The This and The That

The happenings and working-outs of the vision behind ArtistSynergy.

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Glenn Feehan performing at Lounge 3

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Alicia Rogers and her band performing at Lounge 3.

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At NAMS we're in the artist development business...Levi Bradford (shown) has just bought the business...he's turning things upside down ;)

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So, my good friend Levi has just bought NAMS (Neighborhood Arts & Music School) which is the music school I currently contract and teach at…his whole vision astounds me. All he wants to do is grow people in their gifting and help those pushing towards their dreams achieve their personal greatness!

This is a photo of manifested, work-in-progress of an idea Levi had to simply unite all the students and teachers at NAMS. With everyone whimsically required to trace the words with their own choices of color and/or “leave their mark” in some colorful way, all of NAMS unites as one body to create this inspired piece of art over a week period…brilliant.

Words on the board - “Welcome to NAMS where we hope you feel accepted, encouraged and free to explore the musical giftings inside of you. The further you dive in, the further we’ll take you. The further we take you, the more interesting this place gets. Lets find inspiration together.” -NAMS

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Welcoming the Dream

Welcome to the ArtistSynergy Tumblr! My name is Christian Ross and I carry a vision to bring together a networking of artists, a gathering of supporters, to experience art and to build a community that develops, cultivates and grows artists who desire to express unique their unique gifting to the masses.

Sounds like a lot! To me, looking at this, even in such a light paragraph form, I’m overwhelmed yet honored and excited for a way bigger tomorrows.

I believe the greatest testament to this vision will be the out working as it grows from the humble beginnings we’re in now, to the massive events and plans I have hope to see in the future.

At this stage, the focus has been on live events, social networking/cross promotion and personal relationships.

The first venture into live events as ArtistSynergy has been an event called Lounge. Lounge is a multi genre/media event in conjunction with TheGallery8680, C3 TrueNORTH Church and Maestros Entertainment. Basically, a concert in an art gallery!!!

So far, we’ve hit capacity at 120 our first event, sold out the second event and did just as well for the 3rd which was a 7 artist unplugged and free show. (Presented as a farewell to Painter, Asher Feehan who sold 75% of all works the first opening!)

I’m truly amazed at the quality of performance and art that has come through every event! The goal is to bring all artists who are running with their visions, experienced and non. That the young artists can muse with the experienced thus helping artist development by creating an atmosphere for conversation among great arts! From the stage all the way to artist hospitality, we hope to create a place where artists can’t wait to come back to. A place where artists use us as a standard of excellence for the types of venues and stages they say yes to.

There are many more avenues and dreams wrapped up in this but my thumbs are tired and want to fall off now from typing on this lil’ smart phone… so I’ll save the rest for later. Until then, thanks for reading and much love.

-Christian Ross, ArtistSynergy