The 2013 annual meeting was held Tuesday, January 22. Thank you to all those who attended. The main item was/is our upcoming annual show. We currently do not have anyone to handle the advertising aspect. If you would like to take on this role, please contact Aimée who has the information packet put together by Judith who handled advertising last year. Members who wish to be included in other volunteer aspects, please contact Aimée.
Here are the particulars for the annual show: For several years now we have opened our show to other groups/watercolorists in the Bay Area. If you are not presently a member of the SCWS, but work in watercolor and live within the California central coast area, please consider joining us.
The Best of the Central Coast – March 30- April 21 at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. The reception will be April 7 from 2-4 PM.
Particulars: Participants may enter from 1-3 watercolors with a $25 first painting hanging fee and a $20 hanging fee for each subsequent piece. Work will be received from 25 PM on Tuesday, March 26. The reception (April 7 from 2-4 PM) will include music and light edibles. Work should be picked up April 21 from 4-5 PM.
Guidelines: As this is an annual show, we encourage recent work. Entries must be framed and ready for hanging with a wire backing. We require white or off white mats. This is to insure consistency in hanging. (Exception is made only if an embelllished mat is intrinsic to the painting.) There will be first, second and third place awards in the form of art supply gift certificates. The juror has not yet been announced.
contact for more information: waveland@cruzio.com
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League
526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Air and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member.
($25 yearly)
Opportunities to Exhibit:
Santa Cruz watercolor Society: The Best of the Central Coast
(see above)
Northwest Watercolor Society invites artists to enter the 73rd Annual International Open Exhibition: April 15 – May 31, 2013. Anticipating $10,000 in awards. Online entries accepted beginning November 1, 2012 at www.NWWS.org.
The most notable juried exhibition sponsored by the NWWS is the Annual National Open Exhibition. Painters in water media including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and egg tempera are eligible to enter. The exhibition has grown tremendously in size and reputation since it’s inception in 1940, with annual awards totaling more than $10,000. It attracts talented painters from across the United States and Canada. The full color catalog produced to accompany the exhibit showcases the entire range of water-based media being created by contemporary artists each year.
ENTRY DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 4, 2013, 11:59 PM P.S.T.
Juror: Nationally recognized artist, Mark Mehaffey. is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society-Dolphin Fellow, the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America –master status, Watercolor West, Watercolor USA Honor Society and the Rocky Mountain Water Media Society, among others. Mehaffey has won major awards in juried exhibitions across the country including the Beverly Green Memorial Purchase Award from the National Watercolor Society.
For more information and the prospectus visit the NWWS website at www.NWWS.org.
Member News:
Members Exhibits:
Nancy Riedell has two of her collections on display at the Art Store and Gallery in the King’s Village in Scotts Valley, CA. The collections are: High Surf Advisory Warning and Beach Umbrellas. The Art Store and Gallery is showcasing Nancy’s work for three months. Nancy also uses the Art Store for her framing needs so you will have an opportunity to see how well her framed pieces look when you stop by. Please pay a visit.
Art Store in Scotts Valley
2/1 – 4/30, 2013
Artist Reception: Saturday, 3/9, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
(831) 438-0830
Exhibits Around Town:
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
The Walt Disney Family Museum: 104 Montgomery St. The Presidio of San Francisco
waltdisney.org/snow-white (200 artworks surrounding the process of creating the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. through April 14, 2013.)
Asian Art Museum:
Batik: Spectacular Textiles of Java
November 2, 2012–May 5, 2013 The tools are simple. The technique is complicated. The results are extraordinary. Batik is a famous artistic tradition of the Indonesian island of Java, where the process of creating patterned cloth with hot wax has reached the highest level of complexity. In this exhibition you will see some of the finest batik textiles, whose remarkable diversity draws inspiration from a wide range of cultures and religions.
Legion of Honor:
Artful Animals
November 17, 2012 – April 28, 2013
Since the dawn of time, human beings have been fascinated with the animal world. Depictions of animals are some of the earliest known artistic efforts, dating back to the Paleolithic Era. And this interest has never abated. From sustenance to companionship, animals play a variety of roles in our lives and inspire a range of emotions—fear, love, awe—as well as a host of symbolic associations.
This exhibition draws from the vast resources of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts to produce a compelling portrait of the animal world, represented in a wide array of cultures, artistic styles, and media, from about AD 1500 to the present. Some of the artists included in this exhibition have drawn their subjects from life, depicting the roles they play in our everyday experience, while others have used animals with symbolic intent or have anthropomorphized them to humorous, playful, or even unsettling ends.
This first part of a two-part exhibition focuses on creatures both domestic—like dogs, horses, and rabbits and exotic (elephants, monkeys, and camels). Part two will examine fish, fowl, insects, cats, and rodents. Fun juxtapositions draw attention to both commonalities and contrasts among the broad assortment of creatures. Seen together, these works reveal the breathtaking variety not only in the animal kingdom, but also in humanity’s artistic interpretations of it.
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