The Lake Norman Art League holds regular monthly meetings on the first Monday of each month from 7:00 - 9:00 pm at the Ada Jenkins Center 212 Gamble Street in Davidson, NC. telephone 704-896-0471. GET MAP. Interesting guests speak on a variety of art/business related topics. Attendance at the meeting is free for Lake Norman Art League members in good standing. Non-members and guests are asked for a $5.00 donation.

May 5, 2008 - 6:00 p.m.
POT LUCK DINNER
& PRIVATE ART SHOWING

Last Monthly Meeting Before September

For our last meeting of this year's session we will meet at the Ada Jenkins Center at SIX...not SEVEN.
We will have a pot luck dinner, so bring your dish and a serving spoon and all else will be furnished.

After dinner, we will have a private showing of the Davidson College Senior Art Show.
Dr. Larry Ligo will open the Belk Visual Arts Center just for us. The exhibit is in the Van Every/Smith Gallery.

The Ada Jenkins Center is located at 212 Gamble Street.
The Visual Arts Center is located at the corner of Main St. and Griffith in Davidson.

Please try to make it to this special event! No Charge!

Please call 704-237-1042 if you have questions about what to bring.

NOTE: If you would like to attend the 3-D glass workshop, you can register and pay at the meeting on May 5th.
Download the registration form for more details

Monday, April 7, 2008 - We will meet at the Creative Art Exchange, 19725 Oak Street, Unit 1, Cornelius, NC. We will meet in Studio B at 7:00 p.m.

Our current Vice President, David Kaylor, will demonstrate woodturning. David is a North Carolina-based woodturner who specializes in bowls, hollow vessels, and art objects. He concentrates on simple forms that reveal the natural beauty and character of wood.

With a life-long interest in wood, David began woodturning in the early nineties. Since retiring as a religion professor at Davidson College in 1999, he has devoted more time to this passion. He prefers to work with local North Carolina woods, especially from trees whose history he or his friends know. For more information, and to see examples of his work, visit http://www.davidkaylorwoodturner.com.

Monday, March 3, 2008 - Guest speaker is Walter Stanford, a 1986 graduate of East Carolina University. He spent the first 15 years of his professional career as a freelance illustrator. He has designed and created visuals for clients across the country, such as Entrepreneur Magazine, the Texas Restaurant Association, The Chicago Tribune, and Carolinas Medical Center. His ability to develop strong concepts and visuals has served him well not only in illustrations but also in graphic design. The Appalachian mountain waterways have become the subject of many of his acrylic, oil, and pastel paintings. This multi-talented artist has much to share. For a peek at his work, visit his website at www.walterstanford.com.

Monday, February 4, 2008 - Guest speaker is Alan Coyle. We will have the meeting at his glass studio in Cornelius.

Monday, January 7, 2008 - Guest speaker is Lin Barnhardt of Mt. Pleasant, NC. Lin will speak about his process of creating clay reconstructions / three-dimensional paintings.

Lin Barnhardt's earliest concentrations were in painting and printmaking. In May of 1997, Barnhardt began his current approach of incorporating his interests in architecture, sculpture, and painting into one art form. Moose Drug store, a local icon in downtown Mt. Pleasant, became the subject of his first clay reconstruction. He received a Regional Project Grant from the Arts Council in 1998 for a project centered on the churches of Charleston with the series titled "Bird Sanctuaries." Since then, his work has been regularly accepted in competitions at the national level. His current series concentrates on structures from the paintings of Edward Hopper.

In January 2006, Mr. Barnhardt retired from his teaching position of more than twenty years in North Carolina secondary public schools. He is now the Visual Arts Director of the Cabarrus Arts Council where he manages the Arts Council Galleries in the Historic Cabarrus Courthouse in Downtown Concord. He has a BS in Art Education and a MA Degree from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

We hope you can join us for this special event. Attendance at the meeting is free for Lake Norman Art League members in good standing. Non-members and guests are asked for a $5.00 donation.

Monday, December 3, 2007 - Guest speakers are watercolorist Virginia Quillen and poet Jacqueline Jones show have put together a book and a dvd titled Lake Reflections.

Monday, November 5, 2007 - Guest speaker is Dr. Joe Robinson who will demostrate watercolor painting.

Monday, October 1, 2007 - Guest speaker is Deborah Young who has been photographing families and children in the Charlotte and Lake Norman area for over 16 years. Although she has a studio in her Cornelius location, Deborah prefers working on location to put more of the subject's personality in the portraits. Her enthusiasm and sense of humor help clients to relax and enjoy the experience which leads to her successful images. She has received both the Master and Craftsman photographic degree from the Professional Photographers of America.

Monday, September 10, 2007 - Speaker is Katherine Blackwell, Cheap Joe's Art Stuff Charlotte Store Manager. She will give an oil portrait demonstration. The event is free and open to the public. Katherine will be bringing freebies along with her to pass out at the meeting. Meeting is 7:00 PM, Ada Jenkins Center.

April 2, 2007 - Artist Michael Hughes - Mr. Hughes paints oil paintings, often of monochrome landscapes with figures. His fall show winner, titled “’67 Ranchero, circa 1980,” depicted a woman gazing downward behind a black auto. more...

March 7, 2007 - Tiffany Fox - We’ve had a last-minute change of speaker for our March 5 meeting. Tiffany Fox, whom many of you may already know as an award winning local artist and teacher and League member. Join us at the Lake Norman Art League monthly meeting, March 5 at 7 p.m. at Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson. more....

February 12, 2007 - meeting spotlights African-American artist James Denmark

Mixed-media artist James Denmark, who worked 42 years in New York before moving to South Carolina in 2001, will talk about how his work draws on the African-American experience at the February meeting of the Lake Norman Art League. more....

January 8, 2007 - Stone sculptor Dean Reganess

Mooresville artist Dean Reganess is a third-generation stonemason who took up art sculpture after meeting an Irish master stone carver during a trip to Ireland 5 1/2 years ago.
During a family trip to the Emerald Isle to research family history, Reganess happened to meet an accomplished craftsman named John Goggins, whose creations inspired him. Goggins invited him to his studio, where he spent three days watching and learning. Goggins "just filled my head with theory and technique and knowledge and history," Reganess said.
Reganess will talk about that experience and how it shaped his career.
A Michigan native who moved to North Carolina 22 years ago, Reganess carves figures, traditional designs, fireplaces and other forms in such materials as limestone, marble, sandstone and granite. He may be the only artist of his kind working in the Lake Norman area of North Carolina.
Working with stone runs in his family. His grandfather was a Swiss-born craftsman who built horse-farm stone fences in New Jersey during the Great Depression.
Reganess says he is mostly self-taught. Since his experience in Ireland, he has traveled around the U.S. working with other established craftsmen and perfecting his technique.

Ybarra¹s colorful acrylic paintings depict landscapes and still-lifes. She also creates works of papier mache. Since moving to Huntersville from Baltimore three years ago, she has earned honors at several area juried art shows. Her painting ³Rooftops of Cadiz Spain² won Best of Show at the Lake Norman Art League¹s Spring 2006 show, and her bright ³Watchful Ewe² took a third place in the Art League¹s recently concluded Fall Show.

A Kentucky native, she is a member of both the Lake Norman Art League and Charlotte Art League. She maintains a studio at the Charlotte Art League studios in Charlotte.

Ybarra has a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design from Drake University, in Iowa, and a master¹s degree in interior design from the University of Kentucky.

She says she has always been a painter, since her childhood, and she has continued to take classes throughout her painting career. In 2004, she traveled to Cartuja, Spain, for a painting workshop. She believes artists should begin with the basics and develop their skills from there.

³Learn to draw first. Then you have the fundamentals. It¹s like grammar. You need to know grammar before you can write an essay,² she says.

Feng shui expert Valerie DeLong will be guest speaker at the November meeting of the Lake Norman Art League on Monday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Ada Jenkins Center, 212 Gamble Street in Davidson. Ms. DeLong will discuss the ancient Chinese art of feng shui, which literally means “wind and water.” Feng shui is a technique for creating harmony and balance in environments, according to Ms. DeLong. Ms. DeLong is a certified feng shui practitioner who studied at Nine Harmonies School of Feng Shui under Carol Bridges. As proprietor of Feng Shui Concepts, she consults with homeowners and businesspeople about ways they can organize living and working environments to enrich life and improve business. She calls it “energetic interior design.” Feng shui can help find the most advantageous placement of a building and or identify adjustments in a living space to improve relationships and relieve stress, DeLong says on her Website, www.fengshuiconcepts.us.

October 2, 2006 - Dr. Shaw Smith, Art Historian - Presentation at Davidson College Visual Arts Center

Davidson College art history professor C. Shaw Smith will give a free public lecture on mid-19^th century French painting at the October meeting of the Lake Norman Art League. The meeting will be Monday, October 2, at 7 p.m. in the Belk Visual Arts Center, Main and Griffith streets on the Davidson College campus, in Davidson. Smith will focus on Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix and their contemporaries, painters whose work broke new ground in mid-19^tcentury French art and helped create the climate that spawned Impressionism. Smith is a professor of art history and the Craig E. Wall Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Davidson. He earned bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an expert not only on Delacroix and French painting but also on southern culture and art criticism.

September 11, 2006 - Annual Meeting with Elections Guest Speaker Jill Kitamura: Jewlery fabrication with PMC - Precious Metal Clays. Jill is currently working with precious metal clays to create contemporary silver jewelry. It is a clay-like material that can be carved, stamped, and molded. When fired the binders are burned off and the results are a hard metal of .999 fine silver. She has enjoyed working with this material because it's properties are much the same as clay. "I still work in clay and am working on combining the two mediums to create new clay sculptures". Jill's work can be found locally at the Christa Faut Gallery.

Melanie Bell--Attended UNC Art Program. She was one of 25 accepted out of 350 applicants. Transferred to CPCC in their Advertising Design Program. Graduated with a commercial art degree. Worked 15 years at Gaston Screen Printing as an artist. There she came in contact with the Charlotte Observer, WBTV, Ocean Pacific and Nike -to mention a few. Then she did free lancing work - portraits, pottery, murals, set designs, sculpture, logos, oils, and watercolors. In 2004, she won the Lincoln County wide art show with a alabaster rock sculpture "Startled Foal". First artist to have a pencil drawing accepted into the regional art show. She she signed T-shirts for 5 hours!!

Murals- she has done murals for Durham Memorial Baptist Church, East Lincoln High School, Mulvaney Homes and the big one was the Charlotte Airport "History of Flight" above the ticket counter.

April 3rd 2006 - Katy Gray Arts and Science Council North and R. David Kaylor Wood Turner

Katy Gray is originally from Tampa, Florida and has gradually worked her way up the Southeastern states to North Carolina (she has also lived in Alabama and Georgia). She has been in Charlotte and at the Arts & Science Council since February of 2004. Katy has her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in Art Education and has worked as both an art teacher and an arts administrator. In 1997 she was awarded a 2-year Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and received 2 degrees, including a Masters degree in Art History from St Andrews University in Scotland. Katy is currently the Program Director for ASC North, a program of the Arts & Science Council. ASC North is the regional office of cultural development for the North Mecklenburg County (NC) Towns of Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville.

David Kaylor - With a life-long interest in wood, David began woodturning in the early nineties. Since retiring as a religion professor at Davidson College in 1999, he has devoted more time to this passion. Originally self-taught, he has benefited from weekend demonstrations by Rude Osolnik and Liam O’Neill, and he has studied with Darrell Rhudy of Raleigh, N.C., and at John C. Campbell Folk School. A member of the American Association of Woodturners, he attended national symposia in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He currently serves on the board of directors of North Carolina Woodturners, of which he is also past president.

David works at his studio in his home in Davidson, where he also mentors new turners. He teaches woodturning at a local art school and has won awards in competitive shows sponsored by area art organizations.

In turning bowls, hollow vessels and candlesticks, David seeks to reveal the natural character and beauty of wood. To do that he concentrates on simple forms and a natutral-looking wood surface. He prefers to work with local North Carolina woods, especially from trees whose history he or his friends know.

Alan Coyle works in creating and fusing stained glass, among other things with glass. He and his wife, Lisa, own the Art Glass Works Studio in Cornelius where they are able to pursue their art. He does custom stained glass, restoration, hand beveling, fusing, etching and carved glass

He came to stained glass works "through the front door," so to speak. His career began as an engineer working in the glass fabrication processes but over the years, he became attracted to stained glass in the process of this milieu. In the '80s, and for 10 years, stained glass was just a hobby. With retirement from his employer in the mid-90s, and taking some classes in making stained glass panels, he decided to create his beautiful art full time. His works not only beauty American places and homes but also in Germany, Sweden, Japan, England and Spain.

In his, "I'll try anything at least once" attitude, and among other gems, he created a stained glass, 3-D Harley Davidson that stood on its own kickstand, with turning wheels that could be steered.

February 6th 2006 - Rich and Sandy Sampson - The Great Frame-Up Birkdale Village. Rich and Sandy will discuss various aspects of framing and art presentation.

January 9th 2006 - Stanley Burford, Paper-Making Artist-- Discussion and demonstration regarding various aspects of paper-making art. 7-9pm.

November 7th, 2005 - presenting Phillip Archer Coordinator of Programs for the Reynolda Museum, Winston-Salem. Archer will speak about the recently renovated museum and its fine art works. Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, is an exemplary museum, nationally renowned for its collection, exhibitions, educational experiences, and scholarships. The meeting will be held at the Ada Jenkins Center 212 Gamble St. Davidson at 7pm

October 8th 12noon - 4pm Saturday PHOTO SHOOT Special Gathering LKN Art League Members - Bring in up to three pieces of your work to be digitally photographed for entry into our fall juried show. Donation for shooting services is only $5.00! Take advantage of this exclusive membership benefit! You will receive a disk with your images ready for entry in the show. Drop your work off and pick up later, or stay while we shoot and get to know your fellow LKN Art members. Works of art should not be under glass. Volunteer assistants needed - please contact info@lknart.org.

October 3rd, 2005 - Introduction to digital photography. Learn the basics so you can shoot your own artwork. Have you ever wanted to enter a juried show and needed slides or to submit a digital image? Do you need a professional looking portfolio to showcase your work to potential clients? Please join us as we do a photo shoot and get an entry ready for our fall juried show!

September 12, 2005 - SPECIAL ANNUAL MEETING AND OFFICER ELECTIONS

Jan Enright Feamster –Landscape Designer and Fine Artist

Jan, whose landscape design work has been featured several times in Southern Living Magazine as well as Lake Norman Magazine, is an accomplished garden designer who delights in putting parts of the gardens she designs on canvas. Her training in painting and print making is reflected in her garden designs and her oil paintings. She will discuss her process as both landscape designer and fine artist.

July Wednesday, July 13 2005 Open Art Session – Indoor/Outdoor Painting and the good company of fellow art lovers at Peninsula Yacht Club GET MAP from 6:30 – 9:30 pm. Several tabletop still lifes will be set up as well as outdoor settings available for artists to paint, draw, or photograph. So bring your media materials and plan on creating together! Participants can enlist comment and aid from each other, just paint, or simply enjoy the low-key artistic atmosphere on a summer’s eve at beautiful Lake Norman.

June Monday, June 6 Ron Skrynski Executive VP from Cadmus, a national web and offset printer, discusses many aspects of package design and print production for both the high volume and small volume buyer.

May 2nd 2005 - Lori Neill - Egg Tempera Artist will speak about what egg tempera painting is, the history of this unusual medium, some of the unique components and materials used, what motivates her to paint and some of the techniques used. You can find out more about Lori and her work at www.StillRiverStudios.com .

April 4th 2005 - Jon Hair - Bronze Sculptor: designated as an official sculptor of the US Olympic Team. Already one of the most demanded sculptors in the U.S. Keep Jon on your watch list as one of the most significant sculptors of our time. With a very long list of awards, commissions and accomplishments, find out more about this amazing Cornelius artist by linking to his website http://www.jonhairsculpture.com/

March 7th 2005 - Watercolorist Wing Kee Kwok - An internationally known artist and member of the LKN Art League. Wing Kee resides in New York and will be joining us for a discussion about the Art of Chinese Watercolor. Wing Kee will also be hosting a special workshop on this subject. It is certain to be very informative and interesting.

February 7th, 2005 NOTE Location Change - Mooresville Artists Depot, 103 West Center Avenue, Mooresville 704-663-6661 Golden Lecture Demo - The Golden Lecture Demo is a 2-hour free educational presentation on acrylic paints, gels and mediums. The lecture is an advanced technical explanation of acrylics and their inherent possibilities. A packet of literature and samples of paint and gels will be given to those who attend.

January 18th, 2005 - Constructive Critiquing session Tuesday January 18^th at 7:00 pm in the Huntersville Arts and Cultural Center formerly the North Mecklenburg Branch Library at 109 S. Old Statesville Rd, Huntersville follow these directions:

From I77, exit 23; Gilead Rd. to Rte 115; Rte 115 south; center will be on left 1/2 block off of Gilead Rd. parking in rear.

January 10th, 2005 - Winding down from the holiday celebrations, The Lake Norman Art League will have members bring in one or two of their pieces and speak about their creativity process. It's a "get to know your fellow members" meeting and will be very informal. Just bring in one or two of your works, introduce yourself, tell us what currently interests/motivates you, what your aspirations are (art related or not), if you had another life before you became an artist, and anything else that you would like to share with the group. Don't panic; if you fall into the "Super Shy" category, just come and listen, and get to know your fellow members. Bring a little something to nosh or a beverage and we'll have some fun getting to know each other.

December 6th, 2004 - Andy Braitman: Artist and Teacher - Andy is an artist of national stature. His work has been featured in galleries and in one-man and group shows in Santa Fe, Chicago, Atlanta, Milburn, Washington, D.C., Holland and Rio de Janeiro. He has exhibited at Jerald Melberg, Hodges Taylor and Shain Fine Art and now the Redsky Gallery in Charlotte. He was chosen by Nancy Reagan as one of America's Leading Artists, along with other notable artists such as Frank Stella and Andrew Wyeth.

November 1st - Guest speaker Artist - Missie Dickens. Missy works in multi-media embellishing her water media paintings with laces, silks, foils beads and jewels. Dickens has been published and won extensive awards for her work.

October 4th - Guest speaker Artist - Marilyn Dix. Marilyn will be speaking about the process of applying to the McColl Center for Visual Art for an artist residency program and her impressions of this experience.

September - Guest speaker Gallery Owner - Christa Faut. Christa will be speaking about how an artist builds a relationship with a gallery, and what it takes to build your artists resume'.

September 12, 2005 - SPECIAL ANNUAL MEETING AND OFFICER ELECTIONS

Jan Enright Feamster –Landscape Designer and Fine Artist

June Monday, June 6 Ron Skrynski Executive VP from Cadmus, a national web and offset printer, discusses many aspects of package design and print production for both the high volume and small volume buyer.