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Newsletter November
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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November 8, 2010
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General Meeting
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PAINTING CHANGE
- Please bring 1 or 2 paintings to hang at Quinlan till
the January meeting. Please arrive early to collect your
old paintings and register your new ones. There is no storage
facility at Quinlan so we ask that you please make arrangements
to pick up your old paintings if you cannot do so yourself.
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Artist of the
Month- Please bring in a painting for Artist of the Month. |
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November 22, 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 club. |
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General
Meeting November 8, 2010
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FALC
General Meeting, Quinlan
Center, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
Monday, October 11,
2010/ 7:00pm - 9:30 PM
Barbara
Allie - Slide Show and Discussion
www.BarbaraAllie.com
Artist's Statement: "My current
figurative canvases depict "contemporary attitudes". I use body
language to illustrate deeper emotion and complex feelings.
My latest artwork is both autobiographical and at the same time
universal. The newest work is figurative and more personal.
In the earlier work I relied on formal elements, color, and
emotion to give meaning to my art. The new work maintains some
of the same abstract qualities as previous work, but existential
issues of isolation and anxiety are more apparent".
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At
the October meeting
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Anna Lee Steed did a fun demo on color theory involving the
audience painting with warm and cool colors.
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2011
FALC Positions
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It is time to begin discussions about the 2011
Chair Positions to be filled. Please consider volunteering to
fill a position. You will acquire new skills and new friends!
We will help you through the process of learning what is required
for any of the jobs.
The following positions are
open for 2011.
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President
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Iona Ezaki has served as President
of FALC for a total of 4 years and would be happy to help
some one else transition into filling her position. If you
feel that this is something you would find interesting and
challenging, please feel free to discuss it with us. |
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1st Vice President
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Nina Uppaluru has
done the newsletter and website since 2004 and would like
to step down from her duties in December due to other committments. |
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2nd Vice President
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Oversees the 4 or 5 yearly
exhibits that FALC participates in. |
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Secretary
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Takes notes at the General
and Steering meetings. |
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Resources
Page on website
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new Artist Resources page which
lists many recommendations by FALC artists. Members are welcome
to submit their recommendations for the organizing committee to
review. Please make your recommendations as detailed as possible
and let us know what you find useful. Submit your recommendations
to the form at the bottom of this page and add "Artist Resources
recommendation" to your subject line. |
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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 Krishna Mitra at krishna@jakubson.com
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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.
Shows
to See
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Belinda Lima each have about 8 pieces up at the Cupertino
Library Art Display at the Cupertino Library on Torre Avenue.
The show will be up until January 2nd. For details on how
you can apply to display there, please see information below. |
Nina Uppaluru has 30
paintings displayed at Graniterock Design Center, 1505 S De
Anza Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014. Show runs October 26, 2010 to
January 22, 2011. You
are all invited to the reception: November 13th, 5 to 7pm.
Please visit Nina's website www.NinasArt.com
for more information.
The Triton Museum Statewide
Watercolor Competition/Exhibition: Entry deadline October
18, 2010. Reception December 10, 7 to 9PM. For information and
prospectus http://www.tritonmuseum.org/exhibitions_watercolorcomp.php
Shows
to Enter
The Cupertino Library Art
Display sponsored by the Library Foundation is now taking
applications from artists who would like to display their work
at the Cupertino Library on a 9' x 9' space for a period of
2 months. The library takes no commission on sales and there
is no charge for displaying there. The application form is at
http://cupertinovideo.cupertino.org/libraryfoundation/ArtistInfoForm/
The Morgan Hill Art and Wine
Festival (November 6 & 7) will be held with the Morgan
Hill Marathon. They are looking for talented artists to participate
in the festival located at the finish line of the marathon which
will be held on the 7th. Please see www.mhmarathon.com
for details
Opportunities
Grumbacher Paint is looking
to hire accomplished acrylic painters to teach two-hour workshops
at a major retailer in locations across the United States and
Canada. Artist must be capable of demonstrating a still life,
landscape, seascape, and floral. We have developed a flexible
curriculum in acrylics for an artist to use or adapt to fit
to his or her style. We plan to conduct approximately one to
four workshops per store per month and the artist will have
flexibility in scheduling. Compensation is $100 per workshop,
and teaching materials will be provided to the artist at no
cost. Anyone who is interested should email Daniel McGloin at
dmcgloin@chartpak.com with examples of works in acrylics, a
resume, and contact information. (Chartpak is a manufacturere
of fine art supplies. Grumbacher, Koh-I-Noor, Higgins Ink, and
Clearprint are some of our brands.)
Connie Guidotti would
like to give away (for free) five sets of hinged plywood doors
painted white that she used for open studios. You can hang pictures
on both sides of four surfaces. If interested, please call her
before November 10 or after December 6 at (408)252-0837.
Classes
Zoya Scholis conducts
advanced, intermediate and beginners watermedia painting classes
through the FUHSD Sunnyvale Cupertino Adult education and at
the Cupertino Senior Center. She also conducts Mixed Media Workshops
and Collage Workshops in the summer. For more details please
visit http://www.ace.fuhsd.org.
Contact Zoya at zoya@artforpersonalgrowth.com
Stefan Bauman Weekly Oil
painting classes in Saratoga the first and third week of each
month Mondays from 6-9pm and Tuesdays from 10 - 1pm. Please
call 415 606-9074 or email stefan_baumann@yahoo.com. More Info
at www.thegrandview.
The
Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society has
free demos offered in 2010- 2011. These demonstrations with
the best watermedia instructors in the USA are free and open
to all. Location: Hoover Theater, Room A & B, 1635 Park
Avenue, San Jose. 1:30 to 4:00 PM. Workshop artists are -
| 11/6/10 Frank Webb, Watercolor Energies
and Composition |
| 1/23/11 John Salminen, Urban Cityscapes |
| 2/13/11 Ted Nuttall, Portraits |
| 3/13/11 Dick Cole Painting Urban Landscapes |
| 4/10/11 Ursula O'Farrell, Acrylic, Abstract
Figures |
| 6/18/11 ( Saturday , not the
usual Sunday) Roland Lee, Canyons and desert landscapes |
In
addition to these demos which accompany workshops, we offer
a 10 week painting course with Mike Bailey, Watercolor Beyond
the Obvious. You can register on our website at www.scvws.org
Info: 650-941-8073.
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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 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.
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: Iona Ezaki - 408-978-6614
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Vice President: Brian Haney:
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:
Rajiv Khilnani
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Membership: Kathy Qi
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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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Online Gallery pages: Krishna
Mitra
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Artist of the Month Updates:
Janki Chokshi
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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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