We had a great meal, great friends to catch up with, and wonderful entertainment with some young ladies from the Chinese Academy dancing for us.  New Years is in the books and memberships renewed for another great year.

New officers for 2019 are (L to R)  Joan Leitner- 2nd Vice President, Ethel Mount- Treasurer, Lisa Cassel-1st Vice President, Kirk Kuenzi-President and Janet Fraley-Secretary

I wish to thank the Guild (especially Lisa Cassel) for the wonderful gift.  It consisted of a storyboard with sides in which people could add their own notes.  Such nice accolades from my fellow guild members.  Carmen Stineman

Tuesday February 5 will be our first LAG meeting of the year.  It will be a critique session so you may bring one or two of your works.  Janna Harsh will be our facilitator.  Any questions can be forwarded to Lynette Fast our Program chairman.

March 5 – Lynette Fast, Pass it along with Creativity

April 2 – Dani Lynn, Abstract Portrait Drawing

May 7 – Jeri Kuhn, Paper Sculpture

June 4 – Tamara Kaye, Talk about ArtReach Project Downtown

July 2 – Karissa Veith (Bettendorf), Illustration and Children’s Book Publishing

August 6 – Lori Elliot-Bartle, Oil Paint Cold Wax

September 3  – Kacee Conley & Jen Bockerman, Themes / Big Ideas & Sketchbook Journaling

October 1 – Joan Phelan, Critique Fall show / Reading Art with Visual Thinking Skills Strategy

November 5 – Rita Wrenholt, Playing with Ideas

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough”.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lincoln Artists’ Guild has changed our 1st Friday gathering to the 1st Thursday. So our 1st Thursday for February is on the 7th. Please mark this change on your calendar and tell your friends. There will be no 2nd Thursday gallery meeting in February unless announced later. The gallery schedule for March is the following: March 7th- first Thursday, March 14th- second Thursday gallery meeting, March 21st- third Thursday change of gallery art. Be well, Will Rennick

This will be my last entry as President of the Lincoln Artists’ Guild.  It has been a busy, exhausting and also exciting two years, but now I pass the torch to someone else.  I know your new president, Kirk Keunzi will do a great job.  He has the knowledge (past president) and the enthusiasm to do great things. I hope that everyone will do their best to help him with his new endeavor and support him and the LAG board .

Association of Nebraska Art Clubs membership will be due the end of February.  The deadline for members to join our guild (which automatically gives them membership to ANAC) is February 16.  There is no additional charge to you the member, as the Guild pays your $12 (which comes out of your $35) to that organization.  This year’s conference will be in Albion June 19-22 and if you have never gone to one, I highly encourage you to go.  The workshops are diverse and should have something for everyone.  Maybe a group could go and share a room or rooms.  Workshops included this year are:  Intuitive Abstract Acrylic, Sketch Book Journaling, Collage, Glass Slumping, Pour Painting, Ballpoint Pen Drawing and One-Day Clay.

New year and new responsibilities.

Dee Kelch will be responsible for keeping Facebook up to date.  Any information you want on there, give her a shout.  She will continue on as membership chairman.

Danielle Deweese will be responsible for creating and managing our Web Page.  Danielle is a new member and works at the University of Nebraska.

Carmen Stineman is going to be the working with Will Rennick managing the shows.

Our new publicity chairman is going to be Gretchen Olberding.  She will find the sources and you/the members, can help by giving her information and suggestions.

Mark your calendars!  The 2019 LAG show dates are as follows:

Febr. 28 – hanging of the Spring Show (Thursday) (at LUX)

April 4 – hanging the ANAC pre-qualifying show (Thursday) (at LUX)

Seward Fourth of July show (months of June and July)

July 11 – set up for 3-D Show (Thursday)

Sept. 9 – Havelock Car Show (one day only)

October 3 – hanging of the Fall Show (Thursday) (at LUX)

Many changes for this years shows.  The cost to enter the shows will be $10 for each piece, (or 3 pieces for $25),  Yes you may enter up to 3 pieces, 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional.  The reason for the increase is that we have not been breaking even after paying for a judge, ribbons and monetary payments to winners.  We are not out to make money, but we do need to cover our costs.

The location for our shows is changing also.  We will have our shows at the LUX Center for the Arts located at 2601 N. 48th Street in Lincoln.  We will have a large beautiful gallery upstairs (there is an elevator) that does not cost us anything.  We will be able to participate in their first Friday events complete with food and drinks.  The reasons are two-fold.  We should have more traffic as we are dovetailing along with their gallery shows, and we will not have to disturb our gallery pieces by removing, rehanging, etc.  The shows will still hang for approximately a month as before.

More information will follow about the time to bring work in but it is important to:

Send your registration forms (found at the bottom of your newsletter) to Ethel at least a week in advance of the hanging.  This facilitates getting tags ready prior to hanging day.

Carmen Stineman – Show Co-Chairman

Received an invitation from Brian Workman, the owner of My Silver Attic at 66th and Cotner.  “We have used, estate sale and consignment items that fill our store.  I wanted to take his opportunity to invite you and your artists to our showroom.  I thought that it might be a neat idea if you ever needed a place to go with lots of sketching or painting subject matter.  We have so much stuff that it might be fun to practice on different things.  Anyway, just reaching out and offering that to you.  Let me know if you are interested.”