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Newsletter February
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Calendar
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February 14, 2010
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General Meeting-
Craft Room. FALC General Meetings are held at 7pm on the
2nd Monday of each month except July. For information
on future demos, please visit the Demo
page.
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There will be
no Quinlan painting change at this meeting. |
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Artist of the
Month- Please bring in a painting |
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February 21, 2011
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Steering meeting
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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February 27, 2011
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Take down paintings
at Main Street Cafe |
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General
Meeting February 2011
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FALC
General Meeting, Quinlan
Center, Craft Room, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
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Monday, February
14, 2010/ 7:00pm - 9:30 PM
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"Earth
Witness Photography"
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Improving
your Photography through Camera and Photoshop techniques
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Would you like to improve
the photography you use as an artist? This demo is designed
for people who are not primarily photographers but want to
learn more about using their cameras and Photoshop Elements
so they can get the images they want.
Judy Kramer is a local nature
photographer with a passion for wildflower close-ups and nature
patterns. She is a past president of the Palo Alto Camera
Club, and her photography is used by such organizations as
Peninsula Open Space Trust, the California Council of Land
Trusts, Environmental Volunteers, and the Anza-Borrego Foundation
and Institute. She has exhibited at the Fire House Gallery,
Filoli, the Pacific Art League, and local businesses. A former
teacher, Judy has shared her enthusiasm for photography through
presentations to such groups as the Woodside Atherton Garden
Club, the Silicon Valley Users Group Alliance, the Cupertino
Library, and the Campbell Photo Club. Judy's images can be
seen at her web site http://www.earthwitnessphoto.com
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2011
FALC Membership
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2011 Membership dues
are now due! All members are required to complete the form and
mail it in with their check for $30. The deadline to send in
your membership dues is February 28th.
Please note that participation
in the "From The Heart" show will require membership
to be paid up by January 30.
Membership
form
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Our
Current Show
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"From
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January 31 to February 27, 2011
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| Main Street Cafe,
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Altos, CA 94022 |
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| We have 40 paintings
up at the Main Street Cafe and the show looks great!Many
thanks to all the volunteers who did a super job with Receiving
and Hanging! |
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2011
FALC Positions
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Please consider volunteering to fill one of
the positions below. 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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2nd Vice President
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Oversees the 4 or 5 yearly
exhibits that FALC participates in. This position is currently
vacant. |
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Secretary
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Takes notes at the General
and Steering meetings. |
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Refreshments helper
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Masha our refreshments coodinator needs
1 more helper for the refreshments table.
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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. There will be a $25 charge
for checks returned due to insufficient funds. 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. If you have
a show or reception that you would like to list in this section,
please send the information (under 40 words) to nina.uppaluru@gmail.com
along with a picture of the display if you have one.
Shows
to See
Iona Ezaki and Anastasia Saltabida
will be showing at the Sunnyvale Art Gallery, 251 W. El Camino
Real from March 1st to 30th. Reception Saturday, March 12 from
4 to 7pm.
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Slava Shabrov (Photography) and Tamar Assaf
(Acrylics) have their displays up at the Cupertino
Library on Torre Avenue in Cupertino. Their work will
show there until the end of February. To view more of
Slava Shabrov's work please visit http://www.amberphoto.com.
Tamar Assaf's website is www.tamarassaf.com.
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Los Altos Hills Curator Karen
Druker invites members to a Town of Los Altos Hills sponsored
Reception April 17, Sunday 3-6 p.m. for artist Jan Meyer
, who painted all the whimsical murals , doorways , walls in
downtown Los Altos in the 1980's . Her show , "Rooms and Blooms",
at Hills Town Hall April - Sept features the art elements of
color and pattern . The murals and benches are in peril , as
downtown Los Altos is due for a facelift in the near future.
Info 650-941-7222
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/
Classes
Society of Western Artists
in Redwood City conducts workshops throughout 2011. Workshop
instructors will be Dale Laitinen, Karen Frey, Sonya Hamilton,
Randall Sexton, Linda Harris, Jim Gleeson and doug Dawson. Please
visit their website for details www.societyofwesternartists.com
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 -
| 2/13/11 Ted Nuttall, Portraits |
| 3/13/11 Dick Cole Painting Urban Landscapes |
| 4/10/11 Ursula O'Farrell, Acrylic, Abstract
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| 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 2011
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President: Iona Ezaki - 408-978-6614
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Vice President Programs: Vacant
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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,
Kalpana Adesara, Yao Pi Hsu
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Demos: Reema Sachar and Brian
Haney
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Online Gallery pages: Janki
Chokshi, 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,
Amy Do, Nancy Near, Solange Glaize
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Online mail: Nava Attia
Benoit
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