Creative visualization is a proven technique to expand on one’s thoughts and mental pictures with the intent to manifest specific desires.

When you can quiet your mind and focus — really focus — on a specific desire, you’re using the power of visualization. Some people say they can’t visualize, but everyone with a fully functioning mind can imagine whatever they wish.

Even those who’ve survived the most horrible of conditions, yet had the strength of mind and the will to overcome the odds, used visualization to endure captivity, torture, hunger, poverty, and every other condition known to man.

To visualize is to occupy your consciousness with a specific image. It may be a black and white still, or a vibrantly colorful motion picture with you in the starring role. The mental picture can take any form you choose, just as the subject of that picture can be anything you want it to be.

Visualization is the key to manifestation. Whenever we think, we think in pictures. That’s how the human mind is programmed. Think of your car now and what you envision is a mental snapshot of it. Imagine your bedroom. Just think for a moment how you would describe this room and its contents in words. What you’re doing is translating the pictures you see into words.

Whenever you’ve attained a goal large or small, chances are you’ve engaged in the practice of visualization in some way, shape, or form. In fact, you might have used this great power on several occasions without even knowing it. But what if you could take the simple, ever-accessible ability to “visualize” and crank it up a few notches to the point where manifestation is inevitable.

Here are 3 secrets of creative visualization, secrets designed to add unstoppable power and precision to the process of creating results in your life by design.

1. Visualize often. It’s this process of repetition that enables your ideal to penetrate the subconscious fortress. Once you’re in, your goal is virtually assured, as long as you act on the impulses your subconscious serves up.

2. Assume ownership of your goal now. Don’t wish for a future result, assume that it’s yours. This alone will multiply the effectiveness of your creative visualization to a whole different level. Thinking makes it so. And nothing communicates to the subconscious with as much power as the definitive position of ownership. Assume what you want and act as though it’s already yours. Make it so real that when your goal actually materializes, it’s no surprise but simply the manifestation of your belief and expectation.

3. Go out and have fun. Release yourself from the ‘got to have it’ mentality. If you follow the principles of visualization and you think, act and live from the position of having what you want already, there’s no need to stress about it. Don’t struggle or wish for something that you want to manifest. State your desire, visualize it, see yourself in possession and then go out and live your life, fully expecting your desired result to eventually show up.

Try adding these 3 secrets of creative visualization to your routine. Have faith that what you want can be yours. Apply the 3 tools of enhancement and you can substantially increase your rate of success, while reducing the time it takes you to attain what you desire, be who you want to be, or do the things you most want to do.

Creative visualization is the one tool that can give you whatever you desire. And now you know how to turn the spark of desire into physical reality, whatever the desire happens to be for you.

The World’s Best Art Consultancy
art-exchange.com unveils Release III of its art tool for designers

The Future Art Consultancy
Locating and placing artwork in a design project is arguably the most difficult part of the project. While some designers take on this task themselves, many enlist the assistance of an art consultant. One limitation of this approach is the consultant’s limited universe of artists. Most art consultants end up with a few “go-to” favorites.

Imagine an art consultancy able to directly access 10,000 artists, with technology capabilities aggregating art choices in a portfolio for emailing or high-resolution printing for presentations. Add the ability to correspond with clients via e-postcard including selected images. And finish with the ability to access framing options online thus enabling the designer to actually show the customer how the pieces will look framed.

Does It Work?
Can a website help you find art? Art-Exchange (www.art-exchange.com) is not a new website, not a new service, not a new company. It does, however, take a new approach to providing art to designers. And it has a new site design that Art-Exchange claims will make the service even more powerful and easier to use.
I spoke with Richard Gipe, President and CEO of Art-Exchange, to find out why he thinks his company’s service is so special. I asked him, “If you had to communicate Art-Exchange’s value to designers in a single sentence, what would you say?”
Here’s what he said: “If you want to access as much art as we have on Art-Exchange, you would have to go to 20,000 galleries, and you would have to deal with so many different sellers that the logistics would be overwhelming.” That sounds pretty good. But does the site work?

About Art-Exchange
Art-Exchange is a business service provider that specializes in solutions for the design trade. They can offer solutions to designers as an art consultancy, or they can provide solutions to art consultants to help them be more effective and efficient.
For the past five years Art-Exchange has been actively contacting artists to list their works on the exchange. Today there are approximately 100,000 different works of art created by over 10,000 different artists. Imagine searching 100,000 records to locate the perfect art solution. Nearly 60% of all the works are originals, and the remaining 40% is a variety of editions. All of these works are organized in a database, and a search engine locates works using any or all of the following criteria:

• Artist’s name
• Title
• Subject matter
• Style
• Medium
• Size
• Colors
• Price
• Orientation

Suppose you need oversized original works and price is an issue. Maybe you want only works with lighthouses. Or perhaps you need large public works. That’s how specific the search engine can be. And with the new design, if you enter several criteria and the search engine can’t find a work that matches all your criteria exactly, it will refer you to the works that match your criteria most closely, so that you don’t have to start over. As one of the new site’s designers said, “We don’t ever want to show nobody anything.”
Normally, designers hire an art consultant or visit multiple galleries or view print books to find the perfect art solution. That’s the old way of finding art. Now designers can look in one place and view tens of thousands of originals alone. This is the new way of finding art. Art-Exchange let’s designers search for all the art they need in one place. That alone has the potential to save time, but the website has some other very powerful features that give designers even more flexibility and power.

Powerful Features
One very important new feature is the Designer Portal. Art-Exchange has four different portals that members can use to enter the site. There’s one for retail clients, one for community partners, and another for artists and other sellers. But the Designer Portal is available only to designers. Once you enter the portal, you can search for the art you want, view images of the art, and immediately see designers’ wholesale pricing.
Here’s another great new feature: Portfolios. How do you keep track of the works that fit your client’s needs? You keep a portfolio. Designers can set up portfolios for individual clients, different locations, or just for future reference. It’s easy to save works to custom-made portfolios. And it’s easy to show the portfolio to clients—from anywhere in the world.
Another terrific feature is the Exhibitions section. Exhibitions include the works of around 200 artists and are compiled topically. Prior exhibitions, which are still accessible, include Realism, Landscape, Watercolor, and Impressionism. In order to have fresh ideas readily available for clients, designers need to be reviewing art all the time, and these exhibitions can help. It takes only fifteen minutes to view an entire exhibition.
Another feature that can help designers and clients work together—especially when clients have trouble describing their interests—is the Postcard feature. Clients can go to the website to browse for themselves. They can view an exhibition, browse by artist, or do a search. When they find something they like, they can send images to their designer using electronic postcards.
Soon, Art-Exchange will even offer the ability to create Custom Frames online so that clients can view the artwork in different frames and choose the one they like best.

Full-Service Art Consultancy
Art-Exchange goes far beyond just the website, however. They also provide full-service art consultancy. They have a full staff of qualified art consultants who can do as much or as little as a designer wants them to. Anything a typical art consultancy does, Art-Exchange will do. If a designer works with an art consultant already and wants to maintain that relationship, Art-Exchange will even work with his or her current art consultant.

How to Access the Features and Benefits of Art-Exchange
Go to www.art-exchange.com and visit the Designer Portal. Log in as a designer and learn about how the service works. You can easily search for art, access their full-service art consultancy, or guide your favorite art consultant to Art-Exchange. A subscription is free. Art-Exchange is paid by the sellers on completed transactions; so they only get paid if they’re helping designers find the right art, for the right job, at the right price.
When asked what he would most want to communicate to designers about the company and the service it provides, Gipe said, “I want the members of ASID who place art to try the art consultancy service at Art-Exchange, and if they’ll give us 10% of their trust, we’ll earn the other 90%.” If you’re a designer or an art consultant, it’s worth trying. Does it work? Is it really whole new way of finding art? Yeah, that’s what it is. And for designers, the world of art will never be the same.

Designed in Art Deco style, the ample space of Frist art museum caters splendid visual arts from classical to contemporary masters. Since its first opening in April 2001, the Frist art museum is continually celebrating the world’s different masterpiece of fine arts, sculpture, photography, and other interactive media; hosting major travelling art shows and exhibitions throughout the year, supporting the craving of creative learning of Nashville community.

True to its Vision and Mission in supporting arts education, the Frist art museum has made a significant endeavor in disseminating the importance of art and craftsmanship in the region, the country, and around the world. You can always expect something new to stimulate the imagination with the Frist art museum’s exhibition scheduled every six to eight weeks with their most prestigious collection in their galleries. Just by checking their annual calendar of exhibitions, events, and programs,

Committed in upbringing art education, Frist Center spacious Art Deco building is providing services such as teacher education, summer arts camps, community, outreach programs, and other wide array of art programs, both at the Frist Center and off-site.

The Frist art museum is designed to accommodate the artistic taste of family. One of the most popular locations of Frist art museum’s creative learning is the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. The gallery is endowed with interactive education gallery with stunning live sounds and colorful space where you can experience the true beauty of art. The gallery accepts visitors of all ages who greatly crave of artistic learning at heart. ArtQuest explores through different activities with thirty hands-on stations and helpful staffs to assist visitors for art education and interactive discussion in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and other interactive learning. Visitors are encouraged to discover art with activities like making your own watercolor masterpiece and perfect sculpture.

Activities in ArtQuest have three areas of learning, mainly: 1) art essentials where it explores the specific elements of art like color, shape, balance, form and value, and line; 2) Art Materials and Techniques where visitors are hearten with various artistic media and art methods; 3) Art and Meaning where discussion of art are encourage for every visitors.

ArtQuest offers exciting tools that allows visitors to continue their experience. The gallery offers journal and art supplies to continue the experience once visitors leave the Frist art museum; while the card and digital portfolio contains the visitors’ work of art they created inside the center.

Stop at Gift Shop. The gift shop at the Frist art museum has wide collection of fine art prints, books, educational materials, art supplies, clothing, blown glass, pottery, and galleries made from quality works of fine artists.

Experience wellness with the delicious delicacies of Frist art museum’s Cafe. The cafe has variety of delicacies like tasty homemade soups, luscious desserts, and sandwiches. The Cafe is a popular hang outs for creative people visiting in the Frist Center.

The Frist art museum offers membership and considerable benefits such as free to exhibition galleries and ArtQuest, 10% gift shop discount, members-only previews of new exhibitions, discount fees for children’s birthday parties, personalized membership card, and other exciting benefits.