Sketch Crawl The Tron #7
A Progressive sketching party
Next Sketch Crawl is
- Date : 28th August 2010 Saturday
- Time: 1pm
- Venue : Meet at the Hamilton Lake Kiosk
If you'd like to receive information on next sketchcrawl, please send your e-mail with subject line "sketchcrawl' to wsa@wsa.org.nz
For more details please visit new action front
Past events
2010 WSA Members' Exhibition - A Passion For Art -
Waikato Society of Arts Annual ArtsPost Exhibition featuring Tutors, past and present.
Fri 05 Mar 2010 - Sun 28 Mar 2010
Cost: FREE
Time: Open daily from 10 am until 4.30 pm.
Where: ArtsPost, 120 Victoria Street
"Art Circles" 27 February 2010
ARTS CIRCLES: Hamilton Gardens
Saturday 27th February
10am – 3pm
This year the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival will feature two artists circles which replaces the Right Bank Festival.
In the Piazza, under cover, will be a circle of selected artists who will be working exhibiting and selling their own work while outside on the grassed circle by Turtle Lake will be stalls of quality arts and crafts for sale.
WSA is managing the Piazza circle and will feature WSA members. However any artist who wants to work and exhibit can apply. We would like to showcase artists practising a wide variety of media and techniques.
We would like artists to come with their tools of their trade, to work in their own media while engaging the public and promoting their own work.
The date is Saturday the 27th February, the day of the jazz and food so there will be an easy going crowd. Also, there is a small fee for artists in the Piazza, including WSA members. The fee is $5 for individuals and $10 for groups up to 4 people who work together.
We would like work to be available for sale. Artists will manage their own sales and will not be charged commission.
All sites in the Piazza are undercover and sheltered from the wind. The WSA will co-coordinate artists for this Circle. There will be helpers during setup and a trouble shooter throughout the day.
Any inquiries, please contact WSA office at 839 4481. wsa@wsa.org.nz
Updated 25 Feb 2010
2009 WSA Member's Exhibition
'Action Front-The Rest of the Story'
6th November – 30th November 2009
This exhibition is our main WSA Members Exhibition for the year and will replace the Xmas Exhibition.
It will encompass all genres of work; prints, painting sculpture and others.
Opening: 5th November – 5:30pm
All are welcome.
Anniversary exhibition: The Action Front
75 years of art from the Waikato Society of Art
Waikato Museum, 5 April-4 October 2009
To help celebrate WSA's 75th anniversary, the Waikato Museum has mounted an exhibition that documents the Society's contribution to the arts in the Waikato. Visit the Museum to take a trip down Memory Lane and see where the WSA has been and where it's headed today.
From the foundations laid in 1934 by Ida Carey, Adele Younghusband and Dr Eugene Rogers, the WSA has built a structure that supports artists and art lovers. The WSA's original art collection formed the nucleus for the Museum's collection today and the Society has instigated and supported numerous regional and national art awards.
The Action Front divides the Society's history into three 25-year periods, highlighting key people and events. The works on display come from the Museum's collection and by loan from private collections throughout the Waikato. Among the exhibits is a short film in which long-time members reminisce about the development of the WSA and its various homes around Hamilton.
For more information visit the Waikato Museum website
Public programmes in September to accompany 'The Action Front' exhibition
These free programmes will be presented on Saturday mornings in the Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre. Following each talk will be a workshop held in the WSA Art School next door at ArtsPost.
12 September, 11 am
The long and the short of it…' WSA members Joan Fear, Barry Hopkins, Enid Claris and Gay Fraundorfer speak of the history of their organisation.
Free Entry – Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre
Followed at 1 pm by a workshop: 'Portrait Tips and Tricks'. Joan Fear gives tips and tricks for creating a successful portrait. $10.
19 September, 11 am
'Living the Artist's Life'
A panel of artists including Gaye Jurisich and James Ormsby discuss being an artist, making a living and building an arts practice.
Free Entry – Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre
26 September, 11 am
'A Passion for Printmaking'
Ruth Davey, Campbell Smith, Steph Chalmers and Janice Meadows talk about what draws them to their art and show a few images to illustrate some of the different forms of printmaking.
Free Entry – Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre
Followed at 1 pm by 'The Magic of Printmaking' – monoprint workshop at the WSA printroom.
Come and learn to do a simple monoprint with Joan Travaglia. This is a great introduction to printmaking. $10
Call the WSA on 839 4481 to book for the workshop.
Anniversary event in July: This Green Land
“This Green Land”, by local playwright Campbell Smith, celebrates the life of Margot Phillips, who fled the Holocaust in Europe and fetched up in the Waikato. Her Viennese coffee shop became a Victoria Street institution. She joined a young organisation called the WSA and through her painting connected not only with the landscape and her adopted country, but also many notable NZ artists, including Colin McCahon, Toss Wollaston and Len Castle.
As part of the WSA's 75th anniversary celebrations, there were four performances of “This Green Land” at the Waikato Museum in July, including a special matinee followed by coffee and cake in a tribute to Margot's Viennese cafe.
Alec Forbes directed the play and support for the production came from Rob Gardiner, HCAC, Creative Communities, Remains to be Scene, and the Foreman Family.