MAS October News

Happy Autumn MAS Artists   MAS still has a few more events planned for this year before 2011.    Bauer Farm Family Festival- I hope you come out this Saturday, October 16 from 11 - 3 for the Bauer Farm Family Festival off of Hunter Trail in Madison. Our plein air painters will be displaying their painting of Bauer Park and painting on site.  There will be lots of fun things for the family to do too. No rain date.   Elected Artists Holiday Small Artworks at the Peoples Bank .  Peoples Bank has invited us to exhibit our Elected Artists Small Artworks Holiday  Show ( 6X8 inch painting or smaller in any size  frame) again  this November and December. Over half of our membership are elected artists.  To become an Elected Artist, you must be an active member prior to the show and be accepted into two juried shows within a five year period of time.  All work must be wired to hang.  Notify Sara Drought Nebel if you plan to show your work so she can plan the exhibit space.  You can email her @ saranebel@yahoo.com or call her at : 203-245-6081 and then bring the work to Peoples Bank-Madison, on Monday, November 1st, between 9-9:30 am. She will have tags to fill out and tape onto the back of the piece for catalog/price list/identification purposes. For questions, call or email her! The show will run from Nov. 1st til thru New Year's Day. Pick up day to be announced.   Dues- The Board has started planning MAS events for next year. Most importantly, while everything else is going up in prices, we decided not to change our dues - they will remain steady at $25.  Our financial year is January through December.  The donations for demonstrations has allowed us to expand the number of demonstrations we provide to our members and to keep our dues the same for the year. Remember that you must be an active member to show your work in our Member Show - February and to sign up for the Winter Studio. Our address is MAS, Post Office Box 1383, Madison, CT 06443.    MAS Member Show is in February and we are so pleased that Diane Stone and Maryanne Rupp will co-chair the event. We have filled almost all of the spots except for sitting the show and refreshments.  Frank Federiccio will do our critique session.  We still need a coordinator or co-coordinators for the the Juried Show in May.  There are always enough members willing to help on the sub committees, but we need a chairperson to coordinate the events. Let me know if you are willing to chair the show and the outdoor shows.   Plein air painting- Yes- we are still painting outdoors on Wednesdays.   Winter Studio - The Winter Studio will be held at St. Andrews Church in Madison for ten weeks on Mondays starting January 4 from 9 - 3 p.m. (includes weekly critiques by the artists).  Two still life setups will be available each week for the artists to paint or you could work on your own artwork.  We have a class limit of twenty members.  Please send your check for $80 to Beverly Schirmeier, 76 Malabar Drive, Westbrook, Ct 06498.  First come first served - so send me the checks ASAP.  I will return any check if we get over twenty artists.  Artists in the News     Madison Art Society Town Hall Artists for the Months of September and October are Rosemary Serfillippi and Roseanne Berlutti.  If you are itnerested in showing your work, contact either Ellen Fabian or Patricia Seakamp.   Stuart Lerner Sculpture Gallery showcases his sculptures in his gallery located at 22 Scotland Ave., Madison    Jay Babina will be the artist for October at the Guilford Library.  Jay will have an open house reception on Saturday, October 16, 2 - 4 p.m..   Renni Ridgeway paintings are on display in Connecticut River Artisans in Chester. Beverly Schirmeier will have her art work on display at the Emerald Isle Gallery, Clinton  in October (October 14 to November 20) with an Opening Art Reception scheduled for Sunday, October 17 from 2 - 4:30 p.m.  Her art will also be on display for the month of October until mid-November at the Acton Library in Old Saybrook   The Conencticut Pastel Juried Renaissance Show in Waterbury at the Mattatuck Art Museum  this October will feature the pastels of Laurel Friedman, Emily Bett, Diana Rogers and Maryanne Rupp.  Congratulations to them.    Linda Loen is the artist of the month of October at the Guilford Town Hall.   Lorene Sholl will be the artist for the months of October and November at the Liberty Bank in Clinton.   Blair and Laurie Pessemier will showcase their Elysee Collection for the month of October at the International Furniture Market at High Point North Carolina.   Six MAS and CAS artists are currently participating in group art show at the Westbrook Senior Center at the Westbrook Town Hall for the month of October.  They are Karen Wiesner, Joanne McCarty, Elizabeth Shea, Maryanne Rupp, Pat Gedney , and Beverly Schirmeier.  They will donate 15% of sales to the senior center.   Many MAS members are in the new Landscape show at the Lyme Art Association.    John Tubbs and Suzanne Burnham have their paintings on display in July at  Malone's Coffee House, Clinton this Fall.    Denise Casey is the artist for the month of October at the People’s Bank, Madison. Gallery One, Old Saybrook has several of our artist's work on display, Nile Barrett, Diana Rogers, and Mike Boyd.  The View Gallery in Madison also showcase some of our member's work like Jay Babina.     A new  Collective Art Gallery, Maple and Main in Chester will have their official opening on October 21 in downtown Chester.  Eight of our members have joined the art co-op of over 30 artists ( Jan Blencowe, Nan Iselin, Diane Aesheliman, Sara Drought Nebel, Jennifer Holmes, Joan Cole, Rosemary Berlutti, and Barbara Rossitto). They will will have an art gallery to showcase their art, conducting demos,  and they plan on teaching art classes in the future.   Jan Blencowe will be offering a two part Marketing Your Art Seminar.  Interested in her class - contact Maple and Main, 860-526-6065 or mapleandmain@att.net   Gloria Nilsson and Joan Hammeal's art work is on display at Simply Pearls at Waters Edge Resort, Westbrook.   Robert Langer pastels and oil paintings are at the Water's Edge Resort, Westbrook   Gloria Nilsson will be there for the month of November.