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. 

Late July: Flower Explosion on Kenosha Pass

July Meeting

We meet at Hudson Gardens on South Santa Fe Drive from 1-3 on Sunday, July 26. Enter through the gift shop; no charge. Several areas will be closed off and unavailable for sketching, including the water features and Monet gardens, as they are setting up for a concert later that day. No meeting room, but the attendees can gather (in a shady spot) and catch up on the latest news, and then off to plein aire sketching!

If you are a Wicked entrant, you can bring your forms and fees and turn them in, and beat the drop-dead date of August 1, 2015.

Art in the Garden August 22nd, 9 am – 5 pm – Tagawa Garden Center

This year’s Tagawa Gardens event has a full day of activities in the theme Art in the Garden.  First, of course, the RMSBA artists' show and sale, then workshops taught by Sharon Garrett and Patti Hearn: Shading and Watercoloring for Kids, and Doodle Art for Tweens & Teens. Also featured are other workshops conducted by local artists. We will enjoy music and performance by the Rocky Mountain Highland Dancers. This year’s event offers a perfect venue to talk to the public about our organization and to showcase our artists. 

This is your opportunity to sell and share your art work: we can’t hang framed pieces, but can make prints, note cards and other botanically-themed articles available to the general public.  If you want to sell your artwork, assist with a workshop, or just be a part of the event, please sign up by sending an email to Patti Hearn at pattihearn@hotmail.com.  Sign up by August 17 at the latest, and the sooner the better so we can get organized and make this a successful and fun event. More details will be provided to participants.

It’s Independence Day! (…tomorrow)

Happy Birthday, USA.

July Meeting

We are on for Hudson Gardens on South Santa Fe Drive from 1-3 on Sunday, July 26. Enter through the gift shop to go in at no charge. Several areas will be closed off and so not available for sketching, including the water features and Monet gardens, as they are setting up for a concert later that day. There is no meeting room, but the attendees can gather (in a shady spot) and catch up on the latest news, and then off to plein aire sketching!

Tagawa Gardens

On Saturday, August 22, we have an RMSBA event at Tagawa Gardens in Parker. It’s an opportunity to sell works of art, cards, matted pieces, etc. Patti Hearn will meet with a TG representative on July 16 to iron out specifics. TG takes 10% of sales and also the tax load. They apparently do not have equipment to hang framed art, but we hope for a counter for cards and notes, etc., and a few fabric bins for matted pieces. More information to follow!