Programs & Meetings

2024-25 Program Summary
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Friday, Sept. 13th
Saturday, Nov. 9th
​Friday, Jan. 10th
​Saturday, Mar. 8th​
May 2025 ​
Adrian Giuliani (Zoom)
Helen Oderisi (In-Person)
Ian Roberts (Zoom)
​Luana Luconi-Winner (Zoom)
Live Evening Reception with Aline Ordman
(see registration information below)


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Meetings will be either on Zoom or in-person.  Location of in-person meetings may vary - see program details below for more information on location.
Friday Sept. 13, 2024

Zoom Meeting
(Link will be emailed to Members)
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12:30 pm: Business Meeting
1:00 pm: Adrian Giuliani Virtual Persentation
Adrian Giuliani Presentation (Zoom) - "Ideas and Philosophies about Art Making: Looking at Things in a New Light"

In this presentation, I will be sharing some of my ideas and philosophies about Art Making.  These connect to our art making, but all may also be applied to life.  Over the years, while creating in my own experience, I have discovered some ways of looking at things that may empower us, once we recognize and embrace them.  Simply shifting our way of thinking can open ourselves up to being fearless and experimental, with no judgment about our experiments, whether they become finished pieces or not. 

Learn more about Adrian Giuliani at Adrian Giuliani Fine Art website.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024

In-Person
Location: Atlee Branch Library
9212 Rutlandshire Dr.
Mechanicsville, VA 23116
(Atlee Meeting Room)

12:30 pm:  Business Meeting
1:00pm: Helen Oderissi
​Helen Oderisi (In-Person) - "How to Take Better Photographs of Your Art"
 
In this fun, hands-on program, Helen will guide us through some simple techniques to get the best possible photographs of our artwork.

Helen Oderisi is the owner of Helen’s Place Photography in Williamsburg and has been a professional photographer for over 35 years.  She has taken photographs all over the world and distinguished herself locally by photographing a number of dignitaries including President Bill Clinton, Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and President Joe Biden when he was a Senator.  Her greatest passion has always been photographing children.  As she is retiring, she is finding true joy in teaching how to see and how to really love the art of photography as she does.
Friday, Jan. 10, 2025

Zoom Meeting
(Link will be emailed to members)

​12:30 pm: Business Meeting
1:00 pm: Ian Roberts Presentation
Ian Roberts Presentation (Zoom) - "Mastering Composition"
Subtitle: A 40-minute talk on using composition to dramatically improve your paintings

​Ian Roberts has painted for over 40 years. For over twenty-five years he taught landscape painting in Provence, France each spring, through his school Atelier Saint-Luc, named after the patron saint of painters. He’s written two books — Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision and Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principle to Dramatically Improve Your Paintings, which has sold over 60,000 copies. His YouTube channel, Mastering Composition, has 200,000 subscribers. He also teaches a series of online courses on Mastering Composition. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Anne Ward, also a painter.
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Learn more about Ian Roberts at Ian Roberts website.
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Zoom Meeting
(Link will be emailed to members)
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12:30 pm: Business Meeting
1:00 pm: Luana Luconi-Winner Presentation (90 minutes)
 Luana Luconi-Winner (Zoom) - "The Art of John Singer Sargent" 

Portrait artist, master pastelist, and favored instructor Luana Luconi Winner will present an active program inspired by the 2023-24 “Fashioned by Sargent” exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Boston and at the Tate in London.

After a short history of Sargent, she will then focus on Sargent’s extraordinary handling of skin tones. Luana will explain the very specific differences in how Sargent depicted the blue bloods of Europe, the creamy debutants of the United States, and the country people in the small villages he visited on his travels.

Luana will show how some of his favorite subjects might have been created in pastels with five different skin tones in miniature copies of Sargent’s portraits. Following will be a short portrait demonstration, copying the head only from Sargent’s portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted, the  landscape architect of more than 100 public parks in the us from Central Park in New York to the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC.

Luana is a founding member of the Portrait Society of America, a Juried Member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta, an elected Master Circle member of the International Association of Pastel Societies, and a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. She is also a Signature Member, past president, and honorary lifetime member of the Pastel Society of North Carolina; Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society, North Carolina Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America; and an active member of several other art boards and national art organizations.

Learn more about Luana Luconi-Winner by clicking here.
May 2024

In-Person Reception

Time: TBD
Fee: TBD
Location: Provided on Registration Form
Live Evening Reception and Demo with Aline Ordman

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