Next meeting is Wednesday June 13, 2012 7:00 p.m.

Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA

Inside this issue:

President’s Message 2

We Need You 2

Web Site News 2

Pick of the Month 3

Pitfalls of Using Celebrities

in your art 3

Officers & Committees 4

Membership Application 4

Clovis Art Guild

OFFICERS Presidents Pro

Tem

Gail Daley

Gene Butler

Vice President

Toni Magyar

Secretary

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Treasurer

Alice Sutton

June

2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley

DENNIS LEWIS WILL DEMONSTRATE

ON THE PRINCIPALS OF ART

NEXT EXCHANGE FOR OUR STOREFRONT GALLERY

WILL BE MONDAY JULY 2, 2012 @ 5:00 P.M.

Dennis Lewis lives in Clo-vis, California with his wife and three children. He at-tended California Institute of the Arts where he re-ceived his BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts) Degree. Cre-ated works art in the enter-tainment field ranging from record album covers, movie one sheets, greeting cards, software games and edu-

cational products. Dennis background includes television, re-cording, advertising and software companies. Including Walt Disney Enterprises, B.D. Fox and Friends, Mark Matsuno De-sign Sierra Online, Starwave Corporation, MCA Records, CBS, NBC, KHJ9, Columbia Pictures, A&M Records, Solar Records, La Face Inc., Marvel Productions, Microsoft Corporation, Ed-mark Corporation, Giant Campus Corporation and The Boys and Girls Club. His recent teaching experience as an Art Instructor includes, The Art Institute of Seattle Located in Seattle, Washington, where he taught both traditional and digital art classes. Present-ly, Dennis works as an Instructor for The Institute of Technology located in Clovis, California. As an accomplished oil painter his brushwork is vigorous and decisive while conveying selective choices in his personal inter-pretation of his subjects. Although, equally adept at painting landscapes, still life’s and portraits, his work characterize as ‘painterly and impressionistic.’ Dennis is also a member of the Society of Western Artist (SWA).

Page 2 Clovis Art Guild

President’s

Message Mission Statement: Historically, librar-

ies have always been centers of arts and

culture for society. Even though we artists

might not make a lot of sales displaying

our art in the libraries, our contributions to

the art and culture of the area is im-

mense. When we put our art in the li-

brary, we not only remind the public what

talented, creative artists live here, but

how much we care about the community

as a whole. One of the things we contrib-

ute to our community as artists is culture.

By displaying our stuff in the libraries, we

bring art to life for the general public. Alt-

hough it is not directly about sales, one of

the ways that we artists in Fresno and

Clovis convince the buying public how

wonderful is our art and photography

(and indirectly to buy that art) is the de-

velopment of a reputation for being a cen-

ter of art and culture. Sometimes we have

to give before we can get. This summer

Clovis Art Guild has been offered the

opportunity to display our work at Sunny-

side Library. I urge all our members to

take advantage of this opportunity to re-

mind our city what wonderful talented

artists the members of Clovis Art Guild

are.

Gene Butler & Gail Daley

Web Site News

Ma Ly has graciously agreed to develop and maintain a web site for the Guild, which we hope to have up and running in the next month or so. The site will feature the following.

Page 1

Introduction & History of CAG

Officers (include phone numbers [optional], e-mails), President’s Statement

Guild Activities throughout the year, Photos

Site Links to

Shows, Demonstrations/Workshops, Newsletters, Workshops, Members web sites

How to Join CAG

Link to by-laws, Link to membership application

Page 2 -- Old West & Rodeo Art Show

Brief history of CAG’s connection with the Clovis Rodeo Associa-tion, Prospectus for show, Photo of Best of Show, Old West & Ro-deo 1st place, 1st Place in other categories, Mary Krause Award & People’s Choice, Information about Judge , Awards list

Page 3 -- Veteran’s Art Show

Brief history of the Guild’s association with the Veteran’s Center and the Same info as Old West show

Page 4 -- Miniature Works Art Show

Brief history of CAG’s connection with the Sierra Vista Mall and the same info as for the old west show.

Page 5 – PDF printable Forms & Applications

Membership application, Newsletters, By-Laws

Page 6 -- Links to members web sites or e-mail (optional for members)

Features we need

To be able to send out e-mail with attachments for the newsletter, workshops and show prospectus

To be able automatically forward e-mail to board members (membership inquiries to Alice, general inquires to the president, etc.) We would be happy to hear suggestions from our mem-bers. Please bring your ideas to the next board meeting.

WE NEED YOU!

Our secretary, Fran has retired because of personal

time commitments. We need one of our members to

step forward and volunteer to serve as secretary.

Please contact one of the board members if you

feel you can serve in this capacity. Thank you.

Pick of the Month is the Guild’s way of supporting our members efforts. We need at least 7 paintings to award 3 places, so please participate!

We’d like to see what you’ve been working on! Don’t forget to bring your art

to the meeting! We would love to see your work. Classwork is acceptable too.

P ICK OF THE MONTH

Page 3 June 2012

PITFALLS OF USING CELEBRITIES IN YOUR ART

Have you ever been tempted to include a celebrity portrait in your art portfolio? Say you are entering a theme show and there is a celebrity whose very image just screams “I am this theme” i.e. Clint Eastwood or John Wayne for western art, General Patton or Pappy Boynton for WWII, Mohammed Ali, or an Olympic swim star for a sports theme, etc.? Well if you do use a celebrity without gaining the proper permissions, you could be sued for copyright violations under something called “the right of publicity” laws.

What are the rights of publicity laws? Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights, Defines these laws as “The right of publicity, often called personality rights, is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity. It is gen-erally considered a property right as opposed to a personal right, and as such, the validity of the Right of Publicity can survive the death of the individual (to varying degrees depending on the jurisdiction). In the Unit-ed States, the Right of Publicity is a state law-based right, as opposed to federal, and recognition of the right can vary from state to state.

[1] The Celebrities Rights Act was passed in California in 1985 and it extended the

personality rights for a celebrity to 70 years after their death.” There are other portions of California’s privacy laws to protect non-celebrity individuals but they not the subject of this article and may be covered later.

Further reading tells me that even if your source matter is a photograph taken by you of the celebrity in ques-tion you might still be liable for violation of the act if you invaded the privacy of the person in question to ob-tain the reference photo. Now I am not a lawyer, but common sense tells me why take the chance? Even if you win, a lawsuit is expensive and time-wasting and just being drug into court over something like this could damage your reputation as an artist. If you would like more information about this you can check out Gail’s

blog: http://gaildaleyfineart.blogspot.com/2012/05/can-artists-use-celebrity-images-in.html

1st Place David Dalgety 2nd Place Gail Daley

OFFICERS & COMMITTEES

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GAIL DALEY 960-2428

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GENE BUTLER 275-4304

VICE PRESIDENT TONI MAGYAR 299-0690

SECRETARY

TREASURER ALICE SUTTON 787-2386

PROGRAM CHAIR JULIANNE SMITH 323-8496

PUBLICITY GLYNMARY BATEMAN

MEMBERSHIP ALICE SUTTON 787-2386

PICK OF THE MONTH JACKIE MCCOY 787-2451

NEWSLETTER GAIL DALEY 960-2428

REFRESHMENT JEANNE NAITO 255-2146

BARGAIN TABLE SHIRLEY LINDGREN 255-0826

GREETER JOHN ROBERTS 322-6186

SUNSHINE HILDA VANDERGRIFF 322-6557

CO-CHAIR SHARON GARCIA 294-9626

STUDENT PROGRAM GENE BUTLER 275-4304

STOREFRONT ART GALLERY GAIL DALEY 960-2428

WEB SITE MANAGER MA LY

M e m b e r s h i p a p p l i c a t i o n

If you wish to submit an item for the newsletter, please do so by the 25th of the month. Items should be sent to Gail Daley at:

cag@gaildaleyfineart.com Or mailed to:

5688 E Sussex Way Fresno, CA 93727

BOARD MEETINGS ARE THE 2ND

WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH BEFORE

THE GENERAL MEETING, AT 5:30 P.M. IN

THE VETERAN’S MEMORIAL BUILDING,

804 4TH STREET, CLOVIS CA. MEMBERS

ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.

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