Weekends are hectic
The weekend always offers the promise of more time to complete things that are needed to be done . These promised hopes are often fleeting, I did get the inground pool completely ready for winter. Antifreeze in the filter and all the return lines. Another goal was to attend a baseball card show in Peoria to see if my art would fit in to that type of venue. But between two get togethers , one with family , and the other a benefit that I had donated some prints for, Saturday was toast.
Sunday time change, the longest day of the year surly on could get some painting done. But after church it was off to the JFL banquet for a four hours of torture, just too finally receive a trophy. I did manage to slip into the card show on Sunday, and spoke to the organizer to request to added to the event next year. I hope that I will do well there as no one is doing anything like these and it is a targeted audience. Also the banquet wasn't a total bust either as I got a chance to see the new East Peoria Convention Center and to speak with the ex-mayor who asked me to be a volunteer member of the committee to plan events at that center. The one that I have been pushing for is an art show that would coincide with the East Peoria Festival of Lights. FOLIPE has been going on in East Peoria for many years and is a major draw for tourist to the area around the holidays. The parade of lighted floats starts the event off on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, then the floats are parked at locations throughout the city and lite until the weekend after New Year. Some 100,000 visitors from across the country come to take in the sights, shop, and of course visit the casino. It has been on the top 100 bus destinations for the last ten years. It would be a major art show because of that fact alone, hopefully it can be put in place by next season.
Tonight is the annual dinner of the Illinois Art League, an organization that is fastly loosing it's revalence in the local art community. Aging membership and replication of goals by more powerfully supported other arts groups have eroded its uniqueness. I am still a member and serve on the board, but without real and drastic changes in the leadership that too will be come to an end.
So the bottom line is that I probably won't be in my studio until Tuesday evening. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel - I just hope it's not an oncoming train.
The weekend always offers the promise of more time to complete things that are needed to be done . These promised hopes are often fleeting, I did get the inground pool completely ready for winter. Antifreeze in the filter and all the return lines. Another goal was to attend a baseball card show in Peoria to see if my art would fit in to that type of venue. But between two get togethers , one with family , and the other a benefit that I had donated some prints for, Saturday was toast.
Sunday time change, the longest day of the year surly on could get some painting done. But after church it was off to the JFL banquet for a four hours of torture, just too finally receive a trophy. I did manage to slip into the card show on Sunday, and spoke to the organizer to request to added to the event next year. I hope that I will do well there as no one is doing anything like these and it is a targeted audience. Also the banquet wasn't a total bust either as I got a chance to see the new East Peoria Convention Center and to speak with the ex-mayor who asked me to be a volunteer member of the committee to plan events at that center. The one that I have been pushing for is an art show that would coincide with the East Peoria Festival of Lights. FOLIPE has been going on in East Peoria for many years and is a major draw for tourist to the area around the holidays. The parade of lighted floats starts the event off on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, then the floats are parked at locations throughout the city and lite until the weekend after New Year. Some 100,000 visitors from across the country come to take in the sights, shop, and of course visit the casino. It has been on the top 100 bus destinations for the last ten years. It would be a major art show because of that fact alone, hopefully it can be put in place by next season.
Tonight is the annual dinner of the Illinois Art League, an organization that is fastly loosing it's revalence in the local art community. Aging membership and replication of goals by more powerfully supported other arts groups have eroded its uniqueness. I am still a member and serve on the board, but without real and drastic changes in the leadership that too will be come to an end.
So the bottom line is that I probably won't be in my studio until Tuesday evening. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel - I just hope it's not an oncoming train.
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