May Newsletter

Wy’east Artisans Guild
P.O. Box 682
Sandy, Oregon 97055

The Guild meets the second Monday of the month in the Clackamas County Bank Theatre, located just west of the bank on Proctor. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the program beginning at 7:00.

MAY 2010
The newsletter of the Wy’east Artisans Guild comes out the last week of the month. If you have content to include that is of interest to the Guild, please send it to Gail Bumala at laboom@cascadeaccess.com by the 25th of the month prior to publication.

“IT’S A CIRCUS!” OPENING
The theme show opened thanks to a fabulous crew who hung the show. The reception was a lovely event with so many people pitching in and exhibiting their pride in the Guild as well as their work. Thanks to everyone who supported one another in this effort. A big THANKS to Gail for the music. Congrats to the four members who received monetary kudos for their work: Russell Pearson for his chainsaw carved bear, Patty Henniger for her clownish frog, Joanne Rohweder for her watercolor and Rod Stroh for his photograph. The tour through the library gave each artist a chance to describe their process and was well received. Granted, there was much “clowning around!”

A special thanks from the President to everyone who contributed to the success of this year’s theme show and reception!

NEW MEMBERS
Sandra T Visconty
P.O. Box 255
Sandy, OR 97055
(503) 351-1243
gregnsam@verizon.net
Special art: photography & pyrography

MAY 10TH MEETING: ERIC JACOBSEN
Eric is a Washington artist who does Plein Air and Impressionism.
The doors open at 6:30, speaker at 7:00.
Check out his website: Jacobsen Studio

LAST MEETING AND RAKU FIRING
Bruce Beattie gave an informative talk on clay, from the origin to the building process, firing and glazing. The Raku at his shop on June 13, was discussed and more details will go out by email and will be available at the May 10 meeting. If you took clay home from the April meeting be sure to bring it back to the May meeting for firing.

CALL TO EXHIBIT: “MT. FAIRIES, GNOMES & CREATURES: BENIGN AND NOT SO BENIGN”
The Sandy Public Library is putting on a DOLL EXHIBITION:
“Mt. Fairies, Gnomes & Creatures: Benign and not so Benign”
Jan. to mid Feb. 2011
You are invited to participate with your cloth or mixed media doll(s).These can be 3-D or 2-D Paper Art Dolls. Please supply a stand or support for your free standing entries.

Contact me by the end of July with INTENT to participate and number of dolls.
Artist information and any doll photos, in jpeg format, are requested by mid- November so we can put out publicity.

Label info includes:
Piece Description, Artist’s Name, Price (for insurance), & NFS if desired,
and is due mid December. Work will be hung right after New Years.
Please contact Florence for info or with questions.

Florence Adee-Curator
Fairyfire7@msn.com
(503) 668-9397

GUILD ART INSTALLATION DEBUT
The Guild's "Curves" art installation, in the Subway - UPS Store strip center, is up and looks great. Thanks! to Mike Lindstrom, a participating artist and Manager at Platt Electric for the lighting. Also participating: Becky Hawley (Curator), Kathryn deVries, Inga Ojala. The second space "The Post" is on Proctor in a pink building on the left past the old Gardener Plumbing. Featured artists are Ann Fenwick, Zdena Neszmery and Kate Conrad. As spaces become available more art will be needed.

DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
June 13 Raku firing. (Call Kate Conrad, Mike Lindstrom or Bruce Beattie for more info)

The Theme Show comes down at the Library Tuesday June 1. The work will travel to the Mt. Hood Cultural Museum to hang on June 24. The reception there is on Sat. June 26, 4-6pm.

"Spring into Town" First Friday May 7 5-9pm. Showing at the Sandy Historical Museum will be Kathryn de Vries, Patty Henniger and Becky Hawley. Go see their work, support them and have a cookie!

SUMMER PICNIC
We need a volunteer to plan the WAG picnic, to take place sometime this summer. We need a coordinator and a location. Contact Becky Hawley 503-668-5590.

GUILD LENDING LIBRARY
We have a small, but growing lending library of art books. We’ll make the inventory and check-out information available. Does anyone have good quality books to add to the catalog? Lesson plans for children will also be available.

WAG BLOG
You may have to sign up for a new Google account to access the blog as an "author".
If you choose not to sign up, you can still read the blog at: www.wyeastartisansguild.blogspot.com
Bookmark the link so you can readily go to it and read what's going on.

Board of Directors and Officers
Z'anne Bakke - acbakke@msn.com
Becky Hawley - bstroh2@verizon.net
Joan Ragan - joanragan@hotmail.com
Kathryn de Vries - gralof@verizon.net

Officers
President - Becky Hawley
Secretary - Cheryl Hooley
Treasurer - Kathryn de Vries

HOT LINKS FOR ARTISTS
Clackamas Art Alliance Arts Network-Links to local, state and national arts organizations.
Gresham Art Committee Promoting arts in Gresham, Oregon