Southern Connecticut
Polymer Clay Guild, Inc.
Not-A-Newsletter for Jan 18, 2003 Meeting
=====Suggested agenda for January 18 Meeting
Demo by Libby Mills: Patchwork Painted Clay: layered stamping with Lumière ink technique.
Raffle Chain: Michele Raffaele's pie
fetish necklace and earring set, "Cream Dream."
Winner will donate item for next raffle in March
Discussion of Weekend of Clay Feb 1&2
=====Reminders
---Membership runs annually January to
January, so dues are now due and they are $15.
Please mail to Sue Rankin, our Treasurer, if you are not able to come to the
meeting.
(Make checks payable to: Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild, Inc. (or SCPCG)
and mail to: SCPCG c/o Sue Rankin, 477 Church Hill Rd., Trumbull, CT06611)
----The 3 beads for the beadstrand are
also due. Please have them in by March 2003.
=====Looking Ahead
Raffle of the 2002 Beadstrand at the
February Meeting.
Anyone who HAS NOT turned in their 3 beads for 2002, (and there are a LOT of
us!!!)
PLEASE make arrangements to get these beads to Rose Dougherty or Lynne
Schwarzenberg ASAP!!!
We want to have more than just 12 beads on the strand!
=====Classes, Workshops, Retreats
The Southern New Hampshire Polymer Clay
Guild will be hosting a 2 day class with Sarah Shriver,
Intricate Kaleidoscope Canes, Sat/Sun March 22-23, 2003 at the Kimball-Jenkins
Community Art School
in Concord, NH. The school is located just off Interstate Rt. 93.
The class fee is $130.00 for non-members. Contact Bette Abdu at
babdu@metrocast.net if you are interested.
Here is the link to Sarah Shriver's web page to go with the class info: http://sarahshriver.sunnisan.com/ss/
Lynne and Libby are going to this class, please contact them if you want to
arrange a carpool or share accommodations.
Lynne Schwarzenberg is teaching 2
classes at Mystic Stamp and Stitch in Olde Mistick Village in Mystic, CT.
To sign up for classes please call: (860) 536-0424
The following description of the classes is from their website: http://www.mysticstampandstitch.com
Jan. 25 Saturday
INTRO TO CLAY CANING
Lynn Schwarzenberg, one of CT's Polymer Clay Guild instructors, will teach
you the basics of cane making
using clay. Caning, or Millefiore, is creating a picture out of clay in a tube
shape that can then be sliced and used as beads, buttons, embellishments, or
layers on clay projects.
1-5 pm $50.00
Feb. 8 Saturday
FAUX CLAY TECHNIQUES
Did you ever think you could make Scrimshaw or jade out of Polymer
clay?...well you can and Lynn, from CT's Polymer Clay Guild, will show you how.
She'll share with you several different faux techniques in this 4 hour class.
1-5 pm $50.00
===========Information supplied by
email from Amy Crawley:
The late winter and spring season look to be chock full of polymer clay
workshops in New England.
Here is what I've uncovered so far:
Kathleen Dustin,
New Translucent Techniques in Polymer Clay, March 8 and 9, Mass College of Art,
$200.
For more information, go to www.massart.edu
Nan Roche, April 26-27, Arlington Center for the Arts. Sponsored by Beadesigner International. Details TBA.
Gwen Gibson,
May 30-June 1, Artiology Arts Retreat, Atlantic City, NJ.
This is an Art Retreat offering many different workshops, including collage,
bookbinding, assemblage, polymer clay, precious metals clay, rubber stamping,
jewelry and related arts.
For more information, visit www.artiology.com
Jody Bishel will be teaching at Ravensdale 2003 in Issaquah, WA. The conference will take place August 3-10, 2003. Details will be provided as they become available.
Diane Villano will be teaching various classes at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee, WI in June 2003. Diane’s class schedule will be highlighted in a future newsletter.
===== Shows, Exhibits, Publications
Calling All Polymer Clay Artists!
Send your high-quality transparencies & slides for publication in a juried
collection of
500 incredible objects made from polymer clay. All forms considered,
whether jewelry
or non-functional work, clay alone or mixed-media pieces.
No fee for entry; accepted artists receive fully credited
inclusion and complimentary copy.
For guidelines, send SASE to:
500 PC Objects
Lark Books
67E Broadway St.
Asheville NC 28801
E-mail: rosemary@larkbooks.com
Forms also on Web site: http://www.larkbooks.com
or http://larkbooks.com/submissions/ArtistsEntryForms-500-poly.asp
Guildford Handcraft Center
– Anyone who has taken classes from Jan 2002 to present is invited to
be part of a student exhibit in the medium in which they took classes.
The exhibit runs from Feb 8-23.
They will be receiving work from Jan 31- Feb 2.
===== Bottles of Hope
Tracy VanBuskirk has a section on
Bottles of Hope in the book "Stamp & Slice Clay" produced by
Design Originals and Suzanne McNeill. She has donated copies of the book to the
guild library,
and to Marie Segal and Leigh Ross who also help promote the BOH.
Thank you, Tracy and Congratulations!
====Guild Help Needed
Promotion Coordinator – someone
to help get the word out about the guild and our programs.
Please contact Sharon or Diane if you are interested in volunteering for this
position.
====Help Needed
Deborah Edery is planning
another holiday event at Laurel Gardens beginning Feb. 1 and spanning
two weeks....Chinese New Years! If you know anyone who would like to contribute
anything to the celebration,
ie. art, calligraphy, costume, jewelry making of course, music, dance, cooking,
travel slides, speaking engagement, water gardening, floral arranging, cooking,
tea ceremony, etc. let her know. Email: ADAR@comcast.net
=====Traveling Exhibit
The Traveling Exhibit has been
scheduled for the year by Arlene McNeely
JANUARY Welles-Turner Memorial Library, 240 Main Street,
Glastonbury
FEBRUARY Cheshire Public Library, 104 Main St.
MARCH Plumb Memorial Library, 65 Wooster Street,
Shelton
APRIL Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main Street, East
Haven
MAY South Norwalk Public Library, 10 Washington
St.
JUNE Miller Memorial Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave. Hamden
JULY CH Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown
AUGUST Wallingford Public
Library, 200 North Main St.
SEPTEMBER North Haven Memorial Library, 17 Elm St.
OCTOBER Seymour Public Library, 46 Church Street
NOVEMBER Guilford Public Library, 67 Park Street
DECEMBER Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave.
2004
JANUARY Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 South Main Street,
Branford
We will be happily accepting
items to display throughout the year and will also need help setting up and
taking down the display. Please contact Sharon or email sharchar@aol.com.
===== Minutes from December 14, 20002
This meeting was primarily a social
event. The Annual Tag Sale & Raffle was held at the beginning
of the meeting and a Potluck Lunch followed the Tag Sale.
There were 15 members in attendance and 1 guest.
Class proposals were distributed.
The classes will be held on the weekend
of Feb 1-2 at the Foxon Fire House in East Haven. There will be 4 classes
of approximately 3 hours each.
We can also have the space into the evening both days.
Voting for which classes you would like to hold will be held by e-mail in
January.
Deb brought a pin from Elise Winters to be raffled at a future meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg
Back-up Newsletter Lady, Understudy to the Secretary, general all-around
Poly-maniac
(203) 734-1396
riverpoet@aol.com