Sunday September 9th, the Capitol City Ford and Mustang Club in cooperation with the Havelock Business Association will be hosting a car show.  This show will block off all of main street in the Havelock area.  LAG is considering having a booth right in the center of the action.  We will have a canopy set up, screens for hanging art, and activities going on to promote our group both for kids and adults.  We will put up art work for sale but sales would have to be conducted with each individual artist due to state and local tax laws.  Exception would be for those artists possessing a tax number.  This display would involve all guild members, not just gallery members.  Here is your chance to get your feet wet so to speak.  We have a couple of artists that volunteered to do quick sketch portraits, rock painting, etc.  Are there members who would be willing to help out?  Let Carmen know before the August LAG meeting and we will then decide if there are enough members willing to help out.

Questions?

• How many art pieces can we bring?  Ans:  Optional, just let Carmen know how many pieces you would like to exhibit and we can go from there.  If there are too many pieces, we would necessarily have to reduce the number submitted.
• What kind of art?   Ans:  Anything you like, but think-“these are car people”, so you may get a sale or two with that theme.
• Time of event?   Ans:  It runs from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m.
• What does guild get?  Ans:  Recognition.  New members.  Commissions.

Our monthly LAG meeting for August 7th features Robert Borzekofski who will be talking to us about Pastel art.    Refreshments will be provided by Jan Blank and Linda Rasmussen.

September 4th meeting will focus Kurt Kuenzi and caricatures.  Bring sketchbook/paper/etc. to draw on, plus pencils/pens/etc.  If you are so inclined; bring a picture of an animal or even a person that you might want to transform into a caricature.   Refreshments will be provided by Lynette Fast.

October 2nd meeting will be our critique before the Fall Show.  This year we will not have one person doing the critiques but many.   The members will be doing the critiques, so we will have a varied and wide sampling of ideas and encouragement.   Refreshments will be provided by Lorena Wachendorf.

November 6th program will be focused on watercolor featuring Howard Kaye with refreshments provided by Lisa Cassel.

A gallery for Lincoln Art Guild; why?  A number of weeks ago I was watching an NET TV program about an art studio in Los Angeles.  The LA studio was located on skid row.  An art studio on skid row; why?  The program told the stories of some of the skid row artists and showed their art.  There was some pretty amazing talent from those individuals.  I’m not sure the program answered my questions of why people want to create and make art, but it struck me that for some it is an important thing to do.  I want to thank the LAG members for bringing their art to hang in the gallery.  A thanks to John for giving us space to hang our art at Against the Wall Gallery and Framing Shop, and many thanks to the gallery committee for all their work making the gallery happen.  Havelock may not be in California, or on skid row, but I think we have some pretty talented artists and creative art being produced right here in Lincoln Nebraska.  The gallery is open Tues-Sat, 10-5.  It is also open the first Friday of every month from 5-8 for an opportunity to meet many of the artists.  A gallery for the Lincoln Artists’ Guild; why?  Please join us and learn why.    Will Rennick

Next Gallery change date is Thursday August 16th at 10:00 a.m.

For gallery questions – please call Will Rennick 402-742-3414

Note:  Every time I walk into Against the Wall Gallery and Frame Shop, I am more impressed.  More and more art is showing up by the members and the display is beautiful.  I am putting this out there and I hope that I do not offend.  I realize that framing is costly, but in the long run, do you not want your work to be at it’s best?  Some of you may feel that going to a big box store is cost effective, but are we doing our art work an injustice?  Talking to others, the consensus is that even the box stores are not cheap, and John Ohare’s framing business (remember, members do get a discount) is probably as good as we could ever get as far as quality and cost.  I would encourage everyone to have your work done with John.  Lets give him as much business as we can in return for letting us house our gallery in his beautiful building.  Carmen Stineman

I hope that your summer plans have gone well and everyone is right in the swing of activities before schools begin for the next year.  After our July LAG meeting with our Fiber Artists, I was in awe of all the types of art work being created with fibers and additional adornments.  I was so enamored I found a magazine in the local grocery store entitled “Quilting Arts Magazine” and picked it up.  I would like to quote the editor Vivika Hansen DeNegre from her editor’s note page.  I felt it sums up what all of us as artists feel.

Fiber artists have the ability to look at the world with fresh eyes and the courage to explore the possibilities they uncover in their fiber art.  Of course, artists who work in every genre do this.  Impressionist painters were rebels in their time as they added what appeared to be layers of paint in an unruly manner to their canvases.  Architecture was forever changed by visionaries who opened up public spaces and private homes with new arrangements of light, metal, and concrete, and jazz composers created an enormous stir in the music world by writing scores with dissonant chord changes and room for lots of improvisation.  

But how do art quilters innovate?  The answer lies on the surface of their quilts and in the intention behind each piece.  It is in the complex layering of material, techniques, and meaning that the 21st century art quilt is evolving.

Are we 21st century artists?  Do we strive to be original?  Do we explore the unknown subjects, tools, techniques, of the world around us?  Let us stretch our imaginations, and step outside the box when we create.  Everybody has seen the traditional art work, but what makes your work stop people and force them to question/admire/or change their lives a little bit at a time?   Carmen Stineman

Quilt Trunk Show of Fiber Arts was our program for July.  Cynthia Levis and Rhonda Baldwin gave a wonderful presentation along with many examples of fiber art.  No longer is the term quilt being bandied around  Now the range of fibers being used in decoration goes the gambit from painting, stitching, to printing and photography.   Among several new techniques that were foreign at least to me, was the term Eco Printing.  YouTube videos about boiled books, is the same for fabrics, incorporating nature into the fabric, or papers if one so desires.  Jelly printing, mineral plates, free motion quilting, are all terms one may encounter when creating fiber arts.  These ladies, both members of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) gave us many wonderful ideas, that could be a starting point for artists of all mediums.  Carmen Stineman

Jan Blank has a new email.         Jan Blank……donblank1125@gmail.com

Craig Imig has a change.           craigimigcreations@yahoo.com    (one too many g’s before)

Please make the change in your membership booklet. Thank you.

“On the edge of something…”  You can finish that sentence, paragraph or story for yourself between now and the summer of 2019.  Join us in Boone county at Albion, Nebraska.  It isn’t in the middle of nowhere but on the edge of somewhere special and something spectacular.  Mark your calendars for June 19 – 22 for the 2019 ANAC Convention.

Leonardo Da Vinci knew how to marry observation and imagination, just as the LAG gallery committee knows how to make a “First Friday of the Month” gallery open house a success.  Friendly greeting at the door with a tasty snack from the reception table while enjoying the nostalgic setting for viewing fellow artist’s display of original art.  Easy parking both in front and back of the gallery.  The one thing that is needed to keep our club showing there, is to have YOU, the members, bringing in your friends so that the word can spread that we are there and ready to sell.  June’s reception was so friendly and fun that we want to share it with everyone.  Hope to see you the 3rd of August, anytime from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.  Joyce Jacobs