“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” Marc Chagall KLEIN’S KORNER APRIL 2014 With spring comes new growth, so I thought this would be a good me to talk about new growth as it relates to your co-op and gallery. The net worth has grown tremen- dously—sales are up and expenses are down, our juried shows keep geng bigger and beer, and membership has increased as has the number of gal- lery exhibitors. With the exisng income producing pro- grams, (Mothers’ Day and the Hub Cap promoon) and those programs soon to be (Art Train), our scholarship and grant programs will be comfortably funded into the near future. Seeds have been planted, and with your help, 2014 should go down as a bumper crop year for growth. ED KLEIN, President JUDI MOREO April Featured Artist Come to the gallery during April and enjoy Judy’s newest collecon of watercolor and acrylic painngs. Judi has created a collecon of painngs which she calls her “Exploraon of Life.” Aſter only 3 years of train- ing with Ed Klein at City Lights, her painngs appear in private collecons in the US, Canada, and Africa. Most of her painngs have been reproduced into greeng cards. This year she studied acrylic painng with ac- claimed wildlife arst, Jeff Tiſt. Painngs of both medi- ums will be displayed. For more informaon, call City Lights Arsts’ Co-op Gallery at (702) 260-0300. BrushStrokes Promong art and art educaon in the community. City Lights Art Gallery BrushStrokes BrushStrokes is the new name for our City Lights news- leer. Whether you are painng in Oil, Acrylics, Water- color, glazing your ceramics, creang a mul-media art piece, or brushing your hair, you are using brush strokes! Starng in April, look for BrushStrokes online and in your email. It is published following the Board Meeng which is usually the second Tuesday of the month. The deadline for submissions will be the Wed. aſter the Board meets. Thank you for parcipang in naming our newsleer. April 26-- City Lights Celebrates! Please bring your friends and family to enjoy our fresh 2nd Quarter exhibit, and the Henderson Heritage Day Parade! With a new crowd of parade spectators and our new Gallery signs poinng to us, we expect brisk pedes- trian traffic at the Gallery. You get free prime display space for the day! (Small commission for sales.) We need Volunteers to help set up tents and demo skills. This is another opportunity to show off our refurbished gallery. Media and other key contacts will be invited. RSVP for your space today! With the help of Carol Bilodeau, we'll be updang our Facebook presence. We're looking for even more advice and counsel about how to make our online presence more vibrant and more relevant. If you have skills, please let someone on the Markeng Team know. SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE Visitors from W. Flamingo Senior Center enjoyed a wa- tercolor demo by Ed Klein.
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“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” Marc Chagall
KLEIN’S KORNER
APRIL 2014
With spring comes new growth, so I thought this would be a good time to talk about new growth as it relates to your co-op and gallery. The net worth has grown tremen-dously—sales are up and expenses are
down, our juried shows keep getting bigger and better, and membership has increased as has the number of gal-lery exhibitors. With the existing income producing pro-grams, (Mothers’ Day and the Hub Cap promotion) and those programs soon to be (Art Train), our scholarship and grant programs will be comfortably funded into the near future. Seeds have been planted, and with your help, 2014 should go down as a bumper crop year for growth.
ED KLEIN, President
JUDI MOREO
April Featured Artist
Come to the gallery during April and enjoy Judy’s newest collection of watercolor and acrylic paintings. Judi has created a collection of paintings which she calls her “Exploration of Life.” After only 3 years of train-ing with Ed Klein at City Lights, her paintings appear in private collections in the US, Canada, and Africa. Most of her paintings have been reproduced into greeting cards. This year she studied acrylic painting with ac-claimed wildlife artist, Jeff Tift. Paintings of both medi-ums will be displayed. For more information, call City Lights Artists’ Co-op Gallery at (702) 260-0300.
BrushStrokes
Promoting art and art education in the community.
City Lights Art Gallery
BrushStrokes BrushStrokes is the new name for our City Lights news-letter. Whether you are painting in Oil, Acrylics, Water-color, glazing your ceramics, creating a multi-media art piece, or brushing your hair, you are using brush strokes! Starting in April, look for BrushStrokes online and in your email. It is published following the Board Meeting which is usually the second Tuesday of the month. The deadline for submissions will be the Wed. after the Board meets. Thank you for participating in naming our newsletter.
April 26-- City Lights Celebrates!
Please bring your friends and family to enjoy our fresh 2nd Quarter exhibit, and the Henderson Heritage Day Parade! With a new crowd of parade spectators and our new Gallery signs pointing to us, we expect brisk pedes-trian traffic at the Gallery. You get free prime display space for the day! (Small commission for sales.) We need Volunteers to help set up tents and demo skills. This is another opportunity to show off our refurbished gallery. Media and other key contacts will be invited.
RSVP for your space today!
With the help of Carol Bilodeau, we'll be updating our Facebook presence. We're looking for even more advice and counsel about how to make our online presence more vibrant and more relevant. If you have skills, please let someone on the Marketing Team know.
SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE
Visitors from W. Flamingo Senior Center enjoyed a wa-tercolor demo by Ed Klein.
Mother's Day weekend, May 10-11, will be busy at the Gallery. We plan to set up 4 tents on Army St. (closed to auto traffic) for demos and displays. Sign up TODAY to RSVP to show your art! Once again, our new signs, festival announcers, artist demos and more should lure a nice group of potential buyers into the gallery. Please volunteer your talents! The 14 spaces in the convention center for that event have been spoken for, and booths will be as-signed by lottery. If you missed this opportunity, sign up to show your work on Army St. outside the Gallery.
Henderson Art Festival on Army St!
MEET ANNE CARTER
Anne Carter has been taking photographs her whole life, and this hobby became serious when she retired in 1995. She is mostly self-taught by studying how-to books, magazine articles and tak-ing workshops. As a kid, she decided drawing, and painting weren’t for her, saying, “I couldn’t even stay in the lines in coloring books and never liked art classes in school. I’m a photographer.” Anne received her first Brownie Hawkeye cam-era when she was about 12 years old. Later, she grew into Canon 35mm cameras and eventually to digital equipment. Anne said, “in addition to in-stant gratification, I like having complete control over my work, from shutter release to the final print.” She grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, but spent most of her adult life in NY City. In 1997, she moved to Las Vegas. It’s closer to travel to the plac-es where she finds her favorite subjects: land-scapes, particularly old barns, a covered bridge, or a mill or lighthouse scene. She also likes to photo-graph flowers and Native American rock art. Anne explained, “For me it’s all about the light. I may stand in one place for a while waiting for the light to shift before taking a photo. This re-quires much patience. Then again, I can be driv-ing aimlessly and suddenly see beautiful rays of light hitting the weathered shingles of an old barn. I may just have time to stop the car, jump out and take a single shot before the magic disappears. An-sel Adams once said, ‘Sometimes I get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.’ Sometimes I am lucky enough to be that person.” Anne is currently exhibiting at City Lights and in Boulder City Art Guild Gallery where she is a mem-ber. Her work has been in other Las Vegas galleries since 2001, as well as in New Jersey and Arizona. Anne is our secretary/membership director, and a member of the Nevada Camera Club, Nevada Rock Art Fdn, the American Rock Art Research Assn (ARARA), and the Utah Rock Art Research Assn (URARA). She received the Oliver Award for pho-tography from ARARA and was named Photogra-pher of the Year by the Nevada Camera Club. If you’ve not seen Anne’s work, go to www.annecarterphoto.com for some eye candy!
COMING EVENTS
Farmers Market on April 17: We will have a
tent, table and a few grids set up. Ed Klein, Delia Price and Brian Rossi volunteered to hand out brochures, an-swer questions and give out raffle tickets for one of Aileen Dike’s paintings. Recipients must go to the gal-lery to deposit their ticket. City Lights is making its pres-ence known at Henderson City sponsored events.
moving to Las Vegas to be close to my favorite subjects
COLORED PENCIL CLASS
Anna Hammer’s First Colored Pencil Class had 6 stu-dents attend on short notice. All enjoyed the class, learned how to use colored pencils, type of paper that works best, the importance of a sharp point, how to layer and blend colors, and how much patience it takes to use this medium. The fun assignment was to color a pink or blue cupcake! Several expressed an interest in drawing portraits. Anna is willing to teach groups on an “as requested” basis. If you are interested, please con-tact City Lights Gallery at (702) 260-0300.
SCHOOL NEEDS COPY MACHINE
C.T. Sewell Elementary School is looking for a donation of a used copy machine. Their copiers are old and too expensive to repair. Contact Holli Ratliff, Asst. Principal, 702-799-8940 Ext. 4201 to donate or assist
HENDERSON ARTS AND TOURISM
The Marketing Team is working successfully with the City Arts and Tourism staff to support each other’s events and communication needs. Watch for more ac-tivities in the near future!
PRESIDENT Ed Klein VICE PRESIDENT Tommy Tucker TREASURER Chris Mazglad SECRETARY Anne Carter GALLERY DIRECTOR Lee Moses
ASSISTANT GALLERY DIRECTORS Barbara Usey
George Markiewicz
COMMITTEES Communications Delia Price Shows Ed Klein Web Site Jim Longwell Membership Anne Carter Scholarships Susan Labuda
MEMBERS AT LARGE Al Matwiejow Jan Schaeffer
Andrew Maioli Jim Champlin Bill Rodreick
Stephanie Rose Please contact members by email: [email protected]. Your questions or comments will be referred to the appropriate person for a timely answer.
Trisha Adams will hold a workshop on Fri—Sun Aug. 8-10, at the Studio of Sharon Menary in Las Vegas. It will include lecture, demos, exercises, painting time, instruction and group critique. Visit www.trishadams.com to learn about Trish and register with Sharon (702) 463-2454 or email [email protected].
Much to our surprise, the Coffee House owner we had talked with, and who had agreed to let us hang our art there, suddenly sold the busi-ness as of May 1! Your art is safe. We will be talking with the new own-ers and making appropriate arrange-ments.
THE COFFEE HOUSE
OIL PAINTS WORKSHOP
FIRST THURSDAY at the Boulder City Art Guild & Gallery provides an op-portunity to present your artwork. Tommy Tucker, MFA, painter, sign writer and muralist exhibited on 4/3.
EXHIBITS
Boulder City Art Festival
The Aileen Dike artwork will be dis-played and sold at the Boulder City Fine Arts Festival April 12-13. New member Brian Rossi will help transport it. Tommy Tucker and Ed’s daughter will sit the booth.
Visit City Hall
City Lights members have art work on display at the City Hall through the end of June. Stop by and take a look. Let the City know how much you appreciate letting us participate in their art displays. This is another opportunity to show your work. Con-tact the Gallery for information.
The Gallery Financials are looking good! Figures are above what they were last year.
In addition to our monthly drawing for a free print for those who sign our guest book, Anne Carter will also be mailing a thank you letter to each visitor and a schedule of events to encourage their return visit.
Susan Labuda and Chris Mazglad ap-plied for a Henderson Loves Art city grant to cover salaries and materials for 6 art teachers for student classes at the Gallery this summer. She has also sent a mini grant to an elemen-tary school and is in contact with the 46 art teachers in Henderson.
Sitter Schedules for the month are posted on the web site. Gallery Ex-hibitors, please check your schedule.
WHAT’S NEW
Gallery changeovers — Ed Klein will write a procedure to handle the quarterly changeovers, take-ins, and pick-ups for gallery shows. At least 2 people are needed.
Thanks to the City for applying new stucco over the wood along the back wall of the building! Lee Moses will head a Maintenance committee to make recommendations for repairs.
Tents & Grids—Lee Moses will es-tablish policy for rental of the tents and grids that belong to City Lights.
Art Train—Jim Longwell and Lee Mo-ses are determining the available display space and making a layout. Details are progressing. The Board is also researching the possibility of an Art Cruise/dinner on the boat at Lake Las Vegas.
Photo Album—Al Matwiejow has been capturing Gallery events and has compiled an album. Look at it on your next visit. He suggested we re-place the table and tablecloth where the album is displayed.
Greeting Card Sales—Jim Longwell would like to see sales of cards do-nated to the scholarship fund, be-cause recording sales is time con-suming and tedious. It was decided that this should be the artist’s deci-sion. The board discussed whether to mail card sale checks for $2.80 or hold funds until $10 is accumulated. This will be discussed with treasurer, Chris Mazglad.
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STUDENTS’ ART
APRIL 2014
Joyful Faces at Student Reception
The 2nd and 5th grade students of Ullis Newton Elementary School were ex-cited to show off their artwork at their reception on March 21st. Their teach-er, Bobbi Gardner, is an inspirational art teacher as evidenced by their work!
Thanks to Susan Labuda for organizing this suc-cessful ex-hibit.
Once again, Susan Labuda, put to-gether an outstanding showing of elementary students’ art work on 4/9/14. A student choir sang for the guests, art students, and parents . Visit and see their wonderful art-work: Creative Hi-Tops, Abstract Faces, Co-op Collage, and the Choir!
Angelina’s artistic painting.
Sophia’s Cubism Portrait.
Naomi’s Picasso-art showing side and front face.
Alexandra’s creative Picasso-like face.
Emma’s Picasso project (Left), and painting above.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The BrushStrokes will be emailed to you as a PDF attachment. You will need Adobe Acrobat to open the PDF. You can download Adobe Acrobat free at: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/or Google “Adobe Acrobat” and find the correct version for your comput-er. If you are unable to open The BrushStrokes, please let Delia know at [email protected].
Thank you! NOTE: The BrushStrokes is published by Co-op staff. Signed articles represent the opinion of the writer and not necessari-ly that of the corporate entity.
Welcome to our newest member Brian J. Rossi — Metal Work
Brian has already become an active member! City Lights Gallery is actively seeking new members. Ask your artist friends if they would like to join us!
CITY LIGHTS ART GALLERY 3 East Army Street, Henderson, NV 89015 Mailing Address: PO BOX 91314, Henderson, NV 89009-1314 Phone: (702) 260-0300 Email: [email protected] Web Site: citylightsartgallery.com Twitter: @CityLights_Gal Facebook: City Lights Art Gallery, Henderson, NV Open Tues—Sat: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun: Noon to 4 p.m. Web Master: Jim Longwell, BrushStrokes Editor: Delia Price
Our New Members
2014 * New Dates (Non City Lights Gallery Events)
Calendar of Events
MAY 10-11 Sa-Su Art Festival of Henderson (Mother’s Day) 11 Su Featured Artist Reception—Bill Roderick 13 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery
APR 12 Sa Aileen Dike/Georgine Morelli- Sale:Bldr City 12-13 Sa-Su Boulder City Art Festival 13 Su Featured Artist Reception—Judi Moreo 17 Th Go To Market Day 26 Sa Henderson Heritage Day Parade 26 Sa City Lights Celebrates!
JUN 8 Su Featured Artist Reception—Chris Mazglad 10 Tu Board Meeting TBD Scholarship Award Ceremony TBD Family Picnic
JUL 8 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery 13 Su Featured Artist Reception—Jim Champlin
AUG 10 Su Featured Artist Recept—George Markiewicz 12 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery
SEP 9 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery 14 Su Featured Artist Reception—Terry Titus *19-21 F-Su 3rd Annual Cowboy BBQ *25 Th 15th Super Run Classic Car Show; (Hubcaps or New Project TBD) TBD ArtTrain
OCT *4 Sa Hispanic Intl Parade & Festival 14 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery TBD Juried Show TBD Student Juried Show
NOV 9 Su Featured Artist Reception—Anna Hammer 11 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery
DEC 9 Tu Board Meeting— Gallery TBD Annual Member Show TBD Annual Membership Meeting/Party
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SEND YOUR LOVE
Lee Moses, our Gallery Director, is recovering well from major surgery. His activities are still restricted, but he looked good at the April Board meeting!
Senior Gallery Tour
Jim Champlin and Mary Amick hosted a half dozen of the W. Flamingo Senior Center members on April 3rd for a tour of the Gallery and a demo by Ed Klein. They thor-oughly enjoyed it. One commented, “I learned more from Ed’s demo than I have from all my prior classes!” Kudos to Ed for his excellent instruction. The group had lunch at The Coffee House. All enjoyed the visit. We are hoping to do it again possibly with Heritage Senior Cen-ter. If you are looking for an outing for your organiza-tion or group, please contact the Gallery. We can do art demos; or videos can be shown. Consider lunch at a nearby restaurant for the group. It’s fun. It’s education-al, and may increase our membership. Call the Gallery for more details and give us the name of your group.
INCOME TAX ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS— As a 501(c)3 charitable organization, your donations to City Lights Gallery are tax d4eductible and so is your mileage. If you miss this itemized deduction this year, start keeping track for next year.
