The Art Club of McKinney

October 2010 Meeting
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Heard-Craig Gallery
306 North Church Street
(park in back of building and enter there)
McKinney, Texas

Join us at our monthly Art Club meeting. Club business will be conducted from 9:30am-10am followed by the program at 10 am. As usual guests are welcome to join us.

Members, remember to bring one of your works of art for the mini art show. When the votes are tallied, the first and second place winners will receive gift certificates for Asel Art.

Guest Artist: Sonya Terpening
Sonya Terpening is a nationally renowned artist right here in our own back yard (Grapevine, TX). She is a master in both watercolor and oil painting.

Her art is about sharing the great and fascinating world around her. She says, "There is nothing more beautiful than this great land and the people living in it. I am drawn not only to the American west as it exists today but also to its history. There is something about the past that we all share that makes us better for remembering it. I think art touches the soul and teaches in ways words cannot."

Sonya will demo for us from 10am-noon.

Visit Sonya's website, www.sonyaterpening.com, to learn more about her, visit her gallery, and read articles discussing her work in recent art magazines. Here is an example of her work.

Small wonder she has paintings in many permanent collections:
--- The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
--- The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa Oklahoma
--- The Forbes Collection, New York, New York
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, Texas
--- The Pierce Collection, Corsicana, Texas
--- State of Oklahoma - Capitol Building
--- Great Western Life, Denver, Colorado
--- Pawnee Historical Museum, Pawnee, Oklahoma

Home

The Art Club of McKinney, founded in 1914 in McKinney, Texas, was created to encourage the appreciation of visual art in the community. Nearly 100 years later, the club continues to support this goal with:

• monthly meetings for members and visitors
• lectures on art topics
• demonstrations and workshops of various media and techniques
• art shows for adults and children
• organized visits to museums and gallery exhibits
• field trips to “paint outside the gallery”
• directory of local artists
• online gallery for art club members

Monthly Meetings
The Art Club of McKinney meets at the Heard-Craig Gallery, 306 North Church Street, McKinney, Texas, on the 2nd Thursday of each month, August through May. The business meeting starts at 9:30 am and the program starts at 10 am.

The program generally includes a presentation/demo by a visiting artist and, after a brief lunch break, a workshop taught by the visiting artist.

Light refreshments and time to socialize are available at the beginning, middle, and/or end of each meeting.

Each artist is invited to bring a piece of their work for members to enjoy and vote on. The winner receives a gift certificate and is featured on this page.

You may join the Art Club of McKinney in person at the monthly meeting or any time by completing the membership application located in About Us.

Make it a day and night of art in McKinney on Saturday, Oct. 9th. 

The Texas Regional Art Symposium at the Heard-Craig Center for the Arts is featuring Women Artists of Texas this Saturday from 9:30am-5:00pm.  Learn more at www.heardcraig.org where you can sign up online and pay with PayPal. Art Club members receive a $10 discount!

The opening reception for Lucia Smith's Fragments and Lights is
7-10pm at the Laura Moore Fine Art Studios, Saturday, Oct. 9th.
Lucia Smith is a local artist who creates wonderful photographs, oil painting, makes handmade paper and beautiful paper sculptures. Fragments and Lights is a collection of photogravure images that Lucia took while living in the Italian culture under the influence of an ancient history that is omnipresent in each darkened hallway or stark chiaroscuro passage.

And of course it is Second Saturday...

What's happening in art scene in the North Texas area? The art scene is hopping! Check it out at Art This Week in DFW , Oct. 4-10, 2010.

Thanks to our sponsor, Asel Art Supply, for supporting our club, and providing gift certificates for the winners of the Mini Art Show at the last Art Club meeting.