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VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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Mark Nielsen
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My Pride in the VWS:
I am moved to write today of my pride in the VWS. Sometimes I use this column to express personal thoughts and it seems like it has been all business for the last 6 months, this month I wanted to share my personal sense of pride in our organization. The pride I am feeling is from my sense that we are working well as a team. I know it sounds cliché but here is my evidence.
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Quick resolution to a communications glitch that caused last month's snippets to Gmail accounts to dump into spam. Thank you Lynn Pratt and Kate Jackson.
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News that 57 members entered 100 paintings for consideration in the spring show at the Gruppe Gallery! Congratulations to Robert and Charles and a big thank you to Eric Gottesman for personally helping some of our members interface with the online program Art Show Manager.
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Annual Spring Event has been firmed up with an interesting agenda including a presentation and question and answer session with Attorney Gordon Troy to discuss Intellectual Property/Copyright laws and a painting demonstration from VWS member Peter Huntoon. This meeting will be held at Lake Morey Resort May 31st. Don't forget to bring a painting to share. The attendance fee is $35 but if you need financial relief that can be accommodated and guest are free. Thank you Martin LaLonde for pulling this together.
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On the VWS Education Fund front, as of the 22nd of March, we have received $600 in donations from our members. Also, we have received 18 name suggestions and 2 image submissions for the renaming contest. I am looking forward to seeing which one the board selects.
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Hub point person rally has been set for May 16th at the Bethany Church-Parlor Room from 9:30am to 12:30 pm with a brunch being served. This is a meeting for hub point people and members who are thinking that they might be interested in becoming a point person. Thank you to Pam Dexter for organizing this important gathering.
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On the business/organizational side, Carlton Annis, Amanda Ammend and Betty Waterman have organized our accounting into a non-profit version of Quickbooks and reworked our formatting to help our directors better understand our financial standing. A big thank you to the three of you, I certainly sleep better knowing that this is in place. Perhaps I should take this space to mention there are still a significant number of you who have not sent in your dues. Please get out your check books and take that off your list of things you have to do.
That is it for now,
Keep up your painting.
Mark
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Welcome Everyone to the April Newsletter!
We encourage VWS members to submit their news to us by writing to vwsnews@gmail.com . Emails are checked on a regular basis and we will gladly post your creative news! Please format your email to us the way you would like it to read in the newsletter to cut down on editing time.
Sincerely,
Lynn Pratt & Kate Jackson
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Annual VWS Spring Event
Vermont Watercolor Society
Mark your calendars! The annual VWS Spring Event will be held on Sunday, May 31, at the Lake Morey Inn. Come mingle with your friends and make new acquaintances; enter to win a fabulous door prize or raffle items; bring a recent painting for our Spring Event art show; and receive updates on the VWS education initiative, workshops, and shows.
We will be hearing from a respected intellectual property law attorney, who will give us a brief introduction to copyright issues that artists may face and will answer our questions.
We are also pleased that Peter Huntoon will be demonstrating his distinctive painting techniques featuring innovative color, strong composition, and enthusiastic brushwork. Also, weather permitting, we may have the chance to paint plein air together after the official festivities. Click here to sign up for the Spring Event now!
VWS 2015 Juried Members Exhibition
Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, 22 Barber Farm Rd. Jericho VT, 05465
April 23 through May 31, 2015
If your painting is listed below, it has been selected to be in the VWS Gruppe Gallery show! Congratulations! Emilie Alexander, the owner of the Gruppe Gallery, is asking all interested participating artists to submit an image of their painting, that got into the show, for consideration to be on the postcard invitation. She will need these ASAP and would like to get the p/c sent to the printer by April 1. Images can be emailed to: ealexander22@yahoo.com
The delivery date for accepted work is Monday, April 20. The gallery is located at 22 Barber Farm Rd. Jericho, VT 05465. Delivery hours are 9am to 5pm. For artists further away, please make arrangements with your hub for carpooling paintings.
The opening reception will be held on Sunday, May 3 from 4 to 7 pm. The times have been changed from the times on the prospectus. The gallery will provide liquid refreshments and members are encouraged to bring an appetizer to share.
Pickup date is Monday, June 1 from 9 am to 5 pm.
Congratulations!
VWS 2015 Spring Juried Show Results
Artist/Title
1. Amanda Amend And the Music Gave Him Life
2. Letty Annis Trust Me Little Brother
3. Lisa Forster Beach Light Patterns
4. Annelein Beukenkamp Let Me Explain it This Way
5. Joey Bibeau Faded Farm
6. Terry Boyle On Gillette Pond
7. Jean Cannon Icy Shore #2
8. Karen Casper Fair Anticipation
9. Lynn Cummings Potato Farmer's Lunch, Puno, Peru
10. Don Dalton Woods and Stream
11. Monique Dewyea In Unison
12. John Dimick Butter Slip
13. Gerarde Doucette The Pearl
14. Ric Feeney Milkweed Cathedral
15. Adrienne Fisher Brothers
16. Van Fryman Summer Shadows
17. Anne Gordon Kitchen Lilacs
18. Rebecca Gottesman Coconut Palm
19. Jane Harissis Prague Clock Tower
20. Sally Hughes Into the Bush
21. Ginny Joyner The Greenhouse
22. Patrick Kennedy Pisces
23. Martin LaLonde Morning Song
24. Caroline McKinney Mabel
25. Charles Norris-Brown Cisticolas
26. Robert O'Brien View From the Tower
27. Barbara Pafume The Way It Should Be
28. Judson Pealer The River's Secret Songs
29. Antonio Pezzimenti Eight Man Scull Practice, Douro River, Po
30. Lynn Pratt Dancers Delight
31. Darlene Ratte Shot of Love
32. Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams Jewelweed
33. Susan Bull Riley A Place in the Sun
34. Sarah Rosedahl Savannah Sparrow
35. Nancy Stone Quilt Shoppe
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
- Duct 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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WORKSHOPS AND PROGRAMS
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October 5 - 9, 2015
The Landgrove Inn
Tuition: VWS Members $495, Non-members $575
Lodging: contact The Landgrove Inn 802-824-6673
The registration form and the flier can be found on the VWS website.
Questions?
VWS DVD LENDING LIBRARY
VWS has created a lending library. Videos may be previewed on Creative Catalyst http://ccpvideos.com. The current list includes:
Anne Abgott: Watercolor Techniques for Daring Color
Sue Archer: Commanding Color
Linda Baker: Fearless Watercolor ; Layering & Color
Chen-Kee Chee: Saturated Wet Technique
Tony Couch: Painting Barns in Watercolor
Carl Dalio: On Color Power: The Path to Visualizing Energetic Color
Pat Dews: Designing Great Starts with Texture and Form
Jean Haines: Amazing Ways with Watercolour
George James: Designing for Content , Yupo Master
Polly Hammett: Design with the Figure
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
Charles Reid: Watercolor with the Master 10-Lesson Course
John Salminen: A Designed Approach To Abstraction
Shirley Trevena: My World of Watercolour
Soon Y Warren: Vibrant Watercolor Techniques: Water
Guan Weixing: Watercolor Demonstration: 2 disc set; Portrait of a young Farmer and Elderly Woman
Sharon Lynn Will: Watercolour On Location
Mary Whyte: Mastering Watercolor Portraiture
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.
Please note: VWS members who have borrowed a DVD for a month or so, please return the DVD promptly to Claudia. There are members waiting to
enjoy the educational opportunity as well.
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VWS Burlington/St. Albans Hub News
Lynn Cummings
Hub "Point Person"
If you are interested in becoming the leader for the Burlington/St. Albans hub area, please let me or Pam Dexter know. After 2 ½ years it is time for someone else to "take the reigns" and bring some different ideas and events to the 60 or so members of the hub.
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Jean Cannon Workshops
 Watercolor Still Life: four evening classes - Monday, April 6-27, 5:30 to 7:30pm. Offered through the OLLI program at UVM in Burlington. To register or for more information, please call 802-656-2085 or email uvmolli@uvm.edu
Lynn D. Pratt Lynn will have a solo show at J.K. Adams for the months of March and April. The gallery is open during normal store hours. http://lynndpratt.com/
1430 Route 30 Dorset, Vermont 05251 https://jkadams.com/
Ric Feeney  This 18 x 27 watercolor, Fishing The Lake, completed in December 2014 using M Graham watercolors, was just purchased by the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital to hang in their new surgical waiting room.
Barbara J. Pafume Four Seasons Studios Spring Workshops  Spring has sprung! On April 18th and April 25th, after a long winter, come learn to paint the beautifully flowing Vermont streams, rivers, waterfalls and lakes. In the next two workshops we will focus on how to capture the movement, colors, perspective, reflections and sparkle of water in our landscapes. Of course, we will also learn to paint rocks since our  waterways are loaded with them. Each day will begin at 10a.m. and end at 4:30p.m. $110 per day, includes lessons, laughs, lunch and snacks! Each of these two workshops will be limited to 6 artists, so register early. All artistic levels welcome! Call Barb at 802-849-6858 or email her at bjpafume@gmail.com and please visit her new website at
www.art-in-vermont.com.
Two of Barbara's paintings, "We Still Have Each Other" and "Winter Sun", have been accepted into the Inside Out, Still Lifes and Interiors Exhibition at Bryan Gallery in Jeffersonville. Exhibit opens May 1st, with a public reception May 3rd and will continue until July 6th.
Don Dalton
 Don Dalton's painting, Rocky Coast, Maine, was accepted into the American Watercolor Society's 148th Annual International Exhibition to be held at the Salmagundi Club in New York City April 6-25, 2014.
It won the D. Kingman Award and will be part of the travelling exhibition to New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and California.
Robert O'Brien
The painting "Autumn Porch Shadows" will be on display at the Salmagundi Club in New York City as part of the 148th International Exhibit of the American Watercolor Society. The exhibition opens on Monday, April 6th.
Ann Pember
Ann Pember had paintings juried into the American Watercolor Society 148th 148 the International at the Salmagundi Club in New York City in April, the Watercolor Missouri International; St. Louis, MO in April, the Fallbrook Art Center Signature American Watermedia National: CA, March-April, Rockies West National.
She will teach a 3-Day workshop for the Colonie Art League near Albany, NY May 4 - 6. Contact: Kristin Woodward, President/Workshop Coordinator Sponsor: Colonie Art League, Inc. PO box 941, Latham, NY Phone: Kristin 518-783-1828 Email: kristin.woodward@earthlink.net
Wendy Hayward will be out of town for the months of June and July, August is negotiable.. and would like to rent a furnished apartment in beautiful downtown Chester Vermont to an artist or persons interested in spending a month or two there. First Floor apartment. There is a double bed and a double futon, lg kitchen, bath room living room and an area for painting. Old farm house connected to 2 small businesses. monthly rent negotiable. contact Wendy Hayward at: wendyhayward210@yahoo.com
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Dear watercolorists:As Exhibitions Manager at View arts center in Old Forge, New York, I'd like to personally extend the Call for Entry to you and your members for our upcoming national show, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. This show, considered one of the top ten national watercolor exhibits, is open to all artists working in water-based media on unvarnished paper in transparent and opaque watercolors, acrylics, casein, egg tempera, gouache and ink. Over it's history, annual national and international submissions have grown into the many hundreds and our awards to over $14,000 year. For our prospectus and submission guidelines: please visit OnlineJuriedShows.comKey dates:
- Deadline for submission: April 20, 2015
- Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2015
- Work to be received at View by: May 27, 2015
- Jurying of Awards: May 29, 2015
- Notification of Awards: June 30, 2015
- Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: August 7, 2015
- Exhibition Closes: October 5, 2015
Details on jurors, eligibility, awards, fees, legal information and submission
guidelines are available at here.
Thank you in advance for sharing this with your members. To receive future communication from View about calls for entry, exhibits and workshops, please provide your email and name on our website.
Feel free to contact me with questions on View or the National Exhibition (not related to the submission process described online). ccard@viewarts.org
Cory E. Card
Exhibitions Manager
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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 2015 workshop schedule at Landgrove Inn, or call 802 824-6673. Tom and Maureen Checchia, owners. |
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