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Artake’s Bi-Monthly Newsletter & Calendar

Greetings! I've been re-reading an article called "Wordgates" by J. L. Walker in a "Parabola' magazine from 3 years ago (Spring '97)--- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mountain in one column speaks to cloud in the other, the sound of a flute to empty sky, Heaven to Earth, Violence to Peace, Yang to Yin" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Walker described ying lian (pillar couplets) as being literally hung on both sides of a portal and written so that "Individual words or phrases speak across the open space of the door in pairs, rather like a poetic dance…" They were also, Walker asserts, "…meant to evoke the knowing of those who enter… The words are like fish leaping from water - just a flash and the silver life disappears again into the depths… The wordgate offers us a potent symbol of transformation". This seems like an appropriate image for the new year and the new millennium. So, create your own wordgate and be transformed! Many thanks go to all of you who helped to make the "Branches" show at No Ordinary Joe in Red Bank, NJ a success. It grew to include Marge Chandler, Roger Conant, Christine Gizzi, Freda Karpf, Michael Katzman, Colleen Lineberry, Dana McKay, Eileen Moon, Lorraine Niemela, Penelope Poor, Bee Tilney, Steve Verenicin, Jane Warren and Al Zanetti as well as Rosemary Conte and Andre Cholmondeley and Cheri Jiosne (of JFK's LSD UFO) contributing music on opening night. If you liked the music by Andre and Cheri (JFK's LSD UFO) , you can see them again on Friday, February 18^th at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. Check out the calendar and or go to their web site at www.ufomusic.com. You can also watch for them to play at the new vegetarian restaurant in Red Ban, NJ called "Down to Earth". I've heard it's delicious and very gourmet. Call the restaurant at (732) 747-4542 for both food and music details. This year we will finally be able to create an ARTAKE website with your help. In fact, Reed Bickley has already started a home page for ARTAKE which you can visit at www.gate.net/~imaginer/artake1.htm. Reed will create a web page for us with Tom Brennan's help. However, we need additional funding, however, to create and maintain a web page. Just to secure a domain name for ARTAKE such as www.artake.org will cost $70 to set up and $35 annually. Please help this effort with a tax- The opening for Steve Verenicin's one-man show in Manhattan is on February 8^th, a Tuesday evening, from 6 to 8pm. See the calendar for more details In New Jersey, you can join Linda Littenberg for the opening of a group photography show called "Four Winds" which includes her work. The reception will be in Atlantic Highlands on the evening of Friday, February 4^th. See the calendar for details. Colleen Lineberry has her art showing at Il Cappuccino until February 18^th. The café is in Atlantic Highlands right next to the movie theater. Colleen was also accepted in the 21^st Annual Juried MCAC Show at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. The show will be up until February 27^th and also includes art work by Lorraine Niemela. For further information about the show, call (732) 212 1890. Lorraine Neimela's trip to the Pyrenees in France is all sold out with a waiting list. She has scheduled another opportunity to make the same trip next September 11^th through 25^th. For further information on the new "Tour de Pyrenees", contact Lorraine at (732) 542 5868 or a the-woods@worldnet.att.net. Merry Brennan sends a request for help to prevent an important environmental crisis. Apparently, the Army Corps has issued a permit to allow dumping of toxic muck (280,000 tons!) off Sea Bright even though an agreement was reached several years ago to close off the "mud dump". To help, contact Merry for more information at (732) 280 2865 or merry@tomerry.comm.com. Dana McKay has been doing a lot of dancing lately and will have entered her first waltz and rumba competition by the time you get this. She's been taking lessons for one year at a school in Marlboro called appropriately "Quick, Quick, Slow". She traveled in Europe for three weeks this past summer and recommends a landscape painting trip to France with her friends, Lillia Frantin and Herb Edwards this coming July 13^th through July 22^nd. You must register by February 15^th. Call Dan Cooney at (508) 759 5033 or e-mail him at dancoonart@aol.com. Kate Grady sent news from Taiwan. She has been working as an English teacher for a "huge company that has over 200 cram school branches all over Taiwan". She says that "cram school" is any kind of extra schooling that is done after regular school hours and is very popular in Taiwan. Kate continues "So, I teach hungry, disinterested kids ranging from 6 to 14 years of age. They come to our schools after a full day of school and often after some other form of cram school (computer, math and music)… I gave up Chinese lessons (a hard decision) to teach kindergarten…Now I teach full-time kindergarten and part-time cram school. I love my kindergarten kids but have to confess that teaching is not my calling.

deductible contribution to ARTAKE. Any amount will help. Eventually, we would like the ARTAKE web page to feature information about our membership including art and bios but various aspects of that process are also costly. Please send donations to ARTAKE, 175 9^th Avenue, New York, NY 10011. In the meantime, we are going to try sending this issue of "Loose Leaf" via e-mail as well as snail mail. So, send in your e-mail address if you would like to receive ARTAKE info that way (along with any questions and/or suggestions) to penelope_nyc@yahoo.com. Another goal this year is to create an address, phone, e-mail listing of and for the membership. Now that Ingrid Spears has input most of our addresses on a proper computer system, this shouldn't be too much of a problem to do. Also, if you've noticed any little errors in your address, please let us know! Email changes to Ingrid at ispears@us.ibm.com or call her at (732) 291 1848. Tom and Merry Brennan and Lorraine Niemela have already signed up to do salons next fall for October and December respectively. But, after a good conversation with Freda Karpf, I've decided to try to find a semi-permanent space for ARTAKE Salons when we don't have a home to go to. With so much shifting and changing in our lives, it seems to be the right time to do this. Freda suggested that churches might have a free space for us to meet. We decided Red Bank would be a good town but, of course, its not the only option. Also, I'd like to find a space that's not too institutional and that has good energy to nourish us all when we meet. So, please put on your thinking caps and send any thoughts and suggestions to me at penelope_nyc@yahoo.com or call me at (212) 645 0962. Lorraine Niemela has offered to guide us in a process for our February Salon which will be a Jane Warren's in Rumson. Please come on time so we will be able to enjoy what Lorraine has to offer before it gets too late. We will start the circle promptly at 8:30. If you come later, just come in and quietly join us. To RSVP, call Jane at (732) 741 8105 or e-mail her at jtwarr123@aol.com. In New York we are also looking for a semi-permanent location. For the moment we will meet on Monday nights at "Madame X" on the north side of Houston Street. It's loaded with funky charm and lots of comfortable chairs and sofas. Also, on Monday nights Frederique plays piano from 7 to10:30. She's very good and there is no cover. See you there! They are precious though---they think my name is Cake. All day I hear, 'Teacha, Cake!'…" Kate tours around the island on a motorcycle and says there are "beaches and national parks on the southern most tip that pass for paradise." She adds that life in Taipei isn't paradise but she feels drawn to stay a while longer. Her favorite memory of the earthquake was her Taiwanese roommate, Gina screaming "I don't want to dead! I don't want to dead!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you" Jesus - "The Gnostic Gospels" By Elaine Pagels -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is time in this new millennium to become all that we can be. In peace, Penelope Poor ARTAKE Director "El Arbol de Corazones" (The Tree of Hearts) is a woodcut by Joseph Guillory - part of ARTAKE's "Branches" Show at No Ordinary Joe in Red Bank.

ZZARTAKE CALENDAR ZZ

FEBRUARY	2000	MARCH	2000
4 Opening: Four Winds Group Show of Photographs including Linda Litterbag's 7 to 10 PM at State of the Art Gallery Lion Framer 58 First Avenue Atlantic Highlands, NJ Call (732) 291 5900	NS h hEW	1 ART/OMI Application Deadline Information for Artists Art Omi Int'l Visual Artists' residency 3 July weeks in village of Omi, near Chatham New York Send applications to: Director, ART/OMI 55 5^th Ave, 15^th Fl. New York, NY 10003	@ ?
m	8 Opening 6-8pm Steve Verenicin One Man Show Jadite Gallery 413-15 West 50^th St. bet. 9^th & 10^th NYC Call gallery at: (212) 315 2740	5 Deadline April/May Issue Please send information to: Ingrid Spears 131 Marina Bay Court Highlands, NJ 07732 Email ispears@us.ibm.com	4
11 ARTAKE's NJ Salon With process guided by Lorraine Niemela 8pm (prompt!) Jane Warren's Rumson, NJ $5 Members $10 Non-members RSVP (732)741 8105 or e-mail her at jtwarr123@aol.com	HP	HP	10 ARTAKE's NJ Salon 8pm Location to be announced $5 Members $10 Non-members E-mail penelope_nyc@yahoo.com or Call (212) 645 0962
C	28 ARTAKE's NY Salon Leap Year Celebration Madame X 8pm 94 W. Houston Manhattan Must RSVP 212 645 0962 $5 Members $10 Non-members	20 ARTAKE's NY Salon Celebrate Spring Equinox at Madame X 8pm 94 W. Houston Manhattan Must RSVP (212) 645 0962 $5 Members $10 Non-members	C

SALON PLANNING CALENDAR

Month	New Jersey HP	Name & Theme	New York CC	Name & Theme
January	No salon		No Salon
February	11	Jane Warren	28	Madame - X
		Guided Process by		Leap Year Celebration
		Lorraine Niemela		Celebration
March	10		20	Madame - X
				Spring Equinox
				Celebration
April	14		'
May	12		'
June	9		'
July	14		'
August	11		'
September	8		'
October	13	Tom & Merry Brennan	'
		Brennan
November	10		'
December	8	Lorraine Niemela	'

Salon Possibilities

The following are just possible ideas of things we can do at a salon. Your own ideas are more than welcome.

1. Demonstrations – how to do: art work or crafts, etc.

2. Talk about process and/or issues in relation to making art

3. Performance – reading, music, etc.

4. Responding to one word such as “Grace” in medium of choice such as writing, dance or drawing

5. Party – no plans except food and fun

6. Themes – like rhythm, animals, blues, etc. or “random patterns”, “small things”, “light and enlighten”…

7. Show and Tell

' For New York: schedule the date of your choice. Please mail form to Penelope Poor at 175 9^th

Avenue, NYC, NY 10011

DON’T MISS "The Seasons in Central Park - Juried Photography Show"

Opening Reception 3/10/2000 from 5:30 to 8:00pm

at

Ashforth Warburg Downtown

2^nd Floor, 795 Broadway (bet 10^th and 11^th)

NYC.

For more info, call Diane at (212) 327 9601.

Exhibit to run through May, 2000.

The jewel of the city is the subject of many books, calendars, posters, etc. The seasons provide the opportunity to take the same shot at the same place and have a completely different image. The surrounding architecture allows an interesting contrast of nature and man's hand. This is a chance to display those images that are dear to our hearts. They weren't commissioned, they happened.

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131 Marina Bay Court, Highlands, NJ 07732