Brandon League of Fine Arts
JOIN THE BRANDON LEAGUE OF FINE ARTS
Members enjoy monthly meetings, make-and-take workshops, destination outings to local inspiration spots, while enjoying the creative synergy with artistic peers. For membership information email BLFABrandon@gmail.com. We look forward to welcoming you!
Welcome
The Brandon League of Fine Arts (BLFA) has been serving the Greater Brandon, Florida community since 1959. Brandon League of Fine Arts is the perfect organization for artists and lovers of art who want to help promote and advocate for the arts.
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The BLFA Holiday Party is Monday, December 8 at 6:30 pm at Creative Junk Therapy. This will be our only member get together in December. There is no third Monday meeting in December.
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Please contribute treats and snacks to share with the group. The BLFA traditional gift ‘exchange’ is a crowd pleaser, and lots of laughs. Each participant brings a wrapped gift, something you would enjoy receiving. No gag gifts. A gift value guideline is $15 - $20. Get ready for the swapping to begin!
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For more information about our upcoming "Season of Celebration" show, please click here.
2025/2026 Board of Directors
President: David Bodo
Vice President: Guy Learn
Secretary: Carol Stebbins
Treasurer: Karen Koseck
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Monthly Meetings
General Membership:
Third Monday of every month - 6:30 pm to approximately 9:00 pm, located at Creative Junk Therapy.
President’s Message
There are three concerning things I can think of being an artist and getting something ready for presentation to the public...
“Is it good enough?” You’re the one that KNOWS it’s good enough.
“Is it really finished?” Many a work I created always seems to need that one more thing.
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And the most troubling for many of us who are willing to part ways with our creations for compensation... “What should I charge?”
One thing is – don’t sell yourself short. You worked hard on that, there’s nothing else in the world like it, and sometimes a price that is up there to some is an indication of great value to others. Another is – think of keeping your original and sell prints inexpensively. It makes the original appear as a Holy Grail to just that right person.
And a big one I can think of is – check out what is of similar genre, style and presentation where you are selling... remember you’ll see a bottled water
for fifty cents at a grocery store and then when you’re at a sports stadium it’s six dollars! Six dollars for a water?
And yet there I am, forking it over...
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We’d all like that stadium price for our efforts, but sometimes the grocery store has just what I need. And keep that frame of mind that all your items belong at the Super Bowl.
David Bodo, BLFA President