Latimer Art Club June 2016 NEXT

MEETING

SATURDAY JUNE 18 1-3pm MOANA NURSERY

Musings from the President I love Nevada and especially the dramatic skies and cloud formations we get over the mountains in the east and the high Sierras in the west. I am reminded of Ovanes Berberian who paints striking sunsets and skies (among other things)and is one of America’s foremost painters today. He was born in Alaverdy, Armenia, Russia in 1951. His father was an important and noted artist in Russia, a member of the American Artists’ Society, as well as a theatrical set designer and college art teacher. It was in this environment, studying at his father’s art school, that Ovanes achieved the greater portion of his art education. In the summer of 1977, after the death of his father, the Berberian family, three brothers with their mother, migrated to the United States and settled in California. In 1981 the artist was awarded a scholarship to further his study in painting techniques with the late master painter and teacher, Sergei Bongart, in Rexburg, Idaho. Ovanes, a plein aire artist and respected teacher, is considered to be on the the forefront of American art scene. His deep understanding of hue, value and color relationships and his unique application of paint make him sought after not only by collectors, but by students who come from all over for a chance to attend one of his workshops. He chooses to paint on location, inspired by a direct interaction with his subject, but he is not committed to painting exactly what he sees … he will blend and bend. He states unequivocally that in painting, the most important thing is color harmony. Ovanes' use of color, combined with his dynamic, painterly style is startling, captivating his many viewers. Berberian's paintings are held in numerous private and public collections. If you would like to know more please check out: http://keenewilson.com/page/3227/ovanes-berberian-color-paint-quality-brushwork-and-technique

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Congratulations to

Ronnie Rector for being accepted into Splash 2018 !!!!

2016 Latimer Club meetings 1:00 at Moana Nursery Meeting Hall For art’s sake join us for food, facts, fun and inspiration! June 18th -- Friend, Teacher and Artist, RUSS FLINT, from Quincy, California will do his magic. Look forward to an enjoyable and informative presentation. His reputation is formidable. August 27th — Oil painter, RON ARTHAUD, from Tuscarora, Nevada - will include a demonstration and instruction in his presentation. Ron is a featured Artist in Stremmels' Gallery. His Nevada landscapes inspire. October 15th — INGE BRUGGEMAN - Director of Graphic Arts, Black Rock Press - UNR Art Department. Inge will show samples and discuss a variety of works from the Press that use historic presses and techniques to teach and produce comtemporary art and design. The printed page is brought to life with the use of handset metal and wood type alongside the use of contemporary digital tools in this unique artistic practice. A tour date of UNR’s Black Rock Press will be available. And, this is Latimer Clubs’ Birthday Card Exchange meeting. Where our ‘Art and Words’ meet and greet. December 17th — Pot Luck and ORNAMENT EXCHANGE meeting. No presentations. Come celebrate another ‘Artful Year’.

LAC Officers and Committee Chairs ******************* President Maurice Hershberger 775-622-1960 Vice– President Kay Genasci 775-359-2465 Treasurer Vicki Curwen 775-626-9316 Secretary Dorrie Rapp 775-787-8360 E-mail Correspondence Lori Cross– Reynolds [email protected] Scholarships Larry Jacox 775-827-8658 Historian Vicki Toy-Smith 775-826-0932 Art Shows Eileen Fuller 775-233-4796 Hospitality John Denton 925-285-5240 Membership Paint-Outs Sharon Welker 775-847-5278 Margee Smith 775-224-5289 Miniature Show Eileen Fuller 775-233-4796 Website Rebecca Griffin Gross 775-424-6650 Newsletter Valerie Castor 775-224-0186 [email protected]

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LAC Paint-Outs 2016 Following are sites and dates for our 2016 paint-out season. Paint-Outs are scheduled on Saturdays except Sierra Water Gardens, a private business. Painting times are 9AM to 11:30AM, followed by an optional half hour of sharing and lunch. So bring a lunch or snack and meet with other participants at approximatly 11:30AM at the sites parking lot, or as noted in the schedule. Those in attendance can then determine best place for sharing & lunch. So get out your art gear and join in. June 4 Mulberry Park , off West 4th and left on to Woodland Ave which leads in to park. Good river views. Portapotty only. June 25 Hidden Valley Regional Park. Take Pembroke Dr , turn right onto Parkway Dr which leads into park. July 16 Tahoe Meadows, Mt Rose Hwy, past summit and left into parking lot. July 30 Bartley Ranch, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road off Lakeside. Meet at picnic shelter near Heritage Bldg. August 18 Thursday Sierra Water Gardens, 2110 Dickerson Road, a private business with big & beautiful ponds. September 17 Galena Creek Park, 18350 Mt Rose Hwy, 2nd entrance on right ( not visitor center entrance ) October 1 Oxbow Park, 3100 Dickerson Road ( road dead ends at park ) Lovely fall color reflections on Truckee River. Please Note: Times are guidelines; artists can start earlier or work later. Sites chosen have restrooms and are open public places for the most part. Bring a painting partner if you are concerned about being alone. Also, severe weather or emergency alerts could cancel any event. Questions , please call me, Sharon Welker, 775-847-5278.

Nevada Fine Arts does Digital Image Reproduction - We have a dedicated studio for photographing art. - We use a very high resolution 42 megapixel camera. - We use professional lighting, camera and lenses to produce great results - We have a color profiled process that yields very color accurate digital images. - You get the final digital file. -The results are perfect for prints (Giclee Prints), web sites, or promotion. - NO setup fee -Great PRICE! Just $20 per image. Come in and see examples of our process and see for yourself why you should be using Nevada Fine Arts. Remember we can also do your fine art printing, with our state of the art 44" pigment ink based printer.

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Exhibits Be sure to see Luverne Lightfoot’s show at the Northwest Reno Library May 3-June 25.

Sparks Museum and Cultural Center The Sparks Museum and Cultural Center hosted a beautiful exhibit of paintings by the Latimer Art Club from March 18 –May 28. The exhibit featured 61 paintings by our talented artists. Thank you to all who participated. I was a wonderful exhibit!

SAINT MARY’S ART CENTER PRESENTS NICHOLAS CLAPP "Virginia City: To Dance with the Devil" Friday, May 20th at 6:30pm SUMMER EXHIBITION OPENS - June 4th DALE LAITINEN WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP RETREAT-June 15-19th SUMMER ART RECEPTION &ARTISAN GALLERY GRAND OPENING June 25th St. Mary’s Art Center 55 R St. Viginia City, NV 89440 775 847 7774 stmarysartcenter.org

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Artists Co-op Gallery Loving Nevada-Eureka The Loving Nevada Show is an effort to showcase an area of Nevada by portraying aspects of the region through artwork. The project has focused on Eureka twice over the last five years and the resultant paintings and photos will be on display at The Artists Co-op Gallery, 627 Mill Street, August 1st. The reception will be August 7th, 1 pm-4 pm. The show will run through August. Several of the presenting artists are Latimer members. For more information, contact Ann Weiss at 2407998.

Larry Jacox

Upcoming Shows

"Inside and Out" Artown Exhibit at FUMC Hope you all have been working on your paintings for the upcoming Artown exhibit at First United Methodist Church downtown at First and West Streets. The subject matter can be landscapes, still lifes, or portraits (preferably showing emotion), or a combination, such as a landscape through an open window, a still life with a view of the outside, etc. Since security is an issue, we are asking all exhibiting members to "art-sit" at least one day or two half days. Evening Concerts will be on Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm, and sitting from 6:30 to 8:30 on these nights will count as a half day. Please contact Linda Walker at 857-1235 or John Denton at 925-285-5240. The sign-up sheet will also be available at our June meeting, so bring your calendars. Entry forms will be at the next meeting as well as on our web page. Entry day is Thursday, June 30 from 10 to 1pm. Take down will be Monday, August 1st from 10 to 12 noon. Approximate space for each exhibitor would allow for two large paintings 18”x24” to 26”x 34”, three medium paintings 11”x14” to 16”x20”, or four small paintings 9”x12” to 11”x14”, with a maximum of 4 entries. The hanging committee will make the final decisions as to space and appropriateness of artwork. Frames must be free of nicks and scratches. Sawtooth hangers, duck tape and masking tape not are allowed, and wooden frames must have dust covers. Non art-sitters will be charged an extra $10 with the money going to the church or the Scholarship Fund. We are again asking for some donated artwork that we can sell on a separate display with proceeds going to our scholarship fund. They may be original art, giclees or prints, framed or matted. Donations to the Scholarship Fund should be clearly marked with a D.

Latimer Miniature Show "Nevada: Don't Fence Me In!" is our title for our 9th annual miniature show! It will run from October 15 to December 10, with entry day Wed. Oct. 5th from 11am to 2pm at NHS, 1650 N. Virginia St. Our reception is on Saturday October 15 from 5-6:30pm. We have made a change from our Friday night routine because the Wild Women reception is on Friday, and we want to get the word out to these artists to promote for us! Our judge and juror is Patricia Wallis (patriciawallis.com), who happens to be part of the Wild Women group! She has volunteered to "donate" her judging fee back to the club! By the time you read this newsletter, the prospectus should be on our website! I am asking each and every one of you to think of non-Latimer members to get the prospectus to, and to give me their contact information so I can put them in a database and follow up! We are hoping to get more out-of-area entries this year. The prizes are starting to come in already. Those of you who have volunteered to help, will be contacted about distributing prospectuses, entry day, reception, take-down, etc. Thank you in advance for helping make this our best and biggest miniature show ever!

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Minutes of the Latimer Art Club - April 16, 2016 The meeting was called to order by President Maurice Hershberger at 1:08 pm in the Moana Nursery Conference Center. Guests: Linda Walker introduced her guest, artist Dee Kirkham (who also applied and was accepted for membership), and displayed her oil paintings in the Dutch Masters Style). 50/50 Drawing: $39 in sales Secretary’s Report: Carolyn Holt asked for a correction to the February 20, 2016 minutes. She stated that Jill Mueller (not Carolyn Holt) had made the motion to allocate $500 for the scholarship fund and the remainder of the netted $817.59 from the Miniature Show to the kitty for future needs. The minutes have been so corrected. The remainder of the February 20, 2016 minutes (as appeared in the April 2016 Newsletter) were accepted (motion by Eileen Fuller, 2nd by Sharon Welker). Treasurer’s Report: The report as published in the April 2016 Newsletter was accepted (motion by Luverne Lightfoot, 2nd by Eileen Fuller) Old Business: None. New Business: 1) Linda Walker presented details of the Artown Latimer art show to be held at the United Methodist Church, entitled “Inside & Out”. Entry forms and volunteer art sitting schedule were presented. If a presenting artist does not perform art sitting duties (minimum of 1 day, 2 half days or 2 evenings), they will be charged an extra $10. The church will hold evening concerts on both Tuesday and Thursday nights throughout July this year. Volunteers for set-up and light refreshments on concert evenings were determined. Details in the April Newsletter. 2) Sharon Welker presented information regarding the seven paint out times and locations for 2016 (see schedule in the April 2016 Newsletter). 3) Eileen Fuller presented the current status of the upcoming 9th Annual Statewide Miniature Art Show. The theme is “Don’t fence me in”. A judge has not yet been selected. She is requesting prizes. The entry date is not yet set. Rebecca Gross is working on the brochure. The opening reception will be held on Oct. 14th. Additional details were in the April Newsletter. Announcements: Luverne Lightfoot announced her solo show “Faces & Places” at the NW Reno Library May 3 - June 25th, with a reception on Sat. May 21, 2-3 pm. The Nevada Artist’s Assoc. is offering a 3 day pastels/oil workshop by Doug Dawson (at $135 per day), June 23 - 25, 2016. Contact Dorrine Sadilek (775-885-7072). The Co-op Art Gallery is celebrating “A Fifty-year Retrospective” May 1 - 31, opening reception on May 1, 11 - 4. Howard Friedman announced that spaces were available for the Moana Art & Crafts display on Sat. May 7th, 9 - 3, with fees benefitting Woman Educators. Rebecca Gross provided an interim report on the ongoing Sparks Cultural Center exhibition. Pick-up of artwork is on May 31st between 12 - 2pm. Next Meeting: June 18, 1 - 3 pm, at the Moana Nursery Conference Center. Presenter: After today’s meeting, Jerry Stinson presented an extensive collection of his original Illustrative “Bugs” A - Z artwork, and demonstrated some of his drawing teaching techniques. Respectfully submitted, Dorrie Rapp, Secretary.

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Art Technique Tuesdays New classes offered by award winning artist designer Carol Foldvary-Anderson Explore a different art medium every week in three, two hour sessions. Instruction will include drawing and coloring with colored pencils to innovative oil pastel smudge. The classes will be offered at TMCC – Meadowood Center 5270 Neil Rd. You may register by calling the college at 775 829 9010 or contact Carol Foldvary-Anderson at [email protected] or 775 721 5338.

Officers for 2017 It’s time to start thinking about officers for next year. If you are willing to hold an office, or know of someone you think would do a good job, please let someone on the current board know. See the list of board members on page 2.

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Our Sponsors and Donors Thank you to our sponsors and donors for the 2015 Latimer 8th Annual Miniature show! Without you, we would not be able to have such a successful event, and we hope you will continue to assist us for the 2016 “Nevada: Don’t Fence Me In!” show!! Artists should subscribe and buy from these donors! American Frame Corporation americanframe.com Ampersand Art Supply ampersandart.com Artist’s Magazine theartistsmagazine.com Blick Art Materials dickblick.com C2F, Inc. C2F.com Canson, Inc. Utrechtart.com/canson Chartpak, Inc. Chartpak.com Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff cheapjoes.com Creative Catalyst Productions ccpvideos.com Daler Rowney USA Daler-Rowney.com Eagle Framing & Art Gallery 1510 S. Wells Ave, Reno. HK Holbein, Inc. holbeinhk.com Jack Richeson & Co. Inc. jackrichesonart.com Jerry’s Artarama jerrysartarama.com Judson’s Plein Air Outfitters guerillapainter.com M. Graham & Company mgraham.com MacPherson’s Art macphersonart.com Mission Gold by Mijello weberart.com Nevada Fine Arts nvfinearts.com Pixels & Ink pixelsandink.us Royal& Langnickel Brush Mfg. royalbrush.com Sakura Paint Co. sakuraofamerica.com Salis International salisinternational.com