Film at Eleven! -- Annette Bush

Here Comes the Judge

		September will find Annette returning for the third time in 15 years to judge the three decades old Powers Crossroads Festival just South of Atlanta. This popular Country Fair and Art Festival has more than 250 art, fine and traditional crafts exhibits along with demonstrations, entertainment and great food. Annette is delighted to be sharing Labor Day Weekend and this huge job with an old friend, long-time painter Joanna Ellington.

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Special Report from France

While Annette's month in France was everything she expected, it was also NOT as she expected. The daily sketches for the residency and descriptions of the month's thoughts and events are posted on her blog.

April in France

Annette has been accepted for a month-long residency in April at the Centre d'Art Contemporain (Cat'Art). The Centre is located in the tiny remote village of Sainte Colombe sur l'Hers in SouthWest France near the ancient walled city of Carcassone and within easy day travel to Toulouse, Perpignan on the Mediterranean, the Canal du Midi, the cave paintings of Niaux and the Gorges of the Tarn.
Cat'Art offers housing and studio space for up to fourteen artists, writers, musicians & sculptors.
Annette will be joined by 5 other artists from around the U.S., including her friends Karen and Robin who were also on the NYC/Gates trip last year.

She is hoping for some interesting changes in her painting process to take place while there.
To prepare for the trip, she is working on small canvases using notes, sketches (like this one of a Roman Bridge) & photographs from her other French trips.

New Galleries

After a couple of years of studio time to focus on new directions, Annette recently committed to two new

galleries. She is pleased to be represented by Liz Charles Gallery in Tuscaloosa, AL and West End Art Gallery in

Winston-Salem, NC.

Delivery of new work to the galleries coincided with an overnight stay in Birmingham

with long-time friend,

Karen Jacobs, and the opening reception in Winston-Salem for Texas friend, Cheryl McClure.

Outstanding Alumna

On October 22, 2005, Annette was named to the Wall of Outstanding Alumni at LaGrange College by Dr. Stuart Gulley, LC President.

(see his remarks here) Members of her family were guests of the college and filled two tables marked with photos of Annette during her college years in the early '60s. An unexpected visit with retired religion professor, Dr. Charles McCook, added to the memories of the weekend.

LaGrange is the oldest private school in Georgia which was begun 175 years ago. It is recognized by U.S.News and World Report as a top ten school and a top ten value, and,

this year, adds football to its winning sports program.

Jessye Norman School of the Arts
Advisory Council

Annette was recently named chairman of the Advisory Council of the Jessye Norman School of the Arts. "The Council is comprised of experienced artists and educators to oversee artistic and professional standards, review arts curricula, and recommend faculty members. The Advisory Council

also serves on audition panels, evaluates the program, and recommends guidelines for sequential expansion of the School of the Arts." The JNSA is a project of the Rachel Longstreet Foundation and is supported by native Augustan and renowned Opera singer Jessye Norman.

The Family's Newest Work of Art!

Lucille Rae, "Lucy", was born on August 11 at 10:10pm, making Annette a grandmother for the first time! Lucy is the daughter of Annette's youngest daughter, Kathryn and her husband, Johnny. She weighed 6lbs, 8ozs and was 19-3/4 inches long with curling auburn hair!
Here she is at just minutes old!

Arts in the Gardens

Annette has met with the "Arts in the Gardens" Committee of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical Gardens to share ideas for introducing Artists to the Gardens. Exhibits and Invitational Plein-Air Paint-outs will be on the annual Calendar of Events which will focus on both visual and performing arts.

The GGHF's Botanical Gardens encompass approximately 17 acres along the banks of the Savannah River along Reynolds Street in downtown Augusta. The site includes eight acres of gorgeous display gardens!
Sculptures of Arnold Palmer, Byron Nelson, Raymond Floyd, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus all have permanent homes in these gardens!

The Return of the BioGem

If you are one of Annette's fans who has missed the artists' bios which she had been writing and emailing, you'll be happy to know that they are back. Some time each Wednesday, you can find a new BioGem, with last week's and a previous year's, at Sharing Celebrations. There is even a link to let us know you'd like an email reminder of these quirky personalities, jewels of art history and ways to celebrate.

Click on this image
on the homepage
(or here)

Annette was Artist of the Month for June on the website of Chicago artist, David R. Becker. He had this to say about Annette's work:

"I went to see [your new painting] and it knocked me out, along with all the other wonderful works on your site and the site itself."

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"I was going through your site again this morning with my cup of coffee reading your biogem and then I wandered through your painting pages and . . . I realized the reason I liked them so much was because of the great design."

David is a fine watercolorist, great teacher and author of two North Light books, How to Sketch with Watercolor and Watercolor Composition Made Easy. Don't miss his workshop, if you have a chance to take it.

Passion Week Collage for the Arts

Annette created one new painting and completed another for this multi-arts event at St. John UM Church. This was the second year that contemporary art was included in the schedule.

All of the artists on the New York City trip vowed to keep up the walking after the "boot camp" in Manhattan.
Walking to deliver paintings is not quite the same as walking to see paintings, but blocks are blocks. Annette is shown "walking" her paintings the 6 long blocks to the church.

Her two paintings can be seen here. Be sure to see the enlarged images which explain the symbolism.

Annette & Flat Stanley visit New York City

In February, Annette visited NYC with seven other artists from around the US. They planned their visit to coincide with "the Gates" which were created by Christo and Jeanne Claude for the footpaths of Central Park. Read about their adventures through the Flat Stanley Story here.

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