President’s Message… Who We Are:

We are a group of sixty-one artists and art loving people. For seven months of the year we come together at evening meetings to discover new painting ideas and techniques from our fellow artists. Some of us meet weekly (Tuesday painters and Monday Group) to paint to-gether and learn from each other. During the good weather we paint outside. The Tuesday Painters meet at the Arts of Tolland on Tolland Green during cooler weather. We enjoy sharing our artwork at a yearly members’ exhibit and entering TCAA’s annual Open Show where our artwork competes with those of other artists outside our membership. Workshops, art related field trips, and art sales are also enjoyed.

Who We Were:

In the late 1940’s a few friends with mutual interests in art started to get together regularly. They met at each other’s homes to paint and then to critique each other’s work. At first they called themselves The Greater Rockville Art Assoc. By 1950 they had become the Tolland County Art Assoc. They were very serious about art and about the need to make it a part of the public scene.

Who Shall We Be?

Indeed, who shall we be? Shall we stay just as we are? Or, perhaps, is there another direc-tion you, the members of TCAA wish to travel? This is our TCAA. It is all up to us. Please let me know your thoughts about the future of the TCAA. I look forward to seeing you all in September (9/12) at our first meeting of the 2006-2007 year.

DEMONSTRATORS Sept. 12

Patty Naegeli

Sketch artist

Oct. 10

Shauna Shane

Pastel

Nov. 14

Dan Nichols

2006-07

Executive Board President Ronnie Klukas

cyanronnie@aol.com 649-0311

V. President Joan Burbank

DLB60JGB@earthlink.net 872-9214

Secretary Jane Burr

janeapril@msn.com 871.9003

Treasurer Sheila Barnett

mssb@cox.net

Meetings are held at the Tolland Art Center, Rt 195, Tolland Center (unless otherwise specified)

Time: 7pm, 2nd Tuesday of the month

Directions: From I-84: take exit 68, go north on Rt 195 about 1/4 mi. to the light in the center of town, take a Right. Art Center is white building on left

Parking is on resident side of road only and NOT in front of their driveways. Or on the side of Rt. 195 in front of buildings. Don’t park at the curb on the Green.

Directions from Ellington/Vernon: Take Rt 30 east to Leonard's Corner (by light at Crys-tal Lk Rd and Mountain St.) continue straight on up hill to center of town. Take a left at the light, Art Center is white building on left.

Meetings & DemosMeetings & DemosMeetings & Demos

By Adrianna Young

Member’s Shows and TidbitsMember’s Shows and TidbitsMember’s Shows and Tidbits

Susan Bosworth Aug 8– Sept 16

Gilded Edge Gallery

20 Hartford Rd, Salem, CT

Doris Coughlin October

Solo exhibit at

Southwick, Ma. Library

(Doris was involved in several exhibits this past summer)

Priscilla Souder, Doris Coughlin Sept 23 9:30-4 (rain date Sept 30)

TVAA Art Show, M.L. King House, Rt 75 Suffield

TVAA’s looking for exhibitors for this show, join in. Call Claire 860-668-6786

Linda Pease Ellington Library September

Linda has been asked to be the ‘Artist in Residence’

At the Comstock Ferre Nursery in Old Wethersfield! She’s also going to do workshops there. way to go Linda!

She also is doing a silk painting workshop at Flights of Fancy Gallery in Stafford on Sept. 9. Call for info 763-2248

Aline Hoffman Healing/Creative Workshops– in Oct., Nov. Studio at Maple Brook & Reiki Center, Coventry

742-6696 bahoffman@earthlink.net

Sally Balukas Student Art Exhbit

October Crystal Blueprint, Reception: 10/5 6-8pm, all welcome

Something gained and Something Lost… Congratulations to Heather and Josh Freeman on the birth of little

Zoe. Busy but happy days are ahead!

We’re very sad to acknowledge the passing of our very creative and talented colleague, Joyce Robinson.

Dee Romejko Solo Exhibit— November

Town & County Club, 22 Woodland St. Hartford.

Call for viewing (lovely historic home also) 522-1109

Joan Burbank November (2 shows)

McCauley Retirement Community, W. Hartford

Ellington Library

Judy Moakler December

Ellington Library

Art Scholz Oct. 28—Nov. 17

“The Charm of New England”

Windham Art Center, 866 Main St, Willimantic, CT Opening Fri. Oct. 27 5-7

Gallery hours: Tues-Fri 1-4, Sat. 10/28 11-3

Wellfleet, Ma. Painting Expedition

Sept. 12-14, Wellfleet, Ma. Sleeps 12 people $200+/day total. Pick the days you can come

bring all supplies— linens, food.

Chris Parliman 742-5743, chparliman@aol.com

TCAA Annual Open Show November

South Windsor Library, Friends Room

Jane Burr 871-9003, Susan Bosworth 649-5353

Drop off: Nov. 1 from 5-7

Reception: Nov. 5 from 2-4

Pick up: Nov. 29 5-7

Open to all artists , 2 entry limit, applications forthcoming

TCAA members $10 per piece, Non members $15

Congratulations to Judy Moakler & Frank Pane For winning the Viewer’s Choice Awards at TCAA Members

Show in Ellington Library

Susan Bosworth

Art Scholz

• Sidewalk Sale at Old State House in Hartford Tentative Thurs., Oct 5 (no rain date) Covered, matted pieces to hang on fence. Car pool from Denny’s, Vernon, at 9:00 sharp. Show 10-2pm email Heidi for info: heidilud@comcast.net

• Piedmont Art Show contact Linda 749-2502, or Neil 749-4924

Drop off: Sept 15, 9-2, 16, 12-3, Pick up: Sept 30 2-3, Oct 1 4-5. First entry $20, addt’l entries $10 ea., portfolio

(not juried) $10. Show dates: Sept 25-27 1-4, Sept 28 4-7, Sept 30 9-1, Oct 1 11-2. Cash prizes given

• New Britain Museum of American Art, Yale Center for British Art & Yale University Art Gallery bus trip

October 7. Departs Buckland 9:15, returning 6:00. Cost is $45. including lunch. Make check out to Manchester Art Assoc.

Contact Penny Brandt by Sept 1 643– 0531

• David Lussier, Pamela Simpson Workshops (860)928-7121 or email davidlussier@charter.net www.davidlussier.com Www.pamelasimpson.com www.pleinairpair.com

Block Island- Sep 9-11, Newport RI– Sept 23-24, Gloucester MA– Oct 21-22, Home– Nov 11-12

• Artisan & Craft Show Held indoors at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Norwich CT of Sept 15 & 16.

• Fine Arts Show sponsored by the Stafford Arts Commission to be held on Oct. 7 10-7pm, Hyde Park, Stafford Springs Free exhibit space Consider showing with some friends, 10’x10’ booth. Contact artscommission@staffordct.org • Downtown Artist Showcase Display your work in downtown Rockville at the Crystal Blueprint. No cost. Opening reception every Thurs from 6—8pm. Call 871-1597 • Riverworks Art Center is up and running. Located at 287 Gurleyville Rd. in Storrs. Fine art and craft classes for children

& adults. Call 860-429-1929 Things are happening here... www.riverworksartcenter.com

Ar t NewsAr t NewsAr t News

Patty Naegeli Sketching (as used in forensic work) Sept. 12 Patty certainly has a diverse biography! She’s illustrated more than a dozen books, created wall murals and tiles, been involved in two high end gift lines, as well as the head artist in two exclusive hand painted designer clothing lines. Teaches workshops, is a Hospice Chaplain and Bereavement Counselor and is also a forensic sketch artist working with witnesses through recalled memory. Wow! Who says being an artist is only knowing how to put paint on paper or canvas to create? Creativity takes many routes. Shauna Shane Pastel Oct. 10 Our good neighbor and talented artist friend, Shauna will come join us again. She’s going to sing the song of pastels this time. The lovely saturated colors and loose but skillfully rendered artwork that she produces is a wonder to behold as we watch it unfold before our very eyes. Come along... Dan Nichols Nov. 14 Watercolors is mostly Dan’s ’home base’ but works in many other mediums. “I do not care for the sameness a lot of other artists seem to want. Each different medium is a new adventure”. Many of us know Dan from the Monday Workshops that he often participates in. He’s a talented and diverse artist. I might also note that he really does a great job in his favorite art subject: antique cars. The adventure has started!

Shauna Shane

Guest DemonstratorsGuest DemonstratorsGuest Demonstrators

Tues. Open Studio (hey Ronnie)

Membership: Dues are $25. per person or $30. per family. They run from Sept.-Aug. but can be paid any time SOON. Please send checks made out to TCAA to:

Adrianna Young, 143 Twin Hills Dr., Coventry, CT 06238 , soulshell@aol.com , 742-1763

You must be a paid up member to join in the Members Show & Critique in the Spring. Support the Arts in our area.

If you have Email:

Please let Ronnie Klukas know. She sends out periodic information. Of course, we never sell or use these emails for anything other than TCAA events. cyanronnie@aol.com

Painting of the Month: (need a chair for this) Members!! Bring your framed painting to the meetings. You may win the chance to hang at Dimitri’s, Ellington Library, Somers Library or Tolland Library. Our guest demonstrator will pick the winners. Displays hang from meeting to meeting.

Art Video & Book Lending Library: Items are lent from meeting to meeting. Please look for Mig Sertl (anyone can point her out) at the back of the room by the piano. Please return items on time. Call Mig if you can’t return item on time, to make arrangements. 875-4534

Tuesday Open Studio: We’re still painting outdoors, if you want a schedule, email cyanronnie@aol.com

Meets every Tuesday from 9-1 o’clock at the Art Center of Tolland starting Oct. 3. General schedule is, 1st Tues. hands on workshop lead by a TCAA member, 2nd no session– evening meeting, 3rd still life followed by a general critique , 4th portrait drawing of one or more TCAA members. All levels of ability welcomed, no oil based paint please. Must be a TCAA member but you’re welcome to come for a couple of sessions first. Bring your lunch if you desire. Special workshops or field trips are usually held in conjunction with Open Studio. Come join us!!

** We need some people (one or two) to chair this very important expression of TCAA. Help where you can.

GGGROWING AS AN ARTIST ROWING AS AN ARTIST ROWING AS AN ARTIST by George S. Bolge, director of Boca Raton Museum of Art Local artists who continually participate in the Boca (Florida) Museum’s All Florida Competition and in the process bare their collective creative souls to the harsh examination of critics and novices alike, really de-sire one thing—to share what is most precious and real to them through their art. This can be an ideal, a belief, a faith, a tragic vision, a particular delight, or it can be their sense of the reality and texture of life. During my tenure as a Museum Director, I have had the opportunity to observe the careers of many aspiring artists and have found that significant creative growth is neither the goal nor the achievement of every artist. Altogether, too many so-called creative individuals are essentially the same at 60 as they were at 20. They may have mellowed a bit and have been able to express themselves a little more clearly through their work, but the quality, depth and range of their art remains pretty much as it was during art school and early career days. This lack of growth has less to do with talent than with attitude and imagi-nation. It often results from the notion that art is more the perfection and application of skills than it is the symbolic recapitulation of insights into the quality and nature of life; more the working out of techni-cal and formal problems than the resolution of perceptual or philosophical inconsistencies and ambigui-ties. Growth in art implies movement, change, the leaving behind of earlier and “lesser” stages of un-derstanding and actualization. It suggests a struggling or a groping toward a goal—be it clearly or dimly perceived. But most of all, it reflects the most fundamental and imperative aspects of life: its dynamics, openness– and its unlimited fecundity. Growth is easiest within a healthy and clearly defined tradition. Such a tradition not only helps the artist discover his creative identity rapidly and with precision, it also presents him with specific goals, and with the basic physical and symbolic tools necessary to achieve them. Given such a tradition, and equipped with the necessary genius or talent, an artist can evolve and grow to the point where he represents the apex of that tradition. Today’s artist, however, has no such tradition. At best, he may have the example of an older artist whose style answers most of his own needs, or be the heir to a shaky kind of ‘mini tradition’ that permits two or three generations of painters to shape their art according to the precepts of one or two powerful figures……. To be continued

Monday Workshop– Plein Air as long as the weather holds, YMCA teen center in winter. Call Jim 649-1793

Tuesday Open Studio outdoor painting continues through Sept. Tolland Art Center in winter. Email cyanronnie@aol.com

September 12– First TCAA meeting. Demo is Patty Naegeli, sketch artist 7:00pm

August 8– Sept. 16– Susan Bosworth art exhibit, Gilded Edge Gallery, Salem CT

September– Linda Pease, solo exhibit at Ellington Library

September 9– Linda Pease Silk Painting Workshop, Flights of Fancy, Stafford Springs. 763-2248

September 9, 10 Glastonbury Show on the Green Art show

September 12, 13, 14, Painting Excursion in Wellfleet MA. Call Chris Parliman 742-5743

September 15-30 Piedmont Art Show, Somers Call Linda 749-2502, or Neil 749-4924

September 15, 16 Art Show in Norwich, CT

September 23– TVAA Art Show, M.L.King House, Rt. 75 Suffield (rain date 9/30) call Claire to exhibit 668-6786

September 24—Artist Day at Valley Falls Farm, Fund raiser for the farm. Details forthcoming from Jane Burr

October— Sally Balukas Student Show at Crystal Blueprint, reception Oct 5 6-8

October 10— TCAA meeting, Shauna Shane to demonstrate pastels 7:00pm

October 7— MAA Bus trip to New Britain, Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, Penny 643-0531

October— Doris Coughlin solo exhibition at Southwick, MA Library

October, November—Aline Hoffman Healing/Creative workshops 742-6696 or bahoffman@earthlink.net

October 5—Tentative Sidewalk Clothesline Art Sale, Hartford CT

October 7 Fine Arts Show in Stafford, CT, free exhibiting space, 10’x10’, artscommissionstaffordct.org

October 28-November 17—Art Scholz ‘The Charm of New England’ Exhibit at WAAC, Main St Willimantic

November 14—TCAA meeting, Dan Nichols, artist from Manchester

November—Joan Burbank—2 Exhibits, McCauley Retirement Comm. W. Hartford & Ellington Library

November 1– 29-TCAA Open Show, South Windsor Library. Open to all artists info- 871-9003, 649-5353

December 5—TCAA Christmas Pot Luck at Tolland Art Center. Email Ronnie cyanronnie@aol.com

October 3—Tentative resuming of indoors Tuesday Open Studio (if weather permits, we’ll stay outdoors)

At A Glance...At A Glance...At A Glance...

S. Bosworth

A. Young

E. O’Connor

D. Coughlin

TOLLAND COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION HEIDI LUDWIG 511 OLD POST RD

TOLLAND, CT 06084

TCAA Newscast

T o l l a n d C o u n t y A r t A s s o c i a t i o n

Palmer Scene in Fall

By Penny Brandt