New Workshops and Events at Gallery?

If you would like to schedule a workshop at the Gallery, please contact Sandy Williams 951 662 3973 and make arrangements to reserve a date.  We will help you promote it.  The gallery is available for all types of art events so let us know what you have in mind.

Christmas Party Pot Luck Dec 14

Second Tuesday, change in date, please join us at the
TVAL Christmas Party and POT LUCK, Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010.  Bring a main dish, side dish or dessert.
PLEASE NOTE:  The party starts early at 6:00 pm at The Art Walk Gallery
Start looking for a White Elephant to wrap and bring to the party so we can exchange gifts. 
It's a fun game!  PLUS Great Raffle Prizes!!  Bring your favorite Holiday Fare and join us. 

SIDEWALK SALE AND ART WALK

ANNOUNCEMENT:  Dec 18, 2010 - Sidewalk Sale and Art Walk - Open to Members

 
All members wishing to participate in the Sidewalk Sale and Art Walk a week before Christmas please contact Carol Landry at 951-303-8100. You may bring any art that you want to sell outside on the sidewalk in front of the gallery. The hours will be 10:00am - 3pm on Saturday, Dec. 18.  There are A-frames in the back room of the gallery, and anyone may use them, but it's on a first come basis.  There are some hooks back there, but it would be better to bring your own.  All the proper ones in one package can be found in the framing hardware department at K-Mart for only a couple of dollars. You may bring your own tables, easels or displays.  Remember not to bring too much as we are only there for 5 hours. Bring a sack lunch.  Baked goods welcome! Everyone is responsible for cleanup around their area when they are done.  All sales must be made out to TVAL and you will get reimbursed less the 15% for the league. If it rains, it will be canceled.  This was a good sale day for us last year and hope to do it again.  Good Luck!

GALLERY SCHEDULE, 2010 -  2011

FUTURE Art Exhibits:Look at the subjects of the exhibits below; then gather together art you already have and let the shows motivate you to create new art to enter some of these planned art shows.

CURRENT SHOW: Member's Only: DECK THE WALLS Winter Holiday Art Show - Reception for the show was held on Sat, Nov. 20 from 5 to 7 p.m.  Pick Up of art is Sun, Jan 9, 2011 from 3 to 5 p.m. or Mon, Jan. 10 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Next show:  Members Only "People And Still Life" art exhibit. The subjects of this art must be: one or more people doing things and portraits; and still life subjects (for example, fruit, pottery, glassware, instruments, etc.; but not specifically flowers, which will be the theme of a show in the future.  Fee: Only $10.00 to submit up to five (5) works of art.  Take In of art is Sun, Jan 9, 2011 from 3 to 5 p.m. and Mon, Jan 10 from 10 a.m. to noon. Artist's Reception is Sat, Jan15 from 5 to 7 p.m. Pick Up of People And Still Life art is Sun, Feb 13 from 3 to 5 p.m. or Mon, Feb 14 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Artists Reception Saturday, Oct 23, Well attended!

The 'LAND AND SEA' Reception was a great success.  As usual, Jeannie Webb did a fabulous job setting out a bountiful fall feast, complete with hot apple cider (her special recipe) and a pumpkin dessert with whipped cream.  Prizes were awarded and pictures will be forthcoming.

NEW GALLERY HOURS

NEW Gallery Hours: Now Open to the public, Wed - Sat, 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. (Closed Sun, Mon and Tue)

Founder's Appreciation Potluck Brunch, Sept 5, 2010

THANK YOU ALL!  

Mary Davis, Leslie Knowles and Carol Landry wish  to thank all of you that attended the appreciation brunch for Mary Davis on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.  

The food was terrific and as always TVAL members put on a great potluck!  Thank you all for the hard work you put into making Sunday a success.  

Leslie, thank you so much for all your hard work. 

We had Charter members, Bea Taylor and Priscilla Calvin attend in honor of their friend Mary.  We also had some past Presidents.  

 
Thank you all again,
Carol Landry

July 17th - First Anniversary Show Reception

Our First Anniversary was a success! Thank you for a long day of hanging the art to Terry Kvitky, Jen Morlan, Leslie Knowles, Mary Mulvihill, Jesse Jackson and Kathy Stradley.

The reception for "Cool Summer Vibes" was held on Saturday, July 17th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thanks to Jeannie Webb and Connie Flores for setting up the reception and would appreciate help from a few early bird members on reception day.

Participating artists were June Kakowski, Adria di Maria, Simonne Arnould, Sandra Williams, Sue Rogers, Jen Morlan, Jesse Jackson, Kathy Stradley, Leslie Knowles, Tim Russell, Bea Taylor, Walt Edler, Mary Mulvihill, Shelby Skinner, Terry Kvitky, Penny Stewart and Pam Benson.

New Desk Instructions for Gallery Sitters

For Gallery Sitters,

The Desk Notebook and Daily Cash Log have been revised.  The next time you sit, please take the time to read the Sitter's Instructions and the detailed instructions in each the section of the Desk Notebook.  An overview of the major changes:

• The Cash Log for member dues, wall rent and other non-sales transactions has been eliminated.  They will now be listed on the Daily Cash Log, along with checks or cash from a sale.
• All money that comes into the gallery, cash or check, will now require a receipt.
• A diary section has been added to the Desk Notebook.  Read it each time you sit to see what has happened since you were last in the gallery and record comments about your sitting.  You can mention customer comments, paintings they liked, suggestions to improve the gallery, supplies that are low ... anything that will keep all of us in touch.

Thank you.

Carl Love Column in the Press Enterprise

I had to opportunity to speak with Carl Love at the TVAL Open House and I enjoyed the conversation very much. The gallery is featured in his column in the Press-Enterprise.  We greatly appreciate the coverage.  Thank you, Carl. Let's get out and paint Temecula! 

"Local Artists Paint Bright Future"

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

By CARL LOVE

Special to the Press-Enterprise

'Are you related to Ralph Love?"

It's a question I hadn't heard in at least five years, but I heard it twice in one night on Saturday. It must have meant I was around artists, a rare treat in these parts.

Love -- him, not me -- was Temecula's most famous artist. There is the Ralph Love Plein Air Festival held in Old Town Temecula, but artists here are focusing on the Temecula Valley Art League's open house for its gallery at 41789 Nicole Lane.

Eighteen league members have about 100 paintings on display on the walls of the front room. It's one of a few local galleries, a sad commentary for an area that's become so urban.

Temecula fancies itself as a destination with its Wine Country, Old Town and balloon festival. Yet our shortage of galleries is not what you'd expect from a place that's trying to be sophisticated.

Doing its part to change that is the Art League, founded as a nonprofit in 1977 by Mary Davis, who was there Saturday.

This is the first time the group has had a permanent home, about 1,600 square feet to hold its monthly meetings, display art, conduct classes, host shows, and serve as a gathering place for artists.

One art teacher, Mary Mulvihill, said four of her students -- Adria Di Maria, Jennifer Morlan, June Kakowski and Tim Russell -- have work displayed here.

"There is something exciting about being in a gallery," she says.

Works in the front room included lots of flowers, animals, a few western scenes and some snow and beach paintings. Yet it was hard to find anything local from our Wine Country, Old Town, balloon festival, agriculture heritage and trademark subdivisions.

"We are lagging" in paintings of local scenes, Mulvihill says. So much so that Japanese tourists who visited recently had to be referred to Temecula City Hall, where works featuring local scenes can be found.

"If anybody is going to do it (create art of local things), we're going to do it," Mulvihill says.

Nobody knows better than Davis, an artist who won the community citizen of the year award in 1972. She also took lessons from Love, who she says worked in a room that was all black. An ordained minister, she said at times he also gave sermons while painting. You know artists; they can have their quirks.

"He was very religious, very quiet," she says. "What he said was the word."

Love, who owned a studio called the Art Shack, sold paintings for a fundraiser to get the art league up and running. She bought some paintings and is willing to display them at the new gallery.

"They are kind of priceless," she says.

No doubt he would have enjoyed the new space, which has almost tripled the Art League's membership since it opened. Membership is $30 a year and President Carol Landry, at 951-303-8100, has more information.

Landry has big plans for the Art League's new space, staffed by volunteers. Art walks and juried shows are held every month. A western wildlife art show is planned in May.

Bea Taylor is one local artist thrilled to have a spot to display her work.

"After 32 years we finally have a permanent place to show our art," she says. "It's wonderful that I can share my work."

Besides her art in the front room, Taylor also has her paintings displayed in the back rooms, including two in the restroom.

"I don't mind," she says happily.

When it comes to a permanent place to show their work after all these years of wandering, local artists aren't about to be picky.

Reach Carl Love at carllove4@yahoo.com.

Art Classes at the TVAL Gallery

Some of our artist members teach art classes at the gallery. It is a large, airy space with good lighting. Please contact the art teachers directly for more information about their classes.

Mary Mulvihill - Wednesdays-Drawing and Painting, All Media

• www.arttemecula.blogspot.com
  
• www.marymulvihill.com

Richard Stergulz-Thursdays-Painting, All Media

• www.stergulzart.com

Artist Bio and Business Card Notebook

We now have a notebook in the gallery with sleeves for 8 x 11-1/2" sheets and for business cards.  There is a sleeve for each available for every artist in the art league.

An important part of an art marketing strategy is to be sure that when a customer wants information about you ... it is available.  Gallery sitters should encourage visitors to take cards and bio sheets of the artist's whose work they like.

So, work on a one page biography and bring in six copies along with a dozen business cards.  Inexpensive cards can be ordered from Vista Printing.  Check to see if you need to refill the notebook when you are in the gallery.

Art in Shrink in the TVAL Gallery

All TVAL members may put five pieces of art in shrink in the art bins in the gallery. Artists must sit the gallery one time for any month that they have shrink art in the gallery.

Artists may show only their original work or reproductions and giclees of their original work. Originals will be displayed in the main gallery. Reproductions will be displayed in the print room.

All shrink art must be logged into and out of the inventory notebook. Shrink may only be added to the gallery on art exchange days. Please refer to the Gallery Calendar or other posts on this site for upcoming exchange dates.

The gallery has bins able to accommodate half-sheet watercolors. All work displayed in the bins must be in clean shrink, matted and backed with cardboard. Mats must be clean and professionally cut. Work deemed unsuitable or inappropriate by the art committee will not be shown. All decisions of the art committee are final.