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Newsletter June
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Calendar
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June 13, 2011
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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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Quinlan painting
change at this meeting. Please arrive early to switch your
paintings. |
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Artist of the
Month- Please bring in a painting. The first 10 paintings
will be accepted. |
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June 18, 2011
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Our next show
- Midsummer Art Fest. Details below. |
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June 27, 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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General
Meeting June 2011
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FALC Meetings and Artist
Demonstrations are open the the Public. Guests are welcome.
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FALC
General Meeting, Quinlan
Center, Craft Room, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
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Monday, June
13, 2010/ 7:00pm - 9:30 PM
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Artwork
Critique by Jane Hofstetter
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Jane Hofstetter will critique
paintings brought in by FALC members. FALC members should
bring in 1 or 2 completed paintings for her to review. Paintings
on paper should be matted if not framed. Unframed canvases
are acceptable. All artwork should be completely dry.
Noted for her exceptional
versatility in painting and teaching all types of subjects,
Jane has a rare ability to bring out the best in all artists
who study with her. She is a popular workshop instructor,
author and juror who has conducted numerous workshops across
the nation and Europe for more than thirty years. She has
won many awards, and is a member of the National Watercolor
Society, Watercolor West, Transparent Watercolor Society of
America, Northwest Watercolor Society, Alabama Watercolor
Society, Missouri Watercolor Society, Allied Artist West,
and many more. Jane trained at the University of California,
Berkley and Chouinard Art Institute of Design, Los Angeles.
She has also studied with many nationally and internationally
knows artists since 1971. Her book published by North Light
Publications “Seven Keys To Great Paintings” is now available
in all major bookstores. Her paintings have been in many national
shows. Jane has been featured in “Watercolor Magic”, “The
Collected Best of Watercolor”, “Splash 7", and the “International
Artist Magazine” and many others.
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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.
Membership
form
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Our
Next Show - Midsummer Art Fest at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara
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Show Coordinator: Nina Uppaluru
- nina.uppaluru@gmail.com
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Show: June 18, 2011 / 10AM
to 6PM
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FALC is one of several Bay Area art groups participating in this
1 day event. 23 FALC members will participate. The show will be
held on the grounds of the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. Please
plan on visiting the show even if you are not participating.
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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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Profile
of the Month
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Each month, FALC would like to honor a member
who has dedicated time and effort toward the club. This month
FALC would like to put the spotlight on Amy Do who has very
generously volunteered to help with various duties during FALC
meetings and events.
Amy was born in Vietnam and arrived to the
United States when she was 11 years old. She received her bachelor
degree from San Jose State University in Business Accounting.
After having 2 children, Amy took up painting as a hobby, but
this adventure took her back to DeAnza College, where she received
an associated degree in Fine Arts with a major in painting.
She works in various mediums such as charcoal, pastel, acrylic,
and oil. Her paintings are both time consuming and backbreaking,
but she wouldn’t have done it any other way. Amy always pushes
herself to project her painting as far as it can go and as the
result, the quality of fine arts shows through.
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Artists
needed
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teach art? FUSION After-School in Cupertino is looking for artists
to teach art and ceramics to children between the ages of 5 to 13
years. The camp will run in the first 2 weeks of August and compensation
will be about $35 to $50 per hour. The organizers of the camp are
looking for professional artists who can introduce children to the
world of painting and acrylics as well as clay and form. If interested,
please contact Director Anjali Arora at 408-569-7911 www.fusionafterschool.com |
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Quinlan
Year-round Show
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We have a Quinlan
painting switch at the June meeting. Please bring in 1 or
2 pieces of work to be displayed June to September. Work
should be properly framed and ready to hang. Please see
Instructions
for the Quinlan show.
Congratulations to
Kathy Qi for selling her photograph "Memory" at
the Quinlan last month!
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Shows
to see
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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.
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Belinda Lima's painting
"Shopping Day" has been accepted to the International
Society of Acrylic Painters 14th International Exhibition.
Nina Uppaluru's painting
"Only A Leaf #5" was also accepted to the show.
The show opens July 1 - July 31
at 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.
http://www.isap-online.com/
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Devika Keskar and Yao-Pi Hsu
have their paintings and photography up at the Cupertino Library
on Torre Avenue until June 25, 2011. If you would like to display
your work at the Cupertino Library, please see instructions
under Shows To Enter/Cupertino Library Art Display below.
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Shows
to Enter
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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/
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Classes
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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 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 -
| 6/18/11 ( Saturday , not the
usual Sunday) Roland Lee, Canyons and desert landscapes |
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addition to these demos which accompany workshops, SCVWS offers
a 10 week painting course with Mike Bailey, Watercolor Beyond
the Obvious. You can register on their website at www.scvws.org
Info: 650-941-8073.
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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
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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
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/
ionaezaki@aol.com
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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 / qiji2005@gmail.com
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Refreshments: Masha Schultz,
Kalpana Adesara, Yao Pi Hsu, Zlata Rabinovich
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Demos: Reema Sachar
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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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