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Aug 26
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WFWS50 Q&A and Reminder

By WFWS

Do you have questions about WFWS50 or the prospectus? Do you have a painting you want to enter and want an opinion? Do you have a painting in progress for WFWS and want to share? I will be at the IWS Analysis and Discussion in Eagle on September 2, 2024 to answer any questions about WFWS and share one of my paintings.

 

WFWS50 CAFE entries open today, August 26, 2024!

 

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.

 

https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13773

 

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.

 

Good luck!

 

Shelly Johnson

IWS WFWS Delegate

Aug 18
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ELECTION BALLOT – IDAHO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY 2024

By All IWS Info, Annual IWS Location, IWS Annual Meeting, Region - Eastern, Region - Northern, Region - Southcentral, Region - Southeast, Region - Southwest

ELECTION BALLOT – IDAHO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY 2024

The following three items are up for election and voting. After reading through, please select the link at the end for the voting ballot.

  • ELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT TO THE BOARD TERM 2024 – 2025
  • BY-LAW CHANGES
  • SELECTION OF 2025 ANNUAL MEETING LOCATION

TO: IWS Membership

  • Election of Vice President to the Board Term 2024 – 2025:

Vice President

Terms: 1 Year

In an effort to stagger the election of officers, so that we always have experienced people on the board, the only office up for election this year is Vice President.  Per last year’s by-laws changes, the Vice President will follow as President when the current President’s term expires, August 31, 2025.

Standing for election is Lynn McConnell

This election cycle, started September 1st, 2023, is as follows:

President: 2 years ending August 31, 2025
Vice President: 1 year ending August 31, 2024
Recording Secretary: 2 years ending August 31, 2025
Treasurer: 3 years ending August 31, 2026

  • By-Law Changes

It has been extremely difficult this year to get people to step into leadership roles so that our organization can continue to survive.   We are also experiencing declining interest in several areas of the State.  Therefore, the board is proposing two By-Law changes for membership consideration.

1.  Change to membership

ACTIVE MEMBERS

All watercolor painters maintaining primary residence in the State of Idaho, or in cities with a 20-mile adjacency to the Idaho borderare eligible to become active members of the Society.  In order to retain active status, a member must be current on dues and enter work in a Society sponsored show at least once every three years (includes open shows).  Active members shall have full voting privileges and shall be eligible to serve on the Board of Directors.

(Cities that fit these criteria include Clarkston, Ontario, Spokane, and Missoula).

2.  Changes to President’s Position

OFFICERS OF THE BOARD

The Officers of the Board shall consist of the President, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer, the immediate Past-President, and the Regional Directors. If necessary, the President’s responsibilities “may be” shared between two active members. Any two active members who have agreed to share this responsibility, would be put on the ballot for voting by IWS membership, only with majority approval of the current board.

 

  • Selection of 2025 Annual Meeting Location –

    See the voting ballot for the list of cities.

Instructions for voting using the voting ballot in the link:
  • To vote FOR the nominated candidate, check the box next to their name. To vote for another person check the box next to “Other” and print the name of the person for whom you wish to vote.
  • To vote for the By-Law changes, check the appropriate box. A description of each change is in the voting ballot for your convenience.
  • To vote for your favorite cities for the 2025 Annual Meeting, check the box next to your two favorite locations listed on the ballot.
All voting must be received by the end of the day, September 6, 2024
If you have any questions, please contact Carol HasBrouck Browning at hazzy1900@gmail.com or 864-423-2521.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE VOTING BALLOT
Aug 18
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Reminder . . . IWS is Zooming . . . Analysis and Discussion

By All IWS Info, Events, Zoom Analysis and Discussion

Reminder . . . IWS is Zooming – Analysis and Discussion

Wednesday, August 21, 7-9 pm

Entries to Nadine “Hergy” Hergenrider nhergenrider1@gmail.com

…Please send entries no later than 5pm on Zoom day, August 21. 

Tech questions?  Ask Jane Shimon jshimon@boisestate.edu

Having trouble with a painting?

Have a successful painting that you’d like to share?

No painting to share?  Join in anyway…it’s all

FUN, FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL!

Zoom Link: https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/98618306813

Aug 13
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Attention: Chris Stubbs Workshop Attendees. Request for Information

By Annual Workshop, Workshops

Hello IWS Membership—specifically those who attended the Chris Stubbs workshop at the Riverside Hotel in June:

I gave several of you hot-pressed and cold-pressed pages from two blocks of watercolor paper generously donated to us by Michael Marchetta of Jerry’s Artarama.

I asked that those of you to whom I gave the paper relate back to me how you rate the quality of the paper.

If you have used the paper, I’d appreciate hearing how you liked it so I can report back to Michael.  If you have not yet used it, no worries, but when you do I’d like to hear about it.

Our responses to Michael and Jerry’s Artarama will influence his/their interest in working with our society positively, and his generosity deserves our attention.

Thanks very much, that’s all for now!

Be well and keep those brushes damp,

Scott

Scott Muscolo, 2024 IWS Annual Juried Exhibition Chair

805-795-0252

Aug 11
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IWS is Zooming . . . Analysis and Discussion

By All IWS Info, Events, Zoom Analysis and Discussion

IWS is Zooming – Analysis and Discussion

Wednesday, August 21, 7-9 pm

Entries to Nadine “Hergy” Hergenrider nhergenrider1@gmail.com

…Please send entries no later than 5pm on Zoom day, August 21. 

Tech questions?  Ask Jane Shimon jshimon@boisestate.edu

Having trouble with a painting?

Have a successful painting that you’d like to share?

No painting to share?  Join in anyway…it’s all

FUN, FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL!

Zoom Link: https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/98618306813

Aug 05
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IWS 2024 ANNUAL MEETING

By All IWS Info, IWS Annual Meeting, Region - Eastern, Region - Northern, Region - Southcentral, Region - Southeast, Region - Southwest


IWS 2024 ANNUAL MEETING
Friday, September 13 & Saturday, September 14

 

 

LOCATION – Riverside Hotel & Resort
2900 W. Chinden Blvd.
Garden City, Idaho

THEME – CREATIVITY IGNITED

AGENDA

Friday, September 13
9:30am – 11:30am

Creative Calm: Finding Balance in Artistic Endeavors

Presenter Terra Feast is a Professional Development Manager for Boise State’s
Extended Studies and an adjunct professor of art education.

Terra will share research that supports how developing and maintaining creative
practices can yield a wealth of benefits, from personal enrichment to community
engagement: and how the pursuit of perfection can diminish those returns.

Participants will learn first-hand about artmaking experiences that are relaxing,
enjoyable, and contribute to their well-being. As part of this session, participants
will be guided through an easy, low-risk creative exercise to bring
awareness to the mental and physical experience of making art.

Lunch on your own

1:00pm – 4:00pm
Sketch-Booking & Sketch-Noting Workshop

This workshop will be led by Connie Pepper, IWS South Central Regional
Director. She has won numerous local, regional, and statewide awards. Her
work is currently being shown in galleries across Idaho.

Sketch-booking: learn to use a daily sketchbook to experiment and practice
painting, drawing, doodling, collage – indoors and outside.

Sketch-noting: Learn to take visual sketch-notes when in a workshop or
class. Also, discover ways to map travels and experiences in a sketchbook with
sketch-notes. Illustrate with sketch-notes while journaling.

A supply list will be sent to all who sign up for the workshop.

5:30pm – Social Gathering
Dinner on your own

Saturday, September 14
9:30am – 12:30pm

New & Creative Substrates for Watercolor

Laurie Johnson and Joni Frey, both Distinguished Merit members of IWS
will present options beyond paper.

They will be sharing ideas on different substrates to experiment with (paper, Yupo,
Masonite, canvas, illustration board, to name a few). Also, some examples of
each…particularly how you can use gesso to take the worry out of “ruining”
expensive paper with a botched painting.  If you have painted on a unique
substrate and would be interested in showing your process, please give Laurie a
call BEFORE the workshop and talk it over with her (208-215-1588).

Lunch on your own

2:00pm – 4:30pm
Feedback Forum

Your Regional Directors: Jennifer Von Bergen, Connie Pepper, Les Scott, Cali
Ward, and Exhibition Chairman, Scott Muscolo will take the lead and include
their own colorful commentary.

This informal critique will be a fun opportunity to share your work with IWS
members across the State and get valuable feedback. Plus, it is a great
opportunity to experience the creativity of your fellow artists.

5:30 – 6:45
Annual Banquet

7:00 – 8:15
Annual Meeting and Election of Officers

Since the board determined it is in the best interest of the organization to stagger
our officer terms, the only position on the ballot this year will be that of a new Vice
President.

Annual Meeting Agenda and Ballot will be sent out shortly.

Voting will be electronic, same as last year.

Annual Meeting Reservations Deadline – Friday September 6th

To sign up, click on the link at the end of this message, fill in and mail to:

Carol HasBrouck Browing
71 W Arnaz St.
Meridian, ID 83646

For questions contact Carol at:
hazzy1900@gmail.com

This contact information is also listed on the sign-up sheet in the link.

Click here for the sign-up sheet and carry along agenda.

Aug 04
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WFWS50 Call for Entry Opens Soon!

By WFWS

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 water media artists who are members of one of the WFWS Component Societies, including IWS.

Entry deadlines are early this year! Entry opens 8/26/2024 and closes 10/11/2024. West Texas will be using CAFE.

Click on the link below to view the prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully as some items are different for WFWS50. Also, 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.

The WFWS50 Call and Prospectus:

https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13773

Call For Entry Help for Artists | CaFÉ – CallForEntry.org

https://www.callforentry.org/artist-help-cafe/

Shelly Johnson

IWS WFWS Delegate

shellyejohnson@yahoo.com

208 922-7566

Jul 17
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Attention: Chris Stubbs Workshop Attendees

By Annual Workshop, Workshops

Hello IWS Membership—specifically those who attended the Chris Stubbs workshop at the Riverside Hotel in June:

I gave several of you hot-pressed and cold-pressed pages from two blocks of watercolor paper generously donated to us by Michael Marchetta of Jerry’s Artarama.

I asked that those of you to whom I gave the paper relate back to me how you rate the quality of the paper.

If you have used the paper, I’d appreciate hearing how you liked it so I can report back to Michael.  If you have not yet used it, no worries, but when you do I’d like to hear about it.

Our responses to Michael and Jerry’s Artarama will influence his/their interest in working with our society positively, and his generosity deserves our attention.

Thanks very much, that’s all for now!

Be well and keep those brushes damp,

Scott

Scott Muscolo, 2024 IWS Annual Juried Exhibition Chair

805-795-0252

Jun 27
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2024 Annual Juried Membership Exhibition Special Announcement

By Annual IWS Location, Annual Juried Exhibition

Greetings IWS members:

First, I want to thank all of you who contributed in any way to our 2024 Annual Juried Membership Exhibition.  It was a tremendous success and showcased the depth of talent embodied by our organization.

There are so many people to thank, but I’d like to particularly thank:

  • Carol HasBrouck Browning, whose seemingly endless store of energy and drive contributed so much to the show’s success,
  • Chris Stubbs our Juror, who did yeoman’s duty in jurying a field of excellent work and held a very successful, well-attended, and much-appreciated workshop,
  • Cynthia Bowman, who endured my relentless micromanagement and produced the finest catalog we’ve ever had as a watercolor society (I mailed the catalogs to the each of you yesterday and today),
  • Sandra Davis, Art and Special Events Director from the Riverside Water’s Edge Gallery, who beautifully curated the works and worked diligently to support us and professionally display the paintings throughout the hotel,
  • and to my wife Shaun who secured a record number of awards from our donor base and tirelessly nudged them until they contributed to our cause.

The most important Thank You is to you, the membership, for the avalanche of spectacular works that filled the hallways of the Riverside Hotel in Boise.

We had a total of 92 paintings gracing the walkways of the hotel, with 28 excellent works not juried as part of the exhibit proper.

At least 5 paintings sold from the Water’s Edge Gallery.  Congratulations to Ying Peng, Hugh Mossman, Marina Zavalova, Thomas Fennell (Tom sold two), and I am probably missing one and I apologize if I have.  Even 5 is unprecedented in a single show at the first venue.

All of the award winners should by now have received their packages.

As a final reminder, the pick-up date for paintings not in the travel show is Monday, July 1 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.  For those of you who shipped paintings and have not arranged for individual pick-up, I will be re-boxing your paintings in their original packaging and returning to you as quickly as I can.  I will email you the receipt for the shipping, for which you can reimburse the IWS c/o Dennis Hayzlett, Treasurer, at the address in your membership directory.

The travel show will be crated that day as well, and picked up for delivery to Twin Falls on Tuesday July 2.  From there the travel show will go to Idaho Falls, Pocatello, and back to me for distribution back to the artists in early November.

We are lucky to have Lewiston back in our lineup for the travel show in 2025.  We are visiting them in the first week of August to see the venue and meet with the staff there.  It is good to be bringing the travel show back to the northern reaches of our membership.

Here’s looking forward to a great exhibition in 2025, and even with our unequaled success in 2024 I hope it to be even better!

My sincerest thanks to all of you,

Scott

Scott Muscolo, 2024 IWS Annual Juried Exhibition Chair

805-795-0252

Jun 22
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Kuna Arts and History Center’s Call to Artists

By Events, Exhibits

Dear Idaho Watercolor Society members, the following call to artists was received from the City of Kuna Arts & History Center Curator. A link to the Call to Artists Packet Application is at the bottom of the announcement.

 

Hello,
My name is Leah Torres, I am the Curator for the Kuna Arts and History Center. The Center opened on March 13th of this year and is home to new art and historical exhibits every quarter, an art gallery, and a media room with books and documents available for research. We want this space to be a bastion of arts and history in Kuna, and so I wanted to reach out because we recently released a Call to Artists for exhibitions! There are opportunities for solo, organization, or group shows at the Center and I am looking to disseminate the information packet and application in case some members or your organization would be interested in submitting work. I have attached the information packet and application in this email for convenience. We are accepting applications and all supplementary materials via email, mail, or in person to the City of Kuna Clerk’s office and/or the Kuna Arts and History Center. To be considered for our next quarterly exhibit opening August 21st, submissions would need to be in by July 25th at 5:00PM, but submissions will still be accepted on an ongoing basis for later shows afterwards.
I am just looking to reach out and start a relationship with artists and artist organizations so that the community can get involved and experience the arts, as well as offer an opportunity to artists to display their artwork. If this is something the Idaho Watercolor Society or its members are interested in, please let me know! Thank you so much for your time.
I look forward to hearing from you,

Leah Torres

Kuna Arts & History Center Curator

City of Kuna Clerk’s Office

(208) 387-7726

LTorres@kunaid.gov

http://www.kunacity.id.gov/

Call to Artists Packet Application