WAA Eblast October 14, 2014

WAA MEMBERS’ MEETING , Thursday, October 16, at the Arboretum

  6:30 - Social
  7:00 - Business Meeting  - Voting for WAA Board of Director's 2015 Officers

            Co-Presidents:  Gale Smith and Liz Hosier
            Vice President:  Chris Bloom
            Treasurer:  Gail Guthrie
            Secretary:  Priscilla Judy

   (Term of office:  Jan 2015-Jan 2016)

  8:00-9:00PM  PROGRAM:  OPA signature member and award winning painter, Dan Beck will share his work,

 process and his take on starting a painting. www.danbeckart.com <http://www.danbeckart.com> <http://www.danbeckart.com <http://www.danbeckart.com/> >

WILMINGTON ART ASSOCIATION/CAMERON FALL BUS TRIP

DATE:  Tuesday, November 11^th 2014

TIME:  7am at Hanover Center, Oleander Drive – behind SteinMart

COST:  $57 (not including lunch)

TO SEE:   Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals & their Contemporaries. (66 works) at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and  Juan Miro: The Experience of Seeing. (50 works) and  Robert Rauschenberg:  Collecting & Connecting. (34 works) at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art.

Itinerary:

Depart 7 – 7.15am

Arrive North Carolina Museum of Art 10am.  Optional Free Tour at 10.30.  The exhibit features wonderfully descriptive wall panels for each grouping of paintings.   Audio self tour $3 (not included in trip fee).

Depart NCMA  11.45am. Lunch at  Olde Raleigh Shopping Center  (multiple options or bag lunch)

Arrive Nasher  2pm.    Free tours at 2.30 for both the Miro and Rauschenberg exhibits.  Audio tour available $3.

Depart Nasher  4pm.

Arrive Wilmington, Hanover Center  7pm.

Reserve online at www.wilmingtonart.org  by October 27^th.   You may also pay by check made out to Wilmington Art Association, and mailed to Ann Lees, 624 Woodland Forest Court, Wilmington, NC 28403.

The trip is open to non-members as well.

Ann Lees,   WAA Education Committee

Happenings at the Bellamy Mansion

For the month of October, the Bellamy Mansion is sponsoring an Emerging Artist

Show and Sale, along with children's programs on the 4th and 18th, and

presentations by phenomenal local speakers.  The presentations are from

6:30-7:30/8:00 pm at the mansion, donations are appreciated, and the last two

speakers for the series are our own Gordon Webb on Thursday evening, October

23rd, and Hattie Schmidt on Thursday evening, October 30th.  Although the

second speaker this Thursday evening, October 16th, conflicts with the

Wilmington Art Association meeting the same night, the speaker will be

Wilmington's own clay sculptor, Justine Ferreri.

Call for Artists
The 33^th Annual Juried Spring Art Show & Sale - Poster Art Contest

The 2015 Spring Show Committee announces the Poster Art Contest for the 33^st Annual Juried Art Show & Sale (Show).  The winning artwork will be featured on:  a framed poster to be auctioned off at the Show; posters available for sale at the Show; smaller posters, cards, and invitations; and other publicity material for the Show.   

Entry requirements

·       Current membership (2014) in the WAA

·       Artwork in any 2-D media and on any non-offensive subject

·       *New Submission Option High quality resolution images of 3-D work.

·       One piece of artwork per artist

Submission requirements

·       Entry must be emailed to bcarter.art@outlook.com.  Your entry should include artwork in .jpg format as well as artist’s name, address, phone number and email address.

·       Signature on the artwork must be blocked.

·       Submittal of entries opens October 1, 2014

·       Deadline to receive entries is midnight, Saturday, November 29, 2014.

Selection

The Show committee will select the winning artwork on Monday, December 01, 2014.   The winner will be contacted immediately and announced on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at the WAA Holiday Banquet.  

Selected Artwork

 The selected artwork may not be entered into the Show.  The artwork will be displayed at the Show and may be offered for sale; however, it is not required to be for sale.  If the artwork is sold either prior to or during the Show, the standard 30% commission will be due WAA.   A framed poster will be on display and auctioned off at the Show with proceeds to benefit WAA. The artist will be asked to sign posters during the Show reception on Thursday, April  9, 2015.   All proceeds from poster sales will benefit WAA.