I am a member of our local art club, and spent part of yesterday helping to register and receive in pieces for our annual spring show. It is held at the gallery room of the city building. So far there are 38 pieces from 18 members. There was a limit of three pieces per member. Most people had one or two pictures (most were two dimensional). I had two pictures there myself.
The media ranged from acrylic, oil, and watercolor paintings, mixed media, collages, photography, and various types of prints. The most fascinating entries, to me, were the pictures done in molten glass by one member. They weren't stained glass, they were one piece. And breakable. We were very careful with them, I am glad that I am not on the committee responsible for hanging the pictures!
I would say the show was the antithesis of AI. I don't think any of the works there would even be possible to do with AI. Not because we are all so expert, though there are a few members who are professional level and sell their pieces. Most of us are amateurs, all of us do it because we want to. Some of us (me, for instance) put off doing something until the show deadline is in sight. It is a motivator for forcing some action with the "pictures in our heads"! One of the newer members said to me that she saw a bunch of pictures from people she doesn't see at meetings. I said, " That is true, some people only join the club so they can exhibit in the shows, which is fine. But we like it when people do come to the meetings, and we get to know one another. "
There is no money associated with prizes, we just get ribbons. The purple and blues are eligible to go to the state show. There is a five dollar entry fee per piece exhibited, because we have to pay a judge's fee. The judge is usually an art faculty member from one of the area colleges, or someone associated with a professional gallery.
Since I am the club treasurer, I need to go to the bank this morning and deposit the entry fees. I am remembering today that Judas is kind of the "patron" of treasurers. An example of a bad example!
By request, these are some pictures of mine. Not the ones in this year's show, since I don't have photos of them. The first one is an acrylic painting of a scene of the Wailua River on the island of Kauai from a photo I took when we were there in 2012. The next two are cyanotype prints, which is an interesting process. The fourth one is a painting done with bleeding tissue paper and watercolor.
Katherine - as one non-profit treasurer to another, I refuse to believe that Judas is the best we can do for a patron saint!
ReplyDeleteI confess I was hoping you'd post some photos of some of the works. Is that possible?
I second Jim. I would love to see some photos of the works, especially yours!
DeleteHere you go! I would like to share some of the other people's pictures, but I don't have permission..
DeleteKatherine, those are really wonderful. I didn't have particular expectations, but they sort of blew me away when I looked at them.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jim!
DeleteJim, BTW I still have your meatless lasagne recipe. Going to make that today. Lasagne must be a popular Lenten option, the store was nearly sold out of lasagne noodles.
DeleteGood luck! We're having pasta tonight, too, but it is store-bought cheese raviolis, with store-bought sauce and a store-bought loaf of bread. And quite possibly, a store-bought salad bag.
DeleteStore bought works! I use it a lot.
DeleteSince we got home from California, due to my continuing emotional and physical exhaustion, I use a whole lot of frozen and pre- made, including salads. I’m trying to do real cooking more often though.
DeleteKatherine, your paintings are amazing. How great to have that talent. I like that you use different styles. I like all of them but think the tree is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteThanks Anne. I like the tree too. It belonged to a neighbor, I had to wait for the right windy day to photograph it. The picture is called "Spirit Tree", because it unfortunately died over the winter. Weeping willows are not very hardy, at least not here.
DeleteI also really like the willow tree. But I think I like the winding road even more.
DeleteOr is that a river? Or perhaps an irrigation canal?
DeleteWeeping willows are beautiful. During thunderstorm season they often get uprooted unfortunately. I guess the roots spread but don’t go de. The weeping cherries are in full bloom right now and they are gorgeous. The tree looks sort of like an impressionist painting to me. I love the impressionists, and also the neo and post- Impressionists.
DeleteThe winding road is indeed a road, part of the Loup River irrigation and wildlife district. A really nice walking place, until the mosquitos come out and nearly carry you off.
DeleteImpressive. Thanks for posting them.
DeleteThanks Stanley!
Delete“A really nice walking place, until the mosquitos come out and nearly carry you off.”
Deletelol! We have the same problem. No woods walking behind our house except in colder weather. No walking lots of beautiful places in mosquito season. One of the Episcopal churches around here has a beautiful outdoor labyrinth set in a pretty garden. I loved to walk it - so peaceful and contemplative. But I learned the hard way that I couldn’t walk it or sit in the garden after early spring and before late fall or I would be eaten alive!
https://naturesacred.org/sacred_place/st-lukes-episcopal-church/
Vance just can’t stop lying. His new book on his conversion apparently features a photo of a church that he’s not only never been to, apparently his publisher didn’t ask permission to use their photo. I’m sure this little church in southern Virginia is full of trumpers and they are happy to have gained a little fame, but once again, misdirection- misleading information.
ReplyDeleteStory in today’s WaPo. His publisher quickly s rambled to produce a cover story.
“The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation. What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism. There are a couple dozen regulars at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in rural southwestern Virginia, according to one, 78-year-old Marshall Funk, who attended his first service there in his mother’s womb. As they gathered Thursday evening for a potluck at the brick building with a white steeple — a classic Methodist style — Funk heard not a peep about politics. As far as he knew, nobody was aware that the White House’s second-in-command had broadcast an image of what Funk called his “second home.” . Vance, to his knowledge, had never visited. “I’d have to see it to believe it,” the retired dairy farmer said of the cover. As congregants dug into broccoli casserole, the internet was chattering about Vance’s memoir cover art. Critics mocked the vice president for putting a United Methodist church on the front of a book tracing his road from loose evangelicalism to teenage Pentecostalism to atheism to Catholicism. “Did jd vance’s journey back to faith specifically include this methodist church in appalachian virginia or did he just grab the folksiest adobe stock image he could find,” one user posted on X. A spokesperson for his publisher offered an answer. “The church comes from the part of the country where Vice President Vance grew up,”
"...did he just grab the folksiest adobe stock image he could find,”? Pretty sure that's exactly what happened!
DeleteNot planning to read his book, but if any of you do read it, I'd like to know what you thought of it.
JD Vance - the broccoli casserole of VPs.
DeleteI always thought the publisher was responsible for the cover design of a book?
DeleteJim, I kind of like broccoli casserole. I'd call JD the boiled cabbage of VPs!
DeleteThe liver of VP’s? I have zero interest in reading his book.
DeleteI edited a couple of books for some Econ professors at George Mason university. We provided photos for content sometimes but the publisher of at least one book did the cover design. But the Professor had to approve. It was a book on aviation and space industry economics. It had a photo of a spacecraft on the cover that had been chosen by the English academic publishing house. I had the draft of the final at home that included the cover photo. My husband, the aerospace engineer, looked at it and asked “ Why are they using a photo of a Russian spacecraft?” I told the professor, and the cover was changed before publication. Thank goodness. Maybe Jean can tell us more about who chose the cover design for her book. I’m betting my money on her!
Wait a minute, Jean wrote a book? I didn't know that!
DeleteYes - about the Beguines
DeleteShe also had some articles in Commonweal such as this one. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wisdom-beguines
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