November News

EBAG’s December 2008 Show- The Gift of Color!

Plans for EBAG’s December show, The Gift of Color, are ramping up.  The call for art has been emailed to membership. Signup deadline is November 16. If you failed to receive the call for art email, please contact ebag.exhibits@yahoo.com.

In addition to the usual exhibition of artwork this show will be unique.  EBAG will have a table set up for the artist to sell smaller items to the visitors.  The sale of these smaller pieces of artwork should significantly enhance the excitement of the attending public.

We will be hosting an Artists Reception on December 13 from 11:30am to 3:30pm. The reception will also serve as our December general meeting/year-end social gathering. Excitement plus! Come and enjoy to art and the atmosphere.

Member News

EBAG artist Bob Wahrhaftig will present an interactive demonstration of his figurative painting method at the Moraga Art Gallery, 570 Center Street, Moraga on Friday, November 7 from 7 to 9 PM. He has titled his demo, “Masterpiece or Mess?” He will set up a canvas and invite members of the audience to apply splashes of color, after which he will transform the piece before our very eyes into one of his colorful figuratives. One lucky member of the audience will get to take the artwork home. This will be an exciting project-come and support EBAG’s most colorful artist!!

Five members of EBAG are also currently members of the Moraga Art Gallery, while at least two others are past members. Come visit! The Moraga Art Gallery is in the Rheem Valley Shopping Center, tucked in between Long’s Drugs and Loard’s Ice Cream.

The Gift of Color

EBAG’s December Show- The Gift of Color!

Our December 2008 show at the Lindsay Dirkx-Brown Gallery in San Ramon, The Gift of Color! , will be a show you won’t want to miss! Not only will it be EBAG’s most ambitious show to date, but it will be a show with a twist. One of the aspects that will make it our most ambitious show will be the “small sales table” coordinated by member Carol Jurasin. More details are forthcoming. The twist is that each participant will participate with a capital P; meaning, not only will you show art, but you will be part of the production team. The different jobs are being broken down into small tasks: many hands make light the work. The Initial Call for Art email will be sent out soon, and will include the list of volunteer jobs. The Gift of Color! is going to be a blast–an extravaganza! The Artists Reception will double as EBAG’s December General Meeting, but bigger and better than ever!

Innovative ways to reproduce your original art

Several EBAG members will share ways they have found successful to turn their original art into smaller, more “immediately saleable” products. Please contact ninawm@comcast.net if you’d like to participate in these small demonstrations. Possible products include turning two-dimensional art into greeting cards, jewelry, coasters, matted prints, T-shirts, and calendars. Contact Nina with more ideas. This topic should be of particular interest to EBAG members who would like to participate in the December show’s “small sales table.”

Welcome New Members

The Guild welcomes new members Jane Connelley, Katrina Martin Davenport, Margaret Kus, and Mika Phinney. Our membership is up to 71.

Open Studio Workshop

There are still plenty of openings in the Pleasant Hill open studio workshop. Contact EBAG member Walter Crew for more information (phcrew@juno.com). Since it’s a new deal, we can only hope that the idea will catch on-if not this session, then the session beginning November 5.

The sign-up information, as shown in the Pleasant Hill Spotlight, is repeated below:

Painting Open Studio (6 meetings per class session) Come paint with us. Open to both experienced painters and current painting students. Work on your own in a relaxed group setting. No instructor. Artists provide their own materials and are responsible for their own clean-up. No storage.

Monitor: Juli Gianti.

4559.401 Sept 17 – Oct 22; 4559.402 Nov 5 – Dec 17 (no meeting Nov 26, Dec 10).

Wednedays, 12:30pm-3pm. Fee: $22. Location: Art Studio, Pleasant Hill Community Center, 320 Civic Drive (off Taylor, PH). Register online now at www.pleasanthillrec.com or by phone (925) 682-0896 or by FAX (925) 682-1633, or by mail PHR&PD 320 Civic Drive, PH 94523. Online registration offers a $5 discount!