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If your goal this year was to share your art and find an amazing art community, check out our Sunday Spotlight feature! It's a great way to find more exposure and find other like minded artists! Email us at [email protected] or DM us for more information! #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #artspotlight #artcommunity #artists #artistssupportingartists #supportyoungartists #supportlocalartists #supportartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3y5xcJ4aZ/?igshid=1jus9wqczcfuf

Offroute's weekly Artist Inspiration is Faith Ringgold! Faith is a painter, mixed media sculptor, writer, performance artist, teacher, and lecturer. Born in 1930, Harlem, New York, Ringgold went on to earn her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York from 1955 to 1959. In the early 1960's, Ringgold traveled Europe- her travels and return home inspired her first political paintings titled The American People Series from 1963 to 1967.  In the early 1970's, Faith began creating tankas (a Tibetan art form of paintings framed in richly brocaded fabrics), sculptures, and masks. Originally, Ringgold's art was inspired by African art forms- it wasn't until she traveled to Nigeria and Ghana in the late 70's that her creations with masks really began to unfold and become her greatest inspiration. In 1980, Ringgold partnered with her mother to create her first quilt titled Echoes of Harlem. Her first story quilt Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? was published in 1983.  Her first book Tar Beach was published in 1991. It won over 20 awards, including the Coretta Scott King award for best-illustrated children's book of 1991 and the Caldecott Honor. In 2010, an animated version voiced by Natalie Cole was produced and premiered on HBO. The book was based on the story quilt of the same name that was showcased in The Woman on a Bridge series, 1988. The original story quilt, Tar Beach, is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Faith Ringgold continues to create today- her most recent art inspired books are the Harlem Renaissance Party (Harper Collins 2015) and We Came to America (Alfred A. Knopf 2016). #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #faithringgold #womenartists #womeninart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdokeMpxdg/?igshid=1o8wcrhtwizp5

Offroute is doing a weekly art book giveaway every week for the rest of 2020! If you are 16-24, this is a great way to expand, or start, your art library! To enter to win, make sure you like @offrouteart and tag friends in the comments below. Each comment counts for one entry. Drawing will be held at noon on Saturday and the winner will be tagged as well as DMed. US residents only. Open to ages 16-24. Giveaway is in no way endorsed by Instagram. Frank Stella is an American artist best known for his use of geometric patterns and shapes in creating both paintings and sculptures. Arguably one of the most influential living American artists, Stella’s works utilize the formal properties of shape, color, and composition to explore non-literary narratives. In 1970 he became the youngest artist ever to be granted a solo exhibition at MOMA. He continues to work in #NYC. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #frankstella #artists #bookgiveaway #artbook #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CHI_H96JMsi/?igshid=1bxj9artn3ll4

Offroute's weekly Artist Inspiration is Sonia Delaunay! Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist and designer known for creating colorful geometric patterns in her work. Born Sarah Élievna Stern on November 14, 1885 in Odessa, Ukraine to a poor Jewish family, she was sent to live with her wealthy uncle Henri Terk at the age of five. She adopted the name Sonia Terk. She went on to study drawing in Germany at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, before moving to Paris in 1906. It was in Paris that she met and later married the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde, who served as a means to Delaunay becoming a French citizen.  It was Uhde that introduced her to her future husband Robert Delaunay. Having left Uhde for Delaunay, the new couple created a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism, later deemed Orphism by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She used this new aesthetic approach to make paintings, textiles, and designs over the course of her career.  “For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called ‘decorative’ work,” she said. “I never considered the ‘minor arts’ to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.”   In 1964, Delaunay became the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre Museum. She died on December 5, 1979 in Paris, France at the age of 94. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among others. #offrouteart #artinspiration #arthisotry #womenpainters #womeninart #soniadelaunay #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFsmZ-Bcpy/?igshid=13ynjperkzp9j

It's officially Spring, so we're looking back on our Sunday Spotlight Artists from the Winter season! If you're interested in being a Sunday Spotlight Artist fill out our Google Form- https://forms.gle/gxWfUEVusZxwMc38A #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #sundayspotlight #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CM99vNAhXpg/?igshid=q1a8apctn48j

We love seeing the Offroute Calendar in your homes! Where do you keep your calendar? Post it and tag us #offrouteart #art #calendar #artcalendar #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7boKAhF-q/?igshid=1vphten277z8d

This month we're asking for art inspired by the Beloved Community. To learn more about the Beloved Community and Dr. King's practice on non-violence check out this link- https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/ Use #offrouteartprompt so we can share your art throughout the month! #offrouteart #artprompt #belovedcommunity #nonviolence #mlk #artinspiration #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwdbe9hxYj/?igshid=1wfqr584per3b

Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Lynda Benglis! Benglis is an American artist known best for her use of wax, latex, metal, and foam in poured sculptural forms. Born on October 25, 1941 in Lake Charles, LA, she received her BFA from Newcomb College in New Orleans in 1964 before moving to New York where she met artists like Sol Lewitt, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Barnett Newman. Benglis has used her work to engage with the physicality and process of her material-based art, while confronting femininity in a male-dominated art world.  "My work is an expression of space. What is the experience of moving? Is it pictorial? Is it an object? Is it a feeling?” she said. “It all comes from my body.”  In addition to her sculptural work, she has produced both video and photographs. Today, Benglis’ works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. The artist lives and works between New York, NY, Santa Fe, NM, and Ahmedabad, India. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #sculputres #lyndabenglis #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjlcq5Jzcr/?igshid=1l6q92sd1rpg6