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This is the web site for the Senior Artists Alliance and our art. It provides current information to our membership of 100+ senior artists. Our members reside primarily in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. We have general meetings for the membership and guests, usually monthly, where a local artist, college professor, or member gives a presentation. Future scheduled meetings are described below; for past meetings click the navigation bar tab above. Please join us as our guest.
CALENDAR OF SAA and other SCHEDULED EVENTS
February 11, 2012
http://www.chabrieres.net/
February 17, 2012
The annual Call to Montgomery County
Artists is underway, deadline February 17. Detailed information is available at www.creativemoco.com/opportunities. This Call is used to select artists to exhibit in
the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery in the Silver Spring Civic Building in
downtown Silver Spring and the Terrace Gallery at the BlackRock Center
for the Arts in Germantown. Artists must be residents of Montgomery
County, MD. Artists selected will participate in shows from July
2012-May 2013.
See the Exhibits page for details.
Fall 2012
SAA Artists please note:
Calling professional artists age 62+
ART CART: SAVING
THE LEGACY will select professional visual artists from the Washington,
DC and NYC Metro areas for a 9-month project (September 2012-May
2013).
More information about scheduled exhibits is on the EXHIBITS page when available. Use the Blue Tab at the top of this page or click here. |
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 | FOR SALE OVER 90 WORKS OF ART FROM OUR 2010 EXHIBIT AT PEPCO'S EDISON GALLERY ARE FOR SALE Click the picture.to see the art. Then, if you wish to talk to the artist, CLICK HERE. Fill in and email the name of the artist and artwork. Include your name, phone, and email address. The artist will contact you. |
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SAA was the 2008 winner of the First Annual Maryland Governor's Leadership in Aging visual arts group award. Thank you Governor O'Malley. Click for more information and pictures.
| RECENT EXHIBIT and MEETING PHOTOS |
January 14, 2012
The
January 14th 2:00 meeting of
the Senior
Artists Alliance at the Davis Library featured guest
speaker Jodi Walsh, an artist career consultant, who spoke about marketing artwork, sales and
exhibiting in the local Maryland, Virginia, and DC area.
The
Guest Speaker of the day was Jodi Walsh. She is an artist who
relocated to Washington, D.C. from Texas many years ago. Jodi’s talk
was very informative, useful and full of ideas about the actual business
of selling your art. The ideas were gleaned from her own program
called the 12 Step Program for Artists: The Art of Doing Business,
which is now available on DVD as well.
During
the talk, there was a lively question and answer session. Some of the
members from the 30+ people at the meeting put forth pertinent questions
and Jodi was more than happy to answer.
A few useful sites are:
A useful contact for all your photographic needs (highly recommended by Jodi) is Gregory Staley. His cell number is 301 706 3889 and his studio – 202 234 5310. A couple of other names mentioned were Colin Winterbottom and David Glick. Their websites are
November 12, 2011
At Davis Library, Zdeno Mayercak, Professor of Art at Montgomery College-Rockville Campus will be our speaker. zdeno.mayercak@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-4060, http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/artrockville. October 15, 2011 Jorge Luis Bernal, a painter, printmaker and mixed media artist, was our 2:00 guest.
His artwork is inspired by a variety of interests: the exhilaration of playing with color, texture and space; working and layering with encaustic paint and the fragmenting of architectural images. He is deeply touched by Rothko, Gottlieb, Motherwell and Kandinsky; as a trained architect he tends to follow an order system, a structure. He believes his allegories-collages provide a narrative and pays homage to them. He showed slides and told about his encaustic work. A member of Rockville Art League, he won best in show at the last RAL show at Glenview.
September 17Donna Baron did a demo for the SAA meeting on September 17.
She showed the members how to simplify the painting process by concentrating on values and large shapes. She used acrylic paints but the same principles apply to oils.The first part of the meeting was for SAA business. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to
the presentation by Donna Baron on simplifying landscape painting. Donna teaches classes on
traditional acrylic painting and simplifying the painting process at Plaza Art. She currently works with acrylics because of their fast-drying property. She displayed the interesting
talent of painting sideways which delighted onlookers.She narrated the process as she blocked
in and developed the shapes within her painting, answering questions as she worked.
June 18 General Meeting at the Davis Library, 2:00, 6400 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda. Michaele Harrington critiqued the two and three-dimensional artwork of over 20 SAA members. | | |
May 2011, Tamah Graber, glass artist. click.
June 12, 2010, Eileen Martin, Martin Glass Creations, click . May 8, 2010, SAA member John Barnes on "Photographing Your Artwork" click April 10, 2010, Associate Professor of Art, Michael Sellmeyer click March 13, 2010, Julian Manelli presented the "art of framing art" to 25 members click and Click to read Mr. Manelli's article on GLASS that he prepared for SAA. In January 2010 and June 2011, Michaele Harrington was our guest, www.michaeleharrington.com. From November 2009 - www.ncbenterprises.com, is the site of Nannette Blinchikoff. From May 2009, www.samnoto.com. |
MEMBER ACTIVITIES What's Happening .. and happened?? |
From Lois Levitan...
Just found out that my large sculpture,
titled "Unbridled Optimism" in on the internet! If you google....dryvit
sculpture and select images the photo of the sculpture is on the first
row. I clicked on it and was happy to see such a nice write-up about
it, even mentioning that it is currently on display at Montgomery
College in Rockville. |
Marty Slater was awarded "honorable mention" in the Annual Open Juried Art Exhibition at the Montpelier Arts Center
which is open from December 4-28. [9652 Muirkirk Rd. Laurel MD 20708/ 301-377-7800 or 410-792-0664]
He will have a drawing in the 15th Annual National Juried Show at Gallery West which will be open Feb 8-March 4.
[1213 King Street, Alexandria VA 22314(703-549-6006 www.gallery-west.com)
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Maurice Margulies exhibited at
KENTLANDS MANSION
320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
DECEMBER 9, 2011 to JANUARY
16, 2012 |
Millie Shott chose the following prizewinners in the Friendship Heights Gallery show:
First Prize - Mary Ellen Gordon - "Riot at Centennial Lake"
Second Prize - William Peirce - Large Mixed Woods Vessel
Third Prize - Lieta Gerson "Syncopated Rhythm"
Merit Award - Lila Oliver Asher 'Basin Street Blues"
Merit Award - Meryl Silver "Winter Sunrise"
The winners have been notified and prizes will be awarded on Dec.18 at the opening.
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From Irma Spencer... The
Rockville Park, home of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre and the
Glenview Mansion, has 6 sculptures on its grounds. Irma's painted yellow
round piece, "Happy Daze" is on the grass facing the entrance road. To
go there, take Wootton Parkway across RV Pike, turn right at light on
Baltimore Ave, and left on Edmonston to the entrance. |
Lois Levitan just won first place in the Sculpture Category for her sculpture
titled: "In Perpetuity" at the Rockville Art League 2011 Members
Show being held at Glenviiew Mansion in Rockville until Jan.3, 2012
It measures 31"h x 10"w x 9" and has a dry pigment & wax finish.
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| LINKS TO MEMBER SITES AND OTHER SITES OF INTEREST |
state, local, member links ... |
| OTHER STUFF - SLIDESHOWS, VIDEOS |
| Enjoy a slideshow of artwork by some of our members |
members slide show 01
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The weather for the next few days...
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