Friday's Meeting : April 30th 6pm

Just a quick reminder that we have a new venue for tomorrow's meeting

Island Cafe, a brand new store about to open in South Orange, has kindly opened its doors to us for our meeting.
Coffee will be available, but please provide your own nibbles

WHAT :
Joy Yagid, a professional photographer recently featured in the New York Times, will be giving us tips on how to photograph our products for marketing and web use. Great photos are needed before you start any printed marketing campaign, so come armed with some juicy questions

We will also be discussing our booth arrangements for upcoming Mayfest - May 16
People who have signed up will be receiving their promo postcards to mail

WHEN : April 30th 6pm

WHERE : Island Cafe
307 Irving Avenue
South Orange

(parking lot across the street)


see you there!

SOMAtv

I know that some people have had difficulty finding Meet the Artist on TV. I hope this helps! Here is the URL for the schedule for SOMAtv:
http://sovillage.serveftp.net:50000/external_schedule/simple_day_schedule

Here is the list of how to find the channel:

South Orange:
Cablevision: Channel 19 (P/E/G)
Verizon FiOS: Channel 44 (P/E/G)
Maplewood:
Comcast: Channel 35 (P/E/G)
Verizon FiOS: Channel 24 (G)
South Orange/Maplewood:
Verizon FiOS: Channel 22 (P/E)

The SOMA tv info page is: http://www.somatv.org/

Celebrate South Orange Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 2:00 – 6:00

If you are interested in sharing a booth please contact Ann Vollum at AnnVollum@verizon.net. A 10' x 10' space will be $20 per person if 3 people share and $30 per person if 2 people share. See details of contract, booth sharing agreement and inventory sheet on the downloads page of this blog. Ann will send in the application for the shared booths.

MEET THE ARTIST

Need to put your feet up and take a break. Check out SOMAtv Meet the Artist produced and hosted by the talented Nancy Heins-Glaser. Ann Vollum of BeastlyBeasties is a featured artist on this special about The Book Arts Roundtable. Other featured artists are Karen McDermott, Cynthia Weiss and Pat Feeney.

SOMAtv Channel 19 (SO/cablevision) & 35 (MPLWD/Comcast)

APRIL 19: MEET THE ARTIST - Special / Book Arts Roundtable
4:00 PM
and 10:30 PM

APRIL 20: MEET THE ARTIST - Special / Book Arts Roundtable
2:00 PM
and 10:30 PM

APRIL 21: MEET THE ARTIST - Special / Book Arts Roundtable
2:00 PM
and 4:30 PM

Here is how to search for the shows:

WWW.SOMAtv.org
* Search (upper left) on home page you can search for shows by putting this in search function
* Meet the Artist Special / Then look for BOOK ARTS ROUNDTABLE in the program guide

Enjoy!

The SOMA board will be interviewed on April 22nd by Nancy Heins-Glaser for Meet the Artist.

Flowers by Bob Krasner

This will be a great show...Hope you get a chance to go!!!

Flowers by Bob Krasner

Artists Reception

April 17, 2010

5-8pm

G.A.S.

411 Ridgewood Rd

Maplewood

Bodylines Closing Reception at G.A.S.

Thursday night I attended the Bodylines closing reception at G.A.S. There were 25 photos of the human body by Ron Brown. Most of the prints were made using a silver gelatin, some made from infrared, and toned silver gelatin.

There was a lot of conversation about a piece called Undulations. We all could see something different in the photo. One patron thought it looked like an old witch, another a shoulder blade, but the photo was taken from behind the knee looking up to the back of the head. It was really fun tricking the eye and the mind to come up with different images.

My favorite piece was Dual Tone it was a infrared toned silver gelatin print. The piece was of a naked woman on a tree swing. Because of the way the photograph was made the woman's body was faded and her skin looked milky white while everything around her had a soft burnt sienna color. Ron Brown caught the dainty and feminine side of this woman's spirit in this print.

Ron Brown is an accomplished fine art photographer with numerous solo shows in the area. He has been in showing in selected group shows since 1997.

submitted by Katie Clayton