Taken By:  Valerie Gruner

Meeting presided over by our president, Gittel Price

 

 

New Members:

Susan Helber is a friend of Vicki Bethel’s, and she enjoys shooting flowers.  She’s been to several WIF shows.

 

Members in Shows:

In APG’s In Your Dreams show until August 20 are Anne Berry, Lucinda Bunnen, Gail Des Jardin, Jill Ediger, and Jan Kapoor.

Gail Des Jardin has a solo show opening August 20 at the Bob Steel Salon in Vinings.

Marty MAxwell has a 12 piece show entitled Faces and Places at Isabella’s Cafe.

Ruth Gogel has two pieces in the South Cobb Arts Alliance National Show in Mableton, GA.

Anne Berry has work in the current Shots magazine.

Jill Ediger, along with her husband Richard, has a show entitled Amalgam opening August 19 at the Quinlin Visual Arts Center in Gainesville.

In the Visions of Glory show in Zebulon, GA are Gittel Price, Debra Booth, and Anne Berry.

Jan Kapoor has three pieces in a show in Tokyo, Japan.

 

WIF XVII Submission Night:

Members were assigned letters to put on their prints for jurying, and members completed their submissions using their assigned letters.  Envelopes and forms with payments were collected.

Envelopes will be returned at the August meeting, results therein.

 

Submission Deadlines:

APG’s Airport Show’s final day to submit is July 17

The Save The (downtown) Library submission deadline is August 15 for Adults, and September 15 for Youths, sponsored by the Young Architects Forum.

Trees Atlanta’s “My Favorite Tree” deadline for submissions is August 1.

The deadline for entering Arts Clayton Gallery’s 2010 Juried Photography Competition is August 14.

Information, submission forms, and prospectuses may all be found on the WIF website on the Call For Entries page.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

Some old news is a final accounting of Our Push-Pin Show.  Twelve pieces were sold, and the donation from the sales totaled to $366.  WIF made a donation of $100, making the complete donation from WIF $466.  In related news, Care Atlanta, to whom we made the donation for aid to Haiti, won an award from the Atlanta Business Chronicle for it’s efforts to aid Haiti.

WIF currently has 53 paid members.

There are 20 members signed up for the Artist Choice show at Digital Arts in October.

There are 16 members juried into the Jill Celeste Gallery show in October.

There are 17 members signed up for the Artist Choice show at the Paint in the Pods in the Westin during October and November.

 

Hahnemule Gallery Photo Wrap Demonstration:

Notable photography shows he recommended were: the Clarinet exhibit at Mason Murer by Eric Waters, Kevin Nickle’s Out of the Fog exhibit at the Showcase School, and the massive exhibit of Ansel Adams works at the Booth Museum in Cartersville.

 

The actual demonstration of the Gallery Wrap was done by Kim Fitzgibbons, who uses the product professionally, attesting to the quality of the finished work.  Kim is the wife of Bob Fitzgibbons, who is the head of printing at Showcase.

To use Gallery Wrap, one must print over sized, as the edges of the photo are wrapped around the stretching frame.  Photoshop and Genuine Fractals have programs to aid in making the image oversized to accommodate the wrapped edge.   One must print on mold made paper or canvas, as the surface must be able to bend without tearing.

The Gallery Wrap system is sold in two piece packages, i.e. 12 inches, 16 inches, etc. so that one may build one’s frames any size.  The bars are 1.25 inches in depth.  One may also purchase pre-sized kits which include four bars and two sheets of canvas for printing.  A one time purchase of an $8 assembly kit is also needed, but this kit works for any size Gallery Wrap, and can be used over and over.

Workspace tools recommended by Kim were a quilter’s cutting mat, a blade for cutting, and a ruler to aid in straight cutting.

To begin, one should protect the print with a fixing spray, such as Hahnemule Preserving Spray.

A tip Kim gave us was to loosen the ends of the coverings to the sticky (adhesive) side of the bars.  This tip is not in the instructional video one may purchase, and Kim told us it’s very important for ease during assembly.

To assemble the frame, snap the frame pieces into the corner units from the assembly kit, leaving out the loosened ends.  It took Kim about two seconds to do this.  Kim then eyeballs the photograph to be framed, peels off the paper from the adhesive (step aided greatly by the loosened ends), and tapped the sticky side to the back of the photo.  Since she merely tapped the frame, Kim was able to adjust it’s placement.  Push down on the frame pieces, and they pop out of the corner holders.

With the frame in place, trim away the excess, diagonally cut the corners, and then fold the photo’s corners onto the adhesive on the bar corners.  A tiny bead line of acid free glue along the inside edge for good measure, and one may fold the bars up.  Pins, like long staples, are provided in the bar kits to insert into pre-cut holes to hold the corners together.  Kim used a corner holder to push in the pins.

The last step was to insert the corner struts into the pre-cut grooves.  They reinforce and tighten the frame.  The whole process seemed to take only minutes, and that was with instruction.

For shows, one would need to attach a wire to the back, but Kim said she had numerous Gallery Wraps hanging in her home by simply letting them hang on a nail in the handy center groove of the frame bar.

 

WIF members enjoy discounts from Showcase, and the club earns credits from the purchases of its members, so remember to announce yourself as a WIF member when making purchases.  New club rewards cards are coming for members, but announcing one’s affiliation works, too.

 

Next Month:

Anna Walker Skillman, from Jackson Fine Art.