January 2014 www.psgar t .org

PSG Board MembersPresident: Phillip LevineV.P.: Kathy TroyerTreasurer: Eric Richter

Secretary: Charles Fawcett

Scholarship Chairman: Paul Daneker

Palette Talk Editor & Web Master: Frank Gaffney

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http://www.davidgrayart.com/ David Gray acquired a strong foundational edu-cation in art while obtaining his BFA from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His

art education has continued with independent and occasional formal stud-ies in pictorial expression and oil painting. The resulting work reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order which pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship. David’s paintings have earned several national awards and his career has been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art, Art of the West, and Ameri-can Art Collector. David’s works are included in many discriminating pri-vate art collections throughout the United States and abroad.”Whether he is painting still lifes or figures, Gray brings a deep knowledge of and respect for the masters that translates into an elegant minimalism on canvas or panel. His tonalist portraits usually focus solely on the head and shoulders, while his still lifes feature timeless objects such as copper pots and china teacups surrounded by generous doses of negative space.” --Bonnie Gangel-hoff, Southwest Art Magazine

Membership Meeting Guest Demo Artist

Membership MeetingFebruary 19thThe next membership

meeting will be Wednesday, 19th.Start at: 5:30 PM

Free drinks and refreshments Meeting starts at 6:00 PM

Seattle Design Center2nd floor Plaza Building 5701 6th Ave. S. #290

Seattle, WA 98108

Presentation: A painting demo will be

given by David Gray 7pm to 9pm.

(See article at the right).

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Board Meeting Minutes: January 3, 2014

Venue; Meeting was held at the Seattle Design center, Suite P.290

Attendees; Phillip Levine,( incoming President,) Kathy Troyer, (incoming Vice President), Ted Pankowski, Paul Daneker, Joe MacKechnie, Frank Gaffney, Leu Isaac, Eric Richter( incoming Treasurer) David Spangler and Charles Fawcett, ( re-elected Secretary) and guest Julie Fryett. Apologies from Michele Rushworth.

Meeting; was called to order by Phillip Levine at 11.00am.

Julie Fryett; was introduced by Kathy Troyer as the group’s marketing and outreach contract employee. She will work eight hours per week for the PSG and will be based at the SDC. Julie gave a brief outline of her bio which included senior positions in New York and Europe. The board wel-comed Julie and then she left the meeting.

Members survey; Kathy gave a brief outline of the inter-net member survey she conducted through surveymonkey.com. She had a great response including 13 Life members and 37 Signature members and most importantly a lot of on line comment. The cost worked out to 23 cents per survey. Before coming to any overall conclusions apart from the overwhelming response to find ways to expand membership more detailed analysis is needed.

Minutes of the Board Meeting of December 6th were approved. Matters arising; SDC Lease. Charles advised that the SDC has issued a second lease for 2014 requiring a deposit plus penalties for non payment. It is effective Feb-ruary 1st. He added that signed copies are back with SDC. Ted advised that the outstanding matters with the Bundas fund had been resolved.

Financial report; Ted, the outgoing Treasurer reported that the Wells Fargo operating account as at Jan. 3rd was $13,671.11 with $432.50 in outstanding leaving a balance of $13,243.61. The Fidelity account was $32,619.12. There was no report from the Bundas fund.

Finance Committee; Joe reported that the public accoun-tants had completely over looked the fourth quarter’s results due to staff changes. This was being remedied and a com-puter containing the updated QBfiles will be handed off to Eric shortly. Eric was urged to back up QB frequently.

Newsletter; Frank reported that the next Newsletter is due out shortly with the following edition coming out in March. To cut the cost and effort of hard copies a questionnaire is to be sent out requesting members to advise the editor if they unable to gain access to a computer. The aim being to cut hard copies completely.

Membership; Linda Hoyt’s signature membership was offi-cially approved . Eric Richter recommended Janis Graves for signature membership. Approved .

Membership Development Committee; As a result of the survey it was agreed to set up this new committee to evaluate and recommend different types of membership. Ted, Joe and Kathy will initially comprise the group.

SDC Gallery; Lue Isaac advised that response to the Figu-rative Show to be hung on January 18th was slow. It was agreed to send out a reminder putting the entry deadline back to January 10th.

New Logo; The board response to the new and simplified logo was good. It was agreed to publicize it in the January newsletter and take a members vote on it at the next mem-bers meeting in February.

Historical projects; David Spangler brought the board up to date with developments and will be approaching volun-teers within membership to assist. Ted advised that he is applying to 4Culture for further grants.

Scholarships ; Phil and Paul Daneker gave an update. Paul will head up the committee with Leon White, Irina Milton and Linda Hoyt. Phil requested that Tressa Randolph of the Art Institute of Seattle , the lead person setting up the PSG website receive a scholarship grant of $1500. Approved

Programs; Phillip on behalf of Michele Rushworth . In response to the survey Michele formulated some great ideas for 2014 programs and beyond, including speakers, work-shops, paint outs, picnics and dinners. It was also recom-mended that PSG purchase a modern projector and a total of $350.00 was approved.

New Business;

New PSG venue; Charles and David agreed to research a new venue following up the earlier Fine Arts Coalition exer-cise and other avenues and to seek volunteers as necessary..

Juried Exhibition; Joe to explore the café on line system to act as advertiser, image collection plus control and pay-ment system for a projected upcoming juried show in the summer.

Springboard; Kathy requested $800 toward obtaining a facilitator to help with the creation of a mission statement and the general Springboard process. Approved.

The meeting was adjourned at 2.15pm by Phillip Levine.

Charles Fawcett Secretary

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It’s That Time of Year

AgainAnnual Signature Members fees ($35) are due now. You can either send a check made out to PSG C/O Eric Richter, Treasurer, 700 W. Bar-rett St, Seattle, WA 98119 or they can pay on line when the new website is up but the charge will be $36.35.

NEW Committee:

Call for Volunteers

We’re putting together a commit-tee that will review the rules of our organization for pos-

sible update recommendations. We’ll investigate our Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Standing Rules and our 501c3 certification. This is mainly a research effort so we’ll learn a lot of useful stuff on the way to improving our organiza-tion. If you’re interested, e-mail Dan Riley at rileydk@comcast.net in the next week or so.

PSGNWA’sSurvey Results 2014

Thank you all for your participation and responses to the survey last month. With 44% participation by the membership, your input and ideas will help

develop better programs and activities based on your inter-ests.

Overall, your responses indicated expanding the member-ship at a modest pace, with 76% in favor of developing a new student membership category, 12% neutral and 12% dissent. 75% expressed no interest in buffet and alcohol services at meetings with an overwhelming 90% and above to develop stronger educational artist programs. 75% wished a mentor to artist program. Ideas expressed to improve activities and yearly programs are being utilized as we plan the 2014 calendar. Ideas included model-drawing sessions, several paint out opportunities throughout the region and artist workshops.

Regarding location change, the Seattle Design Center is up for sale and a committee has been formed to evaluate leads we have been given to determine a new home. There are other opportunities being coordinated by other 501c3 gal-leries that we may be able to participate in, as well. Meet-ings will continue every other month on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm at the SDC until further notice.

Regarding fundraising for the year, a committee is being developed to spearhead an online national juried exhibit and/or auction this fall. Most members favored strengthening gallery sales over auction and juried show. With a better location, we are hopeful to meet this demand.

As for committee participation and volunteer commitment, thank you everyone for showing the areas of interest you might be able to share your talents. Phil Levine will be con-tacting you to ask your participation on behalf of the orga-nization. We really need your help! 56% members favored 10-12 volunteer hours per year vs. 44% favored 15-20 vol-unteer hours. Planning and acting for our future requires increasing participation. Please consider sharing your time and talents with us this year.

On behalf of the board and myself, thank you again for your time and consideration. Survey participation was a success! Your input is directing us as we plan for our future!Sincerely, Katherine Troyer Vice President

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Welcome New MemberLinda Hoyt

Drawing and painting has always felt like a natural way to express myself. I remember as early as age seven my mother having

me sit outside with a sketch book and encouraging me to draw a grove of birch trees. Art school at the University of Michigan was a logical progres-sion and led me to jobs in graphic art, teaching art and a commercial and residential interior design practice.

Always knowing I would ultimately pursue paint-ing as a full time career, in 2006 I began to study with Cary Jurriaans at the Fall City Fine Art Studio (now the Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio) www.whidbeyislandfas.com. I continued to study for six years in a part time program at the Georgetown Atelier www.georgetownatelier.com with Tenaya Sims, drawing and painting using graphite, char-coal, and oil paint and focused on learning to work in a representational manner doing figures and still-life.

I have taken professional workshops with a number of accomplished artists that have helped further my development. Some of the most inspiring and influential were: Michael Grimaldi www.michaelgrimaldi.net for his teaching of anatomy and structure, Henry Stinson www.henrystinson.com for his use of color, and David Jon Kassan www.davidkassan.com for his approach to figure drawing.

I am at a point now where I want to experiment with my style; looser, bolder colors, and different subject matter and composi-tion. I look forward to the continuing journey.

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Membership Meeting Minutes: December 18, 2013

Venue; Meeting was held at the Seattle Design Center, Suite 290

Meeting; From 6:15 pm about 25 members and guests enjoyed a “Happy Hour “ including an excellent buffet provided by Steve Hu.

Meeting; At 7:15pm Leon White, Interim President, called the meeting to order, welcomed members including prospective new member Linda Hoyt and congratulating Stan Chraminski on becoming Presi-dent of EAFA.

Speaker; Leon then introduced Tressa Randolph of the Art Institute of Seattle who is the lead person of a six member team creating the new PSG website. She gave an illuminating talk into background and reasons for designing it to fit current and the future needs of mass communication methods and yet keeping it sim-plistic in order to encourage individual members to participate by updating their own profiles. The total package is to serve as an interesting platform to get the total message out to members, benefactors and the general public.

She hopes to be in a position to launch the website in early January.

On completion Tressa took numerous questions from members and was thanked by Leon.

Official Business;

Minutes of the last Members Meeting of November 20th; were approved as published.

Treasurers Report; Ted Pankowski stated that total cash accounts with Wells Fargo as of today were $17,061.05 including $501.00 in savings, $50 in a paypal account (for use with the future website in order that members can pay their dues etc. ). The Bundas Fund stands at $224,613.50.

Financial Management Report; Joe MacKechnie, circulated the draft 2014 financial budget and then carefully went through the detail which includes pro-vision for employing a part time person. Members finally approved the budget without change.

Scholarships; Phillip Levine explained that Paul Daneker who has assisted Phillip for some years would head the committee in 2014.

Officers; the following members stood for election for 2014;

President; Phillip Levine

Vice President; Kathy Troyer

Treasurer; Eric Richter

Secretary; Charles Fawcett

All were elected unopposed.

Other business;

New Members; Eric Richter stated that he was stand-ing down from the New Membership Chair and called for those interested explaining the tasks involved.

Seattle Design Center; Charles Fawcett stated that was relinquishing the position of SDC Gallery Coordi-nator and called for volunteers to help. He would pro-vide interim assistance as required. Lue Isaac kindly offered to help.

The meeting was adjourned by Leon White at 8:15pmCharles Fawcett Secretary

It’s That Time of Year

AgainAnnual Signature Members fees ($35) are due now. You can either send a check made out to PSG C/O Eric Richter, Treasurer, 700 W. Bar-rett St, Seattle, WA 98119 or they can pay on line when the new website is up but the charge will be $36.35.

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Hall Sutherland

RememberedPSGNWA Life Member, Hal Sutherland passed away on January 16, 2014 due to health com-plications related to gall bladder surgery. Hal was 84 years old. Born in 1929, Somerville, Massa-chusetts. Hal Sutherland’s fascination with the art world began at a very early age in his life when the Milkman and the Garbage collector alike both drove horse drawn vehicles past his home. His fascination with the sight of those horses became an obsession which has followed him throughout his art career. He’d often wait at the curb outside his home in Massachusetts to be close by as the wagons stopped on their house-to-house visits. He spent hours sketching those horses with their memories remaining promi-

nent in his mind as he later traveled through-out the world of art. A passionate dream to be mounted on a wiry mus-tang galloping across vast prairies has been fulfilled in many of his paintings and shared’ with collectors who

enjoy the immense versatility in his subject matter, which visits the many worlds of the Equine throughout our Country’s history and the part the horse has played. When viewing his works, there is always a strong statement, be it humorous, or relative to an emo-tional era.

Though the dream of becoming an artist filled his soul, the reality of survival soon became evident in the form of a variety of menial

occupations, dish washing, mes-senger work etc. But throughout this period the quiet fantasies and dreams he cherished led him to California still following his child-hood dream to become an artist. Studied at the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles and in 1954 he began a distinguished career with Walt Disney Studios where his knowledge of horses placed him in a select group working on Sleep-ing Beauty. He later went on to become an Emmy award winning television producer and director in Hollywood. Yet, despite his success in the field of animation, those childhood dreams still filled his thoughts till finally, he and his family moved to the state of Wash-ington where he finally embarked on a full time painting career in 1974. His works have since been featured in several national maga-zine articles and PBS a documen-tary special. Traveling along this path he became fascinated with the historical world of the Pioneers who sacrificed so very much to contribute to the lives we all live today.

www.halsutherlandart.com

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Masters of the American WestAllison Malafronte Reporting Editor, Fine Art Today

More than 75 top artists specializing in Western subject matter will con-vene at the Autry National Center museum in Los Angeles on February 1 for the “Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition & Sale.”

The “Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition & Sale” -- one of the premier exhibitions for Western art in the country -- has been host-ing its annual event at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles since 1998, and this year’s event will take place at the museum from February 1 through March 16. This exclusive exhibition is where some of the top artists of this genre put their best work forward, often monumental pieces they spend the better part of a year completing, to be appreciated (and usu-ally purchased) by first-rate collectors and connoisseurs. The featured sub-ject matter for the show predominantly falls into the Western landscape, cowboys and Indians, and/or romantic portrait and figure categories, but there are a wide range of other subjects and styles the 75-plus contempo-rary artists explore each year.

The full list of Masters of the American West exhibiting artists are: Wil-liam Acheff, Peter Adams, Cyrus Afsary, Bill Anton, Clyde Aspevig, Gerald Balciar, Greg Beecham, Christopher Blossom, Tom Browning, John Budicin, John Buxton, George Carlson, Bruce Cheever, Tim Cherry, Len Chmiel, William Churchill, Carole Cooke, John Cosby, Donald Demers. Mick Doellinger, Dennis Doheny, John Fawcett, Lori Forest, Luke Frazier, Tammy Garcia, Lynn Gertenbach, Veryl Good-night, Richard V. Greeves, Robert Griffing, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Harold T. Holden, Doug Hyde, Oreland C. Joe Sr., T.D. Kelsey, Fran-cois Koch, Calvin Liang, Z.S. Liang, Jeremy Lipking, David Mann, Bonnie Marris, Walter T. Matia, Kenny McKenna, Krystii Melaine, Herb Mignery, Denis Milhomme, Dean L. Mitchell, James Morgan, Ned Mueller, Bill Nebeker, Jim C. Norton, Ralph Oberg, Conchita O’Kane, JoAnn Peralta, Andrew Peters, Robert Peters, William S. Phillips, Daniel W. Pinkham, Kyle Polzin, Scott Tallman Powers, Jason Rich, Gayle Garner Roski, Thomas Saubert, Lindsay Scott, Sandy Scott, Tim Shinabarger, Kyle Sims, Mian Situ, Daniel Smith, Matt Smith, Tucker Smith, Howard Terpning, Richard D. Thomas, Margery Torrey, Kent Ullberg, Dustin Van Wechel, Brittany Weistling, Morgan Weistling, Kim Wiggins, and Jim Wilcox.

This year’s Masters of the American West includes pre-event presenta-tions, opening-day events, a live auction, the main reception and fine art sale, an awards ceremony, and more. The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Autry National Center is closed on Mondays except for Presidents Day, Monday, February 17. For more information, visit http://theautry.org/masters-of-the-american-west/masters-of-the-american-west.

This article was featured in Fine Art Today, a weekly e-newsletter from Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. Note PSG member, Ned Mueller, is exhibiting with this amazing group of artists. F.G.

Showings:

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Contacts:Palette Talk Editor: ..............Frank Gaffney - 425•820•2431, frankg@FrankGaffney.comMembership Roster: ...........Frank GaffneyTreasurer: ...............................Paul Newman - 206•729•9955, pnewman@u.washington.eduPresident of PSGNWP: .......Gary Nelson - 425•228•1330, gnelson@highline.edu

Calendar:Keep an eye on the calendar each month, as some dates may change.

Contacts:Palette Talk Editor: ........... Frank Gaffney - 425•697•9090, frankg@FrankGaffney.comWeb Master: ....................Frank GaffneyPresident of PSGNWP: ...Phillip Levine - 206-244-7139, levinepr@comcast.netSecretary:...........................Charles Fawcett - 4254•985•6279, charles@charlesnfawcett.comTreasurer: .........................Eric Richter - 206-283-0225, eerichter@gmail.com

February 7 ................... Board meetFebruary 19 .................. Membership meetApril 4 ........................... Board meetApril 16 ......................... Membership meet

Showings:Figurative ArtWorks

at PSGNWA Gallery

January 20 through March 22, 2014

Opening Reception Febuary 20th SDC ArtWalk

5PM - 9PM

Live painting demonstrations.

Seattle Design Center2nd floor Plaza Building 5701 6th Ave. S. #290

Seattle, WA 98108

Frank GaffneyThe Navy Memorial in Washington DC is hosting a yearlong exhibition and series of events called “The Year of the Coast Guard.” They will be exhibiting 10 works from the Coast Guard Art Collection, two of which are Frank’s! They are the 2013 painting of the “Healt.Escorts.The.Renda” and 2012 piece based on Frank’s deployment “Prepping.The.New.Number.Two”.

Brian BeausoleilLate December I received an award from the Royal Aeronautical Society, Seattle Branch for the pencil portraits I have done over the past decade of the prominent guest speakers at their annual Joe Sutter Black Tie event. I was not only given an award but have been dubbed “Royal Artist” of the Seattle Branch of said society. Attached are the ones done over last ten years.

Ned MuellerThe.Arts.of.Kenmore, Gallery at Kenmore City Hall. The Art of Drawing Group Exhibit. Featuring works by:

John Cannon, Valencia Carroll, Isabelle Fenne, Peggy Kelley, Peter Lentini, Judy Moritz, Ned Mueller, Alex Rogers, Susan Rotondo, Jesse Schildbach, Marilyn Scanlon, SA

Stirling, Marjorie Thompson, Anya Toomre, and John Tubbs

February 7 - April 25, 2014

Opening Reception February 7, 6:30PM - 8:00PM

Two of our participating artists, Ned Mueller and Valencia Car-roll, will give presentations on their approach to art, their own artwork and the art of drawing.

“Healt.Escorts.The.Renda”

“Prepping.The.New.Number.Two”