News from the President
If you did not have a chance to see our annual juried show, it’s unfortunate since it was a strong show, and we received many compliments on it. Congratulations on the painting sales by Paul Marra, Dick McKillip, and Dixie Nace. Joan McPherson, MAS’s treasurer, won first place in the show with her watercolor, Tuscan Rooftops. I would like to thank our co-chairs Linda Loen and Nancy Schwartz for their hard work as well as all the volunteers who made a show of this magnitude a success. Patricia Seekamp and her team coordinated a reception with the Guilford Poets Guild where they read poems that were inspired by our artwork. We could not do the show and the poetry reception without your support.
Tuscan Rooftops, First Place Winner,Joan McPherson
Jerry Caron's oil painting demonstration of a scene in Ireland was well received by our members. Beth Wardwell, our demonstration coordinator, has many other art demonstrations planned for this year. They are listed in our newsletter and are open to the public.
Shannon Chapman, a high school student from Old Lyme, won this year’s Shoreline Arts Alliance Visual Arts scholarship, which we annually sponsor with the Guilford Art League. Her painting was on display during the juried show. We funded the scholarship by auctioning off two of Frank Federico’s pastels that he donated to us.
I would like to welcome our new members and our new elected artists. We are an active art organization and invite our new members to volunteer to support our programs. It’s a great way to meet your fellow members.
I hope to see all of you this summer at our demonstrations, outdoor shows, and plein air experiences, all of which we plan specifically for MAS members. The board of directors continually looks for opportunities for members to display their artwork, and we are exploring several for you to take advantage of in the near future. We are once again going to have a show at People’s Bank in November and December of small works by our elected artists and our annual meeting in September.
Enjoy painting!
Beverly Schirmeier
President of the Madison Art Society
Plein Air Painting
Between the rain drops, Jay Babina has started our summer session, and we hope the weather will cooperate. We try very hard to find interesting places to paint that can accommodate our large group of paid members. We need to coordinate with owners of private places so please understand that these places are available on the dates and times that we have negotiated so we do not wear out our welcome. If you are not on our list, please email Jay at jbabina@snet.net.
Demonstrations—Beth Wardwell, Coordinator
Demos are open to the public at the Memorial Town Hall near the Madison Green on Thursdays at 6:30 pm. A nominal donation would be appreciated to offset costs.
July 14 —Pastel painting by Christine Ivers
Salt, pastel by Christine Ivers
Chris has a BFA in painting and two-dimensional design from Harford Art School. She found work in the advertising field for the last 40 years, after which she returned to her passion of painting. She works in both pastels and oils. Chris is the past president of the CT Pastel Society, of which she is also a signature member. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, an elected artist at Lyme Art Association, Audubon Artists, Allied Artists of America, and Academic Artists of America. Other affiliations are with CT Women Artists, Salmagundi Club NYC, and numerous other New England art organizations.
Chris received her Master Circle Medal at the International Association of Pastel Societies in 2009. She was chosen to have her paintings included in Kennedy Publishing's "Best in American Artists" Pastel Edition, and she is one of this year’s Paint America’s National Top 100 Artists. She was chosen as one of the Top 100 Pastelists by Pastel Journal magazine, where she received an honorable mention in the landscape division. She has been published in Practiqué des Arts, Studios Magazine and American Art Collector.
Her work has won many awards across the country, including best in show at the 2010 New Britain Museum of American Art, 2010 CT Women Artists Member Exhibits, 2011 best in show at Southington Arts, and she is part of private and public collections including the Salmagundi Club NYC, and University of CT Medical Center.
August 4—Watercolor painting by Steve Cryan
Steve graduated from Paier College of Art in the early 1970s. Since that time he has been painting maritime and railroad subjects. His luminous, realistic watercolors have won numerous awards and hung in private and corporate collections throughout the world, including the Quinnipiac Club in New Haven and the Connecticut River Museum. Most recently, one of his paintings has been added to the art collection on board the Queen Mary II. Steve has illustrated many covers for magazines. He is a leading authority on trains, tugs, and maritime history. His photography collection on the subject is one of the largest in the USA.
September 15 (new date!)—Oil painting by Kathy Anderson
In 2001, Kathy was invited to join a group of painters under the tutelage of renowned artist Richard Schmid. This opportunity renewed and revitalized her work and began a period of intense focus and rapid growth. Painting for these last 10 years with Schmid, his wife Nancy Guzik, and the group, which has become known as the Putney Painters, has provided invaluable support and inspiration.
The vision that she bestows on us with every brush stroke comes from a lifetime of intimate contact with nature. Along with her passion for nature and the interconnectedness of the natural world she is also an avid gardener and spends many pleasurable hours close to the flowers that she paints so magnificently. This close contact with her favorite subject provides her with not just a structural knowledge of flowers but a true love for the flowers, weeds, dirt and detritus of a natural, healthy garden.
New Members and New Elected Members
Welcome to our new members: Ishita Bandyo, Mike Eagle, Liz Egan, Marilyn Kinzel, Linda Sherman, Terie Stanza, Nancy Tracy, Chrystal White and Claudia Van Ness. To become an elected artist in the Madison Art Society, you need to remain an active (paid) member and be accepted in two juried shows within a five-year period. We would like to welcome and congratulate our following new elected artists: Suzanne Burnham, Lisa DeFilippo, Eileen Eder, Eugene Lewis, and Diane Stone.
Elected Artists’ Small Works Holiday Show
People’s Bank in Madison has again invited us to exhibit our Elected Artists’ Small Works Holiday Show (6x8-inch paintings or smaller in any size frame) again this November and December. Over half of MAS members are elected artists. 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 at saranebel@yahoo.com or call her at 203-245-6081. Bring one piece of artwork to People’s Bank in Madison on Monday, October 31, 9-9:30 am only. She will have tags to fill out and tape to the back of the piece for catalog/price list/identification purposes. For questions, call or email her. The show will run from thru New Year's Day. Pick-up day to be announced.
Outdoor Art Exhibitions
Summer is a time for Madison Art Society artists to display their paintings at outdoor exhibitions and to support our local non-profit organizations.
Friday, July 29 and Saturday, July 30, 10 am–6 pm—The Annual Scranton Memorial Library Festival of Outdoor Arts is a great opportunity for the public to view works by MAS artists and to support the Scranton Library by purchasing paintings. Currently paid-up MAS artists can participate; however, only waiting list room space is available. Participants donate 10% of the proceeds from the sale of their paintings to the library. In the past six years, our artists have donated $11,000 to the library in gratitude for use of the library for our annual member and juried shows.
The sale is held behind the library on Wall Street during Madison’s Sidewalk Sale Days. There will be two 20 x 30-foot tents erected to hold the 12 exhibitors and additional outdoor spaces for 10 x10-foot tents. A fee of $25 will be charged for the tent or outdoor space to cover the costs. Once the space is allocated, the fee is non-refundable.
For site assignment and confirmation by phone, mail your entry fee (with check made out to MAS) with your phone number no later than July 1 to Seymour Page, 14 Pepperidge Lane, Madison, Ct 06443.
Each exhibitor is responsible for setting up in the assigned site prior to 10 am on the day of the exhibition (the earlier, the better), and each artist must ensure that the site is hazard free and secure (MAS assumes no liability). The exhibit committee will direct you to your site. Each exhibitor is expected to take down his or her exhibit and clean the site by 7 pm on the day of the show. Since the exhibition is being held in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce’s Sidewalk Sales Days, exhibitors may want to offer sales racks. Artists should send their 10% commission on sales to MAS, P.O. Box 1483, Madison, Ct 06443 by August 12. Seymour Page is coordinating the exhibition for us again with John Copelin.
August 13, 9 am–4 pm—Currently paid up MAS members are invited to participate in the Madison Exchange Club's Annual Arts and Antiques Fair on the Madison Green (no rain date). There is no entry fee, but our artists support the Exchange Club by donating 10% of their sales. You can set up and use your own tent or just bring racks. We encourage everyone to come out and support our local artists, antique vendors, and the Madison Exchange Club community efforts. Artists must sign up in advance, so contact Beverly Schirmeier at bschirmeier@yahoo.com if you are interested in participating. A list of participating artists needs to be provided to the Exchange Club a week prior to the event, so sign up early.
October 15—MAS artists will be painting and exhibiting their scenes of the farm during the Bauer Farm Harvest Festival. Plein air painters only and only paintings of Bauer Farm.
Madison Garden Club Art and Flower Tour
October (date to be determined soon)—The Madison Garden Club will sponsor an Art and Flower Tour and would like to solicit artists to send them a jpeg photograph of your artwork (limit 3) , along with the size, medium, price, name, address, phone, and email. Please send your jpeg material to the coordinator Karen Seligson, Madison Garden Club of Madison, 2013-245-2441, kmcxx@yahoo.com. Also let her know if you would be willing to donate your home or studio to this event (add street address) or donate a percentage of the sales from the event to the garden club. None of the options are mandatory to be selected. Your painting can be listed for sale without a commission. If you do not have jpeg photos, send your photographs (limit 3) to Carolyn Bernard, 38 Beakman Place, Madison, Ct 06443 or 203-245- 0372 along with the requested information.
For the tour, the floral arrangers will select a painting (they will choose from the photographs) to use as the inspiration for a floral exhibit and then hang the associated painting along with it at several homes. They would like the selected artists to be at the selected homes throughout the afternoon to discuss their painting with patrons.
Artists in the News
Patricia and Bill Seekamp are the Madison Art Society Town Hall Artists for May and June. Diane Stone and Betsey Piner will be the artists for July and August. If you want to participate in displaying your paintings, contact Patricia Seekamp at wseekamp@sbcglobal.net or 203-453- 6720.
Betsy Piner
Diane Stone
Jan Blencowe has a solo art show, “Beyond Place – Landscapes for the Soul,” at the Tolland Art Center until June 25.
Stuart Alan Lerner’s Found Metal Sculptures are on display Thursday – Sunday afternoons through November at his studio gallery located at 22 Scotland Ave., Madison, Ct 06443, 203-779-5363.
Linda Loen has a painting exhibition at People’s Bank in Madison through June and at Hairconcepts in Madison in August.
Marge Casey has a solo show at the Guilford Library in June.
Dick Christofferson, Pam Carlson, and Claudia Van Ness are part of a new art exhibition, “Spring Art Shine,” May 13–June 30, at the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme.
Bevi Bullwinkel will be exhibiting at the Chester Art Gallery this summer along with Sol Le Witt and J. Ziemen. There will be a reception on June 17.
Rosemary Serfilippi won an award for “Walking in the Woods” at the North Haven Spring Juried Show.
Marge Casey was commissioned for several large paintings that will hang at Anthony’s Restaurant in Guilford.
Several of our artists have their work on display at the new Essex show, the LAA Elected Artists show, Maple and Main's new summer show in Chester and at Gallery One in Old Saybrook.
Barbara Rossitto, Joan Cole, and Nan Iselin have their paintings on display at the First Niagara Bank in Chester.
The Odyssey Painters (Phyllis Bevington, Karen Lipeika, Pat Barone, and Paula Emery) have a show called “Arts Spring Eternal” at the Rathbun Free Memorial Library in East Haddam until June 10.
Renni Ridgeway-Korsmeyer and Sandy Smith are the featured artists at Simply Pearls in the Water’s Edge shops in Westbrook, and Pat Anderson's watercolors are currently at Water’s Edge Resort. Susanne Burnham’s works will be at Water’s Edge in June.
Bruce Lightly will be the artist of the month at the Liberty Bank in Clinton in June and July.
Gloria Nilsson, Penny Chittenden, Sherry Marlowe, Susanne Burnham, and John Tubb are displaying their art at Malone’s Coffee House in Clinton.
John Tubb and Susan Burnham will display their paintings at the Clinton Library this summer.
Grassy Hill Preserve Paintings—Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Glassenberg Gallery, June 5–July 3. Several of our artists have paintings on view in this juried competition. Congratulations!
Maple and Main Art Gallery, Chester, offers many art demonstrations, critiques, and art classes. You can check them out online at Maple and Main Gallery of Fine Art at www.mapleandmaingallery.com
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