January 2010

Senior Artists Alliance

QUICK NEWS 

- JANUARY 2010 -

The SAA Quick News  has been designed to provide information that prefer a “snail mail” brief summary of SAA information. Our extensive but easily usable web-site provides complete information about our activities and useful links for additional information. Just enter  www.seniorartistsalliance.org   into your browser, then click, the SAA web page will appear in a few short moments! We encourage members to access current information on the website.  We will continue to "email" notices related to special events and monthly meetings.

EXHIBITS

►Bohrer Activity Center, Gaithersburg

               November 20, 2009, through January 18, 2010.

               Pick-up: January 19 from 10:00 to 10:30 am.

►River Road Unitarian Church, Bethesda, MD

            March 2, 2010 to March 30, 2010.                      Reception March 7, 3 to 5 pm

►Pepco Edison Place Gallery, across from the National     Portrait Gallery, March 2 to April 2, 2010                (wall/sculptures). "Power of Artful Light"

              Reception: March 20 from 2 to 4 pm.

►Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring

            "Art for Healing"

            April 1, 2010 through May 31, 2010 

              (limited to 20 wall hangings)       

               

MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2010

            January 16, Davis Library, 2:00 pm.                   Michaele Harrington will discuss her approach to art including painting, sculpture, collage, etc., etc…..

               February 13, 2010, 2:00 at Montgomery College          Professor John Carr of Montgomery College will be doing Monotype printing. Please bring a selection of paint brushes (not water color wash brushes as they are too soft). Two or three brushes of different sizes no wider then 2 inches.

               March 13, 2010 at Davis Library
Julian Manelli will discuss the "art of framing art."  

               April 10, 2010, Davis Library
Associate Professor of Art Michael Sellmeyer of Montgomery College, will talk about his paintings, drawings, collages, and prints.

            May 8, Davis Library
            June 12, Davis Library

JANUARY 16TH MEETING

 OUR 1ST. IN 2010

FEATURING

 MICHAELE HARRINGTON

ART EDUCATOR AND EXHIBITOR

Folks, get ready for a most enjoyable and informative artist's presentation on the afternoon of January 16th. Michaele Harrington will discuss "critiquing art work." If you want to have your paintings, photos, prints or sculptures critiqued bring one or two to the meeting. Michaele Harrington is one of the most eclectic artists we'll have a chance to meet.  "I never know where I’m going when I begin an abstract.  I watch the way the colors interact and then I push the paint to do more, or else lift out paint that has gone awry."  Michaele generates conversation with her works in progress, "I usually stop working on a piece (a painting is never finished!) when I happen to reach a point where a satisfying set of relationships is in balance."   Her work is exciting, reflecting her life's events. On her first trip to Morocco she became fascinated with its desert environment and it's contrast of aged surfaces, rhythms and patterns as opposed to the barrenness of areas and with the people who lived there. Her series of paintings --- certainly expose her inner perceptions.  While on a trip to Ireland -- her parents came from Irish and Polish stock -- her paintings began to explore the existential question, “Who Am I?” She began this exploration by looking at her cultural ancestry.  After reading about her parents’ Irish and Polish ethnic histories, she traced their cultural origins back to a common denominator: Celtic migrations from the Alps into Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor.  She had always loved the sinewy nature of Celtic art, hence immersed herself in Celtic mythology, and symbolism, and their meditative process, constructing paintings reflecting her new understanding. As she pointed our, "Layers are a way of expressing the hidden vs. the revealed, and much of my work exploits layering. Sometimes the surface hints at what might be found with a little digging; other times the surface yields no clue as to what lies underneath…the exposed surface is texturally rich and either suggests secret things hidden below or else it is containing whatever yearns to escape." Eclectic? Yes! Michael feeds herself with abstracted work as her my main course, while traditional figurative painting is her dessert.  So, come and get some critique…..

SAA Board members hard at work!

SAA Board members are your representatives who help make our activities possible.  We are always looking for members who would like to join the Board.  Contact:   

Paul Pincus, Chairperson, 301-527-1585                          Vice Co-Chairperson, Stan Rosen, 301-571-4901   Treasurer, Joe Homes, 301-986-9482                                             Secretary, Mary Ellen Gordon, 301-421-4033         Membership, Stuart Glickman, 301-279-2355            Program, Marilyn Falik, 202-667-0911                                         Website, Stuart Glickman, 301-279-2355                       Quick News, August Spector, 301-251-8722 Publicity/Advertising, Bonita Tabakin, 301-762-8789     Exhibit Chair, Florence Gang, 301-656-3430         Hospitality, Regina Price, 301-460-3382                                       Muriel Ebitz, 301-365-7756

MEMBERS CURRENTLY EXHIBITING

DAVID JACOBOWITZ displaying nine segmented and nine other pieces in reception area wall cases  near Admissions in the Hatfield Building (New Clinical Center) at the NIH in Bethesda, from January 15th to March 5th.

Irma Spencer and Renate Chernoff  are participating in the "Rock, Paper, and Scissors" exhibit at Har Shalom Synagogue, 11510 Falls Rd., Potomac, January 5th to February 24th. Irma will exhibit stone sculptures and Renate will exhibit her paper sculptures.

Muriel Ebitz is exhibiting watercolor and pastel paintings at the River Road Unitarian Church, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, January 3 - 29. Reception, January 10, from 3 - 5 pm

 Bruce Blum, Linda Brauer, and Mary Ellen Gordon, Maryland Art League's Exhibit at the Sandy Spring Museum from January 6th to March 28th. Reception, January 10th, from 2 to 4 pm.

***************************************************************************************************************12th Annual Senior Adult Art Exhibition: “A Lifetime of Perspective: Art by Older Adults,” will be held at the Jewish Community Center's Goldman Gallery on Montrose Rd,            May 16 through June 6.

SAA Members invited to join in a very exciting opportunity for non-professional artists aged 65 and better to show their recent work in a professional gallery with all the excitement and recognition that a typical art exhibition entails.
You may submit up to three items, space permitting, at least one will be shown in the exhibit.  Works are to be framed or otherwise prepared for display by intake day, April 20.  Media accepted will include recent paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, craft and fiber art.  There is no charge to participate.  The program coordinator will handle sales inquiries connecting artists with purchasers on an individual basis without commission to the JCC.
Please contact Kandy Hutman, Continuing Education Program Director, at 301-348-3864 to arrange for an appointment to show works for selection.  Individuals will be responsible for bringing selected works to the Center on April 20 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and to collect them after the exhibition closes on Monday, June 7, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. The JCC requests that heavy sculptures arrive between 1-3 pm when help will be available putting pieces onto pedestals paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, craft and fiber art.  There is no charge to participate.  The program coordinator will handle sales inquiries connecting artists with purchasers on an individual basis without commission to the JCC.
Please contact Kandy Hutman, Continuing Education Program Director, at 301-348-3864, to arrange for an appointment to show works for selection.  Individuals will be responsible for bringing selected works to the Center on April 20 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and to collect them after the exhibition closes on Monday, June 7, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. The JCC requests that heavy sculptures arrive between 1-3 pm when help will be available putting pieces onto pedestals

WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR 2010

IT IS TIME TO RENEW YOUR SAA MEMBERSHIP

YEARLY MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE STILL $25-

INCLUDES OUR MONTHLY SPEAKER MEETINGS; OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY AND SELL YOUR ART WORK AT SAA SPONSORED SHOWS; OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE A LINK ON THE  SAA WEBSITE; AND, OF COURSE, RECEIPT OF YOUR VERY OWN NEWSLETTER:  

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