Pastel Society of North Carolina

2012 Statewide Pastel Exhibit Housing Option

meg — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:23:48 +0000

If you wish to come to the opening reception of the Statewide Pastel Exhibit and do not wish to pay for an expensive hotel. Please consider staying at NCSU’s apartment suite for a night or two.

For $38 you may stay in a new apartment suite at Wolf Village on the campus of North Carolina University. Each unit has 4 single bedrooms with full-sized bed, two bathrooms, and kitchen. Bedrooms are furnished with desks, chairs, dressers and closets. You will be provided with two sheets, two towels and washcloth, blanket, pillow, and pillowcase. The kitchen comes equipped with a microwave, stove, and refrigerator. If you choose to use the kitchen, you must bring your own utensils. You may choose your own roommates.

There are wifi hot-spots located throughout campus. However, wifi is not available in the apartment suites. To receive access to the web or email, you must pay for a ResNet pass which costs $5.00 per day.

Parking on campus is $5.00 per day. On weekends it’s free.

For more information and to register for housing, please click the following link:
https://ssl.ncsu.edu/housing/conferences/pastel/

Appalachian Pastel Society, Asheville, North Carolina

meg — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:23:33 +0000

The Appalachian Pastel Society invites artists to submit work for their 2012 National Juried Exhibition to be held October 18 – December 14, 2012 at The Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina. More than $2,000 in cash prizes and art supply gift certificates will be awarded, including a $1,000 Best in Show Cash Award.

Juror for the 2012 APS National Exhibition is Richard McKinley, PSA, PSWC-DP, NPS.

Richard McKinley has been a professional working artist for 38 years and has over 35 years of teaching experience, including several DVDs on pastel painting. A book that compiles years of his published Pastel-Pointers columns and blogs for the Pastel Journal Magazine titled “Pastel Pointers, Top Secrets for Beautiful Pastel Paintings”, was released in November 2010. For more information, visit Richard’s website at www.mckinleystudio.com

Paintings submitted must be 80% soft pastel (not oil pastel). Submission is made via digital images in JPEG format on a CD. Artists may submit up to three images. Entry is $25 for APS members, $35 for non members. Deadline for receiving entries is August 1, 2012. Visit the APS website for prospectus at http://www.appalachianpastelsociety.org/national-exhibitions/, or send a SASE to Carol Branton Morrow, 108 Flame Azalea Drive, Swannanoa, NC 28778, phone 828.686.7549.

Working Artist Organization

meg — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:50:00 +0000

$1000 Working Art Grant / Purchase Awards / Call for Submissions

We offer small monthly purchase awards to help serious artists keep working. Open to all visual artists including sculptors, mixed media, video, from all countries. Deadline for the $1000.00 Working Art Grant. Purchase Awards is April 30, 2012.

For application guidelines please see: http://www.workingartist.org/art-grant-guidelines.html

Deadline: April 30, 2012

info@workingartist.org

Member News, Kathy Miles Morgan

pastel — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:11:07 +0000

Kathy Miles Morgan will have art on exhibit at the Fleet Feet Corp. Office in Carrboro for the month of April. The corporate office is at the junction of Rosemary St. and Main St. in Carrboro (stucco contemporary building on your left when heading west on Main St). The Open House will be this Friday April 13th, from 6pm – 9pm and will be part of the Art Walk for Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there.

March 2012 Meeting photos

pastel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:16:26 +0000