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VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
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HUBS
Hub news can be found in the new "HUB NEWS" section in the main body of the newsletter. If you have Hub related questions please contact Pamela Dexter,Director of Hubs:
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Facebook
If you are a Facebook user and a current VWS member, please consider joining the Vermont Watercolor Society Facebook group. This is a place for members to share their work, and information about shows and events. Click here to join.
We have also created a Vermont Watercolor Society page. This is a public place where VWS will share announcements and other information. Members are welcome to share their work and announcements on this page as well. Please share the page with your friends.
Newsletter Submissions
All member events , workshops and show announcements should be sent to :
Newsletter article deadline is the 20th of each month.
Please put "VWS NEWSLETTER " in your title. Thank you!
Submissions must be fully written and spell-checked with accurate punctuation in order to be included. This saves our volunteer editor much valuable time so that she can return to painting.
If you have images, please send them in JPG format as an email attachment. It is extremely helpful if images are labeled with a file name related to the content.
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Mark Nielsen
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Annual Meeting Recap
For those of you who were unable to attend our annual fall meeting here is the recap.
Our business meeting opened with a big thank you to Lois Mucaga and the Quechee Club for making the facility available at a reduced rate. Then by unanimous vote we adopted the proposed by-law paragraph 9 article VI, proposed budget, and the slate of candidates for open board positions including Charles Norris Brown who volunteered from the floor to be considered for the position of Director of Volunteers. Beginning Jan 1st your board members will be as follows:
President Mark Nielsen
Vice President Tony Conner
Treasurer Amanda Amend
Secretary Reggie Springer
Hub Director Pam Dexter
Exhibitions Co-Director Robert O'Brien
Exhibitions Co-Director Loretta Weitzel
Communications Director Sarah Rosedahl
Membership Director Michelle LeBoeuf
Programs Director Claudia Carl
Volunteer Director Charles Norris Brown
Our outgoing Directors were thanked and their accomplishments were highlighted. They are, Peter Land CPA, Rebecca Gottesman, Lynn Cummings and Joann DiNicola.
Several of our new members were present and were recognized. Rebecca brought 4 guests to the meeting all of whom signed up to become VWS members. Excellent recruiting Rebecca!
Two members earned signatory status, they were Carol Ann Centre and Ann Pember. On getting home that night I had a message that three more achieved this honor with the result of the Bennington show, they are Tony Conner, Lynn Pratt, and Jeanette Fournier. Congratulations to all of you.
Claudia Carl took the floor and described a number of programming initiatives including a VWS bus trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see the show on John Singer Sargent's watercolors, the new DVD sharing library, the John Salminen Workshop scheduled for this coming year, and the new student support program the VWS is launching to enhance our charity and educational mission.
Pam spoke briefly on the accomplishments of the Hubs noting that we would continue this initiative for at least another year and the increase in funding that the VWS was making toward the program.
Yinglei Zhang presented a fascinating and very fun mini workshop on Chinese Brush Painting using ink and rice paper.
We adjourned with the raffle.
Thanks to all of you who did manage to attend, it was so nice to share our time together.
Respectfully submitted,
Mark Nielsen
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Field Trip
John Singer Sargent Watercolors Exhibit
January 9th, 2014
VWS will travel to the museum by bus, leaving from Vergennes, making stops along the way in Burlington and White River Junction. The cost of the trip is $60. Non-VWS members are also welcome. $60 includes round trip transportation by bus, museum tickets, guided tour, coffee & donuts and return trip snack. Attendees should either bring their lunch or plan to purchase lunch at the museum.
More details coming soon. Questions? Email claudiaec@yahoo.com.
 
VWS Fall Juried Show
The Bennington Center for the Arts
44 Gypsy Lane
Bennington, VT 05201
802 442 7158
Show Calendar:
Image Submission: Sept 16, 2013
Notification to Artists: Oct 4, 2013
Show Start & End: Nov 16 - Dec 22, 2013
Delivery to Gallery: Nov 4 - 8, 2013 between 10am - 5pm
Show Reception: Sat. Nov. 16, 5pm - 7pm
Pick Up from Gallery: Jan 6 - 10, 2014 10am - 5pm
VWS Spring Meeting
Mark your calendars for April 27, 2014. More details coming soon. Questions? Email claudiaec@yahoo.com.
Framing & Matting Guidelines for All Shows*
Mats: sole or top mats will be white or off white. If a bottom mat is used, it may be white, off white or colored. Filets may be used. Mats are not required for all paintings, but if you are not framing your painting, archival spacers must be used.
Frames: frames must be sturdy, in excellent condition, and must be professional quality. They must have picture wire attached to the back from which to hang the painting.
The following are not acceptable for VWS shows:
- Float frames
- Table top frames
- Damaged frames or frames that are disjointed at the corners
- Saw tooth hangers
- Duck tape, masking tape or other non-professional-looking materials used on backs of frames.
- Sloppy construction as seen from front or back
Persons accepting paintings at drop off are instructed to not accept paintings if they do not meet these guidelines. Thank you for your cooperation.
*Occasionally there are special shows where other guidelines apply, which will be described in that show's prospectus and/or other communications. Otherwise, the above guidelines will apply to all VWS shows including hub shows.
This information can also be found on the VWS website:
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VWS
WORKSHOPS AND PROGRAMS
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VWS DVD LENDING LIBRARY
VWS has created a lending library. Videos may be previewed on Creative Catalyst http://ccpvideos.com. The current list includes:
Chen-Kee Chee
Saturated Wet Technique
Tony Couch
Painting Barns in Watercolor
Carl Dalio
on Color Power
The Path to Visualizing Energetic Color
Linda Kemp
Negative Painting Techniques
Mark Mehaffey
Painting a Dramatic Landscape in Watercolor
Birgit O'Connor
Waves, Water and Clouds
Ann Pember
Painting in the Flow of Watercolor
On High Plate Illustration Board
Soon Y Warren
Vibrant Watercolor Techniques: Water
Frank Webb
Using Your Head, Heart & Hand
Donna Zagotta
The You Factor:
Powerful Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor
If interested, email Claudia. She will send the video with a self-addressed envelope for return after 2 weeks. Please open the package carefully so that we may re-use it. Suggestions for additional videos to Claudia, claudiaec@yahoo.com. Donations for this program are welcome.
JOHN SALMINEN
June 23-27 2014
Realism Through Design
John Salminen is coming to Vermont June 23-27, 2014 and If you haven't signed up yet this is the time! Send in your deposit so you don't miss out on an unforgettable experience with an exceptional internationally renowned artist. Even if the style of Johns artwork might be intimidating to you let this be a challenge to get you thinking and seeing your process differently. I am so excited to have someone of this caliber coming to teach us. This has been 3 years in the making and you just don't want to miss it. Just start setting aside a bit of money now in the "ART EDUCATION" piggy jar and by April 29 you could have it all! Questions? Email claudiaec@yahoo.com.
 
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Burlington/St. Albans Hub News
VWS Burlington HUB Non-Juried Show
Entry Forms Due: December 4, 2013
Send forms to Lynn Cummings
Show Dates: December 18, 2013 - January 31, 2014
Drop Off: December 18, 2013 3:30PM-5:00PM
Opening reception: December 20, 2013 5:00PM-6:30PM
Union Station, 1 Main Street, Burlington VT
Participants are expected to also volunteer to help with this show in some way.
Questions? Email Lynn Cummings lynn.cummings@uvm.edu
Portrait Workshop with VWS Member Robert O'Brien
When: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 10 AM - 4 PM
Where: Black Horse Art Academy, 277 Pine Street, Burlington, VT
Cost: $60 (payable to the instructor); paper will be supplied by VWS, or feel free to bring your own
Minimum # of Participants: 6
Other: The instructor will provide photographs from which you will paint a portrait.
Supplies: Please bring paints, palette, brushes, water containers and any other supplies you typically use when painting in watercolor
Registration: Please send an email to: robertobrien57@yahoo.com to register.
For those who have not already registered, please do so soon so we can get the proper planning done.
Thanks! Lynn & Robert
Life Drawing/Painting
These sessions, which started as a hub activity last fall, have expanded and now are open to other artists in the community. Any artist can attend these sessions which now meet in the upstairs classroom at Black Horse Art, 277 Pine St., Burlington. There is a model every Wednesday night from 6 - 9 PM, and every Sunday afternoon from 2 - 5 PM. Participants must register in advance by contacting Black Horse Art Supply at: 860-4972. Charles Norris-Brown is organizing discussion sessions for the VWS members who attend these sessions. You may work in whatever medium you wish, and there is no instruction. Hub Volunteers
Our hub is still in need of greater volunteer participation for both hub and full VWS activities. We'd love to have a volunteer (or two) to coordinate painting pickups and dropoffs, organize carpools to various activities and other small tasks. Without volunteer efforts, there will not be any activities, as VWS is an all-volunteer organization. Please let me know what you are willing to help with, and if there are other events that you'd like for our hub to offer. (email: Lynn.Cummings@uvm.edu)
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Each month we will feature a VWS member in this newsletter. This month we welcome former President, Secretary, newsletter editor and super all-around volunteer:
Cynthia Crawford
I joined VWS in 1998- practically at the inception. I served as secretary for Presidents Irina Ohl and Annette Compton from 2000-2004, and then became president myself from 2006-2008. For the last few years I was the editor of the VWS Newsletter. It's just amazing to see how far we have come and what wonderful contributions everyone has made over the years-I feel very honored to have worked with so many of you.
My artwork evolved from an interest in drawing and painting as a child, and went through many permutations. Along the way I studied Chinese Brush Painting and Japanese woodcut. My focus has almost always been on animals, so much of my work has been, naturally, animal portraits. All this was, in the past, secondary to my career as a professional flutist, freelancing in Boston for about 20 years. When I moved to Vermont, life slowed down. I still play music, but art, and now photography, have come forth as my main focus (so to speak). I am working towards combining all of my interests into multi-media projects, and put together, last year, a presentation called "Birding With a Camera". It included my music, photography and art work, and it was presented at the Mascoma Audubon Society meeting-something I greatly enjoyed. (I am an avid bird-watcher as well...). Watercolor seems to be my native medium-I even combine some of my photos and painting techniques in various ways to make "photo-paintings". It is interesting how the digital world has changed our perception of all the arts- an ever evolving process. I still love the simplicity of brush, paint and paper, though-it is so meditative and therapeutic.
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Welcome New Members
- Linda Broadwater
- Joan Lane
- Nancy Leavitt-Reibel
Annelein Beukenkamp
Annelein's work has been juried into the following shows:
- The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society annual juried show October 5 - November 15. My painting "The Storyteller" was juried for exhibition.
- The Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, "Living Color" ; The Watercolorists, September 6 - November 3. Two pieces were juried in for exhibition.
Lynn Cummings
Linda Di Sante
My submission, "Beloved", was juried into the Small Works Show at The Bennington Center for the Arts to be held May 11 through December 22, 2013. Check out their website:
Jeanette Fournier
Jeanette Fournier's painting of a Common Loon, titled "Ripple Effect", has been accepted to the North East Watercolor Society's 37th Annual International Exhibition in 2013. The show is open from October 20, 2013 until November 3, 2013 at The Gallery at Kent Art Association in Kent, Connecticut.
Robert O'Brien
Robert won the Best in Show at this year's New England Watercolor Society's Juried Regional Exhibition in Plymouth Mass.
Robert also won the M.Graham Award at the North East Watercolor Society's 37th International Exhibition in Kent , Ct.
Barbara Pafume
Barbara will be giving three more fall weekend workshops at her studio in Fairfax, Nov. 2nd & 3rd. All day lessons and lunch are included. Go to Barb's website for more information: www.art-in-vermont.com
Barbara has had two paintings accepted into the Bryan Gallery for the Shades of Fall Exhibit which opens Nov. 8th - Dec. 29th.
Also, Barb has been accepted into the National Fall Exhibition at Southern Vermont Art Center, Oct. 5th - Nov.17
Sarah Rosedahl
Sarah is busy with holiday art and book signing events, including the Vermont Hand Crafters Annual Fine Craft and Art Show, Barre Craft Guild Annual Winter Festival, Richmond Holiday Festival, Cheshire Cat Artist of the Month and book signing, and Sweet Grass Gallery book signing.
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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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