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Index of DARts Supporting Members

by J R Compton

Melody Martin Ramirez - Eternal Circle, fragment 11, 2008
oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches - image provided by the artist

All artwork on this site is copyright 2008 or before by the originating artist. No reproduction or approximation of these works may be created in any medium for any use without specific written permission from the artist. Please do not copy the art, no matter what some stupid teacher tells you.

See J R's I'm Not The Dallas Observer's New Art Critic & Neither Are You for a round-up of Dallas Art.

Welcome to new gallery members Elaine Merritt, Gale Lambert, Carroll Swenson-Roberts, Mirtha Aertker, Esther Ritz, Robert McCormack, Lynn Rushton, Glenn Comtois, Joan Iverson, TJ Mabrey, Annie Davis, Ann Adams, Melody Hay and the Farmer's & Merchant's Gallery — and returning members Anne Hines and Melodee Martin Ramirez.

DallasArtsRevue has more members now than ever before.

Mirtha Aertker - Trampa, 2008
Raku fired clay and steel - 22 x 12 x 7 inches

I'd been so busy with Fierce, I didn't have energy to put together pages for any but those who sent me CDs of work (by far the quickest method), but I'm back among the living now and have got pages up for all the new members except one who ws supposedly sending a CD, and a new other one who got in just under the new member price raise.

Realizing that the number of Supporting Members was rising so dramatically, I finally implemented higher entry prices to new DallasArtsRevue members, raising the first-year price-only from $75 to $100, which many members havebeen paying anyway. NOTE: This is only for the first year of new memberships. Additional years for everybody is still only $75, which I still consider a bargain, even in these trying economic times. For my little Honda, that's just a little more than one filll-up.

Carroll Swenson-Roberts - Dog Walk, 2008
mixed media - 50 x 28 inches

I also raised the Member Gallery price, so gallery advertising here would not be as cheap as it has been. I had already raised the Membership rate for Advertising and Career-Development Agencies who make it almost impossible to communicate directly with their clients who become DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members at their behest.

These are only the second time any of these levels have been raised.

All the new changes are detailed on the How to Join Page, the whole long, complicated page of which, potential members should read, so they will understand what all is involved in being a member of DallasArtsRevue. All the gritty-nitty details. Stuff you need to know.

Esther Ritz - It's Not Easy Being Red, 2007
mixed media - 48 x 44 inches

Members should check this page regularly,
because it is sometimes the only notice you will get
about upcoming exhibition opportunities (below).

Member News is on the Calendar Page where members' listings are marked by a member notation. Members who send show, event and news information to our latest email address on the Contact Us page are linked every chance we get.

I even sometimes use Members' work to illustrate abstruse notions on ThEdblog. The more links to your name online, the better Googled you are, and the more popular your Member Page.

Robert McCormack - American Gothic, 2008
acrylic on canvas - 20 x 16 inches

Whether they're new or have many years of exhibiting experience, artists who get the most out of DallasArtsRevue Memberships are those who show their work and let us know every time they do.

Member pages are a great opportunity to be seen by people who matter — our readers, many of whom are art professionals, curators and exhibition organizers.

 

DARts Friends and Supporting Members are eligible for member shows. Our first DARts show was 1026 Tranquilla. Everything about it is still linked from the 1026 Tranquilla Index. A very small show was at my home during a White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour. Then we had a one-night show called Big As Night, Too in October 2006, and a completely unobjective review considers the edgier work there.The current DallasArtsRevue exhibition, called Fierce, is detailed on the Fierce Index from which all the fierce pages can be linked. Next is
 

Ann S. Adams - Peace, 2008
pastel and ultrachrome ink - 24 x 43 inches
image provided by the artist
 

at the Bath House Cultural Center

If you are a DallasArtsRevue Supporting Member this December, you are invited to participate in a show at the Bath House called The Winter Show. That page already has some member feedback, including a couple of interesting suggestions, dates and a growing understanding of the place. There's no certain plan for the show yet, so we're gathering ideas from members via feedback on the Winter Show page, then we'll gradually flesh out the show.

Bath House Visual Arts Coordinator/Curator Enrique Fernández needed a title for long-range publicity, so I suggested this, then whipped out a cool (!) logo. Software company programs become real when the T-shirt comes out; DARts shows begin when the logo goes on a page. I've also worked at keeping new images with cool colors or cold images just above for this purpose. Eventually, will have to explore the Bath House space some, so there'll be other images on that page.

Jeanne Sturdevant - Determined, 2008  in Fierce
digital painting - 16 x 20 inches - edition of 5 - image provided by the artist

at 14th Street Gallery in July

In July 2008 DallasArtsRevue's Invited Guests including some members are showing at 14th Street Gallery in Plano. The Fierce show is up through July 29, and all Fierce information — including more than 20 artist studio visits, so far — is linked from The Fierce Index, where there's a major blog of putting the show together. We usually don't have this many membership exhibition opportunities, but we got lucky.

Free Photos for Member Pages

If you join DARts as a Supporting Member, my photographs of your work for your DARts Membership web page (only) are free. All you have do is set up an appointment. If you live close, I'll visit you. If you're farther away, you can bring your work here or we'll set something up. It only ever takes a few minutes.

There may be a few more details about the process of me taking photographs of your work that you'll need or want to know, for that check out the Photograph Your Work section of the How to Join DallasArtsRevue page linked just below.

 

Note: Part of my delight in having Supporting Member is the opportunity to show new work by some of the best and most diverse artists in Dallas. Let me photograph your most recent work to keep your pages up to date.

Read the whole (it tells you everything you'll need to know) How to Support DallasArtsRevue.com page or just the new, easy instructions (in purple) to get your DARts Membership started.

E-mail me if your work on your page hasn't changed in awhile. I often want to show new work by members here and on the cover, and I'm much more inclined to do that if I have new photographs of recent work. I appreciate your financial support, but it's great joy to show off interesting new work on these pages by Dallas artists.

Thanks,
J R Compton
Editor/Publisher
DallasArtsRevue.com

Lynn Noelle Rushton - Trust — Lovers Series, 2007
oil on linen - 40 x 30 inches - image provided by the artist

Index of Supporting Members The last day of the month + year cited is the final date of membership. Names in bold = new images in the last couple months. Many DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members — and other artists — are included in the Fierce Studio Visit pages indexed on The Fierce Index. Ann Adams   June 09 Mirtha Aertker   June 09 George Bailey   April 08 Donna Davis Ball   January 2014 poetry by Catherine Berg Rita Barnard   January 09 Rebecca Boatman    November 08 Kathy Boortz   September 08 Fannie Brito   June 08 J R Compton   ∞ Glenn Comtois   June 09 Dean Corbitt  June 08 James Crowe Sheila Cunningham   November 08 Annie Davis   May 09 Kapil Dixit   October 08 Jim Dolan   ∞ Farmer's & Merchant's Gallery Cecelia Feld    August 08 Nancy Ferro    December 08 14th Street Gallery in Plano    October 09 Marsha Finney Gibbons    January 09 Elissa Foster   ∞ Chris Fulmer   September 08 Heather Gorham    January 08 Paul Rogers Harris  May 09 Warren Paul Harris   July 08 Melody Hay    April 09 Kathy Robinson Hays   October 08 Michael Helsem   ∞ David Hickman   October 2009 Anne L Hines   June 09 In memory of Mary Iron Eyes    ∞ Joan Iverson   June 09 Matt Kaplinsky — See Jim Dolan's interview with Matt.  May 08 Norman Kary   February 07 Sonia King   September 08 Gale Lambert    July 09 Bonny Lebowitz    January 09 T J Mabrey   May 09 Jeanne C. McIntosh    April 08 Lorrie McClanahan    January 09 Robert McCormack    July 09 Marty Mitchener   March 08 Bob Nunn   June 09 Michael Obranovich    January 09 Anna Palmer   ∞ Melodee Martin Ramirez  May 09 Marty Ray Our first DARts Friend  May 08 Richard Ray   October 08 Esther Ritz   June 09 Carroll Swenson-Roberts    July 09 Lynn Noelle Rushton   June 09 Ken Shaddock   April 09 Art Shirer       ∞   with both annimations on the the second page Gail Siptak   August 08 Elisabeth Schalij   April 08 Joe Stanco poetry    ∞  James Michael Starr   November 08 T. Stone   January 09  Jeanne Sturdevant    June 08 Cecilia Thurman    January 08 Alex Troup    October 09 Susan Lecky and Bill Verhelst   August 08 Tiana Wages   link fixed May 08 Bonnie Wilber    February 08 The White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour +++   September 08

Gale Lambert - It's not always black or white
oil and acrylic - 16 X 20 inches.

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See the Index of People & Places for visits with artists,
including some DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members.

Members without pages are not linked. Some members simply want to support this site, and others haven't got around to getting their work photographed. Some put that experience off for years.

Resubscribing members are eligible to have one additional image on their page each time they resubscribe within their old subscription period.

The Site Map lists + links all DARts pages.

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