Hi Everyone!

We’re excited to launch Creative Clues, a new monthly feature of Art Starts at Louisville Visual Art. With each new Clue, we’ll provide some pointers to help you succeed and improve.

Creative Clues Showcase

CLUE: AUTUMN
Deadline for artwork submission is September 30, 2022 at midnight.

HOW TO: Create Your Own World – the study of the artist Georgia O’Keefe

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American Modernist Painter, born in 1887, died in 1986. She knew she wanted to be artist at the young age of 10. O’Keefe liked the idea of expressing herself by using line, color and shading in a harmonious way. “Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.” She studied nature and her environment and created her own world in through her paintings.

O'Keeffe in 1918, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz.

Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the most original American painters, famous for her large format flower paintings. Known for her fierce independence and her unique artistic vision, she painted throughout most of the 20th century, spanning virtually the entire history of modern art in America. She died at the age of 98 in her home in New Mexico, where she was endlessly inspired by the rugged terrain. She disliked the phrase "woman artist", wishing to simply be known as an artist instead.

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center located in north central New Mexico. It was the home and studio of Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings.

In 2006, scientists named a fossilised species of archosaur found in New Mexico after O'Keeffe—ffigia okeeffeae, or "O'Keeffe's Ghost", in honor of Georgia O'Keeffe and her many paintings of the badlands at Ghost Ranch.

The incredible large-scale flowers made up just ten per cent of O'Keeffe's work. She was also an incredible landscape painter, capturing the scenery in New Mexico and New York as well as several studies of natural forms such as bones and shells. Look at the world she created!

In 1945 O'Keeffe set up a home and studio in New Mexico. A year later, Stieglitz died.

“I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Click here to learn more about Georgia O’Keefe.

Here is a fun LVA Art Starts project to watch and create.
Click here to watch the Georgia O’Keefe Flowers video.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

Send in your COURAGE artwork

Deadline for artwork submission is August 31, 2022 at midnight.

Content: family friendly (LVA will determine if artwork is appropriate to share online.)
Ages 5 to 105!
Photo Guidelines: here is a nifty link, if you want to learn to take great pictures of your artwork

Consent and Permission: By filling out the form below, you give LVA permission to display your artwork and information in the Creative Clue Showcase. *NOTE: if you are under 18 years old, please have a parent or guardian complete the form.
Address: email artwork to: artstartshere@louisvillevisualart.org
Social Media: you may share your artwork on Instagram: #artwithinreach, #ArtStartsAtLVA

LVA will notify you if your artwork is in the Creative Clues Showcase at the end of the month. artstartshere@louisvillevisualart.org

Send Us Your Artwork

Remember to use your past How To pages to come up with creative solutions for your new clue:

January 2021 - Winter -Thumbnails

February 2021 - Heart - Research

March 2021 - Chair

April 2021 - Spring

May 2021 - Breeze

June 2021 - Light

July 2021 - Together

August 2021 - Trees

September 2021 - Apples & Pears