Demo by Loreen Resler Scrap Clay Landscape Collage
Membership Brochures to be distributed
Please bring in your creations from the Clay Weekend for Show-n-Tell
We had such a great time! Each class could have been a whole day.
Thank you, to the teachers, Great Job! - Sharon
Raffle-chain Raffle - item to be donated by Lynne
There are currently 5 spaces left in the class with Grant Diffendaffer April 9-10
Totally Textured Beads
Learn to make fabulous organic textures that wrap seamlessly around beads and leave little evidence of the method of their creation. In this class, the student will learn techniques for creating texture molds with polymer clay and simple common tools that are probably lying within your reach as you read this. You will learn to transfer this texture to cylindrical, spherical, and disc shaped beads leaving nary a fingerprint, and without distorting the form of the bead.
What's more, you will learn to turn raw polymer clay on a lathe. This is like a cross between turning wood and throwing ceramic clay on a wheel. Not only can you create ribbons, bands, and sensuous curves, but you can also fold the clay over and create partially enclosed, or hollowed out spaces. Lathe turning can be done with a simple electric drill. It opens new frontiers in forming, patterning, and finishing polymer clay.
We will explore the possibilities opened up by multi-stage curing. We will delve into color and pattern within the clay as well as surface treatments. Lastly, we will cover finishing by sanding and buffing. You thought sanding and buffing was laborious? With a lathe, all you do is hold the sandpaper and the beads sand themselves. Students will leave this class with finished beads, beads in progress, and more ideas than they know what to do with.
Are there any demos you'd like to give or see? Please let Sharon know.
Membership is Jan. to Jan and dues of $15 are now due along with the request for 3 beads for the 2005 Beadstrand
Welcome to new members Susan Krentzberg from Poughkeepsie, NY;
James Richards from Bristol; and Marilyn Malcarne from Deep River.
If you are teaching a class anywhere, please email Lynne (riverpoet@adelphia.net) so it can be included in the newsletter!
March Lyme Library
Tricia Hamel will be setting up future locations for the exhibit soon.
If you know a Library or other location (with locking cases) to exhibit our display, please let her know.
MINUTES FROM THE FEB 2005 MTG OF SCPCG
2/19/05
Meeting called to order at 11:11 am
Demo by Christy on Mini Kaleidoscope Kits,
16 members in attendance, 1 guest?
Weekend of Clay Classes – March 12-13, St Paul’s Church Wallingford
Sat: PMC Charms 10-1 am
Phew It’s Faux – 2-5 pm
Sun: MG & Beyond 10 –1 am
Molded Kaleidoscopes 2-5 pm
$10 per class, members only. Please give Sharon your check today. Materials fees are payable to the instructor
Grant Diffendaffer class – April 9-10 Hotchkiss Firehouse, Derby
$140 members. Marie needs help organizing & promoting the class. Christy volunteered to help.
Options for a fall workshop were discussed. We decided to contact a young artist who Libby met at the Kathleen Dustin workshop. Her name is Marie Davis and she specializes in complex pictorial canes. Libby will follow up.
The Bushnell is having a fundraiser for their arts education program “Partners”. The guild will be donating a box of Christmas ornaments. Please bring your Christmas ornaments to the March meeting or send them to Libby.
Diane will be teaching in Seattle in March and in North Haven in April.
Diane will be going to Shrinemont. A face-to-face meeting of the National Guild Board will be held during the retreat.
Lynne will be teaching in NYC in September, Rochester some time in the late spring and ClayQuest in Georgia in November.
Guild Wish Lists should be turned into Sharon ASAP. Please let us know what direction you’d like the guild to go in the future.
Christy has done an amazing job updating the guild website. If you haven’t visited the website lately, check it out at www.scpcg.org
Tricia has volunteered to help coordinate the Traveling exhibit. Contact Tricia if you have any libraries in mind that would like to host the exhibit and possibly a BOH workshop. The exhibit is currently booked through the end of March.
BOH - Tricia has a workshop scheduled on Feb 27 in Deep River and Tracy will be teaching a BOH workshop on March 1st.
BOH News – The AP story continues to generate contacts. Lots of individual requests for bottles. Updates to the website are coming. Tracy read several moving thank yous from recipients. A recent article in “The Sun” was passed around for everyone to read.
Jody’s working at a gallery in Seymour “Zoe & Floyd” Stop by & see her.
2004 Bead Strand Raffle held today. This raffle will be held according to the new policy. Anyone who donated beads to the strand gets one ticket. This will give everyone an equal chance and hopefully encourage more people to participate. Libby won the strand.
Reminder: Lynne is accepting beads for the 2005 Bead Strand.
*Show & Tell followed
Meeting adjourned at 2:25 pm.
Respectfully submitted by Libby Mills, Secretary SCPCG
Respectfully submitted,
Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg
Vice President, Newsletter Lady, Bead Strand Coordinator,
Bead Bazaar Maven, General Poly-Maniac
riverpoet@adelphia.net