The American Society of Aviation Artists will be having our 2005 Forum at Pax River!
At the recent Forum in Dayton, we got a slide preview of the station and our venue, and have been assured that the Navy will roll out the red carpet for the attending artists. They're pretty sure June 2005 will be the date - the Forums usually last a week, and are chock-full of opportunites to enhance your artistic skills via both academic sessions and personal critiques from accomplished artists. The Navy has promised full access to their facilites and a varied assortment of TPS jets as well.
The *juried* exhibition, which will hang there (hanging dates TBD), is not only a feather in the cap, but a potential wallet-fattener - something like $9000 in cash awards will be handed out! Yep, I'm already working on basic sketches for a painting which I hope to enter.
I've been to three Forums already, and the education (a major focus of ASAA) has been easily worth triple the modest investment of my money and travel time.
No, you don't have to be a professional artist to enter! When I joined as an Associate member I had only done one serious aviation painting - and as my (solicited) critiques showed, I had a LOT to learn. I've come a long way since then, I'd like to think, and a major part of that is due directly to the personal interactions and just "listening" I've had at the three Forums I've been to. The quarterly ASAA newsletter is full of info too.
No, I'm not a paid spokesman, but I do know from personal emails that many modelers are also 2-D types, or are seriously interested in learning "how" to transfer their talents to the canvas surface . . .
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Hope to see ALL of you at Pax River next year!
Wade snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com