September 2021 Business Meeting

The meeting was held via Zoom on Thursday, September 9, 2021.

Welcome

Linda Poche opened the Zoom meeting with a welcome.  

Creativity Exercise

Ilona Isaacs led a creativity exercise called Target Practice, which included seven drawing activities to spark creativity and build eye-hand coordination .

Upcoming Events/Outings

• Zoom Open Studio Playtimes

• Playdates or Open Studio times, which are free to all members, are scheduled for the Saturday before the business meetings at 10AM and a Sunday afternoon later in the month.  The upcoming dates include the following:

• Sunday, September 26 at 1PM.

• Saturday, October 9 at 10AM.  

• NC Museum of Art Sketching Outing

• Katherine Stein is organizing a trip to NCMA on Saturday, September 11, from 11:30AM to 2PM.  If the weather cooperates, the group will focus on the sculpture garden.  If it is too hot or raining, the group can visit one of the buildings.  Entrance to the museum is free; however, since Covid you must get a ticket online to enter.  

• Duke Gardens Outing

• Marcia Streithorst has planned a trip to Duke Gardens to be inspired to sketch or paint.  It is free to enter the gardens, but there is a $2 parking fee.  This event was organized for Saturday, October 16 at 1PM.   

Trunk Trade

• Plans are being made to schedule another trunk trade.  Sunday, October 24, 2021 is the tentative date. Updates will be provided when a location and date have been secured. 

Social Media Update

• Kathy King is the September Spotlight Member on the CMMAG website (blog.)  

Creative Challenges

The fourth quarter Picked Prompts are as follows.

• Medium: Charcoal, Graphite

• Texture Mark Making:  Tapes—masking, packing, drywall, washi

• Theme:  Quote, Poem, Song Lyrics

• Color:  White

• Bonus:  Replicate a sketch, drawing or painting by a master or from an art book

Third Quarter Picked Prompts Challenge Reveal 

Members shared the pieces they made using the prompts for 3Q2021.  Shannon and Lisa shared their creations. 

Demo 

Linda reviewed an Inchies Challenge that she participated in and led a demo. Linda suggested the word egg and asked us to write down words we associate with an egg. Then we created an inchie based on one of the words we associated with Egg using watercolors and markers.  Amy Maricle is the artist who lead the Inchies Challenge. 

Member Spotlight September 2021: Kathy King

Kathy King grew up on Long Island, NY, graduated from Lehigh University with an Industrial Engineering degree in 1991, served four years in the US Air Force and moved to Cary, NC in 1996. Kathy always dabbled in some sort of art all throughout her childhood and discovered her true passion, beadwork, in 1999. She has spent the last 20 years creating hand-woven beaded jewelry, traveling the east coast selling her work at art shows and teaching classes throughout the US. Kathy created her own beading technique back in 2007 and wrote a book that was published in 2010, Bead Quilled Jewelry: New Beadwork Design with Square Stitch. You can find Kathy’s work on her website at www.kathykingjewelry.com and she sells kits and tutorials in her Etsy shop, KathyKingJewleryShop.

As for mixed media, Kathy joined CMMAG in August 2019 after playing with ATCs and other small projects over the years. During covid in 2020, Kathy discovered art journaling and has truly become addicted to it, loving the mixing of collage, paint and stencils. She took a class at the 2019 AOC introducing her to printing with gel plates and loves using the prints in her art journaling pages. 

Kathy was excited to be accepted in the Cary Gallery of Artist Small Treasures show earlier this year, in which she won third place. She has recently been accepted in the Cary Gallery of Artists as well and will start selling her work there in September. 

Kathy looks forward to getting back to doing art shows and teaching again. She looks forward to do more mixing of her beadwork with her mixed media work to create more sculptural artwork in the future. 

You can see more of Kathy's creations on her mixed media Instagram page, her jewelry Instagram page, or on Facebook at Kathy King Jewelry.  Below are some examples of her mixed media and beading works.