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Reception and Demonstrations (Volunteers step forward, please!)
Rocky
Mountain Wild! Reception has been set for Sunday October 3, 2021,
3:00-5:00 p.m. Garden of the Gods
Visitor Center, Colorado Springs.
We would like to have an artist demonstration at the Center for each
month of the exhibition. They will be on Sunday afternoons, 1-2 hour blocks.
Ideally we would have 6 of our artists willing to demonstrate their artistic
skills. This is a great way for you to promote your work and meet people.
Contact Patti Hearn if you want to volunteer: pattihearn@hotmail.com
We need "one" of you to coordinate these demonstrations with
the GOG staff and the artists. Be the one of 99 who steps forward to help our
overworked Exhibition Committee.
Rocky Mountain Wild! (RMSBA members only) remains open for entries at Online Juried Shows. The deadline of September 10 is approaching at warp speed, so now is the time to finish your pieces and submit those scans!
Member Meeting at Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, September 19, 2021, in Freyer-Newman Center Classroom 1, to the left as you enter FNC. Enter through the main doors near the Copper Door Coffee Shop at 11th Ave & York Street; do not use the public access gates at York & ~10th. Anyone who wants to visit the Gardens before or after we meet should book a ticket as usual.
If your work was accepted into Rocky
Mountain Wild!, drop it off at the meeting; that show will be installed at
Garden of the Gods on September 20.
Happy Labor Day, American workers! Federal minimum wage is now $15/hour, at which full-time rate you could afford a two-bedroom apartment in exactly zero US counties.
Board Meeting. Directors have received a working agenda. Contact a Board member if you have a topic you want to submit for consideration. The meeting is set for 10 am, September 28, The French Press, 3504 E. 12th Ave., Denver.
ASBA Annual
Conference ONLINE October 13-17, 2021. Registration for ASBA's second virtual
conference is now open! For information, visit the ASBA website. To register
online, click here. Registration closes
at 11 pm Eastern Daylight Time on October 6th. Inexpensive. No
transportation or lodging costs… Sign up.
Fading
Yellows Explained. New pigment sources find a way into our materials
and we love it when they’re light-fast. This article
in June 2021 Discover magazine points
out what happened to brilliant yellows originally used by Van Gogh, Munch, and
others.
No-so-new
White. Titanium dioxide, source of Titanium White, was introduced to great
fanfare in 1908, when Auguste Rossi first produced it in Niagara Falls, NY.
Previously-used white pigments were lead white in Europe (What might that explain?)
while calcium carbonates (CaCO3) like chalk and lime were prominent
in the Americas. Turns out, Rossi was just a little late to the party. The Inca
had exploited the Giacomo Deposit in Peru more than 400 years ago; lots of
material available. Find out why the Inca traded that in for imported lead
white in this article
in Smithsonian, June 2021.
Labels: Call for Entries, Wildflower show, Rocky Mountain Wild!, Board meeting, yellow pigments, white pigments,
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