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NWWS President
Linda Dunn
Greetings, All,
As I write this, we are looking ahead to the opening of our upcoming Open Exhibition at the Seattle Convention Center April 17th –July 17th. This arena gives us tremendous visibility to the thousands of convention go-ers and passersby. We have had close to 400 entrants and will be showing the images of all entries at our February meeting as is our custom. Please join us at the Reception on April 22nd. Also, there are several spaces left in the workshop Apr. 19-23rd.
The Show Chair, Lola Deaton, and her assistant, Lynn Coyle, have already put in a tremendous amount of work. They are getting the word out to artists and other watercolor societies as well as working towards finding sponsors for the reception and the show. We are still looking for more sponsors to step up, so if you have any corporate connections or are willing to help, please give Lola or Lynn a call. Lola also connected with our wonderful juror, Joe Garcia, and created a raffle of one of Joe’s beautiful autographed out of print books, Mastering the Watercolor Wash. Tickets at $2 each can be purchased at one of our meetings or from Board Members.
Other events we are looking forward to include: quarterly hanging 30-40 paintings at Overlake Hospital, a potential “alternative” show this summer in a local Kirkland gallery for local members and continued planning for our 75th celebration in 2014.
The Alternative Show is still in its initial planning stages with the idea being that watermedia artists are exploring new techniques, materials and modes of presentation. The result is that the finished works often don’t fit our traditional rules for entering shows. These methods can include things like painting on silk, collage pieces that have a relief quality such that glass detracts from the finished product, work that is varnished and may be on canvas rather than paper and so on. So, get creative and stand-by for more info.
2014 is our 75th anniversary. Currently, we are strategizing about venues for a possible retrospective as well as related events such as lectures, community events and a video program for cable. This will take lots of member input, coordination and collaboration so put on your thinking caps!
Cordially,
Linda Dunn
President
NWWS President
Linda Dunn
Greetings, All,
As I write this, we are looking ahead to the opening of our upcoming Open Exhibition at the Seattle Convention Center April 17th –July 17th. This arena gives us tremendous visibility to the thousands of convention go-ers and passersby. We have had close to 400 entrants and will be showing the images of all entries at our February meeting as is our custom. Please join us at the Reception on April 22nd. Also, there are several spaces left in the workshop Apr. 19-23rd.
The Show Chair, Lola Deaton, and her assistant, Lynn Coyle, have already put in a tremendous amount of work. They are getting the word out to artists and other watercolor societies as well as working towards finding sponsors for the reception and the show. We are still looking for more sponsors to step up, so if you have any corporate connections or are willing to help, please give Lola or Lynn a call. Lola also connected with our wonderful juror, Joe Garcia, and created a raffle of one of Joe’s beautiful autographed out of print books, Mastering the Watercolor Wash. Tickets at $2 each can be purchased at one of our meetings or from Board Members.
Other events we are looking forward to include: quarterly hanging 30-40 paintings at Overlake Hospital, a potential “alternative” show this summer in a local Kirkland gallery for local members and continued planning for our 75th celebration in 2014.
The Alternative Show is still in its initial planning stages with the idea being that watermedia artists are exploring new techniques, materials and modes of presentation. The result is that the finished works often don’t fit our traditional rules for entering shows. These methods can include things like painting on silk, collage pieces that have a relief quality such that glass detracts from the finished product, work that is varnished and may be on canvas rather than paper and so on. So, get creative and stand-by for more info.
2014 is our 75th anniversary. Currently, we are strategizing about venues for a possible retrospective as well as related events such as lectures, community events and a video program for cable. This will take lots of member input, coordination and collaboration so put on your thinking caps!
Cordially,
Linda Dunn
President
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