ORVAG members have been invited to participate in Bethel, Ohio’s Art and music festival. More information is available here:
http://www.roborigs.com/RoboRigsProject1/bethelohevents/index.html

We have had a great weekend at ORVAG with Frontier Christmas.  Artist’s showing their creative work,  the smells and sounds of the Holiday’s, good friends stopping by to shop, chat, enjoy the spirit of the season and well wishings to all.  If you left before the bagpiper arrived, he was great and you missed a treat.  The Guild will be open on the 9th and the 16th from 1:00-7:00 pm  for all of the community and members to get together and share in the “Holiday Spirit”.  Refreshments will be served. 

As you know, all the entries are at the guild for our Edgar Allan Poe exhibit. Monday from 6-9, many people are going to visit our building for the first time. We need to make the best impression possible. It will be a good opportunity to show the community what kind of space they can expect to see when we move downtown to the Cox building.

If you have any work that you would like to display, please bring it Friday afternoon. Our art building should be filled with our artwork.

Later the next week, members of the Kentucky Arts Council, city of Maysville, Berea, and Horse Cave are going to visit our building. The KAC is one of our largest sources of funding. We need to look as good as possible and there are many ways you can help. BRING SOME ARTWORK TO DISPLAY, help with the lighting, straightening up/decorating, etc.

Sorry for the short notice. I will be at the guild tomorrow (Friday) somewhere between 1:30 and 2. If you can help, it will be appreciated. If you want to meet for lunch before , I will be at Margie’s Southern Café on Market street Friday at noon.

Below is a rough draft I came up with for an application for the Art Contest.  We can make the applications available to the school art teachers, and in other art venues.  I’ll also make them available for download on the ORVAG website.  We may be able to have them available on the museum’s website .

Please use this blog post to make suggestions/improvements and have a conversation about the event.

CALL TO ENTRIES

The Ohio River Valley Artist Guild and Kentucky Gateway Museum Center invites you to participate in a special art contest illustrating works from the book, GREAT TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.    .

REQUIREMENTS:

Artwork can be in any medium, including painting, drawing, photography or sculpture.  Artwork will be displayed at the Ohio River Valley Artist Guild in Old Washington for a special  exhibit on October 26^th at 6pm-9pm.  There will be a public reception where prizes will be announced for all categories.

PRIZES:

MANY prizes are available in both YOUTH and ADULT categories  with 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd place winners and honorable mentions,  including (but not limited to):

• of individual tales and poems
• by medium (pencil, acrylic, clay, fabric, etc.)
• by age groups (YOUTH ONLY)
• by amateur/professional artists(ADULTS ONLY)
• most original
• best of show

DEADLINE:

All entries must be delivered to the guild or museum NO LATER THAN October 19 with this application filled out.   2 dimensional artwork must be ready to hang (in a frame with a wire).

ARTIST NAME:_____________
ARTWORK TITLE:___________
MEDIUM:_________________­
TALE OR POEM USED FOR ILLUSTRATION
________________________________
CIRCLE ONE:     ADULT/YOUTH
YOUTH, enter Age _________
ADULTS, circle one AMATEUR/PROFESSIONAL

SUBMIT ENTIRES TO:

OHIO RIVER VALLEY ARTIST GUILD
504 Duke Of York Street
Old Washington, KY

Or

KENTUCKY GATEWAY MUSEUM CENTER
215 Sutton Street
Maysville, KY

More information available:

http://www.orvag.org

Sorry I’m late with a few reminders.

We are meeting today, June 1^st for the final meeting before art camp at 5pm the guild building. If you have not already volunteered to help, it’s not too late, this is going to be a lot of fun, and the more artists that participate, the richer experience we will be able to give the children. Come to the meeting!

Tomorrow, The Maysville Cultural Arts District Association is having an accessibility lecture/breakfast/workshop on June 2^nd at 8am at the Museum Center. As visual artists, we have been well represented at these meetings…there are a lot of exciting plans for the arts downtown, and I think we should continue to be a part of these plans…try to make it.

The Cynthiana Arts Council is having an art walk July 24, and 25^th. There is more information available at their website:

http://www.cynthianaartscouncil.org/ArtWalk.html

If anyone is interested…it might be a good show. They have a nice website. Maybe the guild would be interested in setting up as a group to promote our region/activities.

Happy Hour For Humanity is having an auction to benefit the UK children’s hospital. Artists can chose to spit the auction proceeds 50%-50% with the hospital or donate all proceeds to the hospital. This could be a good opportunity to get your artwork in front of a new audience…and make a little money. The time frame is short, but if you want to participate, contact:

Nathan Zamarron

859.255.2951

nzamarron@lexarts.org

Jacob Werline has opened a new antique store/gallery downtown on second street next to the Downtown Market Deli. He has offered space to any guild members. It looks like a good opportunity for our local artists to have their work represented in downtown Maysville. I would like to see him succeed with local artists, and I am going to take him some work today. Potters, he has shelves.

Here is his contact information:

606.301.3210

jacobwerline@yahoo.com

Finally, KET came to the museum center and filmed Marjorie’s exhibit for their program, “Kentucky Life”. They are planning to visit her home and do an interview. Doug Hendrickson has graciously given us the use of one of his windows on second street, where we have put a nice display of Marjorie’s work. It makes me smile everytime I walk by…it’s great what a difference art can make to our neighborhood. Now that Marjorie’s exhibit is down, we need to change our website’s homepage. If someone can give me an article with photos, I will put it up!

Sorry for the short notice, but Joseph Wood, Artcroft’s current resident is going to do a reading of his work at Ed’s Carlisle Cafe Wednesday at 6pm.  Artists and writers are invited to bring their work to share after Mr. Wood’s reading, and then stay for dinner.  Dinner will be made especially for this event, so please rsvp  Call Jim Lally for more informaiton 606.407.1457.

I think this is a special opportunity, so I am planning to skip critique this Wednesday, and I am going to attend after the art camp meeting.  Anyone interested is welcome to ride along with me.

I am willing to reschedule critique if there is need/interest.  Let me know,

Ken Swinson

A planning meeting for art camp will be held at the guild building this Wednesday, May 27 at 5pm. Children are our next generation of artists, and if you have the time to volunteer, this is a great opportunity for you to make a difference.

I don’t know what we have decided to for the Simon Kenton Festival, but we have been offered a free space. I have a show on the 20th, but can sit with our tent for a ½ day on the 19th. I think this is a good opportunity for us to promote the guild and our artwork.

What do you think?

Yesterday, I went to the ‘meeting of the art minds’ in Winchester.  Eastern Kentucky’s artists, guilds and galleries are trying to network and market as a group.  They meet 4 times a year.  The next meeting will be in August, in Flemingsburg.

One project they are working on is a map of our area’s galleries and art studios. If you are interested in having your gallery or studio on the map …  Email your address, phone number, email and website to:  forfrosty@qx.net

They are also trying to organize a email newsletter of art events.  Send any event information to: goofateer@aol.com also ask to be on their mailing list.

Also, there is a quarterly published magazine of Kentucky festivals and events.  May 1st is the deadline for the summer edition.  Email announcements to: info@backhomeinky.com

Please share this message to anyone you think wil be interested.

Thanks

ken

I am trying to update our website’s calendar.  Please let me know if there are any art events that are missing.

Thanks,

Ken