Membership
- Demonstrations by excellent artists at monthly meetings
- Monthly MAA newsletters
- Opportunities to enter shows and display your work
- Workshops taught by nationally known artists and instructors.
- Paint-outs with great people from MAA
Member Meetings
2025 Member Meeting Demo Lineup
We have an excellent lineup of guest artists who will be demonstrating at our monthly meetings in 2025. Meetings are normally held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6:00 pm. Some meetings will be available by Zoom, while some will be in person. Everyone is welcome to attend. Details will be sent out in the newsletter prior to each meeting.
January – Allie Zeyer
February – Tom Howard
March – David Dean
April – Candace Rideout
May – Kwani Winder
September- Steve McGinty
October- Carol Granger
November- Shari Lyons
May Member Meeting
Guest Artist, Kwani Povi Winder, May 21, 6:00 pm
Kwani Povi Winder is a young artist with a passion for learning and creating. She graduated with a BFA in oil painting from BYU-Idaho in 2013 and has been painting ever since. She calls herself a stay-at-home artist as she is always creating with her daughters at her side.
Kwani’s paintings are characterized by deep emotions and vibrant colors. Her subject matters primarily include figures and landscapes. Her work is heavily influenced by being an enrolled member of the Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa Tribe. Kwani’s work often contains spiritual and reverent undertones as she uses art to further understand and deepen her relationship with her creator. She resides in Southeast Idaho with her husband and two daughters.
April Member Meeting
Guest Artist, Cadace Rideout, April 16, 6:00 pm
Candace Rideout, an accomplished Utah artist, has over 40 years experience. She graduated from the University of Utah with a double major in Drawing and Painting and also a BFA in Secondary Education. After teaching for only one year at Butler Jr. High she was recruited as the artist for the State Board of Education. When she married and started a family Candace continued her art as she ran her own advertising agency. When the children got older she also worked for O.C. Tanner, sold real estate, designed stain glass windows, designed and sold jewelry and created patterns for needlework as well as did book illustrations for Deseret Book. But all this time she continued to paint and teach painting.
March Member Meeting
Guest Artist, David Dean, April 16, 6:00 pm
David Dean Guest artist David will join us for a demo and introduction to his upcoming workshop April 8-10
February Member Meeting
Guest Artist, Tom Howard, February 19, 6:00 pm
Born in Nevada and raised in Northern Utah, the Salt Lake Valley is now his home. Tom has worked as a paste-up artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and cartographer. He began painting full-time in 1995 after graduate school, and taught at Salt Lake Community College and BYU-Idaho.
According to Tom, his paintings and drawings are about bringing beauty found in the natural world to the view of others. ‘We can find that unique beauty if we only learn to not just 'look' but to 'see.' Even the most mundane and gray spot on earth has its moment of glory. My desire is to capture in paint as many of these moments as I can’.
You can join this meeting on Wednesday, February 19th at 6:00 pm by clicking HERE!
January Member Meeting
Guest Artist, Allie Zeyer, January 15, 6:00 pm
Allie Zeyer will be our guest artist for our next meeting on January 15th. Allie is an award-winning artist who works in gouache and oils. She was raised in Utah and currently lives in Idaho.
