A New Beginning Feb 2026 PWAS Art Group Meeting
The Prince William Art Society (1971), AKA PWAS, is an art group in Prince William County, Virginia with monthly member meetings. Because PWAS is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, we have a volunteer Executive Board and various volunteer committee "staff" if you will, that are periodically voted for or assigned. The meetings also may feature various guest speakers, art talks, art projects or scholarship awards, or a simple "show and tell" section.
PWAS Meeting Monday, February 23, 2026
The Prince William Art Society meets on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30pm at 12298 Cotton Mill Road, Woodbridge, VA - that's at the Tall Oaks Community Center on the corner of Cotton Mill and Hedges Run. The public is welcome to attend. Many artists do that first before they officially join. The meeting began with the current board describing their board positions and what they do. A ballot was given out and each current PWAS member voted for the positions.
PWAS Munchies Meets and Greets
Part of every PWAS meeting is simple socializing with our wonderful artist friends. And we do that with beverages and snacks while getting caught up with each other. Many of us haven't seen each other for at least a month, and/or we meet and greet the new members and guests. We use Signup Genius to manage our "who is bringing what" volunteers each month. Does anyone ever say "No" to a good cookie?
PWAS Member Show and Tell
One of the favorite monthly programs for the PWAS meetings is "Show and Tell" artist adult style. Each artist brings a piece of art they are working on and shows it to the group and tells about it. Pictures from Show and Tell are below.
Volunteer Art Group Members
Every art group Executive Board out there has plans and goals for their membership and plan out their year accordingly. It takes work to achieve those projects. Volunteering to take a position, a task or project, to manage an art show or any of the numerous things that an art group either MUST DO or SHOULD BE doing is an honorable thing for any person to do. And as we have various members that are a part of other art groups all around Northern Virginia - we KNOW that getting volunteers is so very unfortunately a daunting task for ALL the groups.
Its great to have lots of members, but any and all art groups also need the people to volunteer to get things done. The beauty is though, that no one has to do anything alone, they can and should recruit other members to help them or to delegate, take care of the tasks in that project. We thank all of the PWAS Members that volunteer, past and present, to continue the work and the dreams of Prince William Art Society.
We voted, thus we have the results.
2026 - 2027 PWAS New Executive Board
President: Ana Quispe
Vice President: Tinnetta Putney
Secretary: Staci Blanchard (interim)
Treasurer: Eric Ndofor
Member-at-Large: Ginnefine Jalloh
Community Liaison: Evelyn Chatters
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
We know that the new Board will meet with the outgoing Board members in about mid March to hand over the reins to our art group Board. And each one would be more than happy to help and answer questions to help the new Board get comfortable. A HUGE, HUGE thanks to our outgoing Board: Sandra McClelland Lewin (VP and interim President), Bettie Sperty (Secretary), Tom Payne (Member-at-Large), and to Staci Blanchard (as the PWCAC Rep) and Eric Ndofor (Treasurer) for continuing.
Let's Show and Tell
Ok, now for some pictures...Each person that brought in their art told a little bit about their pieces and some questions were asked.
Not all of the members brought in Show and Tell art (awwwww).
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire community, a whole county, and truckloads of creative people to run an art group! We look forward to the Prince William Art Society continuing to make its mark in and around the Woodbridge, Prince William County areas and beyond for 2026-27. Good luck NEW PWAS BOARD, Let's get busy!
Throw some congrats and thank yous in the comment area below!
Author: Donna Liguria is the Blogmaster for the PWAS Artistry Spin Blog and Donna's Cave Paintings Blog, and an artist member of the Prince William Art Society (PWAS) in Woodbridge, Virginia. And she takes on the PWAS social media duties as well (help me!) Donna specializes in acrylic painting of landscapes, seascapes, historic locations, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com and her Donna's Esty site to shop her art.
Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm (typically, but check the website in case of any changes).
Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership
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