February 2025

Hello fabulous members!

Hope you all are doing well!  We appreciate you ... entering our shows, spending your hard-earned money in our shop and at our shows, volunteering, telling others about us, bringing your friends to visit, taking a class or two, just visiting and enjoying the gallery ... all the ways you show your support for your local community arts center - THANK YOU!

Here's your February quick take:

1.  SOUPer Bowl this Saturday
Saturday, Feb 8
SOUP-er Bowl from 11:30 until we run out!
Minimun $18 donation - you can choose your favorite handmade bowl, plus get a to-go container of soup and a brownie - this is a fundraiser put on by Rebecca and the pottery studio for MWCA!  SOUP-er convenient - you'll have beautiful bowls and food to serve at your Super Bowl get-together!

Pottery project: Make a heart-shaped chip-and-dip bowl with Rebecca.
Drop-in (no pre-registration required) on the hour at 11, 12, 1, or 2.
$35 per project.
Fun for all ages, small children may need help from their grown-up.
Your bowl will be glazed and ready in two weeks.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SOUPE OR CHILI RECIPE?
The pottery studio has been working very hard to make bowls for the Souper Bowl fundraiser, but we need your help.
This fundraiser is for the center as a whole. If you love to cook, please sign up to bring a crock pot of soup or chili or cookies/brownies. Servers are also needed ...
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45ACAB2DA3FCC34-54690990-souper#/

This event is a favorite for our community and we need LOTS of soup!

2. NEW CLASSES
Please check out our N*E*W offerings!

• Artist Book Club -- https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/saturday-soirees-and-other-special-events.html
• Art-X for special needs young adults https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/saturday-soirees-and-other-special-events.html
• Date Night - Paint your partner: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/adult-classes.html
• Collage Party: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/adult-classes.html

3. February at a glance: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/classes--events.html

4. THANK YOU to these early bird business sponsors:
https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/sponsorship.html

5. GALLERY NEWS
The Members Show wraps up Feb 15 ... and then the happiest show in town comes in -- the Elementary Student Art Show! Can't wait!!
See the rest of the line-up: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/call-for-entries.html

6. 2024 IMPACT REPORT and RECAP
Please visit our website https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/ to view a three-minute video recap of 2024 plus our IMPACT REPORT. We have copies of the Impact Report at the Art Center - please come by and pick one up!

I think you'll be pleased and impressed with our accomplishments. I often call us the "little art center that could" ! We just recently had visitors from another art guild in Gwinnett Co who wanted to learn how we do what we do -- creating a vibrant and warm community art center.

7 FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
If you missed the February newsletter - here's a link: https://mailchi.mp/82822502fa6c/monroewaltonartsnews-8341883