January 2012 ECAG Newsletter

ECAG Membership Meeting
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Guest Speaker:  Vickie Ham

PLEASE NOTE:  The meeting will be at Coaches Corner, 203 Orline Street, downtown Wetumpka.
If you would like to eat lunch before the meeting, please be there at 11:00 a.m.  Your order will
be taken between 11:00 and 11:15 a.m.  No orders will be taken after this time.  You may
stay after the meeting and eat if you wish.  The prices on the lunch menu are very reasonable.
An 18 percent gratuity will be added to your bill.
The business meeting will begin at 12 Noon and will end by 1:00 p.m.
The guest speaker will start the business meeting.

EXHIBITS

Wetumpka Library:  January/February 2012  Debbie Wiggins

Adams Drugs:  January/February 2012 
Doris Bell, Bobby Carr, Shirley Esco, Lynda Davis,
Barbara Fitzgerald, Mel Frizzell,   Judith Ivy Hayden, Carol
Hickman, Doti Nottingham Kendrick,  Gina Lancaster, Judy Lea
(Could use one more exhibitor/1 painting.  Paintings
will be hung at Adams Drugs right after the January ECAG
business meeting.)

NOTICE:  We need volunteers to fill the Chairs of Telephone and Historian/Records
Keeper Committees.  Contact Karen Thornhill at 567-2165 or rthornhill@elmore.rr.com

Winter Art Show

Proposed dates for the Winter Art Show are: 
Take-in on February 18th, 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.;
Show to be on exhibit Monday through Friday, February20th through February 24th;
Reception on Sunday, February 26th, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.;
Take Down February 26th, 3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

The prospectus and up-to-date information regarding the place for the show will be sent out very soon.
 

Steve Garst received Signature Status with the Watercolor Society of Alabama with his painting " A Clowning Moment" at the 2011 National Juried Exhibition of the Watercolor Society of Alabama held at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in Tuscumbia, Alabama and also received the Signature Members Award with his painting "MJ & Billy" at the Georgia Watercolor Society in the GWS Memebers Show held in October 2011..

Deb Garst juried into the 18th Annual Gulf Breeze Celebrate the Arts Festival to be held in March 2012.

Congratulations Deb and Steve!

Steve Garst will begin his Winter/Spring session of art classes at the Dog House Studio
on Canyon Rd. in Wetumpka in February 2012. To enable Steve to give each
student individualized instruction, class size is limited. For more information
call Deb & Steve at 514-7188.

Please join us in January at a Reception of SAC's
32^nd Annual Members’ Show and Competition

The show is in Memory of Nell Hardeman, the founder of this competition.
The Reception and Awards Presentations are,
SUNDAY, January 22, 2 TO 4 PM
EXHIBIT WILL BE ON DISPLAY THROUGH FEBRUARY 14^th
Competition Rules:

• All Entrants must be Society of Arts & Crafts Members (if not current $25 memberships
  can be purchased at turn-in)

• Entries must be brought to the Gallery on Jan. 18^th from Noon-4 p.m.

• Entries will be accepted in 3 Categories:

  • Cat. 1: Paintings, Drawings and Original Prints

  • Cat. 2: Photography and Computer Generated Works

  • Cat. 3: Three-Dimensional Works

• 2 D Entries must be framed or gallery wrapped and have wire for hanging.

• Items must not have been entered in a previous Members’Shows.

• 1^st-3^rd place in all categories, will receive appropriate rosettes and/or monetary
  awards. Prize amounts will be based on the number of entries. Ribbons will be
  awarded for Honorable Mentions at the discretion of the jurist.

• Entries need to be picked up at the Gallery on Tuesday, February 14^st from Noon-4 p.m.

  • Fees: $7 per entry ($25 memberships can be purchased at turn-in)

• Limit of 2 entries in each category per entrant.

If you have information for the next ECAG newsletter, please email to
Doris Bell.  artbydoris@elmore.rr.com

2012 Board of Directors
Chair - Sylvia McConnell
Secretary - Doris Bell
Carol Barksdale
Hope Brannon
Jim Harris
Barry Chrietzberg
Wayne Turner

2012 Officers and Committee Chairpersons (Executive Committee)