the arts association for Aquidneck Island and nearby towns
www.portsmouthartsguild.org
401-293-5ART
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"Art is love made visible." ~Mark Wholey
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From the President
Ahh May, when a young person's heart turns to --- ART! Same with older persons, actually. Forget about baseball-it's time to get outdoors and paint, and photograph, sculp, weave, pot, dance, whatever it is you do to express yourself. Start creating the work you will submit to our "Portraits & Figures" show in June. Interpret that theme any way you like. The show will be juried by RISD artist and teacher Robin Wiseman. See entry details below.
This month it's the Eileen Gorton Shanley retrospective, "An Interrupted Journey," with an opening reception Sunday, May 4, 2-4 pm. Come and bring your friends!
Your Arts Guild is growing in strength and expertise. We've added two new members to the Board to fill vacancies-mixed-media artist and former president of the Greater Fall River Art Association JP (John Paul) Fernandes, and jewelry artist Mary Ann Martin. If you don't know the other 14 board members and never checked the website to find out, here they are: Tracy Anthony, manager of Clements Market; Jan Armor, photographer and Guild VP; Anne Winthrop Cordin, painter and chair of our Exhibition Committee; Wendy Crooks, painter; George Furbish, painter; Libby Gilpatric, painter and manager of our Resident Artist program; Barbara Lambert, painter and Guild secretary; Michael S. Mendell, photographer and Guild treasurer; Linda Remington, painter and St. Paul's junior warden; Kathy Parker, painter and our web manager; Lyle Rudloff, sculptor; Felicia Touhey, painter and chair of our program committee; Sally von Weiffenbach, painter; and moi, photographer and president.
But that's not all who we have working for the Guild. Let's give credit (and many thanks!) where it's due. First, our publicity committee: Barbara Ney, Nancy Isherwood and Laura Collins handle all our postcard mailings, press releases, and organization of flyer distribution. Elena Obelenus designs the cards, and a host of others take those flyers and cards and place them in key sites throughout the area-people like Len deAngelis, John Beekley, Rita Honnen, Carole Barboza, Dan Connolly, Wendy Crooks, Jay Egge, Sylvia Hampton, Carol Lynn Hall, Dawn Sanford, and Edwina Sebest. And of course there's Karen Talbot who designs and edits Guild Ink, your monthly newsletter.
The committee that brings you art classes and workshops is chaired by Dawn Sanford with Edwina Sebest as registrar and includes Kathy Armor, Linda Bianco, Mary Ann Martin, Jay Egge, Lois Marshall, Nicole Bertoline Weeks, and Andy Pumphrey.
Membership is chaired by Phyllis Adams, assisted by Nicholas Stephens. And I can't forget all those who show up to help hang our many exhibitions-members like Norm Petersen, John Forasté, Lyle Rudloff, Allayne Boruch, Jane Renwick, Libby Gilpatric, Jan Armor, Felicia Touhey, Izabella Casselman, Don Heymann. And our 18 Resident Artists and other members, too numerous to mention, who gallery sit during gallery hours or who, like John and Sandra Tolley and Priscilla Malone, help out at art intakes openings. Thanks also to Sandra Dingée who has volunteered to help maintain the little island garden this summer in front of the arts center.
Don't see your name here? Then either I've inadvertantly overlooked it (a serious risk when thanking people this way), for which I humbly apologize, or you haven't yet pitched in to help out. If you haven't, and you'd like to, please let me know.
Meanwhile, don't forget that our next members' meeting (Tuesday, May 20, 6:30 pm at the Guild Center for the Arts) will feature Dora Atwater Millikin, a wonderful painter who will discuss the work in her one-person show coming up at the Newport Art Museum.
See you at the gallery!
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Call for Artists
South County Art Association. "All Media Open Juried I Exhibit 2008", Helme House, 2587 Kingstown Rd., Kingston, RI, 401-783-2195. May 15 - June 7, 2008. Sumission: up to 3 original works in any media, 2-D or 3-D. Works must have been finished in the last 2 years and not shown at SCAA previously. Juror: Steven Fisher, has work in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, MOMA, The Brooklyn Museum, and The National Gallery. He has recently received his 3rd Fritz Eichenberg Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking from RISCA. He is represented by the Pepper Gallery in Boston. Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 7-9 pm. Awards: 1st ($150), 2nd ($100), & 3rd ($75) place cash awards. 3 Honorable Mentions. Entry Fee: $12 per entry/members, $15 per entry/non-members. All 2 -D work must be wired and ready for hanging. No one measurement is to exceed 48". Sculpture must be easily transportable. SCAA retains 30% on all sales for members, 35% for non-members. Hand deliver: May 8 - May 11, 1-5 pm each day.
Reach For the Sky. Submit your painting or drawing representing any steeple found in the City of Newport. Art will be exhibited by Channing Church for 2 weeks prior to auction. Proceeds from auction of steeple art work will be shared between artist and Friends of the Channing Steeple Fund. Work must be framed and prepared for hanging. An image file required in JPEG format. Public vote at exhibit opening will determine twelve works for 2009 calendar. Drop off date for art work: May 9 & 10,10am-2pm. Exhibit opening and vote: May 17, 5pm-7pm. Exhibition runs from May 18 thru May 31. Combined Auction art work & services at Fenner Hall: May 31. For more info: www.channingchurch.org
Gallery X. "The Acorn and The Tree", an inter-generational exhibition of artists, non-juried. Open to all artists to show their work with the work of another artist they influenced, or were influenced by: a parent-child, teacher-student, or mentor-protégé. May 28th- June 22. Reception: Saturday, May 31, 7 - 10pm. Drop-off dates: Wed., May 21 thru Sun., May 25 during gallery hours. Fee: $15.00 per pair, maximum entries- 3 pairs. Any media combination accepted. 169 William St, New Bedford, MA 02740. www.galleryx.org
Attleboro Arts Museum. "Out of the Blue", a national, juried exhibition. Artists may submit original work in all mediums and concepts. All work must incorporate the color blue(s) for this national, juried exhibition in the Museum's Ottmar Gallery. Six cash prizes of $100 will be awarded. Deadline for all entries: May 23, 2008. Exhibition: July 2- July25, 2008. Opening awards reception with live blues guitar: Friday, July 11, 7-9 pm. Address: 86 Park St, Attleboro, MA, 508-222-2644. For more info: www.attleboroartsmuseum.org , click on Out of the Blue.
Greater Fall River Art Assn. Annual Regional Show 2008, 80 Belmont St., Fall River, MA. Open to all artists, any media. Work must be framed, wired, ready to hang. Cash prizes. 30% commission to GFRAA. Drop off work: May 27 and 29, 6-8 pm. Pick up work: June 30, July 1, 6-8 pm. Opening reception: Sat., June 7, 6-8 pm. Hours: Sundays 12-3, Tuesdays 6-8 pm. Entry fees: $8 per entry, 2 for $15 for members; $10 each for non-members. Contact: Jim Bartley at 508-673-7212.
21st Annual Tiverton Art & Artisan Festival. This event will be held on Saturday, July 19, 2008. Each exhibitor must have proof of RI Sales Tax Permit with them at the show. Application Deadline is May 12, 2008. Details and application can be downloaded from Festival website at www.tlholland.com
Providence Art Windows. Seeking proposals for the Providence Art Windows Project, Providence, RI. Art will be installed by selected artists in windows downtown. Work may be pre-existing or site specific; 2D or 3D. Jury includes Diana Gaston, Associate Curator, Fidelity Investments. Two rounds of installations: opening 9/18/08 and 12/6/08. Deadline for both: postmarked May 15. $100 stipend available. Send 10 jpegs on disk, proposal, resume and SASE to: 205 Kenyon Ave., E. Greenwich, RI, 02818. No email entries. Information: Liz Keithline, keithlineri@cox.net, (put 'Windows' in subject line), or 401/578-4313.
Sea Grant. The Visual Arts Program of Sea Grant (Rhode Island) was established in 1988 to encourage New England professional visual artists to address the issue of the environment of the ocean and its coastal communities. Grants are intended to financially assist individual and/or collaborating artists whose works are related to themes of the marine environment. Curatorial proposals will be considered. The grants, up to $2,000, will be awarded annually. Application Deadline is May 30, 2008. Previous recipients of Sea Grant awards are not eligible for 5 years. Individuals enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students are not eligible. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel of RI professionals in the visual arts. Awards winners will be notified by September 2008. A written report of the results of creative activities supported by Sea Grant, including appropriate visual documentation, is required at the conclusion of the project. VISUAL ARTS SEA GRANT, c/o Department of Art and Art History, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Road, Kingston, RI 02881-0820.
Rhode Island Watercolor Society. "Light". Open juried show: June 22 thru July 10, 2008. Open to all artists in New England. Work must have been completed within the last three years and may not have been done in a class or under a teacher's supervision. Original work only. Work may not have been accepted in any previous Rhode Island Watercolor Society juried show. Watermedia only - no diptychs or triptychs. Juror: Cynthia Baron, AWS. First prize: $150; Second prize: $100; third prize: $75 plus honorable mentions. Hand deliver June 3-15 during gallery hours (Tues.-Sat. 10-4pm; Sunday 1-5pm). For complete list of requirements call or visit: Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd., Pawtucket, RI 02861 (401) 726-1876 or www.riws.org
First Congregational Church."Art Affair on the Fence", 281 High Street, Bristol, RI., August 23, 2008. Hang your artwork along 8 feet of iron fence on High Street & Bradford Street. Open to all artists. All artists must have a photocopy of their 2008 RI tax number. If you need a tax number you will be able to get one on the day, the cost will be $10.00, which will be added to the entry fee. Entry fee: $35 for the space to exhibit. No commission on sales. No jury. Deadline for applying is Monday June 30th. For more info and to download an application: http://fccbristol.org/?p=216 If you are interested but have a problem downloading or need any information, email Sandra Tolley at lancashirelass@fctvplus.net or call her at 401-254-0356
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Openings and Exhibits
Deblois Gallery. Artists Rosemary Kavanagh O'Carroll, Dorothy Magadieu, and Nancy Shand exhibit their work at the DeBlois Gallery, May 3- June 3. Each artist has found inspiration in the everyday world around them, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in their respective mediums. Rosemary O'Carroll documents the lives of migrant workers throughout the United States through her emotionally charged paintings; Dorothy Magadieu's expressive photographs engage the viewer in both the contents and structures of greenhouses; Nancy Shand combines beachcombed objects with other materials to produce her unique sculptures. Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3 from 5-7pm. The DeBlois Gallery, 138 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI, is open Tuesday through Sunday, 12-5pm. For more info: www.debloisgallery.com or call 847-9977.
Gallery 297. "The Boston Printmakers Traveling Miniature Print Exhibit". This is the last chance to view the 71 original small size prints representative of the best of contemporary American printmaking from members of this internationally renowned art organization. Previous venues over the last 4 years have included: the University of New Hampshire; Museum of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Steward Hall Gallery, Montreal, Canada; Gallery 6, Richmond, VA; and Adirondack Community College Gallery, Queensbury, NY. The Opening Reception free to the public is on Sunday, May 4th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Gallery 297 is located on the upper level of the Green River Silver Co. at 297 Hope Street in historic Bristol, RI. Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more information or directions call Green River Silver Co. at 401-253-5005 or visit the gallery website at www.gallery297.com
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm). The Gamm hosts Spring Carnevale Saturday, May 10 - 7-10pm. Venetian-style Festival to Benefit Theater's Artistic and Educational Programs. Arts supporters and revelers are invited to dress for drama! Spring Carnevale is the non-profit theater's sixth annual fundraising event and will be held at the Pawtucket Armory, 172 Exchange St. Tickets are $100 per person or $190 per pair. Call 401- 723-4266, ext. 16 for tickets or information. Or order online at arttixri.com. Harlequins & street performers, dancers & roving musicians! Guests are encouraged to bring their own carnival mask or purchase one at the door. Pasta & antipasto, chianti & cordials, cannoli & gelato and more! A variety of mouth-watering Italian cuisine will be provided by Blackstone Caterers, in addition to various delicacies donated by a variety of generous vendors. The general public is invited to participate in an Italian- themed online auction at gammtheatre.cmarket.com, opening on April 18 and closing on May 10 at noon. Italian cooking, fashion, art, décor and travel will be featured among the many exciting items. Bidding will continue during silent and live auctions at the event. Live raffles, featuring more unique items, will provide additional opportunities for guests to win! "Frame your mind to mirth and merriment." -William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Gallery. "Crossing Borders/the American Dream" - Multicultural Invitational Exhibition: May 11-June 21. Opening reception: Thursday, May 15 - 5:30-7pm, 175 Main Street, Pawtucket. Panel presentation:7pm. Includes Deb Dormody, bookbinder; Jon Buonaccosi, Tiny Showcase; Shea'La Finch, Tiny Showcase; Cara Burgess, IO Labs. Closing reception: 5:30-7pm, Thursday, June 12. All events will be held in the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Theatre, 175 Main Street, Pawtucket. Light refreshments will be served preceding each panel presentation. For more info, visit www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org or call 401-724-2200.
Tiverton Arts Council. "Purely Pastel", an exhibition of contemporary paintings by three Tiverton artists: Gary Farias, Tina Pacheco, and Kelly Milukas at Tiverton's town hall, 343 Highland Road, Tiverton, RI, May 4-June 27. Opening reception: 2-4pm. Exhibit open 8:30am-4pm Monday thru Friday. Kelly Milukas' paintings are also currently on display at The Annual Juried Newport Art Museum Member Show, and The Annual Juried Associate Member ALRI Show at Gallery 297 in Bristol, RI
Hope Gallery. 435 Hope Street, Bristol, RI, 401-396-9117,
www.hopegalleryfineartfinecraft.com, "Resident Artists Spring Showcase", May 5 - May 30, 2008. Open Reception: Friday, May 9, 2008, 6 PM - 8 PM. Also, Bristol Gallery Coalition's (7 Galleries within Bristol) first Gallery Night, May 16, 2008, 5 PM - 9 PM. The galleries are all within walking distance of each other. Along with quality fine art and art demonstrations, each gallery will feature something special from Bristol's outstanding restaurants including De Wolf Tavern, Le Central, Leo's, Persimmon, Redlefsen's and Roberto's.
PARTICIPATING GALLERIES:
Kamaken Studio, 275 Hope Street: Ken Ambrose, fine art photographer; Gallery 297, 297 Hope Street: Boston Printmakers Traveling Miniature Print Exhibit; The Art Gallery at Interiors, Etc., 417 Hope Street: featuring Janice Antinucci, oil painting in the impressionist style; The Paint Studio, 280 Thames Street: oil and acrylic paintings by Denise Zompa, Phyllis Adams, Kelley Carey MacDonald and sculpture by Alan Paul Sousa; Bristol Workshops in Photography, 4 Franklin Street, featuring Mark Abbott, Steve Mason, and Julie and Stephan Brigidi; Uncommon Art Studio, 736 Hope Street: featuring work by 28 fine artists and craft persons from all over the United States; and finally, Hope Gallery highlights its 19 award winning resident artists: Kathy Armor; Ann Marie Balasco; Pat & Bob Benoit; Sue Butler; Nicole Bertoline; Lori Bradley; Michael Chatterley; Wanda Perkowska Coderre; Laura Collins; Robin Grace; Sarah Fielding-Gunn; Ann Libby; Catherine Mamola; Toni Petersen; Suzanne Smith; Lenny Rumpler; Ann Marie Scartabello; Lorraine W. Trenholm; Anita Trezvant. Hours for the month of May: Wed. - Thurs: 12-5 PM, Fri & Sat. 12-6 PM, Sun. 12-5 PM. Monday & Tuesday by appointment.
Newport Round Table. "Walls & Bridges,Volume 1". Newport Round Table's anthology, Walls & Bridges will contain the works of artists and writers from varied backgrounds, who will interpret their feelings, both literal and metaphorical, about the meaning of that which draws us together or keeps us apart. All submissions must be received electronically. Submissions deadline: June 15, 2008. $5 per entry. Full info at: www.newportroundtable.com
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Artist Opportunities
Attention Rhode Island Artists: The Art League of Rhode Island is accepting applications for elected artist membership. Professional slides/digital images must be submitted by May 15. For further information and/or to download the application form visit: www.artleagueri.org or call Pam Neal at 294-4010.
Artist Career Help. PAG member JP Fernandes recommends a website established by Caroll Michels, career coach since 1978, who has worked with thousands of artists. Michels' website www.artisthelpnetwork.com provides advice for artists and gallery owners. She is the author of How To Survive and Prosper as an Artist.
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News
SCA Member Invitational. Susan Stone has been invited to be one of 10 artists to show in South County Art Association's Member's Invitational in June/July. The opening will be on June 12th from 7- 9pm and continue thru July 5th. South County Art Association is located at 2587 Kingstown Road, Kingston, RI, just north of URI's main entrance. View Susan's portfolio at: http://profile.guru.com/741292 . View her publications illustrated at: http://www.jacketflap.com/ColeStone
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New Members
Jessica A. Wheeler: watercolor, jwheeler18@cox.net
Maria Martineau: watercolor
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Members Classified
Do you have something to sell or give away? Something you're looking for? Send info to info@portsmouthartsguild.org for a free listing in the Member Classified. |
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Guild Ink
Issue no. 2
May 2008
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Contents
at a
Glance
Call for Artists (10)
Openings&Exhibits (7)
Artist Opportunities (2)
News (1)
New Members (2)
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NEXT MEETING
Tuesday, May 20
6:30pm
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