Next meeting is Wednesday June 13, 2012 7:00 p.m. Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA Inside this issue: President’s Message 2 We Need You 2 Web Site News 2 Pick of the Month 3 Pitfalls of Using Celebrities in your art 3 Officers & Committees 4 Membership Application 4 Clovis Art Guild OFFICERS Presidents Pro Tem Gail Daley Gene Butler Vice President Toni Magyar Secretary ? Treasurer Alice Sutton June 2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley DENNIS LEWIS WILL DEMONSTRATE ON THE PRINCIPALS OF ART NEXT EXCHANGE FOR OUR STOREFRONT GALLERY WILL BE MONDAY JULY 2, 2012 @ 5:00 P.M. Dennis Lewis lives in Clo- vis, California with his wife and three children. He at- tended California Institute of the Arts where he re- ceived his BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts) Degree. Cre- ated works art in the enter- tainment field ranging from record album covers, movie one sheets, greeting cards, software games and edu- cational products. Dennis background includes television, re- cording, advertising and software companies. Including Walt Disney Enterprises, B.D. Fox and Friends, Mark Matsuno De- sign Sierra Online, Starwave Corporation, MCA Records, CBS, NBC, KHJ9, Columbia Pictures, A&M Records, Solar Records, La Face Inc., Marvel Productions, Microsoft Corporation, Ed- mark Corporation, Giant Campus Corporation and The Boys and Girls Club. His recent teaching experience as an Art Instructor includes, The Art Institute of Seattle Located in Seattle, Washington, where he taught both traditional and digital art classes. Present- ly, Dennis works as an Instructor for The Institute of Technology located in Clovis, California. As an accomplished oil painter his brushwork is vigorous and decisive while conveying selective choices in his personal inter- pretation of his subjects. Although, equally adept at painting landscapes, still life’s and portraits, his work characterize as ‘painterly and impressionistic.’ Dennis is also a member of the Society of Western Artist (SWA).
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Next meeting is Wednesday June 13, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA
Inside this issue:
President’s Message 2
We Need You 2
Web Site News 2
Pick of the Month 3
Pitfalls of Using Celebrities
in your art 3
Officers & Committees 4
Membership Application 4
Clovis Art Guild
OFFICERS Presidents Pro
Tem
Gail Daley
Gene Butler
Vice President
Toni Magyar
Secretary
?
Treasurer
Alice Sutton
June
2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley
DENNIS LEWIS WILL DEMONSTRATE
ON THE PRINCIPALS OF ART
NEXT EXCHANGE FOR OUR STOREFRONT GALLERY
WILL BE MONDAY JULY 2, 2012 @ 5:00 P.M.
Dennis Lewis lives in Clo-vis, California with his wife and three children. He at-tended California Institute of the Arts where he re-ceived his BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts) Degree. Cre-ated works art in the enter-tainment field ranging from record album covers, movie one sheets, greeting cards, software games and edu-
cational products. Dennis background includes television, re-cording, advertising and software companies. Including Walt Disney Enterprises, B.D. Fox and Friends, Mark Matsuno De-sign Sierra Online, Starwave Corporation, MCA Records, CBS, NBC, KHJ9, Columbia Pictures, A&M Records, Solar Records, La Face Inc., Marvel Productions, Microsoft Corporation, Ed-mark Corporation, Giant Campus Corporation and The Boys and Girls Club. His recent teaching experience as an Art Instructor includes, The Art Institute of Seattle Located in Seattle, Washington, where he taught both traditional and digital art classes. Present-ly, Dennis works as an Instructor for The Institute of Technology located in Clovis, California. As an accomplished oil painter his brushwork is vigorous and decisive while conveying selective choices in his personal inter-pretation of his subjects. Although, equally adept at painting landscapes, still life’s and portraits, his work characterize as ‘painterly and impressionistic.’ Dennis is also a member of the Society of Western Artist (SWA).
Page 2 Clovis Art Guild
President’s
Message Mission Statement: Historically, librar-
ies have always been centers of arts and
culture for society. Even though we artists
might not make a lot of sales displaying
our art in the libraries, our contributions to
the art and culture of the area is im-
mense. When we put our art in the li-
brary, we not only remind the public what
talented, creative artists live here, but
how much we care about the community
as a whole. One of the things we contrib-
ute to our community as artists is culture.
By displaying our stuff in the libraries, we
bring art to life for the general public. Alt-
hough it is not directly about sales, one of
the ways that we artists in Fresno and
Clovis convince the buying public how
wonderful is our art and photography
(and indirectly to buy that art) is the de-
velopment of a reputation for being a cen-
ter of art and culture. Sometimes we have
to give before we can get. This summer
Clovis Art Guild has been offered the
opportunity to display our work at Sunny-
side Library. I urge all our members to
take advantage of this opportunity to re-
mind our city what wonderful talented
artists the members of Clovis Art Guild
are.
Gene Butler & Gail Daley
Web Site News
Ma Ly has graciously agreed to develop and maintain a web site for the Guild, which we hope to have up and running in the next month or so. The site will feature the following.
Shows, Demonstrations/Workshops, Newsletters, Workshops, Members web sites
How to Join CAG
Link to by-laws, Link to membership application
Page 2 -- Old West & Rodeo Art Show
Brief history of CAG’s connection with the Clovis Rodeo Associa-tion, Prospectus for show, Photo of Best of Show, Old West & Ro-deo 1st place, 1st Place in other categories, Mary Krause Award & People’s Choice, Information about Judge , Awards list
Page 3 -- Veteran’s Art Show
Brief history of the Guild’s association with the Veteran’s Center and the Same info as Old West show
Page 4 -- Miniature Works Art Show
Brief history of CAG’s connection with the Sierra Vista Mall and the same info as for the old west show.
Page 5 – PDF printable Forms & Applications
Membership application, Newsletters, By-Laws
Page 6 -- Links to members web sites or e-mail (optional for members)
Features we need
To be able to send out e-mail with attachments for the newsletter, workshops and show prospectus
To be able automatically forward e-mail to board members (membership inquiries to Alice, general inquires to the president, etc.) We would be happy to hear suggestions from our mem-bers. Please bring your ideas to the next board meeting.
WE NEED YOU!
Our secretary, Fran has retired because of personal
time commitments. We need one of our members to
step forward and volunteer to serve as secretary.
Please contact one of the board members if you
feel you can serve in this capacity. Thank you.
Pick of the Month is the Guild’s way of supporting our members efforts. We need at least 7 paintings to award 3 places, so please participate!
We’d like to see what you’ve been working on! Don’t forget to bring your art
to the meeting! We would love to see your work. Classwork is acceptable too.
P ICK OF THE MONTH
Page 3 June 2012
PITFALLS OF USING CELEBRITIES IN YOUR ART
Have you ever been tempted to include a celebrity portrait in your art portfolio? Say you are entering a theme show and there is a celebrity whose very image just screams “I am this theme” i.e. Clint Eastwood or John Wayne for western art, General Patton or Pappy Boynton for WWII, Mohammed Ali, or an Olympic swim star for a sports theme, etc.? Well if you do use a celebrity without gaining the proper permissions, you could be sued for copyright violations under something called “the right of publicity” laws.
What are the rights of publicity laws? Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights, Defines these laws as “The right of publicity, often called personality rights, is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity. It is gen-erally considered a property right as opposed to a personal right, and as such, the validity of the Right of Publicity can survive the death of the individual (to varying degrees depending on the jurisdiction). In the Unit-ed States, the Right of Publicity is a state law-based right, as opposed to federal, and recognition of the right can vary from state to state.
[1] The Celebrities Rights Act was passed in California in 1985 and it extended the
personality rights for a celebrity to 70 years after their death.” There are other portions of California’s privacy laws to protect non-celebrity individuals but they not the subject of this article and may be covered later.
Further reading tells me that even if your source matter is a photograph taken by you of the celebrity in ques-tion you might still be liable for violation of the act if you invaded the privacy of the person in question to ob-tain the reference photo. Now I am not a lawyer, but common sense tells me why take the chance? Even if you win, a lawsuit is expensive and time-wasting and just being drug into court over something like this could damage your reputation as an artist. If you would like more information about this you can check out Gail’s