Monday, December 29, 2025

Heading into the New Year~ 2026

 

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.

 

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