Framations Custom Framing & Art Gallery Show

In Transit 2: journey, change, and motion
 

March 20 – April 23, 2015

In this exhibit, we examine the theme “In Transit: journey, change and motion”. Any interpretation of the theme is welcome and encouraged. Themes could explore vehicles, implied motion, changes in light, journey in time, etc.      

Featuring work by the following artists: 

Judy Brown
Christine Casten
Jie Chen
Steve Femmer
Jan Foulk
Ting He
Gloria Henderson
John W. Kuntze
Judith A Repke
Richard Schallert
Helen Scheipeter
Marty Spears
Ben Underwood
Lee Walter
Shawn M. White
Jody Williams
Linda S. Wilmes
 

Juror:  Daven Anderson.

Framations Custom Framing & Art Gallery:  218 North Main Street, St. Charles, MO  63301

Students of St. Louis Community College, Meramec Campus Art Show

OA Gallery is hosting an exhibit and opening reception for the Meramec Student Art Show. The Art Department at St. Louis Community College at Meramec is one of the largest and most outstanding art departments not only in the St. Louis metropolitan region, but also the State of Missouri. With nineteen full-time and nearly one hundred adjunct faculty members, they rank among the region’s largest and most diverse art departments.

OA Gallery is honored to display a select number of works from this wonderful institution. The reception will be held at 101A W. Argonne, Kirkwood, MO 63122 on Friday, March 13 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Student Art Show will be on display March 6- 28, 2015.

Mary Mosblech and Barb Shaffer entered this show and were in the 25% of the artists selected (34 artists, 44 pieces of art) and both won awards. 

Carol Jessen Announces Her Workshops

I am pleased to announce the following workshop opportunities:

St. Charles, Missouri     Thursday, May 7th and Saturday, May 9th, 2015

The Three Steps in Landscape Painting:  
Wet-Into-Wet, Gradation, and Dry Brush

Location:  Missouri Artists on Main in historic St. Charles, Missouri

Tuition:  2 days for $150

Contact:  Jean McMullen,  jmcmullenart@aol.com 

Class size limited to 10.  
Classes filled quickly last fall, so sign up soon!

Boothbay Harbor, Maine     July 20 - 24, 2015

Watercolor Wet-Into-Wet

Time:  9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location:  Lions Club, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Tuition:  $400 for 5-day workshop.

Contact:  caroljessen@yahoo.com  or call 314-958-5567

Lodging:  The Beach Cove Resort is just up the street from the workshop headquarters.  
Perched high above West Harbor Pond, it is affordable and quiet.

Other accommodations can be found at the Boothbay Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

Different lessons each summer! 

Hope to see you soon!

Carol

Website:  http://caroljessen.webs.com
Click to go to my blog:  http://caroljessen.blogspot.com
 
 

SLWS 16th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION IS COMING UP WITH AN ADDED EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY AT JACOBY ARTS CENTER!

We are pleased to announce our 16th Annual Juried Exhibition is coming up this spring in April.  The show will be held at the Creative Art Gallery, 3232 Ivanhoe, St. Louis, MO  63129.  Typically about 200 paintings are submitted with 100 being accepted.  Receiving is Apr 10, 10 a.m. to noon, and Apr. 11, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the gallery.  Artists may enter three pieces, $7 each for members and $12 each for non-members, with an opportunity to have two juried into the show.  The exhibition is “juried” for acceptance as well as judged for awards, and the juror/judge will be Tom Lynch, a master watercolorist and educator with over 35 years experience.  The opening reception is Apr. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. with the awards presentation at 7 p.m.  This show is always an excellent exhibition of the work of area watercolor artists and invites viewing from April 17 to May 16, 2015.

This annual exhibit is an opportunity for Saint Louis Watercolor Society members to achieve signature status, which is awarded to a member who has been accepted into two juried shows within a ten-year period while still maintaining his or her continuous membership in the SLWS.

This year the SLWS has been invited by the Jacoby Arts Center, 627 E. Broadway, Alton, IL 62002, to have the artwork juried into the SLWS 16^th Annual Juried Exhibition travel from Creative Art Gallery to their gallery for Splash II: Saint Louis Watercolor Society Juried Exhibit 2015, from May 22 to July 4, 2015.

At the time you register for the SLWS show at Creative Gallery we will have a traveling exhibit permission form to complete if you would like your juried artwork to travel to the Jacoby Arts Center show.  There is no entry fee for Jacoby Arts Center show. The SLWS has made arrangements to handle the transport of the work to the gallery on May 18^th for the artists participating in the show.  Artists not wishing to participate in this show are asked to retrieve their artwork at Creative Art Gallery on May 18, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The Jacoby Arts Center show, Splash II: Saint Louis Watercolor Society Juried Exhibit 2015, will have an opening reception on May 22, from 6 to 8 p.m.  On July 4^th the show ends.  Artists must retrieve their artwork on July 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Jacoby Arts Center.  We encourage you to pool your efforts so not everyone will have to drive to Alton for the retrieval.

The permission form to be included in the Jacoby Arts Center show is shown below.  You can click on it to open the document on one page, print it off (print two), bring one completed copy to receiving for the SLWS 16th Annual Juried Exhibition at Creative Gallery, and keep one for your records. 

Dave Anderson Offer

SLWS member Dave Anderson has 9 lbs of Nupastel color sticks in 96 assorted colors in bags and boxes.  Also there are boxes of pastel pencils and colored pencils.  He would like to donate these items to a local school art department in need.  He would also consider donating to an aspiring pastel artist. 

There are just too many pastels to be horded by someone who only uses them occasionally to never.  Any interested person should please contact him at 314-544-1774 or dvande56@yahoo.com.

Congratulations to Alicia Farris

On Feb. 4th Alicia Farris was proud to have been accepted into the 40th Western Federation of Watercolor Sicieties exhibit that will be in Lubbock, TX this year.  The Western Federation of Watercolor Societies is comprised of over 5,000 artists belonging to watercolor societies of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, California, Texas, Southern Watercolor and Southwestern Watercolor societies.

On Feb. 25th Alicia Farris had two paintings accepted into the Missouri Valley Impressionist Society exhibit, which will be in St. Louis in March - May, 2015.  The MVIS is an organization formed to promote impressionism in and around the Missouri River Valley region in the following states:  Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.