Guild artists are encouraged to incorporate their own personal artistic styles and mediums to represent a different subject matter each year. These original 8×8 artworks will be available for purchase throughout the summer at Falls Memorial Fest and Art in the Park.
Water is the Theme for 2026
Water can be visually represented in myriad ways, literally & figuratively… Think:
- Nautically, both real & fantastic
- Environmentally, of water biomes & the plants & animals that live there
- Scientifically, of weather, the water cycle
- Singularly, the impact of a single tear or the first plop of rain or different ways to envision the Mickey Mouse shaped molecule we rely on for life
- Monumentally, in the vastness of oceans or clouds
- Emotionally or symbolically, as in a representation of one’s intuition or inner self
- Religiously, with holy water, baptisms
- Abstractly, with a study in blue
- Stylistically, attempting a style-a-like of Picasso’s blue period or a Van Gogh-esque evening sky… or listen to some B.B. King & let your brush get down & dance
- Oppositely, with dehydration: of people, fruit, plants, or biomes. Both the Sahara & Antarctica are deserts
- Ironically, b/c while Antarctica is a desert by measurement of rainfall, its also made of ice
- Form•ally, b/c water lives in the form.of a solid, a liquid, & a gas
Inspired yet? Yeah you are…
Drop off / Pick up
There’s a wooden crate full of 8×8 canvases, free to Guild members, at the Art Lounge. Take 1 or 2, do your “thang,” then return finished pieces to aforementioned crate.
Please sign & “STAMP” your work – see next section.
No Name, No Fame
Whatever you drop off, make sure you provide your name on your piece, written in print or typed, please.
Feel free to affix a card or QR code with other info that’ll create the hype you need to hock your wares, like:
- Social Media presence
- Contact Information so impressed parties can offer you choice comissions
This was missing from almost every piece sold at FFOA, which disallowed me of informing you if your piece/s sold. 
Questions? Contact Chairperson Kina Stringfellow.
Proceeds from the sales of these generously donated works benefit our annual scholarship fund that matches a talented high school student with an educational art experience.