The Millet

Join us this Second Friday June 14 – 6-10pm! We will be having a drum circle, and an open poetry reading. Please come and share! This will be a recurring event. Look forward to seeing you there!

image: Heather Smith-Gearns

We’ll meet via Zoom this coming Thursday, 6-7:30 pm! We are the Millet House Art Collective, a roving bunch of do-gooder artists, and we’d be delighted if you join us, to help figure out solutions to the issues faced by artists, poets and other marginalized groups!

Come by the house for light refreshments, hang out with friends and think creatively. We could really use a few more people as we return to juried shows! Are you an artist? we invite you. Don’t think you are an artist? You are! You are all artists, if you choose to be! Time and again visitors tell us that they are not an artist, and then discover that yes, they actually are.

Later, you can join a jury! It’s fun, and you don’t even have to go anywhere — jurying happens virtually.

We will be doing this Art Cafe every Thursday in May!

Donations are always welcome, but, like everything else about the Millet House, there is no charge to come to this meeting. It’s important to us that everyone be able to participate, so there are no dues to join our art collective, and no fees to submit. All we ask is that you participate.

Below: Superstition Hike, acrylic painting by Tara Kosciukiewicz

I love the way Tara tilts the earth and sky to surround the viewer, expressing visually a feeling inherent in this beautiful, overpowering, almost alien environment: Where am I, anyway?

Come by the house for light refreshments and to help craft Calls for Art. We could really use a few more people as we return to juried shows! If you are an artist, we invite you. Don’t think you are an artist? You are! You are all artists, if you want to be! Time and again visitors tell us that they are not an artist, and then discover that yes, they actually are.

Later, you can join a jury! It’s fun, and you don’t even have to go anywhere — jurying happens virtually.

We will be doing this Art Cafe every Thursday in May!

Donations are always welcome, but, like everything else about the Millet House, there is no charge to come to this meeting. It’s important to us that everyone be able to participate, so there are no dues to join our art collective, and no fees to submit. All we ask is that you participate.

Below: Egret, oil painting by Andrea Rogers.

Andrea writes, “My life felt like a trap and this bird came in a dream, trying to fly but hitting it’s wings against the corner near the ceiling. I got up, spread out my arm and held it up to her for a place to land. Then we walked out together with her on my arm.”

Lots going on downtown tonight and we are part of downtown, so come over to 440 W 1st Street and see what we have to offer. The Millet House will be open 6pm-9pm to see and enjoy art! (and have a cup of tea!)

https://www.2ndfridaynightout.com/

Andrea and Heather are participating artists in this year’s Art Detour!

They will be at Andrea Rogers home/studio  @ 2543 E. La Jolla Dr. TEMPE AZ 85282 TOMORROW SATURDAY MARCH 22, 1-4pm

They would love to see you!

There will be art for sale, so if you ever wanted to buy, this Saturday will be the day to pick up some really wonderful things at great, get-it-now prices. Andrea and Heather are also planning demonstrations! Come watch and learn wonderful things!

 Hope to see you on 3/22 Saturday, 1-4pm!

(You are all artists, if you want to be! Time and again visitors tell us that they are not an artist, and then discover that yes, they actually are one.)

April 6 is the next Artists Salon, AND our Art Collective meeting, rescheduled from March 30 (word was also sent out by email, so if you aren’t on the mailing list, and would like to be, please let us know!) The Salon is a time for us all to get together, paint, write, sew, or work on whatever we’d like to do. A time where we  can be with people like our arty selves, share what we do and learn from each other.

This will be followed by an art collective meeting, and if you’d like to be involved in the planning and the running of our art events- we’d love to have you! We have workshops to plan, and shows coming up. Also we need your help.

Please feel free to bring something to share food wise, but it is not required.  We have lemonade/tea/coffee/cold water!

Artists and Art Lovers! Please come to the Millet House this Saturday, March 2, at one pm for tea and more!

We are a collective and we have much to discuss. We would truly welcome your insights and P.O.V. Plus, tea and cookies. We would like you all to get a chance to meet our new artist friend X.T. Christine Boisson. She is looking to become an artist in residence at our very own Millet House. We also have much to discuss about the many changes that are coming up for us this spring. We would love it if you are there to be part of the conversation.

RSVPs recommended so we have plenty of yummy things: themillethouse@gmail.com

Our February Art Salon will be held on February 18, 1 to 4 pm. Come to make art,  or come to hang out and talk about art. In February we will be playing with air dry clay (bring some if you have some!) AND painting “pet rocks” and “remembrance rocks” for beloved pets. Also, we have snacks!

The plans are for this event to be hybrid: attend in person, or login to Zoom: more info will follow.

Above: An in-progress detail from Andrea Rogers’ Unity mosaic, now completed and installed on a garden bench in the Millet House courtyard. Andrea is an accomplished potter in addition to her other talents.

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Finally: we are a nonprofit 501©3,

dedicated to bringing people from all corners of society together, including and especially the most marginalized among us. In order to be open to all we don’t charge fees — and donations at events are always optional. We do need to pay the bills. We do have programming expenses of all sorts. If you are so moved, you can donate at any time: just click the Donate button at this address:

https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Floaters-Themillethouse

You are invited to join us tomorrow, January 21 for our monthly Art Salon, from 1-4 pm! This is a time of art making – or, you can just hang out and enjoy being around artists. All are welcome. Come for another happy hour or so in the company of thoughtful, creative, accepting people. It will be a lovely Sunday afternoon. We promise.

Beginning at 2 pm, artists who exhibited in the Radiance show will be arriving to pick up their art. If you come early, you can see the art AND meet the artists!

Above: “Incandescent” in oils, by Heather Smith-Gearns

Our February Art Salon will be held on February 18, 1 to 4 pm. Come to make art,  or come to hang out. We have snacks! In February we will be playing with air dry clay (bring some if you have some!) AND painting “pet rocks” and “remembrance rocks” for beloved pets.

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Finally: we are a nonprofit 501©3, dedicated to bringing people from all corners of society together, including and especially the most marginalized among us. In order to be open to all we don’t charge fees — and donations at events are always optional. We do need to pay the bills. We do have programming expenses of all sorts. If you are so moved, you can donate at any time: just click the Donate button at this address:

https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Floaters-Themillethouse