Moving into 2009

Happy Holidays!

SCA Board 2009

Really, no takers? I know it's been a tough year, but are we going to let SCA go down so quietly?

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Suki is OC Outstanding Artist of the Year

Arts Orange County has announced that our esteemed SCA member, Suki Berg, has been chosen as Orange County outstanding artist of the year. This special honor recognizes her long career and cultural contributions as an artist and supporter of the arts in Orange County. Suki continues her art making in painting and printmaking, is a member of Orange County Center for Comtemporary Art (OCCCA) and a life member of Southern California Artists, Inc. We congradulate her on receiving this recognition.

As published in an article by Richard Chang in the Orange County Register dated Tuesday, October 7, Suki is recognized for her cultural achievement in visual art. She is honored with an "Oscar-like" statue, given at an awards ceremony held at the Balboa Club last week.

Per the OCR article, "It's great to be validated this way," Berg, 91, said in an interview. "It's hard to describe the feeling. I'm a very happy person. I'm very satisfied."
In April, Berg had a retrospective covering more than six decades of creative work at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana.

SCA at "A Night of Indulgence"

SCA members volunteered to show and sell their art at the "A Night of Indulgence" charity benefit hosted by the Center Club of Orange County on September 26. Their fund raising was for three charities: The Muscular Dystrophy Association, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the Employee Partners Care Foundation. Guests paid $100 entry and could bid on art works donated by selected artists in a silent auction as well as buy artists' works. The forty artists selling work also donated 20% of sales.

Although attendance was lower than expected (possibly because of the concurrence with the first presidential debate on TV). But the food and wine tasting were lavish during the evening, and we artists are known for our indulgence. And the artists and their guests had complimentary entry. Each artist had a show space of about ten feet with show tables and easels provided.

In the several photos attached are SCA members Paula Van der Lans with guest Dave Silva, Eileen Anderson with artist friend Sherry Talley, Marilyn Ellis with friend Lorenzo, and Thom Wright with club friend Henry Segerstrom.

Our evening was enjoyable if not personally successful. Several difficulties did arise, including poor lighting, little to no seating, some over-indulgence and a low level of art sales for everyone. Maybe the economy is in trouble, and that always hits the art market. But thanks to all participating and better luck at the next event.

Art Pickup at the Bank

This message is a reminder to pick up your work September 16th. Pat Sparkhul will be there de installing first thing when the bank opens. It will be very helpful if you get there as early as possible. Please note, for those who cannot be present to pick up their work must make other arrangements. Any work left after the 16th over will have no protection. Pat is hanging another show that very day.We had a really good show this year. I have sent quite a few art enthusiasts to see it, including a group from the Sales and Rental Gallery of LACMA.

Peace, Karen

SCA welcomes you to our annual potluck social and slides/art presentation.
Members present 3 slides of their latest work or bring small works and describe their current direction and medium.
New and prospectivemembers can introduce themselves and their work.

Members: we need ideas for our fall programs. Bring suggestions/ideas. How about a fall art show? Where?

Our Potluck is:
Wednesday, August 20, 6 - 9 pm
Address:
1731 W. Medical Center Drive, Anaheim, CA 92801
Driving directions:
Take Euclid Ave South off of the 91 Freeway in Anaheim, turn right on first cross street (Medical Center Drive, directly opposite Mimi's Restaurant on Euclid Ave.
Emerald Court is clearly marked, turn at the third driveway on the right, park in visitor spaces on the right side, enter at the circular entrance.
Activity Room is on the second floor.

Eileen Anderson and Carole Gelker Collaborate on Drawing

Eileen and Carole collaborated on their piece for the recent Coastline Community College show "Drawing Extended. Using charcoal and graphite we  drew each others bodies. Lying on the floor we created our composition and then each drew outlines of the other. We feel the collaboration was a challenging and very positive experience. The "Sisters" series is the beginning of more collaborative pieces. Congratulations to Jay Sagen for his ability to create a stunning show.

Carole Gelker

Coastline Gallery "Extended Drawing" Show

SCA artists participated in the Coastline Gallery "Drawing" show which opened on Friday, July 11. A well attended reception for a well presented show that covered a wide range of drawing media and experimental approaches. With all the crowd noise it usually is difficult to focus on the art works, but in this show there are many outstanding works. Our congradulations to the show curator, Jay Sagen, for this breadth and depth in drawing. Photos of three of my favorite SCA artists with pieces are Marilou Hogeboom, Marilyn Ellis and Karen Feuer-Schwager.

Participating SCA artists are:

Eileen Anderson
Carole Williams-Gelker
Marilyn Ellis
Suki Berg
Kathy Breaux
Marilou Hogeboom
Karen Feuer-Schwager
Lynn Morgan
Ron Reekers
Marie Martin
Thom Wright

two marks

“two marks……” by pam schader

just juried an art exhibit for artists who are blind.
some are legally blind and can see a minute amount & use technology to enhance their sight, but a couple of the 154 artists were totally blind.
someone asked me,
“WHY WOULD THEY DO ART IF THEY CAN’T SEE IT?”

wow, that speaks volumes; and the answer right there in the question.
it is the doing, the doing, the process.
it is called CREATIVE PROCESS. PROCESS.
imagine the joy we would have if we DID this without the infernal habit of looking at it!
if it was for the expression, not for the product.
no criterion. no judging, editing, critique.

the healing is in the process.
the just being with it.
the Tao.
the core of life.
THE WAY TO DO IS TO BE.

we are in the ultimate relationship; that is the one with ourselves.
the one we are with in our studio when everyone else leaves. The one waiting, calling from our hearts. the one who dies when we refuse that small voice.

John Cage said. “when you start working, everybody is in your studio – the past, your friends, enemies, the art world and above all, your own ideas. But as you continue, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you’re lucky, even
you leave.”

without overarching expectations, prejudices, judgments, biases, assumptions, labels, fears, we can be open to making Original art….open to the creative process… the universal phenomenon which baffles, stymies, yet unrelentingly draws us into its labyrinth of discovery and gratification.

THE HUMAN SPIRIT IS IN INTEGRAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A CONSCIOUS LIVING UNIVERSE. MOMENT BY MOMENT WE ARE IN CONSTANT, INTIMATE AND
CO-CREATIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE SPIRIT OF PLACE, TIME & SPACE.”

Creativity is intrinsic to our lives…we are breathing…we are ready.

“Two marks…..cry out for a third…..” - Robert Motherwell

SCA Breaks the Bank at WFB

Our SCA summer show at Wells Fargo Bank presents the works of the following twenty-one members:

Eileen Anderson

Suki Berg

Ladan Baradran

Ellen Butler

Diane Edwards

Marilyn Ellis

Desiree Engel

Marilou Hogeboom

Randall Holbrook

Teiko Horita

Marie Martin

Bart Palisi

Bob Pece

Pat Whiteside Phillips

Ron Reekers

Ellen Rose

Jay Sagan

Karen Feuer-Schwager

Marilyn Todd

Linda Wright

Thom Wright

The show is quite impressive on the second floor rotunda and can be seen from the first floor. The bank has added spot lighting on all the walls, and it is effective and inviting. Many good comments on the art work were received from attending guests at the opening. My favorite was that our art "is not the regular sort of art that is mostly shown in Laguna."

"SCA Banks on Art" will continue its show at Wells Fargo Bank through the summer and ends on September 14. Many thanks to all who have contributed and made this event happen.

SCA Opening at the Bank

The show is up, SCA is well represented. The work looks Great! A big thank you for all those who spent your hours to make this show a quality production: Jay our curator; Suzette our organizer; Marie the our publicity writer; Ladan, our newest member, designed the eyecatching flyer; Pres Thom designed our e-vite and our Artist Book; Marilyn, Cal, and Teiko who kept us all organized while taking in the art work; Ellen R and Marilou for being our hostesses at the opening.

Karen Feuer-Schwager

SCA BANKS ON ART

SCA June Program

Opening reception for our summer art exhibition

"SCA Banks on Art"

All members and friends welcome:

Saturday, June 7, 11 am - 1 pm

at:

Wells Fargo Bank, second floor

260 Ocean Blvd.

Laguna Beach, CA

Invitation to SCA Members Announcement

From Jay Sagen and the Coastline Community College
To participate in an art exhibition this summer at:
Coastline Art Gallery
10156 Adams Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92646

Entitled: “Drawing”

July 10 – Early August, 2008
Thursday – Saturday, 1pm – 5pm
Artists’ Reception: Friday, July 11, 5pm – 7pm

This will be a show limited to drawing media only (no paintings or color works)

UPDATE ON 5/22/08: Jay has revised his request for drawings to be only very large drawings, such as on butcher paper. The wall height is up to 9 ft vertical.

Curated by SCA member, Jay Sagen, CCC Gallery Curator
Show funding is approved by the CCC Exhibitions Committee
No entry fee, gallery gets 25% of selling price
Size limited to 9 feet vertical, and ready to hang.
Invited artists will be selected from Coastline Community College students and SCA.
SCA publicity will be coordinated with Jay Sagen.
SCA members are asked to volunteer to gallery sit for a ½ day period during the show.

The intent is to show strong traditional drawing and experimental drawing works.
SCA members interested in showing, please E-Mail your intent to enter and to set up an art review appointment with Jay Sagen at: jsagen@coastline.edu
Jay stated that he will be available most Fridays before the show, but apply as soon as possible. About 25 – 45 works will be shown.

Art Review – HBAL Art Exhibition

As art groups go, the Huntington Beach Art League is gigantic, currently with more than 250 members. So this year’s show at the HB Central Library is a blockbuster in size and diversity. Awards and ribbons are given in six categories – oil and acrylics (more acrylics now than oils), mixed media (anything goes), watercolor (largest group), pastel and drawing (mostly pastel, drawing is passé), sculpture (smallest number of works), photography (the reality stuff), digital photography (processed anything goes). Sadly, as in my case, no categories or ribbons for abstract art. I overheard someone say that religious art and abstracts should be excluded as an affront to esthetics.
My favorite piece in the show is a nose-on close-up of a bulldog, an oversized sleeping hulk ready to slip off the canvas. Alas again, it won no prizes. But I had the opportunity to talk with the artist, who is an HBAL member and a long time nude model for all the local colleges and universities. She confessed to me that she did the work from a photograph, which is an unforgivable sin to life drawing models. The judges must have known that bulldogs do not pose nose-on.
You may suspect that this review is biased by my concern for the non-awarded artworks, especially for my own abstract. However, for a library show where public taste is a deciding factor, I have to agree that tradition and standards like depictions of small children and landscapes with barns deserve to be awarded, and these are in accordance with community demographics, taste and propriety. Thus, this show is a must-see at the library level and is inoffensive to no one.

SCA Art Critique at April Meeting

In keeping with the SCA mission to promote the development and education of its artists, our April meeting was centered on an informal and constructive art critique of members' work. Nine members presented work for review by the group: Karen Feuer-Schwager, Marilou Hogeboom, Ellen Rose, Desiree Engel, Marilyn Ellis, Tieko Horita and new member Ladan Badaradan. About ten minutes were given to each member. Works were generally in progress rather than finished pieces. The group followed guidelines for constructive criticism that responds to the artists direction and intent in the work. The positive comments after the meeting were that this program is beneficial for all attendees and that it helps to gain feedback and see one's work through the eyes of others. Photos by Suzette Rosenthal.

Self-Questions About Being an Artist

It doesn’t take much thought to recognize that one’s art does not appeal to everybody. In fact, so the expression goes, it usually doesn’t . . . So we are continuously on the cusp of making art, art that is thoughtful and has depth as well as color and design. Well, what does it take to be an artist? Thus on my own quest, and in reading In The Making by Linda Weintraub, concerning about 100 strategies artists take in making art, I gleaned ten questions in considering one’s processes and strategy for art. I hope to elaborate on these questions in future writings.

What kind of artist are you?
How do you define your art?
What are your research activities?
What levels of appreciation are considered in making art?
What are your internal sources of inspiration?
What are your external sources of inspiration?
Who is your ideal audience?
What is your artistic self, versus your authentic self?
Who are your contemporary art critics?

What is my 20 year plan to make and show art?

Michael Asher at SMMoA

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Santa Monica Museum of Art at its location at Bergamont Station in Santa Monica, LA artist Michael Asher was selected for an installation show to capture the essence of the past 37 exhibitions that span the ten years. Instead of referencing the art content of these shows, he has chosen his own conceptualist approach that accumulates the designs of the temporary walls installed for the shows. He has installed aluminum and wooden stud walls in the exhibition space that adds together all of these floor designs. Of course they stack together and intersect at odd points and angles. The result is a maze of studded structure that the public is invited to explore. Despite the many sharp edges, exposed floor braces, and a labryrinth of walls without any entry or exit, the public comes to see and experience.
Remember being a kid at about ten years old, and how we used to explore construction sites after hours, walking through the open studded walls, the smells, the thrill and the mystery of architecture in the making. None of that is in this show, however. Instead, there are closed obstructions of studded walls in all directions, requiring some risk-taking to wander through, although that is all there is to do. Even before entering, you have to sign a no-liability agreement. The first room at the entry has the 37 floor designs with dates and show titles. So what is it all about? No art, no architecture, just an accumulation of temporary studded walls.
Squeezing oneself between the studs, again and again, with chaotic sameness in all directions, one eventually begins to ask this question, what is the point? How is this art? What is this art-installation experience? How do the 37 cutting-edge exhibitions add up to this? My own take dawns after a while, that Michael Asher has many meanings and purposes for this work. Central to all of them is its meaning itself. The dearth of esthetic content engenders a response about the why of it all. What are art museums for, and why do so many people come to them? And what is art for? What are these things – art, beauty, culture, and how does art capture and communicate these qualities? Come and see.

Suki Berg at OCCCA

SCA member Suki Berg has a retrospective show at OCCCA this month, with an opening reception this Saturday, April 5, 6-10pm. There is an excellent art review of her show in this month's Art Scene (April issue) written by Suvan Geer (p. 20). Hope to see SCA members there.

WELLS FARGO BANK SHOW

To follow up on our SCA show opportunities for this summer, the Wells Fargo Bank Show is currently our only planned event. Our previous plans for a show at Chapman U. have been withdrawn by the school. Accordingly, any additional SCA members who would like to show this summer at Wells Fargo Bank should send an E-Mail expressing their interest to Karen Feuer-Schwager. So far there are only 14 members who have signed up, and many more can be accomodated. The next SCA meeting on April 12 will include a discussion for show plans.

SCA Art Show Opportunities

Gallery 57 Underground, main gallery Gallery 57 Underground, adjacent show room

In our March meeting I announced that SCA will no longer have annual exhibitions at Chapman University, that the fine arts department has been reorganized and their gallery is fully booked for the year by its own activities. We do have the Wells Fargo Bank show planned for the summer, but only 13 members have commited to this show so far. To replace the Chapman show, we asked members to pursue new venues. Also, we had significant criticism in last year's survey about the lack of public response to the Chapman show.

So far, we have two offers for new venues. First, SCA member Jay Sagen, who also heads the Coastline art department and art gallery, suggested a possible juried show for a small number of SCA members for a show in July. The show may require several art works, and a themed show is a possibility. Gallery sitting may be required also. We are coordinating with him during this planning period and will discuss this at our next SCA meeting on April 12.

Our second opportunity is offered by SCA member Desiree Engel, who is also with the Gallery 57 Underground located in the Arts Colony of Pomona. This free-of-charge offer is for a one month show of SCA members during July, because of a recent cancellation. This basement level gallery is 2000 sq. ft. and can show 40-50 wall pieces plus ample space for sculptures, so that a full membership show could be held. An adjacent small room could host an art auction for our charity fund raiser (see photos attached). However, the greater driving distance from most members located in Orange County may be an obstacle. Volunteers are also needed for gallery sitting on Friday/Saturday/Sunday during the month. We also need an SCA volunteer for Exhibition chairperson to respond by next week (Monday, March 24). All SCA members who would like to participate and volunteer to support this show, please E-Mail SCA president Thom Wright, so that we would commit to this opportunity with a sufficient show of interest.

All SCA members are requested to enquire about other new venues, particularly for the second half of the year.

your pres, Thom Wright

EXPERIMENTAL CAL ART SINCE THE 60’S

One of the current exhibitions at OCMA presents an assemblage of art historical artworks made in California since the 1960’s. All the last fifty years of art movements are there in some example piece – pop, environmental, photography, video/film, light, installation, performance, conceptual, environmental, life as art, and some of the more recent esthetics using new materials and processes. The side text offers substantial documentation and description, enough to emphasize the experimental aspect as well as touch on its classification. On the whole this is good art history with proof that it was made in California, although never mentioning what is really innovative to California.

For the older public who lived those years, it’s a pleasant sentimental journey. However, most of the older work looks old and faded. The risk taking was daring to the point of using non-permanent materials, so that the immediacy of the art isn’t quite there any more. No Caravaggio’s, only Warhols as our legacy.

My favorite art in the show is processed sheets of glass by Kim Abeles. It combines concept, processes, scale and presentation that is inspiring and somewhat scary. That and the show on the other side of the museum are sufficient to recommend a visit.

SCA BANKS ON ART

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTISTS ANNOUNCES
CAP GALLERY EXHIBITION AT WELLS FARGO BANK
SCA BANKS ON ART
Laguna Beach, CA
Southern California Artists (SCA) is featuring members’ paintings and sculpture at the Wells Fargo Gallery located on the second floor of the Wells Fargo Bank building at 260 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach, in an exhibit entitled, “Southern California Artists Association Bank on Art,” opening June 3, 2008, running through August 30, 2008. Exhibition will be open to the public during regular banking hours.
This annual event will feature 13 SCA artists who will put their artwork on display for the public’s enjoyment; many works will be available for purchase (contact # for each artist are provided)..
SCA is a non-profit organization with a membership of 67 that provides a forum for professional and emerging Southern California artists. Its charter is to support artists with dialogue, education and interaction at all stages of the creative process, from inspiration to exhibition. SCA has a commitment for community outreach through a variety of art programs, as well as charitable events. There is no favored media, school of art, or political emphasis; rather, SCA welcomes all creative pursuits addressing what is art, its foundations, and what it means to make art and communicate it to the community.
For further information, contact Karen Schwager, Southern California Artists, (949) 497-5926, kfschwager@cox.net.

Obsessive/Compulsive

Have you ever wondered, “Where do they come up with that nonsense for an art theme?” In this age of the Postmodern, anything goes, so it is said. Life is an experiment, where all esthetics are valid, versus the top-down dictum that this year’s fad is neo-minimalist excesses, for instance. So I am a little skeptical about the Huntington Beach Art Center’s upcoming opening show, “Obsessive/Compulsive”, which opens Friday, March 7, at 7 pm. The artists “explore the definition of obsession as a persistent, disturbing, preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling.” Isn’t that what most art is about? And how can that be a subject apart from its meaning, or why does the unorthodox point of view become the subject. If you are as confused by this double-talk art as you are unsure that it can inspire art, I’ll see you at the opening on Friday.

Art and Humor Don't Mix

ART QUOTES AND MISQUOTES

Art, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. (Mark Twain)

Dying is easy. Art is difficult. (Actor Edmond Gwenn on his deathbed.)

To create good art is no big deal. (Red Foxx)

Until art arrived, this was a man’s world. (Richard Armour)

Art is more fun than fun. (Noel Coward)

Some people say you can’t make art, but sometimes it doesn’t always work. (Casey Stengel)

Bad art is cheap, because supply exceeds demand. Good art is dear, because an art agent priced it. (TJW)

Everything in art is in a state of flux, including the status quo. (RB)

After sex, art is the biggest nothing of all time. (Andy Warhol)

The future of art isn’t what it used to be. (TJW)

If in painting, less is more, is no painting perfect? (TJW)

If asked to choose between art and sex, is there a dilemma? (TJW)

Artists should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some people should be happier than others. (Oscar Wilde)

If you think real art is expensive, call me. (TJW)

Good art is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. (Gail Godwin)

Whoever said money can’t by art didn’t know the URL’s. (TJW)

Art galleries are getting so crowded nobody goes there anymore. (Yogi Berra)

Ideally, art is what you make it. (TJW)

There’s so much art in the world today that if it weren’t for art museums there’d be no place to put it all. (Robert Orben)

There’s nothing wrong with being an artist that reincarnation won’t cure. (Ed Sullivan)

Artists rarely have time to eat well, and that is why they prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts. (Carrie Snow)

Show me a bad artist and I’ll show you bad art. (TJW)

The only good artist is a dead artist. (Patrick O’Connor)

Art is obliged to stick with possibilities. Truth isn’t. (Mark Twain)

In the art business, you either make art or you don’t make it. (TJW)

To be an artist takes long years of training and the willingness to forget it all. (TJW)

Make a little art each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have. (Ernest Haskins)

A painting is never finished, only abandoned. (Paul Valery)

It has been my experience that artists that have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham Lincoln)

Having an Irish coffee in an art gallery provides all that life has to offer: alcohol, caffine, sugar, fat, and art. (Alex Levine)

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of painting, very few survive. (Wallace Irwin)

You are where you paint. (TJW)

My doctor gave me two weeks off to paint. I hope they’re in August. (Michael Phelps, M. D.)

Jesus was a creative artist, but only on his father’s side. (Archie Bunker)

Art is useless. It can only give you questions. (Pablo Picasso)

Artists start every day with a smile, and get it over with. (W. C. Fields)

He was the world’s only armless painter. He let his hair grow long and his wife dipped his head in paint buckets. (Fred Allen)

If art looks good and the price is right, it doesn’t need to have a purpose. (TJW)

My taste in art is whatever I’ve painted last. (TJW)

Most of my paintings are mysteries, usually unsolved. (TJW)

Everything has been figured out except how to paint. (Jean-Paul Sarte)

If my paintings make one more person feel miserable, I’ll feel I’ve done my job. (Woody Allen)

Art is in the eye of the artist. (TJW)

To make original art, you simply copy great art the wrong way. (TJW)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to paint. The real pleasure is having lots to paint and not doing it. (John Raper)

Anyone can sell a painting, unless there happens to be a second entry. (George Ade)

If you haven’t got anything to paint, you might make art. (TJW)

Calafia Art Gallery Opening

Many thanks to all of the SCA members participating in the "What's Love Got to Do With It?" show at the Calafia Art Gallery. The opening reception was especially well done. Thanks to our hostess and gallery owner Anne Andreas, we each spoke about our work and learned more about why we make art.

SCA members in the show are:
1. Eileen Anderson
2. Genevieve Bennett
3. Kathy Breaux
4. Ellen Butler
5. Harvey Clemans
6. Diane Edwards
7. Marilyn Ellis
8. Desiree Engel
9. Karen Feuer-Schwager
10. Marilou Hogenboom
11. Randall Holbrook
12. Teiko Horita
13. Kathryn Mathews
14. Lynn Morgan
15. Patricia Whiteside Phillips
16. Ron Reekers
17. Ellen Rose
18. Suzette Rosenthal
19. J. Sagen
20. Marilyn Todd
21. Linda Wright
22. Thom Wright

BCAM/BROAD CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OPENS SOON

Check out the LACMA website for more information: www.lacma.org.

Request for SCA Volunteer

Because of teaching schedule conflicts during week day evenings for the spring semester, our SCA secretary has had to resign her position. It is essential that we have a four member board and need a volunteer for this year. This post entails writing up the board meeting minutes with only summary statements and board decisions.
If two or more members would like to share this responsibility, that would be OK also. Please call or E-Mail me before our Calafia opening on Feb 13.
Thom Wright
your SCA pres

OCR Art Piece in the News

LABUNA NIGELA: Withdrawn for questionable taste.

Upcoming Frida Kahlo Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SATURDAY JUNE 14, 2008-SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008: In celebration of Frida Kahlo's 100th anniversary of her birthday, this exhibition is organized by SFMOMA and the Walker Art Center. There will be 50 paintings, photographs of Kahlo as well as her own personal snapshots. This is a traveling exhibition currently being shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A unique opportunity to see Kahlo's original work.

Please check out my exhibit at the Irvine Fine Arts Center through February 23, 2008

I have posted a selection of my wordWorks book and accompanying images. I have more of them at www.jeff-wordWork.blogspot.com as a result of Randy's invitation to visit this blog.

What might be the memberships' attitude towards my re-involvement in SCA?

Thanks, JF