Volume
45 Issue
3
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Next Meeting – March 11 At |
On
the Agenda
Spring Fine Art
Show PLAG Membership |
Instead of a demo
program, after the meeting we will have a discussion on the direction and
goals of the Palmer Lake Art Group. Here are some of the questions to be
addressed:
Do we want to target a new younger membership?
What type of organization do we want to be?
Should we expand our mission?
Do we want more shows?
More internet
presence?
Do we want more exchange programs with other
organizations?
Should we sponsor "scholarships" to members
whereby that member could go to a workshop and bring back a program or workshop
for PLAG members?
How can we encourage a more enthusiastic volunteer
spirit?
Do we want to continue having programs after the
meetings?
Should we change the time and/or day of our meetings?
All this and any other concerns will be the topic of what
will be a lively and productive discussion. Please attend this meeting if
you can. If you cannot, please address any or all of these questions or
any other ideas and e-mail Marcia Edwards and she will bring them to this
important meeting. m.m.edwardsthepainter@gmail.com
Member News
Seven
PLAG artists will be featured during the Rocky Mountain PBS Spring Fine
Art Auction: John de Francesco, Margarete
Seagraves, Craig Mildrexler, Pam Blaydes, Terri Erickson, Linda Roberts
and Suzanne Jenne. Everyone needs to
complete their forms (Suzanne Jenne will forward
these via email) and bring their artwork to the next PLAG meeting March
11. Works of the Palmer Lake Art Group will be featured during the
live auction which will be televised in April.
Many
thank yous from the Brian Kopp family (the firefighter from Larkspur that was recently killed
during an avalanche). The event raised $12,000 for the family! Five
artists from Greater Castle Rock Art Guild donated paintings, but thanks to the
following people, PLAG had a very impressive showing: Irmgard Knoth, Karen Sparling, Craig
Mildrexler, Susie Rieple,
Gloria Williams, Pam Blaydes, Jim Sawatzki, Sue Molick, John
DeFrancesco and Suzanne Jenne.
Thank you for your generous donations!
J Happy Birthday! ¯¯
Joy Baldwin, March 25
Mary Krucoff, March 28
[If
your birthday isn’t mentioned, please notify
Mary
Krucoff, (719) 488-8101]
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From
Craig Mildrexler: |
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I would like to thank all
the artists who participated in the show, I thought the work was outstanding
and PLAG presented a fine display of fine art. I also would like to
thank all those who assisted and volunteered. Everyone was fantastic
and a joy to work with. You all made my experience of chairing the event
a blast! I was nervous at the onset, as this was my first time chairing
something like this, and with everyone's help, it was a pleasure. Thank you all! |
Attention Acrylic Painters
Contemporary
Acrylic Techniques Workshop
Date:
Time:
Location: Grant Street Art Studios
300 E. 19th Ave, Denver, CO 80203
Much of contemporary painting is knowing how to use
materials in non-traditional ways. Acrylics have so many possibilities
and this workshop will cover some of the latest techniques. Learn gel
transfers of photocopies and drawings, pours, marbelizing,
glazing, making skins for collage elements, how best to use fluid paints and
new grounds to work on made from iridescent paint. This is a great
overview of acrylic paints and how to use the vast array of gels. For any skill level to energize your process and give you some
great new ideas. All paint, mediums, gels, boards included with
plenty to take back to your studio.
Fee: 80.00 includes all materials
Contact: Mary Morrison (morrison.mary@q.com)
www.marymorrison.info
Deaths in the
PLAG Family
Barbara Weber passed away
Sandy Ranne passed
away
Grace Cullen’s husband Jim (James) passed away after a lengthy illness.
There will be a vigil in St. Peter’s Church in Monument at
Cards may be sent to Grace at
Our deepest sympathy and best wishes go out to Grace.
It’s often repeated that Picasso,
following a private tour of the cave after World War II, emerged to say, “We
have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.” Apparently, this visit never
occurred, but the quote, whoever said it, retains its force, especially since
modern dating techniques have shown that
The quality and
consistency of the best painted work in caves, and the evidence of the time,
expense and skill required to produce them, suggests that artists needed the
collective support of something very like a studio. While it is true that some
of the best cave paintings were painted by artists standing up or in some cases
lying down or squatting, others required elaborate scaffolding, no different in
principle from that used by Michelangelo when painting the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel. Some of the paintings were done on a gigantic scale or at
heights many feet from the cave floor. The professional artists, then, needed
not only platforms and scaffolding, whose existence at
The best of the Magdalenian paintings are
magnificent. Indeed, seen in the depth and total silence of the caves, the images
are awesome. There is nothing amateurish or provincial about this high art. The
sheer bulk of these wild creatures, their untamed ferocity, their liberty of
movement, their power but also their elegance, expressed in the tapering
balance and apparent lightness of their limbs, is
conveyed with masterly precision and economy of line. The tonal qualities, and
the ingenious use of surfaces in the rock, suggest depth and even a kind of
perspective. If we take into account the freshness of the pigments when the
work was just done, and the impact of the lines and colors under the flickering
light of primitive oil lamps, or flambeaux, we can imagine the force of the
impact which this first artistic experience had on primitive humans, whose
innocent eyes were unaccustomed to visual forms outside nature itself. That
helps to explain why Magdalenian societies were prepared to devote such a high
proportion of their scarce surplus resources to the creation of these art
galleries.
It is likely too
that cave art promoted the birth of a religious spirit. There is nothing in
these art works as such to suggest religious purpose. But the conditions in which they were viewed, flickering torches
bringing to life these fine representations with their deep colors out of the
surrendering darkness, induced a sense of wonder and reverence. And as the
people marveled at the way artistic skills could re-create nature, they became
aware of the even greater miracle of nature itself, in the vast world beyond
the cave, and asked themselves: who could it be who created that? Thus cave art
was thought provoking, and the thoughts it provoked provided the impetus for
men and women to lay the foundations of theories of life, and of the universe.
Precisely because of its non-material, its metaphysical qualities, art became
the father of religion.
- From Art:
A New History
,
by Paul Johnson.
PALMER LAKE ART GROUP
Minutes of February 11, 2009 Meeting
Welcome: by Suzanne Jenne,
no new members or Guests present
Refreshments:
provided by Shirley Hawkins and Ann Neal
Minutes from
January meeting: No
corrections or additions. Motion to approve by Marcia Edwards approved by all
present.
Treasurers
Report: by Sue Jenkins:
December 2008:
Deposits: $7,032; Checking Acct: 9,905.68; Expenses: 3,831.82
Includes: $163.89 card swiper,
949.0 tax, 1,800 scholarship, 798.00 insurance, savings of $74.00
January 2009: Income: $1.62 interest on
checking account; Expenses: $275.17;
Checking Acct:
$9,320.09
February 2009:
Income: $592.00; Expenses: 245.51; Checking Acct: 9,366.58; Savings:
746.62; CDs: no report this year.
PLAG Winter Show: 18 registered members
Income: $550 registration fees; 7.00 donation for food; 35 toward post cards
Total: 592.00
Expenses: 114.95 post cards; 270 TCLA
Total: 384.95
Announcements:
n Plein Air Group -
John Defrancesco
Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 3rd
at 0930 to 1300 at the Gallery
n Shirley Hawkins will teach a class on basket
making at her studio the
third week in March
n Eight new easels purchased from the awarded
TLWC Grant money are available at the Gallery.
n Discussion on recommendation for this year’s
grant $ from the TLWC:
Need
for portable day lights, set-up with lights, for painting still life at the
gallery. Jana Towery will investigate how much money
will be needed. Also needed are shelves for the storage areas.
n It was requested to please turn down the
thermostats at the Gallery when leaving the building in order to save utility
costs. There are four thermostats: two in meeting room, one in bathroom and one
in kitchen.
Winter Show Update –
Craig Mildrexler
n Craig thanked everyone for their
participation in the show
n Two sales at this time
n Friday, Feb 27,
PLAG Spring Show - June 2 – June 22 at
TLCA
n Need
Chair person.
Interested? Please contact Suzanne Jenne
New Business:
n Discussion of how to increase our membership
and move PLAG forward.
n March meeting to include discussion of
“Direction of PLAG”
Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 11. Iola Pasquale and
Rosalie Grubesic will provide refreshment. Meeting
will be held at TLCA.
Program: lead by Jana Towery
and Marcia Edwards on presentations of successes in our art endeavors.
Respectfully
submitted,
Margarete Seagraves, Recording Secretary