Artists' League Speakers Committee
Mark Fletcher, Chair: 504.1367
Viki D. Thompson Wylder: 224.7353
Mariann Kearsley: 224.8259
All meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month from 7 pm to 9 pm at the FSU Museum in the Fine Arts Building (FAB). Social Hour from 6 pm to 7 pm. Feel free to bring something to eat and enjoy the comradery of other members or meet with your mini-guild. Committee chairs meet from 6:30 to 7 and general meeting starts at 7:00. Program Speaker starts around 7:30. Enter from the inside of FAB across from the theatre's entrance. Artists' League members can now park for free in the lots next to the museum. Contact Viki D. Thompson Wylder, the Museum's Artists' League liason at 644.1299 for further information.
AL Meeting-Speakers-Shows 2009-2010
July Meeting Newsletter PDF: (2 pages-front and back)
Newsletter_1.pdf
Newsletter_2.pdf
2010 Lemoyne Highlight Submission Info (Deadline March 2)
2010 Lemoyne Highlight PDF
2010 Professional Development Award (Deadline April 6)
2010 Professional Development Award PDF
A high five to Ramona Abernathy and Laine Wyatt, who received the 2009 Professional
Development Award.
June 11-July 9: Summer Annual Show. Opening on June 11 from 7 to 9 PM
July 12 - 16 Pickup artwork you may have exhibited in the Artists' League Summer Annual: from the hours of noon to 4:00 p.m. at the museum.
All insurance expires at the end of that week.
August 3: The Grand Finale: A celebration of our accomplishments. Pot luck dinner at the home of Francoise Baudoin d'Ajoux. Directions in August Newsletter
September 1:
Chair: Sara Chang
Minute Taker: Mark Fletcher
Projects voted in for 2009-2010:
About the projects/priorities for the upcoming year – they are as follows.
1. Psychological Self-Portrait Exhibition
2. Foreign Affairs Exhibition – will be subsumed into the Synergie Salon
3. Art Book-making Seminar (potentially with Professor Denise Bookwalter)
4. Volunteer Day to do art with children at the a community center
Juror: Hillary Crawford,
former Executive Director of LeMoyne Art Center
Honored Member: Lee Goldberg
Though Lee was diagnosed with Alzheimers in the Spring of 2008, her husband has maintained her membership in the League. The League now honors her lifetime of artmaking with the exhibition of eight of her works. The First Award for the 2010 Summer Annual is named for her: the “lee” Award. Lee Goldberg signed all her work in lower case.
Awards:
The “lee” Award, First Award in Honor of Lee Goldberg: David Maki, Self-Portrait, oil.
Second Award: Valerie Goodwin, Lifeline, fiber art.
Third Award: Barbara Psimas, Madonna in Thought, acrylic & oil.
Honorable Mentions:
First HM: Ken Misner, Bird, oil on board.
Second HM: Lolita Gomez, Memories, fiber.
Third HM: Leslie Puckett, Crow: Purple, Black, & Chartreuse, collage.
Fourth HM: Sara Chang, Fairy Bride: Nanette Gatlin Fisher, vinyl.
Fifth HM: DeDe Harter, The Spectacle, fiber.
Professional Development Awards:
Sara Chang & Susan Stelzmann.
Special Thanks to League Members:
Exhibition Card and Poster Designs: Bill Humphries.
Professional Development Awards Committee: Jaye Houle, Chair; Terrie Corbett, Leslie Puckett, and Cheryl Sattler, Members.
Summer Annual Registration Assistance: Michele Beaudin.
Acquisition of Utrecht Certificate for Third Award: Michele Beaudin.
Extended Weekend Hours: June 19 – Penny Young and DeDe Harter;
June 26 – Roger Owen and Margaret Hamilton.
Special Thanks to Utrecht for the $75 Certificate for the Third Award.