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Membership Application
About Eastside Association of Fine Arts
Genny Rees "Peace Roses"
EAFA Facts
- over 350 active members
- 60 - 80 monthly attendance
- all media (painting, photo, 3D)
- beginner to professional
- our 28th year on the Eastside
EAFA Activities
- monthly newsletter
- monthly board meeting
- monthly general meeting
- monthly individual exhibitions
- public art displays
- semi-annual major exhibitions
- summertime weekly plein aire paint-outs
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Exhibitions are held two times each year,
including a highly regarded annual art exhibition open to all Pacific
Northwest artists, and two major members-only shows. Other showing opportunities
are continually, and often exclusively, available to members. These include
both public and private sector exhibition and locations including the
Bellevue Public Regional Library, Crossroads Community Center, and the
historical Winter's House in Bellevue.
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Community involvement is encouraged by
EAFA for its members. EAFA has sponsored volunteer activities with local
schools, community centers, and overseas charities. Activities have often
centered on providing artwork, art instruction, and art supplies where
they might not otherwise be available.
EAFA can help you
meet your artistic goals -- whether you are a professional seeking to
network with other artists, an amateur seeking opportunities to learn,
or a supporter seeking to expand the role of art in your community.
Pia Messina "Italian Glass"
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Meetings are held on the third Thursday
morning of each month of each month from September through May. Guest
artists demonstrate techniques and speakers present information on a variety
of subjects of interest to artists in all media. These meetings encompass
both formal and informal segments to allow members to talk with each other,
make announcements, ask questions, and make new contacts.
A Newsletter is published monthly for members, August through May,
that includes articles on the guest speaker, member
profiles, information on upcoming exhibitions and competitions, and recognition
of members' accomplishments. It also lists classes and workshops, news
about available exhibition space, and current opportunities of a wide
variety.
Benefits to members include an instructional
video tape library, display grids and other equipment available at reduced
rental rates, and reduced fees for entry in the juried exhibition.
NETWORKING with other artists and art patrons
is a vital benefit of EAFA membership. There are painting groups, both
indoors and plein air, critique groups, and painting excursions organized
by EAFA members.
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Benefits
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Fellowship among local artists through volunteer
activities
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Idea and skill sharing among artists of all levels and
media
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Community awareness of the high quality of local arts
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Opportunities for local artists to show their stuff
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Focus of support for benevolent organizations
Membership
is open to artists and art supporters
throughout the Puget Sound area. Joining is easy, simply fill out the
application and send it with your dues payment
$35 per year ($50 for two adults in same household)
to
EAFA
P.O. Box 40085
Bellevue, WA
98015-4085.
Membership
Application
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Featured Volunteer:
May 2010
Lucille Berkowitz
Lucille Berkowitz, EAFA Nominating Chairperson, was reluctant to be interviewed for the newsletter. Remembering her pleasure at receiving "Yeses" when she solicited our Editor, Program Chairman, Bulk Mailing chaps, VP, Greeter, Historian and other volunteers, she graciously said "Yes" to me when I asked.
In her youth, Lucille had no exposure to museums or galleries until an artist employed by the WPA taught art at her school. Then she proceeded to quietly do her own thing at home. Her first still life was of a ketchup bottle in the kitchen, probably using poster paint on cardboard. As a teenager in Sioux City, Iowa, she had to produce her mother’s signature in order to join a male nude life drawing class. (Back then modesty required the models to wear jock straps!) As a dancer, she tried to paint ballet figures and a few of her efforts (which she described as pathetic) were displayed at recitals.
Never one to sit on her hands, she worked as secretary, married and served as Program Chairman for an art group in the San Fernando Valley. She has published a few poems and was paid seventy-five dollars for a magazine article. In addition, her alma mater, Morningside College, accepted thirteen of her paintings for their permanent collection.
All her life, Lucille has been a voracious reader and in the past played tennis with the energy which she gives to whatever she undertakes. She describes her association with EAFA as gratifying. The meetings, the company of other artists and working behind the scenes with the Board have been wonderfully stimulating. When a call goes out for Volunteers, she urges all the members to come forward, to say "Yes" and enjoy the same satisfaction that Lucille has found. Her credo in life is "Just Do It!" and we’re very glad she does.
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