Monthly Board Updates
June Update, 2009
The plants, the grass, the warm air, sandals and ice tea make these June days so welcome. The rich colors of our art making allow us to communicate the deepest levels of our heart. May these June days bubble up joy and playfulness in your being.
A Blessing of June Be Upon You,
Lucianne Siers, OP
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FROM THE GATHERING 2009 PLANNING COMMISSION
Reminder: Remember to choose and bring an artifact to share during The Arts as Preaching time of our Gathering. This has the potential to be a very rich time for all of us.
Transport Back to the Airport: Gathering participants traveling by plane, please fill out the form below and give it to Pat Daly when you register on Wednesday, July 14th. This will help facilitate your return transport to the airport. Thank you.
Fill out, clip and bring with you:
NAME
DEPARTURE DATE
AIRLINE
FLIGHT #
Departure FLIGHT TIME
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NOMINATIONS/ELECTION FOR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
According to Article V of the DIA's Constitution, only those attending the National Gathering can nominate and vote for Board members. Secondly, nominated members must be present at the National Gathering. Those attending the Gathering are invited to take time to talk with fellow DIA members about being nominated for board membership.
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DIA CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
regarding BOARD TERMS is ADOPTED
All votes were tallied on June 5 regarding the proposal for a constitutional change in terms for board members Article V Nominations and Elections #4 Terms. The proposed change has received complete support (no votes against the proposal) by the current members of the DIA. An updated constitution will be made available to all members soon. Thank you for attending to this.
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Anaconda's Copper Village Museum & Arts Center
Hosts Joeann Daley OP
and New Book entitled, Coming Home
On June 15, 2009 Copper Village Museum and Arts Center,
Anaconda, Montana, hosted an evening with artist, and cofounder of Copper Village, Sister Joeann Daley OP, to celebrate the publication of the new book, Coming Home: A Special Issue of the online journal, Drumlummon Views, devoted to the Historic Built Environment and
Landscapes of Butte and Anaconda, Montana. Rick Newby, editor-in-chief of Drumlummon Views, was also present for the event.
During the evening, Sister Joeann showed and had for sale her original Anaconda inspired works that are included in Coming Home.
This special issue of Drumlummon Views, is available both online (www.drumlummon.org) and as a printed book. The publication coincided with the national conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum held in Butte June 10-13. The conference was entitled Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's Paradise Under Montana's Big Sky.
In addition to Sister Joeann's wonderful prints inspired by Anaconda,Rick Newby said,the book features articles on the Anaconda smelter, the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, and the Anaconda Saddle Club, a photographic tribute to Butte and Anaconda cemeteries, fiction by Anaconda native Ron Fischer and poems by Anaconda's Dennice Scanlon, and a major essay on The Industrial Undergirding to the Vernacular Architecture of Butte and Anaconda by historian Fred Quivik.
March 2009
March 2009 DIA UPDATE
The 2009 Annual Gathering Packet
The Annual Gathering Packet is included on this page below as a PDF file entitled, 2009 Gathering Registration Packet. It will also arrive at your address within the next week or so thanks to Liz Sully, Membership Liaison for the DIA.
Art Gala Raffle Donation Form
Your gift to our Art Gala Raffle is much appreciated. Your donation, along with others, to the Raffle will help provide funding for the DIA's scholarships. No gift is too small or too large! We would like to include pieces that cross over all of our artistic fields! This year the raffle will be run differently so that all of us can participate in it. So, save your money and shop at both the MARKETPLACE and the DIA ART GALA RAFFLE !! Please cut and paste the form below to a Word Document, fill it out and send to Jude Bloch OP by July 1st. Or just copy the form fields below by hand, fill in your responses and mail to Jude Bloch, OP.
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(Please clip and add this to your Gathering packet)
Additional Check List Page Information:
We realize that some of our members do not have email and so we are including phone numbers that can be added to the Check List Information page of the Gathering Packet:
Elizabeth Sully OP
(home) 404-733-6594
Registration/Membership Dues/Marketplace Fee
Barbara Schwarz OP
(home) 516-695-3238 (work) 631-842-6000 x306
Questions/Clarifications/Music Volunteers
Carol O'Connor OPA
(work) 614-416-1362
Virtual Gallery
Kathy Rhody OPL
(home) 602-944-2508 (work) 602-279-5765
Marketplace signup
Lucianne Siers OP
(cell) 201-320-8140
Registration Scholarship request
Jude Bloch OP
(home) 616-774-0843
Art Raffle Entry Forms (NO photo needed)
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Change in DIA Constitution
In the Spring edition of OPalette, look for information about the upcoming request for Constitutional change regarding terms of office for individual Board Members.
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Board Positions Open
In July, we will be nominating and electing new Board members. Be thinking now about volunteering yourself for a position on this creative and happy board! Next, be thinking about another person who might have the same potential for being an active Board member. More to come soon in the DIA Newsletter, OPalette. Our Nominating Commission is alive and well!
Just a note, for those who do not know this our Constitution states that the Board will meet 4 times a year. One of those times is at the Gathering. The other three times happen throughout the year. Sometimes the Board meets via conference call, other times it is important to meet face to face. There are no personal expenses for attending Board meetings; travel, room and board are picked up by the DIA.
July 2009 DIA Gathering
Art Gala Raffle Donation Form
Your gift to our Art Gala Raffle is much appreciated. Your donation, along with others, to the Raffle will help provide funding for the DIA. No gift is too small or too large! We would like to include pieces that cross over all of our artistic fields!
Please fill out the form below and send to Jude Bloch OP by July 1st.
Thank you -Your DIA Board Members
. . .
Name:
Phone number or email address:
1. Describe the item(s) you are donating and note the size(s):
2. Please note the dollar worth of the item(s):
_____ I will bring the item(s) with me
_____ I will ship the item(s) (to arrive after July 12) to
DIA
c/o Sr. Anita Constance SC
Xavier Center
PO Box 211
Convent Station, NJ 07961-0211
(Please mail so it will arrive after July 12th)
_____ Other:
2009 Gathering Registration Packet
December Board Update
FROM THE DIA CHAIR
Advent Blessings! As most of us find ourselves in the midst of the flurry of activity before Christmas, please know that our board of directors continues to treasure your wonderful gifts of creativity, those expressed and those still percolating. The gifts you bear and hold within yourself are the greatest gifts that you share with us and for so many others. All blessings to you and your loved ones this Christmas and throughout the entire New Year!
Lucianne Siers, OP
Click on the link below and paste into your browser for a video Holiday Greeting from the Board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDc4wzv65QQ
Click on the link below and paste into your browser to hear the Board sing a special holiday carol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJspcbiukkc
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DIA MEMBERSHIP LIAISON NAMED
Newly elected Board Member, Liz Sully, has accepted the position of DIA Membership Liaison. For any issues related to membership, including updating contact information and biography information, please contact Liz at:
719 Penn Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30308-1501
Phone: 404-733-6594
Email: sullyop@aol.com
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DIA WEB SITE EDITOR NAMED
Former DIA Membership Liaison, Carol O'Connor, will now serve as our Website Editor.
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MEMBERSHIP FEES
Please remember that your 2009 membership fees are to be paid in January. The membership fee remains the same - $35.00.
Please mail to:
Liz Sully OP/DIA Membership Liaison
719 Penn Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30308-1501
If you have changes in your contact information please note that also. Thank you for your prompt attention to detail. Those who do not pay in January will receive a February reminder from Liz Sully.
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DIRECTORY CHANGES
Please note in your membership directory these changes of contact information:
Sarajane Seaver OP:
Home phone: 313.633.0909
Email: seavertheweaver@yahoo.com
Elizabeth Michael Boyle OP
This is the corrected Home phone: 973-403-8475
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SAVE THE DATE!
Artists Retreat, Mariandale in Ossining, New York, June 14-20, 2009.
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DIA NEWSLETTER HAS A NAME
Our E-Newsletter now has a name: OPalette !! We received quite of few original and meaningful names. Thank you all for your creative responses. We are running a newsletter masthead design contest. Information will be in the Winter Newsletter.
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COMING SOON!
The Winter Newsletter with details on Gathering 2009, your Board's recent meeting in Sparkill, and contributions from members.
November 2008 Update
DIA Update November 2008
Dear DIA Members,
The November chill and darkness offer us a contemplative opportunity to sink deeper into the folds of God's presence. Nature calls us to store up our resources and the U.S. economy seems to focus on tightening our belts. This is a good time to find shelter in our creativity. What can we, as artists, offer our world that is nourishing and hope filled at no cost?
Lucianne Siers, OP -DIA Board Chair
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ELECTION AND MUSE MOMENTS
I'm wondering if the energy generated around the world by the election of Barack Obama, Nov. 4, has sparked any muse moments in the membership and, if so, would you be willing to share bodaciously?
Send your sharing to Carol OConnor at coconnor@columbusdominicans.org You may want to check out www.domlife.org for an overview of Dominican responses to the same invitation. Now, lets hear from the Dominican artists!
Peace, Liz Sully OP
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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS
You are invited to add to our December Newsletter by submitting dates/places for upcoming art shows, recognitions, articles about you and your art. We continue to accept pithy quotations about art/artistic process for our Wise Words From Artists page as well as reflective/contemplative articles for our Feature article under the heading: THE ARTIST AS PREACHER where you share your reflection on a specific piece of art (remember this "piece of art" could also be a poem, a short article, music, etc.).
Send Dec. Newsletter submissions to E. Michael Boyle OP at emichael@caldwell.edu Please submit your information/article no later than Nov.19th.
We received many supportive responses about the new look and contents of the newsletter. Much of it depends upon your submissions based upon your artistic and contemplative nature. We applaud your willingness to make this a viable newsletter!
Gratefully, E Michael Boyle OP and Jude Bloch OP
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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION:
" Mary Reid OP now has an email address that you may add to your directory: marypreid@gmail.com If you have an updated contact info, please send it to Carol O'Connor at coconnor@columbusdominicans.org Thank you!
" Some of you may know Virginia Marie LaTourelle OP from Adrian. Virginia Marie wrote to let us know that she is very ill and unable to continue as a DIA member. We're sure she would appreciate cards and notes of support and prayer at this time. Her address is: 1277 Siena Heights Dr., Adrian, MI 49221-1755
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RENEWING MEMBERSHIP:
January is our renewing month for all membership. Please send your renewal payment of $35. to Carol O'Connor. Along with that payment should come your updated contact information. Mail to: Carol OConnor, OPA, 2320 Airport Dr., Columbus OH 43219. Thank you for renewing early!
During November and December please invite 2 other OP Artists to check out our website at www.DIArts.org and become a member. Are you up to the challenge?!!
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MEMBERSHIP PREACHING THROUGH THE ARTS
I read Poetry at West Allis, Wisconsin's city hall on September 15th, as part of the annual CELEBRATING ART IN WEST ALLIS. A teacher at the Milwaukee Area Technical College was told of the West Allis ARTS a' Fair, called me and asked if I'd read for her writing class, many of whom have an interest in poetry. How exciting to Preach through the Arts! -Mary Ellen Paulson OP
October 2008 Board Update
Dear DIA Members,
As we enjoy the beauty of the autumn season, we can hardly ignore the economic crisis and the upcoming election swirling around us. While we may not feel the immediate pain of economic meltdown, we have certainly become aware of our connections with the rest of the world. And so as we enter into the last quarter of 2008, we find ourselves in the great unknown of what will happen. We certainly know that whatever will happen will touch our lives directly. And so, as we artists feel this unknown place and try to find an expression for it, let us walk together in faith and hope trusting our intuition and gift to lead us to another level of understanding TRUTH in the spirit of Dominic and Catherine.
Mark your calendars now: The 2009 Gathering will be held at Xavier Center, Convent Station, New Jersey, July 15-18, 2009. Featured Speaker and Facilitator for a day of reflection: Kathleen Deignan, CND, PH.D., spiritual animator and theologian who composes songs for worship and devotion. She is the founder of Iona Spirituality Institute at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, where she is Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Check out: www.animaschola.org
Lucianne Siers, OP Chair/DIA Board of Directors/Chair
EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES
Brigid Bray, OP shares this information: At the "Fall Fiesta Art Show" put on by the Sisters of San Gabriel, I was awarded 2nd Place for my watercolor of tulips. I was also named "Artist of the Month" which qualifies me for the "Artist of the Year" award.
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Beyond the Colors, art works by Thoma Swanson, OP.
Martin De Porres Center, 2330 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH 43219
October 20 thru December 19
Reception: Sunday,
October 26, 3-5 PM
At other times, please call for an appointment. 614-416-1910
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From Irene Mary Diones, OP: I entered a juried Art Show and 4 out of my 6 entries were selected. The show opened September 25th and ran until the 12th of October at the Niles Art Gallery in Fremont, CA.
I have read very little about performance arts on our website, it seems to be mostly visual arts. Since I've been teaching in our music school with fellow DIA member, Andre Marie Fujier OP, we will have our first student music recital October 25th, 2008 - piano with Andre Marie's class, and guitar with mine.
Blessings on you...and all...Keep the artist heart going!
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From Dominic DeLay, OP:
Dear Mud Puddle Films Friends,
1) The FREE ONLINE EPISODE COUNTDOWN TO THE ELECTION begins Monday, October 13: Sign up for the Inside Darkness website's free "members area" for the complete 35-minute movie in free, weekly online episodes: www.insidedarkness.com/member1.html.
The first, 9-minute episode is waiting for you. The other four 7-minute episodes will be released on the four Mondays before the election, beginning October 13.
2) You can also BUY YOUR OWN DVD and HOST A SCREENING. The DVD includes an alternate ending, engaging interviews, discussion questions, and more. It's still available for a 30% discount: www.insidedarkness.com. Host a screening at your home, church, or school. It's very easy and will increase the film's prominence on the Brave New Theaters website: http://insidedarkness.bravenewtheaters.com.
3) Finally, the second of my two-part HOMILY ON THE ELECTION is available at www.mudpuddlefilms.com/diary.or www.mudpuddlefilms.com
Dominic,
dominic@mudpuddlefilms.com 323 533-0306
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CALL FOR ENTRY (check www.DIArts.org for more information)
Celebration of the Arts
February 6, 2009 February 24, 2009
First United Methodist Church 227 East Fulton St., Grand Rapids Michigan 49503
The 36th Annual Celebration of the Arts Festival of spiritual and sacred arts takes place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is one of the largest juried spiritual art exhibits in the country featuring over 125 artists from throughout the US in a variety of mediums including oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastels, prints, drawings, ceramics, collage sculpture, fiber, photography and more.
Fee: $10.00 for each work. Entries are limited to two pieces per person.
Requirements: Works should express a religious or spiritual quality. Only original artwork will be accepted, no slides of art work. Pieces must be ready for presentation.
Entry forms are available at www.theCelebrationoftheArts.com or by contacting Mark Loring, Director of Music and Arts Ministries at (616) 451-2879 ext. 108 or markl@grandrapidsfumc.org. Once your entry is accepted, First UMC will accept mailed/delivered packages. Check with Mark Loring about how best to send your work to him. All accepted entries are expected by February 7, 2009.
WELCOME NEW DIA MEMBERS
Please add the following to your directory:
Maura C. Flannery OPA, of Malverne, NY comes to the DIA as a Columbus Associate. Maura is a Fiber Artist - quilting and embroidery. She also works with botanical watercolors. Maura's contact information is: 28 Atlas Ave, Malverne, NY 11565. Her home phone is: 516-596-9311. Email: flannerm@stjohns.edu
Nancy Elliott, of Columbus OPA, of Columbus, OH (also a Columbus Associate) is a full-time self-employed artist working with charcoals, oils, and clay. Nancy's contact information is: 3170 Ainwick Rd., Columbus, OH 43221. Home phone: 614-457-0853. Email: nce2@hotmail.com. Nancy is our first member to have registered on-line through our new website!
INVITATION AND CALL
The Gospel is all about invitation and call. Are there Dominican Laity, Dominican Associates or Dominican Volunteer artists among us we have not yet invited to join DIA? Now's the time. You may wish to send this DIA Update to an artist friend and urge that person to consider joining the DIA!
Of our Dominican Colleges/Universities, how might they be encouraged to have a student representative present for the 2009 Gathering and would the college subsidize the experience? Contact Liz Sully OP at Sullyop@aol.com to continue the conversation.
COMMENTS / REQUESTS RECEIVED
GREAT website and newsletter!
Do you think I might get an actual written endorsement from some DIA members about my talk/presentation? Nothing too long. I'm collecting blurbs for a campaign I'm directing toward religious orders. I would love to hear from DIA Members.
Jan Phillips,
author - The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader, Divining the Body, Marry Your Muse, God is at Eye Level, Making Peace, A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind
858-571-1417;
http://janphillips.com/home.htm
(The DIA Board has responded to Jans request and welcomes any/all DIA members to respond directly to her if you wish)
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Regarding the redesigned newsletter:
I especially enjoyed the feature about Van Gogh and the "Wise Words". Thank you for your thoughtfulness and sharing your creativity.
Lin Baum OPA
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CONGRATULATIONS ONE AND ALL WITH FULL PRAISE AND ADMIRATION TO THE NEW WEBSITE!!!! THE ARTS COME SO ALIVE!. How creatively done! Lots of inspirational messages and more and more and more sense of connections and enthusiasm and such broad coverage!
The FIRST featured artist is sooo fittingly chosen! Special congratulations Barb!
Congratulations too to the new and remaining Board Members, and thanks for those who had served... Special blessings...
Looking forward to more news and inspiration!
Irene Mary Diones OP
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I JUST ACCESSED THE WEB PAGE AND ALL I CAN SAY IS: EVERY HOUR YOU SPENT ON THIS SHOWS---THANK YOU! Elizabeth Michael Boyle OP **************************************************************
I just joined the DIA and this is the first Newsletter I've received. It is amazing.
Thanks so much,
Maura C. Flannery OPA / Professor of Biology
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning/St. John's University
268 Bent Hall 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica, NY 11439
718-990-1860 flannerm@stjohns.edu
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Thank you, Carol, for your hard work and
for the information you provide for DIA!
S. Martina Stegman OP (Kansas)
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Dear Carol,
Congratulations on the great job you're doing with the DIA site!
What must I do to include some of my "stuff"? I have a website: www.adelemyers.com
As you've probably surmised, I'm not very computer literate and people like you are held high in my esteem!
Blessings,
Adele Myers, OP
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Congratulations on the website.
Elizabeth Slenker OP
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Do I scream, jump up and down?!!! Thanks for your patience with me re. the website.
Good going!
Barbara Schwarz OP
www.artafire.homestead.com
Where Art and Spirituality meet!
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Your work is fantastic; I'm enjoying every part of it. Thanks so much for
being you and doing what you do so beautifully!
PEACE! HOPE! JOY! Mary Ellen Paulson, OP
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The Website is fabulous!!!!! Thanks so much for your excellent work.
Peace, Lucianne Siers, OP
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PLANNING COMMISSION FOR GATHERING 2009
Members of the Planning Commission for 2009 are Jean Dominici DeMaria OP, Theresa Maillet OP, Kathleen Rhody OPL and Barbara Schwarz OP. Elizabeth Michael Boyle OP is the Board Liaison to the Planning Commission.
EVALUATION RESULTS OF GATHERING 2008
Elizabeth Slenker OP and the 2008 Planning Commission have put together a very readable tabulation evaluating our Gathering this past summer. Due to the length of this Update, we have not included how people responded regarding the meals served by ODU.
If you have questions about the evaluation, please direct them to Elizabeth Slenker OP 314-426-5267 or Jude Bloch OP at jubloch@aol.com.
The 2008 Gathering Evaluation Results can be viewed by clicking below where indicated.
2008 Gathering Evaluation Results click here
April 2008
April 2008 Update
Dear DIA Members,
As April showers pour nourishment into Mother Earth, so too do we as Artists pour our creative spirits into activities that nourish the heart. Look below at the many areas of interest and action going on with us for the sake of preaching Art!
A few hopes:
We hope for the gift of fire for those who attend the Federation Convocation.
We hope for the gift of a more lasting bond with other Dominican Artists as our 4 representatives prepare for the trip to Mexico inspired by Valeria Nougues OP.
We hope for many creative responses to our Annual Gathering 2008 and the Muse theme that seems to weave it s way into our every day.
The Creative Process is truly an Easter thing!
Blessing,
Jude Bloch, OP
DIA Board
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"Amaze your Muse" - a Muse thought from the Gathering Planning Commission:
Whatever the season, it's the right phase of the moon.
April is a blooming beauty of a month in Atlanta, GA. The Bradford pear, forsythia, cherry, dogwood, redbud, rhododendron and azalea elicit dropped jaws and audible gasps as each attempts to outdo itself this spring after a 2 yr. drought.
We each have our 'seasons'. Muse on the tilling, seeding, hoeing, growing, harvesting, fallowing and, yes, even 'drought' times of creativity. Are there sprouts and shoots that need just a bit of tenderness and nurture to flourish and bloom? Note 'inner birthings' of Spring's nudges.
Liz Sully, Planning Commission
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At the Silent Auction at last year's Gathering, many visitors asked for the business cards of those who had art work on display and for those whose work was featured in the Virtual Gallery. You are encouraged to bring business cards this summer so that visitors will know how to contact you. There is a website, Vista Print, that has a FREE offer on 250 business cards. Clink on the link below to be taken to the website.
http://www.freevistadeals.com/?gclid=CN67_-OPzpICFRE0FQod3HcWIA
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WEBSITE PROGRESS
Check out our DIA website as it is being built. Go to http://www.diarts.org/2008new/ Some of the pages can be accessed right now. If you are in need of another registration packet for the Annual Gathering 2008 you can download it from the site. If you have input please contact either Carol O'Connor OPA or Jude Bloch OP at coconnor@columbusdominicans.org or jubloch@aol.com
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DUE DATES FOR GATHERING:
By April 15: Scholarship Assistance for Gathering 2008 form
Received by June 1: DIA Virtual Gallery entries
Before May 1: $325 Gathering 2008 Registration form
After May 1: $400 Gathering 2008 Registration form
By May 15: DIA Art Gala (like last year's silent auction) entry form and photo
By July 1: Airport Transportation needs for Gathering 2008 form
By July 1: DIA Artist Marketplace Display and Sales Gathering 2008 form
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Jude Bloch OP is looking for other DIA members who are attending the Federation Convocation in Chicago this month. She will be in charge of the DIA booth and would welcome assistance. Please contact her at jubloch@aol.com
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Thoma Swanson has been asked to be the artist articulator at the Federation Convocation. Congratulations, Thoma!
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Local Nun's Sculptures are CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE, read the heading of the lead story in the Religion Section of the Grand Rapids Press on March 1, 2008. The article was primarily about how Phyllis Mronzinski, DIA Member, experiences the creative process. It is also about creating a life-size sculpture of Dominic de Guzman. A follow-up article in the Dominicans' publication, InWord, indicates that the sculpture made it to the foundry where a bronze statue will eventually be forged. Congratulations, Phyllis! Look for the full article on our new website soon.
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A correction on the cost of the Artists' Retreat in June at Mariandale. The cost is $400 for laity and $300 for Dominican Sisters. Scholarships are available but they need to request an application from Joan Franc, OP at : jfronc@ophope.org. Spaces are limited.
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Sister Adele Myers, (Sparkill), recently completed a commission for Dowling Gardens, a service-enriched facility for the elderly. Called "The Dowling Gate", it can be seen on her website
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The DIA Board Members met in March at Sparkill, NY and while there were able to attend an Art Show entitled "Then and Now" - past and present works of eight Rockland Artists. Adele Myers, OP, one of our DIA members, was the Curator and also
exhibited. The show was held in St. Thomas Aquinas College Gallery.
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CAPTURING NATURE IN WATERCOLOR - an exhibit by Elizabeth Slenker, OP, DIA Member, is exhibiting at the Florissant Civic Center in Florissant, MO during the month of April. Theme: Flowers and landscapes from some of the Artist's Favorite places.
September 2008
September 08 DIA Update
Dear DIA Members:
First we send prayer and good, holy energy to our sisters and brothers in the paths of the recent hurricanes. Let's keep them close in mind and heart.
Secondly, the DIA Board has two long-awaited communications to share to you - a live website and a newly formatted E-newsletter. We are grateful for the energies expended by members and board members alike to have these two things come to completion. Please read on.
Sincerely,
Lucianne Siers, OP
Board Chair
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Dear Friends,
It is here. The DIA website, www.DIArts.org, live and on the web!
This is very exciting! DIA Members now have the opportunity to preach through the arts on a much broader basis, globally! The DIA Board has fulfilled one of our goals as outlined in the Strategic Plan; and the public will have the opportunity to meet the talented people across the world who call themselves "Dominican Artists". We all are to be congratulated.
The web site is not all-inclusive when it comes to information, Member Events, etc. Information will be posted as it is received from you.
You will find the September, 2008 newsletter on the site (click on "Newsletter"). From now on this is how the newsletter will be sent to you, via the website. You will be alerted to each new newsletter by an email notice.
Soon you will receive information as to how to create your own profile for the website or how to have your profile created for you. In the meantime, you can be gathering photos of your work and one of yourself that you would like to have on the site (the photos need to be clear and either mail them to me or e-mail them to me in jpg format). You will want to make your biography, education and career information as succinct and as brief as possible.
If you have your own website we can link your profile with it quite easily.
Until then, enjoy your website. Share it with your congregation, link it to your congregation's site. Your friends and family will want to know about it too.
Thank you for your support and your patience this past year and a half!
Carol O'Connor OPA
Web Editor, www.DIArts.org
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The Dominic sculpture created by Phyllis Mrozinski OP is finally at home on the campus of Marywood, the Motherhouse of the Dominicans of Grand Rapids. It was blessed by each sister and associate as well as by the Mrozinski family at the summer gathering days of the congregation. Soon information about this will be found under Member Events on the www.DIArts.org website.
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Jude Bloch OP will represent the DIA at the October Dominican Leadership Conference gathering in Adrian, MI this year. She will be presenting a compilation of our virtual galleries from the DIA booth.
Welcome New Board Member!
Elizabeth Sully, OP, a Sinsinawa Dominican living and working in Atlanta, was voted to the Board at the July Gathering.
Welcome Liz!
Board Updates
Check back often for DIA Board updates.
AUG. 2008 Board Update PDF version
Additional Board News
Check back for additional news from the DIA Board.
Additional Board News PDF version