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2010 Meeting & Events Calendar
- Thursday, May 6: EAFA Board meeting
- Thursday, May 13: Last day for Member Show entries
- Thursday, May 20: General meeting
Photo shot for Open Show
Postcard contest
- Thursday, July 22: Deadline for newsletter submission. Send to art@artgeekstudios.com.
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2010 Meeting Location
Highland Community Center
14224 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue
(next to the YMCA)
425-452-7686
EAFA's
General Membership Meetings are held in the Highland Community Center on the third Thursday of each month.
The meeting begins at 10:00 a.m. and ends at 1:00 pm.
The Highland Community Center, a log cabin style building, is located next to the YMCA at 14224 Bel-Red Road. There is plenty of parking and no long walks to the meeting room. Look for EAFA signs.
(click on image to see larger map)
Directions from I-405:
Take NE 8th St exit east. Turn left at 40th Ave NE. Turn right on NE Bel-Red Road. Turn left two blocks up teh hill on to NE 20th Street, between the YMCA and Highland Center.
From SR-520:
Take 148th Ave. NE exit south. Turn right on NE Bel-Red Road. Turn right four blocks down on to NE 20th Street, between the YMCA and Highland Center.
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Don’t forget—there are no general meetings in the summer!
The next general meeting will be held in September!
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EAFA RETURNS TO
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN IN SEPTEMBER!
Beginning September 2010, EAFA will once again
hold its monthly General Meeting at the
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue.
It is located at 1717 Bellevue Way Northeast, nine
blocks north of Bellevue Square mall, near the
405/520 interchange. EAFA's monthly general
meeting will be held at the church's Upper Campus,
Rooms 105/106. Ample parking is available at the
lower parking lot. Members with limited mobility
can be dropped off at the entrance to the Upper
Campus, directly across from the meeting room,
but parking at the Upper Campus is restricted.
For directions, see http://www.fpcbellevue.org/About/GuestInfo/GetThere.ashx?p=1471. Links
there lead to maps of the parking area, main floor,
and upper campus floors. The EAFA board will
place signs to direct you to the meeting area.
Detailed directions will be provided in the August
EAFA Connections.
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Watching Over, by Marilyn Ross
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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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