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          Newsletter of Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona           December, 2011

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

 

Website Manager

Cherrie Lucerne-Martin

 

Exhibits

Carol Chambers

 

Newsletter

Marti White

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.

Please

take special note!!

 

For some time now, the exhibits committee has not been requiring any specific percentage of collage in a piece that is presented for jury into a CASA show. You do not have to be concerned with whether your painting meets any special amount of collage or whether that collage material is paper or some other material. Assemblage and encaustic work has been accepted in several shows in the last two years as well.

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.

Class Listings for

Catherine Nash and Robert Renfrow

 

Click for class schedule

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.

Wisdom Words 

  

"Your journey requires a belief in the beauty within. That belief needs to be nurtured. It is about linking the inner beauty with the beauty and mystery of the larger existence, and using one to serve the other. One feeds off the other." 

      __ Roderick MacIver 

 

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That is where the fruit is" 

          __H. Jackson Browne

 

10 Ways to Overcome Conflicts

 

1. Remember not to sweat the small stuff

2. Practice acceptance

3. Exercise patience

4. Lower your expectations

5. Remember you both desire harmony

6. Focus on the behavior of the person and not on their personal characteristics.

7. Clarify what the person meant by their action, instead of what you perceived their action to mean

8. Keep in mind your objective is to solve the problem, rather than win the fight

9. Accept the other person's response

10. Leave it in the past

 

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

         __Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

 

"On some level, a creative work is a search for the deep thing, where the passion is, because that is the anchor. Where's the juice? The surface stuff, no matter how well written, isn't what art is about. Under the ice where life is cold and confusing - that's where the art is, whether in a great novel or a great painting."

          __Roderick MacIver

 

"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it."

           __Jess Lair

 

"The most important things in life tend to be simple in concept but very difficult in execution. Relationships, building them, maintaining them, as a for instance. By this I mean relationships in the broadest sense, including your relationship with your creative work.

 

Sometimes I use the word courtship in the context of inviting the muse into my life, and the early stages of creating art. A better word might be nurturing.

 

Nurturing implies a desire to encourage the beauty, the potential, in another. It implies sympathy and understanding. Friendship. Steadfastness. Patience with.

 

To nurture another, one first needs to find the balance within. Nurturing implies that the nurturer has tried, and at least to some extent succeeded, in accessing his or her own beauty, own relationship with one's self and inner world.

     __Roderick MacIver

 

 

 

Catherine Nash

Fundraiser

 

I am seeking funding to help me travel across the US to conduct studio visits with 28 international visual artists: one-on-one taped interviews with inspiring and dynamic artists that will be incorporated into the portfolio  section of my e-book Contemporary Paper and Encaustic.

 

click here for a pdf flyer

 

Archived Newsletters 

 

Please check the web site for archived newsletters. Go to the contact page and click on "archives" to see back issues.
 

 

Next Meeting: Friday, December 2, 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

 

 

  HOLIDAY SHARE
 

The December CASA meeting will forego CASA business.  We will use the time to get into the holiday spirit by getting better acquainted with each other from 9:30 to 11:00.

 

Think about an art life inspiration, event, mentor, book, painting, method or story that will bring a smile to your face when you share it with CASA members.

 

Please also bring a short written paragraph description of the story you will share. We will compile everyone's stories into a CASA Holiday Journal and post it on the CASA web site.

 

One more item to bring and share with members: bring your favorite holiday brunch dish. We're going to have a CASA Holiday Potluck Brunch begninning at 11:00am. 

 

Please bring your completed holiday cards to this meeting. If you cannot come, mail them to Bernita Brisson at 2121 S. Pantano Rd. #180, Tucson, AZ 85710, by December 2,  or send them with someone who is coming. If you have questions call Bernita at 733-1093. THANK YOU!

                

 

Nine Artists

Nine Artists          photo by Steve Williams

 

3000 Souls

will be part of the Tubac Center of the Arts show

 

"Working with Paper"

 

Show runs October 14 - November 13. 2011

 

(missing in photo above is Mabel Dean)


Pastiche post card front

New Beginnings            Lorrie Parsell

 

 Pastiche postcard back 

Show Winners

 

Best of Show - Marie Miller

First Place - Pat Duncan

Second Place - Eileen Dudley

Juror's Award - Mary Jane Lyon 

 

 

front Bear Canyon postcard
Two Women              Perdita Andrews

 

Bear Canyon back postcard 

 Show Winners

 

Lee Corral Memorial Best of Show - Ann Mason

First Place - Marilyn McQuarrie

Second Place - Lois McDonald

Third Place -  James Prout

 Juror's Choice Award - Pat Duncan

   

 Ann Mason  Best of Show

 Marilyn McQuarrie  First Place

                                     Lois McDonald  Second Place

 

Message from the Presidents 

 

The CASA Board has just had their Fall Meeting and it is so exciting to listen to all the Committee Chairs and to hear their plans for CASA this coming season. These women give so much of their time and energy and we are so grateful to each and every one of them. We continue to get new members and do all we can to promote the joy of art.

 

CASA was well respresented at the Tubac Center of Arts, "Working with Paper" show by the 9/11 project "3000 Souls" and the nine women who spent their summer creating this touching piece. We just had a wonderful reception at Pastiche for the "Cosmic Shift: The Dance of Earth, Fire and Light" show. If you have not seen the show, we recommend that you drop by Pastiche before November 19th and just enjoy.

 

The Signature Members Show will be hanging at Kirk Bear Canyon Library until November 30th. We hope you will also be able to stop by and enjoy seeing this show.

 

November has snuck up on all of us and we get busy with the Holiday Season approaching. Please remember to make some time for yourselves and be creative. A creating artist is a happy artist!!

  

 Sandy Brittain and Marti White, Co-Presidents

 

 


Brittain White show
The show is open during business hours, 9am-5pm, Monday through Friday, through January 5, 2012. You are welcome to drop by and see the show during those hours. An appointment will ensure that you can see all the rooms.
(closed Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays)


Robert Burridge Workshop

 

I am getting lots of e-mails asking about the Robert Burridge workshop on March 21, 22 and 23, 2012.  Here's the scoop:

  • Registration will open on January 11, 2012, the day the February CASA newsletter arrives in your e-mail inbox.  The fee will be $325.
  • Click on the designated link to pull up your registration form.
  • Mail your check for $325 and the registration to me.  My address will be in the form you click on.
  • Registrations will be on a first-come, first-served basis, and will be placed according to postmark date and time.  As soon as I get your check, I will e-mail a supply list to you.  We have room for the first twenty people.  After that, names will be placed on a waiting list.

           Eileen Dudley, Workshop Coordinator

                                                                                   
 

 

 
Spring Show at Contents Interiors


Our next exhibit is all set up and a prospectus for it is attached to this article. We will be showing our work at Contents Interiors. This is a great opportunity for you to put your work out there where the general public, buying furniture and accessories for their homes, can see it and see how it might complement their decor. There are also many interior designers who come into the store with clients and may see your work and want to see more of it! So be thinking about which of your paintings might appeal to the person looking for art to complement their home's interior design. For this show we are encouraging you to look broader than we have before at your mixed media and experimental pieces. We are a group of contemporary artists and we work in many mediums - collage, mixed media, acrylic abstract and assemblage to name a few. The show wiill be juried by two interior decorators from Contents Interiors. They will be looking for what will complement their inventory. You might want to go take a peek at what their store looks like. The entry fee is low - $15.00 for one entry. We don't know yet how many pieces they will actually take to display, but your investment is small for the kind of exposure you may get if your work is accepted. This is a new approach for us. We hope you will want to take a bold step forward!

click here for a prospectus  

 

Treasurer's Report 

 

Bank Accounts

 

Checking

                         Balance as of October 9, 2011             8,522.34

                         Revenue                                               2,601.00

                         Disbursements                                    -3,573.99

                         Ending Balance                                      7,549.35  

Savings

                         Balance as of August 1, 2011               4,637.90

                         Revenue                                                      0.19

                         Disbursements                                             0.00

                         Ending Balance                                      4,638.90

 

Petty Cash                                                                          60.00

 

Grand Total                                                                                  12,247.44

 

Look for work by Sandy Brittain, Jo Ann Daly,

Carolyn Quarnberg and Marti White

at

Collage 101 Articles from Sharyn Binam

 

Sharyn has made these interesting tutorial articles available for you to use in better understanding how to work in mixed media/collage.

 

Air Dry Clay

click here for downloadable pdf file

 

Picture Planning Worksheet

click here for downloadable pdf file 


                Fall Three-Day Workshop with Nancy Christy-Moore

 

Seven CASA members enjoyed three days of pouring ink and learning about negative painting with Nancy Christy-Moore.

 

Nancy showing the group how to use negative painting to pull out an image  

 

                                                           Nancy's ink pour

             

 
 

Members in the News

  

Tubac Center of the Arts present show is "Working with Paper," juried by Tucson artist, Jim Waid. The show runs through November 13. CASA is 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 Lois McDonald, a paper sculpture, Mem'ries , 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, Ann Mason, Balancing Act, Finestra Bianca and Shanghai Sails, Diana Davis, Slow Moving Dreams , Diane Haug, Volcanic Shimmer and Desert Refuse and Marti White, Red and Green with Pomegranates..

 

Del Marinello has a permanent display at the Coyote Grill on La Canada in Green Valley.

 

Lois McDonald has four paintings at the SAAG Sheraton show continuing until April, 2012. She will also be participating in the Open Studio Tour.

 

Diane Haug has two pieces accepted into the Columbia River Gallery in Troutdale, OR. She will also be participating in the Open Studios at The Drawing Studio.

 

Sandy Brittain, Diane Haug, Francheskaa, Anne Leonard 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. 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. 

 

Sandy Brittain and Marti White will be exhibiting at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network for the months of October, November and December.  

 

Elizabeth Quinn-Worrall  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.

 

Marti White and Lois McDonald are featured in a new online book by Sue St. John called, "A Walk Into Abstracts, Vol. 3." 

 

Lisa Mishler will be teaching at The Drawing Studio this year. Abstract Painting: sessions as follows: October 10-November 28, December 5 - 19, January 2 - 16, January 30 - March 26, and April 9 - May 4. She will also be teaching ongoing Abstract Painting classes at Toscana Gallery on Wednesdays from 10am - 1pm starting September 14.

 

Lisa Mishler's work will be showcased at Flux Gallery  with an opening night on November 18,

5-8pm and an open house on Saturday, November 19, 10am-3pm.

 

Vanessa Dearing's work is included in the current show at Tohono Chul Park, "Art Journaling," which will continue through November 14. 

 

Marti White has two collages accepted into TCA's Miniature Show, Generations 2 and 3.  The exhibit dates are November 18, 2011 - January 2, 2012 with a reception on Friday, November 18, 2011, 5-7pm. 

 

Sandy Brittain's painting, Natural Surroundings, and Carol Chambers painting, Run Silent, will be included in Tubac Center of the Arts Members' Juried Exhibit, November 18, 2011 - January 2, 2012, reception on November 18, 2011, 5-7pm.

 

Miriam Otte will be participating in the Fall Open Studios. Miriam is located in the Northwest part of the metro area and invites you to drop in and say "hi."

 

JoAnne Hungate has six watercolor monotypes on display in the Studio Gallery at TCA from October 14 to November 12. Marti White has four paintings in the Studio Gallery during the same time period. This coincides with "Working with Paper."

 

JoAnne Hungate will be participating in the Open Studio on November 12 and 13 from 11am to 5pm at her studio in Many Hands Courtyard at 3054 N. First Avenue, #9. This is between Ft. Lowell and Glenn on the east side of the street.
 

Blue Raven Gallery and Gifts new show, "Fins, Fur, Feathers and Scales" will feature work by Sandy Brittain, Jo Ann Daly, Carolyn Quarnberg and Marti White. The opening reception is November 12 from 3-6pm. The show runs through January 14, 2012.

 
New member, Karen Samson, will be participating in the Tucson Museum of Art Holiday Art and Craft Fair on November 18,19 & 20, 10am - 6pm. Stop by Booth #90 (across from the Museum store, inside) and see the mixed media paintings and fiberart she will be showing.

 

Go to the Online Richeson 75 "Animals, Birds and Wildlife" show (Richeson Gallery, Wisconsin) at www.richeson75.com/wildlife/index/html and vote for Leslie Sinclair's beautiful watercolor painting, Ringneck Duck.

 

Pat Duncan will have five paintings in the new Desert Artisans Gallery show, "Expressions in Art," opening November 15. The gallery is open 7 days a week and is located at 6536 Tanque Verde. There will be a reception November 18, 5-7pm.

 

  

Holiday Cards Instructions

The cards for the children's packets will be made before our December meeting. We ask that each CASA member donate $5.00 toward the purchase of the items that go into the activity packets. You can do this at the November or December meeting. Please give (or mail) your donations to the treasurer, Miriam Otte. Card stock will be available at the November meeting.  Please bring them finished to the December meeting. Since an 81/2" x 11" card stock cut in half makes two cards, it is hoped that everyone will make two cards - one for the activity packet and one for the meal tray on Christmas Day. 
 
1. Please leave inside of the card blank. We have a verse and CASA sticker to go inside.
2. Sign your name on the front or very back of the cards.
3. No buttons, candy, glitter (gel glitter OK) or other items that can be ingested or get into the bedding.
4. Only 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards will be accepted. Please align them horizontally.
5. Please - no digitals. Cards are to be secular. No religious themes.
6. Envelopes are not needed
7. Keep in mind the packets are for children ages 3 and up.
 
Thank you for your assistance with this project. This is good exposure for CASA and for you as everyone who comes into the child's room sees the cards. For the past 17 years CASA has provided this project to children hospitalized over the holidays. This project helps us maintain our status as a non-profit. 
 
If you cannot make the December meeting, please mail your cards to Bernita Brisson, 2121 S. Pantano Rd. #180, Tucson, AZ 85710-6118, before the December meeting.
 
A sample packet will be shown at the November and December meetings. Some materials for card fronts will be available at the November meeting. Suggested materials to use include: scissors, a tacky glue, permanent glue stick, colored pencils, crayons, markers, stickers, stamps, cut outs, collage papers, etc.
 
Have fun with this and help put a smile on a child's face. 
 
Bernita Brisson, Project Chairperson
 
Don't forget to bring your finished cards to the December meeting! 
If you cannot be at the meeting, send your cards to Bernita Brisson, 2121 S. Pantano Rd. #180, Tucson, AZ 85710, by December 2, or send them to the meeting with someone is coming. Questions? Call Bernita at 733-1093.
                                                        

Notes from Francheskaa's Presentation:

Design and Composition Principles 

 

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 downloadable pdf file 

Members Who Have Need of Our Thoughts and Prayers 

  

Marilyn McQuarrie's husband died on November 3. Please remember her with cards and notes. There will be no service at this time. 

  

 

Please send any items for the newsletter to Marti White at martiaz@simplybits.net. The deadline for the January, 2012 newsletter is December 10, 2011.


Marti White

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