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Events
Canada’s Master Pastelists Exhibition
May 19th
D.F.Gray "Qualicum Heat"
The place to visit for pastel lovers in Canada this summer will for sure be Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. D.F. Gray has assembled pastels from private collections from various historical Canadian master pastelists and invited 18 contemporary Canadian artists working with soft pastel along with some of his recent pastels. The show will be open July 18th through August 14th, and there will be more than a week of workshops and events. This looks like a big undertaking and I hope we’ll see more pastel events like this around the world. Thank you Dan and everyone else involved!
More info can be found on Dan’s website.
PSNM 19th Pastel Painting Exhibition
Oct 24th
PSNM 2010 winners
Update Oct 27th. This is not a correct post. Presented winners are from 2009 and new winners will be announced at the grand opening on Nov 5th. Sorry about this!!!
The Pastel Society of New Mexico has had juried exhibitions annually since 1991. Over the years the show has come to be regarded as one of the best in the USA, attracting artists from all over USA, as well as Canada and Europe. Judges and Jurors have included many of the best known pastel artists working today. The Society is having their prestigious 19th exhibition on November 5 – 28, 2010, at the Hispanic Arts Center at EXPO New Mexico in Alburquerque. Among the 2010 award-winners are Bill James, winner of first-place with Dancer in Red; Sarah Blumenschein, second-place winner for Reflections in a Copper Kettle; and Paul Murray, third-place winner for Monolith.
News via the Pastel Journal blog.
William A. Schneider won The Salmagundi Award
Sep 20th
William A. Schneider
William A. Schneider‘s painting “Bud at 92″ won The Salmagundi Award at the Pastel Society of America’s 38th Annual Open Juried Exhibition held at The National Arts Club in New York City. The exhibition runs through October 2, 2010.
“I have painted Bud several times,” said Schneider. “He loves to model. He is a joker who delights in good-natured teasing. The twinkle in his eye belies his 92 years. I hope I captured that spirit.”
news via Artist’s Magazine blog
Streetpaint Festival: Zagreb Pastel 2010
Jun 7th
Mario Vukelic
You didn’t get news from this blog lately, primarily because I was too busy organizing the streetpaint festival in my city. Since the street painters use soft pastel I consider streetpainting a part of the pastel world although not the main stream.
This was the second edition of the festival and we have had a huge publicity. The festival took place in the heart of city on a beautiful sunny day. The special section where kids could dirty their hands proved to be a big success as well. You can find photos and a short article about the whole event on the ZagrebPastel streetpaint festival site.
The Pastel Society UK 11th Annual Exhibition
Apr 16th
Matthew Draper
The Pastel Society, UK, was founded in 1898, and some of the first members and early exhibitors were Brangwyn, Degas, Rodin, Rothenstein, Whistler and G.F. Watts. There are currently over fifty members who are professional artists living and working in UK and elsewhere. The Society pursues its aims through education and example. It is currently responsible for organising exhibitions, tutorial workshops, demonstrations and lectures throughout the UK.
The Society’s major showcase is the Annual Exhibition held at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London. This is open to entries from both members and non-members. This year’s exhibition is opened at the Mall Galleries though April 17, with the total number of 278 paintings on display. It is not clear from the website who are the winners, but there was a news on the Pastel Journal blog mentioning the prize winning artists: Matt Draper, Jeannette Hayes, and Felicity House.
Invitational Pastel Exhibition in Taiwan
Apr 6th
unknown artist
The International Pastel Artists Invitational Exhibition is open in Taipei, Taiwan from April 1st – May 2nd, 2010. The exhibition is a continued effort from the 2007 and it is organized by the National Taiwan Arts Education Center.
The co-sponsors of this exhibition are the Pastel Society of America, a French Pastel Association (unspecified which one) and the Hawaii Pastel Association. The exhibited pastel works in this exhibition are provided by artists from different parts of the world as well as Taiwan. The anticipation of the event is that this artistic exchange will help the development of pastel art in Taiwan.
At the same time and at the same venue, a group of teachers from all over Taiwan who have great passion for pastel paintings come together to have their work exhibited at the event Pastel: Feast for Art.
Pastel Invitational at Gregory James Gallery
Mar 17th
Federico Frank's Palette
Gregory James Gallery, New Milford, CT is having an invitational pastel exhibition. According to the gallery’s website the the show is representing these fine pastel artists:
Rainie Crawford, Frank Federico, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Julie Hopkins, Dick McEvoy, Alain Picard, Peter Seltzer, Joel Spector, Joseph Grieco, Leslie Levy.
10th International Pastel Festival in Feytiat, France 2010
Feb 19th
Société des Pastellistes de France brought me to an interesting event with ten years tradition. I’ve found out that since 2000 the Society is organizing International Pastel Festival which has become the most important event devoted to pastels in Europe. Created in partnership with Town of Feytiat the International Pastel Festival receives about 20.000 visitors yearly and hosts a huge number of artist from all around the world. You also have possibility to attend different workshops.
Next International Pastel Festival in Town of Feytiat will take place this year from July 3rd to September 5th. Even though you might not speak French you could find this event interesting and pages worth translating. Here you can find the gallery of great works from previous festivals.
2nd European Pastel Convention in France
Feb 18th
The world oldest pastel society, the Société des Pastellistes de France was created in 1885. The Society’s members were world famous artists like Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, and many other major pastelists.
As a part of a bigger Pastel Festival, they are organizing 2nd European Pastel Convention on July 17-19 2010., and if you speak some French take a look at the leaflet front / back.
Five artist previously honored as Master Pastelists will hold the demonstrations – Gwenneth Barth, Alain Bellanger, Pierre Caro and Patrick Martin. Take a look at some photos from the 1st convention held in 2007.
I got this information thanks to Artist in Pastel blog.
Jill Stefani Wagner
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