Bloomingdale Park District Museum-Midwest Collage Society

Bloomingdale Park District Museum
108 S. Bloomingdale Road
Bloomingdale IL. 60108
630-539-3096
www.bloomindaleparks.org
Gallery Hours: Wed 4-8
Thurs-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4

Admission
Residents $1
Non Residents $2
Seniors .50


Midwest Collage Society
Presents
Layers 3
Sat. July 11th – Sat. Aug 22, 2009

Reception, meet the Artists
Sunday July 19th 2-4pm




Exquisite Corpse: Pat Pope - head, Mary Yezek - torso and legs

MCS newsflash

Midwest Collage Society
Newsflash
June 25, 2009
1. URGENT: Those participating in the Layers3 show at Bloomingdale must drop off their work this Saturday, June 27, between 2 and 4 p.m.
The gallery is located at: Bloomingdale Park District Museum
108 S. Bloomingdale Road,Bloomingdale, IL 60108
one block south of the intersection of Bloomingdale Rd. and Lake Street (Route 20)
630-539-3096
2. Bloomingdale show dates: July 11 thru August 22
Reception: Sunday, July 19 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Pick-up: Saturday, August 22 from 4 - 6 p.m.
3. Remember, there is NO MCS meeting in the month of July.
4. There are still a few days to see the work of Pat Pope, Mary Yezek and Tania Blanco at the Woodridge Public Library.
They are exhibiting throught he Lombard Arts Coalition through June 30.

Post X Planetcollage.com

LuEllen Joy Giera

1213 North LaGrange Road

Garden Apartment

LaGrange Park, IL 60526

planetcollage@gmail.com

June 2009

Come see what's happening at theLaGrange Park Library! Planet Collage.com is proud to announce it second group show entitled“Post X” July 1, 2009 through July 31, 2009 - - Planet Collage.com will be exhibiting in the art gallery within the Lagrange Park Library (Illinois) located on the second floor during the month of July! This group show of members of planetcollage.com includes individual art by select members, exchanged collage postcards along with exchanged candy tins. Plantcollage.com is an international online fine art collage group whose members are from all over the globe. This show will represent select member artists who reside in the surrounding suburbs* of Chicago and as far away as Pennsylvania, Spain, California and Washington State. Along with small artworks created by planetcollage.com members, this exhibit includes a collection of postcards and tins received by curator and founder of planetcollage.com, LuEllen Joy Giera of LaGrange Park, IL. The international postcard exchange began in April 2006. A list is created month by month and each participating artist is expected to make one postcard-sized (5”x7”) collage and mail them out to each and every participant. Each artist will receive the equal number of postcards back in their mailbox each month. This group show is just a very small portion of a wonderful array of collage work including framed and unframed pieces, candy tins and postcards exchanged to and from each artist as part of the monthly international postcard exchange. This is the second group show of PlanetCollage.com. Please view planetcollage.com and click on the member’s page for more information!
* Illinois Residents - Volo, LaGrange Park, Glen Ellyn, Arlington Heights, Bloomingdale, Villa Park * Other locales - Morton, PA / Olympia, WA / Canyon Country, CA / Amherst, MA / Rancho Mirage, CA / Garden Grove, CA / Leon, Spain
-- LuEllen Joy Gieraplanetcollage.com

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!!!