ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Waimea Arts Council</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#990000" link="#990000" vlink="#660000"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr><td align="center" width="60%"><img src="images/main.gif"></td> <td align="right"><!contact info><font face="times new roman" size="+3"> <p>Post Office Box 1818<br> Kamuela, Hawaii 96743</p> <p>Telephone: 887-1052</p> </font> </td></tr></table> <tr><td colspan="2"> <table width="100%"> <tr><td width="30%" valign="top"> <font face="times new roman" size="+3"> <a href="newsletter/index.html" style="text-decoration: none">The Newsletter</a><p> <a href="shows.html" style="text-decoration: none">Gallery Shows</a><p> <a href="events.html" style="text-decoration: none">Monthly Events</a><p> <a href="http://www.waimeaartscouncil.org/pictures.html"style="text-decoration: none">Pictures</a><p> <!Finding the Firehouse: Work on, ASAP> <!History> <!The Fire House> <!Artists> <a href="contact.html" style="text-decoration: none">Contact</a><p> <a href="joining.html" style="text-decoration: none">Joining</a></p> </font> </td> <td valign="top" width="70%"> <center><font face="times new roman" size="+2"><b> September Firehouse Gallery Exhibit<br> "Five Artists"<br> September 1-30, 2011</center></b></font><br> <br> During the month of September, the Firehouse Gallery is host to a Five Artist show, featuring member artists Jill Breaux, Beth Hutchinson, Kathy Lukens, Julie McCue and Merna Joan Watta. The show will run from September 1  September 30 and will feature a variety of mediums.<br><p> Jill Breaux, photographer, has studied art, design, display, marketing and retailing, as well as Feng Shui on the east and west coasts of the mainland and Canada. She considers herself a class junkie - always learning. Jill moved to Hawaii from North Carolina and has just recently moved back there. She studied photography with Robert Frutos in Hawaii and her passion for the media blossomed with the richness of the subject matter and lighting.  I feel the moments were given to me and I was just there to capture them. My mission is to pass them on so that people can appreciate the land and the beauty of the area. If the pho-tos help improve someone s home or office or helps them to shift the energy in their interior surroundings, then that s a good thing. I try to live in balance and harmony with nature - trying to help improve our surroundings. Jill has expanded into cards, feeling that people sometimes forget the art of communication, and offers a variety of subjects to fit every occasion& or no particular occasion.<br><p> Beth Hutchinson comes to us from the New Jersey Shore, and will be exhibiting acrylics and oils. Living in Waimea full time for about 8 years, she says the TV show  Jersey Shore bears only a minute resemblance to the real thing. Selling her real estate company in 1988, Beth had time to take up two longtime desires: golf and painting lessons. The golf didn t stick but the painting did.  I Like the awareness of light and color that came into my daily life. The sky s not really just blue and the trees aren t only green. Arriving in Hawaii, Beth took lessons from both Janice Gail and Marcia Ray, who encouraged her use of bold contrasting colors.  My conflict and goal is to become more free in my expression. Her other passion is potting, but she has found it difficult to do that here. Beth took Honorable Mention and First Place ribbons in recent Helen Cassidy shows, and that has encouraged her to keep working in her tiny garage studio.  Just me and the resident Geckos. She comments:  Waimea Arts Council is a great incentive for artists up here; a sense that they re not working in a vacuum. We find the all important mutual critique that helps us grow and improve our work. <br><p> Kathy Lukens will be including both art quilts and her hand dyed silk and rayon scarves (paired with cards by Jill Breaux). Kathy has been involved in fiber arts for as long as she can remember. Starting with traditional quilting on the mainland, her love of color resurfaced when she moved to the Big Island and started dyeing her own fabric. Possibilities for quilts and other fiber arts blossomed with her ability to create her own fabric and she quickly branched out to Hawaiian quilting and then the more contemporary art quilts. For the past 10 years, she has led the Monday morning quilting group at Tutu s House. <br><p> Julie McCue will be exhibiting watercolor paintings. Julie began teaching herself to paint after retiring and moving to North Kohala from Minnesota in 1994, inspired by the colors of the landscape and flowers of Hawaii.  I love the way watercolor works - the colors combine in such interesting ways - often unpredictable. It has been a challenge to loosen up and let it do it s own thing and see what happens. She was delighted last February to have her painting of cherry blossoms used for the cover of the Cherry Blossom Festival brochure. In addition to painting in her own studio with a view of the Alenuihaha Channel, which is truly inspiring, she has been painting with a group in Kapaau, which has encouraged her to continue to try new, increasingly difficult projects, in hopes of improving as an artist.  We all help each other, and truly enjoy the time spent together. Her cards can also be found at Elements in Hawi, Vea Polynesian Gifts in Kapaau and the North Hawaii Community Hospital gift shop in Waimea.<br><p> Merna Joan Watta, painting under the name of  Ululani (heavenly inspiration) will be show-ing some of her acrylics at this show. Merna was born, raised and schooled in Detroit, MI. She majored in Fashion Illustration and Commercial Art at Cass Tech, and spent an additional two years at the Society of Arts & Crafts. While raising a family, artwork was put aside. After moving to the Big Island in 1993, she was once again inspired to share the beauty of the world through her art. Merna has worked in many different media, including watercolor, oil, ink, charcoal, pastels and graphite. She is presently working in acrylics and colored pencil. She has earned awards in several Helen Cassidy Juried Art shows, and has held three shows at the Firehouse Gallery, two Kaha Kii and another with a friend. Merna plans to continue to try out new ideas and creations. When retirement from work comes along, she will devote much of her time to her art. You can also view many of her original works, prints and cards at her Waikoloa Studio (883-0754) or on her website at www.paintingsbyululani.com. Commissions are welcomed and encouraged. <br> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </center><br><p></b> The Firehouse Gallery, a project of the Waimea Arts Council, is located in the old firehouse, the red building within the historic corner at the main stoplight and crossroads in Waimea. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 3 p.m. subject to the availability of the volunteer docents.<br><p> The Waimea Arts Council is a 501(3) c non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the arts, the encouragement of artists, and the provision of a forum for art-related community events. Anyone wishing to support the arts in North Hawaii through the Waimea Arts Council please call 887-1052 for more information, or visit the website at www.waimeaartscouncil.org. All donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law. </p></b></font> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p align="center"><i>Copyright © 2004-2005 <a href="http://www.waimeaartscouncil.org/">Waimea Arts Council</a>. All rights reserved.</i></p> </body> </html>