December Happenings:

December workshop: My Winter Coat.
We'll create a music video to the song by and with permission from
The Roches Dec. 10-14, 12:30-2:30pm $50 member/$65 non member.
$5 discount for bringing a gently used winter coat to donate to
Father Fred Foundation. Yes, this is a mid day offering as the only
interest voiced has been from home school students.

Drawing from Life with Martha Eldredge
Tuesday's, Dec. 4, 11, 18 3:30 - 5pm
$35 members/$45 non member per month
$15 drop in.

Open Studio for High School Students:
Wednesday's, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 3:30-5:30pm.
$30 member/$37 non member per month
Thank you Suttons Bay Art Festival for partial funding!!

Make and Take Craft Workshop: Christmas Candle Centerpiece.
Saturday, Dec. 8, 1-3:30pm, $7 per person; $10 per non member.
Alisa Cuellar will teach how to create an inspiring
Christmas Centerpiece with snack-size boxes of candy, wrapping foil,
bows and a big red candle!
Perfect to keep for your family or give as a gift!

December potluck/program: Dec. 14 @ 6pm, $1/per person non member
Meet John Prusak, an award-winning cinematographer with more than 35
years of experience. He has taught animation at all levels, from
elementary to university. John now teaches video and animation in the
Art Education Program at Wayne State University. John has over 60 film
and video productions to his credit. He has served as resident artist
for communities in Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Alaska. Many of his
students have received state, national and international awards for
their animation, film and special effects.
B.S. Visual Arts, Northern Michigan University M.S. Communications,
University of Michigan. John will be speaking about the student
animation workshops sponsored by DAFT that Ken has assisted at. He'll
also show some project videos. It will be a most interesting evening
with a peek into a potential path for your future animator.

Saturday, Dec 15 workshop bonus offering from John Prusak!
Come join John and learn the basics of live action video techniques
to improve your video skills. 9-11:30am, $20/member, $25/non member.
12 students max. Bring your camera if you have one.

Tree of Life Members Exhibit at Samuel's through December:
The exhibit represents perspectives from children as young as 8,
adults that are new to creating art, and professional artists.
Our theme Tree of Life is open to individual interpretation and
invention. Trees are vastly important to celebrate and without them,
we literally would not survive. A reception for the artists will be
Tuesday, December 11 from 4-5pm. Refreshments compliments of Samuel's.
Dinner begins at 5pm and will be discounted 50% for those in attendance.

A call for new work with a 'Heart' theme will be happening in January.
The new members exhibit will hang February/March 2008.

Great Gift Ideas:
Best of the Back Pages Calendars, signed by Ken Scott are available
for a $20 donation to The Art Place. Our thanks to the Leelanau
Enterprise for their support. All proceeds benefit TAP programs.

The Art Place DVD's are available for $15! Titles include:
wwwww.sbdnl.tap; Better Know A President; Mrs. McGinty; Suttons Bay
Animated History, and the newly released Allen-Wickler Girls 2005-2007
Compilation.

Family Poster by Ken Scott, $25.
TAP T-shirts by Allen-Wickler Artwear, $20 Kids/$28 Adults. Special
orders available.
All of the above may also be selected as a TAP membership premium!

Please remember TAP during your End of Year Donations!

2008 Opportunities:

January Workshop:
Dog Safety.
Jan. 14-18, 3:30-5:30pm $20 member/$30 non member.
Sponsored by the American Animal Hospital Association in Lakewood,
Colorado. In this unique workshop, we'll focus on a few safety tips
for dog handling and the AAHA will then upload the video to their
national web page for all their membership to enjoy and for kids to
learn from!
This workshop will be by application(submit a piece of artwork to
show your talent)and up to 10 students will be selected by AAHA,
based on your artwork, to be a part of this national collaborative
opportunity!

Drawing from Life with Martha Eldredge
Tuesday's, Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 3:30 - 5pm
$35 members/$45 non member per month
$15 drop in.

Open Studio for High School Students:
Wednesday's: Jan. 9, 23, 30 from 3:30-5:30pm.
$30 member/$37 non member per month
Thank you Suttons Bay Art Festival for partial funding!!

February Workshop:
Patchouli!
Feb.11-15, 3:30-5:30pm $50 member/$65 non member.
Acoustical duo Julie Patchouli and Bruce Hecksel are collaborating
with TAP! Patchouli has given TAP permission to use their music in
animated projects and now they are creating a series of instrumental
"shorts" ... music that is one minute or less for the kids at TAP to
create animations to this week! TAP will have an opportunity to screen
projects created before Patchouli's concert at the Suttons Bay High
School Friday, February 29 at 7:30pm. Patchouli's concert is sponsored
by FOFA.

Drawing from Life with Martha Eldredge
Tuesday's, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26 from 3:30 - 5pm
$35 members/$45 non member per month
$15 drop in.

Open Studio for High School Students:
Wednesday's: Feb. 6, 20, 27 3:30-5:30pm.
$30 member/$37 non member per month
Thank you Suttons Bay Art Festival for partial funding!!

miscellaneous notes:

TAP on YouTube!
our first offering is wwwww.sbdnl.tap ... check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vN2JHJrSA

oldies but goodies:

Tctv2 sponsor:
We need for a sponsor so we can show TAP produced videos on channel 2!
see: Local Sponsor Notice on this page:
http://www.tctv2.org/procedure.php

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Before you do your holiday shopping, read this:

Dear Supporter (family/friend)

It's time for holiday shopping again! And, if you shop through GoodShop.com, they'll donate an average of 3% (and up to 37%) of all of your purchases to
The Art Place.

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which features hundreds of great stores including Best Buy, Macy's, Apple, Nike, eBay, the Gap, Target, and more. It's easy, just go to GoodShop, click on the store's logo and then shop as your normally would! You get the exact same prices and service as if you went directly to the store's website.

And, while you're searching the web, don't forget to use GoodSearch.com which makes a donation to us for each search.

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and lastly ... the TAP site was infiltrated and bugged with a virus that affected pc computers, but seemingly not Macs. A huge apology if your system was effected, the bug is gone
now.

We wish you a safe and happy holiday season!
Yours in TAP'ness,

Ken and Chris