Click here to read the details of this year's annual membership gathering in Sarasota, FL. We'll get together from September 30 through October 3, 2010 to learn from each other, to share a meal or a drink, and to learn more about marine art in America. Click here to complete the online registration form at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Sarasota or call 1-800-223-1234 to make a phone reservation. The meeting is open to ASMA members and guests only, but if you're not a member we invite you to join ASMA today and come along in September!
Would you like your art placed permanently by a Museum?
Jean Woods, the former director of the Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Hagerstown, MD, has had a long and positive relationship with ASMA. She has asked if any ASMA member living within a 40 mile (more or less) radius of Hagerstown would be interested in having their art considered for purchase to decorate a "major building" under construction in Hagerstown. If so, they should contact her via e-mail at jeaniew@innernet.net.
Between the Shining Seas opening reception date change
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum has moved the opening reception of the ASMA Regional Exhibition from September 7 to September 11, in an attempt to better accomodate ASMA members coming from a distance. The reception will be from from 5-7 PM.
War of 1812 Exhibition
Our
Exhibition Committee has been discussing proposals with a number of museums regarding the upcoming bi-centennial of the War of 1812
and joint exhibition opportunities. We'd like to know what you think of the idea.
Please email your comments to Mike
Killelea or Charlie Robinson.
Helping in the Gulf
It has been suggested that ASMA might somehow help people effected by the oil spil in the Gulf of Mexico. Since the crisis seems to have abated, and also in consideration of minimal membership response to it, the idea has been dropped. If you have any other thoughts on the subject, please email Mike Killelea.
Making your work look better for ASMA jurors
ASMA periodically offers information about what makes artwork in general, and marine art in particular, more acceptable to ASMA jurors. It's not a list of rules, but rather a collection of suggestions on what to avoid and what to strive for when submitting your work to an ASMA jury. Click here to read a copy of that article.