Visual Art League of Lewisville

Mary Ellen Wehrli will be giving a presentation on “Marketing Art” on September 7 at 7 p.m. at the Lewisville Visual Art League Center. Her presentation will include different ways to market your art and to make contact with people and including different examples. As part of her presentation, she will show us a retrospective of her art life that will include a 1969 painting that started a company she developed.

A native of San Francisco,Mary Ellen Wehrli began herformal art studies at San Jose State College and the College of San Mateo. She has received many awards in both abstract and representational art and has been selected to show in juried shows throughout California. She has been a member of the San Francisco Women Artists, the Marin Society of Artists, the Terra Linda Art Association, Art-A-Fair Festival of Laguna Beach, and the Seal Beach Art Association. She has also served as the Fine Arts Supervisor for the Orange County Fair and as the Fine Arts Coordinator for the Los Angeles County Fair in 1990, 1991, and 1992.

Her paintings are found in many private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Many of her commissioned pieces are also found in business and public settings throughout California including the Alcoa Building in San Francisco, the Bank of America Building in Anaheim, the Art-A-Fair Festival Building in Laguna Beach, the City of Santa Paula, the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, and the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona.

Visit Mary Ellen’s website

I offer drawing classes to children in Lewisville ISD after school at the schools for one hour. I am looking for teachers and want to extend the offer to VAL’s membership. Please see the information below and contact me with any questions. — Peggy Bush, 940-498-5721

Now Hiring Teachers!

Teach 2-5 hours a week After School, $14 to $16 per class, Lewisville ISD schools/area. Paid training, curriculum, and supplies provided. SOLID Classroom experience required. Teachers travel to area schools and recreation centers and teach art immediately following dismissal for 1 hour. We are looking for teachers who are available 2 to 3 afternoons a week.

Current openings in Flower Mound, Highland Village, and Carrollton. Busiest days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons. Due to the nature of the program, teachers typically do not teach more than1 class a day.

Elaine Nienkamp’s show will be coming down November 7 and the art center will be available to set up for the HOLIDAY SALE. We are still in need of a coordinator to organize the sale and to bring the group together to discuss advertising, presentation, sales procedure and scheduling. In the prior sale event, the camaraderie was great and the efficiency of our teamwork was spectacular. Please consider organizing and leading this event!

Dear Friends,

Becky and I would like to personally thank you for participating in The Dallas School of Music’s 2004 Fall Festival of the Arts. This year’s festival was the biggest and best yet! Our students and families enjoyed the atmosphere and tours of the artwork continue. We have two more main events scheduled on October 9 and November 13.

There should be quite a few people attending both, and we look forward to getting as many eyes as possible onto the artwork. If you need to collect your pieces prior to these events, feel free to contact us so that we can have them ready for you. We will be publishing a newsletter over the next few weeks with information about the festival at the Common Chord section of our website www.dsminfo.com.

We look forward to having you here again in the future!

Best,
Eugene Cantera — Partner
The Dallas School of Music, Inc.
972-380-8050 ext. 207
E-mail: eugene@dsminfo.com
Website: www.dsminfo.com
Website: www.musicked.com

We all appreciate and enjoy seeing the new work that the staffing members have put in the Main Gallery. About every 2 months, Staff Members’ change out their work for a new exhibit. This creates about 4 separate shows 2-months each year, after eliminating the time and space for LISD and invitational show schedules. At the time of change out, it is important that everyone taking down work or placing work in the new show, be at the art center at the scheduled time. But of course, there will be times you cannot and in which case, please provide our new staff coordinator, Brenda Hinaman (972-221-6952), with information as to what you want done with your work. For example you can’t be there to take out your work, let her know you want it placed in the back, etc., or if you have dropped off work to be hung, let her know where you have left it and that you would like it hung in the show.

To help her in organizing the change-out, it is suggested that you send her an email at TRSplace2@yahoo.com confirming what you would like. We want to continue to put up different work at each change-out so a painting doesn’t show for more than two months in a row. Any VAL member who will provide time to staff the gallery during regular open hours can participate in the exhibits. If an artist is unable to do that, perhaps another person would be willing to fill in for them and make it up later, or another time could be arranged, even in a following month. The important thing is to maintain consistent hours that the gallery is available to the public. This is a commitment we have made to our community and to each other.

We are continuing to build our publicity to make the public aware of our new exhibits. It has been suggested that we do a mailing each time we have a change-out of work and this is something we should consider. Available now in our web site is a calendar which can be used by members only to access the staffing schedule. www.visualartleague.org/valec/ This will be a convenient way to check your schedule date and that of others with whom you might want to visit or make contact during their scheduled day of staffing the gallery.