A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established January 1990 www.RainbowArtists.com

Monthly Meeting and ProgramMonday, February 17, 2013

6:30 Business MeetingProgram follows Business Meeting

January 21, 2013 Meeting Discussions

1. Women and Creativity Show cancelled. 7 Rainbowwomen viewed the Factory’s small gallery space. Consen-sus was to withdraw from W and C as space was deemedinadequate by most of those present and no other spacewas forthcoming. Coordinators had not been determinedeither. There was a time constraint due to publicity dead-lines with W and C. Collective was emailed with informa-tion, and some responded; majority agreed with with-drawal. We will still be listed as a Sponsor of W and C.

We need more exhibit location options. We need exhibitcoordinators. Grace Collins is resigning as Exhibit Commit-tee Coordinator. Seeking new woman for this task.

Discussed 2014 Show at the Unitarian Church; jurying bythe church committee will take place in April or May, 2013.Peace and Justice Center is another possibility for a 2013show. Also Off Center.

2. Need Meeting Facilitator/Program Organizers for 2013.Volunteers and programs thus far:

Feb. Shari/ Hand painting workshop

Mar. Pea/ Alice Neale movie-Suzanne Z. will bring

April, - June Judith (April -**THE FUTURE OF RAINBOW),(May - “Nuts and Bolts of Being An Artist”)

July, Aug., Sept. Eliza (July - Egg Tempura demonstra-tion)

Oct., Nov. Shari

3. The new Mission Statement was officially approved.When will the new mission statement be released. Shariwill ask Joan Fenicle to put it on the website. When Fundslook better, we will have new one page front and backcolor brochures printed with new statement prominent.

Rainbow needs a web mistress with aPC to use our software to maintain andupgrade our website. Please considerthis worthwhile position. Contact JoanFenicle 771-4007. 2/1 update, we mayhave found a web mistress, but stillhave many openings.

New Venue for 2013 Rainbow Exhibit

Rainbow has scheduled an exhibit for Octo-ber, 2013 at the African American Perform-ing Arts Center. Eliza Schmid developedthis great opportunity for a show in the spa-cious, well lighted gallery at the AAPAC onSan Pedro near the Fairgrounds. ThanksEliza. Jackie Hertel, Shari Adkisson, andNova Denise helped research and finalizethe arrangements. We look forward to alarge, high attendance exhibit during a busypreholiday month. Look for more informa-tion about this show which Eliza Schmidwill coordinate. Think BIG as you prepare

Dues for 2013 are due now. Send a check for$25 made payable Rainbow Artists and send toShari Adkisson2900 Vista del Rey NE Unit 25 DAlbuquerque NM 87112

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Breeze Wise sold 3 pieces at Jane Rodman's Xmas artsale in December: an assemblage, called "Alien", amixed media collage called "Puzzled" and a "bottled art"piece. Bottled art is made from found objects inside aglass jar or bottle.

Also, Breeze now has art in the Off Center store. Theseare recycled tin boxes decorated with small objects andimages. One of the boxes, called "Cats" has sold.Breeze will have 2 pieces in the Off Center exhibit, "WellRed" during the month of February

2012 Rainbow Artists CouncilExhibitions Grace Collins 341-4354Treasurer Shari Adkisson 242-7227Website Joan Fenicle 771-4007Publicity Joan Saks Berman 265-5157Outreach Thora Guinn 842-6196Newsletter mailing Judith Kidd 243-6174Newsletter editors Jackie Hertel 265-2339

Nova DeniseAlso use these emails which are easy to remember:newsletter@rainbowartists.comexhibitions@rainbowartists.compr@rainbowartists.comwebmaster@rainbowartists.com

RAINBOW ACHIEVEMENTS

Rainbow News and NotesRainbow News and Notes

A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established January 1990 www.RainbowArtists.com A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established

Up coming EventsAt our February meeting, we will join the national move-ment "I Can We Can Pledge to End Abuse" campaignhttp://icanwecan.awbw.org/

We will make art on our hands (or on hand shaped me-dia), photograph it and upload the photos to the I CanWe Can website. We will use supplies furnished by OffCenter, so just bring your creativity!

Gretchen Miller says: “Here’s my painted hand, which I titledSurvivor’s Hand: Finding Safety through Art: Healing,Healthy, Safety, & Hope. As an art therapist working with chil-dren and women survivors of domestic violence, my handrepresents how art provides a healthy and safe way to empowerand create a voice for expression and awareness aboutabuse. Purple is the awareness color designated for domesticviolence and the words I added to my hand come from a wordcollage sheet I often use in my art therapy sessions for differentinterventions.

Learn how you can participate in this interactive project andupload your own hand here. There’s a I CAN WE CAN Tool-kit, Virtual Community Gallery, and a How to with prompts,suggestions, and tips for creating your own hand (or with oth-

Bardean Gallery holds its Masterworks of New MexicoAnnual Miniature Fine Arts Show in April. To submitto: bardean@aol.com or call 505 260 9977.

Rainbow Women ArtistsCollective Mission Statement

Rainbow Artists, an award winning women’s collec-tive established in 1990, supports, promotes, and en-courages women artists.

*We embrace ethnic and artistic diversity.

*We strive to grow in our art and our associationwith each other.

*We share our talents and enrich our creativity andour community through collaborative exhibits and

Litany at the Tomb of Frederick DouglassMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NewYork, November 7, 2008

This is the longitude and latitude of the impossible;This is the epicenter of the unthinkable;This is the crossroads 0f the unimaginable:The tomb of Frederick Douglas, three days after theelection.

This is a world spinning away from the gravity of centu-ries, where the grave of a fugitive slave has becomean altar.This is the tomb of a man born as chattel, who taughthimself to read in secret,Scraping the letters in his name with chalk on wood;Now on the anvil-flat stone a campaign button fills theO in Douglas.The button says: Obama.This is the tomb of a man in chains,Who left his fingerprints on the slave breaker’s throatSo the whip would never carve his back again;Now a labor union T-shirt drapes itself across thestone,Offered up by a nurse, a janitor, a bus driver.A sticker on the sleeve says: I Voted Today.This is the tomb of a man, who rolled his call to armsoff the press,Peering through spectacles at the abolitionist headline;Now a newspaper spreads above his dates of birth anddeath.The headline says: Obama Wins.

This is the stillness at the heart of the storm that beganin the body of the first slave,Dragged aboard the first ship to America..Yellow leaves descend in waves,And the newspaper flutters on the tomb,Like the sails Douglass saw in the bay,Like the eyes of a slave closing to watch himself es-cape with the tide.Believers in spirits would see the pages trembling onthe stone and say:Look how the slave boy teaches himself to read.I say a prayer, the first in years:That here we bury what we call the impossible, the un-thinkable, the unimaginable,Now and forever. Amen.

This is our new and updated Mission Statement andreplaces the previous version. This was voted on atthe January meeting and approved by those memberspresent.

2012 Christmas Party at the homeof Suzanne Visor.Left to right: Suzanne Visor, NovaDenise, Ginger Quinn and JoanSaks Berman.

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Breeze Wise sold 3 pieces at Jane Rodman's Xmas artsale in December: an assemblage, called "Alien", amixed media collage called "Puzzled" and a "bottled art"piece. Bottled art is made from found objects inside aglass jar or bottle.

Also, Breeze now has art in the Off Center store. Theseare recycled tin boxes decorated with small objects andimages. One of the boxes, called "Cats" has sold.Breeze will have 2 pieces in the Off Center exhibit, "WellRed" during the month of February

2012 Rainbow Artists CouncilExhibitions Grace Collins 341-4354Treasurer Shari Adkisson 242-7227Website Joan Fenicle 771-4007Publicity Joan Saks Berman 265-5157Outreach Thora Guinn 842-6196Newsletter mailing Judith Kidd 243-6174Newsletter editors Jackie Hertel 265-2339

Nova DeniseAlso use these emails which are easy to remember:newsletter@rainbowartists.comexhibitions@rainbowartists.compr@rainbowartists.comwebmaster@rainbowartists.com

RAINBOW ACHIEVEMENTS

Rainbow News and NotesRainbow News and Notes

A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established January 1990 www.RainbowArtists.com A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established

Up coming EventsAt our February meeting, we will join the national move-ment "I Can We Can Pledge to End Abuse" campaignhttp://icanwecan.awbw.org/

We will make art on our hands (or on hand shaped me-dia), photograph it and upload the photos to the I CanWe Can website. We will use supplies furnished by OffCenter, so just bring your creativity!

Gretchen Miller says: “Here’s my painted hand, which I titledSurvivor’s Hand: Finding Safety through Art: Healing,Healthy, Safety, & Hope. As an art therapist working with chil-dren and women survivors of domestic violence, my handrepresents how art provides a healthy and safe way to empowerand create a voice for expression and awareness aboutabuse. Purple is the awareness color designated for domesticviolence and the words I added to my hand come from a wordcollage sheet I often use in my art therapy sessions for differentinterventions.

Learn how you can participate in this interactive project andupload your own hand here. There’s a I CAN WE CAN Tool-kit, Virtual Community Gallery, and a How to with prompts,suggestions, and tips for creating your own hand (or with oth-

Bardean Gallery holds its Masterworks of New MexicoAnnual Miniature Fine Arts Show in April. To submitto: bardean@aol.com or call 505 260 9977.

Rainbow Women ArtistsCollective Mission Statement

Rainbow Artists, an award winning women’s collec-tive established in 1990, supports, promotes, and en-courages women artists.

*We embrace ethnic and artistic diversity.

*We strive to grow in our art and our associationwith each other.

*We share our talents and enrich our creativity andour community through collaborative exhibits and

Litany at the Tomb of Frederick DouglassMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NewYork, November 7, 2008

This is the longitude and latitude of the impossible;This is the epicenter of the unthinkable;This is the crossroads 0f the unimaginable:The tomb of Frederick Douglas, three days after theelection.

This is a world spinning away from the gravity of centu-ries, where the grave of a fugitive slave has becomean altar.This is the tomb of a man born as chattel, who taughthimself to read in secret,Scraping the letters in his name with chalk on wood;Now on the anvil-flat stone a campaign button fills theO in Douglas.The button says: Obama.This is the tomb of a man in chains,Who left his fingerprints on the slave breaker’s throatSo the whip would never carve his back again;Now a labor union T-shirt drapes itself across thestone,Offered up by a nurse, a janitor, a bus driver.A sticker on the sleeve says: I Voted Today.This is the tomb of a man, who rolled his call to armsoff the press,Peering through spectacles at the abolitionist headline;Now a newspaper spreads above his dates of birth anddeath.The headline says: Obama Wins.

This is the stillness at the heart of the storm that beganin the body of the first slave,Dragged aboard the first ship to America..Yellow leaves descend in waves,And the newspaper flutters on the tomb,Like the sails Douglass saw in the bay,Like the eyes of a slave closing to watch himself es-cape with the tide.Believers in spirits would see the pages trembling onthe stone and say:Look how the slave boy teaches himself to read.I say a prayer, the first in years:That here we bury what we call the impossible, the un-thinkable, the unimaginable,Now and forever. Amen.

This is our new and updated Mission Statement andreplaces the previous version. This was voted on atthe January meeting and approved by those memberspresent.

2012 Christmas Party at the homeof Suzanne Visor.Left to right: Suzanne Visor, NovaDenise, Ginger Quinn and JoanSaks Berman.

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Rainbow News and Notes

A Women’s Collective in New Mexico Established January 1990 www.RainbowArtists.com

Rainbow Artists1508 Roma NEAlbuquerque, NM 87102RainbowArtists. com(Newsletter now on line)

More Christmas PicturesBelow:Left to Right: Nova Denise, JackieHertel, Pea Garvanian

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ABOVELeft to Right Thora Guinn, Ginger Quinn,Judith Kidd