VAST Vision September 2022 |
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September 7 Meeting:
Walt Davis and Landscape Watercolor Presentation
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VAST Meeting - September 7, 6:45 - 8:30pm
Patterson Appleton Arts Center, 400 East Hickory, Denton
No fee for members, $5 for guests
Walt Davis, retired director of the Panhandle-Plains Museum in Canyon, Texas, spent fifteen years creating wildlife dioramas for the Dallas Museum of Natural History. That work required close observation of wild places and their plant and animal inhabitants – experience that served him well as an award-winning artist. He is a signature member and past president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society and signature member of the American Watercolor Society and Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. He does demonstrations and workshops on drawing, watercolor painting, and nature journaling throughout Texas. He and his wife, Isabel, coauthored the book, Exploring the Edges of Texas - an account of their 4,000-mile circumnavigation of the Lone Star State with illustrations by Walt.
“A landscape” Davis says, “is composed of essential elements (rocks, soil, water, plants, animals) playing their appointed roles according to fundamental principles. A work of art is composed of essential elements as well (line, shape, value, color, texture) obeying different, but no less fundamental, principles. The challenge for an artist is to choreograph a delicate dance between art and nature coaxing the fundamental truth of one to illuminate the fundamental truth of the other.”
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Landscape Watercolor Workshop
Instructor: Walt Davis
September 6, 7 & 8 at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center
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Sept. 6 & 7 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sept. 8 from 9:00 am - 3:00 p.m.
Patterson-Appleton Arts Center (PAAC)
400 East Hickory St, Denton, TX
Fee: $235 VAST Members –
(dues must be current for 2022-23)
$275 Non-Members
Limit: Maximum 12 attendees
Deposit: $50 – non-refundable deposit holds your spot (refunded if event is not fully subscribed); if attendee must cancel, deposit is forfeited
Balance: Due by August 27
Use your personal PayPal Account to remit fees to:
Workshop Coordinators:
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REFRESHMENTS FOR MONTHLY MEETINGS |
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In the distant (PreCovid) past, we would pass around a clipboard for people to sign up to bring refreshments to the meetings. Instead of doing that, we want to have members sign up by email with Olivia Walker for what they can bring. Olivia is getting all the paper products, and I am going to bring petits fours each month. If you can pick 1 of these items to bring every month, that would make things a lot simpler for the hospitality committee. If you can only do an item for the September meeting, that would be great too! Bring your item ready to serve, and take your dish when you leave.
Gail Cope
- 1 person brings a cheese ball
- 2 people bring a platter of cheese cubes or slices with crackers each
- 3 people bring a dozen cookies each
- 1 person brings a fruit tray
- 1 person brings a veggie tray
- 3 people bring large (1 liter sized) bottles of Simply Lemonade, Simply Limeade, or Simply Peach each
- 3 people bring a dozen brownies each
- 1 person brings fudge
- 1 person brings red grapes and 1 person brings green grapes
- 3 people bring a bowl of chips with a dip each
- 3 people bring a dozen cupcakes each
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MONTHLY MINI-SHOWS - CHANGES FOR 2022-23 |
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Artist of the Month/Year: Mini-Show and competition will continue ‘as is,' with only first place winners announced (no more ‘second place’ winners). Monthly winners will compete for Artist of the Year during the May meeting (no regular mini-shows in April or May).
A NEW Show in Town:
In order to expand our creativity and invite participation in other areas of interest, we’re experimenting with a second show called Creative Stretch. If desired, Creative Stretch pieces may be entered in a mini-show in a different month.
Details: Each month a separate competition will be held that has a theme. This year we’ll be creatively exploring the following:
REMINDER FOR SEPTEMBER MEETING:
September: Photography - highlight your photography skills!
October: Fall Themed Artwork
November: Box Challenge*
December: Tiny Pieces (6”x6” pieces or smaller)
January: Trash to Treasure – reused products only
February: Mardi Gras Themed Artwork
March: Spring Fling Florals Theme
April (high school student show only)
May: 3D Art (ceramics, textiles, sculpture)
*For the Box Challenge, the previous month (October) there will be a limited number of boxes with identical supplies inside and specific ‘rules’ to follow. The November show will highlight the artist’s interpretation and construction from the materials, following the ‘rules’.
Reintroducing - Artist Supply Exchange:
There will be a designated area for artists to bring supplies, tools, books – anything ‘art related’ that the artist would like to pass along. Everyone is invited to give/take as desired. Anything left over will be kept for the next month, given away, or tossed if no one can use the materials.
Questions???? Please contact Pam Livingston, Gail Cope, Olivia Walker, or Debbie Beauchamp.
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Notable Artist Quotes - Andy Warhol |
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“Art is anything you can get away with.”
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
“The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.”
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
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Notable Artist Quotes - Louise Nevelson |
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"The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within."
"I think most artists create out of despair."
"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."
"I have lived, I have been fulfilled, I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short, And I ain’t through yet."
"I never feel age, If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time. "
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SLAY / Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley
Kimbell Museum of Fort Worth
Continues through October 9, 2022
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Focus Exhibition
Two paintings depicting different versions of the story of Judith and Holofernes from the Old Testament Apocrypha—one by Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by American contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley—will be on view at the Kimbell for a limited time. Strikingly different renditions of the same subject realized 400 years apart, the paintings will allow visitors to reflect on contemporary issues through a historical lens.
Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes is both a powerful statement of her skill as an artist—which gained her much recognition during her lifetime—and a statement of the personal and professional adversity overcome by a young woman who succeeded at establishing a painting practice at a time when the field was almost entirely male dominated.
Wiley is best known for his monumental portraits of young Black men and women placed in historical poses and settings appropriated from Old Master paintings. He consistently addresses issues of race within art history while also commenting on contemporary culture, identity, power, and inequality.
Admission is free.
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REMINDER: Women Painting Women
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Continues through September 25, 2022
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Women Painting Women is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. Painting is the focus of the exhibition, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white male artists. The artists here use painting and women as subject matter as vehicles for change and range from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to emerging artists such as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. Some, such as Jenny Saville, work on large canvases, producing images that dwarf the space around them, while others, including Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invites close viewing. All place women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront.
Four themes trend in the works included in Women Painting Women: The Body, Nature Personified, Color as Portrait, and Selfhood. Through these themes, the artists conceive new ways to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of women. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, beauty, complications, everydayness, and joy, the portraits in this exhibition make way for female artists to share the stage with their male counterparts in defining the image of woman and how it has evolved.
Artists included: Rita Ackermann, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Emma Amos, María Berrío, Louise Bonnet, Lisa Brice, Joan Brown, Jordan Casteel, Somaya Critchlow, Kim Dingle, Marlene Dumas, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Nicole Eisenman, Tracey Emin, Natalie Frank, Hope Gangloff, Eunice Golden, Jenna Gribbon, Alex Heilbron, Ania Hobson, Luchita Hurtado, Chantal Joffe, Hayv Kahraman, Maria Lassnig, Christiane Lyons, Danielle Mckinney, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Elizabeth Peyton, Paula Rego, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Susan Rothenberg, Jenny Saville, Dana Schutz, Joan Semmel, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Arpita Singh, Sylvia Sleigh, Apolonia Sokol, May Stevens, Claire Tabouret, Mickalene Thomas, Nicola Tyson, Lisa Yuskavage
Organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and curated by Andrea Karnes, senior curator.
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REMINDER: Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity
Dallas Museum of Art
Continues through September 18, 2022
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Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity is co-curated by Sarah Schleuning, The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the DMA; Dr. Heather Ecker, the former Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art at the DMA; Évelyne Possémé, Chief Curator of Ancient and Modern Jewelry at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; and Judith Hénon, Curator and Deputy Director of the Department of Islamic Art at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The exhibition design is conceived by renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), which is creating a contemporary display that offers enhanced opportunities for close looking and analysis of form. The Presenting Sponsor for the exhibition in Dallas is PNC Bank.
“For over a century, Cartier and its designers have recognized and celebrated the inherent beauty and symbolic values found in Islamic art and architecture, weaving similar elements into their own designs. This bridging of Eastern and Western art forms speaks exactly to the kinds of cross-cultural connections the DMA is committed to highlighting through our programming and scholarship,” said Dr. Agustín Arteaga, the DMA’s Eugene McDermott Director. “Not only does this exhibition present our audiences with the opportunity to explore Cartier’s dazzling designs, but it also spotlights the strength of our powerhouse Islamic Art and Decorative Arts and Design departments, as well as those of our colleagues at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Louvre.”
“The design strategies in this exhibition—motif, pattern, color, and form—reveal the inspirations, innovations, and aesthetic wonder present in the creations of the Maison Cartier. Focused through the lens of Islamic art, the designs reveal how the Maison migrates and manifests these styles over time, as well as how they are shaped by individual creativity,” said Sarah Schleuning.
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What news do you have? Did you get in any shows? What is up with our members? Reply to this newsletter or contact vision@vastarts.org. We'd like to hear from you!
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Nel Dorn Byrd is pleased to announce that her painting, Sunshine, has been accepted in the 49th Annual Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition. Soon Warren served as juror and selected 65 paintings from 493 entries. The show dates are September 23 - October 29 at the Center for the Arts in Evergreen, CO. |
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Ellen Frenkel writes: "I've been approached by a documentary film maker who would like to engage VAST in attending the screenings (Sept. 22 and 26) of her film about the impact of a mural on a neighborhood. Her name is Tabatha Laanui, and the film is 'Alice Street' about Oakland, CA." For information, visit www.alicestreetfilm.com. |
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James Neiswender (artist, poet) will hang an exhibit of eight of his works Saturday September 17, at The Emily Fowler Library, 502 Oakland St, Denton, TX.
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Darla Bostick has been quite involved in public art venues. Her "Totem Talisman" was selected to be included in Art in the Atrium 22--City of Frisco through 14 Sept at George A. Purefoy Municipal Center. She had 4 paintings accepted for traffic signal boxes in Grand Prairie and San Marcos.
The Visual Arts of Lewisville is currently showing their Fresh Ideas Juried Exhibition. Several members from VAST are included: Tina Alvarez, Darla Bostick, David Blow (won Honorable Mention), Alfredo Santesteban and more. The show is available for viewing at the Lewisville Grand Performance Hall Art Gallery through 13 August. Darla's painting in Fresh Ideas also won 1st place in Richardson Civic Art Society's 56th Annual Regional at the Eisemann Performance Hall in May.
Darla Bostick has a solo show of 21 pieces through 3 October at Royal Lane Baptist Church. She also has work at Thrive Fitness Center in Lewisville (Tina Alvarez and Alfredo Santesteban also).
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2022 VAST Calendar Artists |
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September 2022 Calendar Art |
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August/September Artists Birthdays |
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AUGUST
1 Arthur Dove 1880
5 Tom Thomson 1877
6 Andy Warhol 1928
7 Emil Nolde 1867
12 Jean Michel Basquiat 1960
15 Leonard Baskin 1922
17 Larry Rivers 1923
21 Aubrey Beardsley 1872
27 Man Ray 1890
29 Jean-Auguste-Dominique 1780
30 Jacques Louis David 1748
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SEPTEMBER
2 Romare Bearden 1911
7 Jacob Lawrence 1917
7 Grandma Moses 1860
12 Ben Shahn 1898
13 Robert Indiana 1928
15 Jean Hans Arp 1887
23 Louise Nevelson 1900
25 Mark Rothko 1903
26 Theodore Gericault 1791
28 Caravaggio 1573
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UNT CoLab
207 N. Elm Street, Denton, TX
Patterson-Appleton Arts Center
400 E. Hickory Street, Denton, TX 76201
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Texas Woman's University Art Galleries
East Gallery and West Gallery
University of North Texas Art Galleries
CVAD Gallery
Paul Voertman Gallery
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President@vastarts.org
VP_Programs@vastarts.org
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