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January/February 2018
Canton Artists League News
An affiliate of Canton Museum of Art
1001 Market Ave North, Canton, OH 44702
http://cantonartistsleague.org
Notes from the CAL President
Amanda Morena
What is art for you: therapy, beauty, communication, a material consequence of spiritual growth or mental exercise? Perhaps it is all of the previously mentioned. Or, is it an answer to a question that you never asked; a path to a place you never knew, yet all too familiar or a destination you wish to visit. Is it a building, a temple where every component is carefully crafted? Is it organized, a body of work or perhaps the process is the destination?
Whatever your motivation for creation, I hope this year brings you whatever you need and the tools to get it. I am looking forward to staying inside more to work on art projects alone and with my children. With these cold temperatures, we might try ice sculpture!
Winter Salutations and Happy New Year
January 17: Dr. Katherine Brown from Walsh University -Venetian Renaissance artists and techniques.
February 21: Jim Cook - sealing paintings
March 21: TBD
April 18: Lynn Fiori - landscape painting demo
May 16: Sandy Paradis - poured acrylics.
Officers
President
Amanda Morena
330-209-5785
Vice President
Lori Perry
330-327-5514
Secretary
Susan Kelewae
330-832-3852
Treasurer
Sharon Mazgaj
330-607-4195
Board Members
Michele Tokos,
330-205-9242
michele.tokos@testamericainc
.com
Suni Lopez-Otriz
330-768-7550
Cynthia Capestrain
330-704-4952
Irene Rodriguez
330-354-3342
June: TBD
July: TBD
August: Picnic?
Sept: TBD
Oct: Stark State Show
Nov. TBD
Dec: Party
See calendar list pages for more events, shows, and meetings.
Upcoming Meetings
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CAL Exhibits
CAL News is
published every
other month
We want to hear about your art successes—exhibits, awards, etc. Send your news to [email protected]
Deadline for submissions is on the 1st of Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov.
Committee Chairs
Facebook Administrator
Anna Rather 510-821-5142 [email protected]
CMA Wall
Nancy Michel 330-323-6539 [email protected]
Historian
Isabel Zaldivar 330-915-6178 [email protected]
Membership
Suni Lopez-Ortiz 330-768-7550 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor
Irene Rodriguez 330-354-3342 [email protected]
Exhibits Committee Suni Lopez-Ortiz 330-768-7550 [email protected]
and Irene Rodriguez 330-354-3342 [email protected]
Refer to calendar list page for dates and times.
Tentative Show Plans for next Year
Your Board is looking into the possibility of shows at the following locations for 2018:
Peffer Gallery Foltz Center, East Canton
Glenmoor Country Club Walsh University (Early 2019)
And more...
Irene Tobias Rodriguez will have a solo show at Merging Hear ts Holistic Center (off of 38th St) January 12 through February 28. Reception - Sunday, January 14, noon to 2:30
Several CAL members have artwork in the Stark County Artists Exhibition at the Massillon Museum December 3, 2017 - January 31, 2018. Congratulations to: Peter Castillo, Isabel Zalvidar, Bruce Humbert, Judy Huber, Pat Ripple, Judy Krew, Gail Keener, Michele Tokos, Peter Castillo, and Frank Dale
Jane Heater received 2nd place in fine ar t at Christkindl Markt
League News
Funny Side of Art
Q: Did you here about the attempt robbery at the museum? A: They had ran
out of gas a few blocks away when the police caught them, and they said,
"We didn't have the Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh"
Q: Why did the painter butter his toast with his fingers? A: To feel its
texture.
The Earth without art is just Eh.
Q: How many artists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Ten. One to change it, and nine to reassure him about how good it looks.
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October:
December:
Contact Nancy Michel to sign up (see contact info under Committee chairs on page 2.) She is currently taking names for 2018 . We are grateful to CMA for giving us the opportunity to display our work in the museum every month.
February: Nancy Michel
For as long as I can remember I have loved drawing. My high school art teacher, Mr. Ty Palmer, was my inspiration. Encouraged by my parents, I majored in art education at the University of Akron, then received my master's degree from the College of Mount Saint Joseph. I then taught art at Springfield Local Schools for 36 years, most of them being at the high school level. As my husband Todd and I were blessed with two daughters, Hilary and Candice, I chose to put my own art "on the back burner" as we were rearing them!
Now I am happily retired, and loving it! My medium of choice is watercolor, with acrylic and pastel pencil as a close second. The subject matter usually happens in series, depending on where my life if taking me. It could be my "sweets" series, inspired by the artist Wayne Thiebaud,, to the "Popcorn" series, to my equestrian series from visiting my friend's ranch. Now I am on an "Alaskan" series, that comes from our trip there last summer. As I always say to my family "Let's hear it for the arts!"
December: Pat Waltz
January: Frank Dale
February: Nancy Michel
March:
April: David Martin
May:
June: Hilda Sikora
July: Jerry Fox
September:
CAL – CMA Wall Artists
January: Frank Dale
TRONIES The word tronie means face in Dutch. It is a common type of painting in the Dutch era called the Golden Age of Painting. Typically it shows an exaggerated facial expression or an interesting character, usually anonymous (named “A Girl With ...”) engaged in an ordinary activity or of an ordinary occurrence such as “A Girl With A Pearl Earring”. The intention is to keep the anonymity of the subject whose head or bust is the composition of the portrait. Although the portrait may be intended to simply be a study, in the hands of Rembrandt or Vermeer theses studies have been elevated to the status of masterpieces. Two of the most famous tronies of all time are Vermeer’s “The Girl In the Red Hat” and “The Girl Withe A Pearl Earring”. I have included my reproductions of the Vermeer’s along with six of my own Tronies.
F. Dale
2018 Officers
Dues reminder
Lineup for CAL Wall You should have received a dues notice (unless you joined since September 2017 or are one of the Charter members.) If you haven’t alreadly done so, please send your dues to the address on the bill in a timely matter or bring it to a meeting. The final due date is January 31. Remember, you must be a current member to participate in our shows and exhibits. We would like to have a picture of each of our members in the directory so we can easily recognize those we don’t know. We can also include a sample of your work. Send pictures to Suni at [email protected].
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Article from The Guardian Magazine about our Stark State show
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Elijah Pierce: An American Journey
An American Journey explores the work of self-taught, American folk artists of the 20th century,
Elijah Pierce (1892 – 1984). Pierce was a prolific African American wood carver known for his brightly painted sculptural panels illustrating biblical stories, moral lessons, historical events, and images from popular culture – a landscape of wood-carved art that is unlike any in America. The exhibit will focus on 40 major works. Featured will be Pierce’s most ambitious carving, “Book of Wood” (1932), consisting of seven panels with 33 scenes illustrating the years Christ lived on the earth, as well as works depicting segregation, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Civil Rights, among others.
Exhibits at CMA
African American Masterpieces: Permanent Collection Highlights
African American art is a comprehensive term describing the visual arts of the American black community. In the past, African American art was expressed through basket weaving, small drums, quilting, pottery, painting, and woodcarving. After the Civil War, African American works were slowly accepted in American culture – however, their art was better received in Europe than in America. Today, most major
cities have developed museums devoted to African American artists. Important collections of African American art are becoming more prevalent, and this exhibition celebrates the works from the Canton Museum of Art’s permanent collection. In conjunction with the woodcarvings of Elijah Pierce, this exhibition showcases paintings and ceramics created between 1945 and 2010.
American Masters | Watercolors
Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Luks, John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, and John Singer Sargent are seven exceedingly fine masters of watercolor painting by any standard. This exhibition showcases Canton Museum of Art’s recent acquisition of Childe Hassam’s 1890 impressionist masterpiece, Bleak House, Broadstairs. Watercolor is one of the most challenging mediums to use; the colors need to be carefully controlled or they bleed into one another. In the century following the Civil War, watercolor painting
became an important American medium and it was used more freely and creatively than anywhere else in the world. Together, these seven masters contribute importantly to our cultural heritage and give us a standard of creative excellence that is a vast benefit to all of us. Rarely are all seven of these masterworks on display at one time.
Engraved Fields: Jack McWhorter
Jack McWhorter refers to his most recent set of paintings collectively as ‘engraved fields.’ The reference is an apt one in the sense that his paintings are fields of a kind, articulated with a painterly calligraphy describing poetic marks. Looking at his paintings is to encounter places where the mysterious, the metaphorical, and the mundane come together for the viewer through expressive brush strokes. On one level, his paintings function as models of connectivity, arrivals, or snapshots of structures and relationships in flux, carrying the evidence of paths that led to their destination. Working up his paintings, they build into overall structures with inseparable components. Jack conjoins various series of procedures to develop visual relationships, including space/scale, and figure/ground.
On view from November 23, 2017 - March 4, 2018
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Strauss Furniture 1/11 or 12/18 10:00 AM 5:00 PM Pick up Artwork Strauss Furniture
CAL meeting 1/17/18 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Dr. Katherine Brown -Venetian Renaissance artists and techniques.
CMA
CAL meeting 2/21/18 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Jim Cook - sealing paintings
CMA
CAL meeting 3/21/18 6:00 PM 8:00 PM TBA CMA
CAL meeting 4/18/18 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Lynn Fiori - landscape painting demo
CMA
CAL meeting 5/16/18 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Sandy Paradis - poured acrylics demo.
CMA
Upcoming Events
Subject Date Start Time End Time Description Location
Calendar has updates from the last newsletter. Some dates
and/or times have changed.
To learn more about CAL, visit us at…. Website: https://cantonartistleague.org Facebook Page: https://www.facebok.com/CantonArtistsLeague/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/711382905597627
If you have pictures of CAL events, you are
welcome to post them on the CAL Facebook page.
Fire and Water: Ceramics and Watercolors
Do Fire and Water mix? They do at the Canton Museum of Art. An art museum is much more than a building. It isn’t built simply with bricks, mortar, and concrete. It is built with a love of art, a commitment from a community, and the hope that the works of art inside can inspire future generations. Through the Canton Museum of Art’s focus on American watercolors and ceramics, CMA has selected a unique identity among museums in Northeast Ohio. Building a strong, vital collection is central to living up to our commitment to the community, and building a lasting legacy for the future. And so, through the fires that built our ceramics, and the water that mixed with color on a palette, we build our collection, and we share these amazing artists and works to inspire visitors, both in the galleries and online.
More Exhibits at CMA On view from November 23, 2017 - March 4, 2018