"Spring is nature's way of saying,
LET'S PARTY! "
~Robin Williams
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From the President
First things first: Eight volunteers showed up on Saturday, Feb. 21, to help with touch-up painting of our gallery walls and exhibition panels. Those wonderful people are Carol Gates, Mary Ann Martin, Rita and Don Heymann, Jane Renwick, Christine McCoy, Linda Remington, and JP Fernandes. Thank you one and all!
The gallery is undergoing some other improvements-additional exterior lighting, lights on our Guild sign, additional electrical outlets in the gallery itself, an upgraded electrical panel from 60 to 100 amps-all important for evening openings, safer parking and walkways. As with our other gallery improvements, expenses are shared with our generous partner, St. Paul's.
We begin the 2009 exhibition year this week with "Emerging Artists III", our annual show of area high school art students' work. The opening reception is this Sunday, March 1, 2-4pm. The work is remarkable and will be on display only until March 8. Do yourself a favor and check it out. And thanks to Jamie Ferris, P.H.S. senior art student who helped with the intake, labeling and hanging of the work. As part of her senior art project, Jamie has been working with the Guild this winter to learn how a gallery operates.
And don't forget to enter your own work on March 9 or 10 for the "Annual Members Only All-Media Exhibition." The opening reception is Sunday, March 15, 2-4 pm. Drop-off times for your work is 3-6 pm on the 9th and 6:30-8:30 pm on the 10th. If you haven't yet renewed your membership for 2009, you can do it when you drop off your work for the show.
I'm pleased to announce that Lois Erhartic is the new chair of an expanded Member Programs and Events Committee. In addition to lectures and demonstrations at our monthly member meetings, Lois will be developing other ideas and activities of interest for members seeking greater community and shared interests in the Guild. If you have ideas that you'd like to see implemented, contact Lois at brushdance2008@gmail.com, 401-683-2598.
At the March 17 members' meeting, Jonathan Small will present an illustrated talk about 19th-century engraving and etching as seen through the eyes of Jon's relative, Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904). Schoff was a prominent engraver who crossed paths with many figures of American Art of that time. (Those who attended the February meeting watched Newport artist Richard Grosvenor demonstrate the painting of both a watercolor and oil seascape in a fascinating hour's performance. See photos in this issue.)
We still need a few gallery sitters for April, May and June-particularly for Saturdays and Sundays. If you can do it, please call or email Libby Gilpatric, 401-683-3448, libbygilpatric@yahoo.com.
Thanks and ...
See you at the gallery!
~Eric Broudy
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PAG Exhibition Schedule 2009
INTAKE (art delivery dates) are Mondays and Tuesdays. (Mondays 3-6pm; Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm.)
INTAKE OPENING
FEB 27- MARCH 8 2/25, 2/26 3/1, 2-4pm
"3rd Annual Student Show"
MARCH 12-APRIL 5 3/9, 3/10 3/15, 2-4pm
"Members' Non-Juried Show"
APRIL 9-MAY 3 4/6, 4/7 4/10, 6-8pm
"Works on Paper"
Open Juried Show
MAY 7-31 5/4, 5/5 5/8, 6-8pm
"4-Person Invitational"
A photographer, a sculptor, 2 painters
JUNE 4-28 6/1, 6/2 6/5,6-8pm
"Imagine Yellow"
Open Juried Show
JULY 2-26 6/29, 6/30 7/03,6-8pm
"Summer in Rhode Island"
Open Juried Show
JULY 30- AUG 23 7/27, 7/28 7/31,6-8pm
"Westport Art Group"
AUG 27- SEPT 27 8/24, 8/25 8/28, 6-8pm
"Abstractions II"
Open Juried Show
OCT 1-NOV 15 9/28, 9/29 10/2, 6-8pm
"Members' Juried Show"
NOV 19-DEC 20 11/16, 11/17 11/22, 2-4pm
"3rd Annual Holiday Show"
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Spring Art Classes at the Portsmouth Arts Guild
SPRING IS IN THE AIR! And it's not too late to sign up for an art class for
your artistic growth and inspiration. Our first offerings are:- Colored Pencil and Watercolor Pencil with Kendra Ferreira, beginning March 3.
- Encaustic Painting with Jay Egge, beginning March 4.
- Intermediate Watercolor with Carol Lynn Hall, beginning April 2.
also
Oil Painting with Denise Zompa, Japanese Calligraphy with Lois
Erhartic, Copying Your Artwork with a Digital Camera, with Jan Armor.
Check our website for prices and details: www.PortsmouthArtsGuild.org, or contact Dawn Sanford, registrar, at dawnsanford@aol.com, 401-625-5051.
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Call for Artists
 Deblois Gallery. Hurry! Deblois Gallery commences its 25th year anniversary celebration by hosting its annual Open Show. The theme is "Through the Looking Glass". Drop-off dates: February 28 and March 1, noon-5pm. Cash prizes and awards of merit in several categories will be
presented. The show runs from March 6th to March 21st with the Opening
Reception on Saturday, March 7th from 5-7 pm. DeBlois Gallery, located at 138 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, is open
Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5pm. More info: www.debloisgallery.com or call 847-9977.
Portsmouth Arts Guild. Don't forget! Prepare now for The Portsmouth Arts Guild "Annual Non-Juried Members' Show"All media accepted: up to 3 works. Entry fees: $10 for one, $5 each additional. Intake days: Mon., March 9, 3-6 pm; Tues., March 10, 6:30-8:30pm. Opening Reception: Sunday, March 15, 2-4pm. Requirements: All 2-D work must be properly wired for hanging; no sawtooth hangers. Work must be original artwork, not reproductions, created in past three years and not shown previously at the Arts Guild gallery. South County Arts Association.  Open Juried Photography Annual, open to all photographers. Entries due by March 8 - black&white or color photographs not previously show at SCAA. Opening Reception on Thursday, March 12, 79 pm. Cash awards.
Entry Fee:
$12 per entry/members, $15 per entry/non-members. Limited to three entries. All photographs must be wired and ready for hanging. No one measurement is to exceed 48". Entries not accepted may be picked up Wed-Sun, 1-5 pm. More info: http://www.southcountyart.org/
Art League of Rhode Island. ALRI's "3rd Annual Associate Members' Exhibit" runs from Wednesday, April 1-Friday, May 1.
Awards Reception: Sunday, April 5, 1-3 pm. Gallery 297 and the Art League of Rhode Island
invite artists from New England to participate in the Art League of
Rhode Island 3rd Annual Associate Members' Exhibit. There is no Entry
Fee for ALRI Associate Members. Any artist from any state is eligible
to become an ALRI associate member. The Associate Membership Fee is $45
for the year and entitles the artist to all the league privileges -
monthly email newsletter, invitation to all league events, a yearly
exhibition, and discounts on league workshops. Artists will be able to
join the league during receiving at Gallery 297. Each
ALRI associate member will have 1 piece of artwork exhibited. Over $250
in cash and merchandise Nancy Grinnell, curator of the Newport Art
Museum, will award prizes. More info and directions: 401-253-5005 (Green River Silver Co.) or www.gallery297.com
Gallery X.  "About-Face,
contemporary figurative portraiture", a juried exhibition exploring how representational figurative art uses the human face to redefine identity through portraiture, runs April 8-May. Drop-off dates: March 18-22 during gallery hours. Curator: Joshua Nierodzinski. Open to all artists. Two or more entries depicting same subject, $15 fee per pair. Reception: Saturday, April 11, 7-10pm.
Click here for full prospectus and entry form.
The Gallery is open Monday-Saturday
10am-5pm, Sunday 1pm-5pm located
at 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI in the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center
175 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI, 401-724-2200. Free parking is
available at the Visitor Center.
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Openings and Exhibits
Hope Gallery, Fine Art & Fine Craft. "In The Spirit of
Love",
from February 6-April 24. Exhibiting: February 6 - April 24, Thursday-Saturday, noon-5pm. Monday-Wednesday, by appointment or by
chance: (401) 683-0146,
(401) 396-9117 or trez88@aol.com
 Conanicut Island Art Association. CIAA's upcoming "Watercolors Galore" Show will feature paintings of traditional watercolor as well as water-based medium. A signature member of the New England Watercolor Society and an elected artist of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club of NY, the Providence Art Club, Mystic Art Association and the Copley Society of Boston, juror Joan Thompson Boghossian who has shown in museums, art associations and galleries in New England, the US and abroad, has chosen the monetary awards for this show which runs from Februrary 19-April 16 at Town Hall Gallery, 93 Narragansett Avenue, Jamestown, RI. Open 8:30am-4pm weekdays. Wendy Crooks (401) 423-0993.
Portsmouth Arts Guild. PAG is holding "Emerging Artists III" featuring
artwork by area high school students. The opening reception is Sunday,
March 1st, 2-4pm. Refreshments will be served and the event is
free and open to the public. Participating schools include: St.
George's - Dept. Head Michael Hansel; Portsmouth Abbey - Dept. Head
Colleen Dolan Sanchez; Portsmouth High School - Dept. Head Meryl
Moore; Middletown High School - Dept Head Chris Savastano; and
Tiverton High School - Dept. Head Susan Lynch. Artwork is chosen by the art teachers as the strongest in a variety of media including 3D, drawing, photography, and painting. Show runs February 27-March 8. Regular gallery
hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-5pm. Handicap accessible.
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative. "The Sight Of Sound : Group Show 2009", March 6-March 27. Open
genre: illustration, painting, drawing, screenprints, photography,
digital prints, sound, video, and sculpture. All artwork is
related to sound in someway and priced under $700. Opening Reception: March 6; Closing Reception: March 27 at Machines With Magnets, 400 Main Street Pawtucket, RI, 02860 gallery@machineswithmagnets.com http://www.machineswithmagnets.com 401-475-2655
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Artist Opportunities
 The
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts will hold a series of workshops
in
Providence and Newport for individual artists, non- profit
organizations, and schools interested in submitting grant applications
for the Council's Wednesday, April 1 application deadline. Grant
workshops are free and open to the public. Arts Council
staff will be present to review current grant guidelines, and will be
available to provide information and assistance to those interested in
applying for support. Workshops in Providence and Newport. The
Providence workshop will be held on Monday, March 2 from 4-6pm at the
RISCA offices, located at One Capitol Hill in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Newport workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 3, from 4pm-6pm at
the Redwood Library in Newport, located at 50 Bellevue Avenue. The
Arts Council's April 1 deadline offers opportunities for the support of
individual artists, arts organizations, educational and non-profit
organizations under the "Project Grants" category, which supports arts
projects and arts in education projects. April 1 is also
the deadline for grants to individuals in our Fellowship Program. At
this deadline applications will be accepted from individual creative
artists working in the disciplines of: Crafts, Film & Video, Folk
Arts, Fiction Poetry, Playwrighting/Screenwriting, Photography, Three
Dimensional Art . Workshops are Free and accessible. Grant guidelines,
application forms,
and further information may be obtained online on the Council's web
site http://www.arts.ri.gov or contact Randall Rosenbaum, Executive Director at 401-222-3883 or randy@arts.ri.gov
The Westport Art Group.
WAG presents a portrait painting demonstration with John Kilroy on
Sunday, March 15 at 1-4pm at the WAG Center, 1740 Main Road, Westport
Point, MA 02791. It is a free event. A raffle - $5 per chance at the
reception preceding the demonstration - could mean that John Kilroy
will paint of portrait of YOU! The sitter will get to keep the
painting! The drawing of the winner and the demonstration will start
promptly at 2pm. More info on this event: 508-636-2114 or http://www.westportartgroup.com
A 3-day workshop sponsored by Nancy Isherwood and held at the Newport Yacht Club features Copley Society Master, Mikel Wintermantel, demonstrating and teaching, "Luminous Landscape Painting". Paint side-by-side with the artist who is in
private collections worldwide, is featured in the December 2008
issue of American Artist magazine for the third time, and was recently
featured in the premiere issue of American Artists Workshop magazine."Waterscape" by Mikel Wintermantel
or www.nancyisherwood.com
South Coast Artists Inc.,
PO Box N98, Westport, MA 02790
 The Rhode Island
Watercolor Society. RIWS announces its Spring Workshop, "Paint a Personal
Reality in Watercolor" with nationally acclaimed artist, Ratindra
Das. The workshop runs from Monday, April 13-Friday April
17, 9am-4pm, at the Society's Gallery, located at the J. C.
Potter Casino (Boat House) in Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Boulevard,
Pawtucket, RI. The Society's workshop is designed to provide an introduction
to the excitement of watercolor painting for beginning artists while
helping the maturing artist further hone their skills.
Ratindra Das
is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and National
Watercolor Society, and holds Master Status in the Transparent Watercolor
Society of America. He is a sought-after juror and workshop instructor,
and has been featured in many books and magazines.
More info: Mary Lou Moore, Gallery Director, at (401) 726-1876 or
marylou.moore@cox.net or www.riws.org
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News
Priscilla Malone. Having received the 1st Place award in the
Conanicut Island Art Association's February show, "Watercolors Galore" with her watercolor painting, "Life's A Beach", Priscilla and her craftsman husband Tom were also awarded the commission to create all new stained glass windows for the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Pawtucket, RI. Priscilla's artist renderings of more than 400sqft of stained glass windows incorporated selected icons of Greek saints & symbols to be hand-painted and fired into a contemporary, geometric background won over the hearts of the committees and parish members. "I delicately painted the faces of every saint using specialized glass pigment onto antique European, flesh-tinted glass. The same was done with the Greek symbols and adorations throughout the windows", Priscilla says. The windows will be executed in the team's stained glass studio, Malone Studio, Inc., in Portsmouth, RI.
In October, Priscilla's watercolor, "The Potter & the Pear", was exhibited in the ALRI Artist Members Exhibit at the Bristol Art Museum. In addition to being an artist member of PAG, she is also an artist member of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, the Art league of Rhode Island, member of Spring Bull Gallery in Newport and Associate Member of the National Watercolor Society.
Check You Out! There are now 9 Portsmouth Arts Guild members in the PAG Facebook group. To view, click here:
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Editor's Request
Once again, thank you for sending news about well-deserved accomplishments and awards. I'm very pleased to send them on to the rest of the members in each newsletter! My request is that along with your next item, please send a jpeg of your achievement.
Unable to attend all the events that members are involved in, I'd also prefer to stand on the floor next time at the Guild!
Eric Broudy's warning photo:
"Danger: Newsletter Editor at Work".
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New Members
Suegray Fitzpatrick, jewelry, suegrayseaglass@aol.com
Al Reis, mixed media, reisa@nwc.navy.mil
Jill Meyers, photography, jillrmeyers@gmail.com
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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.
Picture fFrames for Sale. Assorted standard sizes from 5x7 to 16x20, mostly gold, some used, some never used, all in good condition. $2-$10 each or best offer. Call Libby: 401-440-3974. LIBBY GILPATRIC FINE ARTS PAINTING EAST MAIN STUDIOS, 2701 East Main Road, Portsmouth, RI 02871 http://www.libbygilpatric.com
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Happy Spring!
Guild Ink
Issue no. 12
March 2009
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CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
CALL FOR ARTISTS (6)
OPENINGS & EXHIBITS (4)
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES (5)
NEWS (2)
NEW MEMBERS (3)
MEMBERS CLASSIFIED (1)
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Members' Meeting
Tuesday, March 17 6:30pm
Jonathan Small will talk about
19th century engraving and etching
featuring his relative
Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904).
See examples of Schoff's work below.
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Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904)
was a prominent
engraver who crossed paths with his contemporaries in American Art
such as Washington Allston, Asher B. Durand, John Kensett and William Morris
Hunt.
Their influences as
well as the advent of photography will be discussed by his relative Jon Small in relation to his own
artwork.
"Self Portrait 1899"
"Prelude"
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Richard Grosvenor demonstrating his watercolor technique at February's members' meeting.
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Richard Grosvenor demonstrating dual techiniques of oil and watercolor at February's members' meeting
Kathy Armor's
"Self Portrait #9"
an example of the forthcoming show at
Deblois Gallery's
"Through the Looking Glass"
"The Narragansetts"
Oil painting by Munir
Mohammed
at Hope Gallery
Fine Art & Fine
Craft
Mikel Wintermantel, a Copley Society Master, will be teaching "Luminous Landscape Painting" at the Newport Yacht Club, sponsored by PAG member Nancy Isherwood).
Below are examples of his amazing work.
Ratindra Das, who holds Master Status in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, offers a workshop at RIWS in April.
See left column for more info.
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