All of the low country Art Guilds seem to go into
hibernation throughout the heat of the summer. Come September, every last one
of them are in a race to make up for lost time. This past week has been a
series of seemingly non-stop meetings about upcoming exhibitions, shows,
training, workshops, and fund-raising events. It's a bit exhausting, but a lot
of fun as well.
The month started off with an exhibition at
the Prevost Gallery/Rice museum which was sponsored by the Georgetown
Watercolor Society. This event was followed by the group's monthly meeting ...
a video training workshop watched in the luxury of leather arm
chairs.
That
same weekend the Charleston Art Guild held its jury-in process, then two days
later its monthly members meeting. About half of CAG's 400+ members showed up
to vote on changes to the Guild by-laws,
and
watch a demonstration of palette knife painting by artist, Jim Pratt.
The CAG meeting wasn't all
serious business.. We got a hilarious Chippendale- like demonstration of how
the Guild's fund-raising calendar "Southern Exposures" was made.
Not
to be outdone by the Charleston Guild's strip tease, the Waccamah Arist
Craftsmen Guild's monthly meeting featured a wet t-shirt contest... AKA -
Acrylic Sand Resist workshop. What fun!
The Sea Coast Artist
Guild also held a heavily attended monthly meeting the same week .
Our speaker
was the art director of the Chapin Museum, who gave an enlightening
presentation on how she creates exhibits .
who gave an enlightening
presentation on the history of the museum how she creates exhibits .
This group is very
civic-minded , so almost half the meeting was taken up with upcoming
fundraisers.. book sales, logo shirts, mini canvases to be sold at
Christmas,and of course a luncheon held the next day at a local pastaria. Pass
the vino , please!
The
door prize was a painting completed on the spot by Barney Slice..
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