Letter from the President
The MAS Board of Directors has been very busy this year exploring new opportunities for our artists to display their art work and developing a long range plan to move us forward in the future. Beth Wardwell, our art demonstration coordinator, has continued to provide our members with excellent demonstrations. This summer, both Chris Ivers, night time pastel demonstration, and Steve Cryan, watercolor demonstration, were well received by our members. We are eagerly looking forward to Kathy Anderson's oil demo coming up on Thursday, September 15th.
Chris Ivers' Pastel Demo
At our summer outdoor art exhibits, we sold 18 paintings at the Annual MAS Outdoor Art Exhibition benefiting the Scranton Library. We offer our thanks to John Copelin and Seymour Page for coordinating it for us again this year. The Madison Exchange Club Antique and Art show was also a success where we sold 17 paintings and a few prints. The weather could not been lovelier for to enjoy each other’s company in the shade of the trees on the Madison Green. They have invited us to come again next year.
MAS artist Ellen Fabian at the Scranton Library Outdoor Show
As I mentioned, 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. The organizations are coordinating the events.
Please sign up for our Annual Meeting scheduled for Monday, September 26, 2011 at the Madison Country Club. A special thank you to Don Trownsell, our vice president, for coordinating it again for us this year. 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. Luckily for our MAS artists, our current board members have volunteered to stay on the board again for 2012. We can all be grateful for their hard work and continued support.
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.
Kathy Anderson Daffodils and Pansies, oil
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 you can call her at 203-245-6081. You can bring one piece of artwork to the 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. No entry fee and no sales donation. For questions, call or email her. The show will run from thru New Year's Day. Pick-up day will be announced.
Outdoor Art Exhibitions and display Opportunities
October 15—MAS artists will be painting and exhibiting their scenes of the farm during the Bauer Farm Harvest Festival. Only Plein air painters 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 are 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 the jpeg photographs to Carolyn Bernard, cbwateringcan@yahoo.com or mail the photographs to her at 38 Beekman Place, Madison Ct 06443 along with the requested information. If you 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 $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
Patricia Corbett and Lorene Scholl are the artists for the Months of September and October at the Madison Town Hall. If you want to participate in displaying your paintings, contact Patricia Seekamp at wseekamp@sbcglobal.net or 203-453- 6720.
Dick Christofferson is a newly elected to the Board of Governors for the National Art Club.
Congratulations to Tony D’Amico for winning the President’s Award for his drawing, Broadway Winter, at the New York City Salmagundi Club Juried Art Show in August.
At the 2011 Annual Clinton Art Society Juried Show, Nancy Spanich won first prize for her Underwater Temptation. Gloria Nilsson won second prize and Sandy Kensler won the third prize. Several MAS artists also won awards.
Joan Mc Pherson will be displaying her watercolors with two other artists at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek, November 6 -30th with an opening reception on November 6, 2011 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Beverly Schirmeier will display her oil paintings and pastels at the Acton Library in Old Saybrook October 17 until November 26, 2011.
Pat Anderson’s watercolor won the watercolor award at the Stony Creek summer art show.
The Madison Art Society Board of Directors will be displaying their artwork at the Hull Library in Clinton during the month of October.
Mike Eagle's 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 Niagara Frontier Water Color Society Spring Show in Buffalo, NY.
Linda Loen and Maryanne Rupp will be at the Malone’s Coffee House, Clinton, in the fall.
Congratulations to Christine Ivers, Claudia Post, 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.
Gayle Asher will be part of the Local Color art show at the Greene Gallery in Guilford August 4th - September 4th.
Liz Egan will be the artist of the month at the Liberty Bank in Clinton in August and September. Joan Cole will there for October and November.
Jan Blencowe will be displaying her Poetic Landscape paintings this Fall at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery at the UCONN Health Center, Aug. 26- Dec. 7th
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