NWA Community Creative Center: Holiday Bazaar

These two colorful pieces entitled Menagerie (17x17.5) and Menagerie II (12.5x22) will be available at the fourth annual NWA Community Creative Center's Holiday Art Bazaar Saturday, December 3 from 10 am - 4pm and Sunday, December 4 from Noon - 4pm.


Both framed, mixed media pieces are composed of acrylic, colored pencil and solvent transfer on watercolor paper.  

Undergound: Art For the Holidays III

This colorful piece will be available at the Fayetteville Underground: December Art for the Holidays exhibition December 1st.  This piece is one of my box style frame formats.  These box style frames are hand made out of poplar wood with a black satin finish. These 2 inch deep frames can hang from a wall or sit on a shelf, desk, end table or any flat surface.  


Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12 to 7 p.m. and Saturday 10 to 5 p.m. Additionally, there will be extended shopping hours on Friday, December 2, until 10 p.m., and on Sunday, December 4 from 11 a.m. to 5p.m.


Crystal Bridges Interactive Touch Exhibit Continued

Be sure to check out the Touch Exhibit on your next visit to Crystal Bridges.  I was fortunate to be asked to contribute three paintings to this very unique, interactive exhibit.  I've included some shots of the exhibit.  It really is quite an educational experience where viewers can interact with the work and explore further the process that goes into creating acrylic, watercolor, and oil paintings.  

December Art for the Holidays III

On First Thursday, December 1st I'll be displaying work along with the artists of the Fayetteville Underground to celebrate the opening of their third annual Art for the Holidays exhibition. 

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12 to 7 p.m. and Saturday 10 to 5 p.m. Additionally, there will be extended shopping hours on Friday, December 2, until 10 p.m., and on Sunday, December 4 from 11 a.m. to 5p.m.



"In conjunction with First Thursday, from 5 to 8 p.m., a fundraiser for the Fayetteville Art Alliance will be hosted by local artists, Kathy Thompson and Cindy Arsaga at their studio, located at 3 E. Mountain Street. Community members are invited to stop by for food, drinks, and to share in the holiday spirit, as they raise funds for our new community art organization." 



"This will be the final exhibition at the current Fayetteville Underground location. The community is encouraged to stay involved with the organization, as the artists move to their new home and resurface as the Fayetteville Art Alliance in January 2012. To learn more about the new organization and how you can help please visit www.morphtheorg.com"

Pittsburg State University Gallery Solo Exhibit

Just a quick reminder I'll be exhibiting work at the Pittsburg State University Gallery from November 25, 2011 thru January 19, 2012.  I'll be giving a public artist lecture on January 19th, 2012 at 2:00 pm in Room 103 at Porter Hall.  Reception time: TBA.  The gallery hours are M-F 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.  For more information contact Gallery Director, S. Portico Bowman at: (620)235-4305 or visit them on the web at
http://www.pittstate.edu/calendar/index.dot?id=384243

TWO YEARS!

This week marks the two year anniversary of this site.  To mark the occasion,  I'll be giving away FREE DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed graphic novels to the first THREE people that post on this site.  Good Luck! 

NWACCC Holiday Art Bazaar

Give the gift of art this holiday season.  Be sure to check out the fourth annual NWA Community Creative Center's Holiday Art Bazaar Saturday, December 3 from 10 am - 4pm and Sunday, December 4 from Noon - 4pm.  I'll have two pieces available for purchase.  All procedes go to providing scholarships for underserved kids and adults.

Crystal Bridges Interactive Touch Exhibit
Today Crystal Bridges opens.  If you're among the first to explore this new American Art Museum, be sure to check out the Experience Art Studio.  I was fortunate to be asked to contribute pieces to Touch, the interactive painting exhibit. Here's a Channel 5 news story on the experience gallery that gives a sneak preview of the gallery and the train images I painted.  


http://www.5newsonline.com/news/northwestarkansas/kfsm-crystal-bridges-art-studio-lets-kids-experience-art-through-senses-20111110,0,1045152.story

Art News / Comic Relief 
Here is a great article in the recent issue of Art News about how "the boundary between fine art and graphic novels has grown increasingly porous."
http://www.artnews.com/2011/10/11/comic-relief/

"The overall tone of the novel is dark and quite frightening....the stories are interesting and sickening at the same time..... well written and illustrated with nods to social abuse, murder and

revenge....." -David Holloway: MouthLondon UK

Check out what critics are saying about DomestiCATed in the UK

at Mouth London.

DomestiCATed Available Thru iBookstore and Amazon
Be sure to order your copy of my graphic novel DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed now available thru Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/DomestiCATed-Paths-Crossed-Sean-Fitzgibbon/dp/0741465361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316281376&sr=8-1.


A digital version of this book is now available thru iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/domesticated/id476099259?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Special thanks to Paze Publishing. 


Also, be sure to check out the companion site to my graphic novel DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed.  This site is updated regularly with information regarding this graphic novel such as purchasing original pages or signed copies of the book.  Also info on the production of the book as well as influences.    

DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed
website
Be sure to check out the companion site to my graphic novel DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed.  This site is updated regularly with information regarding this graphic novel.  

Thanks So Much!
Just like to thank Steven (Brent) Douglass and everyone at River City Comic Expo for having us out.  Also great seeing our friends Dusty Higgins (SGL: Publishing Pinocchio The Vampire Slayer), Mitch and Elizabeth Breitweiser (Marvel Comics: Captain America, Hulk) and of course What Follows Is True co-creator Kevin Brown (Death Roll, Ink On Wood).  

Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy of my book DomestiCATed: Paths Once Crossed.    If you weren't able to make it out the book is available thru Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/DomestiCATed-Paths-Crossed-Sean-Fitzgibbon/dp/0741465361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320616296&sr=8-1 
or thru iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/domesticated/id476099259?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Many Thanks!

Just like to thank Martha Guirl-Phillips, Geoffery Stark, Timothy Nutt, Carolyn Henderson Allen,  Jennifer Rae Hartman and all the fine folks at the University of Arkansas, Mullins Library for exhibiting my work.  

  

If you missed this exhibit, I'll be exhibiting work later this month at Pittsburg State University in the PSU University Gallery.  That exhibition will run thru January.  I'll have more info on that soon.

RIVER CITY COMIC EXPO
Just a quick reminder that we'll be signing books this weekend and discussing the up and coming documentary graphic novel at the River City Comic Expo.  For more info please visit 


http://64.246.32.70/~river/


http://lyriacomicexchange.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=13116&sid=8d79c9cdd01e53cc18810bf5c02749ee


http://www.conventionscene.com/2011/09/26/river-city-comic-expo-november-2011/