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• Marie Renfro Last month listed Gallery VIII as having a show at the Art Centre in Plano and listed the date of the reception as Jan.4. That has been changed to Jan. 18 from 6 to 8. Everyone is invited. Each artist has done a self portrait and that is fun to try to match them with the artist who painted them. The show is called "New Directions" and shows new avenues of work each artist is currently exploring.
• Marie Renfro Last month listed Gallery VIII as having a show at the Art Centre in Plano and listed the date of the reception as Jan.4. That has been changed to Jan. 18 from 6 to 8. Everyone is invited. Each artist has done a self portrait and that is fun to try to match them with the artist who painted them. The show is called "New Directions" and shows new avenues of work each artist is currently exploring.
• Mirtha Aertker Mirtha has been accepted for the newly formed HPG C.A.M.E.O. - Houston Potters Guild Clay Arts Museum and Educational Organization - will host the Second Annual Texas Teapot Tournament in January 2008 in Houston, Texas. Hundreds of teapots created by clay artists for this international competition will be juried by Oliver Goldesberry, owner of the highly respected fine craft and three-dimensional gallery, Goldesberry Gallery. A Grand Prize of $1,000, a purchase award, will be presented, with the winning teapot becoming the third acquisition for Houston's newest museum. Goldesberry will also select the winner of the 2008 Memorial Award, given this year in honor of Tom Acquisto, owner of The Ceramic Store, whose sudden death this summer saddened the whole of the Houston clay community. The teapots will be on display for public viewing from January 5-31 at the Houston Potters Guild Shop & Gallery, 2726 White Oak Drive.
• Mirtha Aertker Mirtha has been accepted to have images of her work included in a new Lark book; an upcoming publication "SURFACE DESIGN FOR CERAMICS" to be released sometime in the Summer of 2008
• Sharon Ventura Thank you for including me in the last PAA Newsletter. People "do" read it! And it "is" a vehicle to a broader networking circle of artists and people connected to the arts on many different levels. As a result of information about me in last month's Newsletter, I was contacted by Houston artist, photographer, writer, Sandy Wells. We are talking about doing a show together with the subject being the female figure/portraiture.
  
  Just wanted to remind readers of the Go Figure! 2D & 3D exhibit focusing on the human figure. It opens January 22 and runs to February 9. The opening reception is Wednesday, January 30, 6:00 pm., The ARTS gallery, Collin College, 2800 E. Spring Creek Pkwy. Plano, Texas. I will be exhibiting paintings at that show.
• Irene Stone Irene received a 1st Place Award in the Visual Arts League of Lewisville in their "Food, Food, Food" theme show.
• Carolyn Kilgo Weinman Carolyn has artwork hanging in the Cleburne Public Library and the Alvarado Public Library.



• Gallery VIII will be having a show at the Art Centre of Plano beginning December 29th and the reception will be January 4th. Everyone is welcome to attend the opening. The show runs through January 26th, 2008.
• Ruth Siddiqi and Andrea Stigdon participated in the Downtown at Sundown in Plano on November 10th.
• Andrea Stigdon is currently showing a few pieces at Plano City Hall until January.
• Sharon Ventura has been invited to participate in the "Go, Figure!" show at THE ARTS Gallery at Collin County Community College, Spring Creek Campus . The show runs from January 22nd through February 9, 2008. Opening reception: Wednesday, January 30th at 6 p.m. http://www.ccccd.edu/THEARTSGallery/
• Mary Truelove had a watercolor painting titled “Patterned Lilies” juried in to the Southwestern Watercolor Society’s 44th Annual Juried Membership Show and she also sold the painting.
• Claudia Caudill received an Honorable Mention award in the Richardson Civic Art Society Member’s Show at the Richardson Public Library.
• Carolyn Kilgo Weinman has two paintings on exhibit at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, 76107 in conjunction with the Eastside Creative Arts Club. Carolyn also has two paintings “Memories” and “Illusion” in the 3rd show at the 2nd Floor Gallery in the Panther City Coffee Shop, 2918 W. Berry Street, Fort Worth, 76109.
• Barbara Gray is participating in a show and sale in conjunction to the Monday Morning Art Academy with 35 of her paintings at the ArtCentre of Plano November 16 - December 19. Stop in and buy something!
• Esther Friedman received a First Place award for a watercolor titled "New Orleans Jazz" in the Richardson Civic Art Society’ Membership Show 2007. She will be giving a demo in watercolor at RCAS.
• Hamutal Michaeli participated in Plano’s Treat Art Treat this past October.

Other Opportunities

• Midland Arts Association’s 2008 Spring Juried Art Show receipt of slides deadline by January 18, 2008 – www.midlandartsassociation.org for prospectus
• Watercolor Society of Alabama’s 67th National Exhibition receipt of slides by deadline January 18, 2008 – www.wsalabama.org for prospectus
• Northwest Watercolor Society’s 68th Annual Open Exhibition 2008 postmark deadline by January 22, 2008 – www.nwws.org for prospectus
• Society of Watercolor Artists’ 27th Juried Art Exhibition receipt of digital images by deadline January 26, 2008 – www.swa-watercolor.com for prospectus
• Irving Art Association’s 23rd Texas & Neighbor’s Regional Exhibition receipt of digital images by deadline January 28, 2008 – www.irvingart.org for prospectus
• Art Association of Northern Colorado’s 17th National Exhibition receipt of slides by deadline January 31, 2008 – www.artistsassoc.org for prospectus
• 1212 Gallery’s Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition postmark deadline by February 8, 2008 – www.1212galleryrichmond.com for prospectus
• Arlington Visual Arts Asscoiation’s 32nd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit delivery of entries Monday, February 11, 2008 from 4-9 pm – www.arlingtonvisualarts.com for prospectus
• Associated Arts of Ocean Shores’s 39th Annual National Juried Fine Art Show receipt of digital images by deadline February 14, 2008 – www.associatedarts.org for prospectus
• VMRC 5th Annual 2008 Juried Multimedia Art Exhibition receipt of 5”x7” photos by deadline March 28, 2008 – www.vmrc.org for prospectus
• South Cobb Arts Alliance’s National Juried Art Exhibition postmark deadline by June 9, 2008 – www.southcobbarts.org for prospectus



• Gallery VIII will be having a show at the Art Centre of Plano beginning December 29th and the reception will be January 4th. Everyone is welcome to attend the opening. The show runs through January 26th, 2008.
• ArtGroupDFW.com has listings for meetings, shows, etc. Go online to a world of art!

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