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June 2026 General Meeting

Artwork Displays, Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions June 11, 2026

Our General Meeting for June will be on Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Room B165
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Meet and Greet
7:00 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:45 p.m

We have a new meeting room, in the new section of the church. For this month, enter through the Main Sanctuary Doors, and follow the hallway to the left, down the corridor, and into the new building. Take a right, and our room is the last on the right.

June Agenda –

We do not have a Demo this month, instead we are having creative time with fellow artists and friends. Bring your current project, bring Show & Tell, Tips & Tricks, and bring questions for an art focused Q&A!

Dues

We are accepting Dues for the upcoming year (September-September). We are now offering Zelle as an option for paying your dues. It should be very easy, and won’t involve the fees charged by PayPal. So, going forward, we will accept only cash, check or Zelle for payments. Ask us if you have questions.

Dues are $40 for the summer until September 1st.

Look Book

Consider adding yourself to our Look Book! With an up-to-date Look Book we can approach potential local display locations to show our work to more people. Write a short artist bio and send 4-5 high-res pictures of your art to sheilabucchinoart@yahoo.com.

May 2026 General Meeting

Artwork Displays, Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions May 14, 2026

Our General Meeting for May will be on Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Room B165
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Meet and Greet
7:00 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:45 p.m

Note that we have a new meeting room, in the new section of the church. Enter through the Office entry, like normal, take a right down the hallway until you come to the last set of doors on the left. Enter through the doors and follow the hallway around to the right. B165 should be the last door on the right. See the building map below.

Our Demo Artist for May is Tetyana Aleksenko – Pastels

My name is Tetyana Aleksenko, I am an award-winning artist who paints mostly in soft pastels and oils. I am specializing in seascapes, florals, and portraits. After a 20+ years carrier in a biomedical field, I became a full-time artist in 2022, and enjoy every minute of it.  I have served as a President of the Pastel Society of Southeast Texas since January 2025 and as a Board Member of DEGA international Art Association since 2025. I am an Associate Member of The Pastel Society of America and an art instructor who teaches classes and workshops in The Woodlands and surrounding areas since 2023.

Also at This Meeting:

We will formally install our board members for the coming year.

Creative Challenge submissions are due. Theme: Wisdom or Hope, interpretation of one of these words

Art Call Submission Deadline Approaching

The deadline for entering the LSAG June 2026 art contest is Midnight, May 24, 2026. If at our recent Art Show and Competition you won a ribbon for Best Of Show, First, Second, Third, or First Honorable Mention, you are eligible to enter LSAG’s first in-person competition in six years! It will be a three-day event. The link for instructions for entry is here. Don’t miss your chance!



Dues & Board Election

Artwork Displays, Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions April 20, 2026

Membership Dues

LHAA is coming to the close of the main season, heading into our summer program, which will be creative time with fellow artists, Q&As, and possibly workshop type activities.

Our new season kicks off in September 2026, and that means that we will begin taking dues for next year at our General Meeting tomorrow, April 21st.

This year, we are offering an early bird discount for adult memberships, dues will be $35, instead of the normal 50$. Early discount will end on May 31st. In June, dues will still be discounted to 40$. When September starts, dues will increase back to the full amount $50. Student memberships will remain at 10$.

How to Pay

We will be glad to accept payment via cash, check or ZELLE. Please note that we’ve removed the option to pay through paypal. If you wish to ZELLE your dues to us, you can do so by using our email address lakehoustonart@pm.me. Please write DUES 2026-2027 in the comment box. If you wish to send a check, please email us for the address, as we no longer use the P.O. Box

Board Elections

We will also have our board election and installation at our May General Meeting.

President: Kristin Dumas
Vice President: Sheila Stoll
Second Vice President(s): Amy Conroy, Joel Salmons
Secretary: Becky Hall
Treasurer: Greg Livingston
Parliamentarian: board

April 2026 General Meeting

Artwork Displays, Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions April 13, 2026

Our General Meeting for April will be on Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Great Hall
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Meet and Greet
7:00 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:45 p.m

Demo Artist for April is Diane Brahm

My journey in art has taken me to many places, both physically and intellectually.  I tend to embrace the beauty of classic realism in my  painting and drawing, but continue to search for my own contemporary approach to modern portraiture and design. As I always strive to  step toward a fresher presentation, I love testing and developing new techniques and ideas with creative intuition.

I have enjoyed presenting insightful demonstrations, teaching classes. and judging and jurying art shows in and around Texas. I currently teach painting and drawing in west Houston.

It’s always a pleasure to work with my local art community in the greater Houston area, and I currently serve on the boards of Houston Civic Arts Association, Houston Art Society, and previously West Houston Area Artists. 

Earning a BFA in studio art at the University of Texas/Austin gave me the academic training in drawing, painting, sculpture, and graphic design. I have furthered my education in painting oil and pastel, portraiture, and sculpture by attending classes at Glassell, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, University of Houston, and many, many workshops and classes presented by outstanding professional artists. It is an honor to have received many awards both locally and nationally

Art Show and Competition

Many thanks to all of you who participated in last Saturday’s art show! We had a great turnout, and quite a few entries, and lots of interest expressed in our society!

Library Art Changeout

Our next changeout of the art on the wall at Kingwood Public Library will take place on Friday, May 15, at 10:00 a.m. If you have art hanging there, come in to pick it up, and bring some more to leave in its place. If you are a paid member you are welcome to bring your own art pieces to show to the public for a few months. Just be sure it is fully ready to hang, with picture wire.

Creative Challenge

At this meeting we will introduce a new Creative Challenge prompt. This time you may choose the subject – Either Hope or Wisdom.

July 2025 General Meeting

General Meetings, Information July 10, 2025

This will be the second of our new summertime informal workshop meetings. June’s meeting was a lot of fun, and we learned a lot about printing our own small images. We hope you will enjoy this one as much!

Our General Meeting for July Will Focus on Portraiture

Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Strawbridge United Methodist Church
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
Note: The meeting will be in Room 207 upstairs this month, as the Great Hall is being renovated. When you reach the office door, sign in, take the elevator up, and turn left.

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Meet and Greet
6:30 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:30 p.m.

Linney Hamilton will be conducting this workshop, showing us how she creates a portrait. She will be working from a photograph, so please bring a photograph of your own to work from. It should be a head-and-shoulders picture with plenty of shadows on the face to give it interest (so no professional portraits).

Also, bring whatever materials you want to work with – pencils, charcoal, pastels watercolor, etc. You will need a surface to work on, and if you are using water media, please bring a dropcloth.

Look Book – Second Call!

We are always on the lookout for new places to display our members’ beautiful art. In connection with that search, we want to put together a “Look Book”, in which the proprietors of display areas can see a sample of the kind of art that they can expect to see. We are asking anyone who might want to offer their artwork for display to the public is asked to submit one page about themselves.
For your page, please send us an email with your full name, email, website, phone, etc. Also, we would like a photo of you, a brief Artist Bio, and 3 – 6 good quality images of some of your work. Send your email to: sheilabucchinoart@yahoo.com
Sheila will arrange your information in a format that looks similar to the one below, and she will keep the pages in our Look Book.

Upcoming Events

August General Meeting – Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Meeting time: 6:00 p.m.
Activity: Collage. Bring all your leftover images, materials, etc., plus a surface on which to construct your collage.

September General Meeting – Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Meeting Time: 6:00 p.m.
Meet & Greet, plus Scratchboard