On September 13, four members of the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society performed a pastel paint-around in support of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania’s Good Spirits fundraiser at Seven Mountains Wine Cellars. Jennifer Shuey, Kim Gates Flick, Virginia Belser, and Roxanne Naydan each started a painting for 20 minutes, then rotated around to each other’s' paintings for another 15 minutes each, and then finished up on the painting that they started. Collaboration at it

"Anne Kenyon-Recent Pastels" September 1-September 26 at Gallery Shop Pike St. Lemont, Pa 16851 There will be a demo and closing reception Saturday, September 26 from 11am-3-pm

Jeanne McKinney's painting, "View of the Kent House, Monhegan Island, Maine" was accepted into the Degas Pastel Society's 19th Membership Exhibition held from September 5th through September 26th at Place Saint Charles, New Orleans, LA. Also, Jeanne's painting "Gull Rock" was accepted into the 2015 Maryland Pastel Society's "Shades of Pastel" Biennial National Juried show. The exhibition will be held from October 5 -28th, 2015 at the Hill Galleries on Capital Hill in Washi

Betty Gobeille was invited by CPPS President, Marianne Fyda, to attend the Presidents' Forum at the IAPS Conference in Albuquerque, NM as a CPPS representative. This is a partial report. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PASTEL SOCIETIES There are many changes coming to the international Association of Pastel Societies - both in the scheduling and the way the IAPS organization can help the individual societies. The Forum was scheduled for all day Thursday, June 4th, 9 am - 3 p

Once again the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society will take part in the International Plein Air Paint Out. We will be joining artists from all over the world as we participate in this special annual September event . Marianne Fyda and Pat McDannel will once again host the Plein Air Paint Out West on Friday, September 11 from 10-4 at Marianne's home in Troutville. They will also provide lunch, snacks, and drinks. Rain date is September 12. Denise Wagner is planning the S

The “Pastel Expressions” Exhibit at SAMA Ligonier was a great success. PPAL and CPPS produced a fine array of paintings for this exhibit, and juried it well. SAMA did a beautiful job of displaying our work and promoting it online and with their very informative brochure. I felt greatly honored to be asked to give a brief talk at the Lunch a l’Art event on Thursday, August 20. I talked about pastels and why they are such a captivating medium: how well they interact with o

The Mike Beeman workshop was a great success. It is a testament to how good Mike was as an instructor that we had one person who was scheduled for one day and after the first day, she changed her registration and stayed for all three days. He shared a lot of really good information and some wonderful paintings came out of the workshop. We were pleased to have several people who came from out of the area, including New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts, because Mike doesn

Marianne Fyda's painting, "Dahlia", was accepted into the Degas Pastel Society's 19th Membership exhibition in New Orleans, LA held during September. Also, one of Marianne's paintings was posted on the SAMA Ligonier website.