If you volunteered during this past year (from the 2011 fall meeting to the present), we'd like to thank you in our 2012 fall program. Did you help with a program, exhibition or Hub event? Please let Amanda know at amanda.amend@gmail.com.

WANTED: 

Please join us 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 three shows (there's an app. for that), and our fabulous volunteer Kathy Berry Bergeron will send it to media outlets. This job takes only three hours PER YEAR.

Contact Amanda if you are interested. 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

"We" are YOU!  

Everybody is busy, but it's rewarding to be involved, and since the VWS is a 100% volunteer organization, we can't operate without your help.  Come join the fun:   

Hub Point Person for Middlebury/Rutland. Are you interested in local activities?  They can be as simple as a Salon where you share paintings and get feedback, or as complicated (and fun) as an exhibition.  It's up to you! 

Co-Point Person for Montpelier/Stowe.  Nancy Cleveland is brimming with ideas for activities in the Montpelier/Stowe Hub, and she'd like help with the email/contact part of the Hub Point Person's role.  If you are comfortable with email, please help us with this.    

Director of Volunteers.  I've loved working with you!  My term is up this year though, so please consider stepping up for this position or nominating a friend.  It's a great way to get to know people and to be involved with the VWS.     

Please contact amanda.amend@gmail.com to talk more about how you can help and enjoy the rewards of being involved.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center     Lebanon, NH

an Open Show: 

Calendar:

• Entry form deadline: 11/14/2012
• Notification to Artists: n/a
• Show Start & End: 12/4/2012 - 3/2/2013
• Delivery to DHMC Volunteer Services (North Entrance):       11/29/2012, 9 AM - noon; 1:00 - 4:00 PM
• Show Reception: 1/17/2013, 4:30 - 6:00 PM, Chilcott Lounge, Level 4, Rubin Building
• Pick Up from Gallery: 3/2/2013
• Gallery commission:     25%  

Eligibility:

• All current dues-paid VWS Members
• Original works of art painted with water-soluble media that reconstitutes with water: (transparent watercolor, gouache, watercolor pencil, watercolor sticks & watercolor inks)
• Works of art not previously shown in statewide VWS shows
• Works must be professionally framed, with glass or Plexiglas, ready for hanging
• Watercolor paper, canvas, & boards, Gessoed paper & Yupo acceptable
• Top mats must be white or off-white
• Watercolor canvas & watercolor boards do not need mats or glass
• Frames must not exceed 44" on any side
• All work must be for sale

Entry Procedures & Information:

• Entry Fee: n/a
• CD submission not required for this non-juried show

Entry Checklist:

• Entry form                                                        
• VWS label for back of painting

Entry form sent to:

Kate Reeves                                              

 PO Box 471                                  

Woodstock, VT   05091

All work must be picked up by end of business on the pick up date. VWS and the hospital are not responsible for work left after the pick up date. Please ask a friend to pick up your work if you are not able.

Questions?

Please contact one of the exhibition co chairs:

Name & Email: Lynn Cummings 

Lynn.Cummings@uvm.edu 

Name & Email: Rebecca Gottesman 

Rebecca@rebeccasart.com  

The September 23, 2012 reception for our juried show at the Visions of Vermont Gallery was quite a success. It was a sunny fall day and well over 100 tourists as well as VWS members, friends, patrons and others viewed our lovely display at the Visions Gallery in Jeffersonville. The art was impressive and everyone enjoyed the delicious food and drinks supplied by VWS members and Jane and Terry Shaw, the gallery owners.

There was a real team effort in getting this show organized, hung and the reception held. Thanks to all who pitched in and helped make this such a success. If you haven't been to the show yet, there's still time - the show is open until October 19. Be sure to bring your camera as the leaves are getting spectacular in that part of Vermont!

Exhibition
September 26-November 3, 2012

RECEPTION/Vernissage
Saturday, October 6, 3-5PM

In "America the Beautiful," transgendered artist Paedra Peter Bramhall delivers a powerful series of paintings that feature various nude figures in tumultuous positions in a small room wall-papered with the American flag. The effect is a meditation on post-9/11 America, a place that can be liberating yet claustrophobic; free yet judgmental; and, like the figures in the paintings, pornographic yet sacred. Each of the twenty-two paintings are rendered in sumi, acrylic, and india inks on a heavy rag vellum paper.

Online
Maison Kasini
info@maisonkasini.com


"Dead Stars Falling" by Paedra Peter Bramhall

From Barbara Pafume:

To celebrate Shelburne Farms' 40th year as a nonprofit organization and their 25th year for the art exhibition "Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting"I have been invited to exhibit in the Retrospective show at the Coach Barn.  I have had several paintings accepted into this exhibit previously.  Two new paintings will be on exhibit and for sale (see pictured) Opening reception is Friday, October 18th from 5-7, and the show will run through Nov. 4th.

I have also been accepted into and will be exhibiting in the 16th annual Fallfest of Fine Art in Ocean City, Maryland November 3rd and 4th.


"Stream Song" by Barbara Pafume