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JANUARY 2017 NEWSLETTER

“JAMES PENGUIN” At the Calgary Zoo wishes you all A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Wonderful Christmas Crafts by ASSC members!!

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE! As you read this 2017 is upon us! Can you believe – 2017!! The ASSC is into its 32nd year! .. it is bigger and better than ever! I do hope you enjoy the year of art and fellowship which is ahead of us. Be thankful that we are Albertans, free to share our passion with our friends and the world! I thank all the members who assisted me in 2016 and have agreed to do so in 2017. Thank you so much for having faith in me to lead and keep the Society organized and busy in 2017! I do enjoy my position but will attempt to delegate more in 2017..so anticipate a call from me sometime! The list of accomplishments at the end of this Newsletter confirms we had a great 2016…thanks to a wonderful Board, great volunteers! Welcome to all new members, and Welcome to new Board members: Wally Lynds & Arlene Bowles. I look forward to working with you. Thanks as well to all the other Board members who are returning to make decisions throughout the year. At the January meeting, don’t forget to pay your membership for 2017 if you have not done so already (online or at the January 10th meeting), and sign up for a workshop or two. Also don’t forget to contact the ACACA and pay your membership so you can show this year. Every hour of volunteer time is very much appreciated in a Society as busy as this one, but involvement does not just mean volunteering, it also means being together in the Centre as often as possible to meet, share ideas, socialize, and just plain “talk about art” – and other stuff over a coffee and snacks. To all those travelling south and beyond this winter, our thoughts are with you. May you return safely to be with us.

Let’s be “friends in art” and let’s keep this Society one of the best!

Regards, Sonja

MEMBERS’ CORNER

Next Board Meeting: Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 6:30 PM, @ Ottewell Centre

Next General Meeting: Tuesday, January 10, 7 pm. at Ottewell Centre. We will view

some history of the ASSC and some interesting artwork being produced… prior to the meeting.

Loft Gallery Opening: Saturday, February 4 – 12 to 4 pm.

DVD Social Afternoon: Saturday, February 4, $10, Enjoy the company of artists, watch a DVD on “Making Money with your Art” ..which we would all like to do!! Enjoy refreshments and snacks! Register via the website.

ACACA Show this Summer!

The Alberta Community Art Clubs Association will be holding their Alberta Wide Show at the Ottewell Centre from July 19 to August 13, 2017!!!

The artwork to be shown will be the winning entries from the Zone Shows (locations yet to be determined). There will be approximately 100 paintings coming into the Centre, and these will be juried further. The winning entries will be featured at the Alberta Spirit Show.

Members! You are encouraged to pay a membership to the ACACA before February 28, 2017 ($30) for entrance into the Northern and/or Central zone shows. This will allow you to enter up to 3 paintings in any of the zone shows. See acaca.ca for a membership registration form. We have had many members who have been juried as “winners” in their past shows. Hopefully the jurors will send your entry on to the Alberta Wide Show and who knows from there! Let’s support this Association in our own Centre during the summer of 2017!

VOLUNTEER HOURS: Please record your volunteer hours in the book located in the drawer to the left of the kitchen sink. These hours will enable you to show your artwork in 2017 & they are also part of the application for the ASSC’s

annual AFA grant. Volunteering with other member artists to produce an art project or event makes us a personal Society and not a business. Of course, it is a fact that not everyone can volunteer time, so your support of the activities of the Society is also much appreciated

EXPLANATION OF VOLUNTEER HOURS AND MEETING

If you have accumulated volunteer hours in 2016 and you pay your membership fee before January 31, 2017, 10 of those hours can be carried forward to 2017. If your fees are not paid by January 31, 2017 your 2016 accumulations will be lost and you will be required to record 20 hours of volunteer time and attend 3 meetings prior to showing artwork in the Spring Show or the Loft Gallery. If you do not intend to show artwork in the Loft Gallery or the Spring Show in 2017, then this ruling does not apply - BUT the Society would like to know that you are on board so you can participate in the Christmas Market and any other events that will be organized throughout the year. Also, if you are on the membership list,

you will receive the monthly newsletter to keep you up to date on happenings and news!!! Fees can be paid at the January 10th meeting, mailed to the ASSC (PO Box 3061, Sherwood Park, T8H 2T1) dropped off at the Ottewell Centre or phoned in to Sue at the office on any Monday or Wednesday afternoon from 12 to 4 pm. _

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Please stop at the Welcome Table on your way into meetings and sign in for the evening. This is important for the ASSC meeting attendance record and it may become important to you too if you are planning on showing your artwork at ASSC shows.

“LIKE” the ASSC on Facebook and please pass the message around!!!

Happy New Year from the Library Committee.

We had a great year in 2016 and really enjoy working with you all. We added 74 new items to the library—55 books, 6 magazines, 12 DVDs and 1 Book/DVD combo. We bought 32 of these resources and generous members donated the other 42. Watercolour remains our most popular category, and we added 17 items there. However, Acrylic and Mixed Media are both gaining in popularity, and we expanded our library holdings there with books and DVDs. Those who are exploring Abstract works can find new resources under Miscellaneous and also under the different genres of art. Our plan for 2017 is to continue to listen to where you, the ASSC members, are taking your art (or where it’s taking you!). We’ll add resources to the library based on your recommendations, your feedback and what’s up-and-coming in the art world. Please let us know if there’s a book or DVD that you’d think other ASSC members will enjoy. If we buy the item on your say-so, you get to borrow it first. We’re looking forward to another wonderful art-filled year, and to seeing you all in the Library Corner at our meetings. Kind regards, The Library Committee.

Second Annual HIDDEN TREASURES OPEN STUDIO ART TOUR

June 24th and 25th, 2017 10 am to 5 pm

presented by the Art Society of Strathcona County

We are in the planning stages for the 2nd Annual Hidden Treasures Open Studio Art Tour!! This is a self guided tour of Strathcona County artists' working studios which is free to the public. Artists will be able to open up their creative spaces showing many works of art which will be for sale. Either open up your home studio or set up a booth in the Ottewell Center. All artists are required to be present for the duration of the tour. Home studios should have easy and safe access for the public and artists will need to ensure that they have liability coverage through their homeowner’s insurance policy. Artists are encouraged to hold their own door prize as a method of capturing email addresses for their mailing list. As per feedback from last year, we plan to allow participating artists to view all studios on the evening before the tour. On-line registration for both home and Ottewell Center artists opens February 1st. DUE TO LIMITED SPACE OF THE OTTEWELL CENTER, THE FIRST 10 ARTISTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Registration is open to all ASSC members. There is no limit to home studios participating. Cost of registration is $50 for home studios and $60 for the Ottewell Center. Registration, payment and a digital image of your art must be received by February 28th. There are no refunds of registration. Send your digital image to normacallicott59@gmail.com. Additionally, contact Norma Callicott at 780 464 2519 with any questions you may have.

WINTER WORKSHOPS 2017 Elaine Tweedy, Workshop Coordinator, is snow birding

in California!

JANUARY • ACRYLIC: MORE OF LETTING GO With Nancy Corrigan Jan. 21/22 10-4pm

Cost $100

• Paint Along DVD WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRATIONS BY JOHN PIKE Jan. 24, 10-2pm Cost $5.00

FEBRUARY • DVD Social “Making Money with Your Art” - Robert & Kate Burridge, Sat.

Feb. 4, 1-3:30pm. Cost $10

• 6 Week Session Composition and Design - Willie Wong Feb. 13 – March 27 9:30-12:30. Cost $150

• PAINT ALONG DVD THE MANY STYLES OF CHENG-KHEE CHEE - INTRODUCTION & INTERVIEW PART 1- Feb. 21, 10-2pm Cost $5

• FLORAL-STILL LIFE COMBO in OILS & ACRYLIC – Cheryl Peddie Feb. 25/26 10-4pm Cost $100

MARCH • SEDUCTIVE SURFACES - Jean Pederson March 10, 11, 12 10am-4 Cost

$150 • PAINT ALONG DVD - THE MANY STYLES OF CHENG-KHEE CHEE -

INTRODUCTION & INTERVIEW PART 2 March 21, 10-2pm Cost $5 • ROCKS AND WATERFALL IN WATERCOLOUR – Intermediate to Advanced

- Jerry Heine March 26, 9:30-4pm Cost $50

APRIL • Paint Along DVD April 4, 10am – 2pm Cost $5

MAY • France Alty-Arscott USING COLOUR EFFECTIVELY IN WATERCOLOUR –

INTERMEDIATE May 6/7, 10-3:30 Cost $100

JUNE

• “EVERYDAY PLACES, EVERDAY PEOPLE” -Watercolour with International Artist Graham Berry

June 9 6:30-9:30; June 10/11 9:30-4:30 Cost $125

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January – closed!

February – outside show

February 1 – deadline to enter March/April Show

February 25 – pick up date

February 26 – Hanging of March/April Show

April 1 – deadline to enter May/June Show

April 29 – pick up dates

April 30 – hanging for May/June Show

June 24 – all items to be out of Gift Gallery & Loft Gallery

Sherwood Park Photography Group of the Art Society of Strathcona County Agenda

January 17 ..Subject - Post processing work flow, with a presentation on the work flow with lightroom and photoshop. January Assignment - Work flow processing, with knowledge acquired from the presentation rework previous photos and bring in the before and after images for next meeting. February 21 .. Subject - Flash (internal and external) a presentation of creative uses of internal flash and uses of external flash mounted and unmounted and some accessories. February Assignment - creative photos using internal or external flash. March 21 .. Subject - Macro photography, presentation on macro photography with or with out a macro lens plus creative lighting.

March Assignment - Macro images Meetings at the Ottewell Centre.

Email shpkphoto@gmail.com for more information.

2016 ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!! SHOWS Annual Spring Show – April 16, 17, 18 Student Show combined with County Art Acquisition – May 6 and 7 Mothers’ Day Tea and Art Show – May 8 Hosting ACACA Alberta Wide Show – July 15 to August 14 MIS Show – July 17 to September 17 Fall Show - October 14, 15, 16 Cross Cancer Show – October 17, 18, 19 Christmas Market – November 12, 13 Workshops: DVD sessions instituted throughout the year Paint Along with DVD’s instituted throughout the year January – Willie Wong, Acrylics Dixon & McLaughlin – Photography 101 February – Dixon & McLaughlin – Photograph 201 Nancy Corrigan – Action Painting David Shkolny – Composition David Shkolny – Soft Pastels March – Dutchak & Cline - Zentangle Willie Wong – Watercolors for Beginners Dixon & McLaughlin – Photograph 301 April – Jerry Markham – Paint What you See David Langevin – Acrylics Terrie Shaw – Mixed Media September –Joyce Boyer – Plein Air Pastel Roy McLaughlin – Lightroom Editing Willie Wong = Watercolors Anne McCartney – Pen/Ink, Watercolors Samantha Williams – Golden Sampler October – Frances Alty-Arscott – Drawing Course Gregg Johnson – Prairie Landscapes November – Dutchak & Cline – Zentangle 11 ASSC: Speaker – January - Barbara Mitchell – Naming Artwork Speaker – February –Doris Charest Speaker – March – Shirley Stewart - Critique Speaker – April – Barbara Chapman – Strathcona County Permanent Collection Speaker – May – Joyce Boyer – Arizona Workshop Speaker – September – Chris Carson, VAAA, Carfac Speaker – October – ASSC Library Committee Speaker – November – Artist Maurade Baynton AFA grant applied for and received

New Arts Development Grants applied for January to May re workshops - granted Special Events Grant applied for and granted for Initial Art Studio Tour Special Events Grant applied for and granted for hosting ACACA Alberta Wide Shows Member Appreciation Social Evening to thank volunteers, with Speaker Leading Edge booked 3 workshops into the O Centre Special information meetings held for new members before 3 general meetings Outside artwork scheduled and changed periodically for Rosie’s Restaurant And MLA A. McKitrick’s office Plein Air paintings sessions organized at Ukrainian Village, June 10, August 9 Ukrainian Village Heritage Days – display of artwork Christmas meeting Potluck, with donations for\ A Safe Place and Food Bank An Art Challenge program set up, with artwork shown at March, June, September and December meetings Art Supply Garage Sale set up at June show ASSC advertisement in Galleries West Magazine set up for continuous posting Community: Promotional booth set up at Night of Artists, Enjoy Centre Promotional booth set up at Chamber of Commerce Trade Fair Ottewell New Contract for Coordinator for Ottewell Centre through Centre: May 1 to October 30. November 1 through April 30, 2017 County rebate received for utilities Level of rentals maintained with workshops and art related events Fire inspections completed Meetings Held with Strathcona County re Sustainability of County halls, And presenting input New Defibulator installed by Strathcona County,

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY 2017 Executive, Board and Committees 2017 Executive: President: Sonja Marinoske. Vice President: Norma Callicott Past President: Lynn Bowditch Secretary: Shellie Patzer Treasurer: Marie Schelske Board of Directors: Loft Gallery: Arlene Bowles Workshops: Elaine Tweedy (with help from Sue Borland And Joyce Boyer) Board Members at Large: Sue Borland, Sheila Cline, Kay McCormack Trish Haugen, Arlyn Belden, Bonnie Halliday, Wally Lynds, Dess Plewis or Joyce Boyer Standing Committees: Website: Mohamed Hirji, with help from Peter Hahn Membership: Sue Borland, Lorraine Schuld, Ellen Kempers, Lily Duchak Library: Christina Lindsay, Judi Fairweather, Jean Wall, Vern Wall, Linda Morrow, Val Holts, Inger Paulsen, Leslie Degner, Carol Benson Loft Gallery Committee:, Arlene Bowles, Kay McCormack, Leslie Degner, Terrie Shaw, Trish Haugen, Val Guterson, Susan Berwald Advertising: Sonja Marinoske Casino Chair: Brian Litwin Newsletter: Spring Show: Antoinette Alleyne, Brian Litwin, Arlyn Belden, Sabina Banu, Jennifer Holm, Lily Duchak, Lynn Sinfield, Lynda McAmmond, Terrie Shaw, Carole May Coty Fall Show: Bonnie Halliday, Joyce Boyer, Elaine Tweedy, Terrie Shaw, Carole May Coty Student Show: Kay McCormack, Trish Haugen, Brian Litwin, Lynn Sinfield Christmas Market: Joyce Boyer, Norma Callicott, Marie Schelske Meeting Coordinator: Kitchen for General Meetings: Sirkka Kadatz, Grace Lange ACACA Alberta Wide Show Monitor: Art Gallery Tour 2016 – Norma Callicott, , Elaine Tweedy, (Antoinette Alleyne for OC) Margaret Klappstein, Sylvia Godina

Cross Cancer Show: Joyce Boyer, Arlene Bowles DOW Centennial Show –Linda Morrow, Wally Lynds ASSC Mentors: Terrie Shaw, Trish Haugen, Bonnie Halliday Volunteer Hour Recorder: Sabina Banu

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