ACW Monthly Meeting: 2/18 at 7pm

ACW Meeting Agenda:

• Upcoming ACW Events:

  • February 2026 - Blake Gallery at the Beebe Library – ACW exhibit – 16 participants

    • Stop by and check out the exhibit!

  • February After-Meeting Activity – Art Supply Swap

    • Bring any art supplies that you no longer want and swap, give, or sell to other artists.

    • New this year..... any of the supplies don’t find a new home in the swap can be donated to The Creative Chaos Emporium and they will  come and pick them up at the ACE building.

  • April 2026 – ACW Spring Exhibition and Sale:  The theme is ‘Past Tense’.  See more info further below

    • Committee updates

    • Finalize special exhibit concept

• Local Art Opportunities

  • Blake Gallery at the Beebe Library:  Has monthly openings for this year.  Contain the library for sign up and further details

  • Life Drawing Sessions:  Creative Arts in Reading.  More info further below

• ACW ‘Drop In and Art’ Monthly sessions –- 2nd Tuesday and 2^nd Wednesday of the month – more info further below

• Mailing List and Newsletter:  Updates from Andy

• Website and Instagram updates/reminders

  • Update your ACW Website content – send any updates to Joy:  joy.schilling@gmail.com

  • Provide photos to Andy to post on the ACW Instagram account; send to:  andy_levine@yahoo.com

• ACW Kitty:   

  • ACW Kitty Accounting:

    • Starting Balance:         $850.31       

    • Income:                            $34.00     (34.00 is the remaining amount after expenses from the  registration fees from the October exhibit.)  

    • Expenses:                        $00.00        

    • Ending Balance:          $884.31       

• Other Topics?

• ‘Round the Room’ – Art Events and happenings updates

Additional ACW Info:

‘Drop In and Art’ Sessions at the ACE presented by the ACW

Come join ACW members and friends for some art time in the company of local artists.  The sessions are held monthly on the 2^nd Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the month.  Bring your own art supplies and hang out with other artists to chat, get inspired, help with a bit of creative block, or whatever!  

·         Adult artists are welcome to drop in for as little or as much of the session as they like.

·         Medium suggestions include, but are not limited to:  drawing, stitching, knitting, sketch book/journaling, collage, dry felting, jewelry making, carving wood or linoleum, watercolor or acrylic painting. 

·         2^nd Tuesday and 2^nd Wednesday of the month:

o   Tuesdays:  10am – Noon

o   Wednesdays: 7pm- 9pm

ACW Calendar: 

     2026

• February:  ACW Member Exhibit at the Blake Gallery in the Beebe Library for the month. 

• February:   Art Supply Swap at monthly meeting

• April:  ACW Spring Show.  Theme is ‘Past Tense’.  Location: ACE building

• October:  ACW Fall Show.  Theme is TBD.  Location: ACE building

• December:  ACW Winter Artisan Sale - 1^st weekend of December. Location: ACE building

     2025

• February:  ACW Member Exhibit at the Blake Gallery in the Beebe Library for the month. 

• February:  Art Supply Swap at monthly meeting

• February:  Paper Landscapes workshop led by Judy Hartman

• April:  ACW Spring Show.  Theme was  “Anything Goes”.  Location: ACE building

• April:  Photographing your Artwork discussion. Led by David Kay

• October:  ACW Fall Show.  Theme was “Artober”.  Location; ACE building

• December:  ACW Winter Artisan Sale Dec 5, 6, 7. Location: ACE building

Call For Art

ACW Spring Exhibition ‘Past Tense’ April 2026 

In commemoration of fifteen years of the Arts Collaborative of Wakefield, we are pleased to announce our spring art show Past Tense which invites artists to create art using the perspective of the past. Pulitzer Prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter once wrote: “The past is never where you think you left it.” Writer John Banville wrote: “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”  We all have a personal past, or a ‘past tense,’ and we are also part of a much larger historical narrative.   Explore what ‘past tense’ means to you…Is it about looking back or looking forward?  Is it about growth, or loss, or change? Is it about the end of something, or a beginning?

The Past Tense art exhibit, fundraiser and sale is open to all and will be on Fridays on April 3, 10, 17, 24 from 5:00-8:00 and Saturdays on April 4, 11, 18 from 11:00-2:00 at the Albion Cultural Exchange. 

There will be a special exhibit with the theme of ‘Wakefield History’.  More information on the special exhibit,  art drop off,  registration, and hosting etc. is available on the ACW website.  So, put on your thinking caps and ponder what ‘Past Tense’ means to you and start your artwork!