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Tuesday.    This was my day to sit at the gallery.     I choose to sit with a friend;  it helps make the day pass happily and gives extra gallery coverage.     Do you do the same?      The walls were looking pretty bare with the membership show taken down and the new show not hung yet.  

Charlene  Martin was busy at work making the name labels for the school art that is about to shown.   She started to hang the show, but ran out of time.   It's such an important community service to show student art in our gallery.    The kids, the families, the whole community benefits from this.    It can change a child's life to have their art appreciated and see it hanging in a gallery.   Maybe the next Picasso is lives in Lodi!    Who knows how this can affect their lives?    To me it can only be a positive thing.     Charlene believes in it and her enthusiasm and personal charm are making it work.     Becky Clover who had previously been responsible for student art was there quite by chance, and they had time to put their heads together.   

More work was coming in for the August show.     We can use even more, so get it right down there ASAP and have it hung.     Let the world see it.   Soon Pam Bechill will be busy at work finding just the right spots to place and hang everything.

We stayed afterwards for a meeting of the Small Works Show committee.   Sandy Telles is in charge this year, and plans are underway.  There will be a few changes that you will soon hear from Sandy, either in the newsletter, or in a call to artists.      The show is not until November so it may be a little time before things are finalized, but in the meantime,  please start painting, drawing,sculpting, stitching, or constructing small works to be shown in November and December.    

The post card announcements for the Small Works Show will have pics of an assortment of things that will be offered in the show.   If you have art that you plan to enter, please send an email with a photo to me at janeneford@yahoo.com.   We'll be selecting  a variety of photos that work well in the design and are representative of what we have to offer for sale during the show.    Please send them prior to Sept. 1st to be considered.      When post cards are done I'll  post a pic of the post card here on the blog, and Pepe will no doubt use it on the website as well.     The selected art will have some good exposure.      It will also be  mailed to hundreds of people.   Your art could end up in many hands.      I hope to see your art here soon.        Janene