June Mosaic Meeting
We had a great meeting at
Susan’s house. Thank you Susan for all the good salads and bread. It was all
wonderful and appreciated.
We had Verna Pitts, a
professional photographer; give us some very good ideas on how to photograph
our mosaic art pieces. She used some of our pieces, some with mirrors, some
flat pieces and some three dimensional to show us a variety of ways to tackle
the different types of art that we create.
It would be hard to
adequately explain all the information but a couple of items that are easy to
explain and have a large impact are using a couple of sheets of white poster
board as a back drop if you want a white back
ground. She also had large
pieces of a black velvet fabric that she used for most of the pictures. The
black velvet made a very dramatic back ground giving nice contrast to most of
the art she photographed.
Items that we discussed
during the meeting are:
Susan has a person that she
knows that may be able to find a place for the Haiti quilt to be installed (in
Haiti). Susan will check with Danette to see if there would be money in the
Guild account that could cover some of the expenses.
Lori Greene would like to
have pictures of our art sent to her by the end of July. She will decide what
images might be used for the September show post card.
Lori loves her new space and
said that there is a lot more room to hang art and that there is window space
for glass on glass pieces.
I will check with Lori to see
if she wants members to have more then one piece for that show.
We need to decide when we
will have opening night. Our meeting on the 11th of September has
usually been before the show so that we could bring the art that we wanted in
the show to Mosaic on a Stick and just leave it for the show. I will check with
Lori on how much time she needs between the 11th and having an
opening night.
Lori asked me to also share
with the group that Tara Nielson sold almost half her show on opening night.
That is fantastic.
Gil had checked with the Phipps
Gallery on a show for 2015. He said that there is such a small chance of that
happening that we should look for some other place.
We did a little brain
storming on other locations that might work well for a show but we really do
not have a specific place that we are pursuing. If any one has any ideas please pursue
them.
We have 2014 covered with a
show at the Edina Art Center, one at the 310 Gallery and the show that we
always have at Mosaic on a Stick. Most places require a fairly long lead time so
it is not too soon to be planning for 2015.
I hope you all have a great
summer, provided summer shows up any time soon!
Regards,
Trudy
