We kicked off the new year with our annual and very popular Members Show and Tell Night, staying inside where it was cozy and warm!  For this January’s Zoom meeting, there was a twist… "if you cared to accept it!"  We asked members to "depict, in some visual form, your New Year’s Resolutions" and share it at the meeting.  Many of the 24 attendees took up the challenge and shared their resolutions with the group.

Our president, Rozenia Cunningham opened with a short business meeting.  She mentioned the Christmas party at the Lithuanian club and thanked Dennis McDonnell for taking the pictures.  She stated that we made over $400 in the auction for the EAA Scholarship fund, explaining how it gets awarded in May to a Euclid High School senior studying art.  Then, Rozenia reminded everyone about the Spring Fine Art Show being held at the Fairmount Center during the month of May and encouraged everyone to start painting and be ready to enter.

Next, we opened EAA’s Virtual Winter Show by presenting a five minute slideshow video of the beautiful artwork in the show.  We asked everyone to view the show @EuclidArt.com and to vote for their favorite work of art, encouraging them to share the link with their family and friends.  Many thanks to Kirk Ramsey, our webmaster, for all his hard work on creating this virtual show….very nicely done!

Up next…our New Year’s Resolutions!  Rozenia shared that she loves making resolutions and has done so every year for the past 20 years!  She started off by telling the group about EAA’s key resolutions, which included finding members to be the next EAA Secretary, the next webmaster and the assistant program director.

Thanks to everyone who shared their resolutions, most in visual form.  Many of the resolutions were art related . . . go from realistic to abstract; improve portrait painting skills to capture age appropriate likeness; use new brushes to create unique abstracts; keep a daily journal of sketches depicting "the life of Bernie’s cat"; let the colors ‘pour out’ freely on the canvas; finish what I started; and clean up my art studio.

Kathryn’s art depicted her desires to grow spiritually, find a faith community near where she now lives and to do an art journal workshop at the YMCA.

Char shared two watercolor images, one done by her granddaughter.  She described her desire to have more patience, slow down by not doing too much, be more aware of the environment and to spend more time in nature.

Additional resolutions ranged from "I don’t make resolutions" to "I’m going to be that sassy bird in my drawing" and from "dreams, just do it" to the quest to make non-flat chocolate chip cookies.

 It was a fun evening of sharing among friends. Until next year….Have a great 2025!