​Comments by some SAG members:

"I feel this group is my art 'family'.  I hope that anyone joining SAG will attend the
monthly meetings and become a member of the family."

"McNeil had a way of making each person feel 'special'.  She encouraged everyone.
Level of artistic ability didn't matter. 
Although McNeil is no longer with us in person, I hope that she will be with us in spirit always,
and that new members will feel as welcome as I did."
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"The potlucks are FABULOUS--so many good cooks!"

"Thank you so much for the awesome Thanksgiving party with all those wonderful familiar faces and a special guest!
I am very fortunate to be in the wonderful SAG art group.  You guys are the best!
Art gives us meaning and helps us understand our world. Scientific studies have proven that art appreciation
improves our quality of life and makes us feel good. When we create art, we elevate our mood,
we improve our ability to problem solve, and open our minds to new ideas."
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Join SAG

 If you are ready to join SAG, please fill out our Membership Application Form.  If you have any questions, email me  vistapat@att.net 

Membership Dues

Our yearly dues of $40 is being reduced to $20 for 2022 and 2023 because the pandemic is limiting our activities.  Dues help defray costs for monthly meetings, group exhibitions, ​social events, printing costs for cards and flyers and other advertising, and for our website. 

Options for paying your dues or for images or for whatever:
     1)  Pay in person by check or cash.  If you are interested in joining SAG, please come to our monthly meeting, where you can meet other people who have an interest in art, and find out what is going on at SAG currently. 
If you decide to join, pay at the monthly meeting by check or cash.  Or, you can mail your check to our Treasurer, Oscar Afsahi, 141 Townwood Way, Encinitas CA 92024.
Make checks payable to Sargent Art Group and note that check is for dues (or images or whatever you are paying for).  Include your email address, so that Oscar can acknowledge receipt of your payment.  (Kathy is a little leary about sending checks in the mail due to past experience of some checks disappearing in the mail.)

     2)  Pay via Zelle.  Another option for paying is to use Zelle (if your bank offers payments through Zelle).  Log into your bank account and look for Payments & Transfers (that is where I find it on my Chase account).  Set up a Payee (Sargent Art Group) and enter the email address (SargentArtGrp@gmail.com)  There is a place where you can note what you are paying for e.g. dues, or 6 images, or donation for ???

     3)  Pay online from this website.  A small percentage of the amount you pay will be kept by the processor (Square).  If you want to pay online, go to the Payments page.​
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Your Art on this Website

​Once you have joined SAG and have paid your membership dues, you are entitled to submit two images of your art (and whatever bio info you want included) and have your own page on the SAG website. 

​If you wish to have more images on the website, you can do so by paying to SAG a modest fee of $5 per image.  The $5 per image is a one time fee, and your page will remain as long as you maintain your membership in SAG (or you ask that something be deleted) or something catastrophic happens.
You can pay for your images using any of the methods described in the section above.

Instructions for submitting images for the website:  
Images of artwork on this website are 432 pixels high @ 72 dpi.  If possible, send that size to Pat Boyd at vistapat@att.net 
If you are not able to resize your image, send a larger image and I will resize it--OR if your image needs a lot of work, email it to Bob Boyd at vistabob@att.net and Bob will fix it.
If you have images on another website, I can copy if you want me to do that.

Please name the photos this way:  “number” “Name of artwork” “dimension w/o frame (height first x width)” “media” “artist name”.  For example:  “1 Psychotic Dunce 18x20 mixed media Joe Blow”  If you are sending the file directly from your phone, please include the name (as illustrated above) in the text of the email.

Also, we have the capability to post short videos on this website.
Videos, as well as images, need to be of high quality.
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Sharing ​Information and How-to's for Artists

SAG members contribute to the organization in many ways--from bringing snacks to the meeting and cleaning up the meeting room --to finding locations for displaying art or sharing information about upcoming art shows--to demonstrating specific techniques they use in creating their art.  Many love to share what they have learned from experience.

SAG members, Bob & Pat Boyd, share some things learned from experience, including:

• Wiring your artwork for hanging
• Considerations for entering a show (weighing the pros and cons)
• How to photograph your artwork for entry into shows and for the web  (This is from several years ago--using a camera)
• Considerations for having your own website

To access this info, click on the following link to their website:
         www.RPBoydDesign.com/information_for_artists.htm 

​For a more recent version:  "How to use your smartphone to photograph artwork for show entries", you can download the file to your computer to read or print, or you can read it below.

2022-use_phone_to_photogr_art.docx
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How to use your smartphone to photograph artwork for show entries:
About your smartphone:  Most newer smartphones have good cameras; some have great cameras.......
​Click here for the full article.

​Here is a Tip:  Suppose that you want to tell someone to look at your art on the SAG website.  Instead of sending them to SargentArtGroup.org, send them directly to your page.  The link will look like this:
https://www.sargentartgroup.org/your-name.html   Although the "https://www." and the ".html" appear in the URL, it seems that is not required.  In other words, sargentartgroup.org/your-name should work. If the link didn't change to blue, It is not "clickable"; be sure that you hit the space bar after the last letter in your link.  If it doesn't change to blue, add www. in front of sargent...  Whenever you give a link to anyone, always click on the link to make sure it works.  
To ensure that you have the link spelled correctly:  Instead of typing it, open your page on the SAG website, highlight the URL (that is the address near the top of the page near the left side of the screen), choose “copy”, and paste the link into an email.
If you have a page on websites of other groups, you can use the same procedure.  See the examples below.  Notice that each URL is slightly different.

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​Potlucks

Potluck and Meeting on November 16, 2019

Potluck and Meeting on November 14, 2021

A little entertainment by Dorothy Annette Jackson and guitarist

Potluck and Meeting on November 6, 2022