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Suzan Gannett talks about Artistic Roots, and the programs and passions that it has inspired.
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Artistic Roots of which I'm president is, artist cooperative.
It's a nonprofit, and it's also, teaching center.
It started in Campton New Hampshire.
Then it moved to downtown in Plymouth, downstairs.
So it was hard to see what was going on.
And now we're on Main Street up above, right next to Rand's, so it's easy to see us and a lot of people come in to be with us, which is great.
We have a wide variety of artwork that we offer to the public.
It includes fabric art, photography, digital art, all kinds of wall art, including oils and watercolors and acrylics.
We have fabric art.
We even have a blacksmith.
We have wood turners and wood people that make wooden furniture that is really beautiful.
We have a person that's right now is doing boxes, and we have a fused glass artist, In addition to that, we are different from most galleries in that our members get 90% of the sales, which is a huge amount.
Most galleries are between give between 60 and 55%.
We have a visiting artist program in which we invite four artists from the local area to come in and show their work for 3 to 4 months, and during that time they have a 30/70 split.
So again, it's still a really good deal.
But I want to say that this is the most collaborative group of people that I've ever worked with before.
In my life, and I'm so proud to be president of this group.
Our mission statement is is says it all.
I think Artistic Roots where community and artisans come together to celebrate creativity.
We offer scholarships.
We have free children's classes once a month, or or more than once a month in the zoom classes, believe it or not, we have people from Israel, Texas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, including local people from New Hampshire.
So it's been, fun to see that grow.
And that all started during Covid when we couldn't meet in person.
We have semi-private classes that Annette runs pretty much on a seven week basis.
I have an artist, Liz Keefe, who does mosaics, and she does mosaics with adults and with kids.
I teach classes on Procreate, which is a digital, program on your iPad.
And I also teach Zen Doodle and how to make your own earrings so it comes from what the artist wants to do, or from me encouraging artists to to set out to do something like next, next month, we may have we have an artist makes weaves, baskets and she may do a basket workshop.
So that's something different that we haven't offered before.
Other members in the past have offered fuzed glass lessons.
We've offered, watercolor lessons.
So it's a wide variety, but it's based mainly on what artists are willing to do.
we want to keep the cost of artwork low enough so that people in the area can afford it, but we don't want the artist to suffer.
Hence the 10/90 split, that's part of what we're about.
We are a nonprofit and we are there to help people learn about art.
Yeah.
So that's part of our goal.
The celebration of creativity.
And the people of this area are very warm and inviting.
And I'm so proud to be a part of their community.
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