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Slate of new officers:
Pres: Barbara Lenz
VP: Carol Corbett
Recording Secretary: Laurie Schlageter
Treasurer: Dan Cook
Pres. Advisor: Christine Gordon
The Holiday Party is December 8th. $3.00 per person, sign up sheets
at the meeting. Please contact Barbara Lenz if you plan to attend.
Art Books were acquired from Elvira Masullo’s estate to be kept with Tape library if anyone is interested in borrowing them.
New membership fee of $ 30 starts January 1st, 2010.
Volunteers are needed for various positions such as demo coordinator, models are also needed. If you have a demo person or model to suggest please let Barbara know.
The theme for January painting was “Love, hope and textures” any media or combination of media, conceptual or symbolic to be critiqued at the Jan. 5th meeting.
Critique Nite:
With new members attending, we continued with a more modern feel the work exhibited. Working outside the box, more imaginative traditional composits added to the creative flow,
With creative color in some of the traditional pieces sparked the creative imagination. It’s amazing what can be done with a few brush strokes or a bold infusion of color or an imaginative backdrop. Mike Parisi, as always, moderated good critique. It is so interesting to hear how people develop their work.
We will currently be holding a sketch night in place of the demo nights for the upcoming months.
Barbara Lenz discussed the selling of the racks for shows that Wet Paints has been maintaining and storing in the barn. A vote was taken to sell the racks, offering them to Wet Pints members, price to be decided...each rack is 3’X6’, metal and has an attachment for lights which are also for sale. We have been paying for storage and the prevailing opinion was that individual artists would benefit more by having their own racks as most of our venues now have hanging options. This money will be added to the building fund which will be released to use for ongoing Wet Paints activites. Contact Barbaras Lenz (816-0512) if you are interested in purchasing racks.
Please be sure to send us your current email address. Last minute announcements can be made more easier.
Due to budgetary concerns, the Board has opted to move to an email newsletter. Since only 104 of our 215 members have sent in email addresses, this will not be in place until September of this year. PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES HAVE CHANGED. Those without computers will receive their montly newsletter BY MAIL. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EMAIL AND WOULD LIKE A MAILED COPY OF THE NEWSLETTER SENT TO YOU PLEASE NOTIFY US AT WET PAINTS STUDIO GROUP PO BOX 86, SAYVILLE, NY 11782 . An announcement will be made to make sure we have all member's addresses. Those not able to receive emails will continue to have their newsletter mailed.
Member Classifieds will be posted on the website along with Happenings: www.wetpaintsgroup.com. New opportunities will be listed here as space will allow.
Models are needed for our Sketch Nights as well as volunteers for demo night. If you or if you know of anyone interested please email: wetpaintsstudio@yahoo.com
