Welcome New Members Katrina Hall, Digital Dogs,...

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Join me in welcoming NEW MEMBERS Katrina Hall, Digital Dogs, Andre W., and Mike E. to our Artistic Minds® Gather Group!

Make yourselves right at home! You may already be familiar with our Gather Group and many of the Members in here. Some of our Members are into MUSIC, and are in a contest on First Tracks. WE look forward to listening to all of the original MUSIC created by the Members here, and WE provide our support by way of comments and feedback. Our goal is to support all artistic minds in this Group in their various ARTISTIC MEDIUMS in any way that we can.

We are in the middle of our ART JOURNAL COLLABORATION PROJECT including three Gather Groups . . . Artistic Minds®, Artistic Therapy and MiniMoments Therapy Gather Groups. Jump right in and browse around. This Project began in February, and will continue through the end of JUNE [EXTENDED] as many members wanted to participate. So you have plenty of time to get involved and acquaint yourself with what has been going on with our current Project. For now, you just need to keep good notes, check out what the other Members have created thus far, and ask of any of us any questions that you have on your mind.

You may VISIT the FEATURED ARTICLES section to see all of the FEATURED ARTICLES for your new Gather Group. Make sure you press the "view all" button because there are more FEATURED ARTICLES than what you see on the front page. The FEATURED ARTICLES change frequently! So please feel free to give us what you have in terms of content!

You may also respond to all posts you find here in your new group -- no matter what date they are, as we are always receiving new members who make comments.

We are also working on Art Diaries to keep our Daily Notes with regard to our ART JOURNAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECT. You'll find additional artistic and creative concepts and ideas being posted here daily. Do add yours ~ whatever they may be! We like to engage our minds, our gifts, and our talents as much as possible. We enjoy having a lot of artistic material to read and VIEW . . . So feel free to post your Music Tracks, Poetic Videos, Original Film Creations, and Literary Videos in the Group!

We always like to include the children here in our Gather Group. Member Jennifer is working on an Art Journal Collaborative Project with her son, Gideon. Do view her FEATURED ARTICLES. There are four parts completed thus far!

And, Linda K. started us all out with the most wonderful example of what an Art Journal should look like. Make sure you view Linda K.'s FEATURED ARTICLES as well.

Lydia has "The Story of Raven Black" going on in our Group and it is currently being FEATURED!

We have resumed our Good Morning Coffee - Gallery Crawl with CLICKABLE LINKS! Our current posting has a different JAVA flair, and is entitled, "LATE MORNING ~ EARLY AFTERNOON JAVA Bean NEWS ~ ART JOURNAL COLLABORATION PROJECT". You may also VIEW Good MONDAY Morning JAVA NEWS! ANNOUNCEMENT - OUR ART JOURNAL COLLABORATION PROJECT. We post our Good Morning Coffee - Gallery Crawl announcements every morning between 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. (new time!). CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR GALLERY CRAWL! . . . JAVA !

WE are VISITING NEW MEMBERS and original members alike and FEATURING their ARTICLES in our JAVA Bean NEWS, as well as our Gallery Crawl! Members are from all three Gather Groups: Artistic Minds®, Artistic Therapy, and MiniMoments Therapy (MiniTherapy). Our FOCUS right now is MUSIC, EDUCATION, our ART JOURNALS, Writers, Authors, Poets and Creative Cooks! What a time we have been having! We'll have more JAVA brewed for our journey each morning! We've already started our RECAP of past Gallery Crawl MUSIC spots containing CLICKABLE LINKS just in case some Members may have missed these interesting Studio Spots. Do JOIN IN and take a stroll with us to each Member's Studio Spot! Just look for the coffee cup, the Coffee Pot, or the JAVA BEAN BAG to join in on JAVA NEWS or the Gallery Crawl at any time. The Gallery Crawls are TIMELESS!

We look forward to your participation here. Ask questions, post your artworks, poetics, writings, music, photography, photo essays, engineering concepts, environmental happenings, Art Projects you'd like everyone to participate in, Creative Writing Projects you'd like everyone to participate in, Musical Projects you'd like everyone to participate in, and any other COLLABORATION IDEAS you may have.

We are currently FEATURING Elizabeth with her AWARD WINNING ARTICLE on EDUCATION and Cultural Diversity! WRITERS of all three groups are also being FEATURED, including our Poetics Masters and examples of Art Journals by Members of all three participating groups! We are also HIGHLIGHTING Members who have entered into the First Tracks Gather contest currently being voted on . . . Ryan Nicholas is one such Artistic Minds® Member.

Do make suggestions, and meet others. Our Gallery Crawls are for the purpose of meeting others within the Group, and others in the Gather community. You'll find a lot of interesting people, fascinating artworks, creative literary works, literary poetics, the latest in technology, interesting concepts, creative & artistic cooks, Musical Masters, Performing Arts Masters, Video Masters, Photographic Masters, Poetic Masters, Haiku Masters, Designers, Journalists, Art Instructors, Art Critics, Art & Movie Reviewers, arts & crafts creatives, jewelry makers, quilters, fine art, photographic techniques, visual art, arts education articles, images for commentary & feedback, enjoyable conversation, artistic & creative relaxation tips, and the most beautiful people from around the world from the inside out!

You'll find some things in here that are not listed, but if its ARTISTIC, it's here! And if it's not here, we're sure that some artistic mind will put it here. We're always looking for newness, freshness, creative natives . . . If you want to expand your mind in the area of the CREATIVE ARTS, VISUAL ARTS, PERFORMING ARTS, MUSICAL ARTS, LITERARY ARTS, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, GRAPHIC ARTS, TECHNOLOGICAL ARTS . . . you've come to the right place! Get comfy, and . . .