Our next Member’s Meeting will be
Sunday, July 19th, 1:30pm
The Critique will be by Carol Jenkins
All my life I have loved the out of doors—especially wild places. There is something unpredictable about wild terrain, exciting, a little risky. It is also why I am drawn to abstract painting. It is the unexpected that delights: a wildflower pushing up through decaying leaves, an accidental smear on the canvas that leaves a beautiful mark I did not try to make. These are gifts that satisfy me.
Just like a forest, an abstract painting grows into itself and cannot be known ahead of time: it is a call and response, moment by moment, and can never be replicated. My painting process starts with spontaneous mark-making, then the laying on of bold shapes, followed by layers of acrylic or oil paint that I draw into and scrape away. Once an interesting line or color pulls the painting in a direction I want to follow, I build the layers of paint more deliberately into a composition that incorporates both the quiet expanse and bountiful energy of the wilderness I love.
The process of naming a painting is also important to me. I want the name to be a window into the painting that also allows the viewer to move anywhere else they want to go. I often spend a lot of time looking at a painting, engaging in an intuitive process of association until a word or idea pulls me toward a name that feels right. Playing with words is similar to exploring with paint: it is the unexpected that moves me.
My work has been shown in galleries across the West Coast and has been collected nationally.
On Sunday, 7/19 bring in one piece of art that hasn’t been critiqued before, either finished or unfinished.
For more information visit CRITIQUES
Be sure to visit the Viewers Choice page to see the creative winners from our previous meeting.
Also, we would like to honor our members who are no longer with us. Please visit our In Memoriam page for more information.
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Welcome to the Siskiyou Artists Association (SAA) website. We are a congenial group of Northern California artists who meet regularly to exchange ideas and learn more about visual arts
SAA supports local artists by providing critiques and demonstrations at scheduled meetings, workshops, and an annual show in late summer. Each year the association also awards a scholarship to a local graduating high school or college art student. SAA has been active in Siskiyou County for more than sixty years. See some of our history HERE
The beautiful painting on the left is by Anne McTavish and is the People’s Choice Award winner from SAA’s 2025 Annual Member’s Show in August at Siskiyou Art Museum.
How the “Artist of the Year” is chosen –
At each Critique meeting, people are invited to select three of their favorite works. This created the pool of candidates for “Artwork of the Year”. At the February Meeting these pieces are again presented for voting.
The winner of that vote becomes the “Artist of the Year” and has their name engraved on a beautiful silver-plated trophy which they hold for the entire year.
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Membership
Our members range from beginning artists to skilled professionals. All you need to join is enthusiasm for visual arts and $25. Just complete the membership form (link below) and mail it with a check for annual dues ($25 for an individual, $35 per family,$50 for Art Lover, $100 for Supporter) to:
Siskiyou Artists Association
P. O. Box 1654
Mount Shasta, CA 96067
You may join anytime.
Thank You Deetz Storage!
SAA thanks Tom and Yvonne Waite, owners of Deetz Storage, for the very generous discount they have given SAA for storage of our show panels and other workshop and meeting supplies. Their support of our organization and local artists is greatly appreciated.