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July 31st is the deadline to apply for Arts on the

July 31st is the deadline to apply for Arts on the Millrace! Don't let this fantastic opportunity pass you by.

Apply here: https://bit.ly/3y4v7iW

We had a great Happy Hour last week touring severa

We had a great Happy Hour last week touring several new art spaces in downtown Goshen. Thanks to Meraki Art Co., the Goshen Printmakers Guild, and The Goshen Theater for showing us your beautiful, unique spaces.

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Excited for this Downtown Goshen event on Saturday

Excited for this Downtown Goshen event on Saturday! Come out and support local artists, located on Main Street just south of the Goshen Theater, Saturday, June 26th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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“My medium is photography. I tend to lean more t

“My medium is photography. I tend to lean more towards classic. I want people to be able to look at their pictures today and then again in twenty years from now and not be like, look at that eighties hair! I tend to photograph women. I really enjoy the empowerment part of photography. Being able to take something that I do creatively and turn that into somebody else looking at themselves in an image and seeing what the world sees when they look at them. We are our own worst critics. There’s this quote I love, “Comparison is the thief of joy”, and I feel like as women we’re always comparing ourselves to everything we see in the world and we’re given such a distorted picture of what we’re supposed to look like. Part of my job is to take what they look like and say, look, you could be on the cover of a magazine too.

I’m very proud of the tools that I’ve been able to give women and young girls to catapult them into success in life. One of the things I’ve always been complimented on is my ability to make people feel comfortable. I think in that I’ve been able to make people feel comfortable with me but also within themselves and give them that boost of confidence to say, I can go for that job, or I am good enough for this, or it might be scary to go talk to that manager but I can conquer that fear.

I’m from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and I actually think Goshen is like a little Harrisonburg. Goshen just reminds me of that town and that energy. First off, everybody is super, super friendly, but then, creatives as a whole are very encouraging and supportive of each other. People aren’t afraid to reach out, which I really love about the photography community here. I feel like it really embodies community over competition.”

Misti Yoder
Medium: Photography
Facebook: Misti Yoder Photography / Boudoir Boutique Portraits
Instagram: Misti Yoder Photo / Boudoir Boutique Portraits
Websites: MistiYoderPhotography.com / BoudoirBoutiquePortraits.com

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Artists! Have you applied for Arts on the Millrac

Artists!

Have you applied for Arts on the Millrace yet? https://artsonthemillrace.org/application/

Don't miss your chance to sell your art and engage with the community on September 11th. Apply today!

We love seeing the arts supported in our public sc

We love seeing the arts supported in our public schools! Enjoy some images from the Goshen High School Art Show that happened a few weeks ago in downtown Goshen.

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“I am a singer/songwriter. My music is fused wit

“I am a singer/songwriter. My music is fused with touches of R&B, jazz, and indie pop.

Honestly, a formative moment for me was singing at my very first open mic. I don’t have this issue now, thank goodness - I worked through it - but I had such severe stage fright. I wrote songs for myself. I did do church worship team a little bit when I was younger, but out in the public I never would share with anybody else anything I had written.

That first open mic took place in Goshen. It was December of 2018 in Downtown Goshen. My husband and I probably went to that open mic four times before I had the guts to actually hop up and do it. Once I did it, everyone who was there was so encouraging afterwards. I think that’s just the Goshen way: Once somebody is out there just doing something that they love, the community picks them up and pushes them further, which has been my experience. If I never would have gone to that open mic, I would never be writing an album.

I have been recording an album. We started it when COVID hit, so that whole project got paused. I’m actually finishing it up now. It originally was supposed to be an EP, just around seven songs. I basically played through my notebook with my team, and now it’s 13 songs plus a bonus track. It’s a whole album.

We’re doing an album release concert at The Goshen Theater on June 12. The album comes out on June 11. It’s a full band show, and we’re using all-regional musicians. We also have two opening acts. It’s going to be a very fun night. We’re all very excited.”

Name: Abbie Thomas
Medium: Music
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialabbiethomas
Website: https://abbiethomasmusic.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialabbiethomas/

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“Music is my medium. I really like expressing my

“Music is my medium. I really like expressing myself through playing the guitar and singing. I feel more comfortable doing that in my native language, of course. That’s basically how it comes through on the music I do with the band. I try to stay close in touch with my culture, and one way to do that is to sing in Spanish and play Latin music.

Something I’m really proud of is being able to play music that, while not necessarily in most of the population’s first language, is still finding people who find it interesting to listen to, even though they might not necessarily understand what we’re saying. That is pretty significant to me because when I was growing up, most of the music I listened to was in a language that I didn’t understand. It kind of seemed like a normal thing to me, being able to listen to things that you didn’t understand.

Goshen has been very diverse musically. I’ve been able to play almost any style of music I’ve gotten to know. I’ve found people who also happen to be interested in that style, whether it’s jazz or traditional Mexican music and rock and Spanish rock, somehow this little town happens to have people in all of the styles of music. It’s been a very entertaining and fun experience playing with different people in our area who enjoy all these maybe not necessarily super-popular genres, especially in our small town. Goshen definitely knows how to keep it interesting, I guess.”

Name: Rafael Chavez Moreno
Medium: Music
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lalocurarock
Website: http://www.lalocurarock.com/

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“My medium is watercolor, almost exclusively, th

“My medium is watercolor, almost exclusively, though I also do some drawing. I say that my style is not hyper-realism, but realism. It’s definitely not abstract. I love colors, so I’m always pushing the colors and pushing contrasts.

I'm very proud of being where I am today in capability. I started late in life as far as being a watercolorist. I didn’t seriously even consider the fact that I might enjoy doing art until I was in my 50s. I was well into my 50s when I said, ‘If I want to get better, it’s going to take time and it’s going to take diligence and I’ve got to get serious about it.’ I never really went to school for it. I bought every DVD - or VHS at the time - and read everything I could get on it. I talked to people and I went to art fairs and shows. I’m self-taught.

In the past 10 years that I’ve been serious about this, I’ve won numerous awards. Granted, they’re all at a regional or local level, for the most part. I’ve won a couple of honorable mentions in international contests. I haven’t gone big time, but I’m very happy with where I’m at.

The experience of being a creative in Goshen has been a good one, overall. I’m pretty much a loner; I’m not so much a joiner. I’ve talked to and met with members of both the Elkhart Art League and the Goshen Art Guild. I think they’re lovely people, and they certainly have extended themselves on my behalf.

When I first moved here to Goshen, it was without knowing anybody. No one. I found that literally within days, the community was reaching out to me. I had posted on Facebook; people were following me. I wasn’t even aware that people knew me, but people knew me here in Goshen. That was a really good feeling.

I’d like to do more shows now that I’m more established and more settled in. I’ve only been here four years. I’m looking forward to it this coming year, for sure.”

Name: Kathleen Ward
Medium: Watercolor

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