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 President's
Message
The Annual NJWCS Member's Meeting
was held again this year at the Deal Golf and Country Club's
beautiful setting in Deal, NJ. on Saturday, May 17th. With
great pleasure our newly Elected Members were introduced and
congratulated as they received their membership certificates.
Everybody's appetite was satisfied with the delicious choice
of entrees, and the occasion provided a chance to socialize
and meet new friends. Thank you to all who helped in making
this popular event a great success.
At the Executive Board meeting on
April 12th, seven people were elected full member status with
the New Jersey Water Color Society. This year's newly elected
members were; William Dynan, Vicki Bloye Gainsburg, Jinnie
May, Marigene Misinay, Marie Natale, Edward Rabinowitz and
Alice Warshaw. I would like to extend my congratulations to
all and to urge that they're participation benefits both them
and our great organization in making it function. I'm also
very pleased to have Ann Taylor and Theresa Troise Heidel
join with us on the Executive Board. Ann will be our new 1st
Vice President and Exhibition Chairperson and Theresa our
new 2nd Vice President.
The Annual Associate Show will be
held at the Morris county Library from June 30th - July 31st.
Opening reception will be held July 12th, 2:00 - 4:00. This
show is popular with the library and I encourage all our associates
to enter.
This year's Annual Elected Members
show was held at the guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury,
NJ. May 3rd - May 29th. The reception was held on May 17th
in conjunction with our Annual Meeting and luncheon. Top honors
go to Dolores Ziegler with all the award winners shown in
our Spring/Summer 2008 newsletter. Thank you to Susanna Anastasia,
Margaret Crawford, Roberta Carter Clark and all those who
helped in making this a successful and well received exhibit.
The 66th Open Juried show will be
back to the Ridgewood Art Institute this year. Receiving is
October 4th with the show opening October 11th until October
31st. More information can be found on the exhibition page.
You are encouraged to fill out the Volunteer Helper form and
return it to show chairperson Ann Taylor. Your participation
greatly helps your society's Open Show to be a success.
Hope you a great summer and create
some fine paintings!
Ken C. Hamilton
President NJWCS
About
The New Jersey Watercolor Society
Formed in 1938, the NEW
JERSEY WATER COLOR SOCIETY exists to further appreciation
and knowledge of watercolor and of watercolors by New Jersey
artists. A "watercolor painting" is defined by the Society
as a painting executed in an aqueous medium, unvarnished and
framed under glass or plexiglass. The primary objectives of
the Society are to secure a membership of professional watercolorists,
to exhibit watercolors of exceptional quality throughout the
State of New Jersey, and to further public knowledge and appreciation
of paintings in various aqueous media.
Starting with twelve members in 1938,
the Society has grown to over 150
full members, elected by the Society's Board of Directors
according to a rigorous selection process designed to assure
that members of the Society produce work, which will bring
credit both to themselves and to the society.
The oldest and best-known watercolor
group in the United States is The American Watercolor Society.
The National Watercolor Society is probably the only other
watercolor group older than NJWCS. Many state watercolor organizations
have been formed since, reflecting the popularity of the medium
nationwide.
Since its first Member's Exhibition
at The MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM and its first Open Exhibition
at the Art Center of the Oranges, both in 1939, the Society
has exhibited at THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, THE
MONMOUTH MUSEUM, THE NOYES MUSEUM, the Plainfield Library,
the Hadley Gallery in Bernardsville, the Bareford Gallery
in Clinton, the YMHA and YWHA of West Orange, ALLIED SIGNAL
in Morris County, NABISCO, INC. in East Hanover, the RENEE
FOOSANER GALLERY at the PAPER NHLL PLAYHOUSE in Millburn,
the SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION in Madison, the RIDGEWOOD
ART INSTITUTE in Ridgewood, and other prestigious locations
in our state.
The NJWCS is one of the few remaining
organizations to judge and jury show entries from original
work rather than slides. Since New Jersey is a small state,
distances remain reasonable and the cooperation of members
permits transportation of the paintings to be easily accomplished.
In 1988 fifty years of activity was celebrated with an Anniversary
Exhibition presented at THE MONTCLAIR MUSEUM, THE MONMOUTH
MUSEUM, and the NOYES MUSEUM.
Once a year, the Society
holds an Open Show for all New Jersey watercolor painters
whose work is selected by a seven member jury of established
watercolorists. Each year, the Board selects new artist members
from this show and invites them to submit five of their best
works for evaluation by the Board. If a majority of the Board
members vote to accept an artist, that person is invited to
join the Society. Once a member, that artist can enter a painting
in the Annual Member's Show held in the spring. With these
exhibitions, the Society continues to reach out to the public
with one of the most magical of visual mediums... WATERCOLOR!
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