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August 2010

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

1 Letter from the President

1 Round Table News

3 Featured Famous Artist: Nestor Martinez

5 Ybor City Saturday Market – Policy

6 Contest, Calendar of Events & More

Letter from the President

Dear Members & Friends:

Welcome to the August issue of “Los CHAmigos y Las CHAmigas.” CHA exhibitions are approaching and will be in full swing during the celebration of our Hispanic heritage in the Tampa Regional Area. We are all looking forward to your works of art--the products of your hard work and inspiration. Invitations continue to come our way. We received a new invitation from The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery in Melbourne, Florida! Looks like CHA is on the map. However, not all invitations seek to feature CHA artists exclusively. Even though public calls to artists are posted online, you can decide to participate in any of these calls or not. CHA hopes you will put our shows on your calendar as first choice. (continued on page 2)

Round Table News

In the way of background, CHA held its first Round Table on June 8, 2010. It is planned that this will be one of two Round Tables to be conducted each fiscal year. Several concerns were addressed in the issue of July 2010. This issue will address two more:

Monthly meetings with all members for workshops, networking, and show-and tell.

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Continuation—Letter from the President

CHA members need to be ready to meet the challenges. Are you ready? Please feel free to participate in any of the calls from non-sponsored art shows; but please reserve artwork for your CHA-sponsored art shows!

Damaris President

Continuation—Round Table News There are too many e-mail messages, causing confusion on an event.

With regards to monthly meetings, CHA is very interested in conducting such meetings. However, we need more participation from the membership to take the lead to organize such monthly meetings. At present, the resources of the Board of Directors is limited; and the Board is seeking to address this problem in the near future. New blood is needed to make things happen

This will require that the Board of Directors meet twice a month especially if the monthly business meeting of the Board of Directors cannot be conducted before the monthly meeting of the members. That is the first problem. Board meetings tend to last for three hours on average.

The second situation is coordinating the site, not to mention finding a site that would allow us to schedule the meeting at the same time and day without too much interference. We believe the facilities used at the Town N’ Country Center was adequate for our Round Table on June 8 and appears to be centrally located for the majority of the members. We, however, need someone to take charge of organizing this.

If you have any ideas or recommendations, please send us an e-mail at cha.hispana@yahoo.com.

We agree there are too many e-mails. As Webmaster, I am partial to generating all e-mails from our social network at http://art-cha.com. Some habits are hard to change, and we are working on it. Recently, we issued a Call to Artists for the PHCC art show, BLUE. No matter how carefully we planned from our end, we were surprised that we had another form being required by the Library at PHCC. That request was sent to us on July 29, 2010, well after we made the call. Such things happen—coordination, as is communication, is an art that not all can master at all times. Our apologies for any inconveniences. We will make every effort to send out Calls when we have complete information. However, there will be times when a call may be time sensitive—not all the information is available, but the time limitations are short to work with.

Are you interested in a solo show?

Stay tuned.

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Featured Member Artist of the Month— Nestor Martinez

Nestor Martinez was born in Colombia. He

began his work in the fine arts in 1966 when he enrolled in the National University of Colombia. Throughout the years, he worked as a draftman and art illustrator for several well-known advertising agencies such as Propaganda Sancho (BBDO) and McCann-Erickson Corporation. Followed by that, he forged a career as an architect in his native country. Meanwhile, he worked as a cartoonist for three years, creating animated cartoons for the cartoon industry.

He moved to Tampa in February 2005. He began to work as a full-time artist when he landed a job as a professional painter for Rainbow Arts & Design. His work tends to be influenced by realism. Nestor says that most of his influence is found in nature and in his love for horses. He enjoys working with all mediums and textures. He brings the textures of nature into his works.

Famous Artists— Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his

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work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) andGuernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune throughout his life, making him one of the best-known figures in twentieth century art. Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.[45] At the time of his death many of his paintings were in his possession, as he had kept off the art market what he didn’t need to sell. In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works. Since Picasso left no will, his death duties (estate tax) to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection. These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Muse Picéasso in Paris. In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Málaga. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona features many of Picasso’s early works, created while he was living in Spain, including many rarely seen works which reveal Picasso’s firm grounding in classical techniques. The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under

his father’s tutelage, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, Picasso’s close friend and personal secretary. Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. Garçon à la pipe sold for US$104

million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004, establishing a new price record. Dora Maar au Chat sold for US$95.2 million at Sotheby’s on 3 May 2006.[46] On 4 May 2010, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold at Christie's for $106.5 million. The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009. Christie's won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby's. The collection as a whole was valued at over $150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $80 million at auction.[47] There were more than half a dozen bidders, while the winning bid was taken via telephone.[48][49] The previous auction record ($104.3 million) was set in February 2010, by Alberto Giacometti's Walking Man I.[

As of 2004, Picasso remains the top ranked artist (based on sales of his works at auctions) according to the Art Market Trends report.[51] More of his paintings have been stolen than those by any other artist.

Picasso is the world's most stolen artist, the Art Loss Register has 550 of his works listed as missing. The Picasso Administration functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for the Picasso Administration is the Artists Rights Society.

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Ybor City Saturday Market

IMPORANT NOTICE: There are two large festivals coming up soon. Reserve your space now! CHA plans to reserve three tents for these events.

o Saturday, September 11, 2010

Festival del Sabor, Hispanic Heritage Kick-off!

o Saturday, November 20, 2010

Ybor City Heritage and Cigar Festival, hosted by the Ybor City Museum Society

September 11th

See page 8 for application form.

How to Participate in the Ybor City Saturday Market

To participate at the Ybor City Saturday Market,

there are certain rules that must be followed:

1. Set up must be timely as dictated by the rules of

the Committee of the Ybor City Saturday Market.

No one can set up after the designated times.

Vendor installation is to be no later than 8:00 a.m.

Participants at vendor installation is to be no later

than 9:00 a.m. Anything after 9:00 a.m. will not be

accepted.

2. All artwork must be the works of members of

CHA. In other words, a member cannot sell

artwork that is not made by him or her or any resale

merchandise. According to the YCSM committee,

only had-crafted creations by artists are to be

exhibited.

3. According to Hillsborough County ordinance

governing public places, no religious or political art

can be displayed.

4. The tent needs to be attended all the times.

CHA is not responsible for the merchandise left

unattended.

Please do not put the principal organizer in a

position of having to ask you to leave.

There are no exceptions to the above rules.

Interested members are asked to commit and secure

a space on a given Saturday two weeks in advance.

CHA provides the following for the main tent: two

table, tablecloths, two chairs, and two racks. We

recommend that the tent be limited to no more than

two artists at a time.

On special events, CHA will arrange to rent other

tents as needed. To learn about days of special

events, visit the Ybor City web site,

http://www.ybormarket.com.

The fee to participate is as follows:

$10 for access to have the tent

$20 for the entire tent

The fee is non-refundable.

See the application form on page 7 below.

Notify the contact person(s) by e-mail and mail the

payment to—

CHA YCSM, c/o The Negrons, 10619 Fairfield Village,

Tampa, FL 33624-5080

Contact information:

Agustin Negron, red51nv@yahoo.com 813.298.9958

Mag

Magdalena Matias, Magdalena.matias@yahoo.com,

813.300.1635

Rules of the YCSM Committee: Set up is at 7:30 to 8:15

a.m. (If this is not followed, CHA could forfeit its space.)

Breakdown cannot be before the closing of the Saturday

Market.

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Location: Centennial Park (corner of 8th

Avenue and 19th

Street, Tampa, Florida)

Calendar of Events

Stay posted. There are a lot of events coming down the pike. Go to http://art-cha.com to download the application forms and the indemnity agreement(s).

CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE IN TAMPA

BAY

o Host: MOSI

o Exhibition: Dwellscape

o Wednesday, October 5 – October 28, 2010

o Reception: None.

o Application deadline date: August 25, 2010

o Host: Pasco-Hernando Community College

o Exhibition: Blue

o Wednesday, September 28 – Monday, November 8,

2010

o Reception: Thursday, September 30, 2010

3:00 – 7:00 p.m

o Application deadline date: August 20,. 2010

Don’t forget to participate in

Contest: Give Our Newsletter a New Name Submit Name(s) on or before September 6. 2010 to cha.hispana@yahoo.com. Submit as many names as you want

Winning name and artist will be announced on September

30, 2010, at the PHCC reception of “Blue”

Solo Art Show is being planned for October 2010. If the

proprietor of a local restaurant agrees to certain terms, we

will be issuing a prospectus on how to participate. This will

be a juried show. Hopefully, the call with be done on a

quarterly basis, and three artists will be assigned to show on

a given month. Though current members will have first

choice, CHA plans to provide access to a solo to prior

members as a measure to bring them back to CHA. They

will have to pay, of course, a higher application fee than the

current members.

NOTE: Applications and Indemnity Agreements If the required indemnity agreement does not accompany the application, the art will NOT be exhibited. The only time there is an exception to this rule is if there is still time to make an application whole before the art is delivered for hanging or display. Please do not put CHA in the position of rejecting the artwork. There will be NO exceptions. If you need an indemnity form, you are to call Magdalena Negron Matias for a copy in advance of the deadline date of the application.

ADVERTISING

Consider promoting your business or activities here. The advertising rates per month are as follows: Standard business card $20.00

¼ page $35.00

½ page $50.00

Full page $95.00

Please contact the Advertising Editor for additional information and arrangements.

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Brining Family & Friends Together

3002 Price Ave

Tampa FL 33611 813-831-3730

Toll Free: 877 -FLA-2981 Email: habitat1@gmail.com

Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Damaris Soto-Frassica Managing & Page Editor Armida Nagy Stickney Editor / Translator Luz Pennington and Alcira Levy Advertising Editor Photographer Diana Posada Feel free to contact us at cha.hispana@yahoo.com and make reference to this announcement.

To contribute articles for consideration, please e-mail them to cha.hispana@yahoo.com

CHA is looking for columnists, a news assistant, photographers, editorial assistants

MISSION STATEMENT

The Mission of the Coalition of Hispanic Artists (CHA) is to serve Hispanic artists of the greater Tampa Bay area and of the State of Florida by providing a voice for their artistry in various mediums and cultural genres, showcasing their works, providing grounds for interaction between artists and art viewers through education, group and solo exhibitions, and invitations. In so doing, it seeks to inspire creativity, celebrate diversity, and empower the artists of Hispanic cultural heritage to realize their potential by making a positive impact within their homes, their community, and the world at large.

By promoting the arts, CHA supports artists of various cultures and across various artistic disciplines, such as performing arts, visual and fine arts, crafts, media and digital arts, literary arts, interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary arts, and creative design.

MOTTO Celebrating the Diversity of Hispanic Artistry and Providing Access to All

VISION STATEMENT—OUR EXPERIENCE We contribute and give back unconditionally to the community of artists and art lovers fully aware that, when our gifts of talents are partnered together, our purpose is enriched and our mission happens.

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RESERVATION FORM FOR YBOR CITY SATURDAY MARKET

Mail two weeks in advance of event – The Negrons, 10619 Fairfield Lane, Fairfield Village, Tampa, FL

33624

Name _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Phone No.____________________________ E-mail _________________________________________________________ Type of Product(s) Art/Craft ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday (1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice _______________/_______________ /_______________ Payment: $_______________ Check No._______________ or Cash $_____________

$10.00 (for shared tent); $20 (full tent)

Call in advance— Agustin Negron (813) 298-9958 Magdalena Matias (813) 300-1635 Manuel Portales (813) 770-0057

The Coalition of Hispanic Artists, Inc.

Post Office Box 15234

Tampa, FL 33684-2324

A non-profit organization

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED