Artline Editor: Ray Almond, contact at : raymondalmond@yahoo.com

TAA website, and there will be

only a 10% commission on all

pieces sold .

Following the d”Art show will

be a new showing of one work

each by TAA members from

mid-September to mid-

December 2014 at the new

Norfolk Collegiate School’s

new Meredith Gallery, and

will be tentatively called : “A

Longer View”, (as the gallery

is both long and narrow) with

no restrictions on the age of the

work submitted, but size is

limited to 24 inches in either

direction unframed, and with

only a 25% commission on all

pieces sold.

And our inaugural 2015 TAA

show will be the TAA Juried

Portfolio Show of 3-4 works

each, to be held from January

1st to February 26

th 2015 at the

Art Institute of Virginia

Beach Gallery in the Towne

Center, and will be chaired by

TAA our members: Michelle

Barnes and Eloise Shelton-

Mayo.

And Barbara has also secured

our return after many years, to

exhibit our “TAA Miniature

Exhibition” at the Hermitage

Museum in the Spring of 2015

from May 16th

to 31st , and will

be chaired by former TAA

President, Maryanne Gamboa !

President’s Letter

May 2014

There will be no TAA 2014

May General Meeting, as

that General Meeting Sunday

date falls on Mother’s Day!

Our TAA artist biographer,

Eloise Shelton-Mayo has a

new profile about another

TAA photographer, Pam

Ponce, who has an opening

exhibition on this Saturday

May 3rd, of her new works

at the TCC Visual Arts

Center Building at High and

Court Streets on pages 5 & 6

below.

These past few weeks have

been very busy as our TAA

President-elect, Barbara

Hennig Loomis and I have

been lining up our future

2014-15 TAA shows so that

we have continued new

exhibitions for our members

to expand their presence in

both old and new venues.

Our first show of the new

2014-15 calendar year will

be the 2014 TAA “Members

Exhibition” at The d’Art

Center during the month of

August, and will be juried by

the Chrysler Museum’s chief

curator, Mr. Jeff Harrison,

and co-chaired by myself and

TAA’s Lynne Sward.

The Prospectus for the TAA

“Members Exhibition” will

be available soon on our

Tidewater Art Alliance for Visual Artists Non-profit organization

And TAA’s Edie White has

secured the Algonquin House

Party Room in Norfolk as the

location for our TAA “End-of-

Year Party” to be held from 1-

5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June

29th

. So mark your calendars

for this TAA Social Event !

Sincerely, Ray

Below is another famous artist

quote to ponder as we all are

continuing our path to making

better art to share with friends,

family, and society too.

“Who sees the human face

correctly: the photographer, the

mirror, or the painter ?”

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Executive Officers President —Ray Almond 1st. V.P.— Al Benas 2nd. V.P.— Barbara Hennig-Loomis

Treasurer— Jennifer Darnell-Young, CPA Secretary —Dianne Hottenstein

Board of Directors President: Ray Almond Director/1st VP: Al Benas Director/2nd VP: Barbara Hennig-Loomis Director/Treasurer: Jennifer Youngl, CPA Director/Secretary: Dianne Hottenstein Director/Web Master: Jeff Gallo Director/Membership: Mike Young Director/Past President: Mary Anne Gamboa

Member Volunteers Artistic Chair:

Position Available Artline Editor: Ray Almond (757) 638-5227 Treasurer/Controller: Jennifer Darnell-Young, CPA Exhibitions/Events:

Position available

History: M. Moore Nicholson 282-6982

Hospitality: Position available

Artline Member Biographies: Eloise –Shelton-Mayo (757) 563-2680 Membership:

Mike Young 624-9604 Photographers:

Jeff Gallo (757) 648-8466 Ray Almond, 714-7590 (backup)

General Meeting Programs: Position Available Public Relations:

Norman Goodwin 423-6305 Publicity:

Ray Almond 638-5227 Recruiting:

Position Available Reception Host:

Position available

Volunteer Coordinator:

Position Available Website curator:

Jeff Gallo (757) 648-8466

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Standard General Meeting Schedule:2013-14

Member’s Regular Meetings: 2nd Sunday each month at 2:00 p.m.. at the Gallery Shop building next to the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center,420 High Street, Portsmouth, Va.

Note: No May TAA 2014 General Meeting, on Sunday May 11

th,

as that Sunday is “Mother’s Day” weekend de Open” Show continues through

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A Note about Kudos Submissions:

In order for Kudos Korner to applaud TAA Members, it is important for individual artists to submit their own good deeds (or those of

another artist!)

Submissions can be made via new TAA Editor email :

raymondalmond@yahoo.com by the 15th of every month for the next edition of our

Artline Newsletter. Please be sure to include “Artline” in the subject line of your message,

and mention that it’s for ‘Kudos’!

Please follow normal guidelines for submitting to Artline: see the box on page 8

of this issue.

A “Special Thanks” to our TAA member volunteers : Michelle Barnes, Eloise Shelton-Mayo, Maryanne Gamboa, & Lynne Sward, who will be chairing or co-chairing our future 2014 - 2015 schedule of TAA Shows as noted in the “President’s Letter” on page 1 above. And our TAA President-elect, Barbara Hennig Loomis was the one most responsible for coordinating the dates, and who also contacted the venues to provide for the majority of these future shows for us all !

Above: TAA’s Pam Ponce and a fire -burned Dismal Swamp tree trunk. (See info about her new show at the bottom of page 4 below, and her biography on pages 5 & 6 below.)

( Above) PLEIN AIR PAINTING EVENT AT FORT MONROE Saturday, May 17, 9:00am to 5:00pm Seeing the beautiful and unusual architecture is one on the highlights with the Fort Monroe 1834 stone fortress, including moat, the largest in America. Sites include historic Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, Chapel of the Centurion with Tiffany windows, Hotel Chamberlin and numerous other local structures. The varied landscape includes ancient windswept live oaks, beaches and marshes. $150 prize for the first place winner. $25 non-members ($20 HAL members)

TAA’s Nancy Topping Bazin won Second Prize for "Mosaic Wings and Crown" at the Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists' exhibit at Pavilion I in Towne Bank (located at the end of 264 East). This show is located on eight floors of the building with the exception of floors 5 and 2. The final day to see this exhibit is Friday, June 27th. (See photo of her work below)

Above: Schedule for an encaustic workshop by TAA’s Eloise Shelton-Mayo to be held in The Art Studio ,

In Virginia Beach, Virginia, May 18th

Another “Special Thanks” to TAA’s Maryanne Gamboa and especially our Edie White, who secured the “Party Room” of the very nice Algonquin for our

TAA “End-of-Year Party” !

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Current Local Art Shows to See or Enter of Note :

Continuing at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center 400 High Street, Portsmouth, Va. Formerly known as the Courthouse Galleries,– (757) 393-8543 - email: contact@portsmouthartcenter.com Mailing Address : 521 Middle Street , Portsmouth, Va. 23704

“Changing Appalacia” April 4 – July 6, 2014 and also “Art on a String”, Friday May 3 – June 20, 2014 Opening Friday May 2nd , 5:00- 8:00 p.m., music by Kayce & Lewis McGehee Exhibition Hours : Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.,· Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays, except Monday Holidays

“Changing Appalacia”- Custom to Cutting Edge Crafts & Visual Art Drawing from an abundance of natural resources from the Appalachian region, artists and artisans adapt the

heritage of mountain culture by assimilating new ideas and innovating on the old to create dynamic craft and

visual art. The exhibit offers maps, photos of the region, paintings, glass, textiles, ceramics and baskets to

showcase the diversity of the region.

“Art on a String”- In conjunction with the Atlantic Coast Kite Festival

Opening Reception, Friday, May 2nd

, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Atlantic Kite Festival, the Portsmouth Art & Cultural center

presents Art on a String. Kites made and collected by George Peters and Melanie Walker of Airworks Studio

offer a colorful display of kites in all shapes and sizes presenting their own kites as well as kites drawn from

their collection of international and American art kites. George Peters and Melanie Walker have been making

art, installations and kites for years from their base in Boulder, CO. Each has their own style and methods of

creation and both share their enthusiasm for kites with the international community. Melanie utilizes a giant

printer to impress photos into fabric that when complete the kite often takes on the shape of her subject. The

artists will be flying some of their kites at the Atlantic Coast Kite Festival in Portsmouth City Park on Sunday,

May 4th.

Continuing: April 4th

-May 18th

2014,The d’Art Center, Norfolk: located in the Selden Arcade, 208 E. Main St., Norfolk, Va. (757) 625-4211,http://www.d-rtcenter.org/

“24th

Annual Juried Mid- Atlantic Art Exhibition” through May 18

th

Best-in-Show Prize Awarded to Janice Gay-Maker on the Opening Night, April 4

th, 2014

( Photo of her award-winning art landscape work at left )

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Opening at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center 4205 Victoria Blvd. Hampton, VA 23669 – (757) 727-1490 - email: jwjones@hampton.gov

Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10:00a.m. - 6:00 p.m.-Weekends : 1:00p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Web Show 2012-13 Exhibition & Show Info : http://www.hamptonarts.net/charles-h-taylor-arts-center-/exhibitions

“Hampton Roads Artists Groups Juried Exhibition”

From: Saturday May 3rd – Sunday June 1st 2014

The tidewater area is home not only for many talented artists, but also groups of like- minded artists who have

banded together for their common interest of a shared media or creative endeavor. This invitational group

exhibition features artworks selected and submitted by sixteen of these numerous artists groups based in

Hampton Roads. The groups preselected entries from their artist members, which were then juried into the final

exhibition. The exhibition presents both two and three dimensional artworks in a wide range of media, style and

content. Some of the groups invited to participate include The Bead Society of Southeastern Virginia, Ceramic

Designers Association, Chesapeake Bay Art Association, Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists, 54-40 African-

American Quilters Guild, Hampton Arts League, Hampton Roads Digital Camera Club, Isle of Wight Art

League, Peninsula Glass Guild, Peninsula Watermedia Society, Poquoson Art League, This Century Art Gallery,

The Tidewater Art Alliance, Tidewater Turners and Williamsburg Spinners and Weavers Guild.

Sign Up for TAA Member Dr. Norman Goodwin’s “Continuing creative 4-week Studio Art Classes” :

“Creating Collage Mixed-media Works on paper and canvas” Next Class Begins: Wednesday May 7th,2014 from 1-3:00 p.m. at the One-Eleven Art Gallery, 111 Pennsylvania Ave. Norfolk, just off Granby Street. Call Norman at (757) 423-6305 for the required class materials, etc.! 4-week class only : $68.00 ! (or e-mail him at : terrysos@cox.net ( Norman’s Studio classes continue every 4 weeks, challenging your creativity, both painting and drawing with mixed-media -techniques of watercolor,acrylics,

oil-pastels, ink,etc., on both paper and canvas surfaces )

( Above: Dr. Norman Goodwin demonstrating one of his many methods of making mixed-media art in his class at the 111 Art Studio )

340 High Street, Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia More Info: Shelly Brooks (757) 822-1878

Exhibition Hours: All Week Sunday - Saturday, 9:00a.m. - 8:00p.m., - Web Show 2014-15 Exhibition Info : http://www.tcc.edu/students/specialized/vac/SHOWS/pponce.htm

“Fire & Water: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp” By TCC Faculty Member & TAA photographer: Pam Ponce

The Visual Arts Center of Tidewater Community College presents:

From Saturday May 3rd through Thursday June 19th 2014, and “Opening Night Reception”: Saturday May 3rd from 6:30 p.m.

A Gallery Talk by the Exhibiting Artists will be made Sunday, May 18 at 2:30pm

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Biography of TAA Photographer, Pam Ponce, by Eloise Shelton Mayo

In Fire & Water: A Tale of the Great Dismal

Swamp, May 3-June 19th at TCC's Visual Arts

Center in downtown Portsmouth, TAA artist Pam

Ponce introduces a visual and intellectual feast.

Saturday, May 3rd is the opening night and begins

with a gallery talk at 6:30pm and general opening

at 7:00pm. Pam features breathtaking panoramic

views, and enchanting sculptural pieces of the

Atlantic White Cedar in its transformed state, and

documents the delicate and complex ecosystems

of an area of the Great Dismal Swamp.

TAA member artist Pam Ponce is a petite dynamo

with a wealth of curiosity, knowledge and

determination. At seventeen she met her husband

Juan (a local ER physician) when he was her

partner in chemistry lab at Washington University

in St. Louis, Missouri. She was majoring in biology

and then went on to medical school. Pam worked

as a pediatrician for many years and later as a

physician in the public health sector. She and

Juan continued their medical careers in Virginia

Beach raising a family that includes sons Juan Jr.,

Andres, and daughter Ana. Newer additions are

grandkids Austin and Dylan.

What followed these successes for Pam was a

new enterprise in the arts. She had always

enjoyed photography and honed those skills, but

a workshop with former VAC director and local

artist Anne Iott at Tidewater Community College,

led her to a new vocation.

After more art exploration at TCC, Pam

attended Old Dominion University and received

her BFA in Printmaking there, followed by an

MFA from Norfolk State University and ODU.

Pam has taught classes at ODU for many years.

A longtime environmental activist and

volunteer, Pam created the “Green Sea” show

with the Nature Conservancy as her senior

show for her BFA. An Oyster Restoration

project followed as part of the MFA program,

featuring an oyster reef created at the Great

Neck District Park in Virginia Beach. The gallery

exhibit at the Hermitage for this work was

called “Ebb and Flow.”

Her interest in the delicate ecosystems of the

Great Dismal Swamp was first piqued after

reading a newspaper article on the fire that

smoldered there in 2008 and a listing of tours

to the public. What began as a photo

documentary on a particular area, near the

Corapeake Ditch of the Great Dismal Swamp,

evolved into a five-year project that also

became an ecological inquiry.

In 2003, Hurricane Isabel had damaged the

rare Atlantic White Cedar (AWC). A logging

company was hired to remove debris so new

AWC seedlings could be planted, but in 2008

sparks from logging equipment caused a fire

called South One. Eventually, thousands of

AWC were planted. She secured the necessary

permits to take photographs in this area that

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was closed off to the public, and in 2009/2010

documented the plants as they were coming back.

“The texture of this area is something special,” Pam

relates.

A lightning strike in 2011 started a fire called the

Lateral West Fire in this same area. “Since the peat

burned to a depth of five feet in some areas, the

ground level now remains lower than the water

level,” she explains. The areas that Pam could walk

on before were now completely underwater, and

she could no longer photograph as she had before.

Help from park ranger Delores Freeman and the

Youth Conservation Corp meant she was able to

retrieve some charred stumps from the swamp. Her

project, like the environment of the Great Dismal

Swamp was changing. It’s precarious and uncertain

what will happen there. “The area may become

marsh or a cypress community...only time will tell,”

Pam speculates.

Pam credits many people with helping her in

this process including U.S. Wildlife park

officials and rangers, the Youth Conservation

Corp, friends, tradesman and especially her

husband Juan. “My work would not have been

possible without his help and support,” she

says.

The delicate eco-systems and long history of

the Great Dismal Swamp are intriguing. Our

proximity in the Tidewater area to this

National Wildlife Refuge is a gift highlighted in

Pam’s stunning work. “I hope people that see

the show will contemplate the complex natural

system and appreciate the ever changing

cycles, like cycles of our lives,” she says. What

emanates is the deep respect she has for

nature. Pam sees and documents the

dichotomy of nature’s destruction,

transformed rebirth and haunting beauty.

( Above : “Horizontal Line”, Below: “Expanse of Destruction“ by TAA’s Pam Ponce )

See TCC show info at this link: http://www.tcc.edu/students/specialized/vac/SHOWS/pponce.htm

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New Class Beginning at The 111 Art Gallery in Norfolk

One-Eleven Art Gallery and Foundation,111 Pennsylvania Ave, (near the 3900 Block of Granby Street), Norfolk, Virginia. (757) 625-1110, Web: http://one11foundation.org/happening-now/

New Class Beginning at The 111 Art Gallery in Norfolk

Continuing at the 111Art Gallery, Norfolk:”Ireland”

One-Eleven Art Gallery and Foundation,111 Pennsylvania Ave, (near the 3900 Block of Granby Street), Norfolk, Virginia. (757) 625-1110, Web: http://one11foundation.org/happening-now/ Open by Appointment

-A Commemoration of scenes and the landscapes of Valentia

Island,Ireland Select plein air fine art works by: Barbara Lively

Mastaglio, Betsy Rivers-Kennedy, Ann Moore, Scott London, and Norma

Wilson.

A new Art Retreat at “Ring of Kerry – Valentina Island, June 29th

- July 6th

2014 Visit: http//www.valentiaart.com for more class information

A Beginning/Intermediate “Italic style” Calligraphy Class with TAA’s

Betsy Rivers-Kennedy, - A 6-Week Class to learn this method

Offered on Tuesday mornings. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.,

Class beginning : Tuesday May 6th, 2014

$125/ for the 6-week course, and please register or

call Betsy by Monday, May 5th, as the class will be

limited to 8 students, and beginners are welcome !

Call Betsy to for more class info: (757) 434-8041

Or email Betsy : bkennedyva@mac.com

(Similar example of this calligraphy style at right)

Sharpen your skills by taking a class… Norfolk Drawing Group, Tuesday Nights ,7- 9:30 p.m. in

the Alchemy Building, 806 Granby St., Norfolk, Va.,23510

Email: norfolkdrawing@yahoo.com

Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Norfolk-Drawing-Group/211671581320, & Flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacdraw/ The NDG meets every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 9:30 pm. We start off with 1 minute and 5 minute poses and work our way up to 20 minute or 40 minute poses after the short poses. The first Tuesday of the month is Painting night. We meet at 7:00 to 10:00 pm and work on one 3 hr. pose. We welcome (age 18 and older) all artists and anyone interested in modeling for the group. Sessions cost $7.00/night or $20.00 for four consecutive sessions. Students with proper ID can pay $3.00.

“Italic Hand” taught by Betsy Rivers-Kennedy at One-Eleven

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You can help the Arts in Virginia—Here’s how!!

Virginians now have the opportunity to contribute part of

their state income tax refund to the Virginia Arts Foundation by checking a box on their return form. It’s never been so simple to support the arts in Virginia.

Because the foundation may receive but not solicit private funds, money will have to come from the purchase of arts license plate and other special sources, such as this tax check off box.

The interest on all funds received will be distributed in grants by the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Please help support the arts in Virginia. Check off a contribution for the Virginia Arts Foundation on your state income return. It’s one of the most important checks you can write – and now, it’s one of the easiest.

Check out the news from some of our sister organizations in the Tidewater Area:

Chesapeake Bay Art Association (CBAA):

http://www.chesapeakebayartassociation.com/

Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists CBW): http://www.chesapeakebaywatercolorists.com/

D’Art Center

http://www.d-artcenter.org/

Charles H. Taylor Arts Center http://www.hamptonarts.net/

The Artists Gallery

www.theartistsgallery.org Norfolk Botanical Gardens 9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. daily ( Regular grounds access fees apply ) See : http://norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/programs-events/indoor-exhibits

…and remember to check our own TAA website often:

www.tidewaterartalliance.com

Note : New email address for submitting items for the TAA Artline : Please be sure to include “Artline” in the subject line of your message! (...unless you want your message to get lost in the tons

of email your editor receives every day.) If your message doesn’t say “Artline” it might get rejected as trash! Each photo needs its own caption, in its own email. Please send each photo, properly captioned, in a separate email. Use

another email for each additional photo, along with its caption. That way your Editor won’t get photos mixed up with the wrong caption. Please limit file size to about 1megabyte per photo. (1 MB is sufficient for online viewing, and we’re not printing posters here!) What’s a proper caption? Please write a full sentence, identifying the principal people or art pieces in the photo, with an explanation

of what’s going on (which event, award, etc.) Feature Articles: If you have an idea for a feature article (say, to highlight your work or a favorite technique), make the suggestion to

your editor, Ray Almond ( raymondalmond@yahoo.com ), who will be glad to work with you to produce your article. And include “Artline” in your subject line! Please!! Deadline: 15

th of the preceding month.

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New Website for the Arts in Hampton Roads…

www.artscenehamptonroads.com

(Just click on it; in case you haven’t noticed, all links shown in Artline are live!)

Calls to Artists, for the 2014 timeframe

To get newly posted calls, please check the following websites often:

http://professionalartistmag.com/ http://www.artshow.com/juriedshows/

http://www.callsforartists.com/ http://www.d-artcenter.org/

The listings there will be more comprehensive and up-to-date than any listing copied into Artline. If you know of any other websites for Artist Calls, please send what you know to your Artline editor ( raymondalmond@yahoo.com ) for

printing in future issues for other members’ benefit.

Won a prize? Got into a show? Been selected as a juror? Tell your editor about it, and you may be featured in a

future issue of Artline!

Don’t be bashful!