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Newsletter
December 2015
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Calendar
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December 21, 2015
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FALC General Meeting on Monday at 7:00
Quinlan
Center, Craft Room, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino.
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December 14 , 2015
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Next Steering
Meeting on Thursday at 7:00 at Panera. |
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Next painting
change is in December 21. Members
are requested to bring paintings for Painting Change.
Quinlan has empty walls. |
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2016
FALC Membership
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To participate in FALC
sponsored shows and exhibits, one must be juried in as a exhibiting
member. Artists who have submitted 3 pieces of original art
which meet with the approval and acceptance of the voting
members will be awarded "Exhibiting Membership". Jurying
in will take place at most meetings.
Membership for continuing
members is $30.00 per year, January through December.
Membership fees
are due for the year 2016-2017.
Membership
Form
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By-Law
and Minutes of Last Steering Meeting
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General
Meeting - December 21, 2015
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December
2015
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FALC
General Meeting, Quinlan
Center, Craft Room, 10185 Stelling Rd., Cupertino
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Monday,December
21, 2015/ 7:00 PM - 9 PM
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FALC
Holiday Party and Paint-In.
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2014 Holiday Party image
Paint-In: Please join us for our most
enjoyable yearly event! It has been a FALC tradition for several
years to come together and paint Holiday posters which will
be donated to "Cupertino Healthcare and Wellness Center" located at 2290 Voss Ave. in Cupertino.
If you are shy about painting with a group, please join us
anyway. We would appreciate the opportunity to talk and get
to know one another.
Please join us in celebrating the
Holidays! Bring your watercolor or quick drying acrylic paint,
brushes and palette. No oil paints. Paper will be provided.
You could choose to paint a simple secular holiday picture
of your choice. We have designs that you can pick from to
paint. Theme required : 6 Posters on Christmas theme and rest
on Spring or general Holiday theme.
Optional: Please bring a small wrapped
gift (approx. $10) for the patients at the Convalescent Home
who may not have relatives visiting them during the holidays.
Please mark if it is for a male or female. No liquids, lotions
or perishable goods please. Suggested gifts are gloves, scarves,
socks etc.
Optional: Please bring a snack or
food to share at the pot-luck.
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Profile
of The Month
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Its always been FALC tradition
to introduce one member of steering commitee or an Artist of
the month winners.
Chris MacDonough - " Lily"
- Water Color
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Our
next shows
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Next
show
- Silicon Valley Open Studios on May 7th - 8th.
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Deadline - Group show registration - December
31st, 2015.
Members are requested to let the steering members
know if they are interested in participating as a group.
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2015
Nominations and Elections
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With the beginning of the new year all FALC board positions
are open for new nominations. We would like to ask that each
FALC member give some thought to how they can be more involved
with our club for 2015. You can nominate yourself or any other
FALC member for any position listed below. All nominations will
be voted on at the January Meeting. The club has many talented
members with many skills that are urgently needed to run the
group. A club is only as good as it's members and if everyone
takes turns at running the group we can achieve great results.
Please ask yourself what you can do to contribute. We
will do everything we can to make your involvement a positive
experience and you will have plenty of guidance to help you
get started. You may consider sharing a job with a friend. We
invite nominations for any of the following vacant positions
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| Vice
President Shows & Events |
Carrie Zeidman
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| Publicity
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Shubha Prithviraj
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| Treasurer |
Radha Velluri and Assistant Treasurer
: Pinky Thakkar
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| Refreshments |
Open -
Assigning and managing the refreshments for the meetings.
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| Demo
Coordinator |
Todd Kruse
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| Panel
Rental |
Carrie Zeidman
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| Greeting
Table |
Nina Uppaluru
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We also need a volunteer with a van
or bigger vehical to transport FALC panels from Carrie Zeidman's
place to every event or show.
Please contact Slava Shabrov (slava@shabrov.com) if you would
like to discuss volunteering for any of the above vacant positions.
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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
50 words) to janki_chokshi@hotmail.com
along with a picture of the display if you have one.
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FALC Vice President Carrie Zeidman has published
a book named "Ghosts ". For purchasing the book
or for further inquiry regarding Book contact Carrie Zeidman-
Carrie@CarrieZeidman.com
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Book Description: Ghosts - Images
of War uses uniquely designed images of the past and present
combined to take you on a haunted ride through history. By
expertly superimposing and digitally manipulating historical
images of the past with photos of the present, Ghosts connects
the spirit and people of history to the present day world.
Almost as if you’ve traveled to the past, or the past has
been transported to the present, the images evoke nostalgia,
sadness, reflection, and hope. Battles and monuments included
range from Valley Forge to the Beaches of Normandy. After
visiting concentration camps in Poland in 2008, viewing monuments
and ruins filled with tragedy and despair, author Carrie Zeidman
came home with unrelenting visions of the people who once
occupied these spaces and whose lives were cut short. Searching
out authentic photos from the Holocaust and combining them
with images from her personal travels, she realized she could
mesh the old and the new, contrasting the heartbreaking past
with a hopeful present to create these unique images.
About the Author: Carrie Zeidman
is a digital artist and photographer whose passions are photography,
art, travel, and history, all of which are found in Ghosts.
She is a tenth generation Californian and a fourteenth generation
American. Many years of researching her extensive family history,
traveling to historic battle grounds, and creating her unique
art all come together in her first book. Her paintings start
with a mood, an emotion, or a memory of some kind. Using color
and figure, she finds a way to transfer that mood, emotion,
or memory onto the two-dimensional surface of the painting.
When finished, a successful piece is able to evoke the original
feeling in the viewer. Carrie has won several awards for her
work, including being named Cupertino Distinguished Artist
of the Year in 2012. Her work has been represented in galleries,
and her painting Freedom Rises in the East is in the permanent
collection of the Mauermuseum at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin,
Germany. She lives in Cupertino, California with her husband
Bob, who is also an author of several books. She lives on
a mountain top that affords her a different breathtaking view
of the sunrise over the Santa Clara Valley every morning,
providing endless artistic inspiration.
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Shows
to Enter
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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://cupertinolibraryfoundation.org/programs/art-wall/art-wall-entry-form/
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Classes
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Accent Arts : Second
Tuesday (of-the-month) June 9, 2015 FREE Art Critiques with
moderator Robert Schick 6:30-8 p.m. (Please be punctual, crit
starts at 6:30 sharp) upstairs in The Loft at Accent Arts. Please
register due to limited space by calling Accent Arts, 650-424-1044
or email: accentarts1@gmail.com
Anna Lee Steed will be
teaching a painting class for oil and acrylic painters at the
Quinlan Center in Cupertino starting January 9th. Classes will
be on Mondays from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Students will paint
abstracts, still life and landscape. As always, Anna Lee’s lessons
will have a strong focus on color. Painters of all levels are
welcome, extra help for beginners. Cost is $150 for five classes
Please contact Anna Lee at 831-662-8979 for more information,
a registration form and the material list. See Anna Lee’s paintings
online at www.linstromart.com.
Mike Kirschel Learn and
practice oil painting (or acrylic) in the Monta Vista neighborhood
of Cupertino. Beginning and advanced students welcome, class
focus is on painting and picture making fundamentals with an
emphasis on composition and color. Indoor studio painting is
Wednesday mornings, 9:30 - 12:00 and outdoor painting on location
is on Saturdays also 9:30-12:00. Private and small group lessons
are also available. Please visit the website at www.kirschel.com
for more information or call Mike Kirschel at 650-521-1856.
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 https://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. Classes are on Mondays from 6-9pm and Tuesdays from 10am
- 1pm Please call 415 606-9074 or email stefan_baumann@yahoo.com.
More Info at www.thegrandview.
Joy Kuo Teaching Chinese
brush painting. Beginner or advance students on Wednesday mornings
10:00am -12:00pm at Joy's studio, 154 Quail Hollow Dr. San Jose,
CA 95128 . $40.00/per class. Please call 408-598-6085 or email
kuojs@yahoo.com.
Martha Zlatar is an Artist
Success Coach who can help you define your unique goals for
your art and support you in the process. Coaching is a wonderful
way to be accountable for your actions. Martha will help you
identify what you want to do, when will you do it by and how
will you get it done. Please contact her for a complimentary
half hour phone consultation at 415-839-8085 or email her at
martha@artmatch-coach.com.
SCVWS
offers a 10 week painting course with Mike Bailey, Watercolor
Beyond the Obvious. It also offers a SCVWS 2012 workshop
brochure. You can register on their website at www.scvws.org
Info: 650-941-8073.
Member
of FALC Kathy Qi has started a website for artists for selling
and promoting their work. website: http://www.key2arts.com/
Key2ARTS.com is a FREE community service for artists to exhibit
and sell their own original, prints, and cards of artwork with
very low commission rate. Membership is free and it's open to
any art club juried-in artist, and people who appreciate art.
An Artist Workshop by George
O’Hanlon( Director of Natural Pigments) : on Saturday, November
16th at 9am-5pm and Sunday, November 17th at 9am-5pm. Accent
Arts, 392 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA. The small class
size provides each attendee personal attention and guidance
with materials. Registration now open: $325 per person Due to
limited class size we ask that you register early and pay for
the workshop upon registration to insure your space. All workshop
materials are included in the tuition. Registration open now.
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Resources
Page on website
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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 using
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
http://www.falc.org/gallery/submit_new_gallery_page.htm
and email all necessary information to Janki Chokshi email:
janki_chokshi@hotmail.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. Full
payment plus a $100 refundable deposit are due when panels
are picked up.
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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 2/3
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 2015
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President: Janki Chokshi
- Website and Newsletter
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Vice President:Carrie Zeidman
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Program and Publicity: Shubha
Prithviraj
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Treasurer: Krishna Mitra
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Secretary: Keith Hull
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Membership: Brian Haney
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Refreshments: Open
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Demo Coordinator: Todd Kruse
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Online Gallery pages: Janki
Chokshi
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Artist of the Month Updates:
Janki Chokshi
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Historian : Sid Veloria
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Panel rental: Carrie Zeidman
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Greeting Table: Nina Uppaluru
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Online mail: Janki
Chokshi
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