buy art supplies for college she was majoring in art and it also gave her a lot of confidence to help her in help her get started and i think it's a wonderful thing and knightley does these young artists and we know that   are changing yeah but it was it was fun and it was quite an education on how to hang paintings and make them look well and with them with each other and listen it was a nice experience and i always enjoyed peers comments and help with that spec and i was chairman over there and i came over here and we set up a hanging system for the library because they did not want to have any  read down here in the on the first floor of the library now and now my two guests jenny and kathy will continue to tell you about how they hang the pictures of different things we design with they have to get the library  who wants to be first to head out something i forgot to mention upstairs was that all the paintings that we exhibit for the most part are for sell and each painting has a tag on it with the name of the eating the artist the medium and the prize so if anybody is interested in purging purchasing artwork at the library all they have to do is contact myself or ginny and check with the librarian and they usually give us a call and then we contact the artists and take care of the cell that way and unless something is listed as not for sally and they all ready of valuable and people would be more than happy to make  that she will sell that look exactly like that but for the most part the if you are in each individual artist you think lets you know if the actual painting in the original painting is purcell or if they have print could teach people would go in there that yeah go in their basements or in their attics and in find their pain leave that they've done years ago or people that are working away at their yard and they had a free cookie and certain members of the it's been wonderful talking to you carol and andy i always admired oh you're working for me and i believe you had something to show it's a year to thank you for asking this is a calendar that we did three years in a row and i'm so proud and it's a wonderful wonderful thing that you're doing it's a nice winter for people in there and so i hope to people can come to you if they're free if you want to come into listen to the lecture you're welcome to is more of a public area to begin with this is where we would bring you as a complaint or a victim to talk with you bad folks you're outside that wall there ok and they really never come into this part of the facility  small we had just maybe about thirty five members and sally heston at that time was a president i was very much impressed i really hadn't done very much art work up to that point and  we started offering classes in fact i became a chairman and helped to organize some of the very initial classes for the art league and i worked with some of the older members like carolyn johnson in fact carolyn johnson talked me into coming to her monday morning classes and the very first painting i completed was  with james wallace he would give some demonstrations that's her money class and i had gone out and i had bought some water colors because i thought oh gee this looks easy well what was i in for a rude awakening became a very active member in the league and the following year after carolyn had been the president she talked me into becoming the president and fact i've been president of the league now for three times and my heart you quite an improvement that was quite an improvement because we started offering classes and i think people felt that you know we were doing something for the community and people who had to develop the skills now had a place to go right and when you offer something when you have something to go by that you can give to people and helps them to grow also that's right and you know we started thinking about ways how we could raise money for the league because we started having more shows we needed screens and carolyn johnson came up with an excellent idea why don't we develop a calendar and i know she's already talked about the calendar and her first year that she was president we did do a calendar under her and that was one nine hundred ninety two and we sold out of the all of the calendars that we have published and we decided hey this is a great money maker we're going to continue on and so she talked me into doing a calendar when i became president the next year and i believe she's already shown you that calendar the one nine hundred ninety three calendar and  we put as many of the artist pen and ink drawings in here and when and williamson preceded me she said we're going to do another calendar did so well and so i'll show you this calendar as well this was a one nine hundred ninety four calendar and i have a pen and ink that i'm very proud of in this one that i'm going to show you it's the north side and i have not done pen and ink very much prior to that time and you can see that it does have some detail in it and you know this calendar also sold very well well we took a lot of work to put all these calendars together and so we only did them for three years because the next person just didn't have the time or the inclination but they're all done in pin in ink so far most of them are done things for fundraisers and i think i helped them to promote the very first what we called the artist recognition luncheon we held that at the holiday inn at the meadowlands in  and frank webb was our guest artist and we use that as a major fundraiser where we took so many of our own artists paintings and had them up for auction for silent auction a for a bidding and that went quite well we thought that maybe the that this would catch on and all the art leagues in the area would pick up on it and continue to do it but for some reason i think they were a little scared of the word but i'm a workaholic so and you know that so perhaps one of these the next time one of these one of these future years we'll have another one that  we can get everyone back together again doing that you know it was a fundraiser well i know you've met in a lot of places for your classes and everything so would you mind telling this a little something or where your next move is going to be sure  we had met so many times in the boy scout building and i happened to be talking to sandy one day she was running for office and she had asked me what i thought the community needed and i thought i said what we need a recreational facility where people can just come and do various things whether it's organizations  or as we are a group in our league it would be nice to have a building so she and her running i don't know how she came across this this building in venetia but it happened to be the old elementary school and she talked me into becoming a board member when the nation heritage got up and running and she said marlene ok you want a place for your art like to me this would be a great place if we rehabbing so i became a member of the board we worked on getting that facility we're still on it but it works its major improvements since when we first took it over four and a half years ago two and this helped to raise over fifteen thousand dollars for the renovation of the building and we've got to get it ready for you after all that's right you got to get that building you know we w it's a matter of fact i am also a board member for the even if the heritage and we are trying so very hard to get that place opened up so you can have a place and we can have a place in there is there anything else you would like to and you can enjoy the dinner at six if you'd like to bring a covered dish that's that's all all the more welcome but keep that on your or your agenda and you know come see the venetia community center thank you very much my son donald is a member of the washington county and his wife is the director up there and they have she is a child anymore they had a child at ten years old that they discovered she had juvenile diabetes and have been interested in the association in a sense so this year when they were having a online auction don called me and asked me if i went and asked members of mcnary are they if they would get a painting while i was very surprised at the outcome because i collected thirty paintings from these good people oh yes and it seemed like a long process it wasn't it didn't go on air until by june and it was on til day at the trinity trinity boy scout cabin the auction we made one thousand seven hundred sixteen dollars for the diabetes auction and i want to tell you there's over eighteen million people  united states that has triggered i believe this eighteen million eighty one and every year there's eight hundred thousand new people get it yes it seems to be epidemic and so they're trying desperately to find  in research to find a cure that will help these people and so they do all kind of money making things of interest to get to get some money and they have meetings up in washington a every month and they're working on a golf outing right now and they're working on a seminar for april for people who want to learn more about sugar diabetes so there's a lot of children with the children the whole auction you might understand the whole auction they made twenty four thousand dollars and of course we were just a small part of it we every one of these people who ha given their paintings and i don't know they haven't mentioned having and i think it was very difficult we lost one painting we lost the painting in the process and then my son had donated four and he had a antique painting which was damaged in route but i'm sure that i don't know which i'm not going to mention the name of the people who took it down to virginia where they sculpture and it was done by bob baxter one of my memory i remember it and he also he did that painting over there rudy the cat but when he first started doing art he so what is your position with will this year i took over as president for the art leg i've been with your league also since about eighty nine or ninety was getting involved and this has been a wonderful experience for me i'm a nurse and i work with elderly and with alzheimer's patients and  just looking at patients in nursing homes i thought this is something to think about and i didn't want to be a patient in the nursing home without an activity and so many of them haven't thought of their their years and their aging and so when i got involved with the our league it was to talk with patients about activities and lo and behold i became very interested myself and have since  become a member of the pittsburgh watercolor society and it's just been a joyful ride and the women in this league really are special special girls and fun to be with we   may third one have a reception at the galleria we'd like the public to come and see this show and last week will probably be about thirty artists in the program and  the girls just come out of the woodwork to help us put this show together you know and in mid march you're thinking way i don't know where everybody isn't by the end of april everybody's right with you working for this one this ar and putting in a really good program together so it's something wonderful to thank goodness look at all this it's mind boggling really yes and i'm like marlene when i started with the r leg i i got involved because one day i thought i'd like to paint flowers and i bought flowers and i bought some paints and i was just totally astounded that i couldn't paint what i could see and then i thought well i have to take some classes and that's when i met marlene and we started taking classes together and jenny that was on the previous tapes she started out when i was running the classes and she also had no skill all painting and now she has just bloomed and how well she paints and i just enjoyed this like a long time ago i interviewed take they'd think incher yes it was in her home and suggested show in the spring and then we have a show in the fall and traditionally we haven't given any prizes at the fall show and it just occurred that over the last two years several of our members have lost significant people and i called them in the summer time and ask when we had our fall show last year if they would be interested in giving a small monetary award as a memorial to their relatives the deceased and two individuals have lost their husbands and they were interested in my husband he had lost two brothers two young brothers over a period years and he always wanted to do something for them and it was his idea to consider a memorial ward so we did do that and it was interesting because it was the members themselves choosing their artists that they enjoyed their artwork for this award and the people who received the awards were just really tickled they were beginning artists had never won awards before that some of them this was their first time to display their art and that's a challenge and they met it very well you know and it's a wonderful idea and you know the memory of someone that's always very something  the library and on the first floor there's a little community box with information for newcomers that are coming into the area and it's a good idea to pick up this newsletter and it tells all of the activities that we have for that month we put out five of these a year and maybe six i think there are six and anyone that anyone that you could call would direct you towards and member of the membership person but her name right now is carole kennedy and her phone number is four one two six five three zero eight three eight and she would be very helpful in helping you become a member of the mc bar legal and telling you about our meetings and welcoming you to a group of really nice women if you're interested in this community this is a good way to volunteer your time ok enough there's anybody that is interested in becoming an artist you want to give that number again sure it would be carol kennedy for one two six five three eight three year and we complement that again this year one hundred classes last because the start in september and run through june and then the women independently go out and  paint with each other through the summer some of us go with carolyn johnson and payne with her and others have jenny for instance has hired some teachers to take groups out and i think they painted it the gilfillan form last year this year they may be doing that again they have today in yesterday they had barry jeter doing a two day workshop and get plants from a greenhouse and i just had put some blocks down and it's a plank on top of them and i had the flowers on top of that and this gentleman stopped this one time he says do you mind if i paint again well that's what we want to do here we'd like to inspire people that want to try to do this as a life time activity to come forward join the league and and believe me it is a pleasurable way to spend your time oh i wish i could draw a straight line but everybody can draw out a literal that you don't really have to draw a straight line and her name is john bogle you know that she also donated one of her prints to the police station and she's an excellent painter she is here living with her if the price is fifteen twenty five per person and their choice of food and anyone that would be interested in coming to the buffet luncheon can certainly call me and my number is four one two three four one five six eight one and we also have the jury in the spring show that's coming up may second and will be hanging the show and it begins newsletter we're done by graphics on our newsletter we're done by barbara curry very good ok now we're going to hear from barbara so  do you have the guild one vice president of my league i came in to the league two years ago in fact marlene humphries was the person who called me she had heard that i was doing some programming for another arts organization and she said would you be willing to possibly help us out with their programs or monthly membership meeting programs  and i knew a little bit about mcmurray or lake but i was not a member yet and had not attended any of the meetings and i but i i knew that he was a good league i knew a lot of the people that were involved in the league and so i said yes i will and to my surprise when the newsletter came to my house my name was on there is vice president i did the vice president that that was what the vice president did but anyway the main task of the vice president is to coordinate the monthly membership meetings our meetings are run september october and november and then again in february march and april and then we end up the year with a luncheon and this year it'll be on april twenty first from one to four pm at southpoint we don't meet during december or january because of the weather and it's a busy time for a lot of people and we also don't meet over the summer months the the meetings are held at trinity united methodist church in the fellowship hall you're right and so we're at the venetian heritage society they meet on the lower level of the fellowship hall and we started out at seven forty five it's on the second thursday of the month we start out at seven forty five with the short business meeting and usually our president darla duffy will present a fifteen minute business meeting on what the board is doing and and what have you and then at eight o'clock we start our programs which is the part that i'm in charge of our speakers what i've tried to do is is arrange speakers that appeal to a wide audience and so you know we really would like to have the type of programs that you know it will invite people from the community to come in that are interested in the are you know maybe you know people that may not may not necessarily be artists but they're interested in the arts to come in  and attend the programs and possibly and hopefully decide to join and become members some of the examples of the artists that we've had over the to past two years have been recently we had tom  was a pup a tear fabulous artist and profiteer very playful work a young man we've had to corbett who runs a an art school on the south side and does intuitive arts workshops jerry corbin a professional our therapist paul rend art therapist yes and aren't there they are she's she works with and in the field of psychology she is able or licensed psychologist but they use art as a way to to do the the therapy sessions so that was and award winning aviation artist his work is absolutely stunning and it's you know in a lot of corporate collections he shows widely and his work is just fabulous also peter west who runs a gallery in washington he came in and did a i believe it was a slide presentation and a program and fine art to everyone in our inspiring and and encourage people and yeah right we do we do have a meeting tonight it's with  his name is marian chester and and so anyone that's interested you know is welcome to come tonight the king of for the meeting do you have to be an artist to attend your meetings no you do not that's in fact you know what we would like to see is maybe people who don't do art that are interested in art they'd like to know more about art teachers teachers who you know would like some inspiration and have how to use different types of our in the classroom be very inspiring youth youth who might be considering art as a career to come in and see how artists work in some of the processes and anyone  who's interested in art as a hobby to see what are all the possibilities there are so many different types of of our and of course first most of us professional artists that really enjoy coming together and have the fellowship of of artists together and the inspiration of other artists so those that pretty much wraps up our pro well that's wonderful so i really learned so much well just doing from one show to another and everything i don't know how to express my feelings for all this but this is really wonderful and old there was something we've got to talk about that well that one  painting that i did when i was actually living in texas and i traveled with several artists out to new mexico and we painted for a week out there but the one that's really special to me that i brought today is the small magnolia painting last year about this time i got a call from my father that my mother had been taken to the hospital she was discovered to have a brain tumor and so i went out to be with my my father and my mother in the hospital and i as i was packing i took several little pieces of watercolor paper and a set of washed paints which i don't usually used to wash either and while i was waiting in the hospital i and also a of photographs that i've taken from flowers in my garden and while i was in the hospital the last two weeks of her life i did a series of paintings and this magnolia was one