IWS is Zooming – Analysis and Discussion
Wednesday, August 21, 7-9 pm
Entries to Nadine “Hergy” Hergenrider nhergenrider1@
…Please send entries no later than 5pm on Zoom day, August 21.
Tech questions? Ask Jane Shimon [email protected]
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.
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:
[email protected]
This contact information is also listed on the sign-up sheet in the link.
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.
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.
Call For Entry Help for Artists | CaFÉ – CallForEntry.org
https://www.callforentry.org/
Shelly Johnson
IWS WFWS Delegate
208 922-7566
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
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:
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
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.
Leah Torres
Kuna Arts & History Center Curator
City of Kuna Clerk’s Office
(208) 387-7726
Hello all:
All IWS members who have paintings hanging in the Riverside Hotel Water’s Edge Gallery (NOT part of the travel show) please come to the Sapphire Room entrance on Monday, July 1, and meet in the Emerald Room for your painting pick-up between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM.
There will be several of us there to sign your painting out.
Shipped paintings will be repackaged in the original packing materials, put in the original shipping box, and returned to you via UPS. We have a “customer center” here in Boise which is less expensive than the UPS stores with which you may be familiar.
Scott will ship your painting to you and will email you the receipt. Please send your check for the shipping to Dennis Hayzlett at:
IWS c/o Dennis Hayzlett
2044 E Lamar Ct.
Boise, ID 83712
Please let Scott know if you plan to have someone from your region pick up your painting for hand delivery.
For those of you whose painting will be part of the travel show, they will return to Scott sometime in early November. If you are not local, he will re-package your work and ship it as described above. Otherwise you’ll be notified by phone or email (or both) and we’ll arrange a time for you to pick up your painting from:
3640 N Pankratz Way
Meridian, ID 83646
Thanks very much!
Scott Muscolo, 2024 IWS Annual Juried Exhibition Chair
805-795-0252
Reminder . . . IWS is Zooming – Analysis and Discussion
Wednesday, June 19, 7-9 pm
Entries to Nadine “Hergy” Hergenrider nhergenrider1@
…Please send entries no later than 5pm on Zoom day, June 19.
Tech questions? Ask Jane Shimon [email protected]
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.
IWS is Zooming – Analysis and Discussion
Wednesday, June 19, 7-9 pm
Entries to Nadine “Hergy” Hergenrider nhergenrider1@
…Please send entries no later than 5pm on Zoom day, June 19.
Tech questions? Ask Jane Shimon [email protected]
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.
The new IWS Waterworks Summer Edition newsletter for 2024 is now available. Click here to read the newsletter.
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