Rodriguez (Oceanside HS)  Love From Dad
Elizabeth Ruggiero (East Rockaway HS)  Philautia
 The Fruit Of Our Labors
Isabella Sanchez (Hicksville HS) Palette
William Santamaria (Glen Cove HS)  WSA
Annabel Scrivener (Our Lady Of Mercy Academy)  Autum Still Life
Gianne Shin (Manhasset Secondary)  Reminiscence Of My Home Town
 Childhood Plays
Kimberly Shrestha (Valley Stream North HS)  The Magical Library
Clare Simon (Locust Valley HS)  Trilogy
Rebecca Slobin (Great Neck North HS) Power
Francisco Suriel (Baldwin HS)  Untitled
Paige Sweeney (Oyster Bay HS)  The Magnifying Glass
Emily Tang (Syosset HS)  Sea Turtle
Lily Wagner (Hicksville HS)  12:37
Lauren Whitely (Syosset HS)  Perserverance
Kimberly Widjaja (Hicksville HS)  Starlight
 Art Supplies
Sitting Xiao (Gen Douglas MacArthur HS)  Animal Kingdom
Sofia Xu (Syosset HS)  Serval zentanale
Ruby Zhang (Syosset HS)  Flight
 Mother Nature
Elizabeth Zheng (Manhasset Secondary)  Lost In A Persona
Alisha Zhou (Manhasset Secondary)  Sleepless Nights
Huiqi Zhou (Roslyn HS )  I Day And night
AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

CALENDAR

DEADLINE: Monday, October 17, 2022 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.
ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: on or after October 22th

EXHIBIT
• November 6 – November 26, 2022

Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Sunday, November 6, 3-5pm

ARTWORK DROP OFF
Sun, Oct 30 – 3pm to 5pm
Tues, Nov 1 – 1pm to 6pm

ARTWORK PICK UP
Sun, Nov 27 – 3pm to 5pm
Mon, Nov 28 – 1pm to 6pm

TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email artshow@TheArtGuild.org. 

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. 

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as they possibly can. These will be the images that will be will be reviewed by our curators and displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.

FAQs

Submitting through BOCES:

You can enter as many students as you wish and pay through BOCES.
Each student can submit their artwork and fill out the form on our website.
We will send you an invoice for the total number of students that you can submit to BOCES.
There is no group discount.

School District is paying:

Each student can fill out the form on our website and submit the work. (Disregard the mandatory payment. You can submit artwork without payment.)
Please send an email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org with the students names.
We will send you an invoice for all of the participants that you can submit to the district. There is no group discount.

Teacher is submitting artwork for a group of students:

The teacher can email all of the students artwork to us together at artshow@TheArtGuild.org and you will be invoiced after. There is no group discount. You can be the contact – meaning we would not email the students if they are accepted, we would just email you.

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email artshow@TheArtGuild.org.

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

SIZE & FRAMING
If your artwork is selected, it must be framed. Frame size must not exceed 30” on the longest side Frames must be wired securely for hanging with screw eyes or D-rings to the frame, NOT the backboard. No sawtooth hangers, tape, strings. We can wire for you for a $10 fee. Gallery wraps are acceptable, but must be at least 1” thick. Work must be labeled with the title, artist’s name, street address, phone number, and email. Framing of your work must comply with the above OR IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
LIABILITY & INSURANCE

The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

2024 Nassau County High School Scholarship

2024 Nassau County High School Scholarship

by | Mar 11, 2022 | Homepage

2024 Nassau County High School Scholarship

generously sponsored by the Kazickas Family Foundation

The Art Guild is pleased to offer three $1,000 Kazickas Family Foundation Art Scholarships for graduating seniors who attend high school in Nassau County. Scholarships will be awarded to students who will pursue the visual arts following their high school graduation, and who have demonstrated their commitment to any of the visual arts. This includes, but is not limited to: drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion design, set design, and photography.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

Alden Kisner

Cold Spring Harbor High School

alden kisner scholarship

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Avery Ko

Great Neck South High School

avery ko scholarship 2024

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Shane Adams

Wantagh High School

shane adams scholarship 2024

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Learn Photoshop Fundamentals for Beginners and Advanced Compositing

Learn Photoshop Fundamentals for Beginners and Advanced Compositing

by | Sep 19, 2021 | Adult Classes, Homepage

Online Photoshop Classes - Beginners & Advanced

with Alan Perlman

ONLINE: Beginners Photoshop 101 – Fundamentals for Artists

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Photoshop is a spectacular creative instrument, but only if you know how to use it. In this class you will learn to customize the interface, master the most important tools, explore basic editing concepts and critical techniques including making selections, creating layers and layer masks, image compositing, simple retouching, color controls, and how to do most everything in the powerful ACR workspace. Follow along using the provided resource files, then expand your horizons by experimenting with your own materials. There is no limit to what you can build in Photoshop, starting with a strong foundation. Most any version of Photoshop will suffice, but the current subscription based edition clearly offers the greatest range of options and potential.

SPECIAL NOTES

* Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible
* Students should have a current subscription to the Adobe subscription plan that provides and maintains up to date versions of Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge.
* Please familiarize yourself with the Zoom platform – specifically the “share screen” function so Alan can see your screen when necessary. A tutorial can be found here

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CLASS DETAILS

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00 – 12:00pm
Dates: Sept 22 – Oct 13 (4 sessions)
Medium: Photography
Level: Beginners
Instructor: Alan Perlman
Fee: Member $125/ Non-Member $160

ONLINE: Compositing in Photoshop

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Get creative with Photoshop! Photoshop is far more than a utility for “fixing” pictures. It is an artistic medium that is the foundation for the genre known as Digital Art. This class explores techniques and procedures offering powerful tools for individual expression. By building projects step by step in class, students gain knowledge, skills and inspiration applicable to their own work. Each session will be recorded and the video made available for continuing reference. This is not a beginner class. A basic understanding of selections, layers, layer masks, brushes and blend modes is required.

SPECIAL NOTES

* Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible
* Students should have a current subscription to the Adobe subscription plan that provides and maintains up to date versions of Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge.
* Please familiarize yourself with the Zoom platform – specifically the “share screen” function so Alan can see your screen when necessary. A tutorial can be found here
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CLASS DETAILS

Day: Mondays
Time: 10:00 – 12:00pm
Dates: Sept 27 – Oct 25 (5 sessions)
Medium: Photography
Level: Advanced
Instructor: Alan Perlman
Fee: Member $160/ Non-Member $195

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

online photography photoshop instructor
Alan Perlman has been a working professional photographer for more than four decades, specializing in corporate communications, executive and business portraiture and special events of virtually every description. His client list includes such well-known names as American Express, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Greyhound, Costco, The Big Apple Circus, etc. His work has appeared in numerous publications around the world. He has been teaching and speaking about digital photography in a variety of venues since 2006 and was named an Outstanding Teacher-of-the-Year by the Suffolk Association for Continuing Community Education; more recently, traveling the world (when possible) to learn new things and make photographs.

Alan’s work can be viewed on his website Click here

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Create Your Own Amazing Beads and Jewelry

Create Your Own Amazing Beads and Jewelry

by | Sep 17, 2021 | Adult Classes, Homepage

Jewelry & Bead Making - Grades 6+

with Meagan Meehan
make clay beads and jewelry classes

Jewelry & Bead Making with Ms. Meagan – Grades 6+

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Make your own beads for jewelry in this class! You will learn to paint your own beads and use polymer clay for your own customized earrings, necklaces and more!

Here is the class syllabus for Jewelry Bead Making

Class One: Creating Polymer Beads—In this first class, students will learn how to create beads using polymer clay. These beads can be used to make bracelets and necklaces.

Class Two: Sculpting a Pendant—In this class, students will sculpt a necklace pendant out of polymer clay.

Class Three: Making Earrings—In this class, students will craft earrings out of polymer clay.

Class Four: Enameling Rings—In this class, students will learn how to use enamel paint to design beautiful rings.

Class Five: Make a Broach or Magnet—In this class, students will apply what they have learned about polymer clay, enamel paint, and rhinestones to create either a broach or a magnet to take home and enjoy.

Class Six: Complete any unfinished projects.

SPECIAL NOTES

* Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
* This is an in-person class. Classes will be held outdoors, weather permitting. Students must follow social distancing protocols and wear masks at all times indoors.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Meagan J. Meehan is a published author and poet, a produced playwright, cartoonist, stop-motion animator and award-winning abstract artist; she also pens columns for Vocal Media, Medium, Great South Bay Magazine, Blasting News, Entertainment Vine, and Kidskintha. Meagan holds a Bachelors in English Literature from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), a Masters of Communication from Marist College, and is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Additionally, she is a fledgling toy and game designer. She is also the founder of the “Conscious Perceptionalism” art movement that celebrates artwork that can be turned 360-degrees on a wall.

Click here to learn more about Ms. Meagan.
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CLASS DETAILS

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 5.30 – 7:00pm
Dates: Oct 13 – Nov 10 (5 sessions)
Level: Grades 6+
Instructor: Ms. Meagan
Fee: Member $120/ Non-Member $155 (Materials are included in fee)

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