Winter 2025 Newsletter

Please check out all the latest information and mark your calendar

Important Dates

• January 6 - Winter Classes I begin
• January 11 & 12 - Michelle Held Workshop
• January 19 - Member Meeting and Demo with Ruth Squiteri
• February 1 - First Saturday @ Canal Street Gallery
• February 1 & 2 - Martha Ferguson Workshop
• February 8 & 9 - Tina Corbett Workshop
• February 16 - Member Meeting
• March 1 - First Saturday @ Canal Street Gallery
• March 9 - Member's Show Gala

Greetings and Happy New Year!

For those who may not know me, I’m the incoming President of the Artists’ Workshop as of January 1, 2025. I live in Oak Hill, and go back to NH in the hottest days of summer. I’ve been involved for about 10 years at AWI in various roles, from writing grants, to putting on the Annual Members’ Show, to serving as Vice-President on the Board. I’m looking forward to working with the current and new Board members in the coming months as we continue on the path that has been set by our very competent “retiring” President, who is not actually retiring at all! Cheryl will remain as Vice President on the Board, and will also take over a large role as Chair of our Annual NSB Paint-Out! 

Artists’ Workshop has been fortunate to be able to transfer this wonderful Paint-Out Event to our own organization exclusively as of 2025, and we are very excited! Our partner, Marine Discovery Center, is focusing their sustainability energy in other ways, and we now have a well-established and respected Paint-Out to shepherd into the future. This offers us a fantastic fund-raising opportunity, as well as a way to continue reaching out to the greater NSB community (and beyond). Through this event we can put AWI in the public eye, potentially building our membership, and adding funds to create and expand programs to meet its needs. We WILL need many volunteers for this event, especially to make everything run smoothly in the fall, so please be open to giving a little of your time when the call goes out!

Finally, I have a hard act to follow after 6+ years of Cheryl’s leadership. I plan to stay true to one thing that she is most proud of from her time as the AWI leader: the simple fact that Artists’ Workshop is a safe and friendly place for all. Whether you are new to us and exploring art for the first time, or an accomplished artist with professional creds, you are welcome here. I hope that you all will come to feel as I do about AWI- this is, in so many ways, “my community.” I welcome you all to our community, and hope you will find the same joy that I do when I’m learning and volunteering at this wonderful place.   

Anne Dall

President

Dear Members,

Thank you to all who attended our 2024 Holiday Luncheon and provided canned goods that were donated to Halifax Urban Ministries. My car was filled to the brim with food and very gratefully accepted by

the volunteers at the food bank! It was a fitting close to a very successful year of “art” activities celebrated at our luncheon. Delicious food, provided by OutRiggers, special desserts by our own Kathy Kerrigan, a stirring tribute put together by Mary Peschel Herlehy and Cheri Erdman about the strong leaders who have kept AWI going since 1958, and of course, the awards for the “Holiday” show at the Canal Street Gallery, made this a truly joyous affair. Besides all of that, the announcement of the new executive board officers was indeed a wonderful moment for me! After my many years as president, Anne Dall will be taking on that leadership role, and I will thankfully, become her “assistant” ! Anne is a woman of many talents, loads of experience and really good ideas. Easy to work with, soft spoken, deliberate and very friendly, I am looking forward to working with her in 2025 and beyond to continue Artists’ Workshop goal of reaching out to and providing experienced artists as well as new comers the opportunity to learn, create and explore all of the positive benefits art can provide in ones life…….and, in a beautiful and warm environment!

Looking forward to 2025!

Wishing you the Best,

Cheryl

Our Winter 2025 class schedule including some 1 day special workshops is now posted to our website where you'll always find the latest updates. We also have some new art classes beginning in Spring which will be posted to the website in the coming weeks.

We still have space available to offer more classes so let us know if you or someone you would like to recommend is interested in directing an art class or workshop here at AWI.

Our Winter & Spring Workshop schedule offers amazing opportunities for our members to learn from a variety of talented professional artists. Register soon because our workshops sell out. Click on button below for more details

January 11 & 12, 2025                  Michelle Held- “Luminous Flower Oil Painting” 

(Class full, please call office to be added to wait list.)

February 1 & 2, 2025                

Martha Ferguson- “Fundamentals of Oil Painting”

February 8 & 9, 2025                     

Tina Corbett- “Paint like the Masters… with the Grisaille Method”

March 22 & 23, 2025                     

Tom Sadler- “Painting the Landscape in Oils” (Acrylics ok too)

April 5 & 6, 2025

Sally Evans - Color Makes me Happy

May 3 & 4, 2025                            

Jane Slivka- Color & Courage “The Freedom of Acrylics”

Our Deck the Walls small works judged show was a huge success. There were 70 entries this year. Congratulations go to the following winners: Dave Kolkman, Best in Show, Pat Domanski, First Place, Peggy Banks, Second place, Pat Lentine, Third place, and Honorable mentions, Blanche Nelson, Alice Hahne, Michele Beaujardin, Dominique Dubois, Robert Wince, Cherie Harnden, and Mindy Colton.

 Additional congratulations to the those members who have sold their work: Dave Kolkman, Valeh Levy, Joe Anglin, Irene Moody, Joyce Hopkins, Cherie Harnden, Patricia Domanski, Peggy Banks. and Dominique Josef

Our exhibit for January and February theme is Faces and Figures including animals. And March will be Artists Choice. Keep your eyes open for emails with more details.

Questions? Contact Liz Clayton

Gallery Chairman

386-690-4933

gramclayton@gmail.com

Please welcome our newest members - November & December



Sharon and Ralph Bendix.  Edgewater

Donna Bradley           NSB

Marty Cameron          Ponce Inlet

Laura Eckert              Ponce Inlet

Latizia Nagy              Edgewater

Paula Olivero             DeLand

Wendy Prescott          NSB

Beverly Shine             Orlando

Chris West                Ponce Inlet

Chelsea Evans           Port Orange

Kristen Nilsen             Edgewater

Dee Wiedeman NSB

Pamela Livingston. Edgewater

Patsy Fawsett Orlando

Reminder - please check your mailboxes for your annual renewal letters

The Artists’ Workshop Community Exhibits program is an opportunity for members to display and sell their artwork. Our local area has several venues where the shows are hung for months at a time. Take a ride over to any of these locations to view fine art from our talented AWI artists. Please contact us if you would like to show your work in any of our venues.

• New Smyrna Beach Library
• Edgewater Library/City Hall
• Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce – 2nd Floor
• Nature in Beauty Salon- Canal Street
• United Church of Christ – NSB
• Dr. Daquila’s office – Port Orange
• Trinity Lutheran Church- NSB



T.A.P. (Teen Arts Program)

T.A.P. continues this Winter at our Studios located at 540 Barracuda Blvd. NSB, FL 32169. Classes are every 3rd Saturday through May.

We welcome new Budding Artists who would like to join us. Contact Regina Wise

Founder/Director Art Is…Creation, Inc.

www.artiscreation.org, 386-847-1676 artiscreationinc@gmail.com

EcoArt Adventure Camp

We are happy to announce that Artists’ Workshop along with Marine Discovery Center will be offering our ECOART camp to children again in the summer of 2025. Stay tuned for details in our next newsletter.

 A BIG thanks to all the artists who participated in our 1st Annual AWI Holiday Market. With your participation and the amazing selection of handmade wares, it was a success. We are planning on a 2nd Annual Holiday Market in 2025, and are considering the possibility of a Spring Market too. Thank you again!! 

6 week Clay classes include:

• 1/6 Handbuilding w/ Dominique 1-4pm
• 1/7 Beg. Handbuilding w/ Cindy 1-4pm
• 1/9 Pottery Wheel w/ DeAnn 9:30-12:30pm
• 1/9 Handbuilding w/ Cindy 1-4pm

One Day Workshops include:

• Jan 24th - Scraffito workshop (Friday 5-8pm)
• Feb 22nd -Glaze/Glazing education workshop. (Saturday 1-6pm) details to follow 

Please visit our website and look for emails with more details.

It's always a good time to browse our Art Library and find a book to inspire you! Please remember this is a lending library and  please, please, return your borrowed books. Book club meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 11 a.m. through May. We select a novel related to art each month but remember you don't have to read the book to enjoy the group.

Upcoming Book Titles:

• January 16 th - The Paris Novel by Ruth Reich
• February 20 th - The Lost Painting; The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr

Information or to RSVP for book club meetings. kk8ocean@gmail.com,

386-4168746 

Happy Reading

Kathy

Our next newsletter will be the Spring Edition, released by March 1, 2025