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Newsletter November
2009
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FALC General Meetings are held at 7:00
PM on the 2nd Monday of each month except July. For specific
meeting sites, please visit the Demo
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Calendar
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November 9, 2009
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GENERAL MEETING in the Cupertino
Room at Quinlan Center.
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ARTIST OF THE
MONTH - There will be no Artist of the Month at this meeting |
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PAINTING CHANGE
- Please pick up your Quinlan paintings between 6:30pm and
7pm before the meeting. You may bring another painting to
hang at Quinlan until the January 2010 meeting. Please note
that there is a $10/week storage charge for paintings that
are not picked up when scheduled. You can arrange for someone
to pick up your paintings if you cannot do so yourself. |
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November 16, 2009
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7 PM Steering
Meeting at Panera Bread, 20807 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino.
All members are encouraged to attend and participate in
planning for the club. |
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General
Meeting - November 9, 2009
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FALC
General Meeting, Cupertino Room, Quinlan
Center, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
Open
to the public. Guests welcome.
Using
Vacation Photos to Create Great Paintings
www.genway.com
Artist and Art Instructor -
Genway Gao will demonstate a landscape painting in oils. He
will guide us through the process of building great paintings
from our photos of landscapes and will talk about how to make
decisions on what we should enhance, include, delete and change
to make a great painting.
Genway teaches his art students
to use his process of painting. He says "The method I use
here, is very simple, natural but powerful. I believe this is
the shortest way to train artistic skills."
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FALC
Bylaws
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Once a year the FALC Board reviews the
FALC Bylaws for necessary changes and corrections. At the November
9 meeting we will be voting to make the following changes -
1. Membership fees are $30 per year and
$15 per year after July 1 for the remainder of the year.
2. The Treasurer is authorized to issue
checks on a single signature for amounts up to $200. The signature
limit does not apply on checks issued not in conjunction with
FALC expenses, such as transferring sales funds to artists.
3. The jury process for Exhibiting Membership
status occurs at regular monthly meetings except December
The FALC Bylaws are available at http://falc.org/org/index.html
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2009
December Holiday Party
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We hope you will join us on December 14th
at 7pm for the FALC Holiday Party. It is a FALC tradition to
paint together and make posters for the Pleasant View Convalescent
Home in Cupertino. You are welcome to paint very simple joyous
images that represent what the holiday season means to you.
The paper will be supplied to you but you will need to bring
your own fast drying water based paints and brushes. If you
prefer not to paint we welcome members to join us anyway.
Please bring a snack to share at the party
and a small wrapped gift worth about $5 to $10 which we will
deliver to the Convalescent Home. The patients at the Convalescent
Home sometimes do not have families visiting them at this time
of year and they truely appreciate the gifts we take for them.
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The
February Show - "From The Heart"
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Location - Main Street Cafe, Main Street, Los Altos
Show: February 1 to 28 / Entry deadline: January 15, 2010
Entry Form
We will show 40 paintings at the Main Street Cafe. One or two
entries will be accepted depending on the number of entries
submitted. Please mail in your form without the payment. Payment
will be made at Receiving on January 31 at the Cafe. Please
be sure to volunteer to help with at least one activity on the
entry form.
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2010
FALC Positions
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It is time to fill positions for 2010.
Please consider volunteering for an open position.
Our members have many skills and talents
that the club needs. Some of you have organizational skills,
some have technical skills, some have writing and creative
skills that you may want to enhance in the process of
helping the club. Volunteering for the club will help
you network with other creative people and would give
you an opportunity to try tasks that you have never tried
before. If you are concerned about flexibility with time
committments, you could also share a task with another
member at the club. Any involvement would be a great help!
If you have any questions or concerns
about volunteering for an Open Position below, please
call or email us at the numbers listed at the bottom of
the newsletter. We would be happy to guide you to a task
that is best suited to your time constraints and interests.
Monday November 9 we will vote for
our Steering committee. This includes: President, two
Vice Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary. Everyone is
eligible to run for these offices and nominations will
be accepted at the time of the vote. Already nominated
are Yelena Shabrova for Treasurer, Janki Chokshi for Secretary
and Nina Uppaluru for First Vice President. There are
no current nominations for President and Second Vice President.
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Steering
Committee positions that require nominations and votes
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| Positions |
Duties |
Nominations |
| President |
Agendas, conducting the general
meetings |
OPEN |
| Vice President |
Graphics, Website, Newsletter |
Nina Uppaluru |
| Vice President |
Exhibits |
OPEN |
| Treasurer |
Accounting and
tax filing |
Yelena Shabrova |
| Secretary |
Minutes of the General and
Steering meetings |
Janki Chokshi |
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Positions
that do not require nominations and votes
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| Printed Newsletter |
Create a 1 page word document
and mail to 10 members monthly |
OPEN |
| Hospitality |
Set up snacks during the general
meetings, send email reminders |
OPEN |
| Greeting table |
Set up table and
keep forms stocked for general meetings. |
OPEN |
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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
submit new allery page
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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FALC does not endorse the classes, venues
and events listed below. We simply list any information that
we determine would be of interest to our members.
Announcements
Belinda Lima's painting
"Shattered Mirror" was accepted into the International
Society of Acrylic Painters 2nd online Juried Show. You can
visit the show at www.isap-online.com
Belinda Lima's painting
"City Lights" was awarded an Honorable Mention at
Pacific Art League's Black and White Show.
Nina Uppaluru's painting
"Toward
the Light" won 3rd Place in Watermedia in the Los Gatos
Art Association show at the Art Museum of Los Gatos at 4 Tait
Avenue, Los Gatos. The show runs October 22nd to December 4th,
2009.
Shows
To Enter
The
Cupertino Library Foundation Show
- Deadline Dec 1, 2009. The theme for this show will be "The
Red Show". Maximum submission size 36". Entry forms
can be downloaded at http://www.cupertinolibrary.org/foundation/art_display.html
Classes
And Events
The Society of Western Artists
based in Redwood City, conducts workshop by national and local
artists. The workshops are conducted in their gallery in Redwood
City and are open to everyone. For more information on their
2010 workshops please visit www.societyofwesternartists.com
Kay Duffy Watercolor classes:
Hakone Gardens in Saratoga. Every 2nd and 4th Monday morning.
Please email 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 Saratoga. 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 -
| 2010 Workshops |
| Jan 10, Myrna Wacknov, Liquid Watercolor
Portraits |
| Feb 7, Christopher Schink |
| March 8, Ratindra Das |
| April 25, Steven Quiller Color |
| June 6, Katherine Chang Liu, Finding
yourself as an artist |
| Nov 6, Frank Webb, Saving whites
in a pattern to get you thru the painting |
Please
visit www.scvws.org for complete
workshop details.
Website
Design
Website Design: Have you
always wanted to have a website for your artwork but have no
idea how to get one made? Worried about updating it? A Monta
Vista HS student who has won awards for his web design work
has offered to design a basic website for you for $300. The
site would include a Home page, 2 Galleries with 8 pieces of
artwork each, an Events page and a Bio page. Updates to the
site (with about 3 pieces of new art and updating the events
page) would be about $50. Please contact Vikram Nilakantan at
vikram.nilakantan@gmail.com for more information.
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FALC
Guidelines - Criteria for Jurying-in new members
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FALC has been fortunate this year to welcome many
new members, and with our annual art show coming up in September,
we can look forward to many others being interested in joining
our club. One of the questions that we get asked the most from
current members and those who are interested in joining is about
our criteria for acceptance. Our process is clear and simple.
Anyone who wants to join needs to bring three pieces of art
to one of our meetings. The members present at that meeting
will vote, and, if a majority of people approve, that person
will be accepted, pay their dues, and become an exhibiting member.
The question about criteria is not so simple.
We all know that Art is subjective. Sometimes we benefit from
that subjectivity, and sometimes we don't. No one can tell you
what good Art is or isn't.
As a juried club, FALC strives to maintain a certain
standard of proficiency since organizations that invite us to
exhibit assume a certain selectivity. One rule of thumb commonly
used when voting in new members is to ask yourself this question
- Would I like to exhibit with this work? Would this new work
add to the reputation of the club? Just as we support each other
by bringing our best work to shows and by providing new, fresh
work for the painting changes at Quinlan, we can use our Artists'
eyes to make decisions about what work will be hanging beside
us at the next show.
Voting "no" during the jurying-in process does
not bar an artist from joining the club. The artist can still
be a member, just not an "exhibiting member". Non-exhibiting
members can attend demos and meetings that provide an environment
for their art to grow. As they continue to develop their skills,
they are welcome to jury in at a later date.
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FALC
Guidelines - 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 holder's 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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Treasurer / Quinlan show: Yelena
Shabrova
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Secretary / Publicity:
Janki Chokshi
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Refreshments: Ralph Otte with
Krishna Mitra and Jiradit Thurma assisting
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AVArtfest Coordinator: Priyanka
Gupta and Tanushri Mathur
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Demos and Programs: Laurie
Creveling
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Quinlan Show Coordinator: Yelena
and Slava Shabrova
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Graphics and Panel rental:
Carrie Zeidman
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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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