Society of Watercolor Artists is beginning the new membership year with a pizza party/new member orientation/meet and greet! Normally we meet the 3rd Monday each month in the Everett Building at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Camp Bowie and Montgomery Streets. However, with Martin Luther King Day we have a conflict. Our meeting has been rescheduled for the second Monday, 14 January. The pizza party begins at 6pm followed by our regular meeting and demonstration by Michael D. Holter on "Portraits in Color" using Graham Watercolors. We ask attendees to bring something to share with the pizza---a side dish, dessert, pop/tea.

Meetings are held at the University of North Texas Health & Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie at Montgomery St., Fort Worth, 76107, Everett Hall-Research and Education Bldg., 1st Floor. Our website is www.swa-watercolor.com which has our January newsletter as well as information on our programs and upcoming exhibitions and workshops. We welcome new members and guests.
Darla Bostick, President Society of Watercolor Artists

Kaligrafos, the Dallas Calligraphy Society, meets monthly on the second Saturday at the First United Methodist Church. Come early at 9:30 for coffee and fellowship; 10-12 meeting and program. Their activities includes demonstrations, workshops, and exhibits. For more about the society, see their website at http://www.kaligrafos.com.

Schedule of demonstrations / meeting activities:

• January 12 - Tangled Letters with June Baty
• February 9 - Valentine Social & Card Exchange
• March 9 - Cadels with Randy Stewart
• April 13 - Folded Booklet with Jeri Wright
• May 11 - Carrie Imai "Carrioka" Letter Style with Thomas Burns

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Circular Weaving Workshop    with June Covington Saturday, January 12, 11-1pm | $35 Make a circular loom from repurposed cardboard and weave a colorful design using yarn, threads, wool and fabric scraps. Combine colors and textures. As time allows, we will experiment with weaving inside a circular form such as an embroidery hoop or metal ring.  Art kids, age 10+ are welcome. _________________________________

Color in Depth     with Rebecca Carter   14-weeks | Jan 23-May 1, 2013 Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm | $550 This course focuses on the subtleties of working with color through in-class exercises and a series of small gouache-on-Bristol board color studies. With readings by artists and theorists, students are also introduced to conceptual writings on color from art history and contemporary art.  Beginners are welcome.  _________________________________       2013 Kids Art Camps Early Registration Sale    Save 25% when you register before January 1, 2013. The clock is ticking. For ages 5 to teens. 9am-12pm &/or 1-4pm | $40 each. Save now on School's Out Camps: January 21 February 18 >>>March 11-15<<< Use discount code CAMP25.  _________________________________       Register online at www.oilandcotton.com

Free Basic Classes in drawing, watercolor, oil, altered art, calligraphy, and printmaking!

The Irving Art Association offers free basic art classes for adults to get you started in art or in a new medium.

Location: Jaycee Park Center for the Arts, Irving. Held on Thursday evenings from 7 – 9 pm. To register email register@irvingart.org about classes or use the online registration form. 

2013 schedule:

• Basic Oil Painting; Instructor Cristie Campo: Jan. 3, 10 & 24, 2013

  Supplies needed: Basic Oil Painting Supply List

• Basic Altered Art:; Instructor VET: Feb. 7, 14 & 28, 2013

• Basic Printmaking; Instructor Junanne Peck:  Mar. 7, 14 & 28 2013

  Supplies needed: Basic Printmaking Supply List

• Basic Calligraphy; Instructor Angie Vangalis:  Apr. 4, 11 & 25, 2013

• Basic Drawing; instructor VET: Sept. 5, 12, 26, 2013

• Basic Watercolor; instructor Mary Treadwell: Oct. 3, 10, 24, 2013

HardWare: National Ceramics Exhibit
May 24 – June 22, 2013
Deadline: March 22, 2013

Prospectus 

Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX, 78025 Mailing: PO Box 1169, Ingram, TX 78025 visualarts@hcaf.com

About the Juror: Juan Granados is an internationally recognized ceramic artist, having participated in well over 100 national and international group exhibitions and twenty-three solo exhibitions. His work has been widely published in more than 50 books and periodicals including: Art in America, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramica, Ceramic Arts, Perception and Ceramics Arts Monthly. Granados is currently Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Prizes will be awarded at discretion of the juror.

Sponsored by the African American Museum 

http://www.aamdallas.org/

Rising Up! Hale Woodruff's Murals from Talledega College

On Exhibition: October 6, 2012 - February 28, 2013

Last year more than 1,800 students took more than 500 classes and workshops at CAC in such areas as figurative and creative clay sculpture, ceramics, drawing, fused glass, jewelry, metal sculpture, mixed media, mosaic, painting, photography, printmaking and stone sculpture. Most of our instructors hold either a Bachelor or Master of Fine Arts and have exhibited on a national or international basis.

The Creative Arts Center of Dallas is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, located at  2360 Laughlin Drive, Dallas, Texas 75228 (Join mailing list) Excerpted from the November newsletter of the Creative Arts Center in Dallas:

CAC is gearing up for the new year and our latest brochure will be coming out mid-November detailing classes for Sessions 1 and 2. Some new instructors who will be adding a refreshing new outlook to some of CAC's classic classes include Cathy Drennan, co-owner of Cohn Drennan Contemporary on Dragon Street, who will be teaching the Painting Fundamentals class covering techniques, color and approaches to form and intent. In the Ceramics Department, Nathan Portnoy, MFA Candidate at the University of Dallas, will be instructing a class focusing on throwing ceramics on the wheel. Lastly, long time and much beloved CAC instructor Terri Thoman will be returning to CAC's Printmaking Department teaching Basic Printmaking.

In 2013, CAC is offering 50 workshops, including some covering new concepts! Sally Ackerman, aka KWitta, will be leading a Yarn Bombing 101 workshop in preparation for National Yarn Bombing Day in June, 2013. In addition, Sara Masetti will be teaching a workshop on DSLR Video Making to pave the way to video art. In the Photography Department, CAC will be bringing in Texas Photo Classes to lead several workshops on photography for professional artists covering concepts such as Photographing your Art and creating a Portfolio. Shannon Brunskill will offer a workshop in Pate de Verre and Rebecca Collins will present a Mixed Media Mosaic Monster workshop! Meanwhile, Dave Kramer will be leading both a Color Theory workshop and a Life Casting workshop. Lastly, CAC will be hosting Elder Jones who is travelling to Dallas solely to offer a Wet Carved Concrete Sculpting workshop with us! Be sure to check your mailboxes and the website before Thanksgiving for more information!

Registration for classes and workshops is now posted at http://www.creativeartscenter.org.

Classes: All classes are offered in two sessions. 

View Class Schedule & Register

Spring 2013 Schedule

Session 1 January 14 - March 3 (7 weeks)

Session 2 March 18 - May 5 (7 weeks)

Workshop Weeks

March 4 - March 17 (2 Weeks)

May 6 - May 19 (2 Weeks)

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DAFA's February 2013 Workshop: FUNNY BUNNIES taught by Traci Hutton

DATE: Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 12:30 – 5 p.m.
Location: Fitness Center Classroom at The Point

Workshop fee, payable to DAFA: $25 member; $30 non-member

To register, print the workshop registration form or register using Pay Pal at the bottom of the page. Contact Carolyn Skei for more information prgms@dallasfiberartists.org.

For more information about the workshop and the instructor: http://www.dallasfiberartists.org/programs/workshops/traci-hutton/

The purpose of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, Inc. (DAFA)is to:

• Promote and advance fiber art with the education of its members and the public through exhibitions, workshops, wearable art style shows, and educational activities.
• Promote mutual understanding and cooperation in artistic endeavor among fiber arts organizations.
• Promote mutual understanding and cooperation in artistic endeavor among Dallas area arts organizations.

DAFA meets the 4th Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at The Point, Center for Arts and Education on the campus of C.C. Young Retirement Community, 4829 Lawther West, in Dallas.

Bonham's Creative Arts Center is located at 200 West Fifth Street, Bonham, Texas 75418. For more information, see its websites:

http://www.creativeartscenter.us/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Arts-Center/176456939065463 

You can contact Executive Director Lisa Avila at 903.640.2196. lisaavila@cableone.net

Creative Arts Center Classes resume in January

Got an old toaster you'd like to part with? With an eye for recycling and repurposing found objects and materials, the Junk Sculpture Class will inspire and assist students in making anything they would like to make. Often times junk will suggest new uses by form or imagination. From the purely artistic, to decorative, to practical and useful items, students will be encouraged to make a creative object from junk. Cardboard, wood, metal, plastic….high tech and low tech and any combination in between. We will encourage a pseudo-post-apocalyptic approach to repurposing and creating. Flea markets, dumpsters, Mom's attic, woods, pastures and streams are a great place to find usable items. The Creative Arts Center will furnish basic materials for construction, such as hot glue, cold glue, nails, screws, bailing wire and tools for student use. Wine bottles, bird houses, winter wreaths, flower containers, hat racks, jewelry, fine art collage or just good old fashioned bizarre are just some of the things students might find fun to use in the Junk Sculpture Class! Time: Saturdays in January from 10 to noon. Call the Creative Arts Center and sign up today. The cost is $50.

The Bonham CAC has announced its exhibit line-up for 2013:

• January - all month, member art in the gallery, bring in your new pieces!
• February 1, Black History - then and NOW, opening 6-8 PM
• March 1, Ron Eckard, opening 6-8 PM
• April 12, Virginia Dehn, opening 6-8 PM
• May 10, New Artists Exhibit, (new members only),opening 6-8 PM
• June 7, Glass Exhibit/Red River Photo Club, opening 6-8 PM
• July 12, Textile Exhibit
• August 2, Sci-If/Fantasy/Anime Art, (open exhibit), opening 6-8 PM
• September 6, Judged Art Show, (open exhibit - fee)opening 6-8 PM
• October 4, Computer Generated Art, (open exhibit) opening 6-8 PM
• November 1, 3 D Exhibit, (open exhibit) opening 6-8 PM

Watch for impromptu Calls for Art when we have room in the gallery/library! Open exhibits (except the judged show) are free to CAC artists - all others subject to fee.

Watermedia Classes and Workshops
by Pat Kochan and Naomi Brotherton

Guest Workshops by
Maureen Brouillette and Ted Nuttall

Artisan's Studio-Gallery, Farmers Branch
2825 Valley View Lane #301, Dallas, Texas 75234 
http://artisansstudio.com/ E-mail: ArtisansD@aol.com 972 488-8182

www.artisansstudio.com

ARTISAN'S : 30 Year in business: Partners are Naomi Brotherton and Pat Kochan, who teach weekly classes and sponsor workshops by Nationally recognized artists. Artisan's plays an active part in the art community by donating a cash award each year to the SWS Annual Membership Exhibition and has been a meeting place for several groups monthly, such as: Board of Directors of the Southwestern Watercolor Society, Art Focus XC, and is a member of the Farmers Branch Chamber of Commerce.

The Richardson Civic Art Society presents our

2013 47th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition

Open to amateur and professional visual artists in Texas Show.

RCAS MEMBERS: $15.00 each piece, or three pieces for $35.00. Limit three (3) pieces total. All fees are non-refundable

NON MEMBERS:$20.00 each piece, or three (3) pieces for $47.00. Limit three (3) pieces total. All fees are non-refundable. Non members may join for 2013-2014 with a separate check for $35, note on check: “Dues for 2012-2013”, payable to RCAS and you will be eligible to pay the RCAS member entry fees.

Entries forms may be mailed to John Cheney or completed online at www.richardson-arts.org . Membership and entry fees can be paid with pay pal.

 Calendar:

• March 1 - Entry card, fees, and images due. (No late entries)
• April 1 - Notification
• April 15 - 22 Shipped entries due
• April 30 - 6 - 8:30 pm, hand deliver accepted entries at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Perfor- mance Drive, Richardson, TX 75082
• May 4 - 28 - Exhbit on display
• May 12 - 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Awards Reception at Eisemann Center
• May 29 - 4:00 – 7:00 pm, Pickup of hand delivered entries

Prospectus: http://www.richardson-arts.org/PDF/47th_Regional_Prospectus2013.pdf

Calling All Artists...

OXIDE will be seeing artwork for our February - March 2013 show at the end of January.

Artwork Open Call

January 25th & 26th

• OXIDE Art Show: February - March 2013              <VIEW DETAILS>

**You must read our Full Details, Parameters and Restrictions before submitting artwork.