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Welcome to International Decorative Artisans League Founded in 1984, the International Decorative Artisans League (IDAL) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the art of stenciling and related decorative painting. Membership provides opportunities for artistic and professional growth through: education, certification, public awareness, and networking. Most IDAL members belong to local or on-line chapters. They take classes, share advice or just have a place to meet people with common interests. The local chapters usually meet once a month. There is a social time and then a class on some decorative art form. Attending a meeting is free the first two times you go, to help you test out the chapter. Click here to find a chapter near you.
Join The 2009/2010 Membership Drive! “Start Here. Grow Here. Succeed Here” is the theme of this year’s membership drive! How many members do we want? As many as possible! Break out that contact list and get to work! Be creative…give demos at local events! Speak to schools! Go to arts association meetings! Get your name out there…and get the word out that IDAL is THE organization that helps artisans grow and succeed with education, networking, benefits and support! Recruit new members and earn POINTS! Win fantastic prizes for you and your chapter. Earn points for each NEW member recruited based on membership-level.
The competition ends on June 30, 2010. However, any new member who signed up on or after August 1, 2009 will count toward your points if they indicated either you or your chapter on the form when they signed up. Click here for the contest rules and prize information!
The panels from top left to bottom right, were completed by Jennifer Ferguson, Sherry Haydel, Victoria Bigham, Krista Vind, Cynthia Davis, and Leslie Nesbit.
Artisphere is published quarterly by the International Decorative Artisans League (IDAL), 1100–H Brandywine Blvd., Zanesville, OH 43701–7303, phone 740-452-4541, fax 740-452-2552, Office@DecorativeArtisans.org. IDAL is a non-profit organization and offers this publication as a member benefit. Artisphere brings the world of art and artisans to your mailbox with articles, news, and features for artists at every skill level.
At the 2009 Annual General Meeting, Helen Morris spoke about her company, The Stencil Library—its origins, how it grew, where it may fit with future trends in our industry. The Stencil Library is twenty-one years old this October. Helen and her husband Chips (“short for Chippendale. He is a descendent of the Chippendales. That’s the furniture family, not the dancers”) design and make stencils that are sold world wide. They live in a stenciled home which is often open to the public and has been featured in film, magazines, and books, including one written by Helen simply titled The Stencilled Home. Wisdom from her talk included: The stencil is a tool . . . valuable and versatile and above all democratic. Democratic because passable levels of artistry can be achieved by those that are not necessarily blessed with the skill to draw or paint. In the hands of those that are so blessed the results can be truly fabulous. After a stencil from The Stencil Library was featured in Martha Stewart’s magazine, numerous readers said, “I didn’t know stenciling could look like this.” Helen’s comment: Of course it can. The stencil is only the tool, and however fab the design, it needs the end craftsman, YOU, to fulfill its potential....
Decorative painter and natural plasterer Johanna Annable of Johanna’s Design Studio, muralist and fine artist Kathryn Delany of ColorSplashes, muralist and decorative painter Caroline Johnson-Bell, and decorative artist Lisa Watts were among a group of volunteers that Marissa Huddleston thought were going to simply “spiff up” her bedroom. Instead, the Huddlestons were surprised by a whole-house makeover.
The project actually began earlier this year when Ragan Corliss, design director at Interiors by Decorating Den, co-founded Oregon Dream Makeover, a nonprofit charity focusing on local home makeovers. Marissa Huddleston and her family were the first recipients. Corliss tapped Johanna Annable as lead artist for the project. Annable then set about recruiting material contributors and artists who could bring Corliss’s vision to fruition. “It was an opportunity for a group of very talented artist members of IDAL to give back to the community,” Annable said. Further, she noted, the project helped by “highlighting some of our industry’s great mentors by asking for their generous contributions of various stencils and products to the cause.” Watts was responsible for Marissa’s room. “She did a beautiful faux trowel finish on one wall with Faux Effects materials, custom fine art for the walls, and a furniture makeover with faux marbling,” Annable said...
“This organization has meant so much to me in the development of life long friends, skills and the successful business I developed.”
We hear this from new members all the time. The decorative arts are a unique art form with extraordinary members and that means extraordinary needs. That is where IDAL comes in... What’s in it for you? Artisans Businesses Educators “IDAL was my first introduction into the decorative arts. Intrigued? Read on to learn even more about what being a member of IDAL can do for you. All IDAL members have access to chapters, a monthly e-newsletter, our yearly convention and a quarterly full color magazine. But, that is just the beginning...
Become a member today! Go to our Membership Page to learn even more about member benefits and to join to now.
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Expo was the scene of an imaginative artistic collaboration
as six passing artists each stenciled a different panel at
the Laser Excel booth. Their individual pieces of art were
then assembled into a mural commemorating the 2009
convention. Lila Farrell designed the stencils, Oikos donated
the product, and Laser Excel hosted the activity, under the
enthusiastic eye of Lisa Arndt-Christensen. The finished
mural was donated to IDAL and will be presented to the
new Chapter being formed in Memphis.
FIRST LADY OF STENCILS
When the call went out to rally round a
sixteen-year-old Gladstone, Oregon,
girl stricken with leukemia, four
members of the Cascade Artisans League did what
IDAL members do best—they rolled up their sleeves
and pitched in. 
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