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The latest news and events from the Maryborough Art Society
January 2011
282 Kent Street, Mary borough President :- Bill Hewitt
PO Box 523 Maryborough Vice President:- Sybil Almond
Qld. 4650 Secretary:- Tom MacnamaraGallery Tel: 07 4122 4408
Web: maryboroughart.com
Email: maryboroughart@bigpond.com
ABN 26 205 635 58
GALLERY HOURS Mon-Fri. 10 - 4 OPEN WEEKENDS SAT & SUN 10-2
MEETINGS
The next General Meeting 16th February 2012 at 4.30pm
Management Meeting 2nd February 2012 at 2.00pm
Workshops and Art Festival 9th February 2012 at 2.00pmWelcome New Members:- Clough, Jeni Hall and Veronika Grant
Thought for the Month. . “ It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret” Jackie Joyner Kersee
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 1:- “Australia Day Exhibition by Members”
Gallery 2:- “Australiana Competitive Exhibition By Members"
Gallery 3:- Ongoing Monthy Members Section (Pay $2 per painting and hang for a calendar month – max. of 2 paintings per member).UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 1 and 2 George Kirk in March 2012
Gallery 1 and 2 Robbyn Gergos April 2012REGULAR ACTIVITIES
Merry River Painting Group –
Monday evenings 3pm-6pm. $2 coin for cuppa, bikky and good company. This year’s theme is “All Creatures great and small” . If interested in joining a social painting group please feel free to come along
Thursday Morning Art Group –Thursdays. 9am -Noon. Any medium, any topic. $2 coin for cuppa, bikky and great opportunity for those beginners to gain knowledge and for the more experienced a chance to mentor. Much to learn
MEMBERS OWN SPACE (GALLERY 3 UPSTAIRS)
The response to the Members Gallery has been fantastic and it is great to see members changing their paintings regularly. Also we have seen some wonderful work and it is pleasing to see paintings selling. However, we need more of you to take advantage of Gallery 3 (The Members Gallery) by placing 1 or 2 paintings for sale every calendar month, to be changed over for the next month if not sold. There must be many of you who have art work tucked away that can be sold. Each work can be hung at the low cost of $2 each for the month.DIGITAL ART CLASSES - Contact Monika bayerstudio@bigpond.com,
DON’T FORGET Members may place two of their paintings on MAS website, free of charge with accompanying personal write up. Take advantage of this free service and promote your artistic talents. For further info on this contact Inge on ingeborg@skymesh.com.au.
GALLERY ROSTER If you can spare a couple of hours a month, please help by volunteering to be a gallery supervisor. The current roster is on the wall in the Gallery. If you can help please contact Audrey on 41230618
- Painting in Watercolours with Lex Frank: For those who have always wanted to have a go at this wonderful medium over 4 weeks commencing on Tuesday morning the 14 Feb 2012 and continuing over the next three Tuesdays, classes run from 9.30am to 11.30am each Tuesday and the cost will be $100.00 for the 4 mornings, please contact the gallery on 41224408 if interested.
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- Intuitive Instinctual Painting with Cilinda Atkins, an abstract painting workshop of 4 weeks commencing on Friday the 9th of March from 10am – 2pm each Friday. The cost is $100 for the four weeks. Please contact the Gallery on 41224408 or Cilinda on 41284159 for a list of materials and course requirements
- Workshops for Children during the school holidays: These workshops run by Haley George have been well received by both the children and parents. Hayley is looking at the possibility of continuing to run classes for children on a Saturday morning so if anyone would like to assist with these please contact Hayley direct or the Gallery on 41224408.
- Freehand Drawing Workshops with Brett Jones, Brett is intending to run three more workshops this year, one commencing on the 7th January at Gatakers Artspace, one commencing on the 8th January at Hervey Bay Art Society in Sandy Street Hervey Bay, and the third here at the Gallery commencing on sat. the 5th of May 2012, if interested please contact Brett for details, or the Gallery for the one being run here.
- Children’s Workshops: Hayley George has planned to run workshops for young people aged 9-13 years over six Saturdays commencing on the 11th February and concluding on the 17th March, they will run from 10am to 11.30am each Saturday. Hayley is also looking at running workshops for the younger ones during the Easter holidays. Costs and further details later, also if any of our members would like to assist with the running of these workshops it would be very much appreciated, please contact the gallery on 41224408.
Please Note:- Workshops fill quickly so if you are interested in doing any of these please register early to avoid disappointment. Also if you have an interest in doing a workshop of any kind please let us know, maybe there are others who would like to do the same, if so we can look around for a suitable tutor and put a workshop on to suit.
GENERAL MEETING:- The next General Meeting is to be held on Thursday the 16th February 2012 commencing at 4.30pm. It would be wonderful to see some new faces at this meeting, and maybe some fresh new ideas.
MEMBERS COMPETITION:- Strictly members only. If you have some spare time over the next few weeks you might like to do a couple of paintings with “water”as the theme, these to be entered in our Members Competition.
- Paintings to be delivered to the Gallery on or by Tuesday the 28th February 2012.
- A fee of $5-00 per painting applies
- A limit of two paintings per member
- This competition will be judged and a $50-00 voucher presented to the winner.
MARYBOROUGH ARTS FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOPS 2012
Planning is well under way and the website is being updated at present, 12 workshops
have been accepted with all mediums covered. These workshops promise to be exciting and challenging with Michael Fix returning to keep the Muso’s happy and Kate French to keep the mudlarks busy, also the Circus will be there to entertain the children whilst you attend other workshops. Don’t be disappointed, register for a workshop early. For more information about the Artist’s, Workshops and application forms please visit the Website “maryborougharts.org”NOTICES FOR NEWSLETTER: If you have any news to share or notices to place such as items for sale, wanted to buy, please send an e-mail to
maryboroughart@bigpond.com . For attention The Newsletter Editor. Deadline for copy is last day of the month. Also if anyone is interested in assisting with the production of this newsletter, please let me know.RADF Grants: For those wishing to attend a workshop next year, applications for RADF Grants are now open and will close on the 31st January. Application forms are available from the Council Office.
LAMPLIGHT BAZAAR: This event which is being held in the Wharf Street Precinct on the 28th February promises to be a wonderful event with entertainment, displays and much more. It has been decided to keep the Gallery open that night from 5 – 9pm as part of this event. If anyone wishes to assist or come along and paint on that night it would help to make the night more interesting.
MEMBERSHIP FEES: Just a friendly reminder, it is that time of the year again.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: The Annual General Meeting will be held on the 15th March 2012 commencing at 6.30pm followed by wine and nibbles. Please mark this important event in your diaries.
Finally may I take this opportunity to wish everyone all the very best for the New Year, and a special thanks to MP Chris Foley for assisting with the printing of this Newsletter.
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