Monthly Club Meetings

This month’s guest speakers are Brian Watson and Ben Boyher, the duo that make up Augusta Missouri Metal Arts. Coming from a construction background, they approach their art practice with the practical experience of craftsmanship. From their workshop in Augusta, they

produce works that range from small to monumental, fabricated from copper and steel. In this presentation, Brian and Ben will share highlights of their background, some of their favorite projects, and the tools they use to achieve their amazing sculptures.

Our guest presenter is an entrepreneur who lives in Sullivan, MO and whose primary business is web design, video productions and market consulting. He has created a local collective of artists and crafters called “ShowMeArtists” and developed a web page (www.showmeartists.com) to showcase them to businesses, in and around the mid Missouri region, that may require artwork for advertising

purposes. The showmeartist website allows artists to promote their own websites and allows the printing of artwork on varying media like shirts, cups etc. He is currently working with MMFAS officers and similar art clubs to determine how his business might better serve the art industry. Josh will tell us more about his business and how it might help our artists in MMFAS.

Gary Lucy Studio has been a fixture on West Main Street in Washington, MO for as long as most of us can remember. Growing up in the Missouri bootheel, Lucy never envisioned a life in art. Starting college at Southeast Missouri State University in 1967, Lucy’s goal was to get his CPA with a degree in marketing and advertising. His career path changed after taking a drawing class with a friend. That one event led to his discovering a love and aptitude for art that caused him to change his goal to teaching art, with the idea that doing so would allow him to eventually

become a full time artist. From there the rest is history. In 1973, Lucy received his first taste of national exposure by winning second place in the Federal Duck competition. That was the beginning of many more awards and commissions that have kept him steadily working and creating a large body of impressive works that can be seen nationwide. A visit to the Gary Lucy Gallery is a must see for anyone visiting Washington, MO. To find out more about Gary’s life and work, visit his website at: garylucy.com.

Michael Bauermeister is a well known American sculptor who just happens to live in Augusta, Missouri. Michael’s work is in collections worldwide from The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC to the US Embassies in Abu Dhabi and Kiev. Michael attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, then earned a degree in sculpture at the Kansas City

Art Institute. After graduation he moved to Augusta and began designing and making custom furniture. Not giving up on his dream to sculpt, he experimented by sculpting wooden bowls which eventually led to his moving in to what he refers to as “human scale” wooden sculpture. Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Michael himself.

Veronica will be demonstrating her overall painting process of starting a painting with abstract shapes and then whittling down/carving out her subject. She will be talking about how she starts out with simple forms and values and how that helps her

decide if the painting will work overall and then gradually works towards more detail and how working this way allows her to speed up her process and have a finished painting in less time, then choose whether or not to add or leave out various details.