Change day is Wednesday May 5. You may bring in your change pieces and monthly payment as early as Saturday the 1st, but hanging will be on Wednesday. We will leave the ANAC qualifiers work on display in our feature gallery for the month of May.
Category Archives: May 2021
New Chairs
Please take notice of the 25 new blue stacking chairs purchased for the gallery. Now you will not have to bring your own chairs to future meetings. Thank you Kirk for finding those.
Change Date
Wednesday May 5 from 12 – 6 will be the next gallery change day. You may pick up your Spring Show pieces, but we would like you to leave your ANAC selections and we will hang them in the feature gallery for the month. Consider this another “Mini Show”.
Spring Show Results
Congratulations to the artists whose work was selected for excellence at the Spring Show. Shelly Stoltenberg for “Best of Show”, Jan Garvin, Pam Apley, Reida Wrenholt and Donna Justen for merit awards and Danielle Dewees, Mindy Burton, Keri Kriston and Lynette Fast for Honorable Mentions. The judge this year was Nancy Childs. Child’s comments about the show were highly positive. She was very impressed with everyone’s use of color. She began her viewing with looking at the overall show, close up and also far away. The craftsmanship is also what drew her in, how labor intensive and time consuming it is. Critiques were made on every piece of work (40 in all) and those will be available at the monthly meetings with the remainder sent by email.
Best of Show “Dog and Eggplant” by Shelly Stoltenberg
21 pieces were also selected from this show, and those are being processed for the ANAC state convention. These will be in digital form so that eventually everyone will be able to view the entire state show at the conclusion of the convention in June.
Next show will be the 4th of July Show in Seward. The theme is: “Made in America” and pieces will be transported the first week in June. (exact date later) One or two entries per person are welcome, but keep the size manageable. There is no cost to enter, but a donation to the driver to pay for gas is welcome. Members are welcome to tag along and help hang. Carmen Stineman
New Members
The membership booklets are available at the gallery, just stop in and pick one up. (please check your name off the list). We do have a new member that did not make it into the book, so please add her.
Maydoran Perkins, 9020 Blacksmith Road, Lincoln, NE 68507, 303-507-3238, maydoranperkins@gmail.com
Proper Hanging
As the Show Committee hung the Spring Show we experienced several problems with how wire is applied to pieces. So to help the process we are asking you to follow these guidelines.
- Do not use super thin wire, if you have this wire, please double it up to avoid cut fingers hanging heavier items.
- When putting in your connectors ( I don’t know the proper name-sorry) measure down 1/3 of the way from the top. This is the optimal spot to attach the wire. We have some almost in the middle and some very close to the top.
- When twisting your wire to the sides, make the wire goes straight across to the opposite side. Do not leave any slack. It doesn’t have to be tight, but just straight. Several pieces came in that when hung, the wire actually stretched above the frame in the viewing area, and that is not a good look. The committee had to rewire several pieces, which took time and trouble.
Thank you. The LAG Show Committee
Workshops
As mentioned at the April LAG meeting, there are several workshops planned for the future. Gretchen Olberding is offering a pastel workshop, and Jan Garvin is offering a mixed media workshop. We can do either a Saturday or Sunday workshop, or even a two-day one if people are interested. The workshops would be held in the monthly meeting room and theoretically follow the nightly presentation at our meetings soon after. Lynette Fast is our coordinator.
May LAG Meeting Program
| May 11 | Lois Smith | Watercolor | Lois Smith, watercolor, watermedia, occasionally mixed media or oil. Member of Impact Nebraska Artists, Signature Member of Association of NE Art Clubs. We will go into painting nature to create a small painting with depth and color. Tips to use in the studio or in the field when working en Plein Aire. Lois will bring watercolor pencils for you to try…you just might love them. Participants may bring their own watercolors, brushes, and watercolor paper OR pay a $5 materials fee to the artist. | |
| June 8 | Keri Kriston | Painting Eyes : Color in the Planes of the Eye | Keri is a portrait painter and uses high contrast color. She will share her knowledge of color and explain how she thinks about color in her paintings. Bring small brushes for acrylic paint. | |
Address change
Found an error in the membership booklet. Please change the email address of Wanda Medina to:
wandajmedina@gmail.com
New Products
After Gretchen Olberding’s presention at our last meeting, she mentioned several products that she likes. Below are a couple of them.
The paint box was by Raymar.
This was the pencil sharpener.
