“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” Twyla Tharp

JUN 2015

BrushStrokes

Promoting art and art education in the community.

City Lights Art Gallery

The "HOT" days are here again...they make me think about HOT colors—RED being at the top of my list! Would it be fun to create a hot summer or seasonal theme painting or art-work for an exhibit?

Let us know if this idea would interest you, or if you have some better theme ideas to pass along. Your Board, and especially the marketing committee are always look-ing for new opportunities to show and sell our work, and events for the Co-op/Gallery to continue to bring art to our community that will generate revenue for our schol-arship fund. This takes a lot of time and effort by these dedicated members, so come and join us bringing your fresh ideas and some able bodies to help out. Board meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month at 4:30 p.m. and are open to members. If you want to come to the Marketing Committee meeting, please call Chris at the office for the date and time. See you there! Merle Blair, President

Lindsay Klettenberg — Photography Pat Wall — watercolor, acrylic and mixed media Rebecca Balsterholt —Crystal rock sculpture Judianne Greenwood — Patricia Bason— Oil paint and watercolor

Wednesdays-Crepe Bistro

Chris Mazglad is presenting her “SPECTRUM” Exhibit at the Crepe Bistro thru June 3rd, 420 S Rampart & Alta (next to Brio) in Tivoli Village, Summerlin. Mazglad’s artwork spans a broad spectrum, from ab-stracts to landscapes to portraiture. She began working in oil but finds that mixed media generates the most in-teresting results, and abstracts enable special effects for her colors and textures. Join her at 5 p.m. to see the amazing exhibit and taste the specialty crepe of the day. As Marketing Director of City Lights Gallery, Chris is dedi-cated to raising scholarship funds for local art students.

JUNE FEATURED ARTIST

STEVE KILGOUR’S AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Ex-hibit is on display at City Lights Art Gallery during June. Meet the Artist on Flag Day, Sunday, June 14th 1 – 4 pm. Steve Kilgour is a self-taught artist who began painting in No. California in the mid 1980s. His primary medium of choice is oil paint on canvas using a palette knife. He originally started by copying paintings by Van Gogh and other impressionists whose use of bright colors fascinated him. Kilgour has recently broken out to paint more abstract works using drinking straws and wooden coffee stirrers. This has lead to painting wine barrels (currently on display at the Las Vegas Distillery in Hen-derson) and chairs using the vivid colors of the French fauve movement founded in the early 1900s. Born in Manchester, England, Steve left to work over-seas in the construction industry. He has lived in France, Belgium, Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Aruba and Costa Rica before settling in Las Vegas for the last 17 years. Travel-ling extensively for work and vacations has influenced his style as his paintings boast an international flavor. At this time, his artwork is hanging in Europe, Australia, the Car-ibbean and the U.S. Over 30 of his pieces were selected to decorate the high roller suites at the opening of the Paris Hotel. In addition to his art on display at City Lights, he has had a one-man show at the Henderson Multi-Generational Center. He received an award from the Las Vegas Art Show at the Sahara Library and has earned 3 honorable mentions in 2 shows City Lights Gallery.

NEWS AT THE GALLERY

3RD QUARTER GALLERY EXHIBIT

The gallery change out will occur Sat. and Sun. June 27 and 28. Please pick up and or deliver your art. The panel fees are listed below for Q3 July-Sept. The necessary forms and details are on the web site at city-lightsartgallery.com, or call the Gallery at (702) 260-0300.

Fees: $40—Full Panel/Qtr (1,900 sq.”), $20— Half Panel/Qtr (950 sq.”) $10—Gift Shop only

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3RD QUARTER EXHIBIT

Advertising: City Lights is going to advertise in the up-scale magazines Findlay Connections and Findlay Voice in their third quarter issues. These magazines are dis-tributed to past and present Cadillac owners as well as Honda customers. We are reaching out to a broader-base in order to reach a new audience.

Show Director, Ed Klein reported that the Mothers’ Day Show in the Henderson Convention Center had good traffic but mediocre sales. It was discussed in more depth at the marketing committee meeting in an effort to find solutions to this problem. Kudos to Sandy Frael-ich for her invaluable help with set up before the show, working during the show, and clean up after it.

Anne Carter announced that we have gained three new members since April for a total membership of 99.

At Arts & Eats—we raffled three pieces of art donated by Anne Carter, Steve Kilgour and Chris Mazglad.

Raffle winners were excited to take home their prizes. The raffle raised funds for our Scholarship program.

Chris Mazglad proposed that we give three $1,000 scholarships this year and use all the mini grant funds allotted.

Chris Mazglad reported that the city is very interested in developing art classes for at-risk kids to be held in the fall. Karla Rehm, Jan Schaeffer and Derna Wylde have expressed an interest in teaching.

Drawing classes for 4th & 5th graders will be Fridays, June 12, 19, 26 and July 3 by Lois Payne. Please contact Susan LaBuda for more information: 702-561-7551.

Top Women Artists: Chris Mazglad reported that the City of Henderson will support a juried show featuring Top Women Artists in NV, but we need to postpone it until February 2016. A committee is working on this ex-citing event. Stay tuned for more information.

Free summer art workshops for kids, similar to last year, will be in 2016 at the convention center.

Our hard working gallery guru, Ed Klein, who fills in for all jobs not done by other people, is getting a well-deserved hug from two lovely ladies attending the Arts & Eats event— right to left, Faye Tracy and her daugh-ter Jan.

The Gallery Gift Shop will be enlarged to allow for 3-dimensional art pieces. Cards will be put in racks. If anyone wants to help us plan and execute the conver-sion, please let us know ASAP.

GIFT SHOP FACELIFT

Huge THANKS to Derna Wylde who organized a TV spot for City Lights Gallery and Water St renovation that made a great feature piece on Channel 3! It was pre-sented at the Water Street Business District Meeting with great reviews! Thank you, Derna.

CITY LIGHTS ON TV WITH DERNA

Huzzah to Susan LaBuda and her students who painted the art classroom at the Gallery making it look fantas-tic! Thank you for your dedication and service!

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS’ ART

Come see the creative artwork of our award-winning Scholarship students: Catherine Smith, Aimee Perry, and Katy Poole. It’s on display in the Gallery classroom. City Lights distributed three $1,000 scholarships plus 4 mini grants to local schools: Treem and Newton Ele-mentary schools, Basic High, and Coral Academy.

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CITY LIGHTS ACTIVITIES IN MAY

WATERCOLORS

WATERCOLORS

MIXED MEDIA MIXED MEDIA

Reception at City Lights Gallery for JAMES BAKER and our ANNUAL ARTS & EATS on Sunday, May 17th. The weather was nice and everyone enjoyed sitting under the pop-up tents in the shade. The art exhibit was very impressive! Come see the new artist displays in our Gift Shop.

Mary Amick & Jim Champlin with friends at the Crepe Bistro. Come 6/3/15 to see art by Chris Mazglad.

CITY LIGHTS ART GALLERY

3 East Army Street, Henderson, NV 89015 Mailing Address: PO BOX 91314, Henderson, NV 89009-1314 Phone: (702) 260-0300 Email: citylightscoop@centurylink.net Web Site: citylightsartgallery.com Twitter: @CityLights_Gal Facebook: City Lights Art Gallery, Henderson, NV Open: Tues—Sat 10am-4pm; Fri Nite 4-7pm; Sun 12-4pm. Web Masters: Jim Longwell & Chris Mazglad BrushStrokes Editor: Delia Price

Calendar of Events

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2015 * New Dates (Non City Lights Gallery Events)

ART CLASSES AT GALLERY

JUN 3 We Chris Mazglad at Crepe Bistro 5 p.m. 9 Tu Board Meeting—Gallery 10 & 17 We Tommy Domino at Crepe Bistro 5 p.m. 14 Su Steve Kilgour-Featured Artist Recep.

DERNA WYLDE — is introducing sculpting on Thursday, June 4th & June 11th from 1-4 p.m.

BOB O’NEILL — Oil Painting Classes Mondays 10 to 1 p.m. Come see him at work and take his class. Please call Bob at 702-496-2955 or email RobertOneill73@ gmail.com to RSVP for the class.

ED KLEIN — Watercolor/Acrylics/Drawing Classes Ed teaches painting Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. He demonstrates techniques, shares valuable information, and guides the critique session at the end of each class.

Ed’s DRAWING CLASS is Thursdays 9—noon. The focus is on ‘Perspective without Pain” and will move to draw-ing and modeling various, shapes, elements of land-scapes, texture techniques, contour drawing, etc.

JAN SCHAEFFER— Abstract Water Media On Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. you can join Jan in the gallery classroom to explore abstract painting from the best in the Vegas valley! If you’re interested in a particular medium or type of lessons, contact the Gallery and let us know.

It was a beautiful warm day for James Baker’s Artist Reception and the Gallery’s Arts & Eats BBQ on May 17th. Paintings by Chris Mazglad and Steve Kilgour, and a photograph by Anne Carter were raffled to raise mon-ey for the Scholarship fund. It was an enjoyable day getting to know other gallery members and sharing brats, dogs and hamburgers along with special side dishes that members brought. Our chef Dan Mazglad did a superb job at the BBQ. Several art works by James Baker were sold for a very successful day.

ARTS & EATS PARTY

BOULDER CITY GUILD

BCAG LIBRARY ART SHOW – June 5 – July 10, 2015 – Boulder City Library [Judged Art Show] Open to BCAG members, the Library Show is a judged show. Members may submit two pieces of new art (2D) on June 5 th at the library between 11 – noon. Please have gallery title card filled out. Pick up of art will be July 10th at the li-brary between 11 – noon. An Artist’s Reception will be held on June 27th, 11 am – 4 pm, which is open to the public. BC Library is located at 701 Adams Blvd. Contact: Wendy Monahan, 702-401-4290; wendy@wendymonahan.com

JUL 9 Tu Board Meeting—Gallery 18 Sa Greg Palacio-Featured Artist Recep.

A VIDEO FOR CITY LIGHTS

The Production department at Basic High School has made a fabulous video of the art and activities at City Lights Art Gallery for advertising use. Look for it on our web site at citylightsartgallery.com.

OCTOBER JURIED SHOW

As in the past, City Lights Gallery will hold a Juried Show in October 2015. The forms and information will be on the web site in the coming months. The show committee is working on the selection of a judge and dates for the delivery of your art pieces and the take down. Get your entries ready and watch for more information!

AUG 11 Tu Board Meeting—Gallery 16 Su Featured Artist Reception