President's Message-Newsletter

The Florida Artist Group
State Wide Newsletter

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Arrangements have been made for the 58th Annual Exhibition of
FLAG at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in the Spring of 2009. The
dates of the exhibition will be May 2 through July 19, 2009. The
Symposium is scheduled for Friday May l and Saturday May 2.
Washington DC artist Sam Gilliam has been invited to be Juror
of Awards. He was the first painter to introduce the idea of the
unsupported canvas. His works can be seen in the collections of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection and National Gallery
of art, in Washington, DC, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York , The Tate Gallery in London among others
too numerous to mention. An Exhibition of his work is at the Zora Neale
Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts in Eatonville, Florida thru
August 24th.

The Florida Artist Group will also have an Exhibition at the
Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach September 12 – October 3,
2009. Our catalog was invaluable to museum directors in their choice
of the Florida Artist Group.

The next Board meeting will be on October 25, 2008 at the
Maitland Art Center, 231 West Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751.
The meeting will begin promptly at 11:00 am. We’ll have lunch nearby.
AHLIN

President:
AHLIN
1620 Mohawk Trail
Maitland, FL 32751
(407) 740-5949
ahlinart@aol.com

Vice President:
Barre Barrett
2601 S. 2nd St.
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
(904) 246-9768
barrebarrett@bellsouth.net

Recording Secretary:
Joan Lyon
1891 Boyce St.
Sarasota, FL 34239
(941) 953-2121
joanjaguar@aol.com

Treasurer:
Roberta Schofield
P. O. Box 10561
Tampa, FL 33679
(813) 786-3473
Fax. (813) 837-3473
rs.artist@verizon.net

Corresponding
Secretary:
Brooke Allison
1654 McKay Ct.
Dunedin, FL 34698
(727_ 734-4285
brookallison@earthlink.com

State Membership
Chair:
Jan Miller
112 San Rafael Road
St. Augustine, FL 32080
(904) 460-0277
Fax: (904) 460-0277
janmille@bellsouth.net

The Florida Artist Home Page
http://www.floridaartistgroup.org/

The Florida Artist Blog Hot Spot
http://www.floridaartistgroup.blogspot.com/

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This information has been added which was left outof your newsletter:

Jeffrey Smart Baisden was one of three colored pencil artists featured at the Wendy Tatter Gallery in St. Augustine January 25 - 28, 2008. She exhibited 9 colored pencil drawings.

The drawing "The Forward Observer" has been juried into the Colored Pencil Society of America's 16th International Exhibition to be held July 2 - September 29, 2008 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. She has been accepted in 13 of the 16 CPSA International Exhibitions.

Jeffrey is one of four artists invited to exhibit in the group show "It's All About the Media" at the Marco Island Center For The Arts October 5 - November 15, 2008, Marco Island, Florida.