Programs and Workshops
May 8, 2024 | “Paper Garments” with Susan Blumendale
Guild Monthly Meeting
9:30am, First Baptist Church In-person and on Zoom Meeting and Lecture
Sue has been a professional artist and educator in the Rochester area since 1984 after receiving her MFA from RIT and a BS in Art Education from Nazareth College in 1967. She attended Haystack Mt. School of Art in 1981where she discovered “papermaking”. For many years she has focused her work on three dimensional paper art, mainly paper “garments”- paper clothing inspired by personal ancestry (Ancestral Personas), “shirts” of a playful nature and “pants” that reflect, in hindsight, some of her personal attributes.
Sue was an art educator in Massachusetts and an Art Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, Suny Brockport and Suny Geneseo. She has participated in many local, regional and national art exhibitions with awards from the Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Intermont College in Virginia and Adams Memorial Gallery. She has work in numerous public and private collections including Eastman Kodak Co., RIT and the Richard Brush Collection. Sue had a solo exhibition of her work at Axom gallery in 2014 and participated in a group show “Tangible Objects” at the Main St. Arts Center in Clifton Springs in 2022.
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June 12, 2024 | Annual Meeting, Indoor Picnic, and Indoor/Trunk Sale
Guild Monthly Meeting
10:00am, First Baptist Church In-person and on Zoom Meeting
This year’s annual picnic will be held at our regular meeting location: the First Baptist Church, 175 Allens Creek Rd, in Rochester. Please bring a dish to pass, and
your own table setting (plate, silverware, cup, napkin and placemat—handwoven, of course!)
This meeting will include an opportunity for members to sell their own goods; this is the only opportunity of the year for members to do so! Set up will begin at 9 am, and the meeting will run from 10 am to noon. You may set up on the tables indoors, or vend from the trunk of your car in the parking lot.
Please also bring along your membership renewal checks for the coming year (unless you intend to renew online via PayPal) and any requested Committee reports!
Coming Up: 2024-2025 Programs
Planning is in progress and will be announced soon.
