The Jacksonville Artists Guild (JAG) is located in Jacksonville, Florida.  Membership is made up of Visual Artists and those supporters interested in the visual arts.  Interested persons are encouraged to join.   Meetings are held monthly beginning January 2011 through May on the second Monday of the month.  Summer recess is June through September and meetings resume in October. Visitors are invited to attend JAG meetings.

January Meeting and Program

Tayloe White’s Bio/Artist’s Statement:

 Art’s power to evoke discussion of ideas was revealed to my three-year-old self the moment after my mother discovered the laundry room walls I had carefully embellished while she was talking on the phone.

As a college student at the University of Florida, I sketched and water-colored the places I traveled in order to relish details I knew I’d otherwise forget- the marbled bark of a plane tree in Provence or the particular silvery sage water of Walloon Lake, Michigan.
 
As I share my story and experience other’s stories through art, I reconnect to my truest self and am knit more deeply into my community. My work expresses the interest I have in neuroaesthetics, the scientific study of how the brain is changed by experiencing and creating art.  Based on findings from the latest neuroscience research I’ve developed a process for creating my art called ARC (arbitrary randomized constraints).  Painting while using ARC has enabled me to explore the edge of chaos in my work and has informed a new conceptually focused direction to my work.
 This process has allowed me explore the edge of chaos in my work In them I see the breadth of human experience. Our passions.  Our limitations. Our possibilities.
Art is the on-going conversation that awakens me to ordinary miracles that show up in the simplest of forms. The specific experiences conveyed in my work are personal and reflect my own history but my hope is that my work will remind you of your own story, and how your story fits into the family of stories, which we all share.