VAS Board Meeting 3-7-24
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
The VAS Board will meet at 7pm, Thursday March 7 on Zoom. Our board meetings are open to members, so if you would like to attend and if you are a member good standing, please email Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt at president@visualartsociety.org at least the day before for meeting id information.

March 2024 VAS Meeting with June Dudley
2024-03-11 18:00 - 19:00 | DEGALLERY, 930 N Rosemary Dr., Bryan, TX, 77802, United States
USING DESIGN, COLOR & MOOD IN YOUR PAINTINGS
with June Dudley
We are welcoming renowned local artist, June Dudley, to share her expertise and her story with us at our March 11 meeting, 6-7 pm at Degallery. She will also be talking about her upcoming VAS workshop, “Using Color & Design in the Landscape” May 1-3, 2024, 9am-4pm. Click on the link for more info and to register for the workshop. Visit her website: www.junedudley.com

About the Artist:
As her dad’s cowhand, June grew up on her family’s quintessential Texas ranch that has been in her family for over a hundred years and has been recognized by the state as a “Texas Century Ranch”. She grew up riding horses and working cattle with her dad loving every minute of it. She & her husband raised their family on that same land which has nurtured her passion for her art giving her the subjects she loves and paints. Her paintings depict her sensitive sense of color plus the strong feelings she has for her subjects. Her desire is to capture the subjects she paints with the passion she feels for them while creating a mood that the viewers share. She loves painting Western landscapes and figurative pieces.
Honored with many awards and a Jones Award recipient, Dudley is published exclusively by Leanin’ Tree and Somerset Fine Art. Major shows she has participated in include Small Works, Great Wonders, Hold Your Horses, Trappings of Texas, Traveling the West, Windows to the West, American Plains Artists, Museum of Western Art, Bosque Art Classic, the Russell, Cheyenne’s Governor’s Invitational, Mountain Oyster Show, one person shows At Greenhouse Gallery & Texas A&M, & others. Her art is in corporate collections of BNSF (Burlington, Northwestern, Santa Fe Railways), the Jones Gallery at Bosque Arts Center, Coca Cola, and Longhorn Steakhouse, & many private collections. She has done commissioned paintings for U.S. Equestrian Federation, Australian Shepherd Club of America, and Ronald McDonald House in Phoenix among others. She is a lifetime committee member for Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. She is represented by Marta Stafford Fine Art Gallery in Marble Falls, Texas.
Her many awards include the Jones Award, Gold Award (judged by Oreland Joe), Best of Show, & Popular Choice from the Bosque Art Classic; Best of Show, Gold Award in Acrylics, & Purchase Award at the San Dimas Festival of Arts judged by Alfredo Rodriquez, Award of Excellence (APA Show) plus many others.
June has also judged many shows serving on the School Art steering committee for Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo for thirty years as well as judging many Texas art shows. Major shows judged are National Society of Artists and the 2021 WOAW, Women Artists of the West.
Doors open at DEGALLERY at 5:30pm for our March meeting. There will be light refreshments. Come by a bit early, chat and catch up!

VAS "Lunch Together", Wednesday, 3-20-24
2024-03-20 12:00 - 13:00 | DEGALLERY, 930 N Rosemary Dr., Bryan, TX, 77802, United States
Come join us at Degallery, Wednesday 3/20/24, 12-1pm for our new “Lunch Together.”
All members and future members are most welcome! If you want to be a member, you can join VAS HERE. We would love to have you!
Bring your lunch. Coffee, tea and some snacks are complimentary, thanks to Degallery. We’ll chat, share feedback on our current projects and everything else.
We are trying something new, since our “Art Togethers” were not well attended due to scheduling conflicts. If something doesn’t work for our members, try, try again!
If members want images of their art, contact Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt at webmaster@visualartsociety.org The pricing (plus sales tax) is $10 for 1 painting, $16 for 2 paintings, $21 for 3 paintings, $24 for 4 paintings and $5 each for 5 paintings and up. You would pay on the day by card, check or cash. All funds go to support VAS. Private access to the online images would be emailed to you. The photos would be taken at her art studio.
Note: The photo was created by gemini.google.com. I tried to include people having a brown bag luncheon in an art gallery, but when the photos were enlarged, I saw a hand with 12 fingers, ghastly faces, so I quit. The free AI image generators have some growing to do!
