Category Archives: General Meetings

October 2022 General Meeting

General Meetings October 14, 2022

Our General Meeting for October Will Be Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Meeting place:
Homewood Suites
23320 Hwy 59N
Kingwood, TX
77339

6:30pm Meet & Greet
7:00pm Meeting & Demo

October Demo Artist: Melanie Wade Leslie – Photo Transfer

A native Texan, Melanie holds academic degrees from Sam Houston State University (BFA – Painting) and the University of Houston (MFA – Studio Art) and has been an active artist and educator for many years.  Under her tutelage, her students have consistently benefited from her teaching, many earning awards and accolades for their work at regional, state and national levels.

  Melanie Wade Leslie is an experimental cross-media artist and printmaker with an affinity for color and texture. Her work has evolved over the past two and a half decades into more experimental combinations of drawing, painting and printmaking media, frequently embodying the historically iconic and metaphorically rich imagery of the horse. Focusing upon the unique and universal attributes of legendary equus, Melanie pursues an expressive manifestation of symbolic echoes, germinated out of inter-species collaboration that invites a dialog with the human spirit.

Her demo will be how to do photo transfers.

Reminder – Fall Art Show Coming Up

Remember that our Fall Art Show is to be held on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Kingwood Community Center. You can find our show poster here. Please feel free to print it out and distribute it to family, friends, and local businesses. For the show prospectus, as well as rules and directions for entering, click here.
This is also the time to pay membership fees. You MUST be a paid member to enter the show! You can pay online by PayPal ($43 for adults, $12 for students K-12) or at our October meeting.
By the way, if you entered your art in the Spring 2022 show and didn’t win a ribbon (BOS, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 1st HM), you can enter that piece again in this show. Deadline for entries is midnight on Wednesday, October 26. Enter now and enter often!
In addition to the art show entries, we will have a gallery where members can display their art to the public. No sales are allowed at the show itself, but be sure to provide contact information so that interested parties can get in touch with you later to arrange a sale. There may be a lot of people at the Community Center that day for early voting, so the chances are good that members of the public will pop in to look around.
There will be further information about the Fall Show in a separate email.

September 2022 General Meeting

General Meetings, Information September 9, 2022

Our First General Meeting of the 2022/23 Season Will Be On Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Welcome back to our returning members and welcome to all new members! We will be starting our new season with a general meeting on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at:

Homewood Suites
23320 Hwy 59N
Kingwood, TX
77339

6:30pm Meet & Greet
7:00pm Meeting & Demo

Our September Demo Artist is Inga Strause-Godejord – Hand Painted Silk Scarves

INGA STRAUSE GODEJORD

The name of my company is INGASILKS and I specialize in painting on silk, luxurious hand painted silk accessories for women and men. I am the owner of the company and its sole employee. I do every task from procuring the best quality materials to product design, production and marketing. I am proud of the fact that I can provide my clients with one of a kind, unique, sophisticated, individually designed and made by hand piece. Each piece begins its life as a pure white 100% silk stretched on a frame. Then a combination of techniques is used to create the vivid colorful scarves, ascots and cravats, from a fluid watercolor method to a more controlled resist technique. Each piece is steam-set for hours for brilliant and permanent color. My work differs from many other silk products in the marketplace in the fact that I do not print a design on my scarves but paint each design on by hand.

Another outlet for my passion for silk is teaching. I teach silk painting courses and private classes. I find great joy in this! It is very rewarding when after classes my students say that they never expected that painting on silk would be so relaxing, so meditative; feeling they had not experienced in other art.

LHAA Fall 2022 Art Show and Competition

Our Fall Art Show will be on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Kingwood Community Center. The judge for this show will be Kathleen Wagner. Stay tuned for details TBA.

Art Changeouts Coming Up

We have changeouts of the art we have on display at Kingwood Public Library and Skero’s Furniture. Remember, if you are a paid member who has helped us as a volunteer you are eligible to bring your works of art to show to the public. Helping with the hanging counts as volunteering! Be sure your art is ready to hang, with picture wire on the back.

Our art display at Skero’s
Our art display at Skero’s

Kingwood Public Library, 4400 Bens View Ln., Kingwood, TX 77339
Changeout: Friday, September 16, 2022, 11:00 a.m.

Skero’s Furniture, 1317 Northpark Dr., Kingwood, TX 77339
Changeout: Friday September 30, 2022, 11:00 a.m.

May 2022 General Meeting – Change of Demo Artist

General Meetings, Information May 12, 2022

We Have Made a Change in Our May General Meeting

The meeting is still the same day and time and place, but the previous demo artist is unable to attend. In her place we will be featuring the demo artist that we would have had at the March General Meeting – Cheng Lian.

Cheng Lian was born in 1955 in Shanghai, China. Part of a close-knit, highly-talented family, he learned art since he was a little boy from his father, a famous artist and professor. He graduated from China Academy of Fine Art (a famous art school in China known as Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art), and he was an honored student in the art school. 

As an artist Cheng has traveled to many places in China, Asia, United States, North America, Europe and South America; he uses his artist eyes observing things that he has seen like people and scenery, and he created eye catching, breathe taking portraits, landscapes and still lifes with his unique style. 

Exhibitions: Wild Horse Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO; Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine, FL; Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO; Trailside Galleries, Jackson Hole, WY; Insight Gallery, Frederiksberg, TX; Bosque Art Center, Clifton, TX; Thornwood Galleries, Houston, Dallas, TX; East-West Gallery, The Woodlands, TX; Billy Hork Galleries, Chicago IL; Lakeshore Gallery, Milwaukee WI; Lakeside Gallery, Lakeside MI 

Media & Publication: July/August 2015 (Volume 32 #6) The Artist’s Magazine, The Woodlands Online, American Art Collector (USA), Art World News – cover (USA), Artists of Chinese Origin in North America Directory (USA), Chinese Select Oil Painting Artists (Japan) 

2021-
 Bronze Medal Award, 2021 Juried Salon Show OPA
Best of America SMALL Painting Exhibit, NOAPS

Reminder: This will be our last general meeting until September 2022. We hope to see you there!

May 2022 General Meeting

Artwork Displays, General Meetings, Information May 9, 2022

Our May General Meeting, the Last One of the Season, Will Be On Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Meeting is at:
Homewood Suites
23320 Hwy 59N
Kingwood, TX
77339

6:30pm Meet & Greet
7:00pm Meeting & Demo

We will talk about the Spring Show, about the LSAG Virtual Show, and about plans for next season. This will be our last general meeting until September.

Demo Artist for May – Nancy Paris Pruden – Oils

Nancy Paris Pruden, an award-winning artist, lives and works in Houston, Texas. Growing up in Ft. Worth, Texas, Nancy started painting at a very early age when she won a scholarship to study drawing and later painting at the Experimental Art Program in Ft. Worth. By the time she graduated from high school, she was selling her art and is today shown in many national juried shows. Texture and color are her main interests, and she paints from life Alla Prima style in oils.

Graduating from the University of Georgia with a BFA in Painting and Drawing, Nancy continued her training with workshops under David Leffel, Gregg Kreutz, Quang Ho, Carolyn Anderson, and Joe Anna Arnett before attending the Art Students League in New York.

Art Changeout at Skero’s and Kingwood Library- Update

The art changeout at Skero’s will happen tomorrow, Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. This is a change from the previous announcement, so if you plan to be there, note the time change.

Also, the art changeout at Kingwood Public Library will be on Friday, May 27 at 11:30 a.m. Any paid members who have volunteered their time to us (helping with the art changeout counts) are eligible to bring art for display at these locations. Be sure that your art is ready to hang, with picture wire.

Welcome Back Social

General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions March 7, 2022

Our March 2022 General Meeting Will be a “Welcome Back” Event

In order to welcome back our loyal members, we are planning a social at our upcoming meeting! In addition to the pleasure of getting back together again and enjoying the artist demo, we will be serving refreshments and giving out a door prize for some lucky artist. Anyone who has an interest in the visual arts is welcome to come as well. So let your artistic friends, family, and neighbors know about this opportunity!

Reminder: Discounted Membership Fees

As we mentioned before, anyone who wants to become a member for the remainder of this 2021/22 season will need to pay only $20 for an adult membership. Bring your money or check to the meeting. You need to be a paid member to register for the upcoming Spring 2022 Art Show and Competition.

April’s Art Show Takes the Place of Our April 2022 General Meeting

After the Spring Show in April there will be only one more general meeting – the third Tuesday of May. More details on the show to follow.