Independence Art Association Newsletter April 2011

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1 Independence Art Association Newsletter April 2011 Independence Art Association, Inc. meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM at The Stone Church Community of Christ, 1012 W Lexington, Independence, Mo The next meeting is Tuesday, Apri/19, at 7:00 PM Officers: Pat Betteridge - President Joyce Veazey - Vice President-Program ChairlNewsletter Jan Ransom-Balcom - Corresponding Secretary Konie Stillans - Recording Secretary Cheryl Bradley - Treasurer- Website Contact Erlene Flowers - Show Chairperson Chrystal Davis - Historian Emory Dillon - Quartermaster Sina Ryburn - Monthly Show Sharon Wear - Tindall Scholarship In this edition: President's Comer Upcoming Programs Monthly Schedule for Bringing Treats Art Shows Coming Up Other News..and other shows and resources George Owens Show Schedule Reminder of Monthly Show Changes Spotlight Comer Welcome Back News About Members Attachments Standing Items President's Corner: A thank you to all who participated in the Tindall Scholarship Show at George Owens Nature Park! A special thanks to those who brought the tasty food! It is not too soon to start planning on making our show next year bigger and better, with more members involved. At the closing reception Leo Fabro came by with his Indian flute and gave several of us an interesting opportunity to ask questions and look at the flute more closely. Red-circle the third Tuesday on your calendar and make the effort to come out, attend the meetings, and bring anyone who might be interested. Let them know we are here and will be having a very interesting program on Thomas Hart Benton. Last month we had several very welcome visitors at our meeting. With the longer daylight and the improving weather it should be easier to attend. Be sure to take a look at the Tindall prints which will be for sale at the meeting. The proceeds help support our Scholarship Fund.

2 Our Members' Show at Primary Colors Gallery is coming up in June. Here we are in April already! Are you thinking about what you are going to do to participate in this show? Let's make it our very immediate goal and challenge to get started. Lacking inspiration? Look around...the changing spring landscape is becoming beautiful.the sunny days, especially morning and evening, give great shadow patterns. All around us are little still life possibilities--plants, animals, people. Now the hard part-- choosing--and getting started. Wouldn't it be exciting if all our members participated! By the way are you aware of the show of Claude Monet's Water Lilies paintings which has just opened at the Nelson in the Bloch Building? Most of us have seen the large Water Lilies Painting owned by the Nelson Gallery. For the first time in more than 30 years the three panels which the artist intended to be seen together are in fact together for this show. The two other panels of the Water Lilies triptych are on loan from the St. Louis Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum or Art to join our painting. This is a monumental presentation which took my breath away when I viewed it. Be sure and drop by the GOT Art Gallery before April 25th to see the "Spring Fling" exhibit welcoming the season. If you are interested in figure drawing and having a model to work from come to the Thursday evening drawing sessions 6-9:00pm at GOT Art Gallery. Also starting Thursday, April 14th, 5-6:00pm there will be five weeks of portrait drawing instruction conducted by Pat Betteridge. To sign up or ask questions call the gallery at The address of GOT is 18 SW Third Street, Lee's Summit. Upcoming Programs April 19 - Steve Sitton, "Thomas Hart Benton - His Life and His Murals" May 17 - Sherri Haupert, "How to get into galleries" June 21 - Julie Hudspeth, Acrylic/Oil Artist, "Talk about light in your paintings" Monthly Schedule for Bringing Treats: April- Erlene Flowers, Victoria Stewart May - Marcia Pugh, Pat Betteridge June - Konie Stillans July - Picnic August - Linda Callahan We need more volunteers to help with refreshments and treats. I will bring sheet for sign up. Current IAA Show Schedule The following list of shows and events are planned for the 2011 year by Independence Art Association, Inc. Please check back for the applications for each show as the year progresses. We look forward to your participation with us. (For more information on our show schedule call Erlene Flowers, Show Chairperson, or her at dreamwoman59@yahoo.com. is preferred.) April, 2011 April side walk sale now has a name: Art Print and Frame Sale, sponsored by the Custom Framers at 606 NE M 291 in Lee's Summit, Saturday, April 23, 2011,9:00-3:00. Entry fee is only $5.00. The application is on our website under "Events," and one is attached to this newsletter. Greg Hull has paid for an ad in the paper. If we work at this we could all make some money.

3 Plein Air Event will take place at George Owens Nature Park on Thursday, May 26, from 9:00 AM to the close ofthe park and on Friday from 9:00 until 3:00, at which time we will view the results. Advance registration will soon be available on line. Entry fee is $10:00. All canvases must be stamped. Start assembling now for this event - your canvases, paints, frames and easels. Jim Umbreit, Manager of George Owens, has always wanted an event that the park is the subject of the paintings. There are two small lakes behind the nature center. June th Annual Members Juried Show and Sale and Robert E. Tindall Scholarship Award Hang date is June 16,2011. Opening: June 17,6-9,2011 Event: June 17-25,2011, at Primary Colors Gallery, on the Square. Entry fee: $30.00 plus 25% commission on sales to the gallery. There will be two print racks available for prints. Judges have yet to be determined. July 19,2011 Annual Pot Luck Picnic at our regular membership meeting on Tuesday, July 19,2011. Event starts early with a sketch-out at 4:00. The place for this event is not yet set. Saturday, July 30, 2011 Italian Dinner and Display and Sale at the Stone Church in Independence, Mo. Set up time 4:00. Limited registration, small paintings, prints, note cards. Central Cash register - 15% commission. - 10% goes to the church and 5% goes to IAA. No entry fee for members. Other News..and other shows and resources Jewelers"':" GOT Art Gallery is sponsoring an all jewelers juried show. Go to their website: for the application and details. Giclee prints where do I get them made? For note cards try Winner Road Gallery at Winner Road in Englewood here in Independence. Winner Road Gallery owner is Sherri Haupert. She includes the envelope and the plastic sleeve, for $.45 a card wrgl0916@att.net. Open 10-5 Tuesday- Friday. Shorter hours on Saturday. Closed Mondays. Will Mattingly, a Summit Artist and photographer does giclee prints in his shop. He is located in Raymore, MO., charges $15.00 per camera shot, $5.00 for a disk with your digitals on it. Charges are per square inch, depending on the kind of paper or canvas that you select. You have to work with Will for color-matching and leave with your prints. Contact office, , and cell, 8] He can shrink-wrap prints for a nominal fee. Cash or checks. PO Box 1092, willmattingly@kcweb.net Dennis Littleworth, photographer who does our Tindall prints, charges $25.00 per camera shot, does excellent color match work. His prints are a little higher than Will's but he uses quality products. Contact, isdlittlewor@aol.com.itis located in Overland Park, Kansas. You can drop by and leave your work once the contract has been signed, 3-5 days turn around. He also designs and manages websites.

4 Indox Services in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 1702 Broadway., It is a large reproduction facility but will work witq single artists. There is no set number of prints. They have the ability to do large outside posters. They do not do camera work. Work must be camera-ready. Color correction is $30.00 an hour. They need the original to work from. Turn-around time is 5 days. Prints on canvas and one kind of paper... All work is commercial giclees. Charges are $3.50 a square foot for paper. Canvas is $6.00 a square foot. Where can I buy plastic or acetate sleeves for my prints? (west coast) or (east coast) Most are sold in lots of 100 or more, so you might want to split an order with someone if you do not do a lot of shows. Call for a catalog. They will send samples of bags prior to your ordering, if requested. Also, they sell archival mats and backing boards. Also, Dick Blick has started to carry some plastic sleeves and acetate bags. The price is much higher because the quantities are smaller. They do not send samples. This is a great time to check for specials on paints, brushes, and frames on the internet. Many places are offering free or very low shipping. George Owens Show Schedule April/May - Jan Ransom-Balcom, Linda Callahan & Diane Gonzalez-Johnston June/July - Sherri M. Williamson, Joyce Veazey & Eileen Wilcox Aug/Sept - Pat Deeter, Sina Ryburn & Johnita Dowhower Contact Marcia Pugh for further months, etc. (816) Monthly Show Please bring a painting for Aprils meeting. Spotlight Corner The 200 Blue Springs was great! Members that were honored. Jennylynne Gragg won 2 nd Pat Deeter won 2 nd Carlos Benson won 2 nd in Opaque with Serenity. in Transparent with Longview Pergola. in Drawing with The Goof Ball Chronicles. Pat Pummill Betteridge won Honorable Mention with Portrait Don. Congratulations to everyone! Erlene Flowers has two pieces accepted in the Annual Images Art Gallery Juried Show. The opening is April 15,2011, 6-9pm. The gallery is located at th Street in old Overland Park, Kansas. Erlene Flower also invites you to become a follower of her blog: Joyce Veazey has four paintings hanging in the Olive Branch Art Gallery & Studio. The gallery is located at 7915 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, Kansas, open M-T-W, 10-6pm, Thurs-Fri, 10-9pm, Sat, 9-9pm. Welcome Back

5 Returning Member: Robert "Bob" Brackenbury, 400 N. Cogan Lane, Independence, Mo (816) , - None Media: Oil Any upcoming news or events about members of IAA, please call me & I will put it in the next month's newsletter. Member News Eula Allen, one of our long time members, is very ill with cancer. She is living right now at Hidden Lake Nursing Home in Raytown. She would love to get cards and visits from members. Any cards can be sent to her home in Raytown. Her address is in the roster. Please call the nursing home first before visiting her. She needs our prayers. Attachments: Updated Member Roster Entry fonn April Print & Frame Sale-Sat April 23 rd Ad for the April Print & Frame Show Standing Items The rental rate for display screens owned by IAA increased to $8.00 per screen effective August 1, The price of covers remains the same at $3.00 each. Please contact Quartennaster Emory Dillon at (816) to reserve screens for your next event. Limited Edition commemorative Tindall prints of "Renascence" and "Autumn Landscape" are still available for $15 per print (add $3 for matting). Also, the 2011 Limited Edition commemorative print of "Self Portrait" is now available with prices starting at $20. All proceeds from print sales go to the Robert E. Tindall Scholarship Fund. Contact Sharon Wear at (816) for more infonnation. The IAA website is Chrystal Davis, Marcia Pugh, and Brian Hoover have recently added some wonderful artwork to the Member Galleries. If you have not already done so, please send photographs of your art, a bio, and an artist photo to Cheryl Bradley at cherylbradley@swbell.net. Also, feel free to send new artwork and/or updates to your infonnation so we can keep our website current. Please contact Cheryl with questions at (816)