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Dear Friends:
I suppose that many of us already have our list of resolutions for the new year. Well, if not written down, at least rumbling around in our head. There is always something so beautiful about beginnings. Like a breath of fresh air the future holds hope and great expectations.
Even more than the power of dreams is the strength of resolve. For it is one thing to think on a thing and another to begin and finish. Like all the drawings waiting for paint, all the paintings waiting for signatures, and all the canvasses waiting to be seen, we are thus creatures involved in a work that requires of us daily “mustering.”
Just yesterday I watched my seven year old grand-daughter, together with her gymnastic team muster up the courage to perform their flips, twirls, and cartwheels to a nursing home audience. I witnessed in their young faces the confidence that comes of triumph. These dynamic little beings filled the room with a joy that came from the power of their accomplishment.
So together with our dreams, in this new year, I pray for strength and courage to go beyond our visions to a land of execution and completion. A place where in our hearts we experience great pleasure from a job well begun, a job well done. A place where victory over mind makes a winner of our spirit. Opportunities to flip and twirl our way to great satisfaction and joy.
Happy New Year
God Bless you all. OM
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Soul Biz
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-Carl Bard
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
-Albert Schweitzer
My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.
-Mel Weldon (submitted by mmellow)
Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow! Grow!"
-The Talmud
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
Rabbi Michal once said to his sons: “my life was blessed, because I never needed anything until I had it."
-Chasidic, 18th century
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We don’t need to go out after it.
It is coming to us.
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PO Box 667
Keaau, Hawaii 96749
941-993-0929
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Art Classes & Workshops
Dates & Instructors Subject to Change
Studio 20 with O.M.Braida
Private Classes
To Register, contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999
Time:
All Private Studio Classes
are from 9:30am to 2:30pm
Location:
2068 Sunnyside Lane, Sarasota, FL, 34239.
Just off 41 in the Southgate area two blocks north of Webber and the Mall.
Dates:
February 7,14, 21, 28
March 6, 13, 20, 27
April 3, 10, 17, 24
May 1, 8, 15, 22
Pick and choose your dates so we can set up your personal schedule.
Tuition:
4 classes/20 hours: $450
Individual class: $125
Refreshments provided, but you may want to bring your own lunch.
Academy of Botanical Art @
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
To Register, visit www.selby.org
Or Call Marilynn Shelley 941-366-5731 x 239
2007 Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor
– Noon to 5pm
Dec. 10, 11, 12 w/ Olivia Braida
2008 Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor
– Noon to 5pm
Jan. 21,22,23 w/ Susan Hubbard
Feb.18, 19, 20 w/ Olivia Braida
Mar. 24, 25, 26 w/ Olivia Braida
Apr. 21 to 25 w/ Olivia Braida
May 19, 20, 21 w/ Olivia Braida
July 21, 22, 23 w/ Susan Hubbard
Aug. 18, 19, 20 w/ Susan Hubbard
Sept. 22, 23, 24 w/ Susan Hubbard
Oct. 20, 21,22 w/ Olivia Braida
Nov. 10, 11, 12 w/ Olivia Braida
Dec. 8, 9, 10 w/ Olivia Braida
Academy @ Selby presents
Calligraphy
With Victoria Kibildis
5 Fridays
10:00pm to 2:00pm
Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2007
To Register, visit www.selby.org
Or Call Marilynn Shelley
941-366-5731 x 239
Botanical Art & Illustration
Certificate Program Classes
Ringling College of Art and Design
Spring 2008 Term
To Register, visit www.ringling.edu
Or call, 941-955-8866
Beautiful Botanical Drawing
With Olivia Braida
January 30, Feb 6, 13 – 1-5pm
Beautiful Botanical Watercolor
BRUSH-UP Class
Re-Learn the Basics with Olivia Braida
Feb 5,12, 19, 26, Mar 4 – 6:30-9:30pm
Botanical Watercolor III
w/ Olivia Braida
Feb 5,12, 19, 26, Mar 4 – 6:30-9:30pm
Botanical Drawing I w/ Sue Coffey
Feb 7,14, 21, 28, Mar 6 – 6:30-9:30pm
Pen & Ink w/ Olivia Braida
Feb 7,14, 21, 28, Mar 6, 13, 20, 27,
And Apr 3, 10 – 6:30-9:30pm
Botanical Drawing II w/ Sue Coffey
Mar 13, 20, 27, Apr 3, 10 – 6:30-9:30pm
Exhibits Galleries
Design Impressions Gallery presents
Extraordinary Visions
The Natural World Fine Art Botanicals
by O.M. Braida
November 1-January 28, 2008
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday
11 to 5pm
Saturday by Appointment
33 South Palm Avenue
Sarasota, FL
941-373-9660
Exhibits Museums
South Florida Museum
201 10th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34205
(941) 746-4131
http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/
John and Mable Ringling Museum
5401 Bay Shore Road,
Sarasota Florida 34243
(941) 359-5700
http://www.ringling.org/
Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE, St.
Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 896-2667
http://www.fine-arts.org/
Salvador Dali Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901
(727) 823-3767
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
(412) 268-2434
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3970
(202) 783-5000
1-800-222-7270
http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
Modern Museum of Art
11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 733-HIGH
Receptionist: 404-733-4400
http://www.high.org/
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
(312) 443-3600
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Bruce Museum One Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-869-0376
http://www.brucemuseum.org/
Harvard University Museum of Natural History
Home of the famous Glass Flower Sculptures
by Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895)
and his son Rudolf (1857-1939)
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2365
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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