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Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild, Inc.
Not-A-Newsletter for July 20, 2002

Message Board
http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/n/55120/

 

===== Suggested agenda for July 20th Meeting

+Possible Demo
+Post Retreat Melt-down
+BOH Challenge Winners
+Pricing your work....bring some sample beads.
+Announcements
+Raffle chain item is a matted clay relief etching (print) "Heart Whirl" by Sharon Mihalyak. (Winner will donate the next item for Aug raffle.)
+ Show-and-Tell/Show-and-Help/Show-and-Brag

+++Looking Ahead:
August - Bead Bazaar in September!...bring your beads to meeting (or arrange with Diane Villano) for SCPCGuild Table

 

===== Congratulations to our members!

+++ Jody Bishel and Leigh Ross have their work in the latest polymer clay title by North Lights Books, "Creative Stamping with Polymer Clay" by Barbara McQuire. The publisher has donated two copies, one for our retreat raffle and one for our guild's library.
+++Diane Villano won Second Place in the Polymer Clay Category for "Big Bead - Turquoise," at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee on June 6. All the winners will be published in the October issue of Bead & Button magazine.
http://www.beadandbuttonshow.com/bnbshow/html/bnbshow/competition/competition.asp

==== Clay Connection 2002 - July 12,13,14
Absolutely Wonderful
Save your pennies for 2004!!!


==== Exhibits and Shows

---- September 14, The Connecticut Bead Society's annual Bead Bazaar, North Haven Holiday Inn
---- November 17 - December 22, 2002 Crafts USA 2002, 4th National Juried Craft Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840, (203) 966-9700.

=====Classes, Workshops, Retreats

~~~~Aug 10th: 10-4, Sat., Diane Villano, "Millefiore Technique in Polymer Clay" at Guilford Handcraft Center

----- Aug 10-11 Laura Balombini, Woven Wire for Polymer & Mixed Media, Blue Hill, Maine. laura@lbalombini.com {1}
-----Aug 17 Laura Balombini, From the Beginning, Blue Hill, Maine. laura@lbalombini.com {1}

 

==== Guild Volunteers needed
---Promotion Coordinator - someone to help get the word out about the guild and our programs

 

==== Calls for Entries

November 17-December 22, 2002, entry fee $25, up to 3 works, 2 slides each.
For prospectus, (203) 966-9700, ext 26, or http://www.silvermineart.org/.

 

=====Traveling Exhibit Schedule:

AUGUST -Milford Library, 57 New Haven Ave
SEPTEMBER -Hamden, Miller Memorial Library
OCTOBER -Cheshire, 104 Main St

 

===== Reminders
----Raffle-chain drawings will be held Jan, Mar, May, Aug, Oct. If you win the raffle, you also provide the item for the next raffle. Mary Guthrie won raffle item for May, made by Sharon Mihalyak. Congratulations Mary! Mary will be donating item for August raffle.

---- Bead Bazaar - September! Beads to DianeV. by August

 

====Minutes from June Meeting

15 people attended
Demo by Laura Orlomoski

(expanded minutes will be in next NaN)

 

Respectfully submitted,

Debbie Goodrow
NaN Editor, Vice President, Promotions Co-Coordinator, Clean-up Co-Coordinator, Hospitality Co-Coordinator, and Official Guild Clown;

 deb_twinkle@yahoo.com

====Member Links

++Lynne Schwarzenberg
River Poet@aol.com
http://www.wtcpins.com/

++Barbara McKie
mckieart@earthlink.net (Barbara McKie)
http://www.mckieart.com/

++Libby Mills
mills3456@cox.net
www.hobbystage.net/art/libbym

++Tricia Hamel
tjhamel@peoplepc.com
http://www.collagefh.com/

++Lucille Schacht
Lucille@cshore.com
Polymer Clay
http://lujs.tripod.com/my-polymer-clay.html
Egg Lessons
http://members.tripod.com/~LuJS/EggLessons-INDEX.HTML

++Marie Segal
Clay Factory of Escondodo Beach
http://www.clayfactoryinc.com/

++Leigh Ross
Polymer Clay Central
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/index.html


Links for art in New Haven and CT:
http://www.artscouncil-newhaven.org/
http://www.ctarts.org/