UPCOMING MEETINGS
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1:30-4:00 p.m.There will be no specific education program for our June meeting, but an open workshop. So bring something that you’re working on - like a new piece for the Exquisite Corpse exhibit - and spend some time creating. If you have a favorite technique or material that you’d like to share with the others, feel free to bring that along to demonstrate!
Pick up your Post Cards for the Bloomingdale show also!!!!
THERE WILL BE NO MEETING THE MONTH OF JULY.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
All day workday! Come when you can and leave when you have to. This is a great opportunity to spread out and work on something for an extended period. So bring your materials and work in progress as well as a sack lunch or snack.
A gallery walk is being planned for our September meeting. More details will be given closer to that date.


NEXT GROUP EXHIBIT
Layers (3)
Bloomingdale Art Museum
Saturday, July 11 - Saturday, August 22
Drop off dates: Saturday, June 27, 2-4 p.m. and Monday, June 29, 4-8 p.m.
Reception: Sunday, July 19, 2-4 p.m.
Pickup dates: TBA
We will exhibit our Exquisite Corpse group project, and the rest of the show is a more general theme that can be interpreted in many ways.

IMPORTANT NOTE: More pieces for the Exquisite Corpse group project are needed! Please consider making one (or making another) on a 12 x 12" stretched canvas. Details of this project can be found on our MCS Blog at http://midwestcollagesociety.blogspot.com/

UPCOMING EXHIBITS
Mayslake, Oak Brook
January 11 - March 5, 2010
Drop off: Saturday, January 9, 9-11 a.m.
Reception: Saturday, January 16, 4-6 p.m.
Pick up: Saturday, March 6, 1-3 p.m.
Theme: TBA (suggestions welcome)

Downers Grove Public Library
April, 2010

MCS RETREAT
Don’t miss the MCS Retreat at Camp Alexander in Milford, IN.
Friday, October 20 thru Sunday, November 1
$50 deposit is due by June meeting

Pat Pope and Laura Lein-SvencnerMidwest Collage Society Member

Red Sky- 20 x 36

Laura Lein-Svencner is exhibiting her work at Edwards Hospital Second Floor Heart Hospital Section for the month of May. Do stop by and see the wonderful art work through out the hosptial from local artist in the area. Edwards Hospital is located at 801 S. Washington in Naperville, IL.

Pat Pope, a Midwest Collage Society member is exhibiting her work at Edwards Hospital this month of May and June. If you get a chance stop by and see the amazing work she has up.

Alphebetica III Exhibit at Orland Park Library with the Midwest Collage Society

Press Release
April 26th 2009

Contact Person:
Laura Lein-Svencner
Publicity Chair
630-655-4492




The Midwest Collage Society invites the public to view a traveling Exhibit “Alphabetica III” at the Orland Park Library, 14921 Ravinia Ave. Orland Park, IL 60462. The exhibit runs from April 30th to May 29th. Meet the artists on May 1st 7-8:30pm.

The Midwest Collage Society members created this exhibit called “Alphebetica” from one of its own members ideas of using a set of old school alphabet cards. Mary Warner asked each member to pick a card and freely interpret it as they wished. The first exhibit, “Alphabetica”, was shown at Downers Grove Public Library in April 2008 and then shown in September as “Alphabetica II” at Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien. The third exhibit, “Alphabetica III”, will be exhibited at Orland Park Library during the May of 2009. Each time the exhibit has been presented a few piece have sold; this has encouraged the artists to create new pieces. The Midwest Collage Society members try to represent each letter of the alphabet, but at time a few letters are missing. Children have been encouraged to come to the library’s exhibit to “Find the Missing Letters”

May's meeting reminder

Dear Members

Our May’s meeting is right around the corner May 3rd at 1:30 till 4:00pm, 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien. We will be having a Board/planning meeting starting at 12:00 so all board members and committee members need to be there for the transition from one year to the next. Our Monthly program for May is a Golden Artist Sandie Bacon. If you plan on coming to this meeting please make sure you bring these supplies with you. Acrylic Brushes, Palette knives and some image you like in “copy” form {Xerox} Paper towels and Sandie will supply the rest.

Also Oct 30,31 and Nov 1st Dates are set for the Collage Retreat at Camp Alexander in Indiana, please look at your schedules so you can block this time to spend with your fellow collage artists and enjoy a great get away from normal life and create till you can’t create no more. It’s a great place!!!

Collage Workshop with Gale Vance

Gale Vance will be co-leading a one day workshop. The Gift Of Our Wisdom: Writing and Collaging Your Mother's Day Legacy.
Have you wondered how to share your heritage, life story, and blessings on paper, with those you love? We will meet in Naperville on Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 9:30am to 4:15pm to begin the process. For more information and a flyer please contact Gale Vance at Sammylove@aol.com.

Tradition is not just what we inherit from the past; it is also what we create and pass on to the future. From The Book of Blessings, by Rabbi Marcia Falk.

May's Meeting

The Midwest Collage Society next meeting will be May 3rd.
Sandra Bacon an artist from Golden will be coming in and share with all of us the many different mediums and acrylics by Golden Company available to artists, Small demonstration will be given. Meeting starts at 1:30-4:00pm. 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien IL 60561.

Please note that the new Board members and committees will need to attend planning/business meeting at 12:00 Noon that same day.

Two Exhibits In Two months

The Midwest Collage Society is busy exhibit collage works from one end of town to the other.
Our First Exhibit is At the Downers Grove Public Library "Earth Stories" April 4th -May 2nd 1050 Curtiss Street Downers Grove, IL 60515. www.downersgrovelibrary.org.
Earth Stories theme of April, 2009 exhibit at Downers Grove Public Library. The Midwest Collage Society has chosen “Earth Stories” as the theme for this exhibit. Our planet speaks to us in many ways. Earth’s history lies buried in layers of ancient rock, in the bones of prehistoric creatures, and in the dust of galaxies light years away from us.But today we are aware of more urgent messages from the Earth.Our land, water and air are polluted with the debris of human manufacturing. Global warming threatens massive climate changes around the globe. We have a growing understandingof the interconnection and fragile nature of our ecosystems. We hear more emphasis on the need to recycle and reuse…to find new sources of energy…to reduce our carbon footprints…to restorebalance to our environment.With this as our context, members of the Midwest Collage Society interpret “Earth Stories” from a variety of perspectives, using multiple layers, different media, and the creative reuse of found objects.

Our Second Exhibit will be going up April 30th- May 29th at the Orland Park Public Library, 14921 Ravinia Ave. Orland Park IL http://www.orlandparklibrary.org/ Midwest Collage Society will be exhibit a traveling show called Alphabetica,
Midwest Collage Society members have created a traveling exhibit called “Alphabetica.” The idea of using an old set of school alphabet cards in their work and exhibiting them as a group showing was the creative idea of Mary Warner, MCS member. Each member picked an alphabet card and freely interpreted it as she wished in her own collage. The first exhibit, "Alphabetica", was shown at the Downers Grove Public Library in April, 2008, and then shown in September as “Alphabetica II” at Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien. The third exhibit, “Alphabetica III", will be exhibited at Orland Park Public Library during May of 2009. Each time the exhibit has been presented a few pieces have sold; this has encouraged the artists to create new pieces. The Collage Society members try to represent each letter of the alphabet, but at times, a few letters are missing. Children have been encouraged to come to the library's exhibits to “Find the Missing Letters.”