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Newsletter January
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Calendar
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January 10, 2010
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General Meeting-
Social 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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Quinlan painting
change at this meeting. Please come in early to switch your
paintings. |
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Artist of the
Month- Please bring in a painting |
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January 15, 2011
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Deadline for registration
for the "From The Heart" Show (see details below) |
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January 24, 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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January 30, 2011
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2:00pm Receiving
of paintings for "From The Heart" Show at the
Main Street Cafe |
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February 27, 2011
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Take down paintings
at Main Street Cafe |
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General
Meeting January 2011
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FALC
General Meeting, Quinlan
Center, Social Room, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
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Monday, January
10, 2010/ 7:00pm - 9:30 PM
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Decker
Walker - Painting in Oils
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Artist's Statement
"I paint for the thrill
of it. The thrill that comes when I spot some beauty of color,
form, or design in a model, a landscape, or a still life arrangement
that I’m painting. The thrill of finding a fresh way to represent
some seen beauty in paint. The thrill of seeing smears of
color become a believable image. These thrills come most often
from intense, concentrated painting sessions. Most of the
time I start and finish a painting in one day, taking from
one to five hours; occasionally I’ll work on it for a second
session while it’s still wet. The more finished, polished
result I could get from spending days or weeks on a painting
doesn’t interest me as much as the feeling of freshness, spontaneity
and intimacy that comes from painting in one go. This kind
of painting is, as Oscar Peterson said about jazz, a “daredevil
experience … [that] requires you to collect all your senses,
emotions, physical strength and mental power, and focus them
totally on the performance… every time you play.”
Decker Walker has taken instruction
in the visual arts form the Pacific Art League, Foothill College,
College of San Mateo, City College of San Franmcisco, San
Francisco Art Institute, and the Scottsdale Artists' School.
He has been chosen for several juried awards locally and nationally
since 2006.
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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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The
Holiday Party and Paint-In
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Our thanks to all the members who attended the December
Holiday party and Paint-in. The Cupertino room was beautifully
decorated and was a perfect setting for a Holiday dinner.
We created holiday posters for the residents at the Pleasant
View Convalescent Home. Thanks to Masha for organizing
the dinner and Slava for taking the pictures.
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Our
Next Show
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"From
The Heart"
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FALC member show at
the Main Street Cafe, 134 Main, Los Altos, CA 94022
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Show coordinator: Nina
Uppaluru / nina.uppaluru@gmail.com
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Registration deadline:
January 15, 2011
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Show: January 31 to
February 27, 2011
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Each year in February,
FALC displays about 40 paintings at the Main Street Cafe
in Los Altos. Please mail in your entry form early in
order to be guaranteed participation in the show. All
participants are required to help with setting up the
show. Please see the entry form for details on framing
and eligibility.
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Your FALC 2011 membership
dues have to be paid up in order to participate in this
show.
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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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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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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. 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
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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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Nina Uppaluru
has 25 paintings displayed
at Graniterock Design Center, 1505 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino,
CA 95014.
The show runs October 26, 2010
to January 22, 2011. Please visit Nina's website www.NinasArt.com
for more information.
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The Triton Museum Statewide
Watercolor Competition/Exhibition: Reception December 10,
7 to 9PM. For information and prospectus http://www.tritonmuseum.org/exhibitions_watercolorcomp.php
Karen Druker, Art Curator
for the Town of Los Altos Hills: Artist Laurie Barna's "Liberty
Ladies " ,25 patriotic watercolor paintings of the Statue of
Liberty with different narratives ,will be the subject of a
"Walk and Talk " by Laurie on Thursday, January 20, 10:30-12
noon at Los Altos Hill's new Town Hall, Los Altos Hills.Free,
open to all. Refreshments will be served. Info: 650-9417222.
Jose Arenas, our Juror
for the 2009 Juried Show has published a book of his work in
the last 5 years. You are all invited to a book signing and
reception party at Nan and Kent Manske's home, 33 Dexter Ave,
Redwood city, CA 94063 on Monday December 20, 2010 from 6 to
8pm. This would be a great opportunity to see Jose and get updated
on the great things he has been doing lately.
Shows
to Enter
The Saratoga Rotary Art Show:
The largest juried art show visited by 20,000 art collectores.
200 local and national artists participate. The show is held
on Sunday May 1, 2011 at the West Valley College in Saratoga.
Deadline for entry January 22, 2011 www.saratogarotary.org/artshow
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
Judy Kramer will give
a free illustrated talk on macro flower photography on Saturday,
January 15 from 3 - 5pm at the Cupertino Community Hall, 10350
Torre Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. More
details.
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 -
| 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 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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