Traveling Exhibit Scheduler needed. If you have some free time and are able to help schedule the venues for our Traveling Exhibit, please contact Wendy. wendyoes at mindspring dot com
Challenge: So, what have you made from your most recent Bead Bazaar purchases? Don't let them sit in their original bag gathering dust (along with the purchases from years past. ;-) Bring in something you've made and show it off at the next meeting. (Or the November meeting if October is too soon) We'd love to see them! Heck, we'd even like to see something you've made from past Bead Bazaar purchases.
Demo: Christy Sherman - Flower Beads
Possibility of doing the Bead Fest in Middletown in May 2009
The challenge: view/discuss pieces created for the Bead Bazaar challenge
Tips and Techniques discussion
Show-n-Tell
Demos:
November - Jeanne Peters - Faux
December - No Demo, Annual Tag Sale & Pot Luck Lunch Scheduled
At each meeting we will be compiling Tips and Techniques. Bring your best ideas and suggestions
Diane is working out a group order for Miracle Beads. Details to follow.
Clay Day November 1 at St. Pauls Wallingford from 10am to (?) 10 pm
Weekend of Clay scheduled for March 7 & 8, 2009. Plenty of notice to plan your class submissions
To borrow any items from the Guild Library, please email your request to:
Cynthia Douglass
bldoug1950@yahoo.com
203-885-6206
The library list can be found in the Membership Brochure.
(Please note that you MUST sign out all books with Cynthia before taking them, even if they do not have a sign out card attached. Thank you)
Welcome to Micki Hubbard, a new member from Hamden
October - The Brookfield Library 182 Whisconier Road, Brookfield, CT
The Traveling Exhibit reflects who we are as artists and as a guild, with this in mind we are asking you to please contribute something new to display in the exhibit. You can donate the item for as long as you are willing to part with it. Our goal is to inspire and create interest in the medium we all love so well. Any contribution you can make will be greatly appreciated.
Cabin Fever Clay Fest February 22-26:
Registration for the 2nd annual Cabin Fever Clay Fest - Mardi Gras Mania to take place in Laurel, MD from 22-26 Feb. is now open! If you have an interest in enjoying some time away from home in the middle of winter - just spending time creating, using your imagination and making some new friends, this may be for you. Instructors include Tony Aquino, Jana Roberts Benzon, Christi Friesen, Victoria Hughes, Kim Korringa, Kathryn Jo Ottman, Lisa Pavelka, Julie Picarello, Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg, and Sarah Shriver.
Please keep in mind that we have limited space and it is on a first come-first registered basis. But, we want you there! Check out the workshop offerings at Polymer Clay Fests, fill out the form and get it in the mail as soon as you can! It's going to be a Mardi Gras Party!
To download the registration form, click on the link below:
http://polymerclayfests.wordpress.com/cfcf-2009-registration-mardi-gras-mania-now-open/
Open Studio Events:
City Wide Open Studios in New Haven will be 10/2 - 10/5 http://www.artspacenh.org/cwos/
Just one weekend, but with extended hours.
Artists' Open Studios of Northeast CT http://www.aosct.org/
Taking place 11/29 - 11/30 and 12/6 - 12/7 from 10-5pm each day
Greater Hartford Open Studio Weekend is 11/ 8-9 from 11-5pm http://www.open-studio.com/
(Avon has an Open Studio event in the Spring)
Guilford Arts Center is having a Tag Sale Sat 8/23 from 9-2pm and needs donations.
Drop off donations at GAC from noon to 4pm on 8/18 -22 or call 203-453-5947 http://www.handcraftcenter.org/
Brookfield Crafts Center is in financial distress and sent out an email requesting donations. www.brookfieldcraftcenter.org
Diane Villano has the following classes scheduled:
October 24, 9:30-11:30, Jo-Ann's Superstore in Hamden
"Spiderwebs and Ghosties Earrings", $20 plus materials
December 6, 9:30-11:30, Jo-Ann's Superstore in Hamden
"Gingerbread Pin", $20 plus materials
June 2009, Diane will be teaching for the seventh year at Bead & Button, the world's largest consumer bead show, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Maggie Maggio will be teaching a 5 day Smashing Color Workshop at North Country Studio Workshop to be held at Bennington College, Bennington VT Jan 28 - Feb 1 2009 Further details may be found at www.northcountrystudioworkshops.org
The Bead House Bristol, Rhode Island
401-253-1188 www.thebeadhouse.com
Lynne Schwarzenberg – October 18th & 19th – 8-1 leaves/tile pendants.
You can see the details of the workshops and the studio on the website – www.thebeadhouse.com/Guest.html
MINUTES FROM THE September 2008 MTG OF SCPCG
9/20/08
12 members and 1 guest in attendance
Demo - Gerry Pieper - Inks and Leaf with clay
Bead Bazaar bead return and post sale
Raffle Chain - Raffle item provided by Karen Tenny
Show 'n Tell
Taking part in a Spring bead bazaar in May
Discussion about a guest instructor coming for 2009
We will be creating a Flickr account for SCPCG. Link to be on our website.