A Video walkthrough of the whole show!!

Sharon Dowis "Upstream People Gallery" Exhibit

Check out the Upstream People Gallery "Faces" Exhibit of Sharon Dowis Work!

Click Here to see it

Judges stated the following about her image............

SHARON L. DOWIS of Wausau, Wisconsin has captured perhaps one of the most interesting representations of a cat in the square formatted photograph of “Mr. Beau J.” showing the clever cropping and the fine details of the fur. The cat’s face at the upper left and the flow of the fur and tail make for a rich piece in an unusual composition.

WVAG Member Survey!! By Betsy Popp

Copy it, Paste it, Print it and mail it, do whatever you can do but I would "Select all" and copy to clipboard and then fill it out and e-mail it to Besty...............

This is how we make us a better group!!!!!   Rick

Betsy Popp writes............................

 Please read through the series of questions and provide some feedback. The sooner you send me back information, the sooner we can take our group down news paths as a benefit to all.

1.  What type of classes would you be interested in?

    What mediums?

    Short demos at monthly meetings?

    Possibly demos on video to pass around and/or to keep in a date base.

2.  When would you like to see a class offered?

    Weekends?

    Week Nights?

    Week Days?

3.  As WVAG member do you know of any facilities where classes could be held?

4.  If you have teaching skills and/or experience or an idea for a class, please list/discuss:

5.  What percentage of money received by an instructor through classes go back to the WVAG?

6.  Please include any other questions or information that you may have.


As I said, this is the start of an attempt to get going and organized with classes, demos, educational opportunities through the WVAG.

Please send this information back to Betsy Popp

Thanks

bpopp@wildblue.net

Ace Offers to Match Winnings money in Framing Grants!!

I talked to Christine this morning about a subject that was discussed briefly last night at the meeting. 

Amazingly she has talked our good friends at the framing shop at the Ace Hardware in Weston to match a WVAG members winnings in framing at the shop!  So if you won $150 at a show you just got $150 in free framing/matting/mounting/whatever you need from the shop!

Northern National Art Competition

3 $1000 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE!!

Entries due by May 16th

Professional development, technical assistance and training programs and workshops

Entitled "The Work of ART" our friends at ARTS WISCONSIN is offering a series of workshops regarding how to market, price, display, etc your art. The workshops are offered at a host of locations from Madison to Marshfield to Minocqua and others.

Here is a registration form but the majority of the information can be seen from their web site by Clicking Here

I have attached a Registration form here as well.

Thursday Feb 21 Meeting notes

Meeting last night was well attended and informative. This blog was discussed as well as the gracious offer of Member Mark Mittlesteadt's offer to volunteer his web building services to re-energize the WVAG web site that has been inactive for some time.  Mark and I will be working together so as not to overlap info.  This blog will continue with day to day member information and quicker easier updates and the Web Site is envisioned as something bigger in scope and scale and more informative to the general public looking to get info on the Guild but who doesn't really care about getting the entry forms or topics from the latest meeting went.

Mark is looking for any input you might have and can be reached at his business Air Designs at markm@airbrushdesigns.net.  His work can be seen at www.airbrushdesigns.net

There was discussion about making a higher quality brochure design to make available at shows.  Our current one is a little bland and should be more artistically representative for an artist group.

Artists were awarded cash prizes for work entered in the Reaching New Heights Gallery show.

Christine offered handouts of monetary awards for the last 13 shows.  You can see this form elsewhere in this blog.