Rockbridge Art Guild Bulletin

 

March-April 2008

 

Next General Meeting

Monday, March 10

Piovano Room, Rockbridge Regional Library, 7:30pm

Member Suzanne La Prade will give a talk and demonstration on portraiture.

 

Web Master Report

www.rockbridgeartsguild.com – Jim Tichenor keeps this site up to date.  Please let Jin know how the web site is of help to you and your art.

 

LAST CALL FOR DUES FOR 2008

Dues for 2008 were payable in January.  Individual $20, Family $25, Student, $10.  This is the last newsletter that will be sent to those who have not paid dues for 2008.   Discounts on future events and entry fees for art shows will have to be paid as non-member.  Check with our Treasurer, Ann Peel, if you are not sure if you have paid.  Please mail your check to:  RAG, Attn:  Membership, P.O. Box 747, Lexington, VA 24450.

 

 

EXHIBITS

v     Rockbridge Arts Guild members Sue McCoy, Eleanor Penn, Evan Atkins, and Marilyn Pearson are exhibiting at the Rockbridge Community Services Center through March.  The art works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel and encaustic are exhibited in the Main Lobby of the Center and in the RACS Board Room. 

 

Marissa Turpin confirmed with Marilyn Pearson that the Rockbridge Community Services Center Board approved RAG to be in charge of securing exhibitors for RACS.   Please contact Mary Ann Triplett and let her know when you will be available to hang works.

 

v     Feb-March Bruce Detlefsen will exhibit his photographs at the Bank of Botetourt.

 

v     March 5th, those who participated in the SVAC exhibit should pick up their work at Marilyn Pearson’s home between 2-5. 

 

 

v     April 1-May 31 Bank of Botetourt in Lexington – This space is available for exhibition – Please contact Sue McCoy for details.

 

 

 

MEMBER NEWS:

o         Maxine and Dean Foster have moved to an assisted living facility in Staunton.   Here is their new address:

BALDWIN PARK

31 W00DLEE RD..APT 308

STAUNT0N VA 24401

540-885-1441

 

 

If you have any member news for the bulletin please send it to Ellen Martin martinphoto@ntelos.net print-ready to be included in the next bulletin.

 

 

Classes:               

·        Interested in joining the Life Drawing group once a month in the basement of the Mayflower in Lexington?  Please call Marilyn Pearson, 463-5774.  The next life drawing get together will be Wednesday, March 19th.

 

·        Saturday, April 12th  - All-day watercolor workshop. 9:00-4:00 PM, BARNEY BROWN’S STUDIO.  The workshop will be limited to reasonable size group, so that everyone will have an opportunity to work with the instructor.   Participants must sign up by March 21st.  See attached for details.   Info and Registration for the Workshop is at the end of this newsletter.

 

 

 

In February Lois Crewdson gave an inspiring talk and demo of her painting technique.  Members eagerly participated in the demo.         THANK YOU LOIS!!

 

 

 

RAG GENERAL MEETING APRIL 14TH

7:30 PM, PIOVANO ROOM, ROCKBRIDGE REGIONAL LIBRARY

 

Members will bring art works they produced at the April 12th workshop for membership critique.

 

 

 

The following was sent to us from Roy and  Pauline Patteson 

 

Any artists interested in exhibiting at the Summit Square Retirement Center in Waynesboro, Va should contact Pauline Patteson at (540) 437-8739 or e-mail her at Lemjajo@ntelos.net.     The Gallery is adjacent to the Dining Room which is used by business groups as well as the residents and family members.  The Gallelry is 47'x22'  and allows for hanging of about 20 works of art; therefore more than one artist may exhibit in one show.  Groups are accepted, also.  Each exhibit hangs for a two-month period. 

 

 

They’ve stepped up to the plate!

Thank you goes out to Alice Williams who has agreed to chair the Fair Show for 2008 with Anna Bangley as Registrar. 

 

 

This is a March-April newsletter but it isn’t too early to be thinking of MAY 3RD. 

Art on the Green, that is Hopkins Green will be May 3rd.  Details on registration will be coming out in the next week. 

START PAINTING, SCULPTING, THROWING POTS, TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS, ENCAUSTIC (HUM, IN THE HEAT?), WEAVING……!!! 

 

 

New Law on Art Donations

Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) is sponsoring the Artist-Museum Partnership Act, which would allow artists to file tax deductions for the market value of works they donate to non-profits. Leahy told Robert Siegel on NPR 29 February, artists are currently able to deduct only the value of the materials used. The measure has passed the Senate more than once in the past several years, but it still hasn't become law.

 S. 372 [109th]: Artist-Museum Partnership Act  A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction equal to fair market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of literacy, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor.

 


 

 

Rockbridge Arts Guild Calendar of Events January- July 2008

Month

Day

Event

Coordinator/Program

Topic/Place

Feb-March

 

Bruce Detlefsen photography

Sue McCoy

 Bank of Botetourt

Mar

5

Pick up SVAC exhibit work at Marilyn Pearson's home between 2-5

 

 

Mar

10

RAG general meeting; 7:30

 

Suzanne LaPrade to give a talk and demonstration on portraiture, Piovano Room, Library, Lexington

April-May

 

-no one scheduled-

Sue McCoy

Bank of Botetourt

April-continuing

 

Rockbridge Community Services Center

Mary Ann Triplett

Please contact Mary Ann to let her know when you can hang work.

April

12

RAG member workshop 9-4

Joyce Fraley

Barney Brown studio

April

14

RAG general meeting, 7:30

 

Members will bring art work from April 12th workshop. Piovano room, Library, Lexington.

May

3

Art at Hopkins Green 9-4

Mary Ann Triplett

Hopkins Green

May

12

RAG general meeting, 7:30

 

Members will bring works to the meeting for Roy Rudasill to critique, Piovano room Library, Lexington

June-July

 

Jim Tichenor works of art

Sue McCoy

Bank of Botetourt

July

 

FAIR

Alice Williams

 Horse Center

 

 

Presented by

Rockbridge Art Guild

April Watercolor Workshop

 

Artist Solly Blank will conduct a watercolor workshop from 9:30 to 4:30 on Saturday and Sunday April 12 and 13th at South River Highlands on Highland Farm Road, between Lexington and Buena Vista.  The cost of the workshop for members is $85 for the weekend.  The workshop will emphasize the development of a personal style.  Artists my work on projects of their own choosing from photographs or be inspired by the rustic beauty of their surroundings.  There will be demonstrations, discussions, individual and group critiques.

Solly Blank

I grew up in Heidelberg, Germany and moved to Lynchburg, Va. in 1977.

I always admired and loved Art, especially, watercolor.  I started taking classes and workshops with many different wonderful instructors, who had a great deal of influence on the way I paint.  The last two years I have been teaching watercolor classes at the Lynchburg Art Club and the Lynchburg Academy of Fine Arts.  This has been a very inspiring experience.

Besides landscapes, flowers, animals, etc. my favorite subject is people.

I just love to paint!

 


Registration 

Name____________________________________________________

Address__________________________________________________

e-mail address_____________________________________________

Telephone number___________________________________________

Mail this information along with a check for $85 by March 21st to Joyce Fraley, 381 Mt. Vista Drive, Lexington, VA 24450

If you have questions e-mail: joycefraley@comcast.net or call 463-5604

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