News Volume 2, Issue 5 May, 2004 Orlando Museum Show Judging At May Meeting The Orlando Museum of Art has agreed to let the Florida Chapters of the AAW display the best turnings from each Florida Chapter during the entire month of July, 2004. There will be signs at the museum telling the people about the AAW national meeting at the Carib Royal Hotel on July 22, 23, and 25; in the hope that many of the people who see the art at the museum will be encouraged to come to the large display at the show. Our club will be allowed to display four items. The items submitted will be sent to Orlando in the second week of June. They will be returned in August after the end of the show. The will choose its representative pieces at our May meeting. Interested members should bring their entries to the May 22nd. meeting. A jury made up of qualified impartial judges will view the works and decide which four will best represent our club. Members may submit three pieces each for judging. No member of the may have more than one piece in the museum show. Therefore four turners will be represented in Orlando. At the turner s request items in the show may be sold by the Museum. The Turner should specify his price to which the museum will add its commission. Citrus and Hibiscus: Natural Beauty and Craftsman s Skill Combine At Mounts Spring Show The Spring Show at Mounts Botanical Garden In April was an unqualified success for the. Our sales were as high as we ve ever recorded at this event adding much needed funds to the club s treasury. All day demonstrations were provided by club members both Saturday A Thing Of Beauty Mounts Spring Show and Sunday. Many interested persons visiting our display requested literature and indicated that would like to join our club. Thanks again, to Bob Brulotte, show committee chair, and all of those who participated in the show for making this event a success. Minutes From The April Meeting By Mike Mills, Secretary Introduction - Brian welcomed everyone to the meeting. We had three guests: Derek Wiley, who saw our booth at the West Palm Beach Flower Show and bought a bowl, Ed Eichin, who heard about us at the Fort Pierce County Fair, and Nusha Moscowitz, wife of member Ed Moskowitz. Minutes from February Meeting - The minutes as published in the newsletter were accepted. There was no general meeting in March. The March Meet and Eat picnic (Continued on page 2) Chapter Challenge Meetings Participants in the AAW Chapter Challenge project will meet alternate Saturdays in Al Gruntwagin s shop. The next meeting is May 29 and will begin at 9AM. Bring completed and in progress works. We will turn, plan, finish and assemble. This is a club project. We need participants. Contact Brian Rosencrantz to participate or for more info. Inside this issue: Betty Scarpino Mounts Auction 2 Education Program 2 Mounts Field Trip 3 Event Brief 4 Gallery 5 Show Inventory 5 Event Registration Next Meeting May 22 May Demo: Field Trip Mounts: Tree Identification Friends of Mounts Show May 22 Betty Scarpino Demonstration June 26 April Desk Assignments: 8-11 R. Waterbury 11-2 D. Galaini 2-5 D. Snayd Insert Insert
Page 2 Auction To Help Mounts Garden Each year at the time of the Friends of Mounts Gardens Show an auction is held to benefit the Garden. Proceeds from the auction are used to help defray the costs of operating the garden an conduct its programs. The benefits from our three yearly shows at Mounts. As a means of showing our appreciation for the opportunity to take part in the shows members are invited to donate a turning to the auction. If you have something you can donate contact Bob Brulotte. The auction will take place later this week so don t delay. Give Bob a call and help to show how much we appreciate News One of the primary purposes of the is to educate the public about woodturning. For the past six months Herb Cohen has been organizing educational programs for the. Herb s request for a grant from the AAW to conduct this work has been approved and the club will receive over $800 for this purpose. With assistance from Carl Schneider and Richard Chesler he has put on demonstration programs for the local Boys and Girls clubs of Palm Beach County. The final demonstration of the series if scheduled for Friday, May 21. The demonstrations have been received enthusiastically by both the Education Program Continues, Future Growth Seen youths and the leaders of the clubs. A group that puts on demonstrations for Four H clubs has contacted Herb to put on a program for their club members. The program would run in the summer of 2005. Herb would also like to put on a program of demonstrations for seniors involving visits to retirement communities and senior clubs. Members with leads to these sorts of organizations should contact Herb. Herb, Carl and Richard have done a tremendous job with this vitally important work, but they need your help. If you have a couple of free hours a month to help ensure the future of woodturning please contact Herb. (Continued from page 1) had approximately 50 attendees. Treasurer s report Richard Chessler was unavailable so no report was given. The figures from the April board meeting will be published. There will be some additional expenses for the Meet and Eat to be taken out of the balance. Committee reports Membership (John Buso - Membership Committee Chair) AAW membership forms were passed out and members were reminded that those dues are $35.00 per year. This is our parent organization with over 11,000 members worldwide. They published an excellent quarterly journal, an annual resource book and sponsor an annual symposium (this year s will be in Orlando). They April Meeting Minutes (continued) also provide a form of insurance coverage for protection against liability for any harm or injury done to a nonmember during a club sponsored demonstration. Palm Beach County Woodturners membership is $25.00 per year for a personal membership or $35.00 per year for a family membership. Throughout the year, we have monthly meetings and demonstrations, special presentations, workshops, shows and sales. In addition, we provide an excellent source of quality wood for our members. Programs (Carl Schneider - Programs Committee Chair) For our upcoming meeting demonstrations, Carl suggested that members show what they do best. For special presentations we will have a number of experienced demonstrators. Our June meeting will feature Betty Scarropino, and will include one or two days of hands-on workshops. Sign up sheets for this are in our newsletter and includes options for attending the demonstration and/or the handson session. Carl has arranged a number of special presentations for the rest of 2004 and into 2005. If you have any suggestions for programs that you would like to see at the meetings, please contact Carl. Shows (Bob Brulotte - Show Committee Chair) Anyone interested in participating in an upcoming show should take a few moments to speak to Bob. There was a show going on at Mounts Botanical Gardens on the day of our General Meeting (April 24 th ) and there will be another one there on the 22 nd and 23 rd of May. For these shows, members can bring pieces to show and/or sell. Fifteen percent of all proceeds go to the club Treasury... over $2,000 came from the Mounts shows last year. Future shows include one here at the Okeeheelee Nature Center in October and a major show at Mounts Botanical Gardens in November. We are looking to participate in the Orlando Museum of Art show that will be running at the (Continued on page 3)
Volume 2, Issue 5 Page 3 same time as the symposium. We are allowed to submit one piece per 15 members in the club. We will be allowed to submit the maximum, which is four pieces for our club. Members wishing to participate should bring three or four pieces of their best work to the May meeting for judging. Library (Bill Kruger - Librarian) Bill has been given a budget of a hundred dollars per month to add titles for our library. If you know something that you think would be of general interest to the club, please let Bill know. In addition to books and tapes, our library includes tools, lathes, chucks and live centers, all of which are available to loan to members. Workshops (Carl Schneider) The South County workshops are held in Dave Friedman s shop in Boynton Beach on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The weekly workshops at Dave s garage give our members access to three mini lathes and one of full-size lathe. They are also attended by older and experienced turners to assist and teach. If you are interested in participating in any of these workshops, please contact Carl Schneider. Discussion arose about the acquisition of a Powermatic model 3520A with a 20-in. swing. It should cost approximately $2,500.00 delivered. We would need to purchase a chuck with jaws for it. David Friedman has pledged $500.00 as a down payment on at this machine. He will be selling some pieces of special wood from his April Meeting Minutes (continued) Stash to help finance the acquisition. A motion was made to purchase the machine by the end of April with $2,000.00 coming from the Treasury along with Dave s $500.00. Fund raising will go forward afterwards to offset the costs. The motion was passed unanimously. The North County workshops are usually held on one Saturday each month, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Al Gruntwagin s. Please call Al if you are interested in attending. Newsletter / Website - (Brian Rosencrantz - Editor and Webmaster) If you have anything to sell, you can place a classified ad for free in the newsletter. If you have material for a project or an article, please submit it to Brian for inclusion on the website. Our web site address is www.pbcw.org. Wood (Ralph Nettles - Wood Chairman) As a service to our members, people collect wood and make it available for sale to our members. The proceeds go to our treasury for the acquisition of books, tools and the like. Please show your appreciation by buying wood from time to time. It s a double benefit to you... you get good wood and you get tools and books that you can use. Education (Herb Cohen) Carl Schneider for Herb Cohen: We have done four demonstrations for the Girls and Boys Clubs of Palm Beach County, and an additional demonstration is scheduled for May 21 st. Anyone interested in volunteering to assist please let Herb know. There will be a meeting with the director of this organization to review the program and plan for the future. Plans are going forward for a program at the Armory Arts Center in West Palm Beach, to reach an audience of 11 to 12 year-olds. We are looking to invite 10 or 12 children to the Okeeheelee Nature Center, giving them the opportunity to turn on five mini lathes with members assisting them. Herb submitted an AAW educational grant request and it has been approved. Volunteers - consider putting in an hour or two each month to help out with the function of this club. Bring Back Raffle - Joe Hartman won a planter made by George Moskowitz. It was made of wood, leather and turned resin. from Oak (?) and a square form from mahogany with chainsaw marks on the edges. Demonstration The demonstration for this month was on two different bowl saver devices, given by Carl Schneider and Bud Escher. Mounts Field Trip, May 22 After completion of our regular meeting and the presentation of the gallery on Saturday, May 22 we will not have a demonstration as usual. Instead our membership will dismiss to travel to Mounts Botanical Garden on Military Trail to study tree recognition. We will gather there in the main parking lot and walk together through the garden. This will also be an opportunity see one of our shows in operation. At the garden we will see Mahogany, Maple, Oak, Citrus, Mango, Eucalyptus, Holly, Loquat, and many other species. We will study the leaf formation and arrangements, bark color and texture and branch alignment. We will also view fruits and flowers where applicable. Many of our members have requested help with identifying local tree species and this is an excellent opportunity to use the available resources to learn how to do just that.
Page 4 News Show Event Brief May EVENT Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden Get Together!! WHEN Display hours: Saturday, May 22 nd, 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Setup time: Saturday, May 22 nd, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. WHERE Mounts Botanical Garden / Hutcheson Auditorium 531 N. Military Trail, WPB (approx. ½ mile north of Southern Blvd.) FYI Available space will be ten display tables located in the auditorium Free parking for exhibitors will be limited to vendor spaces only, vendor issued passes required for show admission Participating members are required to sign up for one shift (TBD) of staff duties including sales, setup or demonstration. Completed inventory sheets required on setup day. (You must use the form provided!) 5% of sale proceeds to be donated to and 10% of sales proceeds to be donated to the Friends of Mounts Botanical Garden price your pieces accordingly, best selling items at this show are priced from $10. to $275. Registration by May 1 st, no exceptions, of all members wishing to participate. Member s Gallery April, 2004 Vase, Joe Hartman, Norfolk Island Pine Bowl, Lou Ziegler, Soapwood Bowl, David Adams, Palm Bowl, John Buso, Mahogany Bowl, David Adams, Citrus Above: Bowl, David Adams, Buttonwood Vase, Joe Hartmann, Camphor Vase, Frank Gaddoni, Walnut and Acrylic Rolling Pin, Tom Barry, Maple, Red Oak, Mahogany Left: Vase, Joe Hartmann, N. I. Pine
Volume 2, Issue 5 Page 5 You must use this inventory form for all shows Inventory List Show: Date: Name: Telephone: Address: City: State: ZIP: Your Initials: Item Code Item Description Qty. Qty. Check In Qty. Left Qty. Sold Price Each Total Sold Item Code= Your Initials + A Number Example: RRS-1 Item Price= Dollar Amount or NFS (not for sale) Total Sold Less 15% Net Due
President:/Editor: Brian Rosencrantz (561)818-5379 Vice President: Bud Escher (561)744-6570 Secretary: Mike Mills (561)998-0437 Treasurer: Richard Chesler (561)283-1411 Calendar May 22, Ramble In The Garden, Mounts Botanical Garden May 22, Meeting, Okeeheelee Nature Center June 26-28, Betty Scarpino Demonstration and Hands On Workshops July 16, Meeting, Okeeheelee Nature Center July 23-25, 2004 AAW National Symposium, Orlando Fl. Promoting the Art and Craft of Woodturning Southern Boulevard 441 SR7 Okeeheelee Park Forest Hill Blvd. Fl. Turnpike Jog Road I-95 Lake Worth Road 11384 56th. Pl. N. RPB, Fl. 33411
BETTY SCARPINO: WOOD ARTIST Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Okeeheelee Nature Center West Palm Beach, Fl. Demonstration and Hands-On On Saturday June 26, 2004 Betty Scarpino will show slides and explain how she makes the works that have made her an internationally recognized artist at the Okeeheelee Nature Center in West Palm Beach. On Sunday and Monday, June 27 and 28 she will conduct hands on lessons for five students per day in Dave Friedman s woodturning studio. The same topics will be covered in the "hands on" workshops but each day will be catered to the wants and needs of the participants and some projects will be explained in greater detail. Attendance at the demonstration is limited by the space available. Attendance at the hands-on sessions is limited to 5 students per day. In the almost certain event that more registrations are received than there are spaces available, attendees will be determined by lottery. Registration for the hands on sessions will close on May 22, 2003. Hands-on participants will be notified in the first week of June, 2004. Registration forms are in this flyer.
Betty is most famous for her carving and for her use of bleaches and colorants in her woodturnings Sign up for: Registration Time Price Betty Scarpino Betty Scarpino started working with wood almost 30 years ago as an industrial arts major at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she also studied sculpture. Her studio is located in her home. Betty's wood sculpture is widely collected, and she is represented in a number of private as well as public collections, such as Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts and Yale University Art Museum. A number of museum catalogs, books, and articles on turned wood contain photos of her work. Betty has also written several articles about her work, the most recent appearing in Turning Points Magazine, Winter 2003, "Betty Scarpino: A Diaogue." Betty also teaches and demonstrates woodworking techniques, and she was recently an invited participant at the 2003 International Woodturning Symposium, held in Puy Saint- Martin, France. In March 2002, Betty gave a slide/talk presentation at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, as part of the opening ceremony of the exhibition, "Wood Turning in North America Since 1930." Her Altered Plate, "The Most Indirect Route" is represented in that exhibition. "Today much of the more interesting work featured under the general heading of wood turning only begins at the lathe. That's especially true of the heavily carved turnings of... Betty Scarpino." -- Richard Raffan.. Demonstration Registration Saturday s demonstration at the Okeeheelee Nature Center is open to up to 55 persons. Registration fee is $30.00 per attendee in advance or $35.00 each at the door. The Demonstration begins at 9:00 AM. Come early for conversation. A map to the Nature Center is included in this brochure. A lunch of a sandwich, chips and soda is available for $7.00 for advance registrants. Hands-On Registration Sunday and Monday s Hands-On sessions are limited to 5 students each. Sessions begin at 8:00 AM in Dave Friedman s woodworking studio in Boynton Beach. Registration is $100 per attendee. Entries must be received by May 22, 2003. In the almost certain event that there are more applicants than places available, attendees will by selected by lottery. Attendees will be informed in the first week of June 2004 and provided with directions to the session. They will also be informed at that time of what materials, wood, tools, etc they should bring to the session. Name Address Phone Saturday Demonstration Sunday (only) Hands-On Monday (only) Hands-On Either Day Hands-On Saturday Lunch Lettuce Visa MasterCard American Express Credit Card # Signature Roast Beef Method of Payment Check Mail to: Tomato Turkey 9:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM Total: Ham $30.00 $100.00 $100.00 $100.00 $7.00 White Bread Whole Wheat Hoagie Roll 5251 SE Burning Tree Circle Stuart, Fl.. 34997 Phone: (772)283-1411 Email: bettrichie@msn.com Exp. date