front range meetings

DATE: Saturday, November 8th, 2025

TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks

10:30-11:00 am, meeting

11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed

Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)
7530 W. 38th Ave.

DEMO ARTIST: Sarah Blumenschein

Sarah Blumenschein makes her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Many are surprised to find out that even though creating art was her first passion and first choice of a degree, she ended up earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering.  As a result, she spent 14 years working in industry as an engineer before “retiring” to raise children and start working on her art again using pastels as a medium. 

Initially, Sarah thought she wanted to paint landscapes, but eventually found herself more interested and excited about painting still-life due to the variety of colors, shapes, textures, and reflective surfaces possible.  She enjoys painting both and often experiments with mixing a still-life with a landscape.

The pastel medium is appealing to Sarah because of the immediacy of the color, and the ability to build layers of colors.  Her selection of subjects is often based on a desire to find and replicate the way light bounces around a scene or setup.  For that reason, glass, china, and other reflective surfaces are often featured in her still life paintings.  Flowers are also a favorite subject, whether as part of a still life or as found in nature.  Sarah enjoys the challenge of capturing a strong sense of light and creating the illusion of 3 dimensions on a 2 dimensional surface.

Sarah entered her first Art exhibition in 2003 and was honored to be awarded 2nd place.   Since that time she has won many local, national and international art competitions, including 1st place in the Still Life Category of The Artist Magazine 2009 Annual Art competition, The Grand Prize in the Pastel Journal’s 2010 Pastel 100 annual competition, “Best of Show” in the 2014 New Mexico Masterworks competition and the 2015 Pastel Society of New Mexico National Exhibition, “The Pat and Bob Suggs Award for Still Life and Floral” in the 2021 Pastel Society of America “Enduring Brilliance” Exhibition, and 1stPlace in the Open Division of the 2021 International Association of Pastel Societies Web Show.  In addition to awards, Sarah has also earned Signature status in the Pastel Society of America, Distinguished Pastelist status in the Pastel Society of New Mexico and Pastel Society of the West Coast, and Master Circle Status in the International Association of Pastel Societies.   Her artwork has also been featured in magazine articles in both the Artist’s Magazine and the Pastel Journal.

With each painting, Sarah hopes to inspire an emotional reaction in the viewer of joy or happiness.

The annual PSC Front Range Holiday Party is back! 

We will be celebrating together 11AM to 1PM on Sunday December 7, in Ash Kara Restaurant, 2005 West 33rd Avenue, Denver, CO https://www.ashkaradenver.com/. 

We hope you, and your guest, will join us in our annual celebration. The cost is $35 each (cocktails not included)

We will have family-style service, including the following:

Starters for the Table

Wood-Fired Pita

Hummus: Organic chickpeas, tahini, garlic, paprika, parsley (GF/VEGN)

Htipiti: Red pepper, fresno, feta, kalamata olive GF/VEG

Babaganoush: Roasted eggplant, pepper ezme, crispy shallot, paprika oil GF/VGN

Build-your-own Mediterranean Bowls:

Ingredients served family-style at the tables so guests can make their own personalized Mediterranean lunch bowls

Proteins:

• Cauliflower Shawarma
• Chicken Shawarma
• Protein Option #3 to be determined

Add-ins:

• feta
• mixed greens
• pickled red onion
• tomato
• cucumber
• spiced rice
• tzatziki

Reserve your lunch, and a spot for your friend or significant other, before we run out of room. We are asking that you RSVP and pay in advance so we can confirm a headcount with the restaurant one week prior to the party. PSC will cover the tip and service charge for you. 

If you would like to participate in the optional (but very fun!) gift exchange, plan to bring a gift (art related, bottle of wine or even a small sketch or painting) to include in the drawing by number. Please limit the cost to $15-20. It’s the thought that counts and it’s fun for everyone to get a little gift.

DATE: Saturday, December 13th, 2025

TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks

10:30-11:00 am, meeting

11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed

Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)
7530 W. 38th Ave.