Dear TRA Members & Art Supporters,
After much consideration, evaluating the current circumstances and trends, and focusing on your health as our primary concern, the Board of Directors has decided to delay opening the Old Hyde Park Art Center for another month, until July 7. We will of course be continually monitoring trends.
Meanwhile, we have some fabulous virtual programming scheduled.
· June virtual demo/workshop — Cynthia Lizardi will help you create an artist note book or journal using art supplies from your studio. Cost $25 for TRA members, $40 for non-members, June 13, 10 am. Go to the TRA site to register and for Zoom Link.
· July virtual demo/workshop — Laure Ferlita will do a virtual demo and workshop on Imaginary Trips — creating art journals. The focus of these classes is on capturing the essence of a location quickly and in creating a pleasing page in our sketchbooks. Watch the TRA site for more information and pricing.
Exhibits
We all cannot wait to see the Bay Area Art Exhibit in person. However, we want to install it when we feel comfortable that we can get docents to man the facility, so that people can come to see the exhibit in person. Meanwhile, it is available online. We have already had one other highly successful online exhibit and are in the process of setting up Meet the Members, which will be featured in a social media over the next several weeks. We have developed a revised exhibit schedule, which will include several fun new generally online exhibits to challenge you. The exhibit schedule is below.
June: The Great Outdoors - Virtual - the landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes show. - Receive online submissions on Monday – Wednesday June 8th, 9th and 10th.
July: American Strong - Virtual - Can be patriotic, American strong during pandemic (or another crisis). How are we strong together as Americans? What says American to you? - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday July 10th, 11th and 12th.
July: Bay Area – In-house – Dates to be announced.
August: Mask-erade - Virtual- anything about masks before or during the pandemic, the masks we wear every day in the new normal or emotionally as we adjust to the changing times. What kind of masks do you wear? - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday August 7th, 8th, and 9th.
September: The New Normal/ Fresh Perspective – Virtual/In-House –Changes as we adjust to this new normal? What are you looking at from a fresh perspective? Work should be created since March 13 or about our new normal lives. Empty restaurants, crammed grocery stores with empty shelves, working from home with children needing homeschooling, things you have looked at differently. - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday September 4th, 5th, and 6th.
October: Escape into Abstraction- Virtual/ in-House – An escape into the emotional or rational world of abstract expressionism and other styles of abstraction. No realism. Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday October 9th, 10th and 11th.