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Newsletter May
2009
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FALC General Meetings are held at 7:00
PM on the 2nd Monday of each month. For specific meeting
sites, please visit the Demo page. |
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Calendar
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May 11, 2009
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General
Meeting - Location Change
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Artist of the Month -
There will be no Artist of the Month at this meeting. |
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May 18, 2009
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Next Board Meeting at 21471
Columbus Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. All members are encouraged
to attend and become involved with the club. |
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June 6, 2009
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Our
next off-site show - AVArtfest at the Mountain View Pioneer
Park. See deadline dates below. |
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June 8, 2009
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The
next painting change at Quinlan. Please drop off your paintings
at Quinlan between 6:15 PM and 7:45 PM before proceeding
to Creekside for the general meeting at 7 PM. |
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2009
Membership Dues are now due
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We request all continuing and new members to fill out the membership
form and mail the form and $30 check to the PO Box address
on the form. You may also bring the form and payment to the
meeting on Monday and hand it over to Iona Ezaki, our membership
chairperson.
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May
11 , 2009 General Meeting
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NEW LOCATION: FALC
General Meeting, Creekside Park, 10455 Miller Avenue, Cupertino
Open
to the public. Guests welcome.
Holly
Van Hart - Demonstration of the Palette Knife Technique
Holly Van Hart is an award
winning artist who especially loves painting with a palette
knife. Holly's passion is creating landscape, figurative and
abstract oil paintings that reflect the beauty and complexity
of life. She has the ability to capture nature, with a palette
knife, from realism to abstraction. Holly will demonstrate her
palette knife technique using oil paints and her favorite oil
painting mediums.
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At
the April meeting
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Jose Arenas critiqued about 40 paintings, sharing
his insights into improving images with color, texture, light
and composition. The meeting was attended by about 40 members.
We would like to welcome new members Nancy Near,
Marsha Schultz, Li-Wei Lu, Kim Newell who were all juried in.
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Volunteer
Positions Open
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We
are still looking for volunteers for the following jobs. Please
contact Laurie, Nina or Iona if you are interested in volunteering.
| Demo
Coordinator
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Duties include contacting possible demo artists for our
general meetings, setting up dates to demo, supplying
them with information and making the demo artist's information
available for the club newsletter. We will supply you
with a suggested list of artists who might do demonstrations
or you are welcome to suggest anyone. Our thanks to Tamar
Assaf who coordinated demos till October 2009. We need
someone to fill this position for the last quarter of
2009.
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Our thanks to Yao-Pi
Hsu for volunteering to mail out the snail-mail newsletter starting
in May.
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Open
Studios
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Several FALC members will be
participating in Open Studios during the first 3 weekends in May.
For detailed information and
websites of the artists, please visit www.svos.org
for a full online gallery.
Satudays and Sundays, 11 AM -
5PM
| Rajani Balaram |
Weekend 2 |
| Janki Chokshi |
Weekend 2 |
| Iona Ezaki |
Weekend 2 |
| Jane Ferguson |
Weekend 2 |
| Bill Galarneau |
Weekend 2 |
| Yao-Pi Hsu |
Weekend 2 |
| Rajiv Khilnani |
Weekend 1, 2 |
| Joy Kuo |
Weekend 2 |
| Belinda Lima |
Weekend 1, 2, 3 |
| Krishna Mitra |
Weekend 3 |
| Yelena Shabrova |
Weekend 1, 2, 3 |
| Slava Shabrov |
Weekend 1, 2, 3 |
| Grace Seidman |
Weekend 2 |
| Grace Tang |
Weekend 2 |
| Jiradit Thurma |
Weekend 2 |
| Nina Uppaluru |
Weekend 2 |
| Nancy Wulff |
Weekend 1, 2, 3 |
| Carrie Zeidman |
Weekend 2 |
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Our
next show - AVArtfest in June at the Mountain View Pioneer Park
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June 6, 2009 / 10 AM - 6 PM
Organizers - Iona Ezaki, Priyanka Gupta and
Tanushri Mathur
2009 AVArtfest will be held this year at the Mountain View Pioneer
Park on June 6th, 10am to 5pm. Priyanka Gupta and Tanushri Mathur
have volunteered to help organize FALC participation in AVArtfest
this year.
We now have 24 artists registered to show with the FALC group.
Updates and instructions will be emailed to the participants.
All members who are not participating are invited to visit the
show and spread the word.
Please read the important new FALC
Guidelines regarding copyrighted material. These guidelines
apply to artwork entered at all shows with FALC.
Photo from the 2007 AVA show
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Artist
of the Month
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There will be no Artist of the Month event at the May meeting.
Images from March 09 Artist
of the Month
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Next
Painting change date at Quinlan - June 8, 2009
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Please go to Quinlan between 6:15 PM and
6:45 PM to drop off and pick up paintings before you proceed to
Creekside for the general meeting at 7 PM. Quinlan show coordinator
Slava Shabrov will be at Quinlan to do the painting exchange.
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Gallery
Pages
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If you have not done so already, please don't forget to send
us the information we require to create a gallery page for you.
For instructions on sending in your information, please visit
/gallery/submit_new_gallery_page.html and email
all necessary information to janki_chokshi@hotmail.com.
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Open
Studios / Panel Rental
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Panels are available for rent
all year at $5/weekend for members and $7 / weekend for non-members.
For panel rental and availability please email Carrie Zeidman
at czeidman@elanstudios.net or call her at 408-741-5809.
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Shows
to Visit
Open Studios 2009: FALC
artists who will participate are listed above. For a full list
of artists, locations and websites please visit www.svos.org.
Priyanka Gupta: Exhibition
of paintings at CIS/Stanford University March 20 - May 14, 2009.
Please visit http://cis.stanford.edu/~marigros/#top for more
details.
Cupertino Library Show:
Torre Avenue, Cupertino. April 1 to June 30th. The library unveils
their first art display titled "Spring Fever". Congratulations
to the FALC artists who were accepted to the show. The library
will hold 4 shows each year. For details on how to enter, please
visit http://www.cupertinolibrary.org/foundation/art_display.html
Shows
to Enter
The Cupertino Library will
now show art by artists in the community. Their next show "Go
Figure" will run from July 1 through September 30th. The
registration and entry submission deadline is June 1. Please
visit their website for updated information for entering the
show http://www.cupertinolibrary.org/foundation/art_display.html
Allegro Framing and
Art in Cupertino and Los Altos has a monthly rotating art
exhibits. They are looking for artists to feature. Please call
Irina Gorelik at 510-703-1534 if you would like to exhibit.
www.allegroframing.com.
The Art of Crafts: CALL
FOR ENTRIES Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2009 5 p.m. Postmarks
not accepted. Bay Area artists are invited to compete for cash
awards in “The Art of Crafts” Indoor Art Exhibition sponsored
by the City of Santa Clara and its Cultural Advisory Commission.
Artists are encouraged to enter artwork in any traditional or
non-traditional craft media, such as ceramics, enamels, fiber,
furniture, glass, textiles, metalsmithing, paper, wood, and
mixed media. Winning entries in this juried competition will
be on display at Santa Clara City Hall September-December 2009,
and will be featured in a “virtual” exhibition on the City’s
website and cable television channel. For purposes of this exhibition,
"crafts" is loosely defined as the production of original pieces,
unique or in several copies, aimed at a utilitarian, decorative
or expressive function. Prospectus and entry forms may be obtained
from the City's website at http://santaclaraca.gov/events/art-of-crafts.html.
There is no entry fee. For more information, call (408) 615-2219
or send an email to culturalcommission@santaclaraca.gov.
Classes
and Events
Kay Duffy Watercolor classes:
Hakone Gardens in Saratoga. Every 2nd and 4th Monday morning.
Go to K@kayduffywatercolors.com for detailed information.
The Grand View Ranch Workshop-
Stefan Baumann's 3 day weekend workshop in beautiful Mt. Shasta
at the Grand View Ranch. Info at www.thegrandview.com
1-800-511-1337 baumann@thegrandview.org
Landscape painting classes
with Stefan Baumann. Weekly on Thursdays in San Jose. Info
at www.thegrandview.org
The
Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society has
free demos offered in 2009. Location: Hoover Theater, Room A
& B, 1635 Park Avenue, San Jose. 1:30 to 4:00 PM. Workshop
artists are - Don Andrews on June 21, Gerald Brommer on August
16, Ken Hosmer on September 13, Betsy Dillard Stroud on October
18. Please
visit www.scvws.org for complete
workshop details.
Opportunities
for Artists
Allegro Art Academy
is looking for art instructors to teach art classes for children
and adults. Allegro Art Academy has two locations – Portola
Valley and Cupertino (border of Los Altos). If you are interested,
please inquire with Irina Gorelik at 510-703-1534 or email igorelik@earthlink.net.
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| Profile
of the Month |
Jim Burns began sketching as a child with charcoal pencils.
In his early twenties, he painted California landscapes in oil.
Since ending his career as an electronics executive in 2001,
Jim has taken up painting familiar California scenes in the
plein air style. In addition to painting in oil, Jim became
attracted to pastels for their vibrancy of color and great flexibility
in painting. Jim has always been a person who enjoys the beauty
of nature and outdoor activities. As a contemporary realist
painter, he gathers inspiration from the beauty of the land
and sea around him, capturing the atmosphere of light cast upon
the landscape. To improve his art skills and range of painting,
he has been enrolled in the BA Fine Arts program at San Jose
State University for several years. Jim lives in Los Altos,
California and paints a wide array of subjects that strike his
imagination and captivate his viewers.
Jim has always been an involved member of our club and has
cheerfully volunteered to help at FALC events. We would like
to thank him for his service to the club.
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FALC
Guidelines regarding copyrighted material
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The laws regarding copyrighted
material are complex and not uniform from state to state. In order
to avoid liability and the burden of determining whether a particular
image involves copyright infringement, FALC has created the following
guidelines for member artists. FALC assumes that it is the respoinsibility
of the artist to honestly follow these guidelines and assumes
no liability for work that is submitted or displayed not following
these guidelines. It reserves the right to disqualify a painting
if there is reasonable doubt about copyright infringement or plagiarism.
- Work entered for a show must be the
artist's original work in concept and execution.
- It cannot be copied from copyrighted
material or photographs belonging to another person or organizaion
except with the copyright holders explicit written permission.
- It cannot be the reproduction of a
painting done by another person even if the original artist
is acknowledged on the painting.
- It cannot be the reproduction of a
historic painting.
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FALC
Board 2009
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President: Laurie Creveling
- 408-243-9791 / Agenda
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Vice President: Iona Ezaki
408-978-6614 / Membership
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Vice President: Nina Uppaluru
- 408-257-1315 / Newsletter, Website
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Demos and Programs: Tamar Assaf
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AVArtfest Coordinator: Priyanka
Gupta and Tanushri Mathur
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Treasurer: Yelena Shabrova
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Website: Nina Uppaluru, Janki
Chokshi
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Quinlan Show Coordinator: Yelena
and Slava Shabrova
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Secretary: Janki
Chokshi
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Publicity: Janki
Chokshi
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Graphics and Panel rental:
Carrie Zeidman
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Refreshments: Ralph Otte, Krishna
Mitra and Jiradit Thurma
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Mtg Coordinator: Gary
Ratts, Holly Van Hart and Grace Seidman
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We would
love to hear from you. Please send questions or comments to
information@falc.org
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