Calendar 2021/2022
NOVEMBER 10 — 6PM–8:30PM
Michael Burmeister • HAND BUILDING with CLAY: Get Potted! Button Gallery, 33 Center St., Douglas Michael Burmeister invites you to his world of pottery and painting. As a ceramist and painter, he masterfully creates works that are rich in color, pattern and surface. Button Gallery has the finest selection of contemporary ceramic work due to Michael’s expertise in this media. Spend the evening at the Button Gallery exploring the clay works featured and hear about Michael’s concepts in creating his own work. He will demonstrate some hand building techniques that will be sure make you appreciate artists who work in the medium. Michael Burmeister is the owner and director of Button Gallery in Douglas. Previously as adjunct professor and exhibition preparator, Burmeister taught numerous fine arts courses and worked on highly acclaimed exhibitions in both Pennsylvania and Illinois. His work has been exhibited regionally and nationally at colleges, universities, galleries and museums. 
DECEMBER 12, 2021 — 5:00PM–8:00PM
Members’ Holiday Potluck Cocktail Party and Ornament Exchange A potluck cocktail party at Fairview, the home of Christa and Herk Wise at 6473 Clearbrook Drive, Saugatuck. Bring your own beverage, an appetizer to share, and a creative, if not goofy, homemade ornament to exchange. Plus ones are welcome. Please RSVP to christamwise@gmail.com. JANUARY 12 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Play with Clay SDAC Sculpture Stack Workshop in the ceramics room at Saugatuck High School. Chase away the winter doldrums. Have you always wanted to work in clay but never known how? At this meeting, Danielle Hanna will lead a class in hand-building and will send participants home with necessary materials to produce one piece for a collaborative club sculpture stack based on the work of famous artists. JANUARY 26 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Play with Clay continues at Saugatuck High School At this additional January meeting, participants will return to work on their pieces or to share their finished, but not yet dry, work. This will be time for additional help or to make “spacer” pieces for the stack. Work will be left to dry out thoroughly before being bisque fired. FEBRUARY 9 — 3:30PM–5:00PM Open Studio, Saugatuck High School Need some help with your clay project? Come to the optional Open Studio at Saugatuck High School. FEBRUARY 9 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Walking the Line with Teresa O’Brien at Saugatuck High School Artist Paul Klee said that, “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.” SDAC’s own Teresa O’Brien will lead members through the finer points of learning to draw. FEBRUARY 23 — 3:30PM–5:00PM Play with Clay Deadline at Saugatuck High School This is the last day to turn in your hand-built piece. All works must be returned to the art room to thoroughly dry before the 1st (bisque) firing. Come to the optional Open Studio if you need any last-minute help. MARCH 9 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Play with Clay Glazing Workshop Saugatuck High School art room Participants will glaze their works for a final firing. Pieces will be available to see at the April meeting…oh boy! This part is even more fun. 
APRIL 13 — 6:00PM–8:30PM
Off the Wall: You Ought to Be in Pictures at the Saugatuck High School art room You won’t want to miss this. As Beavis once told Butthead, “Yeah, master painting is cool.” A tableau vivant, French for “living picture,” is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. Participants are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit and then photographed. It thus combines aspects of theater and the visual arts and lots of fun. At this meeting, Christa Wise will show you examples of past student tableaux and will give you time to peruse art history books to plan a tableau for just you, or perhaps a collaboration of some friends and/or animals, to stage at the next meeting. Our photos will be on display at the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library, celebrated by an opening in June. Get your fifteen minutes of fame! MAY 11 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Off the Wall: You Ought to Be in Pictures Photo Session in the Saugatuck High School art room Come in costume with your props and your peeps to stage your famous art work. The tableaux (plural form of tableau) will be photographed as they are staged by master photographer, and all around good guy, Scott Sullivan! If past experience holds true, this will be a busy, fun time for participants and cheerleaders. JUNE 8 — 6:00PM–8:30PM Off the Wall: You Ought to Be in Pictures Art Exhibit Opening at the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library Time to celebrate our creativity. Images from all the Tableaux will be display along with the finished sculpture stack. It will be a time for members and their friends to meet our artists and toast our accomplishments. 
JULY 2 — 9:00AM–4:00PM
Waterfront Invitational Art Fair JULY 30 — 9:00AM–4:00PM Village Square Art Fair The income generated from these fairs allows the to club to continue to support local schools and scholarships for graduates looking for a degree in the arts. Members volunteer to work in two-hour shifts which is a great way to be part of these exciting events. If you are new to the club, or have never done this, please sign up for this opportunity to pitch in, make new friends, and see wonderful work. AUGUST 10—5:00PM Picnic at Summerhouse Lavender Farm Time to play. This year the picnic will be at the Summerhouse Lavender Farm at 2975 65th St, Fennville, MI 49408. We will take orders for a bag “lunch” from Farmhouse Deli on our SDAC website or you may pack your own meal. Bring your own lawn chair and beverages. Rain location Saugatuck-Douglas District Library. SEPTEMBER 14—6:00PM–8:30PM Poetry and Art: The Jack and Dawn Show at the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library Poet Jack Ridl and artist Dawn Stafford have a conversation about how art inspires poetry and how poetry can inspire art. OCTOBER 12—6:00PM–8:30PM Annual Meeting and Paint a Pumpkin at the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library We will provide the paint; you bring the pumpkin, real or otherwise. After annual reports from the president and treasurer and voting on any issues that need attention, we will painting our Jack-o’-Lanterns. NOVEMBER 9—6:00PM–8:30PM Meet Our Artists at the S-D District Library Inspired by Ox-Bow’s fireside presentations and her Zoom meetings with members every third Tuesday, Anne Corlett will host a program featuring Art Club’s own artists. DECEMBER Members’ Holiday Party—details to follow |
Open StudioAll Artists Welcome!
Wednesdays: Starting November 3, 2021 from 3:30 to 5:30 at the Saugatuck High School art room The Open Studio is a time where you can bring your art project and work in a supportive and warm environment with other artists. Art Club members of all kinds and abilities, gather in the Saugatuck High School Art room. Some artists have not touched a canvas or paper for decades and others are artists who work every day. Bring your own work, supplies, and energy. Any portable media, including working on a computer tablet, is welcome. Sometimes we talk, sometimes not. Enjoy the energy of a group intent on their art. The art room is in the blue building on the north side of campus. The door nearest the north parking lot will be open. Light snacks provided. Non-members are welcome to participate to see if they like it. Any questions? Paul Burdick at paulinglenn@hotmail.com Show and Tell on ZOOM
Hosted by local artist Anne Corlett, this zoom gathering allows members to share their work with fellow artist in a fun, supportive environment.
Third Tuesday of the month from 4 to 6PM Email Anne Corlett for your zoom link. anne@annecorlett.net Plein Air Painters
Meet with fellow artists for a Saugatuck tradition: painting outside in the open air
No lessons or critique but plenty of conversation and advice in a supportive environment. Work in any medium that is portable. The Plein Air group typically meets once or twice a week (July to September) from 10AM until lunch time. For information contact Judy Anthrop at 616-260-1798 or judy.bowman.anthrop@gmail.com |
ZOOM meetings: All Art Club members will be emailed invitations to Zoom programing. If you are a club member and do not received club emails, please check your spam folder.
IN-PERSON meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:00 to 8:30pm with an optional member social time for the first 30 minutes. The location will be the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library meeting room or patio unless stated otherwise.
Meetings/Studio Time at the Saugatuck High School are in the art room which is located in the blue building on the north side of campus. The door nearest the north parking lot will be open.
