art studio enhancements: shutter your cork board

Today’s art studio tip comes to you with a cottage-inspired look combined with crafty functionality.  Take your regular cork board (I like to cover the cork in a beautiful paper before I start with all that push-pin action) and frame it with some vintage and rustic shutters.  With the correct installation, you can hinge the shutters so they actually close shut OVER the cork board itself.  This will help keep your art studio tidy and need.  And when you have the shutters closed (or opened), remember that your shutter slots can be used to hold greeting cards, business cards, little quotes and sayings or any number of original ideas.  You may want to invest in a really nice hardware latch set, or you may want to go as simple as a hook and eye.  This brilliant, now-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that idea comes to you from the Spring/Summer issue of Cottage Style Magazine.  Love the vibrant color!

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Shauna Lee Lange: The Agrarian Artist is a professional artist, thought leader, and analyst advisor based in Southwest Florida.  She is working in the fields of public installation art in organic sustainability, natural forms & terrain, and conscious green social change – otherwise known as Art Agrarianism. Lange is the Founder and Director of Creative Art Consultants International Network, an integrated social media think-tank with over 4,500 professional members.  A U.S. Navy Veteran, Ms. Lange exhibits her self-taught art journals, visual diaries, and sketchbooks nationally. Lange is the 2013 awardee of eight solo shows with Charlotte County, FL’s Art in Public Places Program, and is currently exhibiting her organic Microcircles series depicting cellular intersections and interdependencies. The Agrarian Artist recently participated in Florida’s Creative Capital Professional Development Program – designed to further advance Florida’s culture economy. Always open to your ideas and input, images are available in the public sphere.