Do you recognize Saint Patrick’s Day? What do you recognize the next day?

Artists’ Reception for Lost in the Woods at Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center in Vail, Colorado, is set for Monday, March 2, 2020, 12 – 2 pm. Please join us if you can.

Cannabis & Medicinal Herbs. We happily announce an upcoming no-fee show-and-sale exhibit! This serendipitous opportunity goes up in the venue on April 2. Maybe you have an existing piece that fits with the theme, or you have a little time to create something new.

La Cour French Bistro and Jazz Bar (AKA Denver’s Art Bar at 1643 South Broadway) will display the pictures from our Cannabis show that recently closed in Durango during April 2020. Some pieces are no longer with the exhibit, and the Bistro is quite large, so we seek other artworks focusing on medicinal plants to fill out the show.

We ask for artworks created in traditional botanical media and conforming to standard botanical art criteria. They must fit into the theme by portraying cannabis or any other medicinal herb. You may create a new piece befitting the theme, or submit an existing work. No size or framing restrictions are imposed. You can offer small prints and cards for sale.

Eligibility: Members of the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists.

Fees: There is no fee for this exhibit.

Entering Your Images: Please send a .jpg (low res. ok) to Sharon Garrett or Dorothy DePaulo so that they might determine if your image fits with the theme and into the space available.

Sales: Sales are encouraged; it will be a cash and carry exhibit. Artist receive 76% of the sale price; 19% goes to La Cour and 5% to a selected charity [501(c)3 RMSBA].

Calendar:

 1. Exhibit dates: April 2 to April 30, 2020.

 2. Instructions for delivery will follow upon acceptance.

 3. Install: April 2.

 4. Opening reception April 3. Members wishing to attend the reception must make reservations with La Cour online, or call (303) 777-5000.

Presentation of Artwork: Frames are expected to be good quality and befitting a gallery setting. Selected entries must be:

• Framed and ready to hang.

• NO sawtooth or projecting eye screw hangers. Use D-rings and picture wire.

Label the back of your artwork with your name, address, phone number, email, title of artwork, sales status and price. Titles must include the Latin name of the plant portrayed. 

Accepted entries not conforming to these constraints may be refused at the time of hanging.

All artwork will be transported in RMSBA Fleece Art Sacks. Other packing material will not be stored by the RMSBA.

New Show at Spark! Gallery. Phillip Potter is a local artist whose work has botanical elements and themes and who is among the aspiring artists participating in our From Platte to Peak opportunity. Try him out while you’re down the Santa Fe Art District.

Upcoming Lecture from the Tesoro Cultural Center: This in from Heidi Snyder:

"The Great American Desert: Major Stephen Long's Colorado Expedition of 1820"

Saturday, April 25, 4 pm Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave, Littleton

Sunday, April 26, 2 pm, Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Av. Pkwy, 5th floor, Denver

(limit 60, no registration)

Sunday, April 26, 6 pm, The Fort, 19192 CO-8, Morrison

Using images of original paintings, sketches, and maps, John Steinle will discuss the Stephen Long expedition of 1820 on its route through Colorado and other parts of the west. He will illustrate the many "firsts" that this expedition accomplished, and why the West was labelled the "Great American Desert" in the expedition's aftermath.

Call the Tesoro Cultural Center at 303-347-5999.

Limber Pine Herbarium Sheet

RMSBA Exhibit. “From Platte to Peak” calls on us to illustrate plants collected by Dr. Edwin James during the first actual scientific expedition to the western High Plains, led by Major Stephen H. Long, during the summer of 1820. Many plants are familiar and widely dispersed, and you may have some depictions of them in your own existing portfolio that fit the size limits. The Call for Entry is at Online Juried Shows, open now and closing August 15, 2020. Martha Narey is the contact for the James Plant List and supporting materials.

Alpine Clover

Alpine Thistle

We want your artwork!

There’s an Opening tonight!

Today’s the Day: ‘Lost in the Woods’ opens in Lakewood.

Come see us this evening. It’s gonna be a hoot.

“Cannabis: A Visual Perspective” landing now

Nice post Labor Day at the SBAI Blog promoting our exhibit at CUMNH in Boulder.

Open Studio invitation from Judy Vanderbosch:

Scanning at Open Studio

September 13, Wednesday 10am to 2pm

Judy Vanderbosch Studio

Judy has a large scanner for 12” x 17” images which can professionally scan high dpi, tiff, jpg. Be thinking about all the possible needs such as for printing, email, or entering shows which each image needs a different dpi or tiff or jpg. Judy can scan your piece for all these possibilities so you are ready for anything. She will scan all day free to RMSBA members. 

Judy is also a graphic artist and worked for several printing companies. She will give us some hints on how to set up art for printing and scanning. How to look for and talk to a printer. Please bring your Flash Drive to transfer your scans too. It is not possible to transfer the files thru the internet.

Soup and bread will be provided for lunch and bring your projects to work on while others are getting their art scanned. Plenty of parking!

Address:

6585 E Colorado Dr

Denver, Colorado 80224

phone: 303-375-7718

email: redbudart@gmail.com

Thanks, Judy. We’ll see you on the 13^th.

Now that the Curtain has closed once more…

Winterlude: Botanical Promises opens tomorrow, November 4, at Gallery Bleu, Bas Bleu Theater, 401 Pine Street, Fort Collins, CO. The Artists’ Opening Reception is from 5 – 7 pm. We can expect great things from the Exhibit Chairs, Sharon Eaton and Patti Hearn, and the Curator, Mary McCauley, who will have labored mightily to design and hang the exhibit. Prints, cards, and other artistic outputs from the exhibitors are available. Please be there to congratulate the artists and the designers! 

If you can’t make it this week, come to the December 2 Artist Reception. Both the opening and the holiday receptions will coincide with Fort Collins Art Walks.

New book from University of Chicago Press. Botanical and scientific posters once adorned the walls of America’s classrooms. Here’s a new compendium.

Artist-in-Residence programs in the National Parks. In mid to late November, the US National Parks post announcements for their AIR opportunities. Usually applications are due in mid to late December. The US Park Service oversees more than 400 locations, and many of these offer such opportunities. Check with the particular site that interests you (Mesa Verde NP, Homestead NM, etc.) for the latest information.

RMSBA Board meeting November 7, 11 am - 2 pm, at Hooked on Colfax, 3213 E. Colfax Ave, Denver.

Great leaf colors everywhere this season!

Along Cimarron Ridge near Montrose

A Small Good Thing Reception Tonight. Join us today, September 30, 5:30 – 7 pm at the Cherokee Ranch and Castle for the Artist Reception and fundraiser for the Can Do Foundation.  Mini castle tours before the film. Come and enjoy art work by RMSBA members. Items for purchase donated by the artists include prints and other goodies; all proceeds donated to the Can Do Foundation. Tickets $25.

Winterlude: Botanical Promises has a deadline date of October 1. That’s Saturday. Get those 12x12 entries submitted to https://onlinejuriedshows.com/ at the last possible minute.

RARE II: Imperiled Plants of Colorado hangs now in Boulder at the CU Museum of Natural History, while Shakespeare’s Bouquet hangs in CU Norlin Libraries N-345 until October 14. Get on up there and see them.

Poisons, Potions, and Panaceas hangs at the Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora until October 28. Several members have lovely works in this exhibit, all of which are worthy to be seen together.

Reminder: Open Studio is now the second Thursday of each month, next opportunity October 13, 9 am – 12 n. Come join us at Valkarie Gallery, 445 S. Saulsbury St, Lakewood, CO.

Pie Factory Pop-up Celebration for Rocky Mountain Land Library. Come to the Puritan Pie Factory (2612 Champa Street, Denver, CO) and learn more about the Headwaters to Plains Network, a trio of library/learning centers along the South Platte River, from the headwaters in South Park to the Puritan Pie Factory -- new inner-city home of a library focused on nature in the city! Find food, drink, and pie aplenty, along with music and a Silent Auction full of art and inspiration. Hear about upcoming plans and programs at the Pie Factory, and all the ways you can make the Land Library your own. Denver Water is sponsoring this event, Thursday, October 20, 2016, 5 – 9 pm. Suggested donation $25 for tickets.

Tagawa Gardens 2017. For the very long-range planners out there,

mark Saturday, July 22, 2017 on your calendars. Our show and sale will coincide with the well-attended Gardens Lavender Fields Forever event.