2018-08-15 August WAA Newsletter
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Web site: https://WeatherfordArt.com Telephone (817) 599-3278 P.O. Box 2721, Weatherford, TX 76086 Monday August 27 6:00 PM (Date changed because of Memorial Day) Cherry Park Community Center 313 Davis Street - Weatherford Meetings begins @ 6:00 PM Business Meeting 6:00 PM 2018-19 Officers Refreshments 6:15 PM Nominated AOM Paintings ready by 6:15 PM Voted upon August 27th Vote on Artist of the Month Vote on Artist of the Year *President Jack Eidson st New1 VP Debra Sue Waters nd Demo 6:30 till 8:00 New 2 VP, Education & Workshops Vacant rd New 3 VP Shows Cindi Neverdousky *Secretary Michelle Crider New Treasurer Kathy Cunning New Hospitality Julie Goode & Sandra Dailey April Meeting Volunteers *Historian Debra Sue Waters Hostess Dottie Vandagriff New Publicity & Newsletter Drinks Jerry Shidal Gayle Ormon Snacks Jerry Shidal *Membership Patricia Siewert & Patricia Harder New Sunshine June Stevens New New to the position * Currently Holds position. Snacks should arrive and be ready to New positions will begin in serve by 6:00 PM. Please bring small September. Positions are for a two- bottles of water, tea, or juice. Thanks for year term. Nominations may be taking the time to bring refreshments! taken from the floor in August. See the last page for great information about our DEMO for Don’t forget to bring your August. You don’t want to miss checkbook. It’s time to pay our this one. Free samples with demo. Annual Dues to WAA. Artist of the Month Patricia Harder 2nd Place ‘Floral’ To be displayed at the First National Bank of W’ford Jill Harper 1st Place ‘Gorilla’ To be displayed at the Doss Cultural Heritage Center at a later date. All paintings are on display for the following month. First Gayle Orman Place winner is immediately 3rd Place entered in our Artist of the To be displayed at the Community Year Competition in June. Credit Union ARTIST OF THE MONTH & YEAR RULES ARTICLE VIII Artist of the Month Section 1. Artist of the Month. Artist of the Month shall be open to a vote of voting- members only. First place winners will not be eligible to enter competition for the remainder of the competition year (June thru May). Artwork must be original and have been created within the past three years. Section 2. Artist of the Year. First place winners of the Artist of the Month Competition shall compete for Artist of the Year at the June Regular Meeting of the Membership. Entries shall be their Artist of the Month winning entry, unless unavailable. Check out the Weatherford Art archived along with important information about the organization. http://www.weatherfordart.com/ Linda Whitehouse and Kathy Cunning represented WAA in the Graham Club Art Show. Kathy won 1st in watercolor for her painting ‘Let Me In’. There were 200 entries and the show is on display in the old post office in Graham until August 31. Spirit of the West Western Art Show at the Doss Cultural Heritage Center Dec. 4-Jan. 25 There will be six general awards. Art work must have been created within the last three years. Begin to think about your entries. Anything that Go to might relate to the title ‘Spirit of the cleburneculturalarts.com/wine- West’. festival-cover-contest/ for more information. Calling All Visual Artists! SEPTEMBER 9 & 10: GAVA's TRUE TO THE COLORS JURIED ART Stage West is accepting art SHOW at the historic Santa Fe Depot in Gainesville. Show runs portfolio submissions for its from September 15th through September 23rd. For more 40th Season gallery spaces. information, email When: to [email protected] Selected artists’ work will be displayed in four to or go to their six week spots between October 2018 – website: www.gainesvilleareavisuala September 2019. Between one and four artists rts.org. For a copy of the will be featured per show during the Stage West 40th season. Prospectus, click [here]. What: OCTOBER 7 thru 12: WATERCOLOR Paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, quilts, WORKSHOP BY LAURIN 3-D wall-friendly art, etc. All work should be McCRAKIN at the 404 Ranch near framed and/or finished and presented in a Stephenville. For more information, professional manner. click [here]. Who: 6-18 artists will be selected to be featured OCTOBER 19, 20 & 21: throughout the season. Yes, you can submit to WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP BY be considered again if you have previously RANDY MEADOR in Saint Jo. For shown at Stage West. * more information contact Davis & Blevins Gallery at 490-995-2786 or How: Submit the following email to [email protected]. to [email protected] with “40th Season Art” in NOV 4 thru 9: WATERCOLOR the subject line. Deadline for submission is WORKSHOP BY JUDI BETTS at September 30. the 404 Ranch. For more information click [here]. What to send: • 3-5 images of your work Lake Granbury Art Association • Sizes and Mediums for work being proposed for display 2018 Fall Festival of Art. Image • A general total of the number of items submission by email only you would like to display to [email protected]. Entries • A description of the framing/display with the $40 fee must be mailed by method you intend to use th Sept. 14 . Big prizes. For more Information about Stage West? Please information go visit www.stagewest.org or call Dana Schultes at tolakegranburyart.blogspot.com/p/ev 817-338-1777 or send her an email ents.html and click on the prospectus. at [email protected] *There is no guarantee of a gallery spot. Submittal rates have averaged 4 artists for every 1 spot available. Lake Granbury Art Association Multi-Day Workshops September 17-21, Kathleen Conover, Watercolor, $450 October 9-12, Jan Sitts, Mixed Media Acrylic, $375 Go to the lakegranburyart.blogspot.com f or more information. Aledo Wine & Art Festival at Stillwater Meadow September 7 -9. They are looking for Artisan Vendors and have a few places left. Call soon. For more information go to www.Aledowineandartfestival.com A.C. “Chuck” Tordiglione Aledo Wine & Art Festival- Chairman Bull Lion Ranch & Vineyard Chalk Mountain, Texas 817-996-9170 We are very fortunate to have Justin Burns with Golden Artist Colors agree to do a demo about paint. He will be giving out free samples so you don’t want to miss this important meeting. Here is more about Justin….. More about Golden Colors At the height of the depression in the 1930s, Sam Golden joined his uncle Leonard Bocour as a partner in Bocour Artist Colors. Leonard and Sam produced hand- ground oil colors for artists. The shop on 15th Street in Manhattan became a hangout for artists from the 1930s through the early 1950s. Artists such as Barnett Newman, BIO:I grew up in Farmers Branch, Texas and studied Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Helen close to home at the University of North Texas. I Frankenthaler and Jack Levine would go to the shop to visit earned a BFA focusing primarily on Studio Drawing with Leonard, talk to Sam and get paint. and Painting in 2013. Before achieving a BFA, my twin brother and I were traveling playing music and During one visit an artist gave Sam a honey like resin and signed a record contract to Island/Def-Jam Records in 2009. During my travels playing music, I asked if it could be made into paint. Sam recognized that this experimented in painting and photography and began idea would require experimentation as the early batches of to gather photographs of a small community where the new paint seemed to dry before the paint was applied. my family has a one-hundred-year old farm in Between 1946 and 1949, and after much trial and error, the Kopperl, Texas. I took interested in stories of the GOLDEN added 31,000 square feet to the facility in 1997 and farm, community and what is physically left behind in took down the "old barn". But the surge in growth, sales and that community. After experiencing an apartment fire employees that year was eclipsed by sadness when Sam where my family and I lost everything in 2014, my Golden died at age 82, on March 11, 1997. Sam left behind a work began to take a new role and meaning. My work legacy of participation in the creative process of artists and focuses on spaces that are left as they are, their materials. weathered and abandoned fragments of a time once lived. My paintings have been exhibited in Dallas/Fort first artist acrylic paint was ready for production. One of the Worth and have been featured in publications such as earliest artists to use the paint "Magna", was Morris Louis. Studio Visit Magazine and Friend of the Artist. Sam eventually developed a more popular waterborne version of the acrylic, "Aquatec." He continued to refine the chemistry of acrylic paints working with artists for the next 20 years to find what worked and what did not. After 30 years in the paint making business, Sam retired and moved to picturesque New Berlin, New York. Sam planned to fish and golf, but quickly grew bored with retirement and found himself "going to the barn to make paint for friends." At the age of 67 Sam decided to come out of retirement. Golden Artist Colors, Inc. began in June of 1980 in a 900 square foot, renovated barn. Sam, his wife Adele, son Mark and daughter-in-law Barbara Golden along with partner Chuck Kelly, founded a new company that would embody Sam's dedication to professional artists, work Sam described as simply "making tools for artists." The first four years were financially challenging.