Please join us on Monday, April 28, 2008
7:00pm at the ArtCentre of Plano
for our general meeting.

Our Demo Artist will be
Larry Carey
Pen and Ink

"My creative approach is the result of a gradual development of a visual vocabulary that allows me to explore the parallel universes of collective consciousness and the personal sub-consciousness. The intended result is a body of work that is as fun to look at as it to decipher.

I work in a mode that is essentially "automatic", as my goal is to allow images to flow quickly from my mind to the paper with minimal consideration for narrative flow. In this way I hope to tap into creative resources that are far more vast and powerful than my ownlimited imagination (as in Jung's collective consciousness). The result is a complex array of juxtaposed images that tend to communicate a general theme, even as they avoid a specific narrative."

Larry then adds:

Now, lemmie say that I hate these artist's statements, because they sound so presumptuous and heady, and I don't talk like that usually.

Artist of the Month

Carolyn Kilgo Weinman

I am native Texan, born in Gatesville and have lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex since 1969. I have no formal studies in art other than the public school systems. I love the out-of-doors and have a deep appreciation for the beauty of nature and animals. I try to express that love through my art. The mediums that I work in are acrylic, oil, and watercolor. I also work in mixed media, collage, photography and graphic design.

Art has always been a part of my life in one form or another. Drawing and painting through school and as a young adult. I didn’t paint again for almost thirty years. Photography filled my artistic challenges for those years. My love of nature has taken me on travels throughout the United States, London, and Tanzania & Kenya, Africa. After returning from my last trip to Africa in 2000 I started painting again and haven’t stopped.

I free-lanced as a photographer for the Fort Worth Zoo with photos published in the quarterly newsletter, 1994. The warthog habitat exhibition sign features two of my photographs at the Fort Worth Zoo. Southwestern Bell 1994-95 edition of the Fort Worth Telephone Directory published one of my photographs of “Neela” the white Bengal tiger at the Fort Worth Zoo and two photographs of Sumatran tigers (Fort Worth Zoo) were featured in an October 1994 edition of “Cats Magazine”, a national publication.

A business in Austin, Texas displays one of my black leopard photographs on their promotional materials and business cards and a business in Gainesville, Florida features two of my photographs on their website, one of a black leopard and one of a lion painted on denim jackets.

I make several donations of my art each year to various non-profit agencies, such as, Campfire Artists Christmas Auction, Artists Against Aids, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), the local Alzheimer’s Association, Smith History Center in Cleburne, and the Grand Prairie Arts Council in Grand Prairie.

I belong to several local art associations and I am on the Newsletter Directors of the Plano Art Association – Plano, Texas and the Mid Cities Fine Artists – Hurst, Texas.

Juried Shows:

• 9th Annual Rio Brazos Art Exhibition 2005 Juried Show
• Society of Watercolor Artists Member 2005 Juried Show
• Lake Granbury Art Association Fall Festival 2005 Juried Show
• Plano Art Association National Juried Show Spring 2006
• Vertu an exhibit for emerging artists, 2006
• Plano Art Association’s 125 Juried Art Show 2007
• Irving Art Association Members Juried Show, May 2007
• Vertu an exhibit for emerging artists, 2007
• Society of Watercolor Artists Member 2007 Juried Show
• Texas Visual Arts Association Annual Citation Exhibition 2007
• Grand Prairie Arts Council Annual Juried Show, September 2007
• Irving Art Association Wildlife Juried Show, September 2007
• Eastside Creative Arts Club 35th Annual Juried Art Show, November 2007

Awards:

• 1st & 2nd Place and Honorable Mention ribbons from the Texas State Fair for Photographs
• 2nd & 3rd Place ribbons from the 1995 Tarrant County Fair, Chisholm Trail Round-Up for Photographs
• 2nd Place - Painting of the Month – October 2006, Mid-Cities Fine Artists
• 1st Place Painting of The Month – April 2007, Mid-Cities Fine Artists
• 1st Place in Water Media at the Richardson Civic Arts Society +50 Show, April 2007
• Painting of the Year – May 2007, Mid-Cities Fine Artists
• Honorable Mention – Mid Cities Fine Artists 22nd Annual Juried Fine Art Show, August 2007
• Honorable Mention – Society of Watercolor Artists, September 2007

Exhibits:

• Borders Book Store (Fort Worth)
• Layland Museum (Cleburne, Texas)
• Art on the Boulevard Gallery (Fort Worth, Texas)
• Ridglea Country Club (Fort Worth, Texas)
• Art Goggle (Fort Worth, Texas)
• 2nd Floor Gallery (Fort Worth, Texas)

Please visit my web site at www.carolynkilgoweinman.com to view my art or email me at ck_weinman@yahoo.com or call me at 817-346-9012 for more information.

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Plano Art Association Members Share Art
with Plano's City Hall

There's nothing drabber than a large, gray room full of cubicles with empty walls all around. That's why PAA has agreed to generously loan art for 6-8 weeks at a time to Plano's City Hall Utility Department. Art created by our members hang on the once bare walls where it is admired & discussed by office workers and visiting patrons/guests. Our art gets exposure and helps educate the public about PAA and the talented people who are its members. No, this isn't technically an "art show." However, admirers have purchased past artwork, so you never know who might be your next buyer. Several members, including myself have loaned art to the City Hall in the past. It has been a pleasant and rewarding experience.

If you are a member of PAA and would like to participate in this project here is what it entails:

• 1. That your art have wire hangers on the back.
• 2. That you are willing to part with it for two months.
• 3. That you can both deliver and pick it up your art from City Hall, which is located ½ block from the Plano ArtCentre where we have our monthly general meeting.
• 4. The next time we change out the art is in mid-March, so we will need volunteer artists then, as well as for  May.

If you have any questions, or would like to add your name to the list of artists who desire to participate in the future, please email me at annstoryart@sbcglobal.net

Ruth Siddiqi