April 2013 Newsletter
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Air and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
Opportunities to exhibit:
Open Studios Art Tour (Santa Cruz County) 2013 – Santa Cruz County, California
DEADLINE: 4/30/2013
Jury Fee: $40.00
Event Dates: 10/5/2013 – 10/20/2013
The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County’s Open Studios Art Tour is a self-guided tour open to permanent residents of Santa Cruz County, CA only. The tour showcases artists’ studios throughout the county and takes place during the first three weekends of October
Sacramento Arts Festival – 16th Annual – Sacramento, California
DEADLINE: 4/30/2013
Jury Fee: $10.00
Event Dates: 11/1/2013 – 11/3/2013
Spend a profitable weekend at the Sacramento Arts Festival—the region’s premier contemporary craft and fine art event. Last year the festival again attracted a high percentage of buyers and most exhibitors sold well in all price ranges. We have fantastic November dates again this year and we expect even bigger crowds who will not only be shopping for their homes and themselves but also for unique Christmas gifts. You’ll be in the handsome new hall of the centrally located, well-known Sacramento Convention Center, which also offers an abundance of nearby public transportation and inexpensive parking
South Lake Tahoe Arts Festival – June 22 – 23, 2013 – South Lake Tahoe, California
DEADLINE: 5/3/2013
Jury Fee: $25.00
Event Dates: 6/22/2013 – 6/23/2013
A Fabulous location for the South Lake Tahoe Fine Art Festival at Heavenly Village. This event will kick off the Summer Season at Heavenly Village with a spectacular array of fine art.
Marin Art Festival 2013 – San Rafael, California
DEADLINE: 4/30/2013
Jury Fee: $25.00
Event Dates: 6/15/2013 – 6/16/2013
“The Most Beautiful Art Festival in America” 250 Artists, Wine, Food, Music, Dance, and Stiltwalkers. We tailor the event to meet artists needs.
All Those Figures: a national exhibit at the Santa Cruz Art League- Juror Susan Hillhouse Leask, curator of exhibits at MAH-$100 in awards-August 17 – September 15-Reception: August 24, 3-5p-Download Prospectus & Entry at: http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/ Deadline: Jpeg & Prospectus deadline Friday, June 14, 2013, 11:59p
Black & White- A National Exhibit-Juror: George Rivera (Executive Director Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara, CA) $1,000 in Awards
July 5 – August, 2013- Reception: July 13, 3-5pm- Download Prospectus & Entry at: http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/
Deadline: Jpeg & Prospectus deadline Friday, April 26, 2013, 11:59pm
4oth Annual Rocky Mountain Watermedia call for entries
online deadline for submissions: May 31- visit ‘call for entries link’ FoothillsArtCenter.org
2013 JUROR-Internationally known artist and teacher, William “Skip” Lawrence, will juror the 40th annual Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition.
CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT DATES
• Deadline for ONLINE entries is Friday, May 31, 2013 (NOTE: Mail-in Entry deadline is May 17th—see below).
• Notifications sent via email on Friday, June 21st
• Hand-delivered works will be accepted on Saturday, July 27th between 10-Noon
• Shipped artwork must arrive by Wednesday, July 31st
• Opening Reception & Awards Friday, September 20th at 6:30pm
IMPORTANT: Foothills Art Center is now using the CaFE (Call for Entry) Online Entry Process this year.
The RMNW Online Entry Prospectus is attached to this email for your convenience.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to all artists in the United States. Requirements: see prospectus for rules and requirements
Spring Launch of the Santa Cruz County Online Art Market : The Regional Artisans Association/Scotts Valley Artisans are in the process of creating a curated website that will highlight the hundreds of accomplished artists in Santa Cruz County, and bring our artists’ original creations to a national audience. The launch of this new website is scheduled for Spring of 2013. Check it out: www.santacruzartists.com,2013
Scotts Valley Art & Wine Festival 14th Annual Festival, August 10 & 11, 2013 on the grass in Skypark! Follow the link to our website and download the applications from there. http://www.scottsvalleychamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Artist-Application-2013.pdf
We are also looking for our Poster Artist for the 14th Annual Art & Wine Festival marketing poster. If you would like to submit artwork for consideration, include the Poster Artist Promo 2013 application.http://www.scottsvalleychamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2013-Artist-PromoPoster-application.pdf
Old Monterey Fine Art Festival – September 21-22, 2013 – Monterey, California-OPEN DATE: 2/20/2013-DEADLINE: 7/19/2013-Jury Fee: $25.00-Event Dates: 9/21/2013 – 9/22/2013
Member News:
Congratulations to ‘The Best of the Central Coast’ Award Recipients
Guest judge Carolyn Lord chose the forllowing paintings:
First Place: Dale Johnson for Late Winter Puddle
Second Place: Vigita Sara Smith for Stargazer 1
Third Place: Anne Harding for Melting Away
Honorable mentions:
Laura Crosser for Fruit Plate
Lee Taiz for Summer Patterns
Sue Baldwin for Black and White Plumeria
Aimée Nelson for Legacy
Karen Nevis for Sleeping Cat.
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society selected two paintings for honorable mention:
Anna Haulenbeck Huskey for After Ferdinand Van Kessel
Mary Hopf for Out of Service
Watercolor: The Best of the Central Coast 2013
Our annual exhibit “Watercolor: The Best of the Central Coast,” lived up to its name again this year. In luscious color or in vibrant black and white, landscapes, florals, and animal, bird and human portraits were all represented according to every artist’s unique vision and technique, and from photo-realism, through impressionism to semi-abstraction, all of the paintings were displayed harmoniously together in the spacious gallery at the Santa Cruz Art League. Because of the skill of our hanging committee, this enormous variety of technique and subject matter flowed smoothly to create a satisfying unified experience for the viewer. The arrangement worked even when the gallery was crowded at the reception on Sunday, April 7. Everyone seemed to be smiling as they wandered from painting to painting. Many thanks to the members of the hanging committee. They were Ignacio, Dale Johnson, Judith and Lou Feinman, Linda Lord, and Aimée and Randall Nelson.
A second thank you belongs to Aimée Nelson and Judith Feinman for their excellent work in publicizing our show. An additional special thanks goes to Aimée for designing our beautiful postcards, which featured a lovely floral by Shirley Motmans, and also for sending out our invitations to participate to other watercolor groups.
The turnout for this year’s exhibit was greatly enhanced by the efforts of the staff and director of the Art League, who created lots of publicity for us. Our show was featured, with outstanding color photographs, on the covers of both the January and the April issues of the Art League Newsletter. In fact, our show was the lead cover article in the April issue. Several times, Director Cindy Liebenthal sent out e-mails to twenty-five hundred recipients, including the Good Times and Santa Cruz Weekly, and the Art League also arranged for an excellent article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which included a photo and much valuable information.
The Sentinel interview with assistant to the director Keelin Sabel, a watercolorist, was especially articulate and informative. She told the Sentinel, that while the paintings in the exhibit depict everything from nudes to detailed landscapes, “the pictures have one thing in common, the mastery of watercolor.” “It’s really quite lovely,” she said. “I love being surrounded by watercolor. . . The jewel effect you can get from the colors is just so wonderful. It’s just so sensitive to paint with. . . .The paintings particularly reveal the watercolorists’ ability to layer and manipulate washes. . . .Watercolor’s wonderful because you’re seeing the light carry through the paper. . .” Thank you Keelin Sabel, and thank you Art League!
Our April 7 reception at the Art League was a real joy, and part of the happiness I felt came from the light fragrance of spring flowers that permeated the gallery. The bouquets and plants were beautiful in themselves, and the abundance of lilacs and tulips in particular made me a true believer in aroma therapy. Many of us just had to linger at a particularly striking bouquet of white lilacs that someone had placed on a stand at exactly the right height for inhaling. All of the flowers at the reception were provided and arranged by Laura Crosser, Nancy Howe and Linda Lord. Many thanks to all of you.
Dale Johnson arranged for our musician, David O’Conner, and his music was appreciated by everyone in the gallery. It contributed to the truly pleasurable ambience of the reception.
We were fortunate in our lavish selection of refreshments this year, and in the efficiency of our refreshments committee, who kept the tables filled with an astonishing variety of cookies, pastries, nuts, chip/dips and other sweets and savories. Many of my very favorite special treats were on offer. A big thanks to Laura Crosser, Marilee Gregory, Nancy Howe, Melita Israel, Linda Lord, Shirley Motmans, Aimée Nelson, Carol Riddle, and Lee Taiz for organizing, setting up and managing the refreshments.
Our juror Carolyn Lord chose the awards as follows:
Dale Johnson, First Place, for ”Late Winter Puddle”
Vijita Sara Smith for “Stargazers #1”
Anne Harding, Third Place, for “Melting Away”
Honorable Mentions went to Sue Baldwin for “Plumerias,” Laura Crosser for “Fruit Plate,” Mary Hopf for “Out of Service,” Anna Haulenbeck Huskey for “After Ferdinand Van Kessel,” Aimée Bagur Nelson for “Legacy,” Karen Nevis for “Sleeping Cat,” and Lee Taiz for “Summer Patterns”
The ribbons were arranged by Aimée Nelson and the awards by Linda Lord.
Finally, I want to mention our receiving committee, Sammy Fantham
and Shirley Motmans, because without our receiving committee, our beautiful and successful watercolor exhibit couldn’t have taken place at all.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone, including all of the wonderful watercolorists who participated in “Watercolor: The Best of the Central Coast 2013”!
Lee Taiz
Member Shows:
Carol Riddle will be showing at the Saratoga Rotary Art Show, May 5th (one day only) at WestValley College, 9am to 5pm. Art, Wine Tasting, Food, and Entertainment (so they say)
Ed Pennimanwas juried into an exhibition at the Pajaro Valley Art Council current show .
Agriculture: Land & People 5/1/13 – 6/9/13
Member Activities:
Watercolor- Linda Lord
Six weeks of botanical only. A mini – portfolio will be created to include 12 paintings of fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves and root systems. Participants are encouraged to use only arches 140 or 300 lb paper. Levels: All Offered: 6 Thurs. beginning May 9 Time:1:00- 4:00pm Fee:$145 / $125 -Members Instructor: LINDA LORD is a self-trained artist and illustrator with over 16 years teaching experience in her studio and via the SC Watercolor Society; an Open Studio artist whose exhibits include Cozumel, Mexico. Linda also publishes with a decorative art publisher.
Exhibits Around Town:
The show will open with a reception on First Friday, March 1st, from 5 to 9. The Blitzer Gallery in support of the Women’s Health Center of Santa Cruz will give a portion of the proceeds from a $5 donation at the door. Each artist expresses the human figure in a distinct and powerful way; the wide spectrum of styles presents an intriguing window into the variety and high quality of figurative art in the Santa Cruz area.
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Filoli: (86 Canada Road, Woodside): Tuesday, April 16 through Sunday, June 16
Botanical Art Exhibit: This year we celebrate our 15th Annual Botanical Art Exhibit. This beautiful exhibit has long been an essential part of the Filoli Botanical Art Program’s mission to interpret and preserve this historically significant art form. Filoli has been a leader in the renewal of this art form, which combines the observational skills of the scientist and the sensibility of the artist. Part of our commitment is to sponsor an annual nation–wide juried exhibition to showcase the best of botanical art. Artworks selected this year will be displayed in the Visitor and Education Center while select pieces from our three major florilegia collections: the Filoli, the Banks’ and the Highgrove, will be displayed in the historic house.
Asian Art Museum:
Batik: Spectacular Textiles of Java
November 2, 2012–May 5, 2013 The tools are simple. The technique is complicated. The results are extraordinary. Batik is a famous artistic tradition of the Indonesian island of Java, where the process of creating patterned cloth with hot wax has reached the highest level of complexity. In this exhibition you will see some of the finest batik textiles, whose remarkable diversity draws inspiration from a wide range of cultures and religions.
In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection will introduce 66 exceptional artworks spanning 1,100 years.
The exhibition explores the dynamic nature of art selection and display in traditional Japanese settings, where artworks are often temporarily presented in response to a special occasion or to reflect the change of seasons. In the Moment also considers Mr. Ellison’s active involvement in displaying art in his Japanese-style home, shedding light on his appreciation for Japan’s art and culture.
Included in the exhibition are significant works by noted artists of the Momoyama (1573–1615) and Edo (1615–1868) periods along with other important examples of religious art, lacquer, woodwork, and metalwork. Highlights include a 13th–14th century wooden sculpture of Shotoku Taishi; six-panel folding screens dating to the 17th century by Kano Sansetsu; and 18th century paintings by acclaimed masters Maruyama Okyo and Ito Jakuchu.
“This exhibition offers a rare glimpse of an extraordinary collection,” said Jay Xu, director of the Asian Art Museum. “We aim to present it in a fresh and original way that explores traditional Japanese principles governing the relationship of art to our surroundings and social relationships.”
Legion of Honor:
Artful Animals, Part 2-April 30, 2013 – October 13, 2013
Since the dawn of time, human beings have been fascinated with the animal world. Depictions of animals are some of the earliest known artistic efforts, dating back to the Paleolithic Era. And this interest has never abated. From sustenance to companionship, animals play a variety of roles in our lives and inspire a range of emotions—fear, love, awe—as well as a host of symbolic associations.
This exhibition draws from the vast resources of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts to produce a compelling portrait of the animal world, represented in a wide array of cultures, artistic styles, and media, from about AD 1500 to the present. Some of the artists included in this exhibition have drawn their subjects from life, depicting the roles they play in our everyday experience, while others have used animals with symbolic intent or have anthropomorphized them to humorous, playful, or even unsettling ends.
The second installment of Artful Animals features clawed creatures alongside lively critters of the sea and sky.
Impressionists on the Water-June 1, 2013 – October 13, 2013
Coinciding with San Francisco’s hosting of the America’s Cup races this summer, another side of nautical life is revealed by more than 80 remarkable paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Maurice Denis and Paul Signac—artists whose breathtaking artistry reflects their own deep understanding of pleasure boating and competition.
Paintings on loan from prestigious international collections, including the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and private collections will be joined by paintings and works on paper from the Fine Arts Museums’ own holdings.
Guest curators Christopher Lloyd, former keeper of Queen Elizabeth II’s collection; Phillip Dennis Cate, former director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; and renowned marine historian Daniel Charles will illuminate the personal interactions of leading French artists with yachting and, more broadly, underscore the important role that access to the sea and extensive inland waterways played in the development of the art, culture, and commerce of France.
Examination of the Impressionists’ engagement with boating as both pastime and artistic subject is at the heart of the exhibition. In the countryside west of Paris new patterns of life, including the idea of middle-class leisure, reflected the social and economic energies of an emerging modern world. Artistic innovations such as painting out of doors developed to capture the spirit and quick pace of recreational activities. The Impressionists’ brushwork suggests both the atmospheric effects and the sensations of movement that contribute to the invigorating experience of boating.
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