National League of American Pen Women

Spring River Branch

 

Meetings

 

 

Text Box: Meetings of the Spring River Branch are held on the first Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church located at the corner of Okmulgee and Cherokee Roads in Cherokee Village, Arkansas.  MARCH 2008 MEETING The Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will meet Wednesday March 5, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. The Spring River Branch membership includes local and regional writers, artists and musicians. The meeting is held in the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church located at the corner of Okmulgee Drive and Cherokee Road.   The March speaker will be Marc Herring, owner of the Ozark Classic Crafts Mall in Hardy. He has been a crafter of walking and hiking sticks since 1980 when he first crafted a hiking stick for a weekend hike with friends.  This lead to crafting hiking sticks over the years for his friends as gifts.    In 1987, Marc was approached at a nature center craft bazaar by a writer for the internationally known magazine “The Crafts Report.”  This encounter with writer, Loretta Rodeschi, changed his life.  Rodeschi encouraged Herring to apply to a true craft art show, namely the Smithsonian Institute Craft Art Show in Washington D.C.  He applied for the show and to his great surprise was accepted for the  craft show to be held at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building.    Marc has done commemorative pieces for Rotary International, Boy Scouts of America and donated a matching set to former President George Bush and his wife Barbara. Additionally, Hillary Clinton solicited renowned craft artists to donate a hand crafted craft object to the White House’s permanent Christmas collection.  Marc created a miniature hiking stick to fulfill the request.    Over the years, Marc has participated in other juried craft shows around the country and after an eight year break, is now working his craft in Hardy at the Ozark Classic Crafts Mall where, in addition to his own craft art, he displays the works of over 30 other fine craft artists.  At this month’s Spring River Branch meeting he will bring examples and talk about his walking and hiking sticks. The public is invited to attend.   ************  November 7, 2007 meeting Come meet Laura McNerny, one of the many fine gourd artists in Arkansas. She will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Laura will lecture and demonstrate the process of gourd art on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 10 A. M. in the Fellowship Hall of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church located at the corner of Okmulgee and Cherokee Road in Cherokee Village. Ms McNerny is self taught. She has adapted many art media such as water color, acrylic color, and pyroetching to her gourd work to create her unique and beautiful pieces. She is a roster artist for the Arkansas Arts Council, Arts in Education Program and has been traveling the State of Arkansas since 1997, teaching gourd art.Laura was chosen as an exhibiting artist by Senator Blanche Lincoln and had one of her pieces placed in Senator Lincoln's Office for one year. She was nominated in 2006, for the "Living Treasure Designation" by the Arkansas Arts Council, and has taught her craft in many arts centers throughout Arkansas including the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute's "Art in the Air", celebration of 2007.McNerny is fascinated by how people of all ages, see gourds during the art process, and how they choose to create their own unique art with gourds. Laura enjoys learning as much from the creative process of my students as they do from her. The public is invited to watch her demonstration and to ask any questions they may have regarding gourd art.   *************** September 5, 2007 Meeting            The Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women is resuming its monthly meetings on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10 A. M. in the Fellowship Hall of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church located at the corner of Okmulgee and Cherokee Road in Cherokee Village.   Join in the opening Fall meeting and enjoy Erma Harris, featured speaker. Ms Harris is managing editor of our local newspaper. Her wealth of experience is evident in the new look and focus of the Villager Journal. She will share the ups and downs, ins and outs, joys and perils of putting together a weekly newspaper in rural Arkansas. There will be a brief question and answer session following the speaker’s presentation.   The National League of American Pen Women is an organization of professional women writers, artists and musicians. The public is invited to this and all meetings of the Spring River Branch of the NLAPW. This group meets the first Wednesday of the month from September through May.   Persons interested in becoming members may call 870-257-5558 for details. ****************  May meeting 2007 The May meeting of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2007, in the fellowship room of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church, located on Okmulgee Drive in Cherokee Village, Arkansas. The guest speaker at the May meeting is Sally Guest, who presses flowers and designs them in beautiful cards and pieces of art work. Sally grows the majority of her own flowers and has been pressing flowers for more that 27 years. Her designs create the Victorian elegance of the Old World art of flower pressing. Sally has her original art hanging nationally and as far away as Japan. Sally is completely self taught and speaks, teaches, and demonstrates on pressing flowers. Ms. Guest is currently a member of the Spring River Artists Gallery in downtown Hardy, Arkansas, where her art work can be viewed.  The National League of American Pen Women is comprised of professional women in the fields of writing, art and music.  The organization promotes the development of women whose talents lie in these areas.  The Spring River Branch welcomes anyone to attend their meetings, to learn about the hidden talents of others and to help develop those talents and aspirations. *********  April Meeting 2007 In celebration of April being poetry month, the meeting will involve learning about cowboy poetry.  Also, during the month of April, members will be reading poetry on a local radio station.  The poetry read will comprise of both original works and favorite pieces. The National League of American Pen Women includes professional women in the fields of writing, art and music.  The organization promotes the development of women whose talents lie in these areas.  The Spring River Branch welcomes anyone to attend their meetings, to learn about the hidden talents of others and to help develop those talents and aspirations.  *****  MARCH    Meeting 2007 The program for the meeting will be Artist Suzanne Fry of Hardy. Fry is known for her porcelain dolls and oil-paintings, but she also creates beautiful Dichroic Glass jewelry.    She fires the multi-colored glasses in a kiln at over 1600 degrees, using the fused glass with jewelry settings to create necklaces and earrings. Her paintings and jewelry are displayed in the Spring River Art Gallery. Those and her dolls are also displayed in the Mountain Peddler on Main Street, Hardy. She will show and tell how the jewelry is created. The Spring River Branch welcomes anyone to attend their meetings, to learn about the hidden talents of others and to help develop those talents and aspirations. ******** February Meeting 2007 The February meeting of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, in the fellowship room of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church, located on Okmulgee Drive in Cherokee Village, Arkansas. The meeting will be a celebration of the talents of the members, friends and guests through a time of sharing works in progress, including music, poetry, prose, and art.  A business meeting will begin the session and refreshments will be served. The National League of American Pen Women is comprised of professional women in the fields of writing, art and music.  The organization promotes the development of women whose talents lie in these areas.  The Spring River Branch welcomes anyone to attend their meetings, to learn about the hidden talents of others and to help develop those talents and aspirations.    ******** January 2007 The January meeting of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will be held at 10 am on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 in the fellowship room of the Cherokee Village Lutheran Church, located on Okmulgee Drive in Cherokee Village, Arkansas.   Guest speaker will be Harvey Mendez, local author, discussing his latest book, The Cherokee Murders, and his method of writing. A pharmacist by profession, Harvey Mendez has written four novels, Amelia, which placed fourth in a national contest and was a finalist in the EPPIE 2003 contest.  Other books are The Bear and the Bull and Red Earth.  He is currently working on his fifth story. Mendez moved to Arkansas in 1999 from Laguna Beach, California.  He is a member of the Lagunita Writers Group and the Cherokee Village Writers Group.  Hostesses for the January meeting are Dorothy Mas and Jennie Lewis.  The Spring River Branch welcomes anyone to attend their meetings, to learn about the hidden talents of others and to help develop those talents and aspirations.  Anyone interested in attending this meeting who wishes further information should contact Nancy Thurston at 870-966-4704.              

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