Thank You!

A big THANK YOU to our wonderful members, guests, vendors and artists who all teamed together to make our 2012 Showcase Fundraiser the best yet! Everyone, even our first-time guests, pitched in to help set up, clean up, sell tickets, fill and distribute goodie bags, etc.! There were lots of smiles and plenty of laughter, and raising money for our Guest Artist program couldn’t be more fun!

The quality of donations was astounding, and how meaningful to go home with a treasure made by a fellow Guild member! A heartfelt thanks to those members who contributed items this year*:

Gladys Higgins

Denise Pettit

Perrie Layton

Arlene Finocchiaro

Sherman Oberson

Barbara Egnor

Pat Eisele

Emily Squires Levine

Ann Tolman

Martha Aleo

Lois Rosenthal

Robin Milne

Terri Powell

Susan Gross

Lesley Gevins

Eileen Cressman-Reeder

Joyce Miskowitz

Kathleen Edwards

Nancy Wambach

Mary Askew

Ellen Marshall

Janet Colbert

Deb Hample

Dorothy Gray

* If I’ve inadvertently missed anyone, please let me know!

View the list of vendor/artists who so generously contributed to this year’s event here. Please visit their websites, give them your patronage, and tell them PAPCG sent you!

And last but not least, once again thank you to our lovely and talented emcee, Terri Powell, who seems born for the role and should be given credit for starting the tradition of this Fundraiser!

Have a great summer, be safe, and stay tuned for our fabulous 2012-2013 calendar of events!

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for the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild

The Art of Sherman

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Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild member Sherman Oberson made these wonderful chess pieces at Clayathon this year. I can't wait to see the rest! The Queen Her(?) King
Artillery Special Forces The rest of the Pawns Rook A Second Rook A Knight Your Other Knight The Bishop Are Knights on the rim grim?

Epaulette Mate

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2012 Annual Showcase A Great Success

Emcee Terri announces another winner.

PAPCG President Eileen presents her winning ticket.

Janet waits for Terri to announce the next winning ticket, “Is it me? Is it me? Please let it be me!”

I Cleaned Up....

Reblogged from More Mojo, Less Hobo:

at the PAPCG Showcase Fundraiser yesterday!

From the top:

• Bowl by Emily Squires Levine
• Silkscreened brooch by Ellen Marshall, Mokume Gane brooch by Arlene Finocchiaro
• Urchin necklace by Joyce Miskowitz
• Colored Quadrant necklace by Ellen Marshall

Plus some clay and some assorted beads.  For the first time in recent memory, I did not win the lovely donation from Louise Fischer Cozzi. 

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Terri's take on the fundraiser

Fundraiser This Sunday

Our Annual Showcase Fundraiser is this Sunday, May 20th from 10 am to 4 pm  Prepare to be “wowed” by the spectacular donations we’ve received  from 23 vendor artists and 21 members.  We have art,  jewelry,  publications,  tools, and lots of surprises!   Admission to the fundraiser is  free,  but  auction tickets to are $1 each.  So,  hit your ATM machine for this “cash only” event! Remember, all funds raised support our Guest Artist Program.

Check out the websites of  of our contributors.  When you patronize them, please mention that the PAPCG sent you.

If you can’t make the morning session,  the fun and bidding will continue in the afternoon.   Looking forward to seeing you this Sunday!

Denise Pettit for the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild

We Have a YouTube Channel!

To go to our YouTube channel, click here.  We’ll be featuring our own  videos and playlists of  videos from around YouTube.   

Press here to see a video from our April 2012 meeting.

 

Stay tuned . . .

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger

Art Star Craft Bazaar

Friend-of-the-Guild Jane Wynn (You remember Jane, right? She was a guest artist with us in 2009.)  will be showing at the Art Star Craft Bazaar on Penn’s Landing this weekend.  Here’s the when & when:

When: Saturday, May 12th & Sunday, May 13th, 11-6pm
Where: The Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing, which is along Columbus Blvd, between Walnut & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA

Art Star attracts an interesting range of artists & crafters, and it’s definitely worth checking out.  Enjoy!

Terri, deputy to the deputy blogger

2012 Showcase Fundraiser

Thank You

to the Vendors & Artists who so generously

contributed to our

2012 Showcase Fundraiser

benefitting our Guest Artist Program:

Jana Roberts Benzon	janarobertsbenzon.com
Best Flexible Molds	bestflexiblemolds.com
CF Originals (Christi Friesen)	www.cforiginals.net
Clay Alley	www.clayalley.com
Clay Factory (Marie & Howard Segal)	www.clayfactoryinc.com
Clearsnap	www.clearsnap.com
Maggi DeBaecke Studio	www.zhibit.org/profile/maggidebaeckestudio
Fire Mountain Gems	www.firemountaingems.com
From Polymer to Art	www.frompolymertoart.com
Jacquard Products	www.jacquardproducts.com
JHB International	www.buttons.com
Kabela Designs	www.kabeladesign.com
Doreen Kassel	www.doreenkassel.com
Make Your Own Molds	www.makeyourownmolds.com
Objects and Elements	www.objectsandelements.com
Pan Pastels (Colorfin)	www.panpastel.com
Poly Clay Play	www.polyclayplay.com
Rings ‘N Things	www.rings-things.com
Rozzart
Shades of Clay	www.shadesofclay.com
Sweet Connections	www.sweetconnections.biz
The Polymer Arts Magazine	thepolymerarts.com
Viva Decor	viva-decor.us

Guest Artist Program

Who doesn’t like to take classes with nationally known polymer clay artists like Jana Roberts Benzon, and Lynne Anne Schwartzenberg? Now, imagine doing it for  free. You can if you’re a member of the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild and you come to one of our meetings where we present a polymer clay artist from our Visiting Artist Program.

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 regularly 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 and other Guild fund raisers I can’t imagine getting more bang for your buck than joining the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild. Where else could you get a bargain like this?

In addition to the artists already mentioned, we have had visits from Christi Friesen, (who taught and gave a slide presentation which she started off with the narrative,” I was born at a very early age,”) Valerie Aharoni, whose class was brimming with practical tips and design ideas (and who handed out packages of UltraLight Sculpey, courtesy of Polyform Products) and Eugenia Topina who showed us how she makes her awesome faux cloisonné creations.   We have hosted  Donna Kato, Barbara McGuire, Jane Ann Wynn, Oliva Surratt, Kim Kavender,  Diane Villano, Leslie Blackford- I know I have missed people but you get the picture.

Our fundraiser is May 20.  Please come and support this wonderful program.

Press here to find out more about the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger

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