MEETINGS
Many thanks to Nancy
Swingle for organizing our holiday party complete with
good food, good presents
and good friends!
January -
No meeting!
Note the Date Change was Feb. 1st, police station needs room for training. We are cleared to meet February 8th - 9:30am - 2:30pm Workday Member needed to run meeting
March 1 -Noon - 2:30 with clean up until 3pm Nancy Castner runs meeting
Presenter Laura Smetana, Author & Illustrator
Laura loves creating bright, joyful cut-paper watercolor collages inspired by
nature.
Her latest author-illustrated book My
Love for You is Like the Night Sky, is a companion
to the award winning, Kirkus-starred,
My Love for You Is Like a Garden.
These are in addition to other
published award winning books.
A supply list will be included in the
March MCS Newsletter.
EXHIBITS
MCS will be exhibiting at the Downers
Grove Library. It will be earlier in 2026 due to a
special traveling exhibit on the Holocaust that the DG Library was
selected to host.
Kudos to the library. Let your creativity flow, the exhibit drop off on
Feb. 28th will be here
before you know it and we won't have a newsletter in February. The
prospectus is attached.
Schedule for this exhibit:
Drop off on Saturday, February 28
from 10 - 11 a.m.
Run dates March 6-April 7, 2026
Pick up on Saturday, April 11 from
10 - 11 a.m.
Reception: TBD
Future Exhibit?
There is an opportunity to exhibit at Covenant Living at the
Holmstad Creative Arts Center
in Batavia. We would need at least one member to help coordinate and hang
the show
and commitment from our members. If you are interested please
reply to this newsletter with
number of pieces you would exhibit.
FALL CREATIVE ARTISTS RETREAT
Don't miss the next one! September 23 to
27, 2026
MEMBERS
The New Year is almost
here and with that is an opportunity to explore yourself through the
creative act of a Vision
board.
Laura
Lein-Svencner will
be presenting a 1-Day Workshop at McCord Gallery
January 10th 2026
9:30am-3:30 If
interested check out the link and sign up Here
Laura will also be
teaching Friday Fusion Collage
January 23 - February 27, 2026 (10:30am-1:00pm) 6 Fridays
Register with Naperville Art League
508 N. Center Street, Naperville IL
Working with the Winter
season and richness of color in our natural surroundings, students
will learn how to
collage with the process of tacking down collage paper with a house iron
instead of wet glue.
Focus is on the shading and shadowing of the papers. We will create
our own collage papers
from repurposed sources of found papers.
