Off The Wall: It's Five Years Later, So Let's Get Even!

Online, July 13, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The Defoor Centre gets ready for another Off The Wall show - this time we are upping the prices to $200, $400 and $600 for artists to sell at. The week long show starts on November 13, 2011 with afternoon party and comes down Friday November 18th. This is a great time to check out the local artists, see what's been going on in their studios, and maybe buy a unique gift this year for the Holidays. Various artists, whether it been on paper or on metal or sculpture or pottery this is a great chance to see the goods of city's most creative people.
"Over the past five years, since the first show, we've changed it up a bit but always staying in touch with the basics, good work at unheard of prices. It's important for the non-art crowds to see more than what's going on and not been in a festival mode this is a gallery show," explains art director Jill Kettles. It was played upon her time at New Visions Gallery at the TULA art center in Buckhead that gave her idea to create her own to carry on the legacy. As a large gallery the place is able to house a lot of work and it shows it various set ups as each room is different in its wall space.
Many well known and well-liked artists have been a part of this; Karina Keri-Matuszak who was voted best emerging artist from Creative Loafing readers, in 2008. Longtime veteran gallery and marketing guru Sharron Ragan, whimsical mixed media Mark Collins, and and cutting edge photographer Matthew White have all been there from day one. This is what makes the sales good, they've all sold and they are a continuing force to drive more artists to this show. Sometimes just being around them gives you the inspiration to do more.
So come out with your artistic minds in hand and your check book in tow to be prepared to buy some fabulous work, cause it will be gone before you can blink.
About the Defoor Centre:
The Defoor Centre is located off Howell Mill Rd in Atlanta in the reviving Westside neighborhood, where a lot of local vendors that cater to the interior designers have been going to for years. The Centre has been a growing facility hosting major fundraisers to corporate meetings to private weddings all in house catering with a full bar. 100 years ago this place was a hospital for the soldiers fighting at the Battle of Peachtree Creek and to this day they are "still there."
For more information on the Defoor: www.defoorecentre.com or just come by Tues-Friday to get something to eat and browse - 1710 DeFoor Ave Atlanta GA. On Facebook-www.facebook.com/defoorcentre or search for the Defoor Center ARTS group!