Help Wanted: It would be greatly appreciated if we could get a volunteer (a small committee would be even better) to work on the newspaper. Mainly typing and arranging and getting it ready for printing and to put it on the web site. The articles should be presented by Association members. Please contact one of the Board members to volunteer. Requirements are a computer with Microsoft Word or a similar word processor program and access to the internet.
February Winner-- Channing Rudd was the winner of the February meeting's drawing for a gift certificate to Petaluma Art Supply. Attend the meetings for a chance to win!
Artists at Work
Jerrie-Jerne Morago is showing in the Art Show, “Focus on Flowers”, at Sebastopol Regional Library- 7140 Bodega Ave. The show will be opened from Mar 4th to 26th. Mon-Sat, 10 AM- 4PM. She will have 10 of her newest series." Balletic Flowers " on display. Artists reception is Mar 4th- 6:30 to 8:30pm. Everyone is invited.
Jerrie-Jerne is also showing in an Artisans exhibit called “Contemporary Abstracts”. The Artisans Gallery is located at 78 E. Blithdale Ave., Mill Valley.
Some of PAA’s members are participating in a wonderful show at Petaluma Coffee Cafe`, Foundry Wharf, 189 H St. "HO" Humphery, Jean Logan, Jerrie Jerne` Morago, JoAnn Naylor, Karen Spratt, and, Karen West have their work on display thru Mar 22.
March 2 Meeting: I wish to let you know that Jodi Allen will be presenting a program at our March 2, 2004 meeting. See the information about her and her talk below. Muriel
Jodi Allen is a member of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco’s speakers program and will be giving a talk on “Figurative Painters of the Bay Area” She will talk about Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn,Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, and others who created a scandal in the 1950’s, when they abandoned their variant of Abstract Expressionism, and turned to including the figure in their compositions, and developed a sophisticated dialogue between abstraction and representation.
Jodi Allen has been with the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco since 1978. She has been not only a docent and lecturer but has also served on the Docent Council Board and as Coordinator for the Community Speakers’ Program.
Jodi has been a painter for twenty years and is a serious student of art history. She has studied with Wanda Corn at Mills College and Westley Chamberlin at San Francisco State University. When asked about her special area of interest she replied that she loves it all but especially that of the 19th century through World War ll. A particular area of expertise is the subject of women artists as evidenced in the lectures: “The Other Side of the Easel: women Artists, 1600 -1980”.