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Tuesday June 4, 2024 7:00 pm
Final Meeting of the Year!
Demonstration by Michelle Nixon 7:00 pm
We will have a light picnic dinner to enjoy while we watch Michelle.
Sons of Utah Pioneers
3301 E Louise Ave
Millcreek, UT
This is an opportunity to watch a watercolor master at work.
Cache Valley Chapter
Summer Exhibition 2024
June 9th – July 6th
You are invited to enter the Utah Watercolor Society Cache Valley Chapter Summer 2024 Exhibition
See below for details
Attention Holladay Residents
The Holladay Arts Council asked if UWS could get out an announcement that HAC is seeking artists who are residents of Holladay, Utah to be an artist of the month, hang a solo show, be included in their newsletter. See the webpage for more information.
Click here for Holladay Arts Council webpage
For information about UWS membership lists, please contact Dewey Hansen [email protected]
A Message from our President, Becky Harvigsen
I can’t believe we have reached the end of the Utah Watercolor Society year! For our last meeting Michelle Nixon is going to demonstrate for us. We can watch while we have a light picnic dinner. Hope to see you all there Tuesday night at 7:00.
Registration for next year has started. If you haven’t registered already, please sign up. We are going to have a fantastic year!
To Register, please click here.
We have a new Signature member and some new One and Two Star members. It’s exciting to see the organization grow again after Covid.
As I step down and Gunther takes over I would like to remind everyone that this is a volunteer organization. We still have some spaces on the board to fill. It’s really fun to get involved and learn new things plus board members get a discount on workshops and help plan activities.
If you have some great ideas you would like to see added to the Utah Watercolor Society now is the time. Join the board and get your voice heard. With my last message I would like to leave you with one of my favorite stories. I hope it helps you as much as it had helped me.
Best wishes for happy painting,
Becky
Lessons from Aunt Grace
The day we moved away I hit bottom. Saying good-bye to my friends and to the house I had loved made me feel as though my moorings had been ripped loose. Now, in what my husband kept calling “our new home” (it wasn’t new, and it wasn’t home), I was so awash in self-pity that I almost ignored the white leather book I found while unpacking an old trunk. But something prompted me to examine it.
The gold Victorian script on the cover spelled My Diary. Opening the book, I recognized the spidery handwriting of my great-aunt Grace, who had lived with us when I was a little girl. Aunt Grace belonged to a species now extinct – the unmarried, unemployed gentlewoman forced to live with relatives. All the cards had seemed to be stacked against her. She was plain-looking; she was poor; she was frail.
Yet the thing that I remember about her was her unfailing cheerfulness. Not only did she never complain, but she never seemed to lose her gentle smile. “Grace always looks on the bright side,” people said.
I sank down on the rolled carpet to read her diary. The first entry was dated 1901; the last was the year of her death, 1930. I read casually at first, and then with riveted attention.
Three years have passed since my dear Ted was killed at San Juan Hill and yet every day is still filled with pain. Will I ever be happy again?
Ted? I thought of Aunt Grace as the complete old maid. She once had a sweetheart! I read on:
My unhappiness is a bottomless cup. I know I must be cheerful, living in this large family upon whom I am dependent, yet gloom haunts me…Something has to change or I shall be sick. Clearly my situation is not going to change, therefore, I shall have to change. But how?
I have given much thought to my predicament and I have devised a simple set of rules by which I plan to live. I intend this to be a daily exercise. I pray that the plan will somehow deliver me from my dismal swamp of despair. It has to.
The simplicity of Aunt Grace’s rules-to-live-by took my breath away. She resolved every day to:
- Do something for someone else.
- Do something for myself.
- Do something I don’t want to do that needs doing.
- Do a physical exercise.
- Do a mental exercise.
UWS Spring Open Exhibition
Spring 2024 Best of Show “Sage Grouse” by Greg Pearson
Don’t Miss it!
UWS Spring Open Exhibition
The exhibition is at the Visual Art Institute (VAI)
2900 S 300 W, South
Salt Lake, UT 84115
Hours: Mon – Fri 10 am to 7 pm
Sat 9 am to 1 pm
Closed Sunday
(Reminder: Pickup is Friday June 14th, 9:00-noon)
Utah Watercolor Society
Cache Valley Chapter
Summer Exhibition 2024
June 6th – July 6th
You are invited to enter the Utah Watercolor Society Cache Valley Chapter Summer 2024 Exhibition
No theme this year but for this MAT ONLY show, all MATTED entries must fit an 11 x 14 frame. Mat width can vary. Entries will be in cellophane envelopes (CVC will provide them). Pieces will will not be framed, but mat MUST fit in an 11 x 14 frame (vertical or horizontal).
For example:
For a 3″ mat, a 5″ x 6″
For a 2″ mat, a 6″ x 9″
Or, 11″ x 14″ mats with 8″ x 10″ openings are available local and national crafts stores
No Frame or Glass for this show, only the 11″ x 14″ mat.
CVC will provide plastic envelopes.
To be considered for prizes, entries must follow restrictions.
Show location:
Angie’s Restaurant (in South atrium/waiting area)
Address: 690 Main St, Logan, UT 84321
Judge: TBA
Entries can be dropped off at Angie’s Restaurant
Friday June 7th from 5-8 pm or Saturday June 8th from 9-noon.
Our 2023-2024 UWS Board members Board 2023-2024 President: Becky Hartvigsen Vice President: Günther Haidenthaller. Recording Secretary: Ann Galt Treasurer: Cindy Hepworth Membership Chair: Dewey Hansen Two Star Signature Chair: Brenda Brunello Exhibition Chairs: Bessann Swanson Small Works Margo Cook Fall and Spring ArtCall: Vaughn Emett Webmaster: Neena Plant Communication: Roxane Pfister Paint Outs: Melody Greenlief Western Federation Delegates: Sherry Meidell, Melody Greenlief Mini Workshops: Chariya Ernst Arts and the Park: Maggie Harrison (Maura Naughton) Scholarship Chair: JoAn Coon, Nan Gray Publicity: Sherry Meidell Social Media: Tammy Charlesworth Hospitality: Crystal Dunn CVC President: Kara Swensen |
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