MANDATE
Our goal is to help, encourage, support and learn from each other while challenging ourselves to produce fine art. We also work together with other sections to contribute to Club activities.
MEMBERSHIP
SECTION MEETINGS
The meetings have been held monthly, alternating between mornings and evenings. We are, however, currently polling our members about shifting the timing and the emphasis of the meetings to offer more opportunities to engage with each other about our artwork and art practice, and host some practical creative sessions. Stay tuned!
CURRENT VISUAL ART PROGRAMS
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECTION MEMBERS:
Our goal is to help, encourage, support and learn from each other while challenging ourselves to produce fine art. We also work together with other sections to contribute to Club activities.
MEMBERSHIP
- Whether they are practicing artists or art appreciators, the 50+ members of the Visual Art (VA) Section of the Club have the common bond of visual art.
- One of the many advantages of joining the Visual Art Section is the opportunity to show and sell your work in solo, shared or group shows in the Club’s historic gallery, Heliconian Hall. To be designated an “exhibiting artist” who can display work at Heliconian Hall, your portfolio is reviewed by the Exhibitions Committee, usually when you apply to join the Club and to participate in the VA Section. If you initially join the Club in another section but also wish to exhibit your visual art or if you join the section as a non-exhibiting artist, but later feel your work is 'ready for prime time,' you can request a review.
- Each September, members who joined the Visual Art Section during the past club year have the opportunity to show their art in "Encounter," the new members' group show.
- Currently, the section includes women who work in 3D composition, multimedia artists, architects, painters, photographers, print-makers, and digital media magicians.
SECTION MEETINGS
The meetings have been held monthly, alternating between mornings and evenings. We are, however, currently polling our members about shifting the timing and the emphasis of the meetings to offer more opportunities to engage with each other about our artwork and art practice, and host some practical creative sessions. Stay tuned!
CURRENT VISUAL ART PROGRAMS
- Exhibitions: Only members can show art at Heliconian Hall. Over the year, we host about half a dozen group shows open to section members, and three or four solo and shared (2-3 person) shows. The shows are completely the initiative of members – programmed, convened and hung by members. The fee to participate in a group show is $20, and commission on sales is 20%. Rental info for solo and shared shows is available in the members-only section of the website.
- Annual Visual Artist-in-Residence program: The Visual Artist-in-Residence acts as a mentor, taking part in VA section activities and sharing her artistic vision with members by means of a tutorial, demonstration or workshop. The position is not open to current members, but visual art members comprise the selection committee who oversee the application process and requirements.
- “Sketch Group” or life drawing sessions on Mondays, September to June, are open to the public and offered at a discount to members. Members receive $2 off the half-day admission price, $3 off the full-day admission price and $100 off the annual pass price. In February, the group stages a show of participants' work.
- Art Salon event (ticketed event) and art show receptions (free) are open to the public. Other series hosted by other sections are offered first, and at a discount, to Club members.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECTION MEMBERS:
- Membership offers opportunities for networking and collaboration with other members active in other art forms (dance, music, drama, literature). Recent examples include: "Heliconians at Play" (musicians playing, dancers creating dance triggered by music or materials provided by artists, poets bravely 'writing' extempore, artists drawing or painting in response to the activities); "Luminous" (responding with words, music and dance to Photographs on exhibit); "Nature Revered/Nature Rebelling" (with harp music from Duo Novis playing a composition by Kye Marshall); and "Transience" a solo exhibition of recent prints by Kate Hawkins with Meiko Ando (dance), Kye Marshall (cello), and Alison Melville (recorder and Baroque flute)).
- Members are entitled to discounts at art and photography suppliers (as negotiated by the Club).
- Members may publicize their own art-related events in the monthly Club Bulletin, and on the Heliconian Club Member's page on Facebook.