Month: June 2019

2019 Arts and the Park, Light on the Reef Paintings

Thanks to all the artists who participated in this year’s Arts and the Park, Light on the Reef plein air competition.  Here is a slide show of paintings from participating artists for your enjoyment!      

President’s Message June/July 2019

Thank you, for your approving vote for me to be your President of UWS for the 2019-2020 year. The operative words in the previous sentence “your President,” because I am here for you, all of you. Whether it is your preference to volunteer to be on the UWS Board, or attend meetings and participate, or…

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Congrats to this year’s new UWS Signature members

Each year at the June Annual Member Meeting, the President has the opportunity to announce and award UWS Signature status to those who have met the requirements for Signature Membership. For those who don’t know, to achieve UWS Signature status, you must have been juried into eight separate qualifying exhibitions (Fall, Spring, or WFWS). Two…

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President’s Closing Message 2018-2019

I joined UWS the year Nancy Lund was president in 2003. I thought you had to be a good artist to join, or I would have joined sooner! Art is important to me by itself, but through my years in the watercolor society, I have found that the experiences and friendships though art are maybe…

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Paint Outs

All dates and locations are subject to change due to weather or scheduling conflicts.     Questions: Contact Neena Plant-Henninger (nplant9@gmail.com) Remember to bring your Paint Out paintings, finished or not, great or not so great, to our next UWS meeting for display!   July 2019 Paint Out: Date:  July 13, 2019  10:30am-1:00pm Location:  Strawberry Reservoir…

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