August 2013 Newsletter
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Tuesday the 20th of August we will be including a timed flash painting session at Critique. Bring your paper and paints to join in this event led by Linda Lord.
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
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Opportunities to exhibit:
California Watercolor Association 44th National Exhibit
Here is our 44th National Exhibition Call for Artists.
We would love for you to include this announcement in your next newsletter, email blast, website or Facebook page.
We would be happy to recipocate and announce your art group’s events in our CWA newsletter. We have about 700 members who receive our newsletter.
We look forward to seeing your groups’ entries.
Thank you very much,
Ruth Miller, CWA National Director
California Watercolor Association’s 44th National Exhibition Entry Deadline: October 15, 2013 Juror: Elaine Daily-Birnbaum. Location: Historic Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA. Exhibition Dates: February 14 – March 15, 2014 Reception: Friday February 21st, 7-9pm Awards: $12,000 in anticipated awards Prospectus: www.californiawatercolor.org Contact: Email: Ruth Miller, CWA National Director: 44thnational@californiawatercolor.org
Santa Cruz Art League: Beasts on Broadway (a national exhibit) October 26-24 Jurors: Jane Gregorious and Janet Fine- digital entries- enter online: (up to three) www.OnlineJuriedShows.com -deadline: September 6- see Art League newsletter for more detailed information
Pacific Art League: Watercolor Media on Paper
In Palo Alto, Sept 6-26 Deadline Thursday August 8.
Accepted work must be hand delivered, images submitted onlineat www.OnlineJuried Shows.com
Mendocino Open Paint– A Plein Air Festival Sept. 9-14. Deadline: 8/15/13 www.mendocinoartcenter.org/pleinair or email marketing@mendocinoartcenter
Valle Del Sur Art Guild deadline: 10/25/2013 contact: Laura Wrede email: PGSstudiomail@gmail.com Prospectus: www.valledelsurgallery.com
Member News:
Joanna Jarvis is hanging an exhibition on the 5th floor of the county building to be there August 15-October 15. Reception First Friday, September 6th. Her emphasis is on plein air work from Santa Cruz county sites.
She is also the Featured Artist at the Salinas Valley Art gallery during the month of August.
Don McPherson’s watercolors will be on display at the Santa Cruz Government Center June 3- August 15. He will also have ongoing exhibits at Print Smith in Aptos and the Old Post Office Gallery in Moss Landing.
Lee Taiz will have work at Valley Heights 925 Freedom Blvd Watsonville through September.
Watercolor Class at the Art League: Linda Lord, instructor: This class is geared for all levels. The main objective is to improve your skills, while having fun. Guided projects are a portion of each class session. Also covered areas are: How not to make mud, mixing greens that sing, and what makes a good composition. Bring your materials, ready to paint, and a sense of humor. Levels: All, Offered: 8 Thurs. beginning Sept 12, Time:1:00- 4:00pm
Fee:$195 / $175 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.
Workshops:
Donna Zagotta Workshop_Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County Post Office Box 269, Windsor, CA 95492 www.wascoart.org
Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County – WASCO is proud to announce that we will have a Donna Zagotta Workshop – September 23 – 27, 2013. This will be the second workshop that Donna will give for us since the first workshop the previous week filled up almost immediately. This could be the last opportunity to take a workshop from Donna on the West Coast as she states this maybe her farewell West Coast workshop. Use www.wascoart.org for the information (registration form, materials list and workshop description) Get your entry form mailed in soon!!!!! Grace Cunningham 707-938-3326, Joan Wale 707-433-6714
Exhibits around town:
Santa Cruz Art League :
All Those Figures…August 17 – September 15
Lectures at the Art League: Let’s Look at Art by Susan Hillhouse Leask, Friday, August 23, 7pm -$7 / $5 Member
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Water to Paper, Paint to Sky The Art of Tyrus Wong
August 15- February 3 The Walt Disney Family Museum 104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio, San Francisco: waltdisney.org/wong Watercolor artist for Disney Studios, this exhibit explores Tyrus Wong’s career beyond the Disney Studios: paintings, sculptures, kites, works on paper and fabric.
Old Monterey Fine Art Festival – September 21-22, 2013 – Monterey, California
Asian Art Museum: June 28- Sept. 22, 2013
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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