Founded 1943

Heralding the Holidays a great success

The event was held December 2, 3 and 4; our building was beautifully decorated, with laser lights illuminating the outside and a Holiday theme throughout. There was a steady stream of visitors all weekend; 735 people came to the club, and sales were brisk. Net income was $4,500, mostly from sale of merchandise, and then table rent from the vendors. All but one of the items in the silent auction sold.

We are especially grateful to Linda Miller and Joe Fisher for serving as cashiers, and to the many volunteers who donated items for sale, set up the club, and assisted during the event.

Opportunities for Artists

The Birth of Pastels

 "From a curatorial standpoint, pastels occupy an ambivalent position. Perched between line and color, between the intimate touch of the artist and the ambition of the exhibition piece, pastels really aren’t either/or but both/and. On one hand, many works in pastel—sumptuous eighteenth-century portraits, for example, or Degas’s richly elaborated scenes of dancers—were plainly conceived as paintings, meant to rival contemporary oils in their variety of color and touch, their high degree of finish, and even their scale." Emily Beeny, Associate Curator of Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum. You can read the rest of Ms. Beeny's post  here.