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Newsletter                                          GUILD INK                              December 2011

Message from the President

 How has 2011 been for you? Have you explored new adventures in your art? Did you exhibit as often as you intended? Have you found a way to balance your responsibilities and creativity? As the year comes to a close, I would like to share with you two thoughts for December from one of my favorite books, Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. She writes, "Before we can welcome in the New Year, we need to put the Old Year's unfinished business- mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, and disappointments behind us. ... write down on small slips of paper whatever you'd like to forget, then place the slips of paper in a small cardboard box. ...wrap the box in...dark paper, sealing in the sorrow and hard luck...and toss the bad memories ...into the trash where they belong."  

 

And another thought, "Look back on the aspirations you (had) last January 1. Don't be discouraged if you haven't achieved them. Make a new list. Carry whatever's still meaningful to you over to the New Year's list. .. (and) confide your dreams to a close friend..."

 

This is a season of celebration.  I hope you can celebrate all you have done, and all that you are. Rejoice!

 

Here's to a glorious New Year!


Lois

 



IN THIS ISSUE

Annual Monthly Meeting

Fifth Annual Holiday Show

New Members

Gallery News

Members Around New England

Education News

Spring Classes 2012

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        

2011 ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING

Conversation, food, wine and door prizes!

 

WEDNESDAY    

DECEMBER 7  6:30 PM

 

You are invited to a Pot Luck Dinner

Brought to you by your PAG Board of Directors

 

 

Have a wonderful, eclectic and FREE dinner!

Enjoy culinary delights!

Learn what's new at your guild!

Discover exciting opportunities for all members in 2012!

Bring a sample of your art work, so we can all put a face to the art!

 

 




Holiday show

Fifth Annual Holiday Show

Portsmouth Arts Guild   

 

Runs through December 18

 

Great affordable signed works of art by local artists.  What a uniquely wonderful gift!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to our New Members

Jack Daly   
Portsmouth, RI

 

      

Join the Portsmouth Arts Guild Choir
Beginning in 2012

For more information contact
JP Fernandes at jpfern@aol.com
or
Paulette at portsmouthartsguild@gmail.com  

 

Gallery Notes

We would like to thank all the PAG members who donated their time this year to gallery sit.  A special thank you to Linda Remington, Mary Ann Martin, Val Rousseau, Sylvia Hampton, Janet Dassau, Susan Anderson and Marisol Largares who helped keep our doors open this fall.

Be sure to look for your PAG renewal membership letter in your January mail. 

 

 

 

Snowman 

 

Members Around New England 

 

 

 

 

Donna St Amant will be exhibiting her jewelry at the DeBlois Gallery 2011 Holiday Fine Arts & Crafts & Itty-Bitty Picture Invitational from November  25 - December 24, 2011. The gallery is located at 138 Bellevue Ave in Newport, RI. 

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Dassau had a photograph accepted into the juried members show at the South County Art  Association in S Kingston and will be participating in their Members Holiday Exhibit. She will also be included in the Holiday Fine Arts & Craft Itty- Bitty Picture Invitational at the DeBlois Gallery.

 

 

  

Wanda Perkowska Coderre received an Honorable Mention at the Holiday Show at Gallery 297.  The Joy of Color, a watercolor was accepted at the  juried show at the Mystic Art Association and it  was also accepted for the National Show at the Rhode Island Watercolor Society.  

 

 

Jillian Barber was awarded First Place Sculpture and Best in Show at the Bristol Art Gallery for a large ceramic mask titled Mara and Third Place Sculpture for a mixed media piece titled Vamped.  She also received Second Place for a black and white photograph titled  The Path at the Newport Photo Guild show taking place at the Newport Art Museum up until early January.

 

Susan A. Anderson received an Honorable Mention in South County Art Association's All Media Open Juried II show October 27, 2011.

  

Bonnie Jaffe  won an Honorable Mention for her photo Louvre Guard at the Gallery 297 Holiday Show in Bristol, RI.

  

Nina Pfanstiehl will be exhibiting her raku ornaments & jewelry - ceramic pendants, beaded earrings & a new line of jewelry made from local shells & sterling at the DeBlois Gallery's Fine Arts & Crafts Holiday Show.

  

Nina P earrings 

 

 

 

Felicia Touhey received a Second Place award for Table Shadows, a solarplate intaglio at the Holiday Show at Gallery 297 in Bristol. She also had two works accepted into Wax-Inc. - a national juried encaustic exhibition at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA. The show runs until the end of December.  

 

Felicia's Pic
Alignments 2 

 

 

On December 15 from 6:30-10:30, enjoy Ballroom, Latin and Swing dancing in one of Newport 's beautiful Ocean Cliff Mansion. Enjoy this grand and scenic atmosphere with friends new and old! Sara Barker will be offering Foxtrot lessons from 7:00-7:30 that evening.  For more information, contact Sara at Sara@eastbayballroom.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education News  

 

The Birth of Modern Art with Catherine Moran

 

 

In 1913, French poet Charles Peguy declared: "The world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it has in the last 30 years."

 

This lecture series will examine the impact this explosive change and two World Wars had on art produced in the 20th Century.  We will look at important works by major artists and consider the influences the modern age, both positive and negative, had on them.

 

January 22 - The first lecture will focus on the innovations that coincided with the 1887 Paris World's Fair such as the elevator, the Eiffel Tower, recorded sound, the combustion engine, and the automobile. We will consider the role that Gertrude Stein and her famous Paris Salons had on the development of radical new styles pioneered by artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky.

 

February 5 - The second lecture will examine the impact of the 1913 Armory Show. The New York debut of artists such as Kandinsky, Braque, Duchamp, Monet, Renoir and Brancusi changed the way that we collect and look at art and acted as a break from the tradition of the American school.

 

February 12 -The final lecture in this series will explore Abstract Expressionism. The sweeping artistic freedom that came to define mid century modern art is the culmination of innovations pioneered by artists in the first half of the 20th C. We will explore the revolutions in line, color and form exemplified by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Klein, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko.

 

 

Date: Sundays, January 22, February 5,12  (snow date February 26)

Time: 2:30-4:00PM

Tuition: $10, $5 PAG members for each lecture (including light refreshments)

 

To Register: pay at the door or send a check to PAG workshops, PO Box 1181,

Bristol, RI 02809, or contact Suzanne Lewis at 401-254-1668, suzannelewis@fullchannel.net

 

 

 

 

Fifth Holiday Show Opening Reception 

 

 

 MArisol Pic

 

 

  Holiday Pic

 

 

Holiday show 

  

 

 

 

Blue Winter SceneHappy Holidays! 

 


Spring Classes 2012

Watercolor Workshop with John Tolley

Discover the special and challenging qualities of watercolor in this one-day introductory workshop. You will learn to mix colors and apply washes and glazes. You will come away with one or two finished paintings.

Date: Saturday, March 3

         Time:  10:30AM-3:30PM

         Tuition:$75, $65 for PAG members,                $10 materials fee

 

Creating Abstract Art with JP Fernandes

We will create our own abstract art based on the techniques of well known artists such as Pollack and De Kooning. By the final class we will be able to understand and enjoy the abstract world of art. Open to new and returning students.

Date:  6 Tuesdays, March 6-April 10 Section1           April 24-May 29 Section 2

          Time: 6-8 PM  at his Bristol Studio

          Tuition: $125, $100 for PAG members

           ($25.00 discount for both sections)     

 

Painting Portraits with 4 Colors with Kathy Weber

Find out how easy it is to paint portraits when you use a limited palette of only 4 colors. This is the palette made famous by Andres Zorn.Oils  and acrylics welcome.  Open to all levels.

Date: 4 Fridays, March 9, 16, 23, 30

         Time: 9AM-12PM

        Tuition:$115, $100 for PAG members         $30.00 model fee  

  

Principles of Representational Painting with Glenn  Secrest

This one-day workshop is designed for novice through advanced students in all media who wish to enhance their understanding of the 4 fundamentals of representational art: composition, values, edges and color.    

 Date:  Saturday, March 17

          Time:9-3:30 PM

          Tuition:$75, $65 for PAG members

 

Portrait and Figure Studio Monitored By Sandra Dingee

Join this six- week, half-day portrait and figure group. Open to all mediums and skill levels. No instruction- Simply an opportunity to paint, draw or sculpt from live models in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.   

Date: 6 Mondays, March 26, April 2, 16,                    23, 30, May 7 

        Time: 11AM-2PM

        Tuition:$70, $60 PAG members (note  

         new, reduced price)

  

Getting the Most out of Your Digital Camera  Cindy Horowitz and Eileen Muldoon 

This hands-on workshop will explain everything you need to know about the various settings on your digital cameras. Beginners and those new to the digital world of image making are encouraged to attend.

Date: Saturday, April 14 

        Time: 9AM-12PM

        Tuition:$75, $65 for PAG members

 

 

The Art of the Greeting Card with Mel Neiders 

Bring your existing artwork and/or sketch ideas and we'll transform them into unique handmade greeting cards.  All skill levels.

 Date: April 17, 19, 24, 26 (2 Tuesday and 2  

         Thursdays) 

         Time 1-4 PM

         Tuition: $100, $90 PAG members   

         $5 materials fee    

 

Pastel for Everyone with Jay Egge

Pastel techniques (layering, under painting, gradation, blending, etc.)

Date: 2 Wednesdays, April 25, May 2

         Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM

         Tuition: $90, $80 for PAG members  

  


 

Painting Paradise with Jonathan Small

Some of the most important American landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th century set up easels among Paradise farms, cliffs and shores.  We will follow in their footsteps, searching out vistas they once painted

Date: 5 Fridays, April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25

         Time: 9AM-12PM

         Tuition: $140, $120 PAG members

 

  

Monotype Printmaking with Suzanne Lewis

Simple print-making technique for home use and not using a press with results similar to

woodblock prints. No prior experience.
 Date: Saturday, April 28

           Time: 10AM-4PM

           Tuition: $70, $60 PAG members  

           $10 members material fee

  

Contact Suzanne Lewis at 401-254-1668, suzannelewis@fullchannel.net for registration information. 

 

 


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