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Oct 04
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One More WFWS Reminder

By WFWS

WFWS50 Entry Deadline is next Friday, October 11!

WFWS50 CAFE entry deadline is only one week away! As of October 1, only 165 artists have entered WFWS50 and only eight entries are from IWS.

Some reminders:

If accepted, your painting in the IWS Traveling Show will be back in time to ship to WFWS50.

Artwork previously entered in WFWS may be submitted again, as long as it did not get accepted into the prior exhibition. Different jurors have different criteria for judging artwork.

Minimum size is 100 square inches, or as small as 10” x 10”.

You do not have to deal with framing your painting, if accepted framing will be done by West Texas.

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.

Please call or email me with any questions.

Good luck!

Shelly Johnson

IWS WFWS Delegate

208 922-7566

[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
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 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

[email protected]

208 922-7566

Apr 21
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WFWS49 Award Winners

By Exhibits, WFWS

Please congratulate Gail Greco, who won the Gecko Award of Merit for her painting, “Yellowstone Winter”, and Jessica Bryant, who won the Saguaro Award of Merit for her painting, “Afternoon Calm at Yellow Dog”, at the 49th Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona. Please also congratulate Joyce Green, who received WFWS Signature status this year. All IWS members who entered WFWS49 should receive their catalog this week and accepted artists will also receive their Certificate of Acceptance with their catalog.

For a list of the entries see the WFWS49 ArtCall Exhibition page

Thanks,
Shelly Johnson
IWS WFWS Delegate

Dec 13
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Congratulations to IWS Artists Selected for WFWS49!

By WFWS

Congratulations to IWS Artists Selected for WFWS49!

The Arizona Watercolor Association has announced the artists and artworks chosen for inclusion in the 49th Annual WFWS Exhibition. Out of 875 entries, the juror had the difficult task of choosing only 80 paintings for the show. The juror chose nine IWS artists for inclusion in the exhibition. The nine IWS artists and their selected works are:

Linda Aman – The Space Between

Jessica Bryant – Afternoon Calm at Yellow Dog
Gail Greco – Yellowstone Winter
Joyce Green – Bristlecone Pine Grove
Karen Hickman – End of a Long Day
Rachel Lindquist – Winter Citrus, Lemons
Torgesen Murdock – Last Light
Ying Peng – A Western Passion

Cali Ward – Lone Rider

Please join me in congratulating these artists for their excellent work! My personal thank you to all of the 35 IWS members that entered, even if their work was not chosen. Note some emails from ArtCall did not go through and AWA is working on the issue.

Shelly Johnson

IWS WFWS Delegate
208 922-7566