Strokes and Dabs Message from Our President
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Mailing Address P.O Box 3403 OCTOBER 2019 Galveston,1 Texas 77552 Galveston 409.621.1008 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Strokes and Dabs 1 October Featured Artist 2 November Featured Artist 3 Strokes and Dabs December Featured Artists 4 Fall Juried Show 5- 8 Message from our President Names in the News 9-11 Margo Donaldson Snider GAL History 12 Recent Workshops 13-14 The gala is rapidly Info/Announcements 15-19 approaching and I have not Calendar 20 heard from many of you. City gallery, I am happy to Those who have attended in see Nancy’s talents directed the past know that we always toward GAL’s workshops. If have a great time with good you would like to conduct a BOARD OF DIRECTORS fellowship, good food and workshop, or have a drink, and great auction items. suggestion of a presenter, Margo Donaldson Snider, This is a good time to start contact Nancy at 281-451- President Pat Jakobi, Vice President, your holiday shopping. On a 5814. Also, she is interested Galveston serious note, this is our major is what topics you would like Aubrey Garcia, Secretary fundraising event of the year. for GAL to offer. Kristen Carlson, Treasurer Mary Vinnedge, Marketing Remember all that has gone MARK YOUR CALENDARS Director on at the gallery---the Susan Scott Smith, Membership purchase of 2119 and Changeover for December Director subsequent renovations and will be Monday, December 2. Dianne Owen, Volunteer This is a change for Director, Galveston the upgrades to 2117. Our December only. We are Susan Moody, Volunteer budget has been stretched to Director, Texas City its maximum. It is important doing this because the Sharon Jones, Juried Exhibition that you, as members, support November ArtWalk is Show Director scheduled after our regular Leroy LeFlore, Member Show these endeavors as best you Director can. So, if you have not yet changeover. It is important Billie Rinaldi, Featured Artist purchased your ticket or made that the November Featured Coordinator Artist have the benefit of an Nancy House, Program Director a contribution, I ask that you Jackie Liddell and Mardi do it now. ArtWalk. Mitchell, Youth Programs Directors When you see Susan Thanks to all of you Fontaine Jacobs, Website Pinkerton, please thank her for for your hard work and Design support of GAL. Jackie Low, NewsBrush Editor carrying out the duties of the Carol Jenkins, Social Media Workshop Director. I SEE YOU AT THE GALA! Manager and Island Market appreciate her efforts in this Representative activity. As we give Susan a To contact a board member, Margo please visit website for rest, these responsibilities will contact information. be assumed by Nancy House. Since the closing of the Texas 2 OCTOBER FEATURED ARTIST TROY KNIGHT Troy Knight’s interest in photography began when he was 18 years old and stationed in Korea 17 miles from the DMZ. He purchased a camera from the PX and took snapshots of this unfamiliar environment. His first camera was a Kodak Signet 80, a great choice for a rank beginner. The Korean landscape was bleak, the faces of his buddies were sad and the Koreans were living in desperate times. Troy’s black-and-white photos reflected these aspects of his army life. After leaving the Army, he continued to take photos with the Kodak, filling albums with pictures of new babies, new cars, and family events. He didn’t have any formal training but did take a few community classes. As he traveled more, Troy moved on to larger and more up-to-date cameras, and finally went from film to digital photography as he realized that his camera could be an artistic tool. It was after visiting the GAL gallery that he decided the time had come to show some of his work. His first juried show entry received a ribbon. Expanded leisure time now allows Troy to use his camera daily to capture the essence of a culture, the spirit of a landscape, and the heart of a story. “My camera is always close at hand and it is a joy to know that some of my pictures have emotionally touched others and are now in their homes, that I get to share the story of these photos with others and that I get to continue to grow as a photographer.” Troy Knight 3 Sandy Lamoey indulges her love of art through painting. She began painting watercolors in a traditional realistic vein, but evolved into an abstract style combining painting with beautiful handmade fiber paper from Asia as seen in her “Space Series” - Ice & Mind and Ancient Abyss. She also paints abstracts in oil using vivid colors and shapes to capture the imagination as seen with Stellar Spectra. Sandy majored in graphic design at Ohio University, with typography and illustration foremost in her education. For many years she lived and traveled in Europe, visiting museums and studying the works of the masters and the modern artists of today that have influenced her work. Sandy may be contacted regarding her artwork at [email protected] or visit her Facebook page Sandy Lamoey – Art & Abstracts . Stellar Spectra Ice & Mind Ancient Abyss 4 Students and clients at two local facilities serving persons with disabilities will display their works at the gallery during December. Selected works by clients/students at the facilities will be featured. A reception/member viewing party will be held on December 13. The Transitional Learning Community (TLC) provides post-acute rehabilitation services aimed at community reentry for survivors of brain injury. TideWay is an assisted living facility providing long-term care and rehabilitation services for adult survivors of brain injury who cannot live independently. The Sunshine Training Center offers day habilitation, community support, and supportive employment to individuals with developmental disabilities. Programs facilitate the development of skills such as decision-making, punctuality, problem solving, following multi- step instructions, and working individually and as part of a team. Art activities are integral to the programming for clients at each of these facilities. According to Mary Arlis Fountain, a therapeutic art specialist with TLC/TideWay, art classes at her facilities entail more than just teaching techniques but are coordinated with staff to help clients overcome physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges while making art. According to Ms. Fountain, her TLC/TideWays clients are, “…the hardest working students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching.” Margo Shared History Marian Wood was a long- time director of the Sunshine School (now Center). She served as president of the Galveston Art League from 1961 to 1965 and again from 1974 to 1979. 5 JUDGE’S STATEMENT First of all, I want to say what a magnificent facility you have! It was an honor to be the juror for the 2019 Fall Juried Galveston Art League show. I know this sounds cliché but it’s true, it was not an easy show to judge. Oh my goodness! There is some fantastic work here. So many different styles and executed so well. I mainly looked for mastery of design/composition, technique, knowledge of media used, color and overall impact of the piece. There were so many that met all of these qualifications. Unfortunately, I had to narrow it down to what was going to be in the show and then what were the top two each category and Best of Show. It was actually painful and difficult to leave any of the pieces out of the show because I was there once many years ago. I know what it’s like to not “get in.” If you didn’t get in, please don’t be discouraged. This is just one show. If you are BEST OF SHOW determined to improve your skills and not give up Leroy LeFlore there will be many more shows that you will “get in” Works on Canvas/Panel and WIN! “Pelicans Hobnobbing” Congratulations to those of you who placed. Job well done! Keep up the great work! Arfully yours, Debra Latham Works on Canvas/Panel First Place Randall Cogburn “Chelsea Ann at Harborside” Second Place Corey N. Cherry “Summer Rose” Honorable Mention Joseph Henderson “Atlas” Joseph Henderson “Evening Behind Katie’s” Joseph Henderson “Morning Reading” Petty Kingsbury “Compliments on the House” Peggy Kingsbury “Networking” Peggy Kingsbury “Finding Mercury” Amy Faggard “Weed Shadows” Karen Calhoun “Glorious Gerbera” Leroy LeFlore “Galveston’s Pier Nineteen” Rae M. Kretzmer “Lucky” Randall Cogburn “Tall Ship Elissa at Port” Jackie Liddell “Beached” 6 Works in 3-D First Place Joyce Patterson “Heading to the Lone Star Rally” Second Place Beth Hoff “Noodle-y” Honorable Mention Marsha Krohn “Bearer of Sorrows” Marsha Krohn “Siren” Osiris Hart “Sweet Tart” Eric L. Moorhead “Olive Wood Burl Trayl” Eric L. Moorhead “Crotch Walnut Platter” Works in 2-D Mixed Media Wall-Hung First Place Lisette McClung “American Daguerroeotype” Second Place Dori Nelson “Flower Girl” Honorable Mention Lisette McClung “Philodendron” Clint Schramek “Golden Tree of Life” Arden Quinn “Rose Gala” Shey Cotton “Mi Madre, Mi Reyna (My Mother, My Queen)” Janet Bodin “White Angel” Works on Paper First Place Jerry Bachman “Beach Ball Ballet” Second Place Jackie Liddell “An Art Alley” Honorable Mention Donna Knapp “Grandma’s Barn” Barbara Trust “River Rocks” Osiris Hart “High Tea” Dianne Owen “Angel Amid the Blooms” Mary Vinnedge “Home Tweet Home” Leroy LeFlore “Pelicans on Deck” Photography First Place Alicia Boles “Silent Poet” Second Place Matt Logmann “Nature’s Reclamation” Honorable Mention Jean Northington “The Gang at Pier 21” Lynn Hughes “Bashful Pelican” Mary Lou Darst “Fluted Ecuadorian Columns” Mary Lou Darst “Spiral” Morten Lamoey “Towering Paris” Leah Garcia-Blanco “A Stack of Great White Egrets” Larry Parks “Bad Weather Coming” Taylor Greenwalt “Structures” 7 McGIVNEY AWARD Joseph Henderson “Morning Reading” 8 Photos by Morten Lamoey 9 Works by Fontaine Jacobs were on exhibit at the Helen Hall Public Library in League City during the month of July.