By Michele Smith
The Times
Blue Mountain Artists Guild Promotes Art in Public Spaces
Guild provides frienDship and support for local artists
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Courtesy Photo Members of the Blue Mountain Artists Guild show off their work. From l to r: Brenda North, Michele Smith, Lydia Caudill, Sylvia Beuhler (in back), Meredith Dedman, Kris Takamura, and Martha Mason.
DAYTON-What do a dragon, the word "sproing", Bob Hope, a red blend, a cornucopia, and Franciscan ware have in common?
Not much unless you are looking at a common theme, which is the case this month when the Blue Mountain Artists Guild presents its theme for November: "Dining Room Tables".
Every month members of the Blue Mountain Artists Guild produce art based on a monthly theme for display in the Delany Room, and they have been doing so since 2008.
Debbie Baxter, a former guild member and retired Dayton High School art teacher, said that gathering local artists together to promote art in the community had been a long time goal of artist and visionary Vivian Eslick McCauley, who founded the BMAG.
Artists met at the Delany Building to share and display their work, learn and support each other, and take turns demonstrating art programs. The artists were encouraged by visiting guest artists with hands-on projects, Baxter said.
"Thank you Vivian for helping us get art out in the public where we can all enjoy and appreciate it," Baxter added.
The BMAG currently has about nine active members who all agree that the guild provides friendship and support for their individual artistic endeavors.
"When you are an artist you need art friends to support you," said guild member Martha Mason.
"It is good for me because there is a theme, and an expectation that inspires me, or I procrastinate," guild member Kris Takemura admitted.
The guild's most recent member Lydia Caudill said the guild provides her with a fun time to get creative and a group to share that with.
If you miss seeing "Dining Room Tables" this month, you have the chance to see it when it makes its rounds of the community, first at the Dayton General Hospital, in December, and at The Blue Mountain Station, in January.
The monthly theme for December is "Sweets", which will go on display in the Delany Room on Nov. 29.
To join the BMAG, or for more information about the BMAG. contact president Meredith Dedman at 382-2372, or vice president Sylvia Beuhler at (509) 629-2052.
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