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THE VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
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JULY 2012 |
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Upcoming
VWS Events
July 13 - August 18, 2012
October 14 2012
Quechee Club
Quechee, Vt.
VWS Annual Fall Meeting
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HUB-BUB-BUB
The New Hub Guide The new Hub Initiative has taken off and is still growing! More local VWS events are ocurring and more VWS members are participating in these watercolor related activities. As can be expected when a new initiative is launched, questions have arisen around our newly formed Hubs. The VWS Board has written a Hub Guide in order to carefully answer these questions. You can find the Guide on our new website. Our current Hub Guide contains basic information regarding the" who, what, why and where" of our Hubs. As our Hubs continue to grow, it is expected additional questions will require thoughtful attention. The Board will address the questions as they occur and add the information to the Hub Guide. If you have Hub related questions please contact Pamela Dexter, Hub Director: Special Notice! Rewarding volunteer openings with VWS! We need a Hub Point People for Middlebury to plan fun, interesting and exciting watercolor-related events, for only a few hours of your time every month or two! Get a friend to volunteer with you to be a co-Point Person and it's even better. Other VWS hubs have great ideas you can use to plan events in your area. Please contact Pam Dexter, Hub Director at Pam Dexter to find out how you can get in on the fun too.
Know your Hub
Point Persons:
Brattleboro:
Lynn Hoeft
Burlington/St. Albans
Lynn Cummings
Marni McKintrick
Linda DiSante
Manchester/Bennington:
Reggie Springer
(looking for a co-point
person
Middlebury/Rutland:
We need a Point Person
for your area. If you
are interested,
please contact
Pam Dexter
Montpelier:
Nancy Cleveland
New Hampshire:
Pamela Dexter
Newport/St. Johnsbury:
Pat Lipinski
White River Hub:
Kate Reeves
Janice Bean
HUB-BUB NEWS
Burlington Hub:
SUMMER EVENTS:
Tuesday, July 10 - Plein air painting at Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, VT
Meet at 9:30 on the lake side of the main hotel building
Feel free to bring a friend (no need to be VWS member)
Please send return email to
if you are interested, and indicate if you'd like a lunch reservation at The Red Mill on the BHC property so I can make a group reservation.
Early August - Plein air painting at Burton Island State Park, near St. Albans, VT
We need someone in that area to coordinate this and set a date. Please contact
if you are willing to do this.
August 11 - October 8 - 31st Annual Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Old Forge, NY We are working with the Old Forge Arts Center for discounted tickets & possibly discounted accommodations for VWS members. Stay tuned for further information on this not-to-be-missed show. A long drive, but well worth the time. For more information on the show, see: If you haven't discovered this already, Holbein has 11 fabulous new paint colors that have just arrived in the US. Some of their other colors are being discontinued so stock up now if there is something you love that isn't being made anymore. Black Horse Art Supply on Pine St. in Burlington and Artists' Mediums both should have the new colors. Enjoy painting this summer and we hope to see you at one of our summer events. Lynn, Marni & Linda
VOLUNTEER NEWS
Rewarding volunteer openings with VWS! We need a few more Hub Point People to plan fun, interesting and exciting watercolor-related events, for only a few hours of your time every month or two! Get a friend to volunteer with you to be a co-Point Person and it's even better. Other VWS hubs have great ideas you can use to plan events in your area. Please contact Pam Dexter, Hub Director at Pam Dexter to find out how you can get in on the fun too. Do you like to write? Would you like to see more people at our VWS exhibitions? Then join your dynamic VWS volunteer colleagues as part of our PR team. This is a way you can make a big difference without a big investment in time. You would write a brief press release for each of our shows (there's an app. for that), and our fabulous volunteer Kathy Berry Bergeron will send it to media outlets. Thank you very much, Kathy, for volunteering for the mailing piece, and thanks in advance to you who volunteers for the writing. We hope to bring many more art lovers to our shows and to raise awareness of the Vermont Watercolor Society as a leading arts organization. |
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Member Offered Classes & Workshops
Barbara Pafume:
Barbara will once again be teaching at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, beginning July 9th -August 27. For over 30 years now, she has offered Painting Your Way - a full day class, with registration flexibility, offered once a week (Mondays) for 8 weeks. Open to beginners to intermediate artists, who may work in watercolor, oil, acrylic or pastel. The class offers students not only continuity that inspires creativity through structured lessons, but allows artists time to practice and experiment with new techniques. Call 802-362-1405 to register.
At the Waitsfield Inn, Waitsfield - Barbara will be offering workshops during the Vermont Festival of the Arts and the Waitsfield Inn is offering participants special lodging and meals packages-call Barbara, 802-849-6858 or Vickie at 802-496-3979:
- August 16th, Artistic Discoveries in Nature, for non-artists as well as practicing artists is a 3-hour leisurely walk, photos, observations followed by lunch at the end to share reactions, thoughts and sketches or photos.
- A 4-day painting workshop, August 28, 29, 30, 31st for students working in watercolor, oil, acrylic.
- A 3-day fall foliage, Autumn Art in Vermont painting workshop, Sept. 28, 29, 30th.
Cindy Jones:
Donna McGee: Decorating
and Painting on Clay: September 14th thru 16th
Sponsored by The West River Gallery, Weston, VT
For workshop registration, contact: Cindy Jones:
Cindy JonesCindy also has a gallery in
Weston Vermont, and is inviting members of her local Hub to participate in some of her shows. For more information go to:
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Newsletter Submissions:
All member events , workshops and show announcements should be sent to :
Cynthia Crawford
Newsletter article deadline is the 20th of each month.
Please put "VWS NEWSLETTER " in your title. Thank you! If you have images, please send them in JPG format as an email attachment.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Upcoming VWS SHOWS and EVENTS
THE FOURTH ANNUAL VWS JURIED EXHIBITION
at the Chaffee Arts Center in Rutland, Vermont:
Show Dates: July 13-August 18
Opening Reception and awards announcements: Saturday, July 28, 4 PM-7 PM.
2012 Awards Juror is Stephen Quiller
Directions: Chaffee Arts Center
Show Dates: September 14 - October 20, 2012 Show Location: Jeffersonville, Vermont
Opening Reception: September 12th, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Image Submission Date: July 28
Artist Notification: August 24
Drop-off of Selected Works: September 9,10,11
Pick up: October 20
Exhibition & Awards Juror: Tony Van Hasselt
Go HERE to get complete show entry information
OPEN SHOW-DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HOSPITAL
Lebanon, N.H.
Dec., Jan., Feb. STAY TUNED.
ANNUAL FALL MEETING
October 14 at the Quechee Clug in Quechee, Vermont.
STAY TUNED
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UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?
This is a photo of sea glass collected on Wallis Sands Beach, Rye, NH, mixed with some sand, water, flowers and late afternoon sun. THE CHALLENGE...Do a painting from this reference photo and bring it to the VWS Fall Meeting at the end of October where a member selected jury will choose the winning painting for a prize. If you want the photo emailed to you just let me know, Jan Olmstead
OUR NEW WEBSITE IS LIVE!!
Check out our new website @ www.vermontwatercolorsociety.com. Being a new site, we have tested and retested it until we were sure it was perfect. The site has been live for about a week we have received more than one email letting us know it wasn't EXACTLY perfect. So please, as you use it, let us know if something just isn't working correctly. Here are some of the things you will find on the new site: - Gallery pages and updates are FREE through the end of 2012. We want to encourage all of our members to have a gallery page and to keep it up to date with current works. Click here to set up a new gallery page. Click here to renew your gallery images or bio.
- Find fellow members easily
A full member listing is updated monthly. It can be viewed by Hub or by last name simply by clicking on the column heading. - New Hub section - REQUIRES A PASSWORD
Everything you could possibly want related to your Hub can be found in this section. You will find the Hub tab at the top of the VWS home page.
The ID and password is the same for all VWS members as follows:
ID - vws PW - watercolor - Blog
Each Hub has their own blog to communicate to fellow Hub members.
Don Dalton will continue to be our web administrator. Please send all your gallery information to Don via the website forms. Cynthia (Cindy) Crawford has gratefully passed this on to Don. Thanks to the Board of Directors, Cindy Crawford and Don Dalton for all of your help. Thanks to our Webmaster, Eric Gottesman, for his fine work on the site. |
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How to Join the VWS Facebook Group:
If you are active on Facebook, please consider joining the Vermont Watercolor Society group page. In order to join the group, a VWS member has to have a Facebook account and submit a request to join. Your request to join will be sent to the group administrator, and you will be approved and added to our group based on our most current membership list. To join, click on this link, and then click on the "submit request to join" button.
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From Barbara Pafume:
Barbara has just been invited to participate in the Shelburne Farms 25th Annual Art Exhibit at the Coach Barn Exhibition, Oct. 18 - Nov. 4th and also was accepted into the 16th Annual Fallfest of Fine Arts in Ocean City, Maryland.
From Diane Bell:
Call to Artists: 6 spots left
2nd Annual Weston Fine Art Sale
July 28, 2012
10 am to 5 pm
Grounds of the Old Parish Church
Route 100, Weston, VT
12 x 12 space for your canopy
Fee $20
Contact Diane Bell
Call to Artists: One Day Paint-Out
July 27; meet at Old Parish Church 8:30
Paint till 4 pm; Awards and Reception 5:30
Fee: $15
Contact Diane Bell
From Marlene Kramer:
Marlene Kramer will be having a show at Burdicks in Walpole , NH from
July 2 -30th. There will be some interesting new works inspired by
the Hubble telescope photos.
From Jeanette Fournier:
Jeanette Fournier's painting of a red fox, titled "Focused", was accepted to the 31st Annual Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. Her work is also been selected for the George Sponable Memorial Award by the awards juror, Paul Jackson, at this year's show.
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Susan Abbott Workshop-Report:
From Claudia Carl:
On June 9th there were 17 of us gathered together at the Middlebury Inn to have our questions answered about the Business of Being a Professional Artist. Susan Abbott did a great job of pointing us in the direction of a path to follow with a booklet as a guide to help us with the hurdles artists encounter on our way to being successful. We went thru a range of topics from Psychological to Practical with worksheets created for us by Susan. There was talk about making use of digital photography, the Internet and social networking for sales and publicity. All in all we had a really informative session leaving each of us ready to get ourselves motivated to set our goals and make lists of the steps needed to be taken to accomplish those goals, I would recommend this workshop to all the creative folks in Vermont who would like to take that next step. I would also like to thank the Vermont Watercolor Society for generously helping to make this event a bit more affordable. If anyone wants to check with Susan about her workshops or her blogs, she can be found at Susan Abbott's Website .
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Special Announcements/Workshops
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Ted Nutall and Mel Stabin return to the
Landgrove INN Mel Stabin and Ted Nuttall enjoyed being in Vermont at the Landgrove Inn so much that they both are set to return in 2012. Ted is scheduled for June 11-13 while Mel is coming July 9-13. For those folks that missed the last workshops, this next year they get another chance.
"Both of these artists put on the best workshops I have been to and the responses from other participants have all been very positive! Before I took Ted Nuttalls worhshop this past summer I had never painted a portrait and now I am not affraid of the subject. He is a great teacher and fun too! As for Mel Stabin, he is really great to watch doing a demo. It is inspiring to see how he makes his subject look just right with just a few strokes of his brush. Both teachers are very helpful and if any one wants an exciting learning experience they can go to www.landgroveinn.com to sign up."
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Nutall Workshop 2011 |
Mel Stabin Painting
For more information, contact the Landgrove Inn.
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Workshop in New York
submitted by Holly Catlin
Join us for a Plein Air gathering on beautiful Indian Lake this fall for a weekend of art in the Adirondacks. Local artist, Sarah Yeoman will lead a painting workshop for all levels of artists to create and share ideas. Mornings will be spent painting, afternoons enjoying the Adirondacks. The three night all inclusive stay in Timberlock cabins along Indian Lake includes three delicious meals daily, , swimming, boating, hiking and time to enjoy the beauty of the spectacular foliage of the Adirondacks. Rate for fall weekend $ 157.00 per person, tip& tax included. Spaces are limited. Reservations required. Call 518-648-5494 for more information. You can see more of Sarah's work at Sarah Yeoman Website
P.O. BOX 307, INDIAN LAKE, NY 12842 (518) 648-5494
WEB: Timberlock EMAIL:
Timberlock Lodge
Painting by Sarah Yeoman
CAMP GLEN BROOK
Submitted by Jeanne Thieme Jeanne Maguire Thieme will be one of the core coaches in a watercolor course as part of The Sonad Project. WHERE: Camp Glen Brook ( www.glenbrook.org), located in Marlborough, NH, in the scenic Monadnock Region of Southwestern New Hampshire, a 2 hour drive from Boston, a 4 hour drive from New York City. WHEN: Sunday, August 19, 2012 3 P.M. - Thursday, August 23, 2012-5:00 PM For more info on the Sonad project please visit: for a more detailed schedule of the daily events -
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Upcoming Landgrove Workshops -VWS Sponsored
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Alvaro Castagnet Workshop comes to the Landgrove Inn
aro Cast
Alvaro Castagnet will be coming in October 2012 teaching "Painting with Passion" at the Landgrove Inn in Landgrove, VT. Register for a discount. This workshop is full! If you want to be on the waiting list, contact Claudia Carl. 
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS at the Landgrove Inn- stay tuned: 2013-Linda Kemp
2014-John Salminen  
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VWS Board of Directors
2012
Jan Olmstead, President
Mark Nielsen, Vice-President
Peter Land, CPA, Treasurer --Newly elected
Reggie Springer, Recording Secretary
Claudia Carl, Director of Education & Programs
Rebecca Gottesman, Co-Director of Exhibitions
Lynn Cummings, Co-Director of Exhibitions -- New position
Joann DiNicola, Director of Membership
Amanda Amend, Director of Volunteers
Pam Dexter, Director of Hubs -- New position
OPEN - Director of Communications
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It is very exciting to have Holbein, USA as a VWS Partner. Being a Vermont based art supplier and full time supporter of arts and the artists who make them, it is a perfect fit for both of us. Please get to know Holbein and support them not only because they are one of our partners, but because they are a world leader in colors and mediums for artists. The Landgrove Inn is the premier, all-in-one lodging, dining and fun space in which to create, exhibit and learn. Check out the 2010 workshop schedule at Landgrove Inn, or call 802 824-6673. Tom and Maureen Checchia, owners. |
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