Spring WCWS 2017 Newsletter 

ROCKIES WEST NATIONAL 2017  
will be on exhibit 
THROUGH SATURDAY APRIL 1st 


Rockies West National 2017 exhibit 
is now on our website, too!                                                            
NEXT WCWS MEETING
Monday April 3rd 1PM 

1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 3940 27 1/2 Rd. 
(off Horizon Dr.) 
No lunch-  Program is a critique by Cindy Brabec-King
Please bring 1 or 2 paintings (finished or in progress)
that you would like to have critiqued.

April 3rd is the  same day 
as our pick up from 
Rockies West National 2017
 
pick up your work 
anytime from 10am to noon, 
go have lunch and then attend the meeting.  
President's Letter
        Well, how about that?!  I got my first accepted painting into the Rockies West National Show.  I am pleased and grateful.   I was facilitating a figure studio at the Art Center in Grand Junction where the show is displayed and the following night after the grand opening of the show the red dot on my painting indicated it had been sold!  It was a portrait of a friend of mine.  I don't know who bought it but I found out that it wasn't him. This is a double victory.

        The workshop with Iain Stewart was excellent as they all have been in connection with the Rockies West Show. Try hard to attend next year as we are bringing Fealing Lin back and her workshop is a great one.

        Thank you so much Carolyn Andres for getting a $1500.00 grant for the WCWS from the Grand Junction Art Commission..  This will come in handy for continuing to put on a great Rockies West show next year.

Keep painting, 
Tim Brady

Rockies West Award Winners
Best of Show
Walk in the Park
Ken Call

   1st Cindy Brabec-King               
2nd Jack Garver


Best CO Artist Carol Marander

3rd Lance Hunter

                         Other Winners Are                           
Delta Fine Arts Award - 
Mary Pat Ettinger, 
Glenwood Springs Art Guild Award - Diane Stoltz, 
Sally Thompson Memorial Award - Arena Shawn
Jack Richeson Co.Award - Z.L. Feng, Brian Paulsen, Bill Bailey
Holbien Award - Carolyn Andres 
Golden Artist Colors Award - Francesca Brayton
 Daler Rowney Award - Catherine Hillis 
Mattes & More Award - Janis Goldblatt, Donna Perkins

MEMBER NEWS
Pat Dispenziere's transparent watercolor "The Play of Light VII" was juried into the California Watercolor Association 47th National Exhibition by juror Donna Zagotta. The juror of Awards, Linda Doll awarded the painting The Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Award. 




ALCOHOL INK WORKSHOP by Dani Tupper
April 16, 9 am to 3 pm with lunch furnished
Dani's studio in Delta - call or email to register and directions.
Phone: 970 874-3088, Email: kdtup@msn.com
Cost $55.00, additional $20. for all supplies.
Dani has been experimenting with different techniques
using  Alcohol Inks so we will explore these.  The workshop
will include painting on Yupo and on tile.  Come try your hand
at a different media, it's fun!  Please register ahead so enough
supplies will be available.

 
From the Membership Chair:

   Our 2017 Rockies West Show includes 7 artists newly eligible for Signature      Status and 2 Members who earned Master Signature Status!  Signature            Status is earned by 3 acceptances over 10 years by members,  or by non-        members who now become members.  Master Signature Status is earned        after 10 acceptances of members with no time limit.  Yearly Membership 
   is required to maintain Status.  Hearty congratulations to the following:
 
     Eligible for Signature Status:
     Mary Bollig from Delta, CO
     Wanda Brunemeier from Cory, CO
     Tatsiana Harbacheuskaya from Las Vegas, NV
     Lance Hunter from Talequah, OK
     Rod Rieman from Grand Canyon, AZ
     Sandy Scott from Sanford, NC
     Arena Shawn from San Francisco, CA
 
     Eligible for Master Signature Status:
     Dani Tupper from Delta, CO
     Ann Kurz Chambers from Grand Junction, CO
 
     Also please welcome these new regular members
     Anne Maurer from Grand Junction, CO 
     Mary Pat Ettinger-Dunn from Montrose, CO
     Philana Quick from Greeley, CO
 
 
HAVE YOUR OWN PERSONAL PORTFOLIO PAGE!

The cost is now a one-time fee of $35.00.  Your page will remain on our website as long as you wish without further cost.  There will be another fee of $35.00 (approximately one hour of our webmaster's time)  if you wish to change the images of your paintings or update your artist's statement or resume.  (This could be every year, 5 years or more or never if you are satisfied with your page.)

Your page will include  up to 6 images of your choice, your biography,  artists statement, and links to your web page.  Cost is $35.00  to be paid through PayPal or send check to WCWS and mailed to WCWS, P. O. Box 3584, Grand Junction, CO  81502. Please follow the instructions below carefully to send your images and text to our webmaster. (Instructions are listed on our website; www.wcwsociety.net<http://www.wcwsociety.net>,  on the sidebar, click on Members Portfolio, it will open to take you to how to send your images and written script.)


Minutes WCWS Wed. Jan. 11, 2017
-Lunch at noon at the GJ Art Center; meeting called to order 12:45 pm by Pres. Tim Brady.
14 members present. Review of Minutes from last meeting - November 9, 2016 in Montrose.
-Treasurer: very thorough and enlightening report by Treas. Carolyn Andres.
      Checking: $2,745; MM $9,336; TOTAL $12,081
- Rockies Show finances a continuing work in progress (eg: entry fees, sponsors, workshop,         awards, etc.) On track and monitored by Roger Milway and Judy Chapman.
- Rockies Workshop (Ian Stewart) has 6 deposits, and 4 full-pay to Dani. Space for 20 total.
      Still 2 months to sign up.
- need a 2nd Vice President to schedule programs and demos for the regular meetings - a           very important part of the club, as many of us are not in the Rockies show, but look for         high quality  art experiences at meetings.

-We have a Membership Chairwoman! to take over Susan Thiele's position: Karen Fogelquist         lives south of Montrose (ie: close to Susan) and also is computer knowledgeable! We are        fortunate!
-Next events:
      Monday 2/27/2017: Re Rockies: unpack and hang mailed entries; hand deliver locals.
      Tuesday 2/28/2017: Judging by Ian Stewart
      T/W/Th : 3/1-3/2017: Workshop with Ian Stewart 9-4 pm at GJ Art Center
      Monday, April 3,2017 : Remove and pack up Show at the Art Center;
     When finished packing, go to 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 3940 27 1/2 Rd. (off Horizon           Dr.) for REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING at 1:00 pm   (No lunch; just coffee.) . Bring               paintings to critique
      Wed. June 14,2017 Regular meeting in Delta (not Glenwood) Place? Program?
      Sept. ?, 2017 WCWS MEMBER'S SHOW - GJ Art Center  (dates?)
           with 1-day plein air workshop with Pat Barr Clarke (judge?)
      Wed. Sept. 13, 2017 BOD and Regular Members meeting at 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
      Wed. Nov. 8, 2017 Regular meeting, lunch and program Montrose Program?

Today's program: Slide show by Rockies Chairpeople Roger and Judy. 95 entries accepted, but not yet judged.

Meeting adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Helen Stenmark, Secretary