BRUSHMARKS
Published monthly
May 2004
Presidents Message:
I want to thank the members for the questionnaires which have been returned to us. Your input has helped the Board to set goals, short term and long term, for the society. Our “retreat” was held at OSA on April 17th. The Finance and Bylaws committees have been working many hours since February and their reports
were presented to the Board at its meeting on April 8th. The Finance Committee was chaired by Brian Bolton with Richard Porter, Jean Blatner and Kris Preslan as members. Their report recom-mended: 1) appointment of a permanent finance committee; 2) to have an annual audit by a separate committee to be appointed by the President each year; 3) to adopt and implement
a budget for OSA each year; 4) to make revisions to the Bylaws to recognize these changes. The Board adopted this report. The Bylaws Committee was chaired by Billie Orehovec with Jack Miller, Stan Hartman and Aloha Cannon as members. They reviewed our Articles of incor-orporation and suggested changes be made in Articles III, VII, IX and X. The Bylaws were also reviewed and changes were recommended within: Article II in sections 2, 3, 6b, c, d, & 7; Article III in section 1; Article IV in section 1 (deleted); Article VIII section 1; Article X sections 3,
6, 7, & 9; and in Article XII section 1. All of these revisions were accepted and approved by the Board. The text of the proposed changes will be made
available to all members who make contact and request
a copy. A special meeting of the Society will be called in July of
this year on the 15th day at 8 p.m. for you the members
to adopt these changes or to reject them. As stewards of OSA and its facilities, I’m asking each
you to send in your $75.00 to become a member of the 75-Club which honored our 75th nniversary in 2001. Funds will be used for the immediately needed and
ongoing maintenance of our building and grounds.
Rudy Stevens,
President
503 636-4189
ART NEWS
2004 ROSE ART - "Discover the Wonders"!
TO ENTER: Bring in one or two paintings to OSA on Tuesday, June 1, from 10-4 or on Wed-nesday, June 2, from 10-noon. Claudia Nice, well known local artist, will be judging the show for our Sunday, June 6 opening
reception from 1-4. You will be notified of your paintings'
acceptance by mail. You may enter work depicting roses or
a range of subjects to include this year's festival theme, DISCOVER THE WONDERS.
PRIZES are starting to come into OSA in the form of cash, gift certificates and desirable erchan-dise for the winners of the 22nd Annual Rose Festival Art Show!!! The gifts are from Northwest merchants who are generously
sponsoring our 2004 Rose Art Show. The excitement is
building for this sanctioned event. The Portland Rose Festival celebrates a unique, 95-year-old Northwest tradition that bursts into bloom each June in the City of Roses. Look for our beautiful, Rose Art Show poster, featuring the 2003 Grand Prize winner, at area merchants.If you would like to be part of the excitement on opening day by helping serve and set up, please call Jack Miller at 503-697-9646 or Billie Orehovec at 503-250-1609. Thanks!Help to promote OSA in your neighborhood:
We are looking for your help to promote both OSA’s regular Art Classes and our monthly Gallery Shows. Please consider where you might post or place our flyers to increase knowledge & involvement in OSA. Everyone needs a little art in their lives. Help to enrich your community and support OSA by sharing the
word. The full color flyers and a sign-up sheet, as we want to tract distribution, are available in the gallery.
MISSING? - Notice to all Members:
Both of our Logan – hand mat cutters are missing from the classroom/studio/gallery. Please return, if you are the one who has
borrowed either of them. These tools are intended for the use of our members within the lassroom. We need this equipment back A.S.A.P. Thanks.Important news for Associate Members:
OSA now has a 5 member committee which is responsible to jury in associate’s work toward becoming an Active member. From now on, a member seeking active status will bring their three framed pieces of art to OSA on the second Thursday no later than
9:30 am. If someone is unable to attend the day meeting, their art can be left in the library if it has clearly been identified as for
critique and their yellow jury cards have been filled out. Art, only in this case, can be dropped off up to a week in advance of the day meeting. Any questions, contact:
Virginia Grubb at 503-781-5269.Gallery Exhibits:
The OSA gallery is Open 1 p.m.to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday except holidays. No admission fee.
May:
“All Creature Great and Small” Any medium, active members only. Show features birds, mammals, fish, and insects and other creatures of all types. Including human portrait or
figures. The show will hang Saturday May 8, and opens Sunday, May 9. The Artists’ Reception will take place on Sunday, May 16, show closes Friday, May 28.
June:
ROSE ART SHOW 2004:
Cash prizes, gift certificates and merchandise are being collected for the winners of OSA’s 22nd Annual, Rose Festival Art Show.
Claudia Nice, will be our judge for this event. The festival theme is Discover the Wonders. The show will open on Sunday, June 6th.
July
Attention Associate Members: The July Show is open to assoc-iates as well as active members. Any subject, any medium. Opens July 6; with Artists’ Reception on Sunday July 11th. This show will include, our recent Past-President, Jack Miller as featured artist. Sign up by June 16 to get your name in Brushmarks. Sign up sheets for all shows are posted in the gallery or call Jane Sayler at 503-452-9366.
Day Meeting:
May 13, doors open at 10 a.m., meeting begins at 11 a.m.
Barbara Vance will be demonstrating her work with Collage. Barbara was born in Kansas and lived in Texas, Colorado, Washington and California before moving to Oregon. While in San Antonio Texas she prepared the text for and presented on television a series of art classes. In the spring of 2001 at Hood River, she was given an Award of Distinction by the Watercolor Society of Oregon. Barbara
states that “I have always felt that an artist paints from the soul hoping to capture the heart of the observer”.
(Editor's note: This bio was printed in the January, 2004 Brushmarks
announcing a January 8, 2004 demo of Barbara Vance's collage techniques.
The January 8 meeting was cancelled due to inclement weather.)Night Meeting:
Thursday, May 20th, doors open at 6, meeting begins at 8 p.m.
Brian Bolton will be demonstrating, Gourd Decoration. Brian was born in Newark, Ohio. He has been a caricaturist working in pastels and created graphic arts as an advertising and marketing director for a food company in Ohio. During his twenty-year career as a CEO of American Red Cross chapters in
Ohio and California, Brian took great advantage of his graphic art talents to market his chapters’ services, winning a national award from Red Cross in communications. He discovered gourd decoration in 1994 while living in Ventura, CA. He now sells his
amazing gourd art at Portland’s Saturday Market. He will be demonstrating the various styles of gourd decoration starting with selection of gourds through creating the finished product. Brian has been a member of Oregon Society of Artists for three
years and is our current Finance Committee chair. He is also a member of the American Gourd Society.
The Critique Group:
6:30 p.m. preceding the Thursday night meeting.
Bring up to three paintings and join us in our critique session. If you do not have any paintings to present this month, please still come and take part in the discussion. This is a great learning opportunity.
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ROSE ART SHOW COMMITTEE NEEDS HELP!
Please fill out and send in this form if you can help with
the Rose Art Show:
Name_________________________________
Phone number _________________________
I would like to help receive and process entry paintings as
they arrive.
______I can be there on June 1, 10-4
______I can be there on June 2, 10-noon
______I can only come at these times to
help___________________________________
I would like to help with the reception at the opening June
6, 2004, 1-4 PM
______I can help set up
______I can bring food
______I can serve
______I can clean up
______I can only come at these times to
help___________________________________
Send this sheet to OSA, c/o Jack Miller,
2185 S.W. Park Place, Portland, Oregon 97205,
or call Jack Miller at 503-697-9646
or Billie Orehovec at 503-250-1609
THANK YOU!
Drawing / Painting Classes: All levels.
Call instructors for fees & information.
Monday 10am-1pm
Oil & Acrylic ~Jan Browne 503-646-1894
Tuesday 10am-1pm
Watercolor ~ Garve Beckham 503-524-9306
Wednesday 10am-1pm
Oil Portrait~ Dorothy Fitzgerald 360 896 0734
Wednesday 130:-4pm
Oil landscape~ Dorothy Fitzgerald 360 896 0734
Wednesday 6:30-9pm
Open Studio~ Jack McNalley 503-274-2482
Thursday 10am-1pm
Oil & Acrylic Edi Olsen 360-256-1108
Friday 10am-1pm
drawing with Steven Kleier 503-775-6562
Final notice:
OSA Membership Dues were to be paid
during January. Non-payment by April will
result in your deletion for membership role.
~Associate members ________$20.00
~Active members ___________$27.00
If you have not already done so, please
make out your check payable to OSA and
mail it today!
For OSA information, contact the following:
Rose show: Jack Miller 503-697-9646 :
President: Rudy Stevens 503-636-4189
Workshops: Esther Emmrich 503-331-7748
Gallery Exhibits: Jane Sayler 503-452-9366
Membership: Virginia Grubb 503-781-5269
Treasurer: Dick Porter 503-223-4651
Brushmarks Editor: Gary Anderson 503-548-0170Thank you! Jean Hodges
Our day meeting hostess, Jean Hodges,
retired last month. She says she enjoyed
making coffee, setting up the snack table
and cleaning up the kitchen after the
meetings. Jean has been an OSA hostess
for 10 years! Jean would often furnish
cookies out of her own pocket for the
members' enjoyment. Jean no longer
paints but was once a watercolor painter
who liked to do floral, landscapes and
children in action.
New OSA Members as of March 2004
~Associate Members:
Bernice Weissberg, David Adler, Ilze Baumane, Rollin Carlson, Sommer Chambers,
Tim Custer, Linda Holland, Reuel Kurzet,
James Lawrence, Lynne Palombo, David Ross,
Kathy Shelley, Michael Walsh, Lyleth Winther,
~New Active Member,
No new active members in May
Lake Oswego’s “Sunday Art in the Park” Show:
OSA members are invited to participate in this summer event held on July 18th and August 15th. There are 21- 10' x 10' spaces available for us to use individually or share. Please note: we must notify the sponsors of the total number of spaces we want to use no later than May 12, so we need to hear from you, if you would like booth space, ASAP! Contact John Reece at: kjreece@aol.com, or 503-504-6139.
www.oregonsocietyofsrtists.com:
We are fortunate to have Carrie Holst maintaining our website. Carrie has the site updated and is now ready to accept additional OSA Member biography’s.
. My thanks, go, to Michael Tieman of Artists Gallerie in Cannon Beach for his hard work setting up the website and showing me the ropes. Carrie
http://www.artistsgallerie.com
Mike Tieman
Other Gallery Shows:
"Dolce Skamania Lodge” near Stevenson, Washington is exhibiting the art of Alice Wanke Stephens, through July 27th. Alice will be doing a painting demon- stration from the Gorge room overlooking the Columbia River on
May 23 from 10:30am on all day. There will be a reception on June 13th from 2-4:00pm. All are invited!
