CORRECTION - January / February Newsletter

ARLINGTON Arts GROUP January / February Newsletter   See previous Newsletter  in this issue Art Evenings - CHANGE TO DATES AAG Events + Annual Art Show Membership Due 1st Feb Committee meeting DATES: NEXT AAG MEETING: Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm at Pickhams. AGM Date to be confirmed, probably either 22nd or 29th February. Please check the website or Arlington Village Hall noticeboard for details and agenda. !! CHANGE TO DATES!! Arlington Art Evenings Thursdays, 7 - 9pm in Arlington Village Hall - £2.50 regular session (for demonstrations, workshops and other events, please check.) All welcome - no need to come every week. Bring your own materials / equipment. You can carry on with your own projects or take up the 'suggested challenge' each week as you wish! 5th January - Shiny and New 12 January - No theme 19 January - NO MEETING 26 January - All things Scottish. 2 February - A Touch of Frost. 1940 - David Jason, English actor 9 February - Flight. 1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet.  Artist of the month. 16 February - Bring in an object to inspire. 23 February - Puppets. 1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released 1st March - Competition: Pigs. National Pig day in United States. 8th March - Workshop with Lindy Dunbar. Life drawing. "Artist of the Month" We get to see what members work on at the Thursday Art Evenings and at exhibitions, but it is great to see all the other work they do and have done in the past. Nov - Camilla Pennant Camilla brought in a selection of her works which included some paintings done on a recent residential art course (this example was painted with hands and fingers) and some examples of work done at Wilmington Art Group. Competitions: Monthly Theme Each week we have a suggested theme and every so often we make one a competition. Anyone who attends that session can enter (or choose not to!) - there is a prize and the winning entry will be featured in the next newsletter. At our session on 1st March the theme will be Pigs. you can start your work in advance but it should be worked on and finished during the session. Everyone votes for their favourite at the end of the session.    Paint Me a Bluebell You can interpret the title as you like. Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium and to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not the original work. CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31st March 2012 All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC). Categories: Children's winner 2011 A - Under 8's (50p per entry), B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry) C - 65 and over (£1 per entry), D - Amateur (£1 per entry), E - Professional (£2 per entry) Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in person to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement. We can not return photographs. It is a condition of entry that your original work is available to display between 8th ad 19th September 2012 in the event of you being a winner. Prizes for the winner in each category of either Art materials or vouchers will be presented at the exhibition of the winning entries where photographs will be taken of all winners with their work. It is a condition of entry that you consent to images of your work being used on the Bluebell Walk website and printed literature where this relates to the Art Competition and on the Arlington Arts Group website and  to promote future competitions run by the Arlington Arts Group and published in the Arlington Arts Group Newsletter. All entries must be photographs of your own work which must be original, not copies of the work of other artists or photographers.  Send photos of your Paint me a Bluebell entries to: AAG Bluebell Competition c/o Magpie Cottage, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 6RR    Enquiries 01323 485153 or by email Hailsham Shop Windows There will be a changeover of artists displaying work in the empty shop windows in Hailsham High Street on 29th January. This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the letting agents (Ross and Co) which has greatly helped to improve the appearance of the High Street, and several of the units have now been let. The scheme has received some press attention and may well be a blueprint for other councils. This is not a commercial venture - it is an opportunity for artists to show work and help the appearance of the High Street. Pictures in the windows are not priced but Gallery North will handle all enquiries about work if the artists have given them details. There is no commission taken on any sales but pictures have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the exhibition. It looks like we have only 3 units available to us at the time of writing and we have 3 artists lined up, but please do get in touch if you are interested in showing work for approximately 8 weeks as more empty units may become available. You would need to provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your work for the exhibition duration, and collect your work when asked - if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked to remove your work, possibly at short notice. If interested please email asap or call Josie at Hailsham Creative on 01323 840 048 or leave a message for Jenny at Gallery North (70 High St, Hailsham) on 01323 846 938.   Arlington Art Show 2012 This is scheduled to be in the Village Hall on the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, Sat, Sun and probably Monday (TBC). The format will be much the same as our last year's summer show and submission forms will be available on the website soon. If you would like a form posted to you please SEND A SAE to the address below marked Arlington Art Show 2012. We want everyone who wants to show their work to have the opportunity so we do not have a selection committee, but we are always oversubscribed so space is allocated on a first come first served basis. We will invite a few crafts people who have had stalls with us before but will not be advertising craft pitches for sale this year. Other events this year will include the exhibition of the winning entries in the Bluebell competition during the Hailsham Arts Festival in September. We will discuss this at the meeting on 1st Feb as we may decide to extend the exhibition to other artists and perhaps have a couple of 'fringe' festival events in the village, such as artists' open studios. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas.    WANTED Newsletter secretary The Newsletters are set up and printed every 2 months (that's just 6 a year) and posted or emailed to all AAG members. [You may have noticed a lack of Newsletter in December - it was a quiet month for the group so there was not much to report. I also simply ran out of time to produce one] If you are able to collate information and set it up on a computer, I can arrange the printing. This email version if very easy to edit once the material is all ready. Full training will be given! Please do consider taking on this role - ask for more details - and let one of us know before the next meeting. Thank you! Chair: Josie Tipler 01323 485153 Secretary: Anne Howard 01323 870 842 Membership: Brenda Carr 01323 871 430 Events Secretary: Camilla Pennant Treasurer: Hazel Hooker: 01323  846 085 email: info@arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk www.arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk Follow us on Facebook c/o Magpie Cottage . Hayreed Lane Wilmington . Polegate . BN26 6RR Deadline for submissions for the March / April Newsletter: 20th February . Send to info@arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk Regards Josie Tipler      MEMBERSHIP DUE 1st Feb Subscriptions are due on 1st Feb. You can choose £6 Email membership (for those happy to be contacted by email or to view the newsletters online or on the noticeboard at Arlington Village Hall), or £9.50 postal membership (to have newsletters posted to you every other month). Membership automatically entitles you to   reduced exhibitor rates at AAG exhibitions and at many events organised by the group,    your card will get you a 10% discount at Pictures and Frames of Horam.    Members can also order items from the SAA at SAA members prices when ordering through the group.     Members are covered under the AAG Group Public Liability Insurance at AAG events. Details of forthcoming AAG Exhibitions will be listed in the Newsletters - if you would like to participate please either pick up application forms from Arlington Village Hall, download an application form from the website or send an SAE for a form to be posted to you.  Name Address Postcode Email address Telephone Mobile   Please indicate if you are applying for Email (£6) or Postal (£9.50) membership   E  / P Amount enclosed £                                            Cheques payable to Arlington Art Group   I am happy for Arlington Arts Group to retain and process my data for the purpose of Arlington Arts Group events and activites. Signed .....................................................

Hailsham Shop Windows - space for artists.

There will be a changeover of artists displaying work in the empty shop windows in Hailsham High Street on 29th January.

If you would like to show work for approximately 8 weeks in a shop window exhibtion, please do get in touch. You would need to provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your work for the exhibtion duration (29th January to 24th March), and collect your work when asked - if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked to remove your work, possibly at short notice.

This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the letting agents (Ross and Co). You may be asked to help clean up the interior of the shop when placing your work, if it has not already been done. You will be responsible for keeping the windows cleaned.

 This is not a commercial venture - it is an opportunity to show your work and help the appearance of the High Street. Pictures in the windows must not have any prices on them - you can put your own contact details in the window if you wish or Gallery North will kindly handle all enquiries about your work (for a small donation) so you will need to provide a list of the work with prices and either a 'map' of the window or photos of the work for the gallery stewards. There will be no commission on any sales but pictures will have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the exhibition.

If interested please email asap or call Josie at Hailsham Creative on 01323 840 048 or leave a message for Jenny at Gallery North (70 High St, Hailsham) on 01323 846 938.

Paint me a Bluebell 2012

Paint Me a Bluebell.

SEE THE 2012 WINNING ENTRIES HERE

You can interpret the title as you like . Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium and to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not the original work.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31st March 2012

All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC).

Categories:
A - Under 8's (50p per entry),
B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)
C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),
D - Amateur (£1 per entry),
E - Professional (£2 per entry)

Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in oerson to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.

 
We can not return photographs. It is a condition of entry that your original work is available to display between 8th ad 19th September 2012 in the event of you being a winner. Prizes for the winner in each category of either Art materials or vouchers will be presented at the exhibition of the winning entries where photographs will be taken of all winners with their work. It is a condition of entry that you consent to images of your work being used on the Bluebell Walk website and printed literature where this relates to the Art Competition and on the Arlington Arts Group website and 

to promote future competitions run by the Arlington Arts Group and published in the Arlington Arts Group Newstetter. All entries must be photographs of your own work which must be original, not copies of the work of other artists or photographers. 

 
send photos of your Paint me a Bluebell entries to:

AAG Bluebell Competition c/o Magpie Cottage, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 6RR

Enquiries 01323 485153 or by email

Art Evenings start this week

The first Art Group session of 2012 is on Thursday 5th January, 7-9pm at Arlington Village Hall. All are welcome - if you got some art materials for Christmas and need some inspiration to get you started, pop along! Informal and untutored, £2.50 to include a drink, bring your own materials.

Each week we have a suggested theme - this week it is 'Shiny and New' - which you can ignore if you like and do your own thing. We have magazines and books for inspiration and everyone is happy to share their own tips and suggestions. A small group, our numbers vary from 10 to 20 ish each week and we have members who work in watercolours, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, oils, pencils, print so there is always plenty of inspiration!

There is an annual membership fee if you would like to come on a regular basis (due in February, amount TBA but around the £10 mark so not extortionate!) which entitles you to a discount on our exhibition entry fees and on materials form the SAA, plus you are covered by the SAA PL Insurance at group events.

Check here for future session dates..