Madison Art Society Members
Steve Cryan did a great job on his watercolor demonstration last week. He demonstrated an amazing technique creating rocks with a single edge razor blade and use of a ruling pen for watercolors.
We are looking forward to Kathy Anderson's oil demo coming up on Thursday, September 15th.
Twenty artists have signed up so for the August 13th Outdoor Art Exhibition for the Madison Exchange Club on the Madison Green. If you still want to attend, please email me at bschirmeier@yahoo.com. I have to send them an updated list of interested artists ASAP.
We sold 18 paintings at the Annual MAS Outdoor Art Exhibition benefiting the Scranton Library. Lots of thanks to John Copelin and Seymour Page for coordinating it for us. I hope many of you will stop by and say hello this weekend too if there is not any rain.
As I mentioned before, the BOD has been looking into creating display opportunities for our artists. We believe in collaborating with other non-profit organizations and it benefits both the artist financially and increasing exposure of our artist's work and it helps to raise money for them. It is a win for all in involved. I have listed the opportunities below.
Please sign up for our Annual Meeting scheduled for Monday, September 26th at the Madison Country Club. It is always fun and the business portion is only about 10 - 15 minutes. It is a great way to enjoy the company of your fellow artists and share great food and drinks.
Beverly Schirmeier
President of the Madison Art Society
DEMONSTRATIONS
Demos are open to the public at the Memorial Town Hall near the Madison Green located on the top floor on Thursdays at 6:30 pm. A nominal donation would be appreciated to offset costs.
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.
Annual Meeting - Monday, September 26 at the Madison Country Club
The Annual Meeting is from 5 - 7 p.m. Please RSVP Nancy Chapman at 203 - 245 - 1305 nancychapman@snet.net or Ellen Fabian at 203-245- 2652 eff04@aol.com whether you will be attending the Annual Meeting and whether you are bringing a guest and bringing an hors d'ouvre or a dessert (finger food). There are beautiful views of the golf course and a porch overlooking it. No cost. Wine, soda and coffee will be served.
Yes I am attending. _____ I will or will not be bringing a guest - Yes ____ No____ Name of Guest _____________________
I will bring an Appetizer _____ or a Dessert ____
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
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.
The Antique Fair has early bird exhibit, so we can pull up at the end of the Madison Green near the Memorial Town Hall around 7:30 a.m and drop off our art display material to set up. Parking is available near the school and church. Set up is outside the antique area snow fence and there are lots of trees for shade. Let me know when you have arrived so I can give the Exchange Club a list. They will stamp you so you can get into the antique fair. Food can be purchased and Porto potties are available.
Artists on the list are as follows: Karen Anderson, Phylis Bevington, Terry Bogan, John Carroll, Jay Babina, Maggie Dean, Sandy Kensler, Tom Mayer, Gloria Nilsson, Renni Ridgeway, Barbara Rossitto, Lorene Sholl, Beverly Schirmeier, Bill and Pat Seekamp, Paula Solimene Emery, Pat Barone, Bill and Lauara Pessimer,and Jacqueline White. If I am missing anyone, contact me and I will add you to the list.
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 8 Deadline for submissions is September 2nd
The Garden Club of Madison is soliciting landscape, portrait, still life and abstract painting and sculpture and other art forms for their Arts and Flowers fundraising tour, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. This first-of-its-kind event features a tour of private homes. Tickets for the tour will be $5 (artists involved not charged). For the tour, floral designers will be inspired by a painting, sculpture or photo to create a floral arrangement and display the inspirational artwork with the flowers at several area homes. Deadline for artists' submissions is Sept. 2. Artists will have the opportunity to showcase their works of art as they are paired with a floral design interpretation of the artwork.
To have your work considered, please send a jpeg (8.5 x11 or smaller) photograph of your painting, photo or sculpture (limit 3) along with dimensions, medium, price and artists name, address, phone and email. Please send them to Carolyn Bernard, cbwateringcan@yahoo.com or mail them to her at 38 Beekman Place, Madison Ct 06443 along with the requested information. If your have questions contact the coordinator, Karen Seligson, Madison Garden Club of Madison, 203-245-2441, 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 selected, the artist will be asked to accompany their work during the tour to discuss their painting and perhaps show photos of their art work if asked.
Madison Exchange Club Arts Night
September 22, 2011 - Madison Exchange Club Movie, Wine and Food Vendors with Refreshments Fund Raiser
The Madison Exchange Club is planning an outdoor fair and movie fund raiser on Route One, Madison CT just outside the movie cinema. It is going to be held on Thursday, September 22, 2011 and they expect to have hundreds of patrons (we are negotiating the artist's fees - currently it is an entry fee is $35 -$40 plus 10% of sales). The rain date will be the 2nd or 3rd Thursday in October. There will be lots of space, a tent can be used with a display set up at 5 p.m. and break down by 8 - 9 p.m. Since the movie starts at 8:15 guests may linger longer outdoors. If you are interested in participating, contact Shari Roguski, Madison Exchange Club, email her and put Madison Arts Night Artist in the subject line dcphys@sbcglobal.net.
Women Club - Food Pantry Wine Tasting Fund Raiser - Winter Club - Friday September 23, 2011 Deadline for submission is September 5th.
The Madison Women Club is holding a Wine Tasting and Appetizer Fund Raiser for the Madison Food Pantry. All money that is earned (100%) will go to the Madison Food Pantry. It is going to be held at the Madison Winter Club on Friday evening, September 23, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. They will be having a silent auction along with the wine tasting in the main dining room.
They asked the Madison Art Society artists (they need about approximately 25 to 30 artists) to display their art work in the front dining area for guests to view before going into the wine tasting or during the event. One painting per artist will be selected and the framed painting must be less than 24 inches framed in any direction. To make it fair for all of our artists, they will conduct a lottery system from all the artist’s names that request to show their work.
By September 5th, send your jpeg photo along with your name, medium, price and size of work along with your phone number to Peggy Keenan, Women Club, who is our contact diamondsr4ever@snet.net. Use Subject line - Food Pantry MAS Artist.
If you are selected, you will be contacted and you will need to bring your painting to the Winter Club on Friday, September 23, 2011 by at 4p.m. and pick it up by 8 p.m. of that evening. There is no entry fee. MAS will supply the display racks and will hang the art work along with your informational card ( please have it facing forward at the bottom right hand portion of your frame with your name, contact number, price, medium and title of the work). If you sell your work, please donate a minimum of 10% or more if you want to the Women Club for the Food Pantry.
Artists in the News
Diane Stone and Betsey Piner will be the MAS Town Hall 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. Lorene Scholl and Pat Corbett will be the artists for September and October.
- Maggie Dean is now showcasing her work at the Martha Walsh Gallery at 188 N. Main Street, Branford Wednesday through Sunday.
- Dick Christofferson is a newly elected to the Board of Governors for the National Art Club.
- Joan Handschumacher had a solo show at the new Davis Gallery at 200 Boston Post Rd., Orange and her paintings and her poems are going to continue to be on display through August 16th.
- Gloria Nilsson has her work on display at the Artisans Harbor Main Street, Old Saybrook through August.
- Mike Eagle watercolor was accepted in September's Mystic International Show at the Mystic Maritime Gallery Seaport 1. He also won NFWS 50/50 Merit Award at the Niagra Frontier Water Color Society Spring Show in Buffalo, NY.
- Linda Loen has a solo show at Hair Concepts in Madison in August and will be at Malone’s Coffee House along with Maryanne Rupp in the fall.
- Congratulations to Christine Ivers, Diane Stone, Laurel Friedman, Diana Rogers, Karen Wiesner and Maryanne Rupp for their acceptance in the National Ct Pastel Society Renaissance Juried Show starting this Fall.
- Karen Wiesner will be at the Sylvan Gallery in Clinton in August.
- Stuart Lerner has his sculpture gallery open to guests at Scotland Rd, Madison. .
- Tom Mayer will be exhibiting at the Chester Art Gallery this summer along with the Ct Connecticut Artists - colors of Summer August 31.
- Several of our artists have their work on display at the new Essex show, the LAA Lyme paintings show, Maple and Main's new summer show in Chester and at Gallery One in Old Saybrook. The new Clinton Art Society show will open until August 22nd.
- Gayle Asher will be part of the Local Color art show at the Greene Gallery in Guilford August 4th - September 4th.
- Cindy Stevens will showcase her paintings through August at Simply Pearls, Waters Edge Store in Westbrook along with Dan Dahlstrom.
- Liz Egan will be the artist of the month at the Liberty Bank in Clinton in August and September.
- John Tubb and Susan Burnham paintings are on display at the Clinton Library this summer.
The Madison Park and Rec. Tuesday Painters will be displaying their paintings in August at the Scranton Memorial Library.
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