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September 2024

Sep 30
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SW Analysis and Discussion

By Region - Southwest, SW In Person Analysis and Discussion

SW Analysis and Discussion

 

Eagle Hills Church…  651 N Eagle Rd, Eagle, ID 83616

Monday, Oct  7,  1 – 3 p.m.

 

Directions:

In Eagle from State St. go north on Eagle Rd. to the top of the hill.

 

We meet downstairs in the Music Room 

Parking is available in the lower lot

 

Having trouble with a painting?…bring it.

Have a successful painting?…We’d like to see it and cheer!

No painting to bring…Come anyway…..

…it’s all FUN, FRIENDLY and HELPFUL !

 

“Get that old stuff out from under your bed or off your easel and bring it in for discussion, 

we’re all friends and there’s no crying in watercolors!”

-Scott

*  I won’t be able to make it, but will be contacting Roy and Don to make sure they can help out. -Scott

 

Questions? email Scott    [email protected]

Sep 27
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WFWS50 Detailed Schedule

By WFWS

In order to help with the early entry deadline for WFWS for 2025, following is the complete calendar with dates for WFWS50.

If you want to enter your painting that is in the current IWS traveling show, you will have time to enter that same painting in WFWS50 and will have about a week to have it taken out of its frame and rematted.

Note that if your painting is accepted, it will be gone from November 11, 2024, to mid-May 2025.

WFWS50 2025

Calendar of Events

2024

• Aug. 26, 2024: Call for Entry Opens
• Oct. 11, 2024: Call for Entry Closes online
• Oct. 14, 2024: Ken Call juries entries
• Oct. 24, 2024: Artist notifications of acceptance/denial sent
• Oct. 28, 2024: Delegates acceptance list and info sent
• Nov. 11, 2024: Artwork due to Delegates
• Nov. 20, 2024: Frame Size Verifications Due
• Nov. 22, 2024: Order Frames
• Nov. 25, 2024: Delegates Ship Artwork
• Dec. 13, 2024: WTWS Receives Artwork

 

2025

 

• Jan. 6-13, 2025: Frame Artwork
• Jan. 13, 2025: Send Artist/Delegate Hotel and Registration Info
• Jan. 16, 2025: Artwork due to Museum of Texas Tech University
• Feb. 1, 2025: Exhibit Opens
• Feb. 28, 2025: Registration Info Due
• March 20, 2025: Hotel Registration Deadline
• April 8, 2025: Ken Call juries awards and WTWS demo 6:30pm
• April 10-11, 2025: WFWS50 Delegate Meetings 9am-12pm
• April 12, 2025: Awards Banquet
• May 4, 2025: Exhibit Closes
• May 5, 2025: Disassemble Frames

• May 9, 2025: Ship Artwork

Thanks!

Shelly Johnson
IWS WFWS Delegate
208 922-7566
[email protected]

Sep 26
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WFWS Reminder

By WFWS
WFWS50 Entry Deadline is October 11!
WFWS50 CAFE entry deadline is only two weeks away! As of September 23, only 39 artists have entered WFWS50 and only one member is from IWS. 
 

The West Texas Watercolor Society is hosting the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Lubbock, Texas from February 1, 2025 to May 4, 2025. The show juror is Ken Call. (http://mobile.call4portraits.com/the-artist.shtml) The show venue is Museum of Texas Tech University. This show is open to watermedia artists who are members of one of the WFWS Component Societies, including IWS. Your IWS annual dues for 2025 must be paid by the WFWS entry deadline, which is October 11, 2024, or your entry will be disqualified. Please read the WFWS50 prospectus carefully and note that for WFWS50 mats must be a single white mat and a minimum of 3” on each side. Please call me if you need help with the math.

Ready to enter? The CAFE page for submitting entries for WFWS50 is now open. Click on the link below to view the prospectus and enter your paintings for consideration.
 
 

This year, in CAFE, once entries are checked out, submitted, and paid, there will be no changes or adding or substituting images, so please be sure of your entry before submission and payment. 

You may enter your submissions until 11:59 pm on October 11, 2024.
 
Please call or email me with any questions.
 
Good luck!
 
Shelly Johnson
IWS WFWS Delegate
208 922-7566
Sep 24
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Southwest Region Only – St. Al’s Artist of the Month Artist Program for 2025 – 2026

By Region - Southwest

St. Al’s is preparing for their invitation only Artist of the Month Art Program for 2025 – 2026. If you would like to participate, please note the RSVP date is September 27 with the submission form due to the St. Al’s team by October 4.

Download the three documents provided by them and follow the directions as stated to apply.

 

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 1

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 2

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 3

 

 

 

Sep 24
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SW Members Exhibits and Workshops/Classes for October

By Region - Southwest, SW Monthly Member Announcements

SW Members Exhibits and Workshops/Classes for October

Exhibits:
 
Gary McCall  -St Luke’s invited me to show in Boise for October. A group show at Initial Point too. Will be doing plein aire with many others on the fourth for Surels first Friday. Then Finer Frames week long plein aire.   
 
 
Shelly Johnson has been invited to participate in the 2024 National Watercolor Exhibition at Mark Arts in Wichita, Kansas. Her painting, “The Barrel Racer”, will be on display from October 4 to December 21 at Mark Arts, 1307 N. Rock Road, Wichita, Kansas. Opening Reception is October 4 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Shelly Johnson’s painting “Remi” was selected for the 2024 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait competition and exhibition finalist list. This is an online exhibition that opens September 27 on richeson.com.
 
 
 
Mary Gardiner- In October Mary is exhibiting in Hidden Worlds at the Full Moon gallery, Twin Falls. Mary also has a painting in the TVAA exhibit Masks at the Gem Center for the Arts and in TVAA Opus. First Friday, October 4, a participating artist in the Surel’s Place art stroll. Initial Point a Touch of Landscape with other artists and a reception – we’d love to see you. Also, come October, Mary will have a new studio at the Gem Center for the Arts. Visitors welcome!
 
 
Lauren Johnson will be holding her studio open for the BOSCO OPEN STUDIOS TOUR again this year.  She will be open on the second weekend of the tour, October 12th and 13th from 10-5 both days.  Her home studio is located at 109 S Stephenson St in Eagle, and you can contact her by email at [email protected] or call 208-215-1588 if you need more information.  She’d love to have you drop by and bring any guests you would like.
 
 
Frankie Sims  -I’m honored to have had a painting judged into this year’s TVAA Opus show, alongside the work of many local artists I admire. Bright, colorful tropical fish, as I envision them, play on my canvas,  inquisitively encountering one another in a blue ocean kelp bed. I hope you can stop by the Riverside Hotel in Boise between October 4 and November 3, to take a look at my watercolor painting, and enjoy the 66 other creative, interesting and diverse works of art in Opus 2024. 
 
 
Joyce Green -A very special THANK YOU to all the wonderful friends and artists who attended the awards presentation at Meridian City Hall on Saturday, September 21st!  I was so honored to receive the Tammy de Weerd award for Excellence in the Arts, and even more honored to be so well represented by my IWS group!  Joyce Green
“Tres Amigos”,  a watercolor by Joyce Green,  is currently on view through October 26th at the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibit at Evergreen Center for the Arts in Evergreen, Colorado.  Check it out if you are in that neighborhood!
 
Joyce Green -You are invited to visit Joyce Green’s garage studio during the 2nd weekend of October, the 12th and 13th, from 10 to 6 for the BOSCO (Boise Open Studios) event.  Come see what I do and how I do it in watercolor, including my “wild hairs”! (My exploratory works)  The address is 1088 West Chateau Avenue in Meridian.  The easiest access is east off Linder on Chateau despite what GPS says.  I am one of the farthest out studios, even though I am in  old Meridian, so I will welcome all the visitors I can and you can ask all the questions you want!
 
 
Workshops/ Classes:
 
Marina Zavalova, I will be teaching watercolor classes at College of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls starting October 16 through November 20, beginning/advanced. I am sure everyone in IWS is very skillful painters, but if people know someone who is afraid to start or want to improve I am here.

 
 
 
Karyn deKramer
SW Email Coordinator
Sep 16
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SW Monthly Member Exhibits/ Workshops

By Region - Southwest, SW Monthly Member Announcements
Important Change!:  Email your announcement to Karyn at  [email protected]
 
Greetings,
 
It is time again to submit your upcoming watercolor exhibit, or workshop announcement into the October email listing.  A monthly list of watercolor exhibits members are participating in and/or watercolor workshop opportunities taught by members.

To participate and have your announcement posted, please send a prepared announcement to Karyn by the deadline: Sept 23.

There are a few requirements: Please keep it short (short paragraph), text only (no attachments), text that can be cut and pasted. One link is OK. Watercolor media related only.  -Thank you. 🙂 


Deadline Sept 23  
Very Important! Please email your announcement to Karyn at  [email protected]
 
Question or Comments contact Karyn: [email protected]
 
 
Karyn deKramer
SW Email Coordinator
[email protected]
Sep 03
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IWS Member – Dave Earnest

By Region - Southwest
It is with great sadness that I share the sudden loss of Dave Earnest this week.  Dave’s talent’s were numerous.  He was an award-winning watercolor artist, a sound engineer, and I also know him because of his musical gifts.  He was a musician at the Lutheran Church I attend.  He played bass and I talked with him as recently as a week ago.  He told me he was not feeling well, but of course, showed up to play anyway.  If you had gotten to know Dave, I’m sure his family would appreciate a card.
Best regards,
Carol HasBrouck Browning