Central Florida Watercolor Society

The CFWS mission is to promote the medium of watercolor to the community through membership exhibitions, demonstrations, worlshops, artist promotions and sponsored activites.

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Membership is open to the casual as well as the professional artist who specializes in watercolor or other water-based media.

The Central Florida Watercolor Society membership offers the opportunity to grow painting skills through demonstrations and workshops. Members network with other artists, participate in annual exhibits, and display artwork at local venues. Adults of all skill levels in Central Florida are welcome. The CFWS meets monthly, September through May, at the Maitland Art Center's Marvel Building. Meetings are scheduled the first Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. If confilicted with a major holiday, the meeting will schedule for the following Sunday. Check calendar to confirm meeting dates.

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Just because we aren't meeting until September 9, doesn't mean that there isn't anything to talk about. If you are planning an outing, want to announce a show, toot your own horn, let us know and we will share it with our membership. Submit your info using the form at this link.

Do you have a website and want it included in our membership listing? As a service to our members, the membership listing can now include a link to your webpage or blog. If your are interested, send info.

If you haven't renewed your membership, we need you to mail your $35 dues in or you can now conveniently renew online using a credit card. More information.

Sunday's meeting, May6th, wrapped up the 2011-2012 season with the election of new officers for the upcoming season. The society will not officially meet again until August 2012. President Faye Tambrino, after serving for four years, will step aside in January of 2013. We are planning on posting a bio of the new officers as we are able to get them, check back for more information. The new officers and continuing committee chairs are listed at left.

Thanks to all who contributed food to the luncheon and to Nancy Larkin for the doorprizes, an assortment of watercolor how to books donated by the family of Diane Garber.

2012-2013	CFWS Officers and Committees
President	Cindy Sturla (with Faye through Dec 2012)
Vice President	Patsy Marquart
Secretary(s)	Mary Dall & Lauralee Quick
Treasurer	Bonnie Tunney
Galleries and Shows	Ann Worrall
Greeters	LeAnne Juster
Historian	Roberta Lerman
Hospitality	Connie Marcan, Remy Torres, Mary Dall
Membership	Nancy McCarthy
Newsletter	Janet Asbury
Publicity	Jackii Molsick
Web Content	Mike Malloy
Workshop Coordinator	Carol Ancona
Workshop Registration	Nancy Sexton
Plein Air Happenings	Sally Hall

The 2012-2013 Annual Member Show will be hosted at Orlando City Hall in the Terrace Gallery. This years show will have a theme: ORLANDO. Members are asked that they paint a subject that ties to Orlando in some way. The show will hang in February 2013 with opening reception scheduled February 9. The show will be judged by February workshop artist, Tom Lynch. Start planning and painting. More details will be available at the start of the new season.

CFWS T-Shirts are going to be made available to the membership at a cost of $6 each. The teal green, cotton shirt will have the CFWS logo screened in white on the front. FWS convention volunteers are being encouraged to wear the shirts during the upcoming convention in September. Shirts will be available for purchase in August 2012.

MAC needs your support to secure funding to become a historic landmark. A petition was circulated asking for signatures to build support when asking the City of Maitland to assist in the funding of the process to make the MAC a landmark. You only need to be a citizen of Florida to be eligible to sign on. Goto http://friendsofmac.blogspot.com/ for more information and to add your name to the online petition.

Don't forget that the FWS convention will be in Orlando in September. Volunteers are still needed for the convention, the FWS show opening reception at the Mennello and as docents for school children on field trips to view the show between August and November. Details below.

Have a safe and productive summer!

EVENTS ONGOING

"Expressions of BOK Tower Gardens" show at Bok Tower Gardens, March 31th thru May 31,2012, admission not required to view the show. The show features CFWS member impressions of the gardens through their watercolor paintings. The show is free and the art is for sale through the artist. Bok Show Online Gallery.
(Artists: work from the show will be brought to MAC on June 1 and can be picked up between 11 am and 1 pm. Thanks to Nancy Larkin and Sally Hall for providing this service.)

"Watercolor Impressions" featuring paintings by society members that focus on garden subjects and/or Leu Gardens. The exhibition is being hosted at Leu Gardens in the Garden House. The show opened April 24th and be available through July 2012. Leu Gardens Online Gallery

The 2012 CFWS Virtual Annual Member Show
View the work submitted to the 2012 Annual Member Show exhibited February 16 through March 9 at Gallery at Avalon Island.

Florida Watercolor Society (FWS) Convention and Exhibit 2012 being held in Orlando, September 13 - 15, 2012

CFWS volunteers are needed. The 41st Annual Florida Watercolor Society Convention site will be the Doubletree Hotel located accross from the entrance to Universal Studios, Orlando, conveniently located off Interstate 4. Sally Hall will be the Convention Volunteer Coordinator, assisted by our President Faye Tambrino. We are compiling a list of general volunteers for the convention who will choose time slots for the various needs on as we get closer to the date. Convention set-up help is needed on Sunday, September 9 and take-down on September 16. More volunteers are needed. Right now we want you to commit to volunteering a few hours on one of the days. Sign on at the March meeting or get in touch with Sally Hall, Vice President of CFWS and Volunteer Coordinator for the Convention.

The FWS Exhibition will be held at the Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 East Princeton St., Orlando. The Exhibition will open on September 14 with a catered evening reception. Nancy Larkin is the Exhibition Reception Coordinator and is seeking volunteers to assist as hosts/hostesses for the reception to greet and usher those attending to the Mennello Museum. Contact Nancy Larkin for details.

Although we have a fine group who have already volunteered for some of the time during the convention, September 9 and September 12th thru the 16th, more volunteers are needed! Can you help out in some way?