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May 22, 2008, Thursday

7:00 p.m.

Harbor Ridge Middle School

9010 Prentiss Ave

Gig Harbor, WA , 98332

Program Schedule—Upcoming Events:

May - Scholarship Presentations, meeting location Harbor Ridge MS

June - Tacoma Art Supply program—Meeting location change

GH Fire Dist Bldg, 10222 Bujacich Rd NW, GH, 98332

July - No Meeting - Summer Art Festival

August - Picnic

September - Pat Rush: ―Taking Photos to Paint From‖

October - Lorna and Glen West, Silversmith Demo

May Program -

PAL Adult Scholarship Recipients Demo

Jeanne Grisham teaching her Water Medium Workshop at Donna Trent’s Art

Studio—Anything water soluble was fair game!

The Program at this month’s PAL

Meeting is one we always look for-

ward to — PAL Members who have

received Adult Scholarship money

for classes and workshops will share

their new skills and knowledge. We

all get to see work done in the work-

shops and hear about the work-

shop , what was taught, and what

they learned from the experience.

The photo on the left is from

the recent PAL Workshop organized

by Mimi VanBallenberghe and held

in Donna Trent’s studio. This

workshop was all about using water

soluble products to make non-

representational art. Just about

anything that you could use with

water was tried with varying and

individual results.

It was great fun and some

amazing work was created. Come

to the PAL Meeting to learn about

this and other learning experiences.

More workshop photos—page 9

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PAL Board 2007 - 2008 - Officers

President: Myrna Binion 253-857-4222 myrnalb@comcast.net

1st VP Co-Chair George Milliken 253-858-3672 gbmill2@comcast.net

1st VP Co-Chair Arvid Anderson 253-549-7339 arvidandbarb@comcast.net

2nd VP Show Chair Rhene Johns 253-209-1355 rhene@comcast.net

Secretary Anne Knapp 253-265-6700 annemknapp@gmail.com

Treasurer Jon Lonning 253-851-4866 jlonning@centurytel.net

Mem @ Large Sherry Weitzel 253-265-1575 sherrylw49@aol.com

Mem @ Large Virginia Alvarez 253-851-0015 virginiasalvarez@worldnet.att.net

Mem @ Large Harry Sundberg 253-265-3780 hesundberg@comcast.net

Newsletter Ed Myrna Binion 253-857-4222 myrnalb@comcast.net

Festival Chair Carol Valstyn 253-265-8139 cfvalstyn@comcast.net

Membership Christy Camerer 253-853-2178 bluewaterartwork@centurytel.net

PAL Committee Chairpersons:

Nwslttr Distribution Roma Loehmer 253-851-1610 fredandromaghwa@aol.com

Program Charli Meacham 253-858-9388 charlimeacham@centurytel.net

Asst. Program Carol Lemon 206-409-2564 clemon@rfmarch.com

Publicity Judy Buskirk 253-549-7389 jpbuskirk@centurytel.net

Regional Show Debbie Dorns 425-442-1140 bedorah@msn.com

Hospitality & Video Lib. Cecile Anderson 253-549-4646 brucecec1@comcast.com

Bi-monthly Exhibit & Sunshine Chris Cotton 253-858-6191

Workshops Mimi VanBallenberghe 253-857-2449 mimistudio22@comcast.net

Scholarships Susan Paredes 253-265-2645 susanparedes@comcast.net

Poster & Plein Air Anne Knapp 253-265-6700 annemknapp@gmail.com

Equipment Harry Sundberg 253-265-3780 hesundberg@comcast.net

Web Mistress Charlee Glock-Jackson 253-857-5604 charlee@sunburststudio.com

Screenings Marti Green 360-871-2906 marti@martigreen.com

& Michelle Sleight 360-876-0117 michellesleight@yahoo.com

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Coming up on the Calendar:

June 26, PAL Meeting—GH Fire Dist, 10222 Bujacich Rd NW, 98332

June 26, 2008 PAL Members Screening at 5:30 p.m. before meeting

June 3, 4, & 5—Workshop with Judy Morris—still room available!

July 18—Friday set-up of Art Festival and delivery of paintings to the Members’ Show

in side Key Bank and prints and cards to PAL Members Festival Booth

July 19 & 20 –Art Festival & Members Show

May, 2008—President’s Message…Myrna Binion

What have I been doing with my time, you ask? Look to

the right and you will see the pictures of my new babies, Suzy (or

Sammy) and Fancy Cat. They lived at Jeanne Crider’s house

with their Mommy, Sassy, until a couple of weeks ago and now

they have taken over my art room and my life. I’m either playing

with them or feeding them or cleaning up after them! I’m sure

they will eventually turn into lovable, purring, sweet little darlings—right now they are whirlwinds of

fur and feet climbing here and running there and only stopping for a nap to recharge. Friskies

crunch underfoot in my art room and I just don’t what I’m going to do with my pastels when they

learn to get up on the tables. Oh well, I’m in love so it all must be worth it.

On a more Presidential note, our building committee had a meeting with Mayor Chuck

Hunter where we all talked about how much we would love to have an Art Center downtown in Gig

Harbor. That’s about as far as we have gotten but we are looking at all and any possibilities, grant

offerings, money sources, property availabilities and so on. If you have some expertise in the area of

grant writing or any other skills that could be helpful to us or a few extra million dollars, please call!

Can’t you just see a wonderful Art Center downtown that could be used by PAL and shared with per-

forming arts, quilters, photographers, musicians and so on? It would be a huge draw for the commu-

nity and an incredible resource for everyone in the arts.

In the meantime—we are moving on with the Summer Art Festival—there is more information

elsewhere in the newsletter—as usual we are counting on our PAL Members as volunteers. We need

you at the Art Festival and inside Key Bank to host our Members’ Show. We will need people to

share shifts in the Information Booth and in our new “Local Art Sales—PAL Booth”. Good News,

though, no more Water Wagon! The Board discussed this issue and decided that it is just too hard

for our members to haul water around the street in the hot afternoons. It is so easy now for people to

bring bottled water or they can purchase some at our info booth if they need it. We don’t want to

have our members out there on the 90 degree plus days any more—whew!

Well—gotta check on my kitties—see you at the meeting—Myrna

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NED MUELLER WORKSHOP-- MAY 23, 24, 25

This will be a figure and portrait workshop, work-

ing from the model. Beginners and experienced

painters are welcome. Oil, pastel and drawing

methods will be demonstrated. The fee is

$200 for the three days plus model expenses, and

will be held at Donna Trent's studio, 4224 83rd

Ave. Ct. N. W., Gig Harbor. For further informa-

tion contact Donna at 265-6532.

Harbor Montessori School is searching for part

time art teacher to teach students age 3-13

years for the 08-09 academic year. Wonderful

working conditions and competitive rates. 2hrs

3 afternoons a week

Please e mail inquiries to:

beth@harbormontessori.org

PRECIOUS METAL CLAY CLASS June 21st & June 22nd 9am – 5pm

This exciting class teaches a new & easy way of working with precious metals.

Debbie Jackson is a local jewelry artist who does beautiful work using the

Precious Metal Clay technique. You may have seen her work at our local Farmers

Market. The class will teach you to construct and kiln fire Precious Metal

Clay pieces with Fused Glass Cabs and create Hollow Forms/Dimensional Pieces

by learning torch and kiln firing techniques used to make bead caps, hollow

beads and other 3-D shapes.

Class will be held at Cedar Springs Studio in Gig Harbor. Beginners are wel-

comed. Cost is $150 plus materials. Call Debbie Jackson at 253-851-8446 for

more information. Class size is limited to 10.

Pat Rush recently attended the Professional Photographers of Wash-ington State Convention and Print Competition, held annually, at We-natchee. She entered four photo-graphs, all of which won ribbons and were accepted for the show. She was also awarded a gold bar which is earned from service to the State or-ganization and print merits.

The accompanying photograph is one of her entries. Clammers—Photo by Pat Rush

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From Sherri Bails: Class info & Travel Workshop

First a little info about my teaching credentials;

I have a BS in Ed from Northern Ill. U; I majored

and minored in art; I have taught at TCC in Tacoma

since 1993 and in Gig Harbor TCC for 5 years; I am a

signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.

My website is www.sherribails.com.

Kauaii Workshop/retreat:

Time: September 20-30, 2008

Cost: $1550,pp-includes air fare, condo rental, and

car rental.

Condo: Best Western Plantation Hale in Kapaa,

Kauaii.

I plan the itinerary based on what the attendees want

to do. I send out a "wish list" of many possible

activities, places to paint, and, based on the

responses,I plan the trip from it. Couples and artists

using any media and all skill levels are welcome.

For interest in any of the above activities, please

email me at sjbailsart@yahoo.com, or call:

The PAL critique group meeting at the Gig Harbor Libbrary will

have it's next meetings on 5/21/08 6:30pm. There were 4 partici-

pants at the first meeting and everyone felt energized by the feed-

back, support and sharing of knowledge and info. We had sharings

of watercolor note cards, hand painted silk scarves , pastel , oil and

landscapes, and experimemtal crylic mixed media. Anyone inter-

ested in participating should contact Karen Petrillose 582-0653,

email deandean03@hotmail.com.

PAL Member Gallery— Online Opportunity

We have heard from our PAL Members that a

number of people already have their own Web

Pages and they would like to have a link to our

Member Gallery page on our website. It was

discussed at our last Board Meeting and de-

cided to offer a Link only for $20.00 for our

members.

Call or email Charlee Glock-Jackson at 253-

857-5604 or charlee@centurytel.net for more

info regarding how get started and how much

it will cost. She will even assist you with digi-

tal images!

Plein Air Schedule from Anne Knapp: Just reminding PAL members that from Memorial Day until

Labor Day, all sites will be public sites* and will be posted at the Bogue Visitor Center. Here are the

next few dates for painting:

May 14th Working Waterfront from Thea Foss Park in Tacoma

May 21st the Lind Farm on the Key Peninsula.

*May 28th Joemma Beach

*June 4th Penrose Pt

*June 11th Vaughn Bay – by spit if possible (? I need local info)

*June 18th Minter Creek Hatchery area

HOLD THE DATE !!

The Tacoma Maritime Art Fest jur-ied art show will be back this year. Dates August 20th thru September. Go to:

maritimefest.org/art-show.htm

for details.

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PAL FESTIVAL: Thank you to the volunteers who signed up at our last meeting to help in our Festival on July 19th and 20th. However, we are still lacking a few com-mittee heads and other volunteers to work on either or both dates. As you all know, the Festival is our only source of the funds to pay for yearly operating expenses for our Art League. Please contact me by phone (851-0015) or e-mail (virginiasalvarez@worldnet.att.net) and let us know how you wish to support this im-portant event. Virginia Alvarez

From George Milliken: This year the information booth will have only 3 responsibilities - giving out information on the whereabouts of vendors, selling water (there will be no water wagon this year) and selling Festival t-shirts. We will not be selling members cards and art work since Myrna and Anne Knapp will have a separate booth for this purpose. I am counting on the return of most of my volunteers from the past but could use 2-3 more to help with a 2 hour 15 minute stint on Saturday July 14th or Sunday July 15th. Call George Milliken at 253-858-3672. Thanks for your cooperation

Art Festival Info & Stuff!

PAL ART BOOTH! Anne Knapp and Myrna Binion are setting up an Art Booth for PAL

Members’ sales at the art festival. We will use a PAL tent and will be in a spot up toward the food

vendor area. Any paid PAL Member may bring in 10 shrink wrapped or poly-bag items , prints or

originals and 20 art cards for sale (NO frames or glass!) . Each item will be clearly marked , by the

artist, with 2 tags (adhesive address labels will work) with artist name & phone #, title and price.

Each artist will bring an inventory sheet to put in a binder and we will paste the 2nd tag on that

when an item sells. At the end of the festival, we will add up each sheet and mail you the money.

Art can be delivered to the bank at the same time as paintings come in for the Summer Mem-

bers’ Show and your information should be available at the same time to put in a binder. You must

pick your unsold art items up at 5:00 Sunday evening from the tent at the festival .

A 20% commission will be taken on items sold. Unless you work for 2 hours in the booth—

then a 10% commission will be taken on items sold. We will need 2 people in the booth at all times

during the festival and will need help setting up on Friday. It all counts as helping out and we will

honor your time toward the commission cost. We will have a sign-up sheet or just contact us to vol-

unteer. (see 2nd page of newsletter for contact info)

We have shrink wrap holders and card racks and will make the booth look fun and attrac-

tive—we like doing that stuff!

As usual—we will be as careful as possible with your items but they are not insured and we

are not responsible for loss or damage.

Art Festival Dates—July 18, set-up, Festival dates, July 19 & 20

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MAY VIDEO REVIEW By Cecile Anderson

We recently purchased another pastel video for our library entitled Plein Air with Pastel by Master Pastelist Greg Biolchini. This is an 80 minute DVD featuring one demo from start to finish. The artist uses wet and dry technique alternately. He states that “even a beginning student can use pastel as a wash effectively, and more accomplished art-ists may be pleasantly surprised at how pastel over wash can expand their technical skills." Besides the actual paint-ing demo, he covers subjects such as preparing a painting surface (the artist creates his own paper using a gesso & pumice mixture over mat board), fixative, matting and framing.

Scholarship Committee—Susan Paredes regrets that she will be stepping down as Scholarship Committee Chair for personal reasons.

She is happy to tell you that two PAL members stepped up to take over the respon-sibilities of chairperson, Robin Peterson and recent member, Sherrie Bonsell until the po-sition is up for voting in Sept.

Susan has done a wonderful job as chairperson and will be missed.

Jeanne Crider, her sister LaVonne Smith, Charli Meacham and Pat Rush "tiptoed through the tulips" during April in Skagit County. Here are some of the images they captured. Photos and Painting by Pat Rush.

Christy Camerer won the Associated Arts of Ocean Shores 39th National Juried Fine Art Show Peoples’ Choice Award! Russ's hand-made wormwood frame from an old piling was the draw to this drawing.

Note to PAL Members: The following is for your information but is not a PAL sponsored event. This is being sponsored by Tacoma Art Supply.

What: Summer Art Show & Competition 2D art framed or hangable 1 entry per contestant, *plus 1 standby if we need more to hang Who: Anyone, Even Employees of Tacoma Art Supply *We are not going to be the jurors. Juror recommendations needed) When: July 3-7, 2008 (Tall Ships Week!) June 15, Deadline for digital image or small photo submissions *Don’t sent or mail your original art yet, e-mail 1st to warren@tacomaartsupply.com) Mailing address: 1551 Broadway, suite 101, Tacoma, WA 98402 Where: Tacoma Art Supply In the tent on the grass in front of the store (Don’t mail to this address!) 1552 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402 Art will be hung in the tent and removed each night

Congratulations! Sandy Newhouse was accepted into the NWWS show during April at the Seattle Center. Way to go, Sandy!

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PAL Board Meeting April 22, 2008

Present: Myrna Binion, Jon Lonning, George Milliken, Debbie Dorn, Virginia Alvarez, Carol Valstyn, Anne Knapp, and Arvid Anderson.

Jon Lonning reported the treasury stands at $133,186. Laura McClintock has the books to do an audit of the treasury for PAL.

Building Committee-has an appointment to talk with the mayor, Chuck Hunter, about local options and ideas for a Community Arts Building. We need a permanent home, spot for meetings, exhibits, to house not just us but other arts groups (performing and vis-ual). The city would like us to be downtown, and it would be nice to be close to art walk, etc. There are parking concerns downtown. Additional money could be raised through grants. It takes having a detailed plan in order to raise money. George Milliken has a list of major companies involved in art patronage. The board brainstormed a list of possible locations. George said that the Performing Arts Center in Florence, Oregon also hosts conventions and has been a real asset to the community.

Drawing You in- Karen Wilsey, the coordinator, wants to work with PAL. She wants to know if we can partner with the city to have better liability insurance for the event. The board decided after discussion that we would allow them to fall under our insurance as long as the grant from the city for Drawing You In does not count against PAL, as there is a $2000 limit, and we need the full grant for our Regional Show. Arvid is going to communicate the appropriate wording.

Festival- Myrna reminded Carol and Virginia to make sure to invite the city officials to the Art festival Show. Virginia is working on committee lists. Arvid is working with Key Bank on details for the Art Show. Jon is in charge of generator and cleaning- we need a separate “fresh” clean up committee at the end. George is heading up the Info Booth. Carol is looking into new signs to use f or directions along Judson Street. Mary Bessette is looking for a coffee vendor for the Festival, and arranging for coffee and donuts in the morning. There was a discussion of how to cover the water wagon this year. Virginia was to research bottled water, it was de-cided (George moved, Carol seconded) to not provide water at the Festival this year. Carol reported that several more vendors have dropped out this year than usual. PAL could have a booth to sell Members’ cards and prints. Anne Knapp and Myrna Binion volun-teered to head up the PAL booth. We would allow members to bring in a certain number of prints and cards, if the member volun-teered to staff the booth, they would pay 10% commission on any item sold and if they did not help with the booth, the commission fee would be 20%. Anne said she has worked with a similar idea- you use 2 tags on every item. If the item is sold, one tag is taken off so that it is clear what exactly was sold and for what artist. We need Visa/MC capability to sell effectively. It would be nice to have for the sales at the Info Booth also (T shirts, posters). It was reported that Bill Parker will not be hosting a conflicting event this year.

Anne Knapp reported that we would present the awards to the students who created the winning posters at the April Meeting. The invitations have been sent, the winning teacher would not be able to attend due to a previous commitment. The Gateway did a nice article on the Peninsula High School Art Program. The winning poster is already at the printers to use for ads, the posters and T shirts.

Regional Show- Debbie Dorn said that the 137 art entries had been sent to Judy Morris, and that she will know at the end of the week which entries would be in the show. Then she would tackle letting all the entrants know the results. She will ask for volunteers to receive the art work, and to hang the show at the Civic Center. Both Robin Peterson and Lita Dawn Stanton are trained in the hanging system at the Civic Center. Debbie would like to do a presentation at the May Meeting showing all the entries.

Mimi Van Ballenberghe sent in a report on workshops- Fourteen people participated in the Experimental Mixed Media Workshop presented by NWWS and AWS award-winner Jeannie Grisham. Jeannie was our juror for last summer's 2007 membership show. Jeannie offered individual critiques throughout the workshop as well as a group critique at the end. A signup sheet was dis-tributed to ensure that participants' questions were answered and for private critiques. In addition to trying out new painting and composition techniques, the workshop provided PAL members with an opportunity to learn more about our organization and to interact on a personal level with other PAL members - often sharing painting hints and valuable techniques with one another. Peo-ple expressed their appreciation for being able to take a workshop in Gig Harbor without having to drive to Tacoma or Seattle for professional development. Many felt this was especially valuable now that gas prices are soaring. While there are a numbr of work-shops available in the Puget Sound region as a whole, the importance of providing workshops locally to artists was a much expressed sentiment and appreciated need. The workshop was totally self-supporting; final receipts will be transferred to Jon Loning.

Rhene is working with TCC Gig Harbor Campus as a site for our Fall Show. There will be a screening to qualify as an exhibiting member before the June PAL meeting.

Anne Knapp said that the Plein Air schedule is posted on the website and in the monthly newsletter and that in spite of unseasona-bly cold weather, they had already had some successful outings. Any members that wish to get on the email list about each weeks painting site should contact Anne Knapp at annemknapp@gmail.com.

The meeting adjourned at 12 noon. Respectfully submitted- Anne knapp

Correction to March Minutes: Myrna Binion offered to stay one more year as President.

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Jeanne Grisham from

Bainbridge Island

taught a wonderful

workshop last month in

Donna Trent’s studio.

The workshop was all

about water media—

water, water, water!

The students had a memorable learning experience and

have many new ideas about what can be used to perk up an

old, failed watercolor painting, what can be used with water,

and how to “go for it!” without fear! Thanks to Jeanne for

being so generous with her knowledge, to Donna Trent for

The use of her studio and to Mimi Van Ballenberghe

for setting up this fine workshop.

Jeanne Grisham in teaching

mode!

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Gig Harbor Summer Art

Festival Poster Contest

We had a nice group of Posters

done by art students at both Pen-

insula High School and Gig Har-

bor High School, but had no en-

tries from Henderson Bay this

year. The PAL board chose the

best six posters based on graphic impact, composition, and appropriate

theme. The top six were displayed at the PAL Meeting and the members

voted to select the poster for 2008 Gig Harbor Summer Arts Festival.

The winners are:

1st Place- Arianna Smith- Peninsula High School $100 Award- this will be on Posters and T-shirts for our

Summer Arts Festival.

2nd Place- Johanna Walther- Peninsula High School- $50 Award. 3rd Place- Kathryn Bronstad- Peninsula

High School- $25 Award

The winning Teacher is

Christine Burris who will receive a

$100 Award also.

Many thanks to Anne Knapp

for her efforts coordinating the

poster contest with the high school

teachers. Anne loves working with

the students and gets a lot of per-

sonal enjoyment from this project

and she does a wonderful job!

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

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Ongoing Classes presented by PAL Members:

Decorative Painting Dori Wheeler, Teacher, Tole and decorative Classes at 253-851-3192 or-851-3193

Calligraphy Yulene Brasel is teaching calligraphy in Gig Harbor. Call her

at 853-3623 or email callignart@juno.com

Decorative Painting Jeanne Crider CDA , Teacher. Tole and decorative classes and Watercolor paint-

ing classes call for schedule at 253-857-5132 or jcrider@gmail.com

Pastel & Oil Donna Trent—call 265-6532 for information

Art Instruction— Carolyn Scott Arnold 360-269-7995 or 884-7771

Portrait and Life Drawing Contact Harry Sundberg 253-265-3780, or Doug Michie at 253-851-7579

Jewelry Making - Joan Tenenbaum, Teacher. Private instruction in jewelry fabrication. Call or e-mail her at 253-858-7478 or merlin059@centurytel.net

Welcome to our newest PAL mem-bers! Phyllis Davis Sherri Bales Charles Salak

Barbara Fugate workshops: are listed on her blog at www.FromLife.blogs.com

BIG CHANGES...the places are still the same--South Hill Art Studio and Hales Passage Community Center. But the sub-ject matter will be different. It is now, FLOWERS: CLOSE-UPS TO GARDENS. We will be exploring how to paint them in still lifes, gardens, or whatever you would like to do. AND THE DATES HAVE CHANGED. South Hill Art Studio will be May 17. Hales Passage Community Center will be May 24. AND WE WILL HAVE A SHORTER TIME...from 12 to 4:30pm. The fee will be different...$40.00. I am excited. It is more in keeping with Spring. Email me (sjbailsart@comcast.net) or call me(253-848-5209) ASAP. Thanks. Sherri Bails

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