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The Oklahoma Sculpture
Society is an organization of Oklahoma Sculptors working, sharing, showing, and
learning together. The Society meets the second Thursday of each month
(7 pm) at the City Arts Center located on the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma
City. Annual membership dues are $30.
To contact the organization contact
Glen Thomas. His email address is gthomas@itlnet.net or
phone 405-387-4025
or write
5228 Blue Jay Circle, Blanchard, OK. 73010
for webpage info contact Neal Willison at naw@osuokc.edu
 | Have you paid your annual membership dues? If not send in your $30 dollars to our Treasure, Neal Willison 3612 N. W. 19th Street, Oklahoma City, OK. 73107. Student membership is $15 per year and out-of-state members only wanting the newsletter is $15 per year. Supporting membership is $50 per year |
Sculptor John Gooden will be with us to share some specific techniques in pressed water-based clay as well as news and examples of his recent works. His background includes mass production of artworks, limited edition bronzes, moldmaking and digital enlargements of his work. In addition to sculpting fine art bronzes, he is currently working on a 28-foot sculpted map of the Chisholm Trail in fired tiles. John is Artist in Residence for Kingfisher, OK, a position created for him, and he is creating life-size bronzes for every corner of Kingfisher’s historic downtown. Since he sees the arts as an economic development issue, he has worked to establish the arts as a vital city interest. He wrote a city ordinance establishing a community arts board, which he chairs, and members also serve as the directors for a non-profit arts organization called Kingfisher Creative!, Inc. During this last year, Kingfisher Creative! and the Arts Board have held the first annual Festival of the Arts and a series of summer concerts (one that raised over $17,000), and they have sponsored a re-birth of the Kingfisher Community Theater. John recently completed a major installation for the Choctaw Tribe, “Red Warrior,” which is featured as this month’s photo for the Oklahoma Living calendar. He is working on two monumental works for customers in Tulsa, and he’ll bring castings or the originals of those projects. As some of you will remember, John very narrowly avoided death or severe consequences from a freak 4-wheeler accident last fall. He has made a miraculous recovery and thanks God for the blessings of each day. Join him at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at City Arts’ Bridge Gallery – and bring a sculpture to share.
Dues are due!
If there’s a $
by your name on your address label, that’s a reminder that your dues are due
– and that this will be your last newsletter until they’re received.
Bring them to the meeting or mail a check to Neal Willison at 3612 N.W.
19th St., OKC OK, 73107.
Member news:
Harold Holden’s life and ¼ Bass Reeves monument will be dedicated on May 26th in Ft. Smith, AR. Bass Reeves was the first black U.S. Deputy Marshall west of the Mississippi (he worked for Hanging Judge Parker), and was one of the greatest frontier heroes in our nation’s history. The Holdens understand that this is the first equestrian sculpture in Arkansas… David Nunneley recently completed the three Heisman trophy recipients from West Point Military Academy and their coach, Red Blaik. This group will be dedicated at West Point next fall.
Melange:
If your name is not listed, that means you need to get a picture to us!
Include the title and medium of the piece, and your name. Send it to Dru Marseilles, 1708 Sandpiper Dr., Edmond 73034… Small works (less than 15”) are being sought for the smART Juried Art Exhibition in Paseo April 6-28. The deadline is March 22; call 405-525-2688 for details…Has anyone seen our Philippe Faraut tapes? Let Glen Thomas know if you know where they are.
Best wishes from
Anton…
Were you called by an OSS member to remind you about the
last meeting? Callers can get to
know members well and are sometimes asked to relay messages, which was what
Anton Kammerlocher did: he said he wishes us well but can no longer be a
member of OSS because of health issues.
Anton has been a faithful member for years, but these
past few have been hard. Two
years ago - on February 18, 2010, to be exact - cancer took his lovely wife
Ilene. For years he has suffered
from arthritis but now has shingles, and can’t find comfort anyplace. A retired veterinarian, he still lives on the Kammerlocher
Cattle Ranch west of Norman, where he has enough chores to keep him out of
trouble. Anton is proud of the
fact that he has completed a major project: he sculpted a bust of each of his eleven
grandchildren and had them cast in bronze!
He laughingly said that he can now look at his completed collection of
the grandchildren’s darling little faces at an age of precious innocence,
because he had them model in their pre-school years. As winner of our 2009 medallion contest, Anton was awarded a
plaque with his medallion on it, and it reminds him of the great times he had
through the years with OSS. We
can only hope he might be able to return in the future.
Georgia Vaughn
The Oklahoma Sculpture Society was established in the
fall of 1979 as a non-profit corporation devoted to the education,
appreciation and creation of three-dimensional art.
Reminders:
The newsletter deadline is
the 20th of each month. Please
send your news
to Dru Marseilles,
1708 Sandpiper Drive, Edmond, OK 73034 (405-341-6570) - or e-mail it to
dmarseilles@cox.net. Dues are $30
each calendar year; $15 for students or those out-of-state members wanting
only the newsletter; $50 for supporting members.
Please send to OSS Treasurer Neal Willison, 3612 N.W. 19th
Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73107.
Website:
www.ossculpture.com
Name___________________________________________Phone________________
Address_______________________________________________________________
E-mail___________________________________Cell__________________________
Please
indicate your interests in the following in order to help us in our planning:
Saturday
sculpt-ins?___________
With a model?__________________________
Workshops: 1-, 2- or 3-day?_____________
With a model?__________________
Instructors
you’d like?________________________________________________
Subjects?_________________________________________________________
Field
trip ideas?________________________________________________________
Programs
and/or presenters you’d like to see us have:________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Ideas
for
increasing meeting attendance and participation in our activities?__________
_____________________________________________________________________
Would you like
more social activities?___________________________________
Thank you! Please return this along with your dues ($30) to Neal Willison at the next meeting or mail it them to him at 3612 N.W. 19th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73107.
The Oklahoma Sculpture Society was established in the fall of 1979 as a non-profit corporation devoted to the education, appreciation and creation of three-dimensional art.
Reminders:
The newsletter deadline is the
20th of each month. Please send
your news
to Dru Marseilles,
1708 Sandpiper Drive, Edmond, OK 73034 (405-341-6570) - or e-mail it to
dmarseilles@cox.net. Dues are $30
each calendar year; $15 for students or those out-of-state members wanting only
the newsletter; $50 for supporting members.
Please send to OSS Treasurer Neal Willison, 3612 N.W. 19th
Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73107.
Website:
www.ossculpture.com
Our
web page:
www.ossculpture.com/
Oklahoma
Sculpture Society
1708
Sandpiper Drive
Edmond,
OK 73034
405-341-6570
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02/29/2012