PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Hello Fellow Artists!
Well, another year has flown by and soon it will be 2025, which seems unbelievable to me. Thanksgiving is past and our home is decorated with snowmen, Santas, and penguins as far as the eye can see. I will be baking Christmas cookies that I shouldn’t be eating, but will, while listening to Christmas carols, wrapping presents, and then ringing in the New Year! Wasn’t it just summer?
Speaking of Christmas, I want to remind you of our catered Christmas party on Saturday, December 14, 3:00–5:00 pm at the Gallery. Reservations are due by December 6 to Debbie Cosenza. If you wish to be a part of our gift exchange, bring a $15 gift for a man or woman, and Warren Brown will be our Santa Claus. This is always a fun event so I hope many of you can attend!
This month I would like to recognize Cheryl Miracle as Secretary of our Sweet Corn Festival Committee. Besides taking minutes at all of our Sweet Corn meetings, she makes phone calls to fill all the many shifts for the vendors gate and information booth, highlights the maps for the vendors and gets their packets organized to hand out at the vendors gate, and a myriad of other tasks that I am not even aware of! Thank you so much, Cheryl, for your faithful service to FAA.
I want to wish all of you a blessed Christmas season and a wonderful New Year and as always, keep creating!
Linda Brandenburg, President
HOLIDAY PARTY
Please join us for our annual Christmas Party on December 14 from 3:00–5:00 pm. FAA will cater the food but you MUST make a reservation for yourself and your guest with our greeter, Debbie Cosenza, by December 6. If you would like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a wrapped item, $15 value. We hope to see you there!
FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH
Congratulations to Hyacinth Paul on her beautiful exhibit at our gallery for the month of November! Would you like to stage your own show or a group show next year? As a member of the FAA, you are eligible to stage a show free of charge for any month when the gallery is open. Email or call Carol Collett, Gallery Coordinator, for details.
FAA DEMO ARTISTS AND WORKSHOPS 2025
January No meeting
February 4 Chuck Marshall, gouache demo Slide presentation on oil painting
March 4 Mary Beth Karaus, acrylic demo
April 1 Yuki Hall, watercolor demo
May 5–7 Workshop with Fran Mangino
May 6 Fran Mangino, watercolor demo
June 3 Social
July No meeting
August No meeting
September 2 Sharon Stolzenburger, mixed media, watercolor
October 7 Demo TBD
October Workshop TBD
November 4 Charmaine Boggs, mixed media
December 2 Holiday Party (date subject to change)
MEMBER NEWS
Congratulations to the following FAA members who were accepted into the Middletown Arts Center 2024 Area Art Exhibition:
Billie Dickson – Half Timber House in Normandy (Third Place in Watermedia)
Carol Edsall – A Tail of Many Swallows and Upstate Gorge
Darci Salinas – Sunburst Goldstone (Second Place in Jewelry)
Rose Schultz – Woodland Path (Honorable Mention in Mixed Media) and Leeward Boat (Honorable Mention in Watermedia)
Tamiko Stump – Scarlet Pulse (Honorable Mention in Oils/Acrylics) and Hope Break in the Clouds (Honorable Mention in Watermedia)
This exhibition will be open to the public through December 12, 2024, at 130 N. Verity Pkwy., Middletown, OH 45042. For more information, call the MAC at 513-424-2417.
FAIRBORN ART ASSOCIATION MAY 2025 WORKSHOP
Fairborn Art Association will present a “Paint Bold in Watercolor” Workshop on May 5–7, 2025, with award winning artist Fran Mangino.
Watercolor could be the most exciting medium but it is often unforgiving and difficult. Students will go step by step to design a composition while working the human figure into their painting. The goal is to capture the essence of the subject while producing mood and atmosphere, while using values and contrast. Hopefully, students will achieve their next level as an artist. I want each student to choose their own image from what I have to paint. Students will not be on the same level in the process of watercolor. Therefore, I hope to help each student individually with their painting problems. “One size fits all” is rare.
The registration form for this workshop will soon be available in the gallery and on our website.
CALL FOR ENTRIES – 35TH ANNUAL DAYTON AREA WORKS ON PAPER
There is still time to create artwork for the Rosewood Arts Center’s 35th Annual Works on Paper juried exhibition. Artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio, may submit two-and three-dimensional works of art on or of paper. Entries can be dropped off at Rosewood Arts Center, 2655 Olson Drive, Kettering, Ohio, on January 4, 2025, from 1:00–3:00 pm and January 6, 2025, from 12:00–8:00 pm. The exhibition will be held January 21–March 1, 2025.
VILLAGE ARTISANS PEACE ON EARTH GALLERY SHOW
Village Artisans are presenting a “Peace on Earth” art exhibit in their Lobby Gallery at 100 Corry Street, Yellow Springs, Ohio. The show runs through January 7, 2025, during regular gallery hours, and is free and open to the public.
REMINDERS
Our next meeting will be held on February 4, 2025. The deadline for submitting articles to be included in the February newsletter is Monday, January 20, 2025. Please call or email the article to April Coppess.
Please note that, for privacy reasons, the Fairborn Art Association will not post personal email addresses or phone numbers in the newsletters or on our website unless we have the respective member’s permission. Consult your FAA Directory for contact information for members. For non-members, we will provide the contact information we are given for them.