Spring 2020 ~ Newsletter

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Happy Spring Everyone! We want to Wish you the Best of Health & Blessings this Season! We hope you're all enjoying a Silver Lining at Home, Enjoying some Much-Needed Rest & Immersing Yourselves in the Creative Powers of Spring, Elbow Deep in Oils & Acrylics ! ~ We are all anticipating life to return to mostly normal sometime soon~ and we want to let you know we're here for you for all the artistic design help you need! Enjoy taking this time to work on Your Creativity and to Prepare for Our Grand Return, as Artists, back to the stage of life, when it welcomes us!

We will be operating our regular business hours: Monday- Thursday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (Arizona time) Our small production staff works in mostly private areas while they practice their art: professional woodworking, sanding, staining, and the highest quality of gilding available! Handcrafting Beautiful Custom Fine Art Frames is Our Art! ~and we would like to thank you for appreciating and supporting the level of talent and skill our production artists share with you! We know- what we do- truly helps you to be successful as an Artist, and Art is a Defining Feature of our Culture and will Always be an Important Component of our Emotional, Physical, and Cultural Growth & Development, as a Community and as Individuals! Thank You ~ and Best of Luck to you in Renewing your Passion for Creativity & Expression for 2020! We can all be reminders to the world of what is good, right, and beautiful, and to inspire others to be strong, positive, and helpful to one another.

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Welcome to our New Partner Organizations & their upcoming Sponsored Exhibitions

Oil Painters of America

Oil Painters of America 29 th  Annual National Juried Exhibition *ReScheduled from May for October 16th- November 28th, 2020 Fredericksburg, Texas

Society of Animal Artists 60th Annual Exhibition and Special ART AND THE ANIMAL Exhibition at The Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature November 26, 2020 – May 31, 2021 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Premiere @ The Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New Jersey August 29 – November 1, 2020 SAA Opening Events for Members: October 7 – 10, 2020 SAA Members Painting A Mural at the Bronx Zoo on October 8th, 2020

*Happy 50th Anniversary* to Women Artists of the West!

We are so sorry to hear we won't be able to celebrate together at your planned 50th National Exhibition Reception and Awards next week in Tucson, Arizona. We are still happy to sponsor your show and, we will look forward to enjoying your artwork via video and photography online provided by Settlers West Gallery , where the show will still open March 27th and be available for sale through April! Here are some works we had the privilege of framing featured in our Spring Newsletter for us all to enjoy ~

Mary Ann Cherry  "Mirror Mirror"

Amy Evans "A Place of Peace"

Sue Wipf "Monet's Water Lilies"

Addren Doss "Wide Open Spaces"

Linda Dobkin  "Native Heirloom"

Jennifer Hunter "Lost and Found"

We will miss seeing everyone at Out West &The Russell @ Great Falls, Montana still opening this weekend, without receptions

Paul Van Ginkel "River Run"

Steve Lang "Wolves of Sonora"

Susan Eyer-Anderson

"Manzanita Sunset"

"Natural Beauty"

"Boys of Ramona"

We will miss seeing this Spring's Cowgirl Up! at Desert Caballeros in Wickenburg, AZ

Tamara Rymer "She Works the Black Willow"

Sending our Love out to San Antonio and the Briscoe Western Art Museum & all the Artists that were looking forward to this year's 2020 "Night of Artists"

Shawn Cameron "Autumn's Crew"

Best of America Small Works 2020 at McBride Fine Art Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland

J. Russell Wells "Harbor Cacophony"

We just can't express our empathy and compassion enough for all the Artists, Galleries, and Museums for your losses, work, and inconveniences in cancelling and postponing so many amazing events this Spring! We look forward to seeing you all at your next shows! Please continue making your art and staying positive, because the World needs Art and Artists like You! ~Happy Spring~ from America West Frames