OUR APRIL 12, 2023 MEETING WILL BE IN PERSON AT THE HOMER TOWONSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY
PROGRAMS/MEETINGS
Jan. 11, 2023-7 pm: Annual Show and Tell
Feb. 8, 2023-7 pm: Colleen Klimczak-Art Studio/Supply Organization
Mar. 8, 2023-7 pm: Phil Schorn-Colored Pencil Techniques
April 12, 2023-7 pm: April Schabes-Art Journaling
May 10, 2023-7 pm: Patricia Mroczka-Zentangle Style Botanical Illustration
CREATE AND CHAT: ARTISTS MEET-UP at Homer Township Public Library
2023 Upcoming Dates:
Monday Mar. 20, 2023-1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.homerlibrary.org/event/create-chat-artists-meetup-5
Monday April 17-1:00pm - 3:00pm
Monday May 15-1:00pm - 3:00pm
Time: 1-3 pm
Artists of all kinds are welcome to join our monthly meetup group! Meet other local artists (including some from the Lemont Artists Guild), discuss what you’re working on, and spend time creating alongside others. Bring your current project or art supplies to find inspiration & start a new one! The group meets from 1-3pm. New folks – and all art mediums – welcome!
While this is not an instructional class, the gathering of artists can help inspire you and give you feedback or ideas on your own artwork. Or, if you haven't been able to create but want to start, join us and see what others are making. Seeing others create can be just what you need to get your own project started!
No registration required; just show up!
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The Lemont Artists Guild Meetings are open to all, you do not have to be a Lemont Artists Guild member to attend. We hope you can attend our programs at the library which are free and open to the public!
Art Journaling with April Schabes
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 7:00 pm
IN PERSON at Homer Township Public Library
14320 W. 151st Street, Homer Glen, IL 60491
708-301-7908
Please Register at: https://www.homerlibrary.org/event/art-journaling
Colored Pencil Techniques with Phil Schorn
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Art Studio/Supply Organization with Colleen Klimczak
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Email: Colleen@PeaceOfMindPO.com
Website and Blog: http://www.PeaceOfMindPO.com
Podcast: Your Organized Life with Colleen Klimczak, CPO
Pinterest / Twitter: ColleenCPO
Instagram: Colleen.Klimczak - Facebook / Linked In:MColleenKlimczakCPO
Annual Show and Tell
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm
On January 11, 2023, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present, at the library, Show and Tell, where all attendees at this meeting will have an opportunity to share their creative endeavors.
This is a great opportunity to talk about what you are up to creatively, get some new ideas, constructive suggestions, meet other artists, and/or share about your plans for the future. You can also just come and watch and listen to what others are up to in their art worlds!
If you would like, feel free to bring your current project/sketchbook/journal/etc. and anything else that you want to "show and tell" about!
Figure Drawing
presented by Ellen Rottsolk
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Recording to Follow soon! Check back at a later date.
On November 16, 2022, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present, at the library, Ellen Rottsolk, who will give an interactive program on Figure Drawing. She will discuss the correlations that occur in the human figure, then put into practice, by drawing, some of these relationships and experience how they change and shift as the body moves. Please bring some drawing supplies you can utilize during her demonstration to watch and learn as you draw along with Ellen. These include a sketchbook or paper, charcoal and/or vine charcoal or black chalk, a kneaded eraser, a black pen, and markers and pencils if you like. Ellen will provide some extra vine charcoal and paper. Ellen believes drawing is a learned skill and there are important relationships between the body’s shapes that help us understand how to draw this form. She likes to use vine charcoal and charcoal as they smear to be able to achieve various levels of shading to enhance and bring to life the figure itself.
Ellen has Bachelors and Masters Degree in Art from Northern Illinois University. She has taught art in area high schools and now teaches fundamental drawing, figure drawing, portrait studies and pastel painting at DuPage Art League in Wheaton.
Astrophotography-Photography/Imagery of the Night Sky
presented by Jasonn Pellegrini
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:00 pm
IN PERSON at
Homer Township Public Library
14320 W. 151st Street
Homer Glen, IL 60491
708-301-7908
Recording to Follow soon! Check back at a later date.
On October 12, 2022, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present, at the library, Jasonn Pellegrini, who will share his knowledge and photographic images in the field of Astrophotography which is the photographing of the night sky. This includes astronomical objects, outer space phenomena and events which can include images of the moon, sun, planets, asteroids, stars, and galaxies. Jasonn will bring outer space and the stars inside so we can see them for ourselves projected on the big screen in the library’s conference room!
Jasonn has always had a passion for photography. His portfolio includes landscape photography and he started focusing on Astrophotography during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Astronomy, in general, has also always been a passion of his and sharing his astrophotography images with the world lets him spread the wonder of space and time to everyone.
While by day, Jasonn is an electronic technician who repairs communication radios and other electronics, by night, he carries his technical expertise into his celestial photos by using special astrophotography techniques and equipment. The equipment he utilizes to take the photographs includes telescopes, lenses, mounts, various accessories, computer software, and his special camera which uses specific filters to cut out light pollution near the city and surrounding area. Since light pollution is always a struggle in the Chicago and surrounding area, with his expertise, techniques, and equipment he is still able to capture the beauty of the night sky. He has even attended the annual “Nebraska Star Party” near Valentine, NE under some of the darkest skies in the country where Astrophotographers get together and take incredible pictures with the Milky Way galaxy as their light. You can see more about the star party at https://www.nebraskastarparty.org/ and view this YouTube video at https://youtu.be/Fqk_AaxI5XY.
Connect with Jasonn and his images here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Starlancer/,
https://www.instagram.com/starlancerastro/, https://www.artpal.com/jpastro
Kumihimo-The Art of Japanese Braiding
presented by Betty Burian Kirk
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm
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On September 14, 2022, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present, at the library, Betty Burian Kirk, who will talk about Kumihimo Braiding which is a Japanese Braiding Technique. Betty will give a historic overview of how Kumihimo was brought to Japan and the connection to the Japanese Samurai Warriors. Various braiding techniques will be covered by Betty and an abundance of samples will be displayed. Betty will give a demonstration of how the braiding is done on a Marudai (prounounced mar-oo-dye) which is a round-top braiding stand used to make a wide variety of Kumihimo braids in many different forms such as round, square, rectangular, flat, triangular, and other polygonal shapes. (To learn more about the Marudai visit: https://amksoc.org/glossary/marudai/) Attendees present will be given a cardboard disk in which will Betty will guide them on a form of the Kumihimo braiding.
Betty studied art at Northern Illinois University where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. She taught 13 years as an elementary school art teacher and three semesters as a college weaving instructor. She now teaches at regional and national fiber conferences and sells her handmade wearable fiber art at art shows in Illinois. Her website is www.bbkirk.com and she is a long time member and the Publicity/Newsletter Editor for the Lemont Artists Guild. For more information please visit: www.lemontartistsguild.org.
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