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Events
Watercolor Classes
KARIN NOVAK-NEAL teaches two days a week at the Boulder City Recreation Center as well as private classes when time permits. Interested parties can contact the Department of Parks and Recreation in Boulder City at 294-0335 and talk to Patty Sullivan. Karin also critiques paintings along with two other artists on the internet. Her web page offers a variety of information for watercolorists. Log on to watercolorwoman.com. Website critiques are $39 each. For members of the Nevada Watercolor Society the price is $25. Karin's classes include elements of design, creating color and the use of the medium - water. Both beginning and advanced artists are welcome.
LOU ELLS teaches at Northwest Community Center (Lonemt. across from the Santa Fe Hotel) Tuesdays from 8 to 10 .m. This is a beginning senior class. She has another class on Tuesdays at the same location from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. which is a teen and adult class. Lou also teaches a class on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Derfelt Center (Lorenzi Park) for adults and seniors.
JOYCE HAILE PETERSEN (aka Joyce Lee Petersen) conducts a clss for seniors age 55 and over at the Senior center, henderson, Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m.
DOUGLAS LLOYD teaches three times a week at Dick Blick's on Pecos.
MARY SHAW teaches at the Mesquite Club on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and in the Summerlin area on Thursdays. For additional information on classes, please contact the instructors. Phone numbers are listed in the roster.
NOREEN PICO just finished up a series of watercolor classes at Desert Decor in Henderson. She will resume teaching in January 2001 at the same location. Classes are scheduled on Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon. Please contact Noreen at 898-0184 for further information. e-mail us if you have any questions.
Jitters - Summerlin Several
members have hung paintings in this location and some have sold. If you are
interested in exhibiting your work, contact Steven Sinert at 869-8391.
Letters
Got letters, but no notice: Dear Carolyn: The Boulder City Arts Guild holds the Clark County Art Show every year. I participated in it last year for the first time and was really surprised that more artists from Vegas were not in it. It was very profitable for me and I made a lot of sales and connections there. I noticed that it wasn't mentioned in the newsletter either and wondered if that is why no one from Vegas participates? I believe it's the 28th and 29th of April this year and I know there are still booths available. Contact Darrell McGarvey at DarrellMcg@aol.com In fact, I will send him a copy of this letter, too. Thanks! Karin
Dear Karin: You are correct on the dates and the fact that few from Las Vegas participate. Vegans are still the majority however. We have room for 100 booths and to date we have 50 artists! With sharing of space only 37 booth spaces are assigned. We spend upwards to $1,000 each year on ads in the RJ and Sun and some Views plus print 3,000 brochure - applications, mail out 850 and the rest are placed at Dick Blick(s), Desert Art Supply(s) and Aaron Brothers stores (as well as our Gallery) all inviting artists to participate. We have NEVER filled the park! That is why we are considering opening the show to artists in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, So. California and all of Nevada instead of So. Nevada only. If this occurs we may very well hear complaints that local artists can no longer get into the show because its sold out! We have a reservation program which guarantees the same booth space from year to year. If local artists want in the show, they had better get in early because the "outsiders" will soon take the empty booth spaces over! It would make me extremely happy one year to get back 100 reservation forms from 100 exhibitors that year. We can do that if we fill the park! Please note new email address...or use my domain address: darrell@dmcgarvey.com Thanks, Darrell
Exhibit Opportunities
Arts For The Parks Fifthteenth Annual Competition The National Park Academy of the Arts is accepting entries for the 15th Annual "Arts for the Park" painting competition. Over $94,000 dollars in prize money. A panel of three judges, Ross Merrill, Chief of Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Kathy Kelsey Foley, Director, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, and Antonio Clark, owner, Toh-Atin Publishing Company and Toh-Atin Gallery, Durango, Colorado, will select the top 100. Deadline for entires is June 1, 2001. Information and entry form can be accessed through their web site at www.artsfortheparks.com, e-mail artsfortheparks@blissnet.com, or call 1-800-553-2787.
Nevada Arts Council Visual Arts Competition Practicing artists are invited to enter Nevada Arts Council annual competition. NAC selects a Nevada artist through a jurying process to create the artwork presented to recipients of the agency's Governor's Arts Awards. The selected artist receives an honorarium of $3,000 for six pieces which must be completed by mid-October, 2001. Of the six pieces, five will be presented as awards and one will be kept for the NAC permanent collection. Deadline for applicants is March 30, 2001. For guidelines, rules, instructions and application information, contact Alyssa Leck at NAC, (775) 687-6680 or sarosse@clan.lib.nv.us.
San Diego Watercolor Society 21st Annual International Exhibition 2001 October 1 - 30. Slide deadline June 11, 2001. Louise Cadillac juror. Best of Show $1,000, three Awards of Excellence $650 each plus additional sponsor, merchandise and purchase selection awards in excess of $15,000. For prospectus contact San Diego Watercolor Society, Jane LaFazio, President, 2400 Kettner Blvd., Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92101-1259 or access their web site www.sdws.org.
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors August 25 - September 23, 2001. Slide deadline May 11. Bill James, Juror of Selection, Charles McVicker, Juror of Awards. Thousands of dollars in awards. For prospectus contact The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Inc., Arts Center Old Forge, P.O. Box 1144, Old Forge, NY 13420 or call (315) 369-6411.
Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Inc. International Exhibition, Magnum Opus XIII July 24 - August 11, 2001. Slide deadline June 5. Dale Laitinen Juror of Selection and Awards. Best of Show $700 award plus over $3000 in cash and merchandise awards. Open to watermedia, oil/acrylic/alkyd, soft pastel, graphics/pencil/pen & ink, mixed media/collage. For prospectus contact Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Inc. 5330-B Gibbons Drive, Carmichael, CA 95608 or call Phyllis Eymann, show chairperson, (916) 362-8503.
Make Your Mark On Strathmore! 2nd Art Contest - 2001 Watercolor. Subject: The subject of the drawing is open to entrant's discretion. Original artwork must be created on Strathmore Watercolor Paper. Specs: All entries must be postmarked by June 30, 2001. All entries must be original artwork and will be judged on creativity, style, expression and use of technique. Copyrighted images or other artist's works will be disqualified. Entries are to be submitted in the form of 35mm slides. You may enter as many times as you like; however, only one slide per entry is permitted. Rules: Slide submissions will not be returned. Finalists will be required to submit actual artwork. Submission of entry constitutes agreement that Strathmore can reproduce artwork for promotional use. Full credit will be given to the submitter. Contest judged by nationally renown panel of artists. Entries must include: 35mm Slide of Artwork, Artist's Name, Address, Telephone, Medium Used, Paper Used, Title of Piece. Mail entries to: Watercolor Contest, Strathmore Artist Papers, 39 South Broad Street, Westfield, MA 01085. NO ENTRY FEE -1st - $1,500, 2nd - $750, 3rd - $250, Five Honorable Mentions
For additional information about this and other upcoming contests, log on to Strathmore's contest web site at www.strathmoreartist.com.
