The Bottled Artist hosts social art parties, fundraising, classes, and team building activities utilizing art instruction and entertainment at local venues and a soon-to-open studio with a liquor license. We cater to first-time or inexperienced artists at our events but give more skilled artists room to do their own thing. We offer longer painting times with more instruction for our guests to crea
te a successful end product. Sometimes we drink wine while we paint. (Sometimes we paint while we drink wine.) Often we’re just sipping coffee or tea. Whatever is in our cup or bottle, we like to have fun, create and socialize. We are real local artists not franchisees of national chains. We use many art mediums beyond paint and canvas. You might find our guests painting on wine glasses or trying a printing technique just as readily as you would find them mixing up acrylic paint for canvas. When we paint on canvas, the canvas is not always standardized at 16 X20. We like to mix things up a bit. We try to design our projects for success on the front end so guests begin the creative process with better possibilities for success at the completion. If it is a complicated piece, we will sometimes begin with a drawing that is transferred to the canvas. We use good quality art supplies, not those made for children. (Well, unless you ARE a child, then we do use products for children.) This quality contributes to a more successful piece of wall-worthy art or a better project. Our art parties are a "fun art, not fine art" experience but we try to instruct those interested. We also have other opportunities for learning with our classes and workshops. For complicated pieces, our guests appreciate that they can transfer a line drawing on their canvas before we begin painting. We want everyone who creates with us to have fun, relax and walk away with something for which they can be proud. We do care about the art produced and our guests can return with their paintings free of charge until they are satisfied with them. One of our goals is to help local artists across the country with the administration of their art education business by being able to utilize our website and credit card processing functions. We don’t want to compete but to cooperate with artists. Our goal in Fort Wayne is to have studio space large enough to include professional, working artists as well as our guests. If you are an artist and what to have a dialogue about how we can work together contact Julie Musick at [email protected]. If you want to learn more about us or reserve a class go to: www.bottledartist.com. You can read more there about our fundraising activities for charity.
