October 27, 2008
| News, Programs & Workshops
| Comments Off | by Ann Rosé
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Diane Widler Wenzel will be teaching free environmentally-friendly watercolor painting workshops as a family activity at the Alsea Hatchery Fall Festival on Saturday, November 8, from 10 AM to 4PM. A morning and an afternoon workshop are scheduled. All supplies will be provided, plus a free lunch with a vegetarian preference available. Preregistration is required as space is limited. Other workshops at the Festival include silk screen, wire wrap stones, fish prints, photography, and videography. Tours of the facility will also be available.
To register call 541-487-5512 or e-mail oregonhatchery.researchcenter@state.or.us
The Center is located 13 miles west of Alsea on Highway 34 at East Fall Creek Road- turn north and proceed 2.2 miles.
October 26, 2008
| Archive, Brush Strokes Newsletter, News
| Comments Off | by Mike Bergen
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The following link will open the November 2008 Brush Strokes Newsletter in full color with all the added pages:
brushstrokesnov08issue1
October 22, 2008
| Member Gallery
| Comments Off | by Pam Van Londen
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Norma Eaton works primarily in collage, painting her own papers for an inexhaustible variety of colors and textures. She has invented her own vocabulary for the paper textures she has developed.
The paper texture most often seen in her art she calls “smoosh” paper because various colors are “smooshed” together between 2 pieces of paper. These are often seen in the sky and in water.
Her subjects for painting are the beautiful northwest wild places. Every summer she and her husband hike the many natural areas of her home state, Oregon, gaining inspiration for her art. She is a member of the Corvallis Art Guild and a local plein-aire group, “Vistas & Vineyards”.
Her art can be viewed at the Westgate gallery in Philomath, the Corvallis Art Guild online art tour and at various businesses throughout Corvallis.
October 2, 2008
| Call to Artists, Programs & Workshops
| Comments Off | by Pam Van Londen
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7-Week Workshop for Artists
Thursdays, Oct 9 to Nov 20, 2008, 3:00 p.m. to 5 p.m.
LBCC Benton Center, Corvallis, 757 NW Polk Ave.
Cost: $245
Call (541) 917-4929 to reserve your space.
Questions? Ask Pam Van Londen.
Artist and business woman Pam Van Londen, will present the many low-cost or free options available to artists and provide at-home exercises to help you create a web site, gallery, and shopping cart ready for patrons around the world. Discover the online presentation and sales methods that work best for your style, schedule, and budget.
WEEK 1: Overview and how to optimize images
WEEK 2: Explore inventory systems and try a database or spreadsheet
WEEK 3: Review blogs and set up one account
WEEK 4: Review of galleries and set up one account
WEEK 5: Review of affiliations and stores and set up one account
WEEK 6: Explore Google analytics and try Google tools
WEEK 7: Present attendee web sites and discuss promotional options
October 2, 2008
| News
| Comments Off | by Pam Van Londen
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International Artist Day is Oct 25, 2008
October 25th every year has been selected as International Artist Day.
This worldwide tribute to artists will honor and bring recognition to the contributions they have made to civilization.
Everyone around the world can do something special on that day to enhance the visual arts: take an artist to lunch, host an exhibition, buy a piece of art, attend a gallery show, visit a studio of your favorite artist.
For suggestions on how to celebrate and get your community involved, see the International Artist Day website.
October 2, 2008
| News
| Comments Off | by Pam Van Londen
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Did you know this web site is made for you?
Each week you can:
- Post your bio and new art images (you get your own web page!)
- Read the news left by other members
- Read the newsletter
- Read a recap of the monthly meetings
- Read a recap of the board meetings (requires you login first)
- Check guidelines
- Learn a new web site skill
- Start a discussion
If you click the Bookmark link at the very top of this web site, you can save the link to the site in your Favorites AND view the headlines to see if there is something new to read. This is called Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. RSS allows you to read many headlines from your browser’s toolbar or favorites menu.
Click the link now to save the Corvallis Art Guild web site to your browser bookmarks/favorites.
October 2, 2008
| News
| Comments Off | by Pam Van Londen
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Did you know that you can add a gallery of your work to a post in the Corvallis Art Guild web site?
Take a look at mine in the Online Art Tour.
And find out how it is done.
Here is a gallery of photos from the 2008 Fall Festival:
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September 23, 2008
| Brush Strokes Newsletter, News, Programs & Workshops
| Comments Off | by Ann Rosé
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Bring your latest work of art to display during the social.
Social 1/2 hour at 7:00 pm ~ General meeting 7:30 pm
Corvallis-Benton County Library
“Why Design Matters “ by Donna Beverly
Donna will have a discussion about why design matters in all artwork. There are three concrete stages to most artists’ work: 1. Learn to copy what you see and master the medium. 2. Understand and apply the ideas of good design like an architect begins a structure. 3. Creatively express your personal ideas through your art.
The terms design and color theory keep most artists from developing the next stage of mastery. Donna Beverly will demonstrate that both design and color theory are essential tools to success and growth of the artist. Most people can accomplish the first stage with practice and persistence. Understanding what makes a good design is where most artists stop, and only rarely does the artist master the first two stages and pursue self-expression.
“Artists without the understanding of design and color theory are like airline pilots without any training and understanding of the basic principles of flight. The untrained pilot crashes; the untrained artist keeps copying the world around her or him and only their family displays their artwork.”
Marian from Creative Crafts will be attending our October 6 meeting and will listen to member input as to art supplies and services she might add to her store here in Corvallis.
September 23, 2008
| Brush Strokes Newsletter, News
| Comments Off | by Ann Rosé
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As artists we are very lucky to be living in the mid-Willamette Valley area. In addition to our 225-member Art Guild, we have a 120-member plein air group Vistas & Vineyards, an extensive set of educational opportunities at OSU and LBCC, numerous annual shows and events such as daVinci Days, the Fall Festival, the Clothesline Sale, as well as Corvallis, which has already been designated “The Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful town”. So I propose that we declare this region the “Art Capital of the Pacific Northwest”, as stated above in the new tag line under the Brush Strokes banner.
Our plan is to use this newly-declared title as part of a strategic plan for the Guild aimed at developing a larger local art market and greater opportunities for our membership. We know that any good plan needs to be measurable and have a specific and achievable goal, and thus since many of us were disappointed at this year’s Clothesline Sale sales numbers, we will use this as the measure. Our goal can be a 25% increase per year. The recent Clothesline Sale de-briefing meeting already identified some opportunities for achieving this goal, and I expect we will develop a number of others in the next few months.
I recently started using this tag line on my personal blog and received the following comment from an artist in Vancouver… “so that is where the art capital is hiding.”
I ask that we all bring it out of hiding.
Mike Bergen
September 23, 2008
| Biannual Juries, Brush Strokes Newsletter, News
| Comments Off | by Ann Rosé
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A jury for associate members who have been members for more than 3 months and wish to become exhibiting members of the Corvallis Art Guild will be Monday, October 6. Exhibiting members may sign up to show their work at Hanging Around Town sites, participate in the Clothesline Art Sale, submit work for the banner on the Web site and Brush Strokes back page.
Registration forms may be requested from Jasmine Nahorniak (740-5488) or downloaded from the CAG website. Applications must be received by Friday, October 3, 2008 to be eligible for the October jury.
The jury will be held on Monday, October 6, in The Arts Center basement. Artwork must be dropped off between 6:30-7 pm and picked up between 9-9:30 pm. The CAG October general meeting willtake place at the same time (7-9 pm) at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. For more information, contact Jasmine Nahorniak by email or at 740-5488.
