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Announcements and Events                             last update February 20

Congratulations!

Chris O'Malley received the Brevard Watercolor Society award at the Strawbridge Art League VISION 2012 Juried Exhibit for his painting:

 Haulin' Pigs on the FEC

Congrats also to
Merit Award Winners:
Barbara Burkhardt:
Looking Back
Lori Pitten Jenkins:
Open Window
Helen Wheatley:
Tempest

Have you seen our new logo?




Photos from Barb Rios' Entertaining Workshop...



Congratulations to Lori Jenkins for being accepted into the American Watercolor Society!
 

The winner of BWS Courtyard Gallery's December/January drawing went to exhibitor Donald Williamson, shown here accepting the award from BWS Gallery Chair, Phyllis Marple. Congratulations!
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The Brevard
Watercolor Society Gallery 
is at the Courtyard Studio

 located at 1425 Highland Ave. in the Eau Gallie Arts District. Exhibits will change monthly and all BWS members in good standing are eligible to exhibit. All paintings will be for sale. More information can be found on the Gallery Exhibit application form. Please fill this out to enter. All BWS members are asked to contact the Courtyard Gallery Coordinator Phyllis Marple, at 321-960-8076 or email her at marhats@aol.com regarding participation. She needs to know how many paintings will be exhibited, so don't wait until the last minute!




Share your art news here 
on your BWS website and in your BWS Newsletter!

 Photos of workshops, exhibits, trips and events are welcome, as well as news of awards won in shows, committee project news and whatever art news you believe will be of interest to our members. Email your art news and photos to your webmaster 
Steve Salvage
or to your newsletter editor Elizabeth Bishop.



Attention BWS Volunteers!

Please keep us informed on how many hours you volunteer! We need this information for our non-profit status.  Submit your volunteer hours to any officer (Judy Champion,
Carol Veneziano, or Mary Pasquarello) at the next meeting! 


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 Announcing a New 3-day Workshop featuring Portrait and Watercolor Artist



Jane Paul Angelhart

  March 11 -13 

at the
Knowledge Exchange
5151 Babcock St.
Palm Bay, Florida

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Christmas Palm Berries by Beth-Anne Fairchild
Awarded First Place at Splash 2011

Take-In & Awards Ceremony
March 30

Public Exhibition
March 31 - April 1

at the
Arts and Antiques Studio
1419 Highland Ave.
Eau Gallie Arts District


SPLASH 2012 PROSPECTUS
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            BWS Plein Air Events
Come meet up with fellow artists! 
Bring your friends along!

     We meet around 8:30 am or so at the given    locations (see below). You may choose to attend    a little earlier or later. You can bring a lunch or        visit one of the nearby restaurants with the                                    group. 
 
If there is enough participation, BWS is contemplating having a special tent exhibit at the BWS annual juried Splash show next spring, with prize awards. Any plein air paintings that BWS would exhibit would be required to be in the watercolor medium.  The complete prospectus / rules for exhibiting plein air paintings will be forthcoming via handouts at the events and on this website.  

BWS members & friends, please try to attend these outdoor activities. They are free and you don't have to be a BWS member to attend. You may also paint outdoors in any medium.
  
What do you need to have to paint outdoors? You need the same equipment you use indoors to paint with, plus a few conveniences such as a folding chair, umbrella, sunscreen, hat, easel, a support for your watercolor paper, water pail, paper towels and a trash bag for your used paper towels.
BWS Plein Air Schedule February 2012
Thursday, Feb. 2 at Eau Gallie (meet at the park on the corner of Eau Gallie Blvd. and Highland Ave.)

 Friday, Feb. 10 at Erna Nixon Park, in Melbourne (meet at the park entrance on Evans Road)

Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Avenue in Viera (meet by the fountain in the center of the Avenue)


Friday, Feb. 24 at Erna Nixon Park, in Melbourne (meet at the park entrance on Evans Road)

  For any questions regarding 'Plein Air', please email Susan Stone at:      Susan@jsusancolestone.com
 
 
Extra reading websites for plein air subject:
www.p-a-p-a.com
 (Plein Air Painters of America  -- Frank LaLumia, President)   

or www.nappap.org (National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters)



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We are offering a quick and secure method of obtaining or renewing your BWS membership! Please go to the
Online Membership page to check it out! 
Or if you prefer, you may print out the BWS Membership Application Form, fill it out, and mail it in with your check.

Also!
Now you can donate to your favorite art society (BWS) and help spread the love of watercolor throughout the community and on to future artists in Brevard County. Just visit the 
page where you find information on our history and activities, then click the secure Paypal Donate button. Thank you!





        Please note that since November 1, 2011 the  location of the facility that Brevard Watercolor Society uses for General Member's Meetings/Demos and also for the Mini-Workshops has changed.

 The Parks & Recreation Department has received a grant to install and wire new lighting and repair issues with the air conditioning at the Satellite Beach Civic Center building (565 Cassia Blvd, Satellite Beach,FL) where we normally hold our activities. 

 They apologize for the inconvenience this may cause us and our membership and have been working diligently with BWS to provide an adequate replacement venue while our normal facility is being renovated. They have also succeeded in adapting scheduling that accommodates our members.

   We will NOT be able to use the Satellite Beach  facility from NOVEMBER 2011 through MARCH 2012.

    Beginning November 1st through March 31st, all of our General Member's Meetings/Demos and our Mini-Workshops will be held at:
  DAVID R. SCHECHTER COMMUNITY  CENTER
 
                   1089  SOUTH  PATRICK  DRIVE
                                                            
                     SATELLITE BEACH, FL  32937
                                                             
  This community center is located just about 1/2 mile north on S. Patrick Dr. from the Cassia Blvd turn off to the old location. The David R. Schrechter Community Center is in the same building complex neighboring the Satellite Beach US Post Office. (When looking at the community center building 'head on', the room we will use will be the first double doors to the left.)
 

 Please help remind your BWS painting friends of this new temporary change.

THANK YOU.
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BWS IS A NON-PROFIT 501(c)(3) ORGANIZATION, SPONSORED IN PART BY THE BREVARD BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THROUGH THE BREVARD CULTURAL ALLIANCE.   All rights reserved.
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