Updates

Hello Everybody!

Some new things are happening at the Whitmoyer Art Studio & Gallery and I am very excited about them!

Book Club

We are starting a book club. Saturday, February 28th, at 10:oo am,  we will meet with all who are interested to set it up. The club will not be necessarily meeting on Saturday mornings, the date and time will be determined by the needs of the participants. I am encouraging everyone who will come to the preliminary meeting to bring ideas for the first book, as this will be determined Saturday as well. I have already received a few suggestions and I am in the process of researching them. The club will probably be meeting once a month, at each meeting a different person will lead the discussion and a new book will be selected... unless of course the group decides differently. I am new to this experience, so all suggestions and ideas are welcome. 

Ladies' Tea

Our Ladies' Tea in celebration of International Women's Day is also set on March 8th, at 4:00 pm.  I already have some presenters set up, but there is still time for more. Our theme this year will be "The Art of Being a Woman". We are born women and this was not a choice. But how we live our lives as women in the selection of our education, in our careers, in our role within the family and society... we make choices. We make them and we implement them, and how we implement them and how we live them is an art. This is different for each one of us; sometimes is the result of the environment in which we grew up, somehow it has been affected from the situations we lived, at times it has been a conscious choice to reinvent ourselves. 

We did not choose to be women, but we choose every day how we live our womanhood.

Drawing Group

Drawing Group has been slowed down by the weather a few times. But otherwise is going very well. Everybody loves our model Renee and we have a good number of "regulars" who come every week, as well as new people who show up from time to time. 

For those of you not familiar with it, Drawing Group is a free forming group of artists from different backgrounds and with different level of experience, who meet here at the Gallery on Wednesday evenings to draw from a live model. Everyone over 18 years of age is welcome to participate, regardless of their skills. I have seen some artists compare notes and share some tips or techniques from time to time, just as others keep their drawings to themselves... regardless of your style, the group is very welcoming and fun!

For now these are my updates. I am working on the March newsletter... but by now you all know how that goes... So I figured that this will be a more effective way to get the news out in a timely fashion.

Until next time, enjoy these photos of our Carnevale Masquerade!

Peace,

Chiara