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Hello All,

Many of you already know that the Fairborn Senior Housing Building has self-quarantined, and so we have closed our Gallery to any meetings, classes, paint outs, etc. until further notice. As a result, our Board has voted to cancel our April meeting, our May meeting, our May workshop, and our Member Show originally scheduled for May. We are working to reschedule the Member Show for possibly October. We hope to reschedule the Misuk Goltz workshop in the future. Pat Dunker, our workshop chair, is working on contacting all participants within the next two weeks. You will not lose your deposits.

We had hoped to announce candidates for Board positions in April, and vote in May.  Carol Edsall is working on that and may still have a slate of candidates to announce in this newsletter.

The Board and the Sweet Corn Festival Committee are working on possibly having meetings electronically so the business of Fairborn Art Association can continue. As of now, the June social and the Sweet Corn Festival are still on, but of course that depends on the directives of our Governor. I have not heard from the BW Greenway regarding the Landscape Show scheduled for July, but we will announce any changes through an e-mail blast and our Facebook page.

This reminds me that it is critical for you to share your e-mail address with us. We use it to let you know of changes as quickly as possible, and to send notifications of the newsletter. Of  course if you do not have e-mail, we will still continue to mail you the newsletter, but it may not be as timely as an e-mail would be.

I am reminded by Jackie Albright that she is receiving information for the newsletter that is not written as an article but as a personal note. The Corresponding Secretary’s job is not to write the article, it is basically to copy and paste what you have written into the newsletter format. Since we will be voting in a new Corresponding Secretary in May, I am saying now that any future information submitted will not appear in the newsletter if it is not written as an article. Sorry for any inconvenience to you, but it is causing a great inconvenience for the Corresponding Secretary.

Some positive things happening at FAA are Roger Browning has installed two smaller TVs in the Gallery so those sitting in the back can still view demos, and he has installed under cabinet lighting in the kitchen. It makes a huge difference in being able to use the kitchen and to clean up after meetings and other events. Loren Red will be working on repairing the flower boxes flanking the front door so they will continue to hold our beautiful flower gardens. We will be working with our web designer to improve and update our web site, so it will be more appealing and also easier to use. Jackie Albright will take on that task, as she has resigned as Corresponding Secretary after many years of service.

We still have some members who need love and support from us. I’m not getting much information from you all to share, but these are the people I do know about:  Loren Red, Lois Kuck, the family of Anita Wilson (who passed away on March 14), and Sheryl Scott. As far as I know our members have been spared from the Covid-19 virus, and I certainly hope that continues.

Stay home, practice social distancing, and wash your hands frequently!

Henry Moore (1898-1986), Sculptor, said, “One never knows what each day is going to bring.  The important thing is to be open and ready for it.”

Billie Dickson
President

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Our slate of Officers for the Board are as follows: President, Billie Dickson; Vice President, Carol Edsall; Treasurer, Sue Red; Recording Secretary, Sheryl Scott; Corresponding Secretary, Kenny Moore, who has expressed interest in this position. The Corresponding Secretary will be producing the annual Directory and the monthly newsletter. Jackie Albright will continue administrating our website as Social Media Administrator. If anyone is interested in running for any of these positions please contact the Nominating Committee chair, Carol Edsall, prior to our membership voting in May. Details on voting procedures will be published in the May 2020 newsletter.

…Submitted by Carol Edsall, 2020 Nominating Committee Chair

MEMBERSHIP DUES FOR 2020/2021

I hope that you are safe and healthy. I just wanted to make you aware that I will be mailing out membership dues notices in late April or early May for the 2020/2021 year. Please keep a watch in your mail for the renewal form and continue supporting the Fairborn Art Association by renewing your membership.

…Submitted by Lori Luckner, Membership Chair

SWEET CORN FESTIVAL SIGNUP FORM

Warren Brown has submitted a form for members to indicate their willingness to volunteer to help out at the Sweet Corn Festival in August. So far as we know right now the festival will be held as planned for the third weekend in August 2020. Please email Warren at [email protected] to let him know what you want to sign up for.

Sweet Corn Festival Signup Sheet – August 13, 14, 15, 16, 2020

DUTIES: 1. Watermelon; 2. Information; 3. Needed Tasks

Name                                                     Phone #      Email                                           Available Dates           Duty #

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS FOR 2020
April 7, 2020 Meeting Cancelled
May 5, 2020 Meeting Cancelled
June 2, 2020 Social
July 7, 2020 No meeting
August 4, 2020 No meeting
September 1, 2020 Amy Kollar Anderson, Mixed Media
October 6, 2020 Bruce Neville, and Workshop
November 3, 2020 Tim Langenderfer, Drawing
December 1, 2020 Christmas Party

  …Submitted by Carol Edsall Program Director

WORKSHOPS

Unfortunately, our May 2020 workshop with Misuk Goltz had to be cancelled and rescheduled for May 2021. If you signed up for Misuk’s workshop, we can tear up your check or send it back. The cancellation is the result of the corona virus outbreak and the concerns of the elderly residents in the senior living center where FAA is housed. Your check could be applied to the October 2020 workshop with Bruce Neville if you so desire. Bruce Neville, an outstanding watercolorist from Cincinnati, will be our guest workshop teacher and demo artist for our October 2020 meeting. More info on the cost, etc. will be published in the May newsletter.

THURSDAY PAINT IN GROUP MEETINGS CANCELLED

With the current situation and the ongoing spread of the COVID-19virus, Shirlee and I have decided to stop our Thursday meetings until we are assured there is not a thread of the COVID-19 virus. Please everyone, take care of yourselves and follow the guidelines that have been given from our doctors and health authorities. You all can create beautiful art at your home and you can pick an art buddy to share your new masterpieces with by email. When things are better, you can bring that masterpiece and share it with the group. If some of TPI friends in this group do not regularly check their email (and you might know them), please call them so they know we are not meeting. Take care everyone and pray for a cure of the COVID-19 virus.

…Submitted by Connie Gifford and Shirlee Bauer

LOUISE JACKSON POSTS NEW ONLINE WATERCOLOR CLASSES

Learn to paint with Louise Jackson from the comfort of your home! Louise has been busy creating a library of video painting lessons and she’ll be adding new videos each month. New updates to the website – You can now purchase individual video lessons. When you purchase an online painting lesson you’ll get:

• step-by-step instructions so you can paint each brush stroke with Louise;
• lots of helpful tips and techniques;
• lifetime of access to watch the videos;
• plus printed instructions, color swatches; and printable line drawing;
• a complimentary painting packet with a second design (2 for the price of 1).

Save 20% on any video painting lesson. Use coupon code – FAIRBORN20.

Visit LouiseJacksonPaintingClasses.com for more information.

NOTE FROM NITA LELAND

How are my favorite artists getting along? I think of you every day, hoping you are well and managing to cope with the uncertainty of the times.

Bob and I are doing fine. Our daughter Kathleen in Wilmington has taken over our supply line and all I have to do is message a list to her. She and her husband Tim have us and his parents in Middletown to worry about, so we are trying to cooperate with their directives. (“Think ahead. Don’t let yourself run out of anything. Call if you need anything. Stay home. Etc.) My first reaction was my usual “We can manage just fine,” but she convinced us that we are definitely in the at-risk age group and should follow the protocols. We are behaving. They have been so helpful and we are grateful.

I am still having intermittent computer and Wi-Fi and Internet problems, so I can’t be sure this will go out, but I will keep trying. I’m hoping now we will soon see a downturn in the frequency of new cases. We all need to urge family members and friends to maintain social distancing, isolation, and stay home to avoid contact. Did I mention washing your hands? This is not a joke.

Here is another reference to entertain and teach you while you are housebound: Click on “Potpourri” link on my www.nitaleland.com home page. This is my blog, which I haven’t updated for a while, but it has several years of articles on color, creativity, and watercolor plus some of the exhibits we hung at Hithergreen back in the day. It’s really fun to look at those again!.

Now, I’ll see if a click will send this to you! Love you all. Stay safe.

…Submitted by Nita Leland, [email protected] , www.nitaleland.com

B-W GREENWAY LANDSCAPES 2020

Brochure and other information are available on our website at www.fairbornart.org. Paint this spring!

WEBSITE NOTES

If you have access to the internet, please go to our website at www.fairbornart.org for additional articles throughout the month. We also post photographs of meetings and other events that we are unable to publish in the printed version of this newsletter.

The deadline for submitting articles to be included in the May Newsletter is Monday, April 21, 2020. Please email your articles to [email protected] or call Jackie Albright at 937-233-7532

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MARCH 2020 NEWSLETTER

Hello All,

March is nearly here and the early signs of spring are all around us. I have daffodils, tulips, and crocus poking through the mulch, and the birds are beginning to sing their spring songs.  Just the other day I saw another sign – bags of mulch were being unloaded at the local hardware store.

March 1 is the opening date for the Greene County Senior Show, which runs for the first three Sundays from 1 to 3:30 p.m. and closes on March 18 at 2:00 p.m. It is always a beautiful show so I hope you will bring your friends to view the show and celebrate senior artists and artisans in Greene County.

Daylight Savings Time begins March 8, so we will be able to enjoy an extra hour of daylight in the evenings. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17, and the official first day of Spring is March 19.

Several FAA members enjoyed a tour of the historic Osborne area of Fairborn on February 10. This is the area designated for artists to find inspiration for the BW Greenway Landscape Show. We saw several interesting and unique architectural elements to paint. The tour guide indicated another tour would be held in May when flowers and trees are blooming. Be looking for information on that, and be sure to pick up a prospectus for the show so you will know how to enter your artwork.

FAA is well represented by members who have paintings in the Aqueous Ohio, Southwest 2020 by the Ohio Watercolor Society at Sinclair Community College in Mason. The show runs through May 29.  If you want to view the art online, please go to https://www/ohiowatercolorsociety.org/Exhibitions/index.html and then look under Regional Exhibits.

Please keep the families of Maggie Vance and Mark Bauer (Shirlee Bauer’s husband) in your thoughts and prayers as they mourn the loss of their loved ones. Members Lois Kuck and Anita Wilson are still battling health problems. If you know of others who need our support, please let a Board member know, or send the information to Jackie Albright so we know to reach out to them.

Correction:  Our March speaker is Kate Santucci who does Encaustic Art.  I hope you are as interested as I am to learn more about this art form. The meeting is Tuesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. Louise Jackson will be our speaker at our April 7th meeting. End of Correction

Please open your heart to volunteering to help FAA. We will be needing people to run for office and filling various other positions, including being part of the Nominating Committee in March. It is also time to sign up to help at the Sweet Corn Festival in August. YOU are needed and wanted.  I recently read an article on stess reduction techniques, and one of them was to be a volunteer!  Please let me know if that could be you, and if you are asked, please remember your “YES” is needed.

Joe Miller (AKA Cheap Joe) says, “Sometimes a blank canvas is a napkin and a studio is a restaurant.”  Art is all around us, we just have to open our minds to the possibilities.

Billie Dickson

President

Attachment:  Maggie Vance Obit

Attachment:  Mark Bauer Obit

CORRECTION:  MARCH SPEAKER—KATE SANTUCCI

The Fairborn Art Association (FAA) is hosting a demonstration with artist Ms. Kate Huser Santucci Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 7pm at its regular monthly meeting.

Kate Huser Santucci graduated from Wright State University in 1994 with a BFA in visual art, and participated in an encaustic painting workshop with Susan Mulder at the Krasl Art Center in Michigan. She has taught classes at the Dayton Art Institute and Rosewood Arts Centre, as well as private lessons for children. Santucci’s work has been shown at the Dayton Visual Arts Center, Rosewood Arts Centre in Kettering, has been part of several exhibitions at St. John Gallery in Beavercreek, and has been shown at various restaurants, pubs, and coffee houses in the Dayton area. Public work includes a mural in downtown Dayton on E. 3rd St. Her works are part of private collections in Dayton, Cincinnati, and St. Joseph, Michigan. End of Correction

The Fairborn Art Association is located at the rear entrance of the Fairborn Central Building, 221 North Central Ave., Fairborn. Parking and entrance are located around and behind the former school building, now senior housing.

…Submitted by James M. Gifford, Publicity Chair

2020 MEMBERS’ SPRING FINE ART SHOW

FAA Spring Show paintings will be accepted on Thursday, April 30, from noon to 5 pm. The show opens on Sunday, May 3, 2020. Prizes awarded on Tuesday, May 5 at the FAA meeting. Please bring your art ready to hang, and we do not accept saw-tooth hangers or ring hangers. The prospectus has all the information needed to prepare your art for the show. The prospectus is available in our Gallery and is attached.

Registration:  Thursday, April 30 from Noon to 5 pm

Show Opening: May 3, 2020 from 1:00 pm till 4:00 pm 

 Prizes Awarded:  Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at 7 pm at our May meeting

Gallery Hours:  Sundays, May 3, 10, and 17 from 1 pm to 4 pm

Pick Up:  Sunday, May 17 from 4 to 6 pm

If you signed up to sit with the FAA gallery, please bring light snacks. We will assign one person in your group to have access to the gallery so you can get in and lock up when you leave. Please check with us when you register your art to make sure who will have gallery access. Light snacks could be cookies or cheese & crackers, or chips & salsa, and a punch or lemonade or something similar. Feel free to bring your artwork to work on while you are there.

Please invite your friends and family to come see the show, and hopefully find a piece of art they would like to hang in their home or office. Remember to share this information with your friends on Social Media such as Facebook.

If you have questions or if you need to deliver or pick up your work at a different time, contact Connie Gifford at [email protected] or (937) 270-7359 or Carol Edsall at [email protected]

Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful art work!                              …Submitted Connie S. Gifford and Carol Edsall

Attachment:  Spring prospectus 2020

MAY 2020 WORKSHOP WITH MISUK GOLTZ

May 4-6, 2020, Fairborn Art Association will welcome Misuk Goltz back to teach a 3-day watercolor workshop.  Misuk has won many awards for her watercolor paintings and is an outstanding teacher. For beginners to more advanced. Misuk has planned a fabulous, informative workshop.

This workshop will be at the Fairborn Art Association Gallery from 9:30-4 with an hour for lunch. The cost will be $200 member or $225 non-member, including a $40 nonrefundable deposit which will hold your place for the workshop. Because Misuk has so many followers, get your deposit in soon. Send it to Pat Dunker, 30 InnisbrTook Close, Xenia, Ohio 45385. Contact Pat at 937-562-3014 or cell 937-271-4798, or email [email protected] .

This workshop is currently filled up and has a waiting list. See news below about the new workshop Misuk is offering.

…Submitted by Pat Dunker

Attachment:  Misuk Goltz Registration

GOOD NEWS ABOUT MISUK GOLTZ WORKSHOP

Misuk Goltz’s 3-day Journaling workshop is full but the GOOD NEWS is that she has graciously agreed to teach a 2-day Portraiture class on the 2 days following the Journaling class – May 7 and 8. The class will cost $140 for the 2 days and the supply list, if you need to bring anything special, will be in next month’s newsletter.

If anyone who is registered in the journaling class wishes to switch to the Portraiture Class, let Pat Dunker know ASAP and your deposit will be transferred to the new class, but only until the class is full. If you wish to take both classes, that is also possible but the people on the “waiting list” will be the first members of the new class if they wish. A registration form for this workshop is available on our website at www.fairbornart.org.                                             …Submitted by Pat Dunker

Attachment:  MISUK GOLZ Registration-Portraiture

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS FOR 2020
March 3, 2020 Kate Santucci, Encaustic
April 7, 2020 Louise Jacckson, Watercolor
May 5, 2020 Misuk Goltz, and Workshop

June 2, 2020 Social
July 7, 2020 No meeting
August 4, 2020 No meeting
September 1, 2020 Amy Kollar Anderson, Mixed Media
October 6, 2020  Bruce Neville, and Workshop
November 3, 2020 Tim Langenderfer, Drawing
December 1, 2020 Christmas Party

PAINT WITH YUKI HALL IN SPAIN

Yuki Hall will be conducting a workshop titled “Painting & Sketching the Spirit of Spain” from May 11 to May 21, 2020.  The workshop will take place in Barcelona, Girona and Costa Brava, Spain with abundant excursions with private tour guides and private transportations.  For more information, contact Yuki at [email protected], (937) 679-2464.  All level of painters and non-painting companions are also welcome. Workshop brochure and enrollment form are available in the Gallery and are attached.

Painting & Sketching the Spirit of Spain[1160]

Painting & Sketching the spirit of Spain Enrollment form[1161]

B-W GREENWAY LANDSCAPES 2020

Brochure and other information are available on our is attached. Paint this winter!

Attachment:  Landscapes 2020 Flyer 2pg

Attachment:  OHGC flyer with gardener addresses

WEBSITE NOTES

If you have access to the internet, please go to our website at www.fairbornart.org for additional articles throughout the month. We also post photographs of meetings and other events that we are unable to publish in the printed version of this newsletter.

REMINDERS

The following members signed up to bring refreshments for the March meeting: Cheryl Miracle, Fran Watson, Jason Williams, Carol Edsel, Cass Barth, Carol Collett, Lucy Burns, Ed and Marty Vance, Nyeon Ju Woo, Clarice Moore, and Evvie Moore. Thank you for volunteering.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at 7:00 pm. The deadline for submitting articles to be included in the April Newsletter is Monday, March 23, 2020. Please email your articles to [email protected] or call Jackie Albright at 937-233-7532