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Newsletter September
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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August 26, 2009
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Notification
of acceptance to the Fall Fest Show |
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August 31, 2009
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Next
Board Meeting at 21471 Columbus Avenue, Cupertino |
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September 14, 2009
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General Meeting in the Social Room
at Quinlan Center
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September 14, 2009
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Quinlan Show painting
pick-up. Do not bring paintings to drop off (see September
21 below) |
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September 17, 2009
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8 AM - 9:30 AM
- RECEIVING for the Fall Fest Show |
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September 18, 2009
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7 PM RECEPTION
& AUCTION for the Fall Fest Show |
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September 19-20 , 2009
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2009 Fall Fest
Show |
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September 21, 2009
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Noon to 1PM -
Participants of the Fall Fest Show drop off their Fall Fest
paintings at Quinlan. |
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General
Meeting - September 14, 2009
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FALC
General Meeting, Social Room, Quinlan
Center, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
Open
to the public. Guests welcome.
Kay
Duffy - Abstract Collage and Watermedia
Kay
Duffy is a "wet and loose" watercolor artist. Her paintings
are bright and impressionistic. She uses bold colors, broad
strokes, and strong shapes to depict the natural landscape,
flowers and trees, interesting buildings, foreign lands and
exotic places. Her abstract collaged (glued) paintings are created
by arranging interesting patterns of papers textured in a unique
way with watercolor pigments. Kay teaches on-going watercolor
classes and collage workshops at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga.
She is also available for demonstrations, critique sessions,
workshops and show jurying. She is willing to discuss commissioned
work.
Kay is an active member of
the Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society, Allied Artists West,
and a signature member of the Society of Western Artists. She
shows throughout the Bay Area and has participated annually
in the prestigious Saratoga Rotary Art Show. The City of Saratoga
honored this local artist by presenting one of her paintings
to their Sister City, Muko-shi, Japan. Kay ‘s watercolors can
be found in corporate and private collections in the U. S.,
Canada, Europe and Japan.
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At
the August General Meeting
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Ketra Oberlander gave an insightful talk on Art
Marketing.
We welcome new members Sloange Glaize, Steven
Hoerold and Reema Sachar who were all juried in.
Our thanks to Tammar Assaf and Vlad Levitsky for
bringing the refreshments.
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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 through 2010.
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The
2009 FALC Fall Fest Annual Juried Show
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Thank you all for your entries to the Fall Fest Show! You will
be notified about your acceptance by September 26.
We hope to make the show an even bigger success than it has
been in the past. Our juried show presents the very best that
FALC has to offer to the community and we hope to have the involvement
and participation of all of our members.
Photos from the
2008 Show
Jose Arenas- Foothill College Professor, will be the Juror
for the show.
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Show dates-
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September 19 - 20, 2009 |
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Entry deadline-
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August 14, 2009 |
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Notification of acceptance by email-
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August 26, 2009 |
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Receiving-
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September 17, 2009 / 8 AM
- 9:30 AM |
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Reception & Awards-
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September 18, 2009 / 7 PM
to 9 PM |
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Takedown-
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September 20, 2009 / 6 PM |
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Show entries delivered to Quinlan-
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September 21, 2009 / 12:00
PM to 1 PM |
We advise all members to review the
FALC guidelines regarding
copyrighted material and FALC
exhibiting rules.
Photos from 2008 Juried Show
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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.
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.
Shows
to See
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Belinda Lima will have
a solo show at Gallery9 "People and Abstracts"
September 1 - 27th.
Gallery9 is located at 143 Main
Street, Los Altos.
Gallery hours Tues. - Sat. 11am
to 5pm, Sun. 12am to 4pm.
Artist's reception Friday Sept.
11th, 5pm to 7:30pm.
To view Belinda's paintings and
for event information, please visit www.belindalima.com
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Announcements
Sylvie Levesque won First Place
in the De Anza publication Red Wheelbarrow 2009. Judge - Carla
Powell, painter and potter.
Tamar Assaf received an Honorable
Mention for her work "8 Pandas" in the De Anza publication
Red Wheelbarrow 2009. Congratulations!
Sylvie Levesque has a 3D work
in the "City of santa Clara Biennial Indoor Sculpture Exhibition
/ August 22 through September 31, 2009. Reception August 22,
2 - 4 PM.
Shows
to Enter
Taste of Saratoga: The
Saratoga Chamber of Commerce has a special invitation for all
artists to sign up for "The Taste Of Saratoga" Fine
Art & Wine Festival held on Saturday September 12, 2009.
Please call Judy Longacre for the registration form and further
information 408-867-0753. www.saratogachamber.org
The Cupertino Library will
now show art by artists in the community. Their current show
"Go Figure" will run from July 1 through September
30th. Please visit their website for updated information for
entering future shows http://www.cupertinolibrary.org/foundation/art_display.html
Allegro Framing and
Art in Cupertino and Los Altos has a monthly rotating art
exhibit. They are looking for artists to feature. The gallery
takes 40% commission. Please call Irina Gorelik at 510-703-1534
if you would like to exhibit. www.allegroframing.com.
The Fremont Art Association
is pleased to announce the 44th Annual Fine Art Show. This popular
event will take place September 25 through October 11, 2009
at the Fremont Art Association Gallery, located at 37659 Niles.
Blvd, Fremont, CA . Entry of original artwork into the show
is open to artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Prizes will
be awarded in 5 categories: Oils and Acrylics, Water Media,
Graphics (includes Pastel, Graphite, and Mixed Media) Photography
and Computer-generated and Three-Dimensional. The deadline for
mailing your entry form is September 14. The entry form and
prospectus can be downloaded at the Fremont Art Association's
website at www.FremontArtAssociation.org.
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 -
| 2009 |
| Sept 13, Ken Hosmer |
| Oct 18, Betsy Diller Stroud experimental |
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| 2010 |
| 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.
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Profile
of the Month
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"Really
I am a writer, but, by extension, a photographer tells a story.....right?
I enjoy combining these two skills.
Everyone
I meet is interesting, and so life as a reporter and teacher
is an eternal adventure, with every morning opening a new chapter.
The world is exciting to explore, and its wonders forever fill
me with awe.
To see
and share and preserve these wonders, I use a comera. My two
favorite themes are "categories," such as "Our
Local Youth Symphony," and "sequences," such
as Cruising on the River Seine." Sometimes, of course,
a single photo can haunt your thoughts for days, as one I took
of a young pianist drawing back a curtain as she looks out the
window at....what? and she is thinking.....what? Which way do
you like your stories.....in words, or in pictures?"
FALC would like to thank Ralph
for his enthusiastic involvement with the club this past year.
He attends all steering committee meetings and we appreciate
his input. Ralph organizes the wonderful refreshments at each
general meeting and is in the process of organizing the food
and drinks at the Fall Fest Show Reception on September 18th.
Thank you, Ralph!
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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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