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Newsletter of Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona October, 2011 |
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Board of Directors
2011-2012
Co-Presidents
Sandy Brittain and
Marti White
Vice-President
Lorrie Parsell
Secretary
JoAnne Hungate
Treasurer
Miriam Otte
Immediate Past President
Jo Ann Daly
Programs
Carol Ann
Paula Porter (helper)
Fran McNeely (helper)
Membership
Pat Duncan
Vanessa Dearing
Jennifer Clark (helper)
Mini-Workshops
Carmen Williams
Jill Ballesteros (helper)
Workshops
Eileen Dudley
Sharyn Binam
Publicity
Cherrie Lucerne-Martin
Exhibits
Carol Chambers
Newsletter
Marti White |
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November Mini-workshop
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Francheskaa
Design is the skeleton of collage. Color is the covering. The two are essential for a dynamite expression in collage. See how the four elements of design are utilized in a triad, complementary, split complementary and analogous color choice in the collages.
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50/50 for 2011-2012
The board has decided that the money from the 50/50/raffle this year will go to help members who find their dues or mini-workshop fees are more than their budget can manage. Please contact the appropriate chairperson, Pat Duncan for dues or Carmen Williams for mini-workshops, to apply for help. |
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Signature Membership
If you think you have qualified for Signature status, please send Carol Chambers, carolchambers@q.com, an email listing shows you have been juried into. She will then verify that you have been in those shows and notify the record keeper that you have reached that status and get you listed as a Signature Member.
click here for a signature member list |
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American Frame Club Number
Please use our club number when you order from American Frame. We get money back for every dollar you spend with American Frame. The number is A490. |
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Class Listings for
Catherine Nash and Robert Renfrow
Click for class schedule |
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Monotype Workshops
with JoAnne Hungate
JoAnne offers small workshops in her studio for 2 or 3 people. $60 with materials from 9:30am to 1pm. Contact JoAnne at 615-9426 for more information. |
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Wisdom Words
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
__ Robin Sharma
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
__William James
You Can Make a Difference
When you show up for the people in your life, even though you're having a hard day, you make a difference.
When you share what you're dealing with, even though it makes you feel vulnerable, and help other people through your honesty, you make a difference.
When you practice what you preach, you make a difference.
When you honor your needs to create a sense of inner calm and well-being that permeates your interactions with others, you make a difference.
When you cut yourself some slack so you can use your energy to love, create, and inspire, you make a difference.
When you give people the benefit of the doubt, you make a difference.
When you listen fully, instead of waiting to talk, you make a difference.
When you focus more on being kind than being right, you make a difference.
When you find beauty in the world around you and help other people see it, you make a difference.
When you realize that your everyday actions are your greatest legacy, you make a difference.
__ Seth Godin
"Compassion, love, shared joy, shared risk and adventure, shared laughter - these are what make life worth living. At the end of our lives, that's how we'll look back, or others will look back, and assess value. Everything else is relatively meaningless."
__ Roderick McIver
"The key word is trust. Trust everything that happens in life, even those experiences that cause pain will serve to better you in the end...Along with developing a basic trust in the rhyme and reason of life itself, I advise you to trust your intuition. It is a far better guide in the long run than your intellect."
__ Henry Miller
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Archived Newsletters
Please check the web site for archived newsletters. Go to the contact page and click on "archives" to see back issues. |
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Next Meeting: Friday, October 7, 2011
9:30 am (social time 9:00-9:25 come early)
St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church
4625 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718
| Tranquility Mary Ellen Palmeri |
Embossing/Debossing
Presenter: Mary Ellen Palmeri
Artist and educator, Mary Ellen Palmeri, has more than thirty years experience teaching, and a lifetime of experience making art. She works with pen and ink, colored pencils, acrylic paint and inks and mixed-media artwork. Combining the paper arts, she creates "Paper Dreams," her unique mixed-media artwork that incorporates paper folding and cutting, collage, drawing and painting, and hand embossing. She also makes unique pop-up cards and books, artist's books, and origami displays. Mary Ellen has been a member of the West Coast Origami Guild since 1995 and founded Origami LAFF in Tucson, AZ, in 2006. She is also a member of PaperWorks, The Sonoran Collective for the Paper Arts.
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ShayLin 62 Mary Ellen Palmeri |
Mini-Workshop with Mary Ellen
1-5pm following our meeting
For those of you who requested an Embossing /Debossing Mini-workshop, the October mini is for you! Mary Ellen Palmeri will demonstrate numerous techniques using various tools on collage papers. She'll also show us how to make and use stencils for embossing. Then apply them to collage examples we'll create.
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ShayLin detail Mary Ellen Palmeri |
click here for a registration form |
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New Beginnings Lorrie Parsell |
click here for prospectus Entry deadline is September 27, 2011 |
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Two Women Perdita Andrews |
CASA Signature Members Show
at
Kirk Bear Canyon Library
8959 E. Tanque Verde Road
November 1 - 31, 2011
Reception
Thursday, November 3, 2011
5:00-7:00pm
click here for prospectus
Entry deadline is October 20, 2011 |
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Message from the Presidents
We just had our first meeting at our "new home," St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church. We were just delighted with the welcome we received at the church and the great new facilities. They are excited to have us use their space for our meetings and mini-workshops and it shows!
Marti and I extend our thanks to all the Committee Chairs for making us look good. JoAnne Hungate inspired all of us with her "Pressing Paint" program. We thank Carol Ann and JoAnne for a great kickoff for the new year's activities.
We are so proud of the nine CASA artists who have worked so hard on the 9/11 project and we thank every member who has contributed time, money and materials to make this happen. Please attend the reception at the Jewish Community Center, Sunday, September 11, 2011, from noon to 2:00pm. We are also happy to report that "3000 Souls" has been accepted into the Tubac Center of the Arts "Working with Paper" exhibit. Please support your organization by attending the Opening Reception on Friday, October 14, 2011, from 5:00-7:00pm in Tubac.
The Pastiche show, "Cosmic Shift: The Dance of Earth, Fire and Light," will open October 10, 2011, and will run to November 19, 2011. The Opening Reception will be Sunday, October 16, 2:00 - 4:00pm. Carol has worked very hard to find exciting venues for us this year and we look forward to seeing all of your creations.
Thanks again and again to Eileen Dudley and Carmen Williams for their ongoing work for our Three-Day Workshops and Mini-Workshops. You can download your registration forms from this newsletter or the CASA website.
Our next meeting is Friday, October 7, 2011, at 9:30am. Our honorary member, David Adix, will be there to jury the entries for the Pastiche Show. Hope to see you there!
Sandy Brittain and Marti White, Co-Presidents
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Treasurer's Report
Bank Accounts
Checking
Balance as of Aug. 1, 2011 7,459.14
Revenue 523.33
Disbursements -1,164.88
Ending Balance 6,817.59
Savings
Balance as of August 1, 2011 4,637.52
Revenue 0.20
Disbursements 0.00
Ending Balance 4,637.72
Petty Cash 60.00
Grand Total 11,515.31
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"Abstractions" - An Exhibit by Eileen Dudley
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Alturas #5 acrylic 36"hx24"w Eileen Dudley |
You are invited to an exhibition of
acrylic paintings and collage
Abstractions
Eileen Dudley, artist
September 23 to November 4, 2011
Reception 5-8 pm
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Cata Vinos Wines
3063 North Alvernon Avenue
Tucson, Arizona
323-3063
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11am to 8pm
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Fall Three-Day Workshop with Nancy Christy-Moore
Arizona artist Nancy Christy-Moore, an internationally recognized, award winning painter, will present CASA's fall 2011 Workshop, "Letting Go: Adventures in Watermedia" on October 26, 27 and 28 at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 4831 E. 22nd Street, Tucson.
Nancy has been painting and teaching for nearly 30 years, and works in a process she has developed which she calls "inner painting." She has evolved from a watercolorist into a mixed media painter working with water-based pigments and layering with Japanese collage papers and a variety of acrylic mediums. Rather than planning her paintings, she allows the pigment, color and movement to guide the image, often being surprised with what develops during this process. She usually works in a series, two of which are featured on her website, www.nchristy.com.
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Blooms 69 Nancy Christy-Moore |
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Members in the News
Visit the SAWG Gallery's last month of "Watch Our Walls." Several members of CASA are exhibiting their work during the month of September.
Tubac Center of the Arts Members' Open Exhibit will open with a reception on September 9, 2011, 5:00 - 7:00pm. The show runs through October 9, 2011. Look for Sandy Brittain's acrylic painting, Steppin' Out, Del Marinello's painting, Snake in the Grass, Marti White's collage, Raspberry Sherbet, Elizabeth Quinn Worrall's oil diptych, Mystical Realm, and Carol Chambers', Desert Spoon Blues..
Marti White's acrylic painting, Pathways, will be part of an International Society of Acrylic Painters Signature Members Exhibit in Paso Robles, CA, from September 15 - October 9, 2011.
Tubac Center of the Arts next show is "Working with Paper," juried by Tucson artist, Jim Waid. The opening reception is Friday, October 14, 5-7pm and the show runs through November 13. CASA will be well represented. We are excited to announce that the collaborative installation work of nine CASA artists, Three Thousand Souls, has been chosen for the show. Also work by JoAnne Hungate, Another Hot Day, Sandy Brittain, The Spirit of St. Philip's and Autumn Splendor, Carol Chambers, Contentment, Passion Dance and Spirit of Life, and Marti White, Red and Green with Pomegranates..
Blue Raven Gallery presents "Highlands, Lowlands: A Green Journey" opening on September 10, 2011, with a reception from 5-8pm. Look for Summer at the Lake, an acrylic painting by Sandy Brittain and Dragonfly Summer, an art quilt by Marti White.
Del Marinello has a permanent display at the Coyote Grill on La Canada in Green Valley. She will
also have work in the SAWG gallery during the month of October.
Sandy Brittain, Diane Haug and Deanna Thibault are participating in the "Breasts for Life" project through Toscana Gallery.
Carol Ann is currently represented by Artworks in Austin, TX and Convergence Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. She has two pieces in an abstract invitational at Cape Fear Studios in Fayetteville, NC, during the months of September and October. Carol Ann will also have two pieces in the Attorney General's Office Exhibition, Tucson, which is sponsored by the Arizona Arts Alliance. These pieces will hang from October through February. Check out Carol Ann's award winning (Honorable Mention) painting in an online competition called "Seasons" sponsored by Light, Space and Time Online Gallery (www.lightspacetime.com). The exhibition will be featured through September 30.
Sandy Brittain and Marti White will be exhibiting at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network for the months of October, November and December. An opening reception is planned for Thursday, October 13, 2011, from 5:00 - 7:00pm.
Elizabeth Quinn-Worrall is showing a series of abstract paintings, Adrift, at Unity of Tucson through September 30. She will be participating in Tucson Pima Arts Council Open Studio Tour in November. She will also be advertised in the Arizona Collector's Guide for 2012. |
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Notes from JoAnne Hungate's Presentation
"Pressing Paint"
Sharyn Binam generously takes notes on our presentations and prepares them for you to print out for yourself. Attached is a downloadable pdf file that you can access by clicking below.
click here for presentation notes
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Members Who Have Need of Our Thoughts and Prayers
Cleo Teissedre is recovering from surgery to help the circulation in her legs. She is doing very well, but still needs to regain strength and heal. Her husband, Jack, is not doing well and Cleo is pretty much tied to home caring for him. Remember her with a card or a call. She would love to hear from you.
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Please send any items for the newsletter to Marti White at martiaz@simplybits.net. The deadline for the November, 2011, newsletter is October 10, 2011. |
Marti White Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona |
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