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January 22, 2013—PAL Meeting

7:00 P.M.—Public Welcome

Cottesmore Retirement Center 2909 14th Av NW, Gig Harbor, WA

January PAL Program—

Mary McInnis- Pastels: Pastel

Techniques and Surfaces!

Important Member Information! Send Photos of what you are doing and what is going on

in your art world. I like to put as much in the Newsletter as I can. Everyone deserves to be seen!

NEW “DUE BY” date: Please send your articles in by the 1st of the month, starting in March. My plan

is to have this newsletter out around the 10th of every month, if possible.

The Peninsula Art League will meet Tuesday, January 22, from 7-9pm at Cottesmore

Care, 2909 14th Avenue NW, in Gig Harbor*. The meeting will feature Mary McInnis

who will demonstrate her pastel technique and talk about the different pastels and sur-

faces on which to work.

“I have been painting and drawing all my life with involvement in other areas: illustrator

and photographer for Seattle Opera; mother of a child with diabetes; gardener; volunteer;

lots of other interests but always keeping one toe in the art world and a working studio in

which to retreat whenever possible.

“Over the years I have come to the conclusion that my art speaks to the soul of the com-

mon man. There are no esoteric or hidden meanings. No deep, dark attempts at soul-

searching. I see beauty and I want to record and share it. [I want my work to be] some-

thing that uplifts and brightens, something that gives pause for

the wondrous beauty of the natural world or the goodness of hu-

mans….and to calm and restore the soul.”

Find more info at McInnis’ website—

www.mjmcinnisfineart.com

“Along the Black

River”,

“Carousel”

“Hyak

Stream”

pastel paintings by Mary McInnis

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2012-13 PAL Board and Chairs

Position Name email Phone

President* Jo Ann Sullivan sullivanjm1@msn.com (360)876-0742

First Vice President* Hilaire Ra-dowick

hradowick@gmail.com (206)293-1269

Second Vice Presi-dents*

Cathie Johnson ccjohnson41@comcast.net (971)241-5418

(member shows) Greg Trathen llkt1942@comcast.net (253)265-3669

Secretary* Mary McInnis mmcinnis@centurytel.net (253)858-9224

Treasurer* Charli Meacham charlimeacham@centurytel.net (253)858-9388

Board Members at Large*:

GHAA Representa-tive/Plein Air

Anne Knapp annemknapp@gmail.com (253)265-6700

Summer Art Festival Rep.

Myrna Binion myrnalb@comcast.net (253)857-4222

Member Representa-tive

Virginia Alvarez vsalvarez@centurytel.net (253)265-6363

Membership Chair Cecile Anderson Brucecec1@comcast.net (253)549-4646

Regional Juried Show Chairs:

Sheila Anderson sheila.anderson5524@gmail.com ((253)549-2896

Karen Wilsey showafox@gmail.com (253)549-2929

Newsletter Editor* Carlene Salazar carlene.salazar@gmail.com (253)278-0942

Newsletter Distributor Becky Eagle beckyeagle@comcast.net (253)228-1184

Monthly Programs* Judy Buskirk jpbuskirk@centurylink.net (253)857-0543

Video Library Judy Caruthers-Gampper

pete_n_judy@msn.com (253)858-6978

Hospitality Chair Sue Boudreaux sboud35@gmail.com (253)432-0889

Bi-Monthly Exhibit and Sunshine

Chris Cotton musicandart1720@comcast.net (253)858-6191

Workshops Jeannie Crider jeannecrider1937@gmail.com (253)857--5132

Scholarships Sherri Bonsell sherbon@centurytel.net (253)858-4032

Equiptment Storage Patti McQuillin pmcq4@yahoo.com (253)857-9261

Website/Publicity Charlee Glock-Jackson

charlee@centurytel.net (253)857-5604

Screenings: Marti Green marti@martigreen.com (360)871-2906

Michele Sleight I maginartstu-dio@michelesleight.com

(360)876-0117

"Drawing You In" Chair OPEN

organizes summer figurative drawing at Uptown Pavilion

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December President’s Message: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and are ready to do

some great artwork!

At our January 22nd meeting, we will be recapping the pro-

gress of all our committees. The Open Show and Summer Art

Festival committees have been meeting during our holiday

break to iron out any hiccups and firm up details for these

events. We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

Mary McInnis will be presenting our program for this meeting. She will be demon-

strating her pastel work. It should be fun and very inspiring. Looking forward to see-

ing you all at the meeting. Please come and support your group and your volunteers.

JoAnn Sullivan, President

Spring Fling at the KP Civic Cen-

ter – Saturday April 6, 2013

Presented by Two Waters Arts Alliance. (TWAA) is

a collaborative and community based organiza-

tion, facilitating participation and education in the

arts on the Key Peninsula and in surrounding

communities.

For entry information and forms, please contact:

Questions? Or need assistance preparing digital en-

tries?

Email twaa@fernwoodstudio.com or call robin at (253)

884-2286

(Sorry, not enough space here to include it all)

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Thank you all for the Christmas Party Potluck photos! I wrote about it last

month, but didn’t have any pictures. I’m glad I can add them this month. On De-

cember 2, 2012, our annual Potluck Christmas Party at the Rosedale Hall was en-

joyed by a great group of members and their guests. The hall was beautifully

decorated with lights and hand made centerpieces which were given to some of

the lucky guests. There was a variety of foods brought by everyone. Charli

Meacham and Laurel Stone entertained us throughout the evening with wonder-

ful Christmas and holiday music.

For information concerning the PAL Demonstrations or directions to Cot-

tesmore for PAL Meetings, contact jpbuskirk@centurylink.net for directions.

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INTERESTED - ANYONE? Do you want to be a more savvy social networker for your art as business? Have you considered starting or fine-tuning a Facebook account? Does starting a Facebook Business account or LinkedIn account sound tempting? How about creating a website? a Blog? 1) I'd like to know how many have a sincere desire to go to the next level with their art as business. Please email me: jpbuskirk@centurylink.net if you are interested, and in which ones. This will be VERY HELPFUL in the coming months. 2) Also, who or what would you like to see for a demo next year?

Next Program February: M A R K

Y O U R C A L E N D A R S !

PAL's February 26th demo Myrna Binion—

Watercolor and Acrylic Ink on Yupo Paper !

Video Library The video library is located at Kimball Espresso Gallery at 6950 Kimball Drive behind the white doors. Over 20 videos found new homes at the last PAL meeting, so there's room for growth now. Be sure to stop by the library and check out whatever catches your eye. Happy viewing. Judy Caruthers

PAL Presence: This is for PAL members accepted in

other shows: If you have pieces in shows such as Backbone

or Kimball galleries or in other shows, this spot is for you!

Judy Buskirk's mixed media painting, Bewilderness (23H x 30W), was

accepted into Bremerton's Collective Visions Show, hich will take place

from January 19th to February 23.

Mary McInnis will be the featured artist for the month of February at the Morso Wine Bar in Gig

Harbor - 9014 Peacock Hill Ave. There will be a reception on Saturday, January 26th from 5 to 7pm. My pastel painting, Carousel, will be the centerpiece of the show and It will be sort of a retrospective of her pastel work over the last 20 years. She hopes to see you there! On Saturday March 2nd, She will be demonstrating her pastels again at Bain-bridge Arts and Crafts located at 151 Winslow Way in Bainbridge Island, WA. That starts at 12:30pm and is free to the public. Please come and watch! It's always a fun and inspiring event!

“Moo Cow”

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Gig Harbor artist Jennell Watson is showing artwork

in acrylic and oil at Obscurities Hair and Art Studio

now through Feb. A reception will be held on Feb. 8,

2013 at their location at 3006 Judson St., Gig Harbor

(next to the Columbia Bank). Everyone is invited and

refreshments will be served.

“Ballet Dancer” by Jennell Watson

Gig Harbor Summer Art Festival Committee Report –

The Festival Committee has been working on updating the forms and system for digital entry of images for this year’s Festival Screening– we plan to have the information online by the end of Janu-ary. In the meantime, we have been having lively discussions and planning sessions to make our fes-tival on the weekend of July 20 & 21 a success. Lots of work and planning goes into this, as you can imagine.

The committee members this year are:

Emily Maxson-Porter and Donna Moen working on Festival Screening.

Carlene Salazar working with the local schools to get poster and T-shirt art images.

Anne and Bob Knapp working on the sign-off sheet for city merchants and the music for the festival.

Myrna Binion leading the committee, assisting where needed and taking in the festival applications and communicating with vendors to make the street map.

Charlee Glock-Jackson- Publicity and other duties as needed by Sunburst Studios

We still need at least two more committee members to complete our planning for this year’s festival. We need one person who will work with Food Vendors in the planning stages and during the festival weekend as needed and to schedule porta potties, garbage and rental equipment. We need another person to do a bunch of detail work such as scheduling the overnight security, police schedule at the festival, shuttle schedule and obtain permits from the City of Gig Harbor. Those jobs can be divided up in any way, but all the tasks must be done.

Please – if you are a good organizer – we need your help! These tasks don’t take too much time or ef-fort but the committee is just that – the people already on the committee have plenty to do and we need more help. Please email Myrna Binion at myrnalb@comcast.net or call 253-857-4222 – whatev-er you can do will be appreciated!

Don’t forget! Joe Garcia, will also give a watercolor workshop in August.

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Feather Hilger is the first to be "featured artist" in 2013 at the Kimble Gallery. The show runs Jan 7—Feb 4 at Kimble Esspresso Gal-lery 6950 Kimball Dr. Gig Harbor, WA 98335. The show will consist of new paintings from the last year's landscape work. Gardens, flowers, seascapes and structures (mainly within the local area). The image "lantern, lillies and lavender" is from Anne Knapp's garden. Here is a cheap shameless plug for our plein aire leader and the great Plein Aire painting that’s done. The lighthouse is the one on Alki beach. You can see more art at Feather’s blog : http://theartworkofstudio-g.blogspot.com/ for more info, updates or future showings .

Lighthouse Alki

Lanterns Lilies and Lavender

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Please contact me if you have items to sell. We’re starting the new year out fresh, so send in your

adds! Thanks, Carlene (Newsletter Editor)

PAL Sponsors:

PAL CLASSIFIED WANT ADS (Must be a paid member to advertise here)

Useful Information:

Ful l Moon Music - January 27th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm

"Sin Embargo"

It's the Full Moon and we are going to celebrate our namesake with an "Invitation Only" Musical

Evening. Russ Salton and Alejandro Fleites of "Sin Embargo" will play Latin Jazz from 6:30 to

8:00 pm. The Gallery will provide coffee and tea, you are welcome to bring any beverage of your

choice. Please join us!

CALL FOR ENTRIES – PAL’s 2013 Open Juried Show

We are excited to announce the Call for Entries for PAL’s 11th annual Open Juried

Show. The show will take place Aug. 31 – Oct. 6 at Harbor History Museum. For infor-

mation, including an entry form, go to www.onlinejuriedshows.com . The Call For

Entries will also be posted on the PAL website.

We’re also pleased to announce that our show juror, Joe Garcia, will conduct a three-

day watercolor workshop Aug. 26-28. Workshop details are also on the

onlinejuriedshows website, and on the PAL website.

Both the show and the workshop will be held at the new Harbor History Museum.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with the museum in these important events.

Many thanks to Karen Wilsey and Sheila Anderson for coordinating this year’s show,

and to Donna Trent for coordinating the workshop. And special thanks to Harbor His-

tory Museum for hosting our show and workshop.

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Ongoing Classes presented by PAL Members:

Decorative Painting—Dori Wheeler, Teacher, Tole and decorative Classes at 253-851-3192 or-851-3193

Jeanne Crider CDA , Teacher. Tole and decorative classes and Watercolor 253-857-5132 or jcrider@gmail.com

Pastel & Oil Donna Trent—call 265-6532 for information

"Portrait and life drawing/painting group meets every Friday from 1 to 3 PM at the Peninsula Retirement building

(3445 50th St. Ct. NW). Live models. Contact Doug Michie, 851-7579."

Jewelry Making - Joan Tenenbaum, Teacher. Private instruction in jewelry fabrication. 253-858-7478 merlin059@centurytel.net

Fumiko Kimura—Sumi Class1. Free sumi class for PSSA members and other interested artists. Forth Friday of the Month:

10 am- 1 pm. Fircrest Community Center, 505 Contra costa, Fircrest, WA 98466. Call Fumiko Kimura for information. 253-752-

3845,<ftkimura@nventure.com>

2. Art Consultation: individual or 2-3 members to nurture personal success and enjoyment on the subjects of Drawing, Sumi Art (brush

calligraphy, painting and sumi-e), Acylics, Watercolors and Mixed Media Collage. Methods, techniques and critiques are offered to enhance

one's creativity from the heart. Contact Fumiko Kimura: 253-752-3845; <ftkimura@nventure.com>

Fox Paw painters meet on Wednesdays at the Fox Island center—if you are interested in painting

with them, call or email Cec Anderson 253-549-4646—brucecec1@comcast.net—PAL Members and

Fox Islanders welcome—small fee involved.

Please note: If you have not paid your PAL Dues, your classes will NOT be listed. I have removed all

lists for individuals not listed in the PAL Directory! If you paid late for some reason, please email,

so I can verify your status with Cecile. Then send me an up-dated list of your classes.

For all other classes, remember to up-date your class information in a timely man-

ner, so it can be published before your class runs!

Thanks!

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More Useful Information: 2013 Greater Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour is screening for new artists to join us in September for the 2013 Tour. February 16, 2013 at Merrill Gardens Retirement Home 3213 45th Street Court NW Gig Harbor, WA 98335 Drop off Art between 9:45 - 10:15 AM Pickup Art between 11:30 - 12:00 Noon. Artists wishing to screen must bring:

Three (3) pieces of Gallery ready artwork (This is artwork ready to be displayed).

Photo of your working Studio or if you are going to share another artist’s studio, please provide the name of that artist.

Completed Application Form

Artist Statement: We are looking for professional / working artists in the Gig Harbor area so your statement should include some of the following elements: an explanation of your painting style and your approach or philosophy of art. Your education, specifically if you've studied art, and which artists (living and dead) who have influenced or inspired you. You may choose to include significant awards you have won, exhibitions you have participated in, collections or gal-leries your paintings appear in and painting organizations or societies you belong to. You may also list some of the Juried Art Festivals you have participated in. Further information, Application and Participation Agreement are located on our website: http://www.gigharboropenstudiotour.org/index.html

Best, Kate Larsson Kate Larsson Studio Website Facebook: Kate Larsson Watercolors Studio: 253-265-1662 Cell: 253-677-2735 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Robin Peterson, has been chosen for inclusion in the 2013 CVG

Show in Bremerton’s Collective Vision Gallery. The annual CVG Show is one of the largest and most prestigious art competitions in the Northwest. Over 325 artists from 79 Washington cities submitted 896 artworks for consideration. Of these only 127 pieces were selected for inclusion in the show. Alfredo Arreguin, an internationally known painter from Seattle is the juror for this year’s competition. The 2013 CVG Show be will open to the public Jan 19, 2013 from 1 to 5 pm. The exhibit continues until Saturday, Feb. 23. The gallery will be open Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 to 5 and Sundays 1 to 5. The Collective Visions Gallery is located in downtown Bremerton at 331 Pacific Avenue, just 3 blocks from the ferry terminal. Phone: 360 377 8327

"Edge of the Sea" by Robin Peterson For a complete list of the exhibition events, visit www.collectivevisions.com. For more information, CONTACT robin peterson, <info@fernwoodstudio.com> 253 884-2286

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