Ohio Collage Society News

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

June 18 2011, Saturday will be our next collage work session (or collage party, if you prefer) at Gallery 2091 on the Front St. Mall in downtown Cuyahoga Falls at 1PM. We've always had a lot of fun at Amy's gallery so come and join us!

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!

At Long Last!

Download Issue Nine Readable

From John in Austrailia, another issue of Collagista! There are 31 pages so you may sit waiting a bit as it uploads.

Award Winners, 3.5x2.5 at The Box Gallery

Martha Germano:

Linda Mertus:

Catherine Wooley:

Brenda Keblesh:

Gretchen Bierbaum:

Congratulations to the award winners as well as all the participants. Our attendance on opening night was 160 and we've sold some work as well. Thanks to you all!

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

Sorta, Kinda Collage

But so clever, I couldn't help but put in the link:

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

You won't be disappointed if you click it!

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.

 

Another Link to the Schwitter's Exhibit

Here's the link: http://www.dallasartnews.com/2010/11/kurt-schwitters-at-the-menil-collection-houston/

 

Collagarama at Gallery 2091

We met, we glued, we worked on postcards for the NCS show coming up and on ATCs for the OCS show in March. Our gracious hostess, Amy Mothersbaugh-Roos showed us around her gallery and plied us with pizza. It was a good day to work in an inspiring space and here are the photos to prove it:

Gwen at work on postcards.

Lucy is one of the artists featured on the postcard for our upcoming show in March.

Our vice-president, Chris, deep in thought. She has a piece featured on the publicity postcard for the show as well.

Jan also has a collage on our postcard, and our esteemed founder, Gretchen is below. 

Join us next time, times and places will appear here on the blog. Scroll down for prospectus for the 3.5x2.5 exhibit coming up in March.