The AFFA What's Up: June 28

AFFA UPDATES

REMINDER - AFFA MOVIE NIGHT: MAKE
Sunday, July 11, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Home of Barbara Jackson
5003 Ridge Oak
Austin, TX 78731

The documentary MAKE, by Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn, is an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. All of these artists find their most powerful voice through art. The film interweaves stories of individuals whose worlds are as unique as their creations and explores why each of them is consumed by obsessive art making. Light refreshments to go with the movie!

Cost: Members $5; Non-Members $10
RSVP: by July 9 to Ellie Elbin at (512) 452-8287 or eljeane@earthlink.net

WANT TO LIST YOUR EVENT IN THE AFFA WHAT'S UP?

Please send all listing requests to alexandra@alumni.cmu.edu and be sure to include a graphic you'd like to use (one that looks good small, as you see throughout the e-newsletter) and a brief description of the event. Note that the next What's Up will go out on Monday, July 12. To have your event listed in the next What's Up, please send your requests to Alexandra no later than Sunday, July 11. Thank you!

BUSINESS MEMBERS NEWS

MARIGOLD: GATEWAY TO INDIA

FIRST EVER RED DOT SALE

Starts July 5

Monday-Saturday 11 am - 7 pm

2200 South Lamar

Austin, TX 78704

25% - 50% Off on Select Items of Summer Styles

Blouses & Tops
Camisoles
Sundresses
Skirts
Pants
Men's Cotton Jackets

Red Dots will be on tags throughout the store! For more information, call (512) 442-6600.

FOLK ART PIECES FOR SALE

Folk art for sale, from the collection of former San Antonio Museum of Art buyer and AFFA member, Susan White (Vigliano)! The image pictured above is by Clementine Hunter. Other pieces for sale include a painting of Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and a petite salon mantle clock received as a gift from former princess Borghese of Italy back in 1967 (does not work but covered in saphires, gold leaf, mother of pearl, etc.). For more information contact Dale Lucas at dale.lucasport@gmail.com.

15th YOUNG LATINO ARTISTS:
CONSENSUS OF TASTE

MEXIC-ARTE MUESUM

Opens Friday, July 16

419 Congress Avenue

Austin, TX 78701

Curated by Claudia Zapata, M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, this exhibition features the current visual artwork of artists from the past fourteen YLA exhibitions. American art critic Clement Greenberg's paper “Can Taste Be Objective” suggests there is a “consensus of taste” in which disputed taste eventually is agreed upon by all parties. The curator utilizes this concept to showcase past YLA artists' current work and their development into professional visual artists.
For more information contact (512) 480-9373 or info@mexic-artemuseum.org, or visit the website at www.mexic-artemuseum.org.

COSAS IN BOERNE

JUNE - AUGUST EVENTS

The finest works from COSAS favorite dimensional artists; Pedro Hernandez, Neftali Ayungua Suarez, Elba Leon, The Aguilar Sisters, Irma Blanco, Consuela Pena and others. Museum quality folk art fresh from the National Ceramics competition in Guadalajara. And, new furniture from David Marsh.

COSAS June and July events are on their website as well as their newly posted trip itineraries for Guadalajara in August (deadline to sign up July 1) and Day of the Dead in Patzcuaro in October/November (deadline to sign up July 15). For more information, contact (830) 249-1500 or cosasemail@yahoo.com, or visit the website at www.cosasonline.com.

THE PENCIL PROJECT NEEDS YOUR HELP!

First, the volcanic eruption that dropped 6 inches of black sand on the newly planted crops, followed that same week by 30 inches of rain in two nights. The damage to the nation's infrastructure was catastrophic....roads and bridges washed away, waste water, and water treatment systems overwhelmed, and deadly landslides that carried not only highways, homes, and electric lines down, but left the survivors in remote villages with no clean drinking water. Now, with what little they have left, these villagers are battling the illnesses that come with contaminated water supplies.

The President closed all schools in the nation, and some are reopening. Many, especially those served by AFFA Member Douglas Rhodenbaugh's nonprofit organization The Pencil Project, were too badly effected to reopen. Many schools lost all their materials, their roofs, some lost entire classrooms. Three campuses were completely destroyed.

Many children have lost everything both at home and at school. They will need medicine, sheet tin for roofing, notebooks, and shoes. The Pencil Project has a large shipment of school supplies in Guatemala City, but these other necessities must be purchased.

The Pencil project needs your help to rescue the most vulnerable members of a truly desperate situation. The children are counting on The Pencil Project...and Doug Rhodenbaugh is counting on you.

Please go to the Paypal link at www.thepencilproject.org and send something today!

IN THE COMMUNITY

LAS RANCHERITAS

RUG HOOKING KNOWS NO BORDERS: HOOKING TOUR

AUGUST 1- 6

WHERE: San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

COST: $500 per person

Come meet the Rancheritas and have a wonderfully cool (temperature wise) vacation. At 6,500 ft. above sea level, San Miguel de Allende is wonderfully comfortable in August. Join Las Rancheritas for a week to play and work with the rug hookers from the town of Agustin Gonzales.

Tour dates are set for Sunday, August 1 through Friday, August 6, and accommodations will be at the Hotel Posada de San Francisco. The tour price includes breakfast, lunch, a double room occupancy for the week and transportation to and from Agustin Gonzales. Single rooms are available upon inquiry

For more information, contact Barbara A. Hanson at (503) 648-397 or shelley-barbara@rugartsupply.com, or visit the website at www.rugartsupply.com.