Events and Updates

Dear Members,

Our first meeting of the new season will be here before you know it!!! Tuesday, September 2nd at 7PM in the Lions Club of Orange Park, we will have as our guest speaker Ms. Kezia Reninger, Art Teacher at the Lake Asbury Junior High School. Kezia will be discussing Artist's Trading Cards and providing us with a hands on demonstration about this new creative idea. Bring along scissors, glue, markers, scraps of paper, colored pencils or whatever you have that you think will fit on a card 21/2" X 31/2". Bring along your imagination and relax and have some fun. We will supply the cards!!!!!

At our meeting will be collecting art/craft supplies for the KIDS NET Foster Care Program in Clay County...Art Supplies, paints, smocks, etc. for Wilkinson Elementary School and small personal items for a gift basket that will be raffled off at the Pink Ribbon Symposium on October 4th. This event is an informational program to discuss Breast Cancer. The basket is in need of small personal items..toiletries, hand made cards, jewerly, etc. For more information regarding the Symposium contact member Susan Mills 272-2245.

Members are reminded that the Golden Acrylic Workshops planned for October 8th and 9th are filling up fast...save your space now...remember you will receive lots of paints and painting materials(FREE) from this excellent line of acrylics. A sign up sheet will circulate at the meeting or you may complete the form you received and mail it in to the P.O. Box 2554, Orange Park FL 32067.

On Tuesday, September 2 and Wednesday, September 3 from 10-4PM you are invited to drop off up to 3 entries (NO COST) for our Juried Membership Exhibition in t he Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts (administration office to the right of the outside box office). Remember please that your work MUST be clearly labeled on the back (forms were sent to you and will be available at sign in) you will be asked to sign the work in (PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY). This exhibit will be juried by the THCA Exhibit Coordinator Tony Falcone, who has over 40 years experience in the performing and visual arts. Secure matting and framing with a hanging wire are important for the presentation. There have been some questions as to whether or not there is a theme to this exhibit...no theme...just your very best work is required.

The THCA has mailed out several hundred invitations for the Opening on Friday, September 12th at 7pm. We will have additional invitations for you at the September meeting.

Your hand created Postcards are starting to arrive and I now have about 50...please mail yours to the Art Guild P.O. Box 2554, Orange Park, FL 32067 as soon as possible...they will be made into a montage to signify what we love about Clay County and will be displayed at the Opening Reception along with a collection of our Art Guild Scrapebooks, courtesy of our historian Toni Charneco.

This summer we have added many new members to our roster....we certainly welcome them to the Art Guild family and hope they will enjoy and participate in our future activities. New members will be given a packet of information at the September meeting. In the meantime if you have any questions please give me a call Carolyn Day 215-9177.

Your Board Members are currently working on our Annual Juried Membership Exhibit in the Orange Park Library. "35 Years of Artistic Accomplishment" 1973 -2008 will be our celebration of our 35th Anniversary of promoting the importance of the visual arts in our community. Members will be given an opportunity to enter up to 2 pieces ($10) on Friday, October 31 beginning at 10:30am until 11:30am. Our Exhibit Juror is award winning local artist and instructor Ms. Mary St. Germain. Ms. Germain has been exhibited extensively in the Jacksonville area and has been featured in the Jacksonville Airport Gallery area and 1037 Gallery in Reddi Arts. The Opening/Awards Reception is planned for Thursday, November 6th from 5:30-7:30PM, The exhibit will be on display through November 25th and take down will be November 26 at 10:30am.

We are still looking for membership dues !!!! Bring your $30 to the meeting or mail it to the P.O. Box.....

Many thanks,
Carolyn