And a BIG Thank You to our Guild Members!

Terri writes:
Our guild members are a really terrific bunch. They are fabulously talented, incredibly generous, and just generally fun to be with. It makes perfect sense that many would choose to donate to our fundraising raffle–after all, we are the ones that benefit the most from our guest artist program. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase our home-grown talent, but I was unprepared for how amazing that talent actually is! Thank you all so much…and seriously, you guys rock! When we start up in the fall, give these folks a pat on the back (gently!) and big thank you:

Martha Aleo
Lisa Clarke
Linda Cook
Eileen Cressman-Reeder
Barbara Egnor
Patricia Eisele
Arlene Finocchiaro
Lesley Gevins
Dorothy Gray
Arlene Groch
Susan Gross
Lenora Kandiner
Barbara Kunkel
Emily Squires Levine
Ellen Marshall
Robin Milne
Joyce Miskowitz
Denise Pettit
Helene Richardson
Lois Rosenthal
Janet Scheetz
Sue Springer
Joan Tyree
Patti Underwood

And also, I’d like to specially thank Polymer Clay Express. Rob & Wilma have always been very generous to our guild, and donated three gift certificates for attendees of the raffle. If any of the winners need help spending theirs, please let me know!
Terri

Artist’s Donations- Our Guest Artists

Terri writes:

To give credit where credit is due:
The funds raised at our recent art raffle will be used to finance the PAPCG Guest Artist Program. For this program, we invite nationally known artists to present at our regular guild meeting. What happens next varies from artist to artist–some folks demonstrate techniques or how to use a particular tool, some give slide show retrospectives of their work, some talk about their creative process. In the past year, we’ve had such luminaries as Kim Cavender, Barbara McGuire, Layl McDill, Jane Wynn, Julie Picarello, and Dayle Doroshow presenting. They all did something a little different, and they were all absolutely lovely presenters. The best part about this program? It’s FREE to paid members. That’s right–for the low cost of membership, you get to learn from the masters (or mistresses, as the case may be) in the field!
So here’s a special thanks to our past and future guest artists who contributed their art to our raffle!
And here they are:
Valerie Aharoni  www.vaharoni.com
Jana Roberts Benzon www.janarobertsbenzon.com
Kim Cavender www.kimcavender.blogspot.com
Grant Diffendaffer www.diffendaffer.com
Dayle Doroshow www.dayledoroshow.com
Marla Frankenberg
Tommie Howell www.tommiej.wordpress.com
Layl McDill www.claysquared.com/silly-gallery.htm
Barbara McGuire www.barbaramcguire.com
Libby Mills www.libzoid.net
Julie Picarello www.yhdesigns.com
Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg www.riverpoetdesign.com
Eugena Topina www.eugenascreations.com
Jane Wynn www.idolatrieartist.typepad.com

Our PC Art Raffle was a great success!

Guild Member Terri Powell writes:
I just wanted to thank everybody for making our Art Raffle such a huge success for the guild. We had a lot of fun, and exceeding our $800 fund-raising goal by more than $300! Events like this are successful because of the contributions of many. A few special thanks:
–All of the past & future guest artists that donated pieces for the raffle. You have helped us make our Guest Artist program wonderful.
–All of the guild members that donated pieces for the raffle. You guys rock!
–Everybody that bought raffle tickets on the web, on the phone, or in person, for your financial support.
The totals don’t include our biggest donation–Ellen Marshall will be teaching for us in Nov. and plans to donate all of the proceeds back to the guild. She’ll be debuting a brand new technique–we can’t wait!
–Sarah Fisher, for managing all the web stuff, and setting it up so that people could buy tickets via paypal.
–Linda Cook, who managed all those on-line orders, and sold all the in-person tickets, AND brought home-made brownies.
Thanks again to everyone for their support. This raffle will go a long way toward keeping our guest artist program financially viable. And we’re already spending that money! Looking forward into the 2009-2010 guild year, we already have Donna Kato, Grant Diffendaffer, and Libby Mills lined up….Thanks to all of you.

terri

Real time pic from our PC Art Raffle

PAPCG Art Raffle today!

I look forward to seeing my PAPCG friends (and their friends!) today at the Guild First Annual Art Raffle. Kudos to Terri for all her hard work putting this together. She’ll be assisted today by Linda Cook. Robin promises a demo of the hottest new internet PC technique. And Sue will bring a teaser of the fantastic new technique Ellen Marshall will be teaching in November.

Ellen is generously donating proceeds from her class to the guild as part of today’s fund raising drive so we hope to see many of you at the class! Watch for online registration in September!

Parking may be tight today with the downtown Run for Life. Allow some extra time and don’t sweat it. We won’t start without you!

Website is back up!

You can go to www.papcg.org to buy raffle tickets. The most up to date pictures of raffle items will be on the Flickr site (link to the left on your screen now.) I expect we will be adding more right up to June 20.
Sarah

Preview Items for Art Raffle June 21

Website again and our June AMAZING FUNDRAZING POLYMER CLAY ART AUCTION

Greetings!

Let me start with the bad news first. We are having trouble with our website that should be resolved in 24-48 hours. If www.papcg.org takes you to an error page, just try again in a day or so. I’ll put the status on the blog as well: http://papcg.wordpress.com. On a brighter note, our last meeting with Guest Artist Dayle Doroshow was a resounding success. Our upcoming meeting in June is going to be amazing as well!

Our last meeting of the Guild year is Sunday June 21, 10-4 will be held at our usual location in the Second Floor Community Room at Hillman House. 

This meeting is open to the general public, so bring your friends!   Interested in the Guild but never attended?  Here’s your chance to check us out! 

The highlight of the June Meeting will be our annual fundraising art raffle. 

POLYMER CLAY ART RAFFLE JUNE 21 with ONLINE PREVIEW/TICKETS MAY 31

Guild member Terri Powell has been organizing a fantastic end of the year Polymer Clay Art Raffle fundraiser similar to those we’ve had at Polydelphia! in the past.  We have received donations from past Guest Artists including Kim Cavender, Grant Diffendaffer, Julie Picarello, Dayle Doroshow, Jane Wynn and others.  We have excellent donations from our guild members as well!  It’s not too late for you to donate.  Help support the Guest Artist program and email us at papcg@comcast.net with your plans to contribute. 

The event is in raffle format.  Tickets are $1 each.  Buy your tickets, put them into the bins for the items you want to win, and then it’s the luck of the draw!  Drawings will take place on June 21 at the meeting.  You do not have to be present to win most items.

We have many items up for bidding, including some like gift certificates from our friends at Polymer Clay Express that will only be available for those attending the event on June 21.  Most of our items will be available for online bidding through our Shopsite cart using PayPal.  Go to the website tab for Pay for Dues and Classes at www.papcg.org to be directed to the Shopping Cart.

How will you know what to bid on?  There will be photos of the items available for preview and advanced bidding on our blog and Flickr site.  You can also check out our new Facebook page (search for Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild and become a fan!)  When you buy your tickets, just add a note telling us the items you want to bid on and how many tickets go to each one, and we’ll make sure they get to the right bin.

Tickets will be available at the meeting as well. The online feature is for those who may not be able to attend. You do not have to be present to win. We’ll contact you by email to let you know what you’ve won. There will be a charge for shipping via USPS priority mail which you can send via PayPal if you don’t make other arrangements for picking up your winnings.

Sarah

PAPCG Cheerleader and Web Tinkerer

 

 

Read All About it: The Clay News Extra Edition coming to your Email: Here’s the news!

Auction to Support the Guest Artist Program

On June 21, 2009

 
 

The PAPCG Guest Artist Program

 
 

Who doesn’t like to take classes with nationally known artists like Jana Roberts Benzon, Barbara McGuire and Lynne Anne Schwarzenberg? Now, imagine doing it for free. You can if you’re a member of the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild and you attend one of our Guest Artist meetings. The Guest Artist Program is a unique and valuable feature of the PAPCG. Even if you can’t attend, handouts and notes are made available to all paid members!

 
 

The program works like this: A nationally known artist agrees to give a class to a number for Guild members who pay class tuition. We hold the class the Saturday before our scheduled Guild meeting. The artist returns on Sunday for the meeting and teaches and demonstrates for the entire Guild. Or, the teacher can elect to come to the Guild meeting only, as a guest teacher. In both instances, the Guild pays the teacher’s fees for the Sunday meeting out of money raised from member dues Guild fundraisers like the upcoming auction on June 21.

 
 

Can you imagine getting more bang for your buck than joining the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild? No other guild in the country has a program like this. Come on and join our Guild! What are you waiting for? To join go, to our web site, www.pacg.org and follow the instructions. Dues support the program at $40/year.

 
 

Our upcoming Art Raffle will be at our June Meeting. You will be able to view many of the items online May 31 and even buy and allocate your raffle tickets online if you can’t attend! Please support this wonderful program by bidding on wonderful items by local and nationally known artists. Watch your email for more information, or visit our website on May 31: www.papcg.org. We hope to raise $800 to finance two Guest Artist visits with the auction. We are still accepting donations for the event. Please email Terri at avemedusa@aol.com if you would like to make a donation!

 
 

Julie Picarello, Chicken and More!

Julie Picarello was our guest artist for April. She taught a Master class on how to make her distinctive mokume gane on Saturday. At the Sunday Meeting, Julie demonstrated metal working, including riveting, wire working, working with tubing, clasp making, metal forming (including cutting and dapping) and how to incorporate these elements into polymer clay jewelry. All of this instruction was included with the price of membership and members will get handouts of notes taken during the demonstrations.

We had a wonderful show and tell; the members’ work is getting better all the time. Most of my pictures were too blurry to post on our Flickr site, although I did post a few.

Here is one of Eileen and her charming Chicken Little. Her head (the chicken’s, not Eileen’s) comes off and a little tag inside reads, “The Sky is Falling.”

Till next month! Martha Aleo Deputy Blogger