Midwest Collage Society: October 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

November's MCS Meeting

Novembers Meeting

November 9 (Second Sunday!) Noon - 2:30 - Presenter Laura Lein-Svencner (Laura Lein-Svencner runs meeting) If you are planning on coming to the meeting, please let Laura know by sending an email lonecrow4@gmail.com

Holiday Party

December 1 Noon - 2:30 - Holiday Party (Nancy Swingle - organizer)

Nancy swingle will be in charge of the Holiday party this year. We will be celebrating at the Darien Police Department. She will be bringing her Great Aunt Bessie's Sloppy Joe's and buns. She will have a list at the November meeting for everyone to bring something to add to the party, either a sweet or savory goodie. Or email her nswingle@myyahoo.com
Also, we will be having our Grab Bag, with a value of $15.00. Handmade treasures or supplies, but please no ornaments, we all have plenty of those!

Member needed to open/close and run the meeting for our workday in February

FALL CREATIVE ARTISTS RETREAT

Don't miss the next one! September 23 to 27, 2026

MEMBERS

Laura Lein-Svencner is offering 50% off her Online classes at www.lonecrowstudio.com
Just enter the coupon code 2025HALFOFF upon your check out.

Joan Lucht is selling a papermaking kit

with a blender and an easel for $25 each.

Reply to this Newsflash if interested.

EXHIBIT OF INTEREST

Please see attached info regarding an upcoming exhibit by The Collage Sisthas Collaborative taking place at Water Street Studios in Batavia.

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Wonderful Exhibit to See

Joan Ladendorf has an exhibit at Addison Center for the Arts, amazing design work from real collage to digital collage pieces made from her papers she created. I was just astonished by her color palettes and design shapes and visual texture.

Thursday, October 2, 2025

No Meeting in October....November's Meeting Info and beyond

MEETINGS

October - No Meeting

November 9 Noon - 2:30 - Presenter Laura Lein-Svencner (Laura Lein-Svencner runs meeting) If you are planning on coming to the November 9th meeting, please let Laura know by sending an email - lonecrow4@gmail.com

Supply list

December 1 Noon - 2:30 - Holiday Party (Nancy Swingle - organizer)

Member needed to open/close and run the meeting for our workday in February

EXHIBITS

Layered Narratives

Addison ArtsCenter at Addison Trail High School

213 N. Lombard Rd, Addison, IL 60101

Thank you to Carol Weber for organizing this outstanding exhibit!

Pick up October 4th from 1 to 4pm

EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITY

Darien Art Council has a call for art. All artists of Illinois
https://darienartscouncil.org/
Apply by Oct 3rd no later for Dec 3rd exhibit.

MEMBERSHIP 2024-25

Come join the fun and friendship! Please make checks payable to Midwest Collage Society for the half/year fee of $10. A membership form is attached.

Please send the completed form and your check to:
Midwest Collage Society
c/o Joan Petranovich
1513 Maple Ave
Downers Grove IL 60515
If you have any questions, please contact Joan at 630-512-0141 or dijitize@aol.com.

FALL CREATIVE ARTISTS RETREAT

Retreat 2025 is a wrap. It was an art filled and fun five days!

Save the dates for 2026. September 23 to 27.

MEMBERS

Laura Lein-Svencner is offering Friday Fusion-Collage, October 3-November 7, 2025, (10:30am-1:00pm), 5 Fridays

$155.00 NO CLASS on October 24!!!
Working with the season of Fall and the richness of color students will learn how to collage with the process of tacking down collage paper with a house iron instead of wet glue. We will create our own collage papers from repurposed sources of found papers. Arranging them in nice compositions and fusing them down on substrates of watercolor paper or wood panels. We will also be extending our knowledge of good design with the elements and principles weaved in our foundation.

Nancy Swingle's art piece "Kaleidescope Mandala" has been accepted into the "illiart" exhibit at Gallery Seven in Lockport. The exhibit is open from October 2 to October 26. The art reception is on October 12th from 1-3p.

Former member Kathleen Schonauer is the author of a new book, Collage Your Way to Yourself. Information is attached.

Monthly Meetings

MCS generally meets on the first Sunday of each month (excluding January and July), from 12:30 to 3:00 PM in Darien, IL. Since many members live well beyond this area, the MCS uses its newsletter, group website, and regular e-mail communication to provide all members with timely information about planned exhibits and program content. Annual dues are twenty dollars ($20.00). Members also pay nominal fees for meeting workshops and exhibit entries. Membership dues are payable in April of each year.

Meetings are held at the Darien Municipal Center, 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien, IL.

Members

The MCS has over fifty members from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Most members reside in the Chicago area. All members are professional artists who exhibit regularly in urban and suburban galleries. Many exhibit in other states, and a few exhibit internationally. The backgrounds of our members are varied, and range from those with graduate training in the fine arts to the self-taught. Many work in fields outside of the art-related professions. The diverse experience of our members is one of the Midwest Collage Society's greatest assets, and has contributed to our growth.

Ode to Collage Artists

We walk around always looking down,
Searching for things to pick up off the ground.
Leaves and paper or bits of string,
We can use just about anything.
While others may watch us and shake their head,
We just cram the stuff in our pockets and forge on ahead.
Home we go can't wait to start, what would we do if we didn't love Art?
We empty our pockets to peruse all our treasures, amazed this junk gives us great pleasures.
We crumple and tear, we sand and we paint, And we can't forget the glues and paste.
Amazed with the things we can create from someone else waste.
When were done some will say we just made it look old, But when we look upon it, All we see is Gold!

by Debbie Wojnarowski

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