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President’s Column – March / April 2017 Greetings HAS Members, We have had a great start to our 2017 spring season. Two very interesting demos and workshops that have been very popular, entertaining and informative. And we have 3 more very talented guest artists on the agenda to finish off the season including William Kalwick Jr., Peter Andrews and Lynda Jung. While the end of the 2016 – 2017 HAS season is beginning to come into focus, we have many events still on the docket. Our Spring LSAG compliant open show will be held on Saturday, April 22. Pre-registration for the show ends Monday, April 17 so, you still have plenty of time to start pre-registering for it or completing those masterpieces that you want to compete with. Our annual Spring Lunch-eon will be in early May before our final general meeting on May 16 and the summer LSAG convention will be held in Sugar Land on June 3 and 4. At the February general meeting, we began the process of looking for volunteers to fill positions for the 2017 – 2018 new Board of Directors. All positions are open. Your current Board has many old faces on it and while they are very experienced we need new faces to provide fresh ideas. I have been your president for 4 years and many of the Board members have been in their positions for much longer. We really need new volunteers. The various positions and the roles they entail can be found in your current Yearbook & Directory beginning on page 35. The old Board will not desert you and will remain in various consultive and active capacities but please con-sider volunteering your talents to the new Board. Elec-tions for the new Board will be held at the April General meeting and the Board will begin their duties after the LSAG convention. Please contact April Hadley ([email protected]) with your choice or choices of positions. We are trying out some new things at HAS. At the Febru-ary general meeting, we held it in room 302 where we
were able to televise the demo for better viewing. We haven’t perfected the system yet but it holds promise for those demos that are done flat on the tables. We will continue working on it. We also gave trial runs to being able to take credit cards in addition to checks or cash for workshop payments. We plan to expand this to our shows and membership dues. There will be a small $1 surcharge for using a credit card but you can always pay with a check or cash and not incur the surcharge. If you have some good ideas on how to make HAS better or would like to see HAS do things differently, please contact any current Board member with your ideas. If you know of others who might be interested in joining Hou-ston Art Society encourage them to attend a meeting and see for themselves how we might benefit them. We are always looking to increase membership. Finally, please note the following: Yearbook / Directory Date Correction A mistake has been found in the Calendar of events lo-cated on page 16. All the April dates are wrong so please note the following corrections: The general meeting will be held on April 17 and the workshop will be held on April 24. The Spring Show will be held on Saturday, April 22, set-up on April 21 and pre-registration ends April 17. The correct information and dates can be found on our website. Michael Adams President HAS
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Monday March 20 2017 Memorial Church of Christ ,gymnasium 900 Echo Lane, Board meeting 9AM; General meeting & demo 10AM-1PM Artist: William Kalwick demo on oils. Hostesses: Eric Kirkpatrick, Pat Waughtal, Joe Jewell Monday March 27 2017 Memorial Church of Christ, gymnasium 900 Echo Lane, Workshop 9AM-3PM William Kalwick, oils. Bring your lunch. Monday April 17,2017 Memorial Church of Christ ,gymnasium 900 Echo Lane, Board meeting 9AM; General meeting & demo 10AM-1PM hostesses/hosts TBA Artist: Peter Andrews demo on watercolors. Hosts:
Monday April 24, 2017 Memorial Church . of Christ ,gymnasium 900 Echo Lane. Workshop 9AM-3PM
Artist: William Kalwick, watercolors. Bring your lunch Spring Art Show April 22, Judge : Laurie Humble. More info page 2
Meetings, Demonstrations Workshops
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Workshops Demonstrations Shows 2016-2017
2016 September 19 Demo& Gen. Meet: Artist: Ron Gordon; Acrylic September 26 Workshop Artist: Ron Gordon; Acrylic October 17 Demo & Gen. Meet: Artist: Bruce Williamson; Oil October 24 Workshop: Artist: Bruce Williamson; Oil NOVEMBER 19 FALL OPEN SHOW ;Judge, Linda Delandre November 18 Show set up November 21 Demo & Gen. Meet: Artist: Tina Szajko; Portraits in watercolor
No workshop December 12 Christmas Luncheon Bistro Le Cep Merilyn Hully Hospitality December 19 Demo & Gen. Meet: Artist: Carol Rensink; Drawing No workshop 2017 January 16 Demo& Gen. Meet: Artist: Carolyn Ratliff; Pastel January 23 Workshop: Artist: Carolyn Ratliff; Pastel February 20 Demo & Gen. Meet.: Artist: Maureen Seeba; working with copper February 27 Workshop: Artist: Maureen Seeba; working with copper March 20 Demo & Gen. Meet.: William Kalwick,Jr.; Oil March 27 Workshop: Artist: William Kalwick,Jr.; Oil April 17 Demo & Gen. Meet.: Artist: Peter Andrew; watercolor April 24 Workshop: Artist: Peter Andrew; Watercolor May 15 Demo & Gen. Meet.: Artist: Lynda Jung; watercolor on Yupo APRIL 22 HAS SPRING OPEN JUDGED SHOW LSAG SPRING PRESIDENT’S MEETING HAS will host the meeting. May Spring Luncheon TBA
“Art is not what you see but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas
HAS Meeting Place
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HAS and LSAG NEWS
The General Meeting will be at 900 Echo Lane, gymnasium classroom at the back of the Memorial Church of Christ building. The workshops will be at the same address and in gymnasium as well.
There is a large parking lot behind the building with plenty of parking space. . The location is just off I-10 at Echo/Blalock and is on the left side of the street directly across form Memorial High
School.
HOSPITALITY Volunteers are needed to serve as hosts/hostesses. Please contact Merilyn Hully 281 497 1802;[email protected] Light snacks, cookies, paper products, water. Bring whatever you are capable of bringing, it doesn’t have to be fancy or gourmet just something light that members & guests can nibble on. Any restaurant suggestions for our Spring luncheon? contact Merilyn with ideas
.LSAG Blog http://lsag.blogspot.com. Please go there to read the latest news. If you would like to post announcements on the LSAG blog please send to [email protected] • The subject line of your email becomes the TITLE of your blog post. The body of your email be-comes the BODY of the blog post. New art show level proposals can be found at end of newsletter.
Pictures in .jpg, .gif or.png format should be ATTACHED (not included inside the body) to the email.
Please allow yourself a minimum of two weeks for your announcement to become a blog post and for our members to receive their announcement to view it. Contact: Jeanne Matthews [email protected] 281-330-3827 The announcement will now include tabs entitled “Events by Month” and “Events by Organization "will be found on the left hand side of the blog. The blog can be found at www.lsag.blogspot.com You will also notice tabs at the top of the blog page.
SPRING Art SHOW Saturday, April 22 Set-up Friday, April 21. Pre-registration for the show ends Monday, April 17. By-laws and exhibit rules page 8 The board is looking for volunteers to help out with the running of HAS. We need fresh ideas and people. The current board will assist in any way. Its fun and you will be helping to keep our wonderful club going.
Contact Mike Adams or April Hadley if you can help. All positions are open. We need you !!!
f you have not sent in your membership please do so or you will be dropped from future correspond-ence. Ken Breaux, membership director, at 11611 Wickhollow, Houston, TX 77043. Membership form at back of newsletter. $30.;$35. news via postal mail & $5. for school students. Membership total as of Febru-ary is 87. 10 Lifetime members Please don’t forget to send in any Sunshine & Shadows news.
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April Guest Artist Peter Andrew
Watercolor Peter Andrew teaches workshops at locations all across America. Andrew shares his passion and knowledge about color and design with enthusiasm ! His goal is to energize his students by working with them in a creative and dynam-ic hands-on studio session.
An artist and an educator, Peter Andrew has exhibited his artwork in over fifty one-man and two –hundred group
shows including three Presidential Inaugurals by invitation of the Texas State Socie-ty. A Fulbright Fellow and an artist member of the New York Society of Illustra-tors. Peter Andrew is a working artist with the Liquitex Acrylics Outreach Program. In addition to offering private workshops, Peter Andrew is a professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nagodoches,Texas.
Andrew attended the Rhode Island School of Design, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and has worked in the Barnstone Studios and with artists Wolf Kahn and Stanley Philips.
March Guest Artist William Kalwick Oils
William Kalwick, Jr. art was greatly influenced by his late father who had studied with Lajos Markos, a prominent portrait painter. Kalwick studied with his father until grad-uating. He then attended the Arts Student League of New York. In 1981 Kalwick moved to Houston to be-come the protégé of Lajos Markos. The two made nu-merous trips to Europe where Kalwick experienced Ita-ly's long tradition of powerful images. Kalwick was quot-ed in Focus/Santa Fe magazine as saying “ I started with a strong European influence, and now I see my style changing.” Kalwick is known for his Mexican mar-ket scenes, figurative and portraits. William Kalwick’s art is exhibited in north America and Europe.
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Newsletter Info:
If you want to SEND ME INFO for the newsletter, CHANGE your email/mail address or status, or CONTACT me
for any reason, I can be reached at: Email: [email protected] (Please put “HAS NEWSLETTER” in the
subject line.), Phone: 713-461-9314
HAS Officers & Board of Directors for 2016 -2017
President Michael Adams 281-851-3167 [email protected]
1st Vice President Sandra Upshaw 713-449-5913 [email protected]
2nd Vice President Sally Hoyt 713-468-0516 [email protected]
Secretary April Hadley 281-222-5912 [email protected]
Treasurer Walt Frost 832-328-5738 [email protected]
Membership Director Kenneth Breaux 281-496-5028 kenneth.breaux @sbcglobal.net
Newsletter Editor Darleen Christiansen 713-461-9314 [email protected]
Yearbook Director M.Adams; Christiansen 281-851-3167
713-461-9314
Show Director Sally Hoyt 713-468-0516 [email protected]
Hospitality Director Merilyn Hully 281-497-1802 [email protected]
Community Service Luiza Grandchamp 713-398-4121 [email protected]
Web Site Director Eric Kirkpatrick 281-830-4327 [email protected]
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THE LSAG ARTIST’S DATABASE – MANAGING YOUR ARTIST PROFILE – by Michael Adams The Lone Star Art Guild has a very nice website which I encourage everyone to take a look at. They have been making significant improvements to the website over this last summer and one improvement is the “Artist’s Database”. This has existed in the past and if you attended the summer LSAG convention you made use of this database when you registered for the convention and show. LSAG and several of the member clubs are using the database to facilitate pre-registrations for their judged shows. In fact several of the bigger clubs in the future will require you to pre-register for their show using the LSAG database and will not accept walk-ins or other forms of registration. Walk-ins at shows have always been a part of the Houston Art Society and we do not anticipate any change to that policy in the future. However, if we can make better use of the database for our pre-registrations this will greatly cut down on the work taking in the art the day of the show and entering winners into the LSAG database after a show. So it is important for you not only to understand how the system works to help make Houston Art Society shows run smoother but also, if you wish to enter other club’s shows you may be required to use the database. Please note: if you had paintings in any of our shows last year or attended the LSAG July convention then your artist’s profile has already been input into the LSAG database and if you had paintings in our HAS fall show on October 5 your works are also in the da-tabase whether you won a ribbon or not. So following are some simple instructions:
Log on to the Lone Star Art Guild website: www.lonestarartguild.org On the left hand column in blue click on the button “Show Database for Show Entry” If you have previously registered with LSAG then type in your email address and your password If you forgot your password click on the “Forgot Password” link and follow the instructions If you have never registered with LSAG or did not enter any artwork into the HAS fall show, then contact
me with the following information and I will get you registered and with a temporary password which you can change later. I will need your name, address, phone number, email, and the division (i.e. pro-fessional. semi-professional etc.) you participate in.
You are now logged in. Go to profile and confirm your details. This is where you can also change your password. Once you are satisfied click on the “Save Profile” button.
If you click on the “View Artwork” link after your name you will see all artwork that was entered into the HAS Oct. show. If you did not enter any artwork then there will be nothing to see.
When you have new artwork that you think you may want to enter into the HAS spring 2014 show or that you might want to enter into some other club’s show, then click the “Add New Artwork” button.
You will need to input the title, the category (category A or B or C etc.), the medium (oil, acrylic, WC, pas-tel etc.), the price if you wish to sell it or “NFS” if not, the dimensions (in whole inches and for all hang-ing art put 1 inch in the depth space, for 3-D art then whatever the proper 3 dimensions are)
Once you are satisfied with your input push the “Save Artwork” button Repeat process for each additional new piece of art Logout when finished
The future goal of the database is once you have art entered all you will need to do to pre-register for a show is to select a show from the “Show’s” button and click on what pieces of art you want to enter. Art will remain in your profile for up to 2 years or be deleted if you win a ribbon at the LSAG convention. When you arrive at the show on take-in day then all you will need is your artwork and a check. The HAS show registrar will have been able to print out all the labels for the paintings you enter thus at check-in you only need present your check and tape the pre-printed labels to your paintings. This process is being finalized now and when in better working order I will write another article on how to use it and how HAS will use it. For those of you with no emails, or for those of you who still prefer the old fashioned paper pre-registration method HAS will continue to honor that. Also, if you decide you want to enter our spring show the day of the show we will still accommodate all walk-ins. But I encourage everyone who does have access to the internet to please use the LSAG database whenever you finish a piece of art that you think you may but are never re-quired, to enter into a future show. It should make all our lives easier in the future.
