Our Next Show: Saturday, November 22 @ Mokah Coffee Lounge in Deep Ellum             Times & location >>>

 

Vision

 

 

 


 

Come see what's inside...

 Vision is our last major show of the year, on Saturday, November 22- and it's FREE to the public. Open mic for live music and spoken word.

Come and find your unique holiday gift. The walls of this gallery will be lined with stunning pieces for sale with incredible stories attached to them and artists will be creating live in space, bringing their best materials to this event. Times and location listed in our events bar on the right. Click the link below to find out more about this show.

           

Heroes4Heroes was a lot of fun!
Another great event. Heroes4Heroes raised $24,000 on Saturday, November 8th, 2008, during the largest comic book convention in the Southwest, Wizard World Texas. Thanks to Jason Kinney, Vinh-Luan Luu, Evan Bryce, Matthew Warlick, Khalid Robertson, Robert Luedke, Jake Ekiss, & Josh Boulet for making some incredible work representing ArtLoveMagic for this event. See pictures of the event at http://tinyurl.com/h4hliveart


 

 
Saxbys Coffee in October

ArtLoveMagic has had an amazing time at Saxbys Coffee shop this past month. Lots of people have come out to our shows and the collected talent was incredible. Among the gathered artist were professional photographers Stan Tongai (Oct. 17th) and Jenice Johnson (Oct. 24th).

To see images by Stanley Tongai that were taken on October 17th, visit his site at ...

dreamwildcreations.com
 

To see images by Jenice Johnson that were taken on October 24th, visit her site at ...

artsbyj.smugmug.com

You can also see more images from our collective of photographers on our account.

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Dallas Is Having Visions
 

 
Have you ever wondered why an artist looks at the world in a certain way? What drives them to create a particular work?

VISION is a new gallery experience hanging at the Mokah Art Gallery in Deep Ellum. The show is curated by ArtLoveMagic's founder Michael Lagocki and includes over 20 local artists (many who you've seen at our shows).

Each artist in the show was asked to submit work that revolved around a personal core theme. Among those chosen were universal concepts like Innocence, Love, Commitment, and Truth.

Hanging next to each piece in the show is an artists' statement, describing why they chose their themes and why they created the work.Together, these works, these themes, create a full Vision.

Mokah Art Gallery and ArtLoveMagic invite you to experience a show that lets you do more than just look, it lets you connect, understand, and look through another's eyes.

The VISION show is currently open during Mokah's normal operating hours. We will celebrate the show with a live event  that will be happening on:

Saturday 11/22/08 8pm - Midnight
The VISION celebration
An ArtLoveMagic-style celebration with the artists in the show working live and an open mic experience in Mokah's lounge where local musicians and poets can share their work.

Mokah Lounge and Art Gallery 2803 Taylor Street (in Deep Ellum) - Map

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Lions,

Tigers,

& Bears

a report of ArtLoveMagic at the Dallas Zoo
by Michael Lagocki

ArtLoveMagic's Michael and Lagocki and Josh Boulet headed out to the Dallas Zoo recently to support Big Thought and the Lights on After School Program. Our mission? To draw animals, a lot of animals, in chalk on the ground for over 1,000 screaming school kids.


God bless tardiness. The program was still getting set up when we showed, so it gave Josh and I a chance to do a "speed zoo" tour. We ran through  the zoo at about 50 miles an hour trying to see every animal in about 15 minutes prior to drawing for the kids. Josh, a sketchbook junkie, was literally turning pages and doing ten second drawings as we ran through the different exhibits.


Once properly inspired, we returned to Big Thought's tables where chalk awaited us. The area that would serve as our canvas was huge! Thousands of square feet of pavement laid in front of us waiting for us to decorate it with drawings of giraffes, baboons, elephants, and flamingos.
 


 
Chalk is a fun medium. It's bright, and fast. It's easy to work with, except that it doesn't allow you to screw up much. Erasing really wasn't much of an option. Josh, who's been masterfully doing wildlife drawings at ArtLoveMagic shows all summer, was killing it! Check out that croc, just waiting to take a bite out of him.
 
So for about 45 minutes, we had all the area to ourselves, and just filled it here and there with all kinds of creatures from mother nature.

And then... they arrived.

It was not unlike a tidal wave. You could hear them before you could see them. A force of enthusiasm that could level cities. There were happy, they were loud, they were excited... they were seven years old.

The first wave of school kids came in yelling at the top of their lungs and laughing. We gave them chalk and told them to go for it. Suddenly everywhere new drawings were popping up right and left. "Who can draw the best

monkey?!?!" I yelled. "Who can draw an elephant!?!?"

The kids were insane! They were so into it I just couldn't keep up. Every second someone else was grabbing my hand wanting to show me what they just drew

on the ground. I was really tickled about how it was the most important thing in the world for them to show me their drawings. "Look what I did!" was the mantra.  But as soon as I would see the drawing, that was it. They didn't want praise, or drawing lessons, they just wanted me to see it, to recognize they had done this. After my eyes hit their drawings, every time, they were then gone in a flash, off to the next one.

And just so you know...you gotta watch them seven year olds. They lie! There must of been twenty different kids who tried to convince me they drew the giraffe that I just watched Josh draw. Or even to take credit for my kangaroo. Imagine!

Mostly it was a blur after that. The scattered drawings on the ground morphed into one huge mosaic that spread all over the place. Not that I could even tell. I thought I had a lot of energy but it only took about half of the kids coming through before I could barely stand.

Big Thought really did a beautiful job of making sure there was something interactive and educational for these kids. It was a bit disappointing to see that the other contributors to the program mostly just gave the kids free stuff or promoted products to them. But we had them drawing, talking about animals, working with artists. It was gratifying and both Josh and I were proud of what we
did.

Slowly Josh and I limped out of the zoo. The kids won this round, but we'll be back.

 

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