Notes of Interest

Notes of Interest

Last month, the CTAL Board unanimously agreed to change the name from CTAL to “the Art League of the Chathams”. The final vote will be determined by the membership ballot. The question is “Should the CTAL change its name to Art League of the Chathams?”. It is included with this newsletter. Please fill it out, sign and send it in before December 1st.

We also explored the possibility of creating a Scholarship Fund for an outstanding art student from Chatham High School who plans to go on to a career in the field of art. The board agreed to donate $300.

Our 50/50 will help supplement the fund.

Ed Schuh has accepted the position of Hospitality Chair.

Our holiday party will be at Kathy Haven’s home at 127 Glenmere on Friday, December 7th. Please RSVP to Ed Schuh at 973-635-7241 with your choice of the dish that you will bring. We will also have a 50/50 again this year. An invitation will be sent out soon.

Our holiday card party will be on Thursday, November 29th at 10am at the Red Schoolhouse

on Fairmount and Southern Boulevard. Bring your own supplies to paint a Holiday Card to exchange with another artist at our party. Refreshments will be served.

Exhibits

Our next show will be our Family and Friends Exhibit from January 31 through March 10.

Receiving - January 29

from 10-12

Reception—Sunday, February 3 from 2-4 at the Township Municipal Building, 58 Meyersville Road.

Removel—March 11—10-12. A prospectus will be mailed out soon.

Get busy!!! Keep on painting...we want to see lots of new and exciting work for our upcoming shows. We now have plenty of room to display all your work.

What our members are doing

Rosemary Howlett

Showing at the Sussex Heritage Association at the Court House in Newton on view now until January 3rd, Monday through Friday.

Ann Frommer

November 2007 tthrough December Bouras Gallery—Solo exhibit

Bouras Properties L.L.C

25 DeForest Ave, Summit

Hours weekdays 9-5:00

For more information Ann can be

contacted at

mypictures@optonline.net

Frank McDonough

ROSE

June 4th to June 22nd

The Monmouth Beach Cultural Center

128 Ocean Avenue

Monmouth Beach, NJ

732 229 4527

He is also working on Mosaic Book with Pris Ewing due out June 2008.

He has been asked by NJCVA to participate in

the 2007 Blank Canvas Show believe opening party will be December 2007

Orders can be placed on his website.

www.myshdaowbox.com

Pam Gosner has a new website,

www.pgosner.com. Please check it out.

Yolanda Fundora has a number of books that should be out now that she has either illustrated or designed in part. They are:

“My Brain Won’t Fly Away/Micerebro no ya a salir flotando”,

“Caribbean Journey from A to Y”,

“Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls”, “Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison”

and “So I Won’t Forget”

Type her name in at www.Amazon.com and you will see the covers that she has illustrated.

Group shows

The Library of the Chathams is hosting a show for the Woman’s Club. CTAL artists displaying their work are:

Andy and Mary Bobeck, Kathy Havens, Ed Schuh, Larry Kerner and Sally Abbott.

A number of CTAL artists are displaying on the 5th floor at the Atrium in Morristown at the Morris County Administration & Records Building on Court Street. They are: Andy and Mary Bobeck, Pam Gosner, (4th & 5th flr) Ed Schuh, Larry Kerner, Frank McDonough, Melanie Sze, Ann Flommer and Celeste Fondaco. The show is through the first week in January. Hours are weekdays 8:30—5pm

Ann Frommer coordinates trips for our Chatham Senior Center—One that may be of interest is as follows:

Verdi's Il Trovatore at the Amato Opera House in the Bowery, NYC
Sunday Matinee 2:30 PM
Includes bus from the Chatham Sr Services Center
Leaves at 10:30 AM to allow time for Brunch on your own.

It includes:
opera synopsis, list of restaurants,'Ann Frommer's Guide to Good Cheap Food" on the lower East side plus a walking map of the area.
Ann does an "operaspeak" on the bus to give you highlights of the Amato Opera House, composer, the opera story, and other tidbits of information.
Ann promises to make an opera lover out or you that you'll want to come again. Enclosed is a flyer if you’re interested. Any questions please call Annie at 973-635-1004.

Programs

Kathy Havens has some great ideas for upcoming programs. Please keep them in mind.

Linda Howe, a local artist, teaches “touch drawing”. The cost will be approximately $25. per person. The tentative date is January 18.. If you are interested please call Kathy at 973-635-2244. Let her know if you plan to attend She has also asked Mary Bobeck to do a watercolor demonstration possibly in March.

Yolanda Fundora and Philla Barkman are working on “Artists sharing their art”.; a program tentatively beginning in February.

More to come.

Updating our Scrapbook and Website

we need to update our scrapbook and webpage. For our new members and those of our old members who haven’t done so yet, please send a profile and some jpeg files or photos to Frank McDonough for our webpage. You can prepare a write-up of your profile and some photos to Rosemary for the scrapbook. We display the scrapbook at all of our members’ shows.

Please send them via email or snail mail.

Tell us about your upcoming shows & awards

If you would like to have your upcoming shows and/or the awards you have received included in the newsletter, please email me at:

fragments@patmedia.net or

call 973-635-0845 and leave message or send to me at 299 Shunpike Road.

Wanted!

We are still looking for someone who will step forward to be the chair of the “Artist of the Season “ and “Showcase Artist”

If you are interested in the chairmanship or if you would like to display your work, please contact Gail Logan at : 973-635-5036 or

loganclan@patmedia.net

or 973-635-5036

Odds and Ends

Can an oil painting hang safely without a frame?

Providing that the stretcher, (the wooden structure on which the canvas is stretched), is solid and reasonably thick, then the painting can be wired to hang without a frame. Since artworks are much safer on the wall than on the floor, we would suggest your doing this immediately while you debate whether or not to proceed with framing.

This unframed approach to exhibiting a painting means that the viewer focuses entirely on the artwork itself--both the good points and the flaws. Since the edges where the canvas wraps around the stretcher are usually studded with nails or staples and enhanced with paint dribbles, the unframed presentation is somewhat raw unless the canvas is stretched and attached to the back. If not, It is like seeing the artwork in the artist's studio or in an informal show rather than in a gallery where a more finished presentation is the norm.

Pros: Wiring is inexpensive and easy. It allows the artwork to stand entirely alone.

Cons: Wiring offers no protection or reinforcement to the painting. If the stretcher is not sturdy enough, the weight of hanging may cause it to warp, sag or split. An unframed artwork will surely provoke your more fastidious friends to ask when you plan to frame it.