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June 2009 – George Grace, President

June 2009 – George Grace, President

If you haven’t stepped forward to participate in any one of our vibrant committees, you’re missing something special. It’s been two years since you, our members, told the then Board what you want our Society to do and become when you answered the strategic plan questionnaire. You said we needed better publicity, a stronger connection to the community and other arts groups, and improved educational and professional developments through programs, workshops, studio visits, and demonstrations. Thanks to the hard work of the previous and current Board members and officers, and a surprising number of non-board, non-officer volunteers, we are achieving many of these goals, some at breakneck speed. I am honored to serve with these people. We have all benefited from the diligence and tenacity…

Feb. 28, 2011 – Beth Pedersen, President

Feb. 28, 2011 – Beth Pedersen, President

March 2011 BSA Newsletter (PDF) I just read recently that Mark Stevenson’s book “An Optimist’s Tour of the Future” borrows from Abraham Lincoln’s message in 1862 to Congress and speaks of disenthralling ourselves of ‘the dogmas of the quiet past’ in order to ‘think anew’. The article indicates that a key lesson of adulthood is the need to unlearn and to pose the question how many other false nostrums still infect my brain, unexamined, obstructing the arrival of fresh thoughts? We think that we know certain things to be true, but these things may turn out to be false and until we unlearn them, they get in the way of new understanding. It made me think of the so-called BSA Endowment. Many felt for certain…

October 2009 – George Grace, President

October 2009 – George Grace, President

October 2009 BSA Newsletter (PDF) First, our heartfelt congratulations to all the award winners and accepted artists in the Annual Catalogue Exhibition at the Kenan Center, which will run from October 18 to November 15. I need first to thank the fine work done by Chairperson Beth Pedersen and the Exhibition Committee for making this run smoothly. The catalogue, published by Patti Harris’s daughter, Erin, promises to be something special. Every member who attends the exhibit will be entitled to a copy. Well, our long-awaited web site is here, and as far as web sites go, it’s a Porsche. I invite our members to test drive it, if you haven’t already. It’s got all the news from the beehive of activity that has become the…