July 2012 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.)
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Opportunities to Exhibit:
The Santa Cruz Fair applications for art show is available , Deadline Aug 4; receiving Aug 18 & 9 noon to 5 pm, Aug5 9 am -5 pm, Aug 26 noon to 5 pm fee $8/ picture. 4 total entries. contact Donna Giubbini 454-9424 or 234-6603.Mail to Santa Cruz Co Fair, 2601 East Lake Ave, Wasonville, 95076
Old Monterey Fine Art Festival – September 22 – 23, 2012 – Monterey, California
DEADLINE: 7/27/2012
Jury Fee: $25.00
Event Dates: 9/22/2012 – 9/23/2012
Join us at the Old Monterey Marina for this fine art show. Tourists enjoy the Wharf and Marina as well as the many restaurants in the immediate area.
Impressions of Our Valley – Deadline For Submissions Extended to July 27, 2012
The San Lorenzo Valley Museum is seeking original artwork from local artists in the categories below for exhibition on the Community Wall, Santa Cruz County Government Building. Please submit photographs or digital images of up to 5 works with your entry form. There is no fee to participate.
Exhibition: Pictorial images from the San Lorenzo Valley in any of the following categories:
• Historic Homes/Businesses/Buildings
• Historic Landscapes/Scenes/Flowers
• Historic Events/People/Portraits/Activities
Media:
• Painting – oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache
• Dry Media – pastel, charcoal, pencil
• Mixed Media – encaustic, collage, etc.
• Photography – black and white, color
• Needlework
Eligibility: Local Santa Cruz artists 16 or over may submit up to five (5) works for consideration in any or all categories. All work must be original in concept; no compositions taken from published or copyrighted materials.
To Enter: Submit photographs or digital images of artwork to be considered. Indicate size of each piece, including frame.
Artwork Size: Minimum 8×10” or 80 square inches, maximum not to exceed 40” including frame in either direction.
Presentation: Art must be adequately framed, wired, and ready for hanging. Wire in good condition, not too long. No saw tooth hangers.
Sale: Works in the show will not be for sale at the exhibition, but your name, biography and contact information will be available to the public.
Exhibition Location: Community Wall, Santa Cruz County Government Building, 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz , 95060
For more information call 831.338.8382, office hours Wed-Friday 11am-5pm. or email slvhm@cruzio.com
Member News:
Nancy Riedell has acquired a studio at the 17th Ave. Studios. Her new address is: 17th. Ave. Studios 980 17th. Ave. (back building) Santa Cruz. Nancy (recently retired) will be spending the majority of her time at her new studio painting. Visits to her studio are by appointment only, but she will be having a grand opening in August (details later.)
Members Exhibits:
Nancy M. Howe will be showing her watercolors and Norwegian Rosemaling in the 2nd annual Bonny Doon Studio Tour the last weekend in July: Sat. July 28 and Sunday July 29, 11am-5pm. There will be more than 15 artists opening their studios to the public. More information will be available at: bonnydoonstudiotour.com. You will find a preview piece from each artist and a map.
Carol Riddle is displaying at Dos Galeria in Moss Landing and will be participating in the Scotts Valley Art and Wine and the Capitola Art and Wine festivals.
Lee Taiz will be showing watercolors in Galleria Tonantzin’s 20th Anniversary y Celebration catalog and exhibit, June 1-july 29. Galleria Tonantzin is located at 115 Third Street, San Juan Bautista, CA. phone: 831 623 ARTE (2783)
Pat Towery’s exhibit at the Santa Cruz County Government Center will take place August 20th through October 15th. It is on the fifth floor. The reception will take place on the First Friday of September from 5 – 8 pm. The subject is: “Sumptuous watercolors capture the spirit of the Rainbow Goddess, Iris, from Greek Mythology. Patricia’s colorful paintings of Irises pay homage to the many gardens she has visited and painted in all over Santa Cruz County”. There will be approximately 18 – 20 paintings on display.
The Cultural Councils annual: Open Studios Art Tour will take place:
South County: Oct. 6 & 7; North County: Oct 13 &14; Encore: Oct. 20 & 21
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society members who are participating are:
Pat Michaud-Towery
Carol Riddle
Susan Hancy
Aimée Bagur Nelson
For more information on our members Open Studio exhibits, please go to the events/activities page
Exhibits Around Town:
UCSC:
Natural Discourse: Artists, architects, scientists and poets in the Garden.
An exhibition at the UC Botanical Garden
July 14, 2012–January 20, 2013
This is a collaborative project between the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden’s extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop site-specific work.
OPENING DAY: meet the artists on Sat, July 14 10am-4pm
Santa Cruz Art League: ‘Prints Galore’ juried exhibit July 6-August 5; reception: Saturday, July 14, 3-5pm
Museum of Art and History : This museum-wide exhibition explores the many ways that love is manifest in our everyday lives. The artworks and historical objects reflect everything from passionate love stories to love gone wrong to the fierce love between mother and child. The exhibition includes extraordinary artworks by over thirty artists including Joan Brown, Younhee Paik, and Raymond Saunders, as well as historic love letters, wedding dresses, and objects of affection from the Museum of Art & History’s permanent collection. March 31- July 29, 2012
Coming to MAH (Museum of Art and History) August 11- November 25: Rose Sellery- Passages Get ready for a thoughtful exhibition that makes a lasting impression. Passages is a dark fairy tale with a happy ending. The whole-gallery installation walks the visitor through a narrative that describes the life of a woman who longs for a husband, marries an abusive man, loses herself, finds herself, escapes, and, ultimately, lives happily ever after with a loving partner. Works include a rug made of baby shoes, a bed made of bones, and an installation reflecting on vanity and aging that includes a pair of “Gray Haired Mules”. The works in the exhibition are stunning and provocative, taking the viewer on an unforgettable emotional and visual journey.
Rose Sellery is a noted Santa Cruz artist, assistant director of the Cabrillo College Gallery, and 2011 Gail Rich award winner. She works in the materials essential to the piece; from metal to bone, cigarette butts to rose petals, fabric to photographs, creating humorous, thought-provoking and occasionally disturbing objects.
UCSC- Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite
+ new work from Cuba October 3- November 21
Reception: October 3, 5:00-6:30pm followed by artist talk
in the Digital Arts Research Center DARC 108 from 6:45-7:45pm
This exhibition brings together photographers, jazz musicians, and discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina and life in New Orleans and Cuba.
Forthcoming book New Orleans Suite by Eric Porter and Lewis Watts University of California Press.
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Asian Art Museum:
Phantoms of Asia- through September 2-bold new art along with objects from the museums own collection, explores spirits, spirituality, cosmic order, and the afterlife. This is a provocative interplay of 150 artworks from past and present, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, site- specific creations, and more by artists from all over Asia. www.asianart.org/Phantoms
Legion of Honor:
René Bouche (1905-1963): Letters from Post -War Paris
July 14- October 14
In 1940, art director and fashion illustrator René Bouché (1905-1963) left war-torn Paris for New York and became a regular contributor to Vogue magazine. In 1945, Vogue commissioned Bouché, who was an art director and fashion illustrator in Paris before World War II, to cover the first post-war couture shows in Paris. The trip to Europe was traumatic for the artist, who discovered a people struggling to regain normalcy after the war. This exhibition contains his “letters”—some of which were published in Vogue—illustrated with sketches of Parisians: poignant observations of young girls on bicycles, women waiting for their bread rations, black marketeers, American GIs amid crowded theaters and cafés.
De Young Museum:
The Art of Anatolian Kilm through July 29
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier through August 19
Opening September 15: A Taste for Modernism includes works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Rouault, Bonnard and Vuillard.
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