Newsletter Spring 2011
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS, INC
FLORIDA CHAPTER SPRING / 2011
President’s Message
What a busy season we've had! My first year as president of NAWA Florida Chapter has been a whirlwind of activities. We had a wonderful showing of members' art at the Cornell Museum Crest Theatre Gallery from November 4, 2010 through January 30, 2011.
Scholarship recipients were given their awards at Northwood University on February 25, 2011 at the reception for "Across the Spectrum". These very talented young ladies from the Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts are: Brittany Bennet, who received the scholarship in memory of Rita Schwartz, $2,000, Philomena Polizzi, NAWA Florida Scholarship, $1,000 and Shae James, NAWA Florida Scholarship, $1,000.
We added two new venues this spring giving our members more opportunities to exhibit their work. The Village Studio Gallery in Delray Beach hosted an exhibition from January 27 through March 14, 2011 titled NAWA FL at Village Studio Gallery. Tom Rossetti Fine Art is currently hosting "Vision•Vistas•Views" in Pompano Beach, FL. The opening took place last Friday, March 18. One of our members, Patti Robbins from San Luis Obispo, CA attended with her husband and mother and brought samples of their flavored extra virgin olive oils and balsamic vinegars for members to taste. What a delightful surprise! Our Hospitality Chair, Jean Goddeau, who always makes sure our openings are amply supplied, prepared home made meatballs along with so many goodies that no one went home hungry. One artwork has been sold so far at this venue. To see pictures of these openings visit http://www.facebook.com/ClayForms
Preparations are under way for a joint juried exhibit with NAWA National to be held at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach. Our venue chair, Bernice Harwood, is working with Susan Hammond, Executive Director of NAWA in New York. We are also scheduled for the Crest Theatre at the Cornell Museum and the Coral Springs Museum of Art. See “Save these dates” for schedule.
The fall 2010 board and general meeting was well attended with a marvelous hands-on clay demonstration presented by our membership chair, Diane Lublinski. Her award winning sculpture may be seen at: clayforms.com
The spring board and general meeting featured a presentation/workshop by Glenn Heino This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it our web designer. He helped members prepare jpeg images for entries to shows and exhibits as well as for our NAWA FL Artists' Portfolios page: http://nawafl.com/. Currently there are twenty-nine members showing their portfolios.
The annual luncheon took place Thursday, March 24, 2011 at Benvenuto's Restaurant in Boynton Beach, Fl. Our luncheon chair, Cynthia Maronet arranged for Sandra Barghini Coombs, Executive Director of the Armory Art Center to be this year's speaker. Her presentation and slides were enthusiastically received.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the board members, committee chairs and volunteers for making all this happen.
Vice President, Jane Mcintyre has worked tirelessly on these exhibits from printing labels to programs, ordering ribbons and helping update membership lists. She has stepped in for me on many occasions due to multiple family situations this past winter and I very much appreciate her extra help.
Lois Barton, Joan Lustig, Carol Grillo, Fern Samuels and Nadine Saitlin did a great job on "Across the Spectrum".
Janice Cohen, Scholarship Chair, makes it look easy to put together the scholarship awards each year, but the members of her committee, Liana Moonie, Jane Mcintyre, Lore Baer and I can vouch for the many hours of work she put in to present these awards to the deserving Dreyfoos students.
An extra thank you to Elizabeth Reed, our treasurer, who had to sort out membership dues that came in staggered and in odd amounts due to different collection dates. It was time consuming and at times frustrating, but she's done an exemplary job.
Lois Barton, Recording and Corresponding Secretary is so efficient that she has been able to help, not only at meetings, but also in hanging artwork for shows.
Diane Lublinski, Membership Chair, along with chairing the Village Art Studio Exhibit, has put together an Excel spreadsheet up to date membership roster so that we can print a membership book. I know she looks forward to our web site being updated so that members will be able to input their own information!
A thank you to Grace Fishenfeld who has done a terrific job on our publicity for exhibits. Because of her, NAWA articles appear frequently in the West Palm Beach Fine Arts Examiner http://www.examiner.com/fine-arts-in-west-palm-beach/work-by-nawa-florida-chapter-artists-visons-vistas-and-views-picture along with slideshows that Nadine Saitlin graciously prepares for publication.
And thank you to Helene Kleiner for gathering information and publishing our newsletter twice each year.
Lore Baer, Presentation Book Chair, has been increasing her technology skills and collecting jpegs from members for our digital frame to be used at openings and for the annual luncheon.
And a big thank you to Bernice Harwood, Venue Chair, for all her hard work finding locations for us and then following through with contracts, etc. Her background and experience as past president and willingness to help has made my job a lot easier.
We send get well wishes to our founder, Liana Moonie, who returned to Connecticut early this season due to health reasons.
Wishing you all a creative and productive summer,
Emalee Andre
Note These Exhibition Dates
November 18, 2011 through January 7, 2012; Armory Art Center
January 20, 2012 through March 20, 2012; Cornell - Crest Theatre
October 30, 2012 through December 3, 2012; Coral Springs Museum of Art
Welcome New Members
Laura Barakat, Susan Barrasi, Cindy Billingsly, Andrea Broyles, Amalia Brujis, Ellyn Chavetz, Claire Clark, Vicki Cohen, Beatrice Dauge, Olwen Dowling, Veronika Hart, Deborah Held, Tina Salvesen, Beverly Smith, Nancy Turner
NAWA-Florida Chapter Website
Remember to check our website at www.nawafl.org. Members may have up to15 images and a biography represented on the website for a one time fee of $50. Contact Glenn Heino at www.premierimagestudios.com for requirements and instructions.
NAWA-Florida Exhibition Awards
ILLUSIONS: A Small Works, Multi-Media Exhibit at THE CREST THEATRE
Chairs: Jane Mcintyre and Bernice Harwood, Juror: Gloria Adams
1st Place: Dancing Tortoise by Pokey Park; 2nd Place: Inscrutable by Fern Samuels; 3rd Place: Renewal by Lynne Kroll; Honorable Mention: Urban Abstract by Janice Cohen; Judges' Recognition: Carvaggio by Grace Fishenfeld
NAWA FL at VILLAGE STUDIO GALLERY
Chair: Diane Lublinski Committee members: Emalee Andre and Bernice Harwood Juror: Mike Kupillas
1st Place: Nili Leichter, The Cellist; 2nd Place: Karen Braverman, Oriental Abstract; 3rd Place: Nadine Saitlin, Jazzed Up; Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Castonguay, Study of Figure
ACROSS THE SPECTRUM at NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY
Exhibition Committee: Emalee Andre, Lois Barton, Carol Grillo, Joan Lustig, Nadine Saitlin and Fern Samuels, Juror: Sherry Stephens
1st Place: Whispering Woods-Ox-Bow by Rita Price 2nd Place: Waved Shadows by Joyce Harris Mayer 3rd Place: Thinking by Jane Mcintyre Honorable Mention: Grounded by Lore Baer Honorable Mention: Sad Smile by Joan B. Sonnenberg
VISION•VISTAS•VIEWS at ROSSETTI FINE ART
Exhibition Chair: Bernice Harwood Committee Members: Jane Mcintyre, Jean Goddeau, Nadine Saitlin, Juror: Tom Rossetti
1st Place: Images in a Window by Mary Lou Siefker; 2nd Place: Stand of Birches by Jean Goddeau; 3rd Place; Global Warming by Joan B. Sonnenberg; Honorable Mention: Edge of Winter by Vicki Cohen; Judge's Award: Memory Keeper by Lois Barton; Judge's Award: Mother and Child by Cindy Billingsley
Digital Screen and Presentation Book
Reminder…At each of our shows and luncheon, we will have a video screening of 5 images per artist. If you have not already done so, please send Lore Baer five jpg. images
labeled with Name, Title, Media, Size, and a brief artist statement, with some of your images all on a single 81/2 x 11 sheet for our Presentation Book. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- Personal exhibition information for the newsletter should be sent to Helene Kleiner. Only solos, awards, exhibitions that are juried for entry and grants, please.
- Please send changes/updates of address or email to Diane Lublinski, Lynn Morgan, Emalee Andre and Helene Kleiner.
- DUES ARE TO BE RECEIVED OCTOBER 1ST OF EACH YEAR. Please cooperate. Any member whose dues are not received by October 31 will be deleted from the membership roles.
Solo and Juried Exhibitions and Awards
Carolyn Barth; Two paintings juried into the Boca Museum Artists’ Guild Biennial Exhibition in the summer of 2010
Cindy Billingsley: solo show, "Within the Mind" on Alzheimer's disease, Tennessee Art League, Nashville, TN Sept- Oct.
Karen Fletcher Braverman; Solo Exhibition; “Artbiquitous" Sunrise Civic Center Gallery September 22nd, 2011 to October 29th, 2011
Jeanette R Durham; "Robert Coppen and Jeanette R Durham", Stanley Center for the Arts Utica NY, March 24th- April 20th, 2010; Arkell Annual Juried Show, Canajoharie NY, December 3rd, 2010- January 30, 2011
Grace Fishenfeld; 1st place in "Creative Dimensions" at 110 East Atlantic Ave. Delray Beach sponsored by WITVA in March; Honorable Mention at The Boca Raton Museum Artists' Guild Show at the Main Educational Administration Building, Boca Raton -March; Second Place at the Artists Guild of Boca Raton at their Gallery in Delray Beach, December and Honorable Mention at the Boca Raton Artists; Guild Gallery in November; Second place at the 37th Annual Spring Coral Springs Guild Open Juried exhibit for her mixed media diptych at the Coral Springs Museum's Lobby Gallery
Sandra Gottlieb; Solo, "City Tulips", The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, 975 Main Street, Danville, Virginia 24541, April 10 thru June 5, 2011
Lynne Kroll; 2nd Annual Signature American Watercolor Exhibition,
Fallbrook Art Center, Fallbrook, California, Erikson Family Award, February 5-March 13,2011; Tallahassee Watercolor Society 23rd Tri State Watermedia Exhibition, Le-Moyne Art Center, Tallahasse Florida, May6-June 3-2011; Art From Detritus, April 26-June 1, 2011, Williamsburgh Art & Historical Center (WAH), Brooklyn NY.
Cynthia Maronet; "Private Paradise: Revisited", Juno Beach Town Center, Juno Beach, FL. February 18-April 13, 2011. www.CynthiaMaronet.com
Elizabeth Miller McCue: Sculpture on the Green Bi-Annual Invitational Exhibition, The Village Green, Cashiers, NC, July 16 – December 16, 2010. 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic, E. Ashley Rooney, author; Schiffer Books Publishing, 2011.
Corinne Peters; A painting “Homage to Rosalind Franklin and Her DNA Discovery” selected for the DNA exhibition, also accepted into the Ellarslie Open XXIX at Artworks, in Trenton, NJ. It is a juried exhibition, April 22 – June 12, 2011
Rita Price; won first place in the Art for Art's Sake exhibition at the Levi JCC, NathanD Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, March /April 14, 2011 sponsored by WITVA with her image "To the end of time" an etching; Received Honorable mention for her etching "Flower Beehive Series" in the Enchanted Garden exhibition at the American orchid Society. Jan 2011
Patti Robbins; “Opposing Forces”, 2 person exhibit, Big Paintings, Gallery Los Olivos, Los Olivos, CA, month of April; “Castoro”, Solo, Cellars Art Gallery, Paso Robles, CA
Nadine Meyers Saitlin: Good Earth Exhibit, Highland Beach Library, Boca, 26 wrappings, and drawings, April-September 2011. Reception: May 6, 4:30-6:00. Accepted into the 25Th Juried National Art Premiere, Elmhurst Museum of Art, IL, March - April 2011. “Small Spaces”, Unique Art Gallery, part of the competitive show hosted by the Artists Association of Jupiter, February - March, 2011: Sopra Exhibition, hosted by the Artist Guild Boca Raton Third Place. December-January 2011. Coral Springs Center for the Arts Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Boca Artists Guild, Third Place, February 201
Jo-Ann Sanborn; Solo show, "Corner of the Glades" at Aura Gallery, February 2011
SharonThieman; 2 person EXHIBIT (Curated by Museum Dir. Dr. Carol Damien in conjuction with Veljko Dujin of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens) June 8 - Sept 11, 2011, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University,
10975 University Park, SW 17th Street, Miami, FL
Officers and Board
President: Emalee Andre This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561-625-0134
Vice-President: Jane E. McIntyre This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561-394-5562
Recording & Corresponding Secretary: Lois Barton This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
561 744-3570
Treasurer: Lynn Morgan: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 799-6568
Standing Committee Chairs
Nominating Committee: Liana Moonie This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561-655-2788
Membership & Social Media: Diane Lublinski This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 954 646-5244
Publicity: Grace Fishenfeld This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561-482-0239
Presentation Book: Lore Baer This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 626-8570
Historian: Nadine Saitlin This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 488-2512
Scholarship: Janice Cohen This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561-736-2589
Newsletter: Helene Kleiner This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 738-7968
Exhibition Chair: Bernice Harwood This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 736-9720
Annual Luncheon: Cynthia Maronet This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 635-0080
Hospitality: Jean Goddeau This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 561 768-2024
Founder Liana Moonie
