Next meeting is Wednesday March 14, 2012 7:00 p.m.

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

Inside this issue:

President’s Message 2

Cover Art Contest 2

Pick of the Month! 3

Copyright Myths 3

Officers & Commit-

tees 4

Membership Application 4

Clovis Art Guild

OFFICERS Presidents Pro

Tem

Gail Daley

Gene Butler

Vice President

Toni Maygar

Secretary

Fran Leighton

Treasurer

Alice Sutton

Mar

2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley

Inside This Issue

Jerome Grimmer will be our

March Demonstrator

Next exchange for our storefront gallery

will be March 1 @ 5:00 p.m.

Jerome Grimmer was born in De-

troit, Michigan. His intention was to

become a classical orchestra com-

poser/conductor, but while in high

school, he gave up his musical am-

bitions for visual arts. After coming

to California, he enrolled at the Art

Center College of Design in LA to

study illustration.

Grimmer worked for a short time as a technical illustrator in the

space industry followed by a tour of duty in the Navy for three

years. He entered and won many local, regional, and national art

competitions. He was among the earliest artists to successfully use

acrylic as a fine art medium and has had over thirty one-man

shows and group shows. Through workshops and classes, he has

shared his knowledge with countless students. His work has been

featured in Southwest Art Magazine and is included in the Majesty

of the Grand Canyon ISO years in Art, published by First Glance

Books.

Jerome regards his paintings as a visual journal of his var-

ied experiences, refusing to limit his scope, embracing a wide vari-

ety of subjects. His paintings have been critically acclaimed for

their mastery in capturing light and atmosphere, qualities that make

Grimmer's paintings sought after and highly appreciated.

2012 Cover Art

Contest

Page 2 Clovis Art Guild

President’s

Message The Old West & Rodeo Art Show is fast approach-ing. Have you started your painting or sculpture yet? Last year we had a fabu-lous show and Gene and I know that your efforts will make the 2012 show just as wonderful.

Toni, Glynmary and Alice will be asking for volun-teers to help out with the show, bring in food for the reception and to sit the show. Please consider signing up to assist in one of these areas.

Gene & Gail

Presidents ProTem

Local art

events

DON’T

FORGET!

MEMBER-

SHIP DUES

Every year we have a bro-chure for the Old West & Ro-deo show in April. Each year there is a contest to pick a cover design for this bro-

chure.

Enter your drawings by the

March 14th meeting.

Drawings need to be no big-ger than 5” x 7”. Drawings should be in pen & ink or pen-cil and photocopy ready. The subject is usually the Old West or Rodeo. The winner will receive $25.00 and our drawing will be on the cover

Art-Tique’s Local Art Events Calendar is a free monthly publication for the purpose of assisting artists of California’s Central Val-ley to find places to show/sell their art, make con-nections with the local art groups, and find classes, workshops, and tools that help artists develop artistic skills and the business side of art. Printed copies are usually available at the general Meetings of ACA CAG, Allards Art supply in Fresno and the Kingsburg Art Center in Kingsburg. It is distributed on-line. If you would like to begin receiv-ing a copy of this newslet-ter please contact Gail Daley @ 960-2428 or art-tique@gaildaleyfineart.co

m .

Glynmary would like to thank everyone who provided such fab-ulous food for the artist reception at the Veteran’s Show last No-vember. She will be sending around a sign-up sheet for the Old West Show reception at the March meeting.

THANKS!

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 February 2012

11 Copyright Myths - by Brad Templeton

(reprinted by permission)

1st place

David Dalgety

2nd place

Julianne Smith

3rd place

Barbara Hamel

MYTH NO 8: "Oh, so copyright violation isn't a crime or anything?" Actually, in the 90s in the USA commercial copyright violation involving more than 10 copies and value over $2500 was made a felony. So watch out. (At least you get the protections of criminal law.) On the other hand, don't think you're going to get people thrown in jail for posting your E-mail. The courts have much better things to do. This is a fairly new, untested statute. In one case an operator of a pirate BBS that didn't charge was acquitted because he didn't charge, but congress amended the law to cover that.

MYTH NO 9: "It doesn't hurt anybody -- in fact it's free advertising." It's up to the owner to de-cide if they want the free ads or not. If they want them, they will be sure to contact you. Don't ra-tionalize whether it hurts the owner or not, ask them. Usually that's not too hard to do. Time past, ClariNet published the very funny Dave Barry column to a large and appreciative Usenet audience for a fee, but some person didn't ask, and forwarded it to a mailing list, got caught, and the news-paper chain that employs Dave Barry pulled the column from the net, pissing off everybody who enjoyed it. Even if you can't think of how the author or owner gets hurt, think about the fact that piracy on the net hurts everybody who wants a chance to use this wonderful new technology to do more than read other people's flamewars.

Myth no 10 will be covered in next month’s issue room permitting

OFFICERS & COMMITTEES

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GAIL DALEY 960-2428

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GENE BUTLER 275-4304

VICE PRESIDENT TONI MAYGAR 299-0690

SECRETARY FRAN LEIGHTON 906-9861

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

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

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