Bentonville Art Spotlight: YARNOLUTIONARY – Global Image Creation Produces Gina Gallina’s Crochet Revolution
In the early days of Bentonville's burgeoning art scene, a revolutionary event named "Yarnolutionary" emerged, showcasing the intricate beauty of crochet art. Spearheaded by the renowned artist Gina Gallina, this event marked a unique intersection of historic elegance and modern crochet craftsmanship. Global Image Creation played a pivotal role in bringing this visionary concept to life, blending art and fun with Gina’s unforgettable display of artistry.
Revolutionizing Social Media for Hotels and Restaurants: Photography Lighting with Halumin
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Stitching Fun into Art Hotel Brand Culture: Producing Crochet Artist Gina Gallina for Staypineapple
Picture this: a 10-foot tall crochet pineapple, meticulously crafted by Gallina, standing proudly in the hotel lobby. This was no ordinary pineapple. It was a vibrant, playful, and utterly unique centerpiece that captured the essence of Staypineapple Hotels’ commitment to creating extraordinary experiences. But the fun didn’t stop there.
YARNOGRAPHY: A Creative Crochet Wonderland of Bentonville Art
The Bentonville art scene is a rising star in the present day, but in the early times of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, there were few local pioneers outside of its walls. This is the story of one such creative endeavor.
Nestled in the artistic soul of Northwest Arkansas, a story as vibrant and intricate as a crochet tapestry unfolded. This tale, known as "Yarnography," began with a serendipitous encounter at the White Street Walk in Eureka Springs, where creativity blossoms in every nook and corner.
Jeremy Mason McGraw, the esteemed CEO and Creative Director of Global Image Creation, crossed paths with the crochet virtuoso Gina Gallina. It was a meeting destined by the muses of art themselves, intertwining their talents to create something extraordinary.
Yarnography was born from a vision to transform the mundane into the magical. It was a world where average individuals, feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of life, found solace in the rhythm of their crochet hooks. They spun their anxieties and hopes into a kaleidoscope of yarn, creating a fantastical world that mirrored their dreams for a brighter reality.
Eternal Beauties Magazine
In this project, Jeremy played with ideas of culture, prejudice, and perceptions of evil in a conceptual space removed from divisive political debates. Using vampires, demons, and other fictional immortal beings as a metaphor for foreignness, Jeremy worked with a team of models, artists, a leather armor maker and movie special effects makeup artists including Lu Andra Whitehurst and Laura Dandridge to craft images and concepts of these outsiders in the familiar editorial style of beauty and lifestyle magazines. The resulting images speak to the way we view other cultures through the lens of our own.
Zombie Art Show Invades Eureka Springs, Arkansas
What happens when a horde of Zombies descends on a small city in Arkansas? Well, in Eureka Springs, they head straight to the local art show.
Sphere – A Public Art Project in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
In 2013, Robert R. Norman and Jeremy Mason McGraw created the Sphere, a community public art project in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
The six-foot Sphere incorporated 700-800 individual sticks harvested from the local area and decorated with messages written by residents and tourists in the small artistic city. 80% of the messages were about love.
The Sphere was designed and built by Robert as part of a series of Creative Energy Projects produced by Jeremy. Both Jeremy and Robert were named Artists of the Year by the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The Real Story of Sanderson’s Meal Pops
Jeremy talks about “Sanderson’s Meal Pops”, a fictitious company created for a community art event.
In 2014, Jeremy was invited to be part of Sensory Iconoclasts, an event which paired chefs and artists from the Northwest Arkansas region to collaborate on a project.
At the time, complicated issues of corporate personhood had been raised by several recent Supreme Court rulings and were making headlines. Jeremy wondered, with all of the rights being extended to corporations, could a corporation enter a community art show?
Along with local chef Chrissy Sanderson, Jeremy sought to find out just how far this idea could go by launching Sanderson’s Meal Pops, a company that aimed to make some news of its own by producing a complete meal replacement in the form of a lollipop.
Funny Faces of Public Art in Eureka Springs Arkansas
Featured artist, John Rankine, chats about MUGS, a fun outdoor photography exhibition he worked on for Creative Energy and the 2013 May Festival of the Arts in Eureka Springs.
Rankine created the exhibition with Global Image Creation’s CEO and Creative Director Jeremy Mason McGraw. For the project, Rankine photographed 130 resident creatives pulling their silliest faces. He, McGraw, and a group of volunteers wallpapered the portraits to the exteriors of buildings throughout Eureka Springs’ historic downtown.
The portraits went up on May 1. Three weeks later Rankine and McGraw hosted a graffiti event and invited the public to “enhance” the portraits with magic markers.
“You’re never going to be short of characters in Eureka Springs,” says John Rankine, which this exhibition certainly proved.
Chicago Hotel Room Art
There have been countless words, brushstrokes, and exposures dedicated to capturing the experience of travel in hotel room art. The foreign people, and food, and language. The place, the history, and the politics. Attempts to understand a world that’s unfamiliar, to understand ourselves better, and to discover what divides us and what is universal. However, in all the novels and paintings and exquisite photographs there is one element of travel that is often overlooked: the hotel.