Happy New Year's Eve!

Dear Art Stand Gallery artists and Friends:

Hope you all had a very Happy Holiday season and will have a wonderful new year in 2010.

Our Winter Workshops begin in a little over a week on January 9th. If you haven't signed up yet, please do as soon as possible. Either download/print the flyer and send it in or bring it with you on the day of the class with the class fee. If you want to come on the day, do call Elaine Lane (or respond to this post via a comment) to make sure there is still room in the session that you want to take.

If you aren't a "friend" or "follower" of The Art Stand Gallery blog, we'd love to have you join us!

Scroll back to the post of October 28, 2009 to find out "How to Become a Follower of the Art Stand Gallery Blog". Hope to see you soon as a follower and as a participant at one of our winter workshop classes!

The Winter Workshop Registration Flyer

Tiwi Wood and her husband Christopher are again responsible for the fabulous flyer. Thank you both!

I will post the front and back side of the flyer here. You should be able to just double click on either image to enlarge them, and then you can print them out and register as described on the flyer.




Looking forward to seeing you at one or more of the Winter Workshops. We have new offerings this time and many of the classes are filling up quickly. So, if you are interested, send in your registration and check to reserve your spot(s).

Winter Workshops coming up!

Signups are being taken for our Winter Workshops and flyers will soon be available. If you've attended before or signed up as being interested in attending, you will receive one via email or as a hard copy in the mail. As soon as the flyers are ready, one will also be posted here on the blog.

Some classes are already beginning to fill up so if you are interested please send me an email and I'll see that you get on the class list or come out to the Art Stand and sign up there.

Classes and dates are as follows:

Jan. 9  (Sat.)     Pastel/Doris Runyan  10-2, $30.00
Jan. 9  (Sat.)     Ceramics/Tiwi S. Wood 2-6 PM, $30.00
Jan. 10 (Sun.)  Gourds/Toni Best 10-4, $45.00
Jan. 16 (Sat.)   Abstract Watercolors/Sandy Kowallis, 10-2, $30.00
Jan. 17 (Sun.)  Mixed Media Art/Kathleen Mattox, 10-4, $45.00
Jan. 23 (Sat.)    Oils/Acrylics/Sally DeLap John, 10-4, $45.00
Jan. 24 (Sun.)   Digital Photography/Jeri Burzin, 10-2, $30.00
Jan. 30 (Sat.)    Dichroic Glass Jewelry/ Kay Gaston, 10-4, $45.00
Jan. 31 (Sun.)   Dichroic Glass Jewelry/Kay Gaston, 10-4, $45.00

If you take 2 or more workshops, you may take $5.00 off the cost of each workshop you will attend.

Art Hop: Thursday, November 19th from 5-8 PM

Welcome to Art Hop at the Art Stand Gallery,
Thursday, November 19th from 5-8 PM.

The featured artists this month are Kay Gaston and Elaine Towne Lane.

Kay Gaston's cloth art dolls are each unique and portray characters
from life or fantasy.She has merged her fused dichroic glass,
cloth doll making and silversmith skills to create a
unique style of glass enhanced silver jewelry.

Elaine Towne Lane's 20+ years in Southeast Asia, Africa

and Central Americahave inspired her creativity.

Her love of pre-Columbian art is a dominating influence

for her works in ceramics, glass, and jewelry.

"Art For The Holidays" Event November 21st and 22nd

On Saturday and Sunday, November 21st and 22nd, the Art Stand Galery will be holding their annual "Art for the Holidays" event. Hours will be from 11 AM till 5 PM both days and artists will be in attendance both days. Refreshments will be served and there will be many Christmas ornaments, small gift items, and seasonal pieces available for sale.

Please come out and join us for "Art for the Holidays"--we look forward to seeing you next weekend at the Art Stand Gallery at Frankwood and Hwy. 180, east of Sanger and north of Reedley.

How to Become a Follower of The Art Stand Gallery

We need more "followers", people who read our blog consistently and receive email notifications when the blog has been updated with a new post. These are the steps to follow to become a follower:

1. Go to theartstandgallery.blogspot.com (but you are obviously already here!)

2. Go to the left hand sidebar and scroll down through the sections entitled "The Artists", "Blog Archive",  "Topics", "Links", and then you'll see a section called "Friends, Fans, and Supporters of The Art Stand Gallery."

3. Right under that header, you'll see a small button to click that says "Follow". Click on it and a window will open that gives you several choices of an "identity" to use as a follower. The choices are Google, AIM (AOL), Yahoo, NetLog, or Open ID. If you have a Google, AOL, or Yahoo account, log in with that information on this screen. If you have none of them, there is an option at the bottom of the window that says "Create a New G-mail Account". If you choose that option, you'll need to enter a user name and a password and then you'll be assigned a Google account (free) which also entitles you to a G-mail account (also free).

4. Once you are a follower, your picture will appear in the box beside your user name in the follower area and also whenever you post a comment on the blog. If you have an account with a profile photo, it uses that one. Otherwise you'll have a generic "profile" photo until you choose one and upload one. The photo is not essential. You can be a follower without a photo.

5. Let me know if you are unsuccessful and tell me what's happening and I'll see if I can help you out.

Good luck! I anticipate more followers very soon!

And Join Us, You Did!

To those of you who came out last Saturdayto the Art Stand Gallery "Tent Event", THANK YOU!

We had a lot of visitors throughout the day and it was nice to see many stay for quite some time, visiting with the artists and enjoying refreshmentsand the beautiful fall day. It is beginning to feel like we have a loyal group of "fans" who faithfully attend our events and often bring friends. Perhaps we can attribute the growing size of the group to our email efforts, the blog, Facebook, and the diligence of individual artists in informing their own contact lists. In any case, it's great to see it happening!

Artist Sally Delap John did gestural sketches

and watercolor portraits of guestsand Deanna Bristow and Chieko Delgado were painting watercolors under their tents.

Tiwi Wood had her wheel set up and made use of the time outside with friends to have a productive day.

All in all, sales were moderate but the

weather, the food, and the company

were fabulous!

We went home tired, but happy.

We hope you will join us at our next event--"Art for Christmas!"--on November 21-22.