Ohio Collage Society News

NCS Postcard Show in Washington State

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Click the above for the announcement of 2012's NCS Postcard Show.

Collage-making Event for Members (and friends)

The 14th of April at Studio 2091 Gallery from 1-3pm will be another collage soiree for OCS members and folks interested in becoming a member. Bring your supplies and enjoy the camaraderie of other collage-obsessed artists.

Amy's gallery will be the site of our member show in November, so if you haven't seen it, now is your chance.

Martha Germano at Willoughby Hills

Martha Germano has a show currently running at the Willoughby Hills Gallery until February 27. This looks like it would be a wonderful roadtrip. Congratulations to our active member Martha!

If anyone else is in exhibits, please send that information along to Shirley for the blog.

Pictures from the OCS Member's Exhibition in Dayton

Some views from the opening reception of the member's show at The Cannery Gallery in Dayton OH on November the 4th 2011. President Shirley, Vice President Chris and Treasurer Christine took a road trip down and Chris is responsible for the photo documentation. The above view is about mid-way in the show.

Vice President and President in front of the art.

Chris and Nita Leland, author and awards judge.

Myself and the awards judge. Nita also had her new book on collage for sale the night of the reception. 

Award winners were:

Marcia Mazak: Rust Belt No.5

Barbara Johns: The Truth was in Her Eyes

Shirley Ende-Saxe: The Blue of UnBe

Pat Schroeder: Fables

Chris Paringer: Wall St Terror

Congratulations to the award winners and all who exhibited. The show was stong and an excellent example of the many talented artists in our organization. Next year we plan on being in NE OH again, so keep working and plan to enter next fall.

Oh, and please excuse the tardiness of this entry, the blogger Shirley has her own solo show tonight and has been preoccupied ever since arriving home from Dayton.

Art to Dayton, NE OH Delivery & Etc.

After a board meeting yesterday about the Dayton Annual Member Show, keep these things in mind:

1. Art must be delivered to Shirley E. or Chris P. to get a ride down to Dayton by the 15th of October.

2. Please make sure art to go is securely wrapped and padded, your friendly transporters get very worried when they receive a naked collage and can't be certain it will come back to you safely. So wrap them up!

3. If you enclose your check on the back of your work (outside the wrapping) that will help us with our records. 

4. Prospectus and entry form links follow this post, if you haven't entered/renewed, do it today!

And now the miscellaneous part from Gretchen B., this sounds fun:

 

Dear Landfillart Artist,

  

This is very exciting time for The Landfillart Project!  We are nearing completion of the first phase of our mission.  We only need 150 additional, professional artists to join us on our Landfillart "voyage", allowing us to realize our original goal of establishing a collection of 1,041 total art projects.  We can then move forward and start phase 2- publishing The Landfillart Book, which will include every piece completed for the project.

  

Please pass on our website www.landfillart.org, and have your fellow artists contact me.  If the artist mentions your name, it will help speed up the selection process.

  

Thank you for your help and participation in The Landfillart Project.

 

 

                                                                                            Sincerely,

 

                                                                                            Ken Marquis

 

Prospectus and Membership forms for Dayton 2011

Download FINAL VERSION, OCS ENTRY 2011 Dayton

Please click the link above to access a prospectus for our annual membership show that will be in Dayton Ohio at the end of October. For those who want to have their pieces taken down for the show we need them at Chris Paringer's house, Christine Jackovitz's house or Shirley Ende-Saxe's house before October 15.

We hope to see lots of wonderful art and are looking forward to showing our talents in Dayton!

Revised Pick-up Time

Those of you who entered the 3.5x2.5 show at The Box Gallery......pick-times have been revised to 4pm-6pm on the 18th, Monday at Summit Art Space on the 3rd floor. These are the same hours as the "Fresh" show and allows me to be there by myself and not have to post an additional person at the door downstairs. See you there!

Big Night with Small Scale Collage, 3.5x2.5 Opens

Friday at The Box Gallery was our opening for the small scale art measuring only 3.5x2.5 but it was a big pARTy with 160 in attendance between the hours of 5 and 7. Pat Sargent was our judge and she chose 5 merit award winners:

Martha Germano

Catherine Wooley

Gretchen Bierbaum 

Brenda Keblesh 

Linda Mertus

The food was wonderful, the wine and punch were good and the music provided by Kevin Minster was terrific (he deserves a venue where everyone will sit down and pay attention to him) Some photos taken at the reception:

Exhibitor Gwen and reception boss Sharon.

Marcia M.,exhibitor.

Brenda K., award winner, and Cathy.

A gallery view.

Catherine W., award winner.

Tracy B., with her work.

Cathy R., with her work.

Vice President, Chris P., with her work.

A Message For NCS Members....

During the postcard show in Kent, we can have small collages for sale in the Downtown Gallery.  They keep 40% of sales.  Please announce to OCS members who are also NCS members that they can deliver their collages to the gallery anytime soon.

Gretchen Bierbaum

Board News

We met and hashed out details of the 3.5x2.5 show coming up shortly. Here are the minutes provided by Brenda, 

 

Meeting February 23, 2011 Begin 1:20 PM, End approximately 2:00 PM

In attendance: Shirley Ende-Saxe, Chris Paringer, Gretchen Bierbaum and Brenda Keblesh.

Discussion about the upcoming OCS show at The Box. Opening reception March 11, 2011 5-7 PM.  Show ends April 16, 2011.

Take in for art is March 8, 2011 Noon until 6 PM at the big Box, third floor of Summit Artspace Building.  

Maximum 4 entries per person. $5.00 fee per entry. Sales are allowed and the gallery fee is 20%, which is much less than most others. There is NO fee for us to have the show at the Box. Fran wants all artists to sign Gallery contract sheets. 

Cash awards are yet to be determined. All work must be mounted on 6x8 white mounting board. 

There will be an opening night reception. It will be a potluck (finger food) Please sign up to bring food or drink when dropping off artwork. 

Shirley is arranging for Acoustic guitar entertainment by Kevin Minster. He is from Columbus. OCS will pay him $50.00 an hour for 2 hours. Cari Miller will holding her show in the little Box gallery and has agreed to share the cost of entertainment. Her portion will be negotiated before the reception. 

We are working on getting Pat Sargent to judge the show. There was some discussion about having another judge as well. Fran U. will be hanging the show but will need some help. If anyone is available to help for take in or hanging please contact Shirley or Chris Paringer as soon as possible. Chris, Shirley and Brenda Keblesh will be working the take in. Chris will log in the work on her laptop. There will be a sign up sheet for food and drinks and one for Gallery sitting at take in. Please plan on sitting at least once for the show. The Box is open noon-4:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. Also on April 2, we are open for the Artwalk (5-9 PM) and on April 3, Sunday Sampler (noon-5 PM).

It's almost time to put it up!

Check the 2/8 post down further on the blog for the prospectus.