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Newsletter February
2010
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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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February 8, 2010
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GENERAL MEETING in the Social Room
at Quinlan Center.
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ARTIST OF THE
MONTH - Please bring a painting for Artist of the Month.
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PAINTING CHANGE
-The next painting change will be March 8, 2010 |
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February 15, 2010
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The steering meeting
will be held at Panera Bread on Stevens Creek, 7 to 9pm.
We encourage all members to attend and participate in planning
all the activities for the new year. |
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2010
Membership
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2010 Membership dues are now due! All members
are required to complete the form and mail it in with their check
for $30.
Membership
form
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General
Meeting - February 8, 2010
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FALC
General Meeting, Social Room, Quinlan
Center, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
Open
to the public. Guests welcome.
Jose
Arenas - Painting with Acrylics
Jose Arenas will demonstrate
a painting with Acrylics. He currently teaches sevaral art,
design and critique classes at Foothill College in Los Altos.
He studied at UC Davis and has shown at several galleries in
San Francisco and the Bay area.
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Photos
from the December meeting
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Our thanks to Slava Shabrov for taking the photographs at the
December meeting.
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The
January Meeting
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Claire Verbiest did a charming landscape in watercolor
and pastel. About 30 members attended.
We had 3 new members juried in to the club. Welcome
to Gerald Paz, Ran Wu and Deck Tseng!
Congratulations to our Artist
of the Month winners - 1st Place: Slava Shabrov, 2nd Place:
Janki Chokshi and 3rd Place: Brian Haney.
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The
February Show - "From The Heart"
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Orgnizer: Janki Chokshi / email: janki_chokshi@hotmail.com
Location - Main Street Cafe, Main Street, Los Altos
Show: February 1 to 28
Thank you all for your wonderful entries. We will show 40 paintings
at the Main Street Cafe. All participants are requested to drop
off their paintings on January 31st at the Cafe between 4 to
5 PM. Pick up your paintings again on February 28th.
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2010
FALC Positions
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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.
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Please
consider volunteering for the following positions in 2010
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| Positions |
Duties |
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| President |
Agendas, conducting the 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.
Open Studios: All FALC members who requested for panels will
be notified on January 30th.
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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.
Shows
to See
Janki Chokshi's banner
design "Rise and Shine" was selected for the City
of Santa Clara 2010 "Art in the Air" banner competition
sponsored by the City of Santa Clara. Banners will be displayed
on El Camino Real beginning Mid-April 2010.
Belinda Lima has a solo
show "Abstractions" at Mike's Cafe from Feb 1st -
May 1st. The Cafe is located at 2680 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto.
Belinda's website: www.BelindaLima.com
Zoya Scholis has 2 photographs
accepted at "Patterns and Abstractions of Nature"
a Fine Art Mixed Media Exhibit at Filoli Garden. February 9
through April 11, 2010 - 86 Canada Road, Woodside, Ca. Tuesday-Saturday
10 am- 3:30 pm, Sundays, 11:00 am -3:30 pm
Ananya Ghosh has a piece
accepted at the Triton Museum's Statewide Drawing and Print
Competition and Exhibition. The exhibition runs from December
12 through March 14.
Classes
And Events
Zoya Scholis conducts
"Beginning Watermedia" and "Beginning Drawing"
classes. ACE site: 591 W. Fremont Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087.
Fee: $66 for those age 18-49, $35 for those 50 or older Instructor:
Zoya scholis Sign-up @: www.ace.fuhsd.org Contact: zoya@ ArtforpersonalGrowth.com
Zoyart.com
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 2010. Location: Hoover Theater, Room A
& B, 1635 Park Avenue, San Jose. 1:30 to 4:00 PM. Workshop
artists are -
| 2010 Free SCVWS demos |
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| Feb 7, Christopher Schink |
| March 8, Ratindra Das |
| April 25, Steven Quiller Color |
| June 6, Katherine Chang Liu, Finding
yourself as an artist |
| August 28, Don Andrews, Watercolor landscapes |
| Nov 6, Frank Webb, Using the white
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Please
visit www.scvws.org for complete
workshop details.
Art Studios for rent: 1022
North Idaho, San Mateo, CA 94401. Open House Sunday, January
31st. Approximately 14 studio spaces ranging from 189 sq. ft
@$279/month up to 400 sq. ft. @ $620/month. Great opportunity
to share space. contact Nancy Garcia / email: nancygar2000@gmail.com
or Brett Barron email: brettbarron@capitalrealtygrp.com 650-400-7089.
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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 2010
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President: Laurie Creveling
- 408-243-9791 / Agenda
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Vice President: Richard Chavez/
Programs
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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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Membership: Iona Ezaki
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Refreshments: Masha Schultz,
Chagit Ofir, Kalpana Adesara, Li Wei Lu
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Demos: Reema Sachar and Brian
Haney
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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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Greeting Table: Grace Seidman,
Solange Glaize, Tania Tengan and Anamika Agrawal
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Online mail: Nava Attia
Benoit
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We would
love to hear from you. Please send questions or comments to
information@falc.org
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