The Norwin Art League is a nonprofit organization that has provided art enrichment and art education to the Norwin communities since 1954. The League is one of the largest in Western Pennsylvania with a membership of over 180. Our members range from the experienced professional, to the talented amateur, to the “Sunday painter”.

The Norwin Art League offers art classes and art workshops year ‘round except for a break during the Christmas holiday and bad weather months of January and February. Classes and workshops are available for the beginner to the experienced, adults, and children. Each season offers new workshops in a variety of mediums from drawing, oil painting, watercolor, and pastel, to jewelry making and even airbrush.

The Norwin Art League exhibits its members’ artwork year round in different venues including Cafe Supreme, Norwin Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Bank and Dr. Jill Constantine's office. Many of our members have sold their artwork through these venues.

Board Meeting

Topic: Board meeting may be attended by any member

Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Place:  Norwin Art League, 306 Main Street, Irwin

Norwin Art League News

Garden Tour and Art Display Report

NAL participated with the Greenridge Garden Club in the GARDEN TOUR on July 10. The weather was absolutely wonderful and the gardens were beautiful for “Art in the Garden”. Two pieces of art were displayed in five gardens and another 46 pieces were displayed at John & Sue Pringle's gardens on Lincoln Way. All of the paintings were of flowers and landscapes. A total of 6 paintings were sold by Sue Pringle, Joe Watkoski and Pat Vaughn.

Felicia Richards (member) and Lois Yeager have formed a company “Creative Beyond Control Photography” and sell greeting cards, photos, enlargements, collages and more (flowers to city scenes and everything in between). Lois was on the garden tour and sold their cards at her home on Guffey Road. Some of their beautiful cards are available at the league for a very reasonable price.  

Member Cheryl Kirsch had many wonderful floral silk scarves displayed on the tour. Some of her scarves are for sale at the league. Her business name is Angel Cat Art. Special thanks to Mike & Ann Andrejcak, Naomi D'Alessandro, Bob & Judy Rebich and Bob & Pat Vaughn for their help with the tour. The artwork and easels were distributed to the different gardens and then everything was picked up and delivered back to the league. Bob Rebich repaired and painted more than a dozen of our easels to have them all match and look nice in the gardens. We also appreciate that they also store our extra easels in their garage, so that we have more available space at the league.

Winners of the Popular Vote on the garden tour are: First: Ricki Wertz Second: Linda Agate Third: Peggy Kelly

NAL Annual Exhibit

Weekly Ongoing Classes

• Open Classroom: Instructor is Helen Vresilovic (Tuesday mornings from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm)
• Oil Painting: Instructor is Pat Vaughn with Assistant Ann Andrejcak(Monday & Wednesday 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 pm; Wednesday & Thursdays 9:30 am to 12:30 pm)
• Watercolor Landscapes: Instructor is Elmer Knizner (Monday mornings from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm)
• More information is available on the Art Classes and Workshops page.

Note from the Editor

I’m looking forward to being the new editor of the Art League newsletter. Please bear with me as I grow into this responsibility. Bud Nagy has done an outstanding job with the newsletter for the past few years – which makes it a “tough act to follow”. I welcome any comments or suggestions to make the Art League newsletter more useful to you – the members. Thank you …..Ellen Hildenbrand
724-863-7282 ellenhild@gmail.com

Custom Picture Framing by Dave Rawlins

Rawlins Framing shop is open. Dave offers a full line of quality framing services and supplies. Telephone number (724) 744-4531. Dave now has a shrink wrap machine and can now wrap matted pictures. Pastels and pencil drawings should be sprayed before matting and shrink wrapped, if you want to sell them unframed.

Membership Drive

The art league presently has over 150 members. This year we‘d like to double our membership, partly to increase our revenue but also to promote our wonderful organization to the community. In spite of the fact that the Norwin Art League has been a part of our community for 54 years, there are many people who have no idea we exist. We’re asking you to sign up one new member this year. Maybe a parent, son or daughter, or good friend who is interested in art but has never belonged. A $25.00 membership or $40.00 family membership makes a great gift especially for someone who‘s hard to buy for. With their membership they’ll receive all the newsletters and workshop flyers throughout the year. They‘ll also be eligible to exhibit and sell their own artwork at any of our 7 venues. The Norwin Art League is one of THE BEST art organizations in Western Pa.

Library Books

Our library is over stocked and sadly under-used. We are making available a number of lightly used art books for sale. Stop into the league for details.

Newsletter by E-Mail

We would like to start sending your bi-monthly newsletter by E-mail to those of you that have computers. This would save the Norwin Art League a lot of time and money. You would be able to get the newsletter a lot faster. If this is something that you would not want to see happen, please notify us at ellenhild@gmail.com (Ellen Hildenbrand), sap53@aol.com (Sue Pringle) or bobvon123@comcast.net (Pat Vaughn). If you change your carrier, please notify us as soon as possible.

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