Art House Blog Life at Art House in Atlanta, Ga

After much hard work, we are so happy to have released the foundation of our new website. It’s looking pretty bare right now, but in the coming weeks we will be bringing over all of your portfolios, submissions, comments, and other data.
With The Brooklyn Art Library opening this month too, we have a ton of [...]

Dear friends of Art House,
Welcome to 2010! We wanted to send you all a quick note to update you on some of our plans for the year. Steve is hard at work setting up the new space in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Shane is down in Atlanta cleaning out the space and getting ready for the move [...]

Tell us or create an image of what you would do if you had 5,000 ping pong balls
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I would glue them to a large piece of canvas, hang & paint a sea or sand landscape using a large brush & commercial latex paints.
- Laura Mitchell

Revenge [...]

Tell us a story in 100 words or less with an accompanying image
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We had a bunch of neat submissions this week. Check them all out below!

Knitting by Kristina Russell
My grandmother was an avid knitter.  As a child, I was transfixed by her lightening-fast pace, and [...]

Create a monster or creature out of the items in/on your desk
We were having some website issues last week so we upgraded to a new server. In that mix of things, we were having some issues with the blog, but I finally squished them all today and get it up and running. So, now I’m [...]

Take a picture of the view outside of your favorite window
We received a great response for the second week of the projects. We had around 65 submissions!
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This week was the beginning of our Weekly Projects. Weekly projects are out to inspire a quick spark of creativity and get your mind rolling throughout the day. They’re meant to be simple and fast.
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build a waterfall in your sink

waterfall by Shane Zucker and [...]

Ryan Robinson received his camera in the mail recently!
Call me narcissistic, but for some reason I love seeing pictures of people opening up their project materials. Ryan’s is exceptionally awesome probably due to the fact that he’s a photographer who knew how to photograph the package that a camera came in. A match made in [...]

Society6 is a new artist community that focuses on helping find opportunities for artists–whether its through money, services, or forms of publishing and publicity. The guys who created it are really cool, and we’re excited about the possibility of collaborating on things with them in the future.

To fulfill our mission to Empower the World’s Artists, [...]

Fascinated by Corrie’s 10,000 Project submission. I thought it was made out of plastic wrap at first, but she told me it’s actually tape (clear packaging tape I’m assuming). In anycase, I’m totally digging it.