The Automotive Fine Arts Society Magazine   Home Departments Sketches Contours Detours AFAS Book Stop About AFAS Feedback Marketplace Printed Back Issues Detours Detours Page 1 Detours Page 2 25th AFAS Show New Work Whinn Profile Braun Revisit Select Issue Volume 1, Number 1 Premiere Edition, August 2010 Rochester, Michigan is home of the Dodge-Wilson edifice known as Meadow Brook Hall. On these grounds, in the summer of 1982 an important auto concours was held and an automotive art show was included. The art show committee members were Del DeRees, Dick Teague and Bob Larivee, Sr. DeRees and Teague were auto styling execs and Larivee was the founder and CEO of Group Promotions, the premiere custom and hot rod show organization then in operation. The concours was well received and generated enthusiastic talk amongst the participating artists. Fate was kind that summer weekend. It had been a relatively successful show with enthusiastic public reception and art sales. The participating artists realized that by coordinating their efforts future auto art shows could be a viable entity. Discussion began on how to achieve this. It was the beginning of the Automotive Fine Arts Society. The Meadow Brook Concours quickly became the most significant show of its type east of the Mississippi. The Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance was recognized as the most significant US show and one of the top shows internationally. By this time, the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) had been organized; officers elected, memberships solicited internationally and credits bestowed by legendary auto artists Peter Helck, Walter Gotschke, Carlo Demand and John Burgess. AFAS had also acquired a willing and savvy mentor. It was Bob Larivee, Sr. one of the original Meadow Brook art committee members. Bob's background in auto show promotion and production, his keen interest in Western art, history and cars had given him the ability to be a guide for the AFAS group. Bob's efforts on behalf of AFAS gained entry to the stage at Pebble Beach and The New York International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center, and he started the art show at the Gilmore Museum, in Michigan, as an AFAS event and many other venues to come. AFAS had its own Godfather. We are celebrating a quarter century of auto art exhibitions at the Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance, still the Grand Dame' of U.S. Concours. Alas, it was announced that Meadow Brook is no more; it is being renamed and moved to another location in the Detroit area. Although never an official AFAS show, many AFAS artists did show their art there and at the con-current Meadow Brook Historic Races Auto Art Show that has been absent for more than five years. Welcome to the new electronic issue of the afasJournal.com. AFAS Board of Directors member Jay Koka is :: heading this effort with his Knightbridge Publishing group supplying the thrust and talent. The print AFAS Journal is on a sabbatical, the back issues will still be available, see Index listing in current afasJournal.com here :: Back Issues. Although the afasJournal.com format is by necessity different from the print AFAS Journal, the content and editorial direction shall continue to supply the readership with the current and historical auto art scene and bring the latest AFAS efforts as well as other internationally recognized artists to your attention. Here's what's in store for the inaugural edition of the afasJournal.com. The artist preview for the :: 25th Anniversary showing at Pebble Beach is a peek at what will be shown and available at the August 14th and 15th show. The AFAS Journal Number 8, fall 1990 featured a profile on AFAS sculptor artist Larry Braun. This edition brings a :: 20-year update of Larry's work. Larry is now an officer of AFAS and has the treasurers' duties, and is a valuable member of AFAS. Co-incidentally in the AFAS Journal of 20 years ago is a profile on Bob Larivee who we mentioned in the Meadow Brook Segment of this column. I might add that the AFAS Index is a quick checklist to find your artist/event interests here :: Back Issues. We continue from a twenty-year plus member to the most recent member who joined us last year at Pebble Beach. :: Gary Whinn, our newest member is from the UK and has established his work on both sides of the pond. A great welcome to Gary and wife Lorraine who reside at Bwich-y-ffidd, Powys, Wales, UK. Please don't ask me to pronounce the address. Dennis Hoyt has a new feature column :: Contours where he opines on sculpture as he sees it and knowing Dennis, as many of you do, it will be a hoot to hear Hoyt's take on the state of the automotive art sculpture scene. So, dear reader- we've gone full circle, from the beginning at Meadow Brook to farewell to same to welcoming newest member Gary Whinn and our publishing step to the future courtesy of Koka and CO. Stay tuned (?) JSJ        25TH AFAS EXHIBITION Visit with AFAS artists that premiered their new work at the 25th Annual AFAS Premiere Art Show. NON-EXHIBITING MEMBERS Not all members could make the 25th anniversary exhibition at Pebble Beach. We look at their latest. GARY WHINN PROFILE Elected to membership in 2009, we feature the work of the Society's newest member Britain's Gary Whinn. LARRY BRAUN REVISIT It has been twenty years since our last feature of Colorado sculptor Larry Braun's work... here's a fresh look. 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