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Dear Friends, Family, and Art Lovers: First and foremost, I would like to wish you all a warm end of year and bright new year! 2009 has been a challenging year for many of us, and your interest and support of my artwork has meant a great deal to me. A fresh decade is upon us--the "aughts" are soon to pass--and a fresh Spring awaits us in 2010! My end-of-the-year news starts with an extended showing of the work you saw in my last newsletter and which remains the heading of this one: Station Retablo--you might notice that I "adjusted" the title, to correctly identify the particular wild-fire that I had meant to commemorate. As my last newsletter mentioned, this work was created for inclusion in the Silver Lake Art Collective Fall Exhibit. Being a large, "public" work, it is only viewable "in situ," so I can't bring it to you at an art festival. Of course, many of you do not live in the Los Angeles area--please accept my apologies for the ongoing frustration of not being able to share this work in its full scale. The SLAC Fall Exhibit closed two weeks ago, but as luck would have it, another local art group to which I owe allegiance, the Pasadena Society of Artists has taken over the same space, and this work can be experienced for another four weeks between December 15 and January 16. The PSA "ACE" exhibit will be opened for very limited times during the period, but I hope you will have the pleasure of seeing my and a new collection of my fellow artists' work as the calendar turns over. Please check out the viewing schedule here. Speaking of "calendars," I want to extend a special offer to my newsletter readers and your friends. I offer 15 different calendars on my "gift shop" site--including two new year-long bouquets of some of my Calla Lily paintings. These aren't the typical, mass-produced calendar, and I am reducing the price 25% on all of them, this week only--until December 19. Who doesn't need a glimpse of ART every day? Please enjoy looking over them and sharing this offer with your friends! Remember to click on the "View Calendar Pages" to see all visual delights within! Moreover, should you wish to send a gift, you can do so from the site. Of course a calendar makes the perfect New Year's gift, but if you need delivery before Christmas, you can do that by ordering this weekend! Now that I think of it, why don't I just extend the 25% discount to my tile boxes, too? They are my most popular gift item, and if you need a last-minute, distinctive present of Art, please enjoy a special price for the next week. My apologies for not managing to get my act together in time for tonight's start of Hanukkah--or for any other holiday I've missed. Nevertheless, we will all share the New Year, and I wish you all memorable and safe year-end celebrations. I look forward to seeing you all in 2010! Happy New Year, and Best wishes, FRED | 
