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Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:49 pm · Filed under Monthly Minutes, News (home)
Tuesday, September 4
NEW! Benton County Public Library – large meeting room
645 NW Monroe Ave. (1 block N. of ArtCentric through Central Park)
7:00 – Social Half-hour + lots more including a viewing of our new web site
7:30 – Meeting and Program
“View from the Bridge: the State of Visual Arts in our Communities
How well does the Corvallis Art Guild contribute to its vitality?â€
Panel:
- Bill Shumway, Gallery/frame shop owner, artist
- Sara Swanberg, ArtCentric Executive Director, artist
- Earl Newman, Summit art community representative, artist
- Analee Fuentes, Art Educator, LBCC, artist
As we kick off our new fiscal year, we are invited to consider how we and the visual arts are doing in Linn and Benton counties, the area of our focus. Come hear our invited panelists share their viewpoints about the health and vitality of the visual arts and think about possibilities for members to develop their artistic interests personally and for all of us as a Guild. With 200+ members, we are an important part of the local art scene. Let’s make the most of it!
Corvallis Art Guild Mission Statement:
“It shall be the purpose of the Guild to promote art appreciation and to provide a climate for the expression of art for its members and the community.â€
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:42 pm · Filed under News (home), Regional Shows, The Arts Center
Dorothea Franzosa will be showing 5 collages at the OSU Giustina Gallery exhibit “Fiber & Fabrics” from September 4-30. She will also be showing 12 paintings at Intabas Wildfire Restaurant through September and will have a painting at the Corvallis Library art exhibit during Corvallis Fall Festival the last weekend in September.
Pauline Stangel and Roberta Bier are exhibiting their artwork at Boccherini’s in Albany through September.
More Than One View- a Quilt County Exhibit featuring Eileen Kane, Lisa Kaser and Hilary Pfeifer at ArtCentric in September and the Youth Fall Poetry Festival reception on September 6 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.
Joey Azul has had two art works accepted for the “All Around Oregon” exhibit at ArtCentric during October.
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:38 pm · Filed under News (home), The Arts Center
Hester Coucke, ArtCentric Curator, reports that the following members sold artwork this summer at the Corrine Gallery I and II : Peggy Sharrow’s “Summer Garden”; Carolee Clark’s “A Head for Figures”; and Chinh Le’s “Fish Tales Nehalem Bay”, “Fish Tales da Nang” and “Summer on the Willamette.” Congratulations to you all.
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:33 pm · Filed under News (home)
September begins our new fiscal year. Please check your mailing label to see if your dues are current. If not, please fill out the form in Brush Strokes and mail to DiAnn Acevedo with a check for $15.
Dues must be received by Nov. 1, 2007 in order for you to have your name listed in the Corvallis Art Guild Membership Directory.
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:27 pm · Filed under Biannual Juries, News (home)
For associate members who have been members for more than three months and who wish to become exhibiting members of the Corvallis Art Guild, a meeting has been set in the basement of ArtCentric for Tuesday evening, October 2, at 6:00 pm. Donna Beverly will be the professional juror with two members of the Art Guild to assist in the process.
Registration forms will be available at the next general meeting on September 6 or you can have the form mailed to you upon request or download it from our new website. The deadline to register is September 20 in order to have time to provide you with the guidelines to present your work. If you have any questions, please contact Brand Dayton.
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Call to Artists, News (home)
The Oregon Arts Commission has an application deadline of Oct. 2, 2007 for Arts Build Communities Grants for projects and activities occurring between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2008.
Guidelines are available at www.oregonartscommission.org
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:17 pm · Filed under Call to Artists, Fall Festival, News (home)
Exhibit Chair Brandi Dayton will provide sign up forms for those who wish to exhibit at Fall Festival on September 22 & 23 at the September 4 general meeting or you may receive the downloaded form by e-mailing Brandi Dayton.
There is a $10 registration fee with no more than 10 available spaces. No crafts are allowed for this exhibit. For 2-dimensional art, the Fall Festival Board requires no less than 50% original art or no more than 50% in prints.
Posted: August 30, 2007 at 11:11 pm · Filed under Clothesline Sale, Events & Exhibits, News (home)
by Chairperson Molly Perry
The 2007 Ken Stuart Memorial Clothesline Sale of Art was great, although a little down in sales from last year. Most seem to think the economy is the culprit, but we will discuss that at the October meeting.
We had a perfect day weather-wise. Sixty-seven artists signed up to participate this year, and the total sales were $38,233.30. Fourteen members had sales over $1000, and only eight exhibitors sold less than $100, with average sales of $629.
Congratulations to all who exhibited and all who helped to pull it off again this year.
Most display areas looked very professional and inviting, and the effort to make them look good pays off. If your sales are not what you would like them to be, you might consider improving your display methods. We have the largest 2-dimensional sale of art (not arts and crafts) in the Pacific Northwest, so we want to look as professional as possible, because our reputation extends many hundreds of miles from Corvallis.
A few members still are not using the Corvallis Art Guild logo cards to label their artwork, and a few had only price tags with no names on them. I have a blank template for printing the CAG logo cards on business cards (Avery and other brands sell the blank cards), so if anyone would like me to send that to them, please contact me.
Some artists were giving paintings and cards to the patrons along with the sales check instead of waiting for the patron to return with the stamped receipt. I think we agreed that we could do that with cards if we wanted to take the risk, but the Guild loses money as well as the artist if a customer does not pay for the item, so please always keep paintings and prints until the customer returns in future sales.
There was some misinterpretation of the rule on sale prices, but overall the members were good about abiding by our established rules for participation in the Clothesline Sale.
I want to thank all of the volunteers who put this together, because without them, I could not have pulled it off in Ken’s absence. A huge thank-you goes to Dave Horning, who had the forethought to lengthen our harnesses so that they would fit the growing trees on the courthouse lawn, and who marshaled all of our display equipment to and from the site and deployed it with the help of various members (and their trucks). Another big thanks goes to Ross Parkerson who organized the cashiers, and to Carolyn Madsen, who stepped in for Phyllis Johnson and attended to the money and the Visa/Mastercard terminal. Also, thanks to Marjorie Kinch for getting the paid ads together for the newspaper, Hope Meados for making sure we were listed in all the calendars on the internet and in newspapers, and Doyle Leek for getting the banner and the big signs deployed in strategic locations. Thanks to Norma Eaton and Anna Tewes for their joint efforts getting the posters and post cards for this year, and a huge thanks to Maureen Frank for organizing an advertising display at the Book Bin for our sale. Clearly, this is not a list of everyone who participated…to list them all would be almost to list the membership, but I know who you are and I am very grateful for all of your hard work. Thanks for a job well done!
Ed Note: And thank you Molly Perry for your hours of dedicated service for us.
Posted: August 27, 2007 at 1:04 am · Filed under Monthly Minutes, News (home)
Did you notice??? We’re scheduled to meet in the Corvallis Benton County Library across the park from ArtCentric for the next four meetings. This will be a trial to see if members like that venue better. It means a lot more room to spread out to do our creative thinking and sharing.
Bring your enthusiasm and critical thinking skills to the September meeting where we will consider the health and vitality of the visual arts in our counties and how the CAG fits in. This is a chance to step back and take the long view. An interesting group of panelists will share their perspectives.
Also, the CAG web page is up and running thanks to two of our members. Pam Van Londen, the creator, and Ann Rose’, ongoing maintenance, will be at the meeting to give us a brief introduction to our site. Lots of potential there!
We anticipate seeing you on TUESDAY, Sept. 4, at the Library!
Brandi Dayton and Carolyn Madsen, Co-presidents
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