DO NOT FORGET TO BRING WATERCOLORS TO THE ART LEAGUE TUESDAY MARCH 26. 1-3 WORKS FOR
THE BEST OF THE CENTRAL COAST SHOW
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society annual invitational show: The Best of the Central Coast will be held March 30- April 21 at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. The reception will be April 7 from 2-4 PM. Carolyn Lord has graciously agreed to juror our show.
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:
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society annual invitational show: The Best of the Central Coast will be held March 30- April 21 at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. The reception will be April 7 from 2-4 PM.
Particulars: Participants may enter from 1-3 watercolors with a $25 first painting hanging fee and a $20 hanging fee for each subsequent piece. Work will be received from 25 PM on Tuesday, March 26. The reception (April 7 from 2-4 PM) will include music and light edibles. Work should be picked up April 21 from 4-5 PM.
Guidelines: As this is an annual show, we encourage recent work. Entries must be framed and ready for hanging with a wire backing. We require white or off white mats. This is to insure consistency in hanging. (Exception is made only if an embellished mat is intrinsic to the painting.) There will be first, second and third place awards in the form of art supply gift certificates. Carolyn Lord has graciously agreed to be our juror.
Santa Cruz Art League presents: 83rd Annual Statewide Exhibit, Landscape “Incredible Places”
Juror: Michael Zakian, an art historian, curator and director of Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. An expert on both plein air and Modernist abstractions.
“Best of Show” $1,000 Award plus $1,000 additional cash awards!
June 1 – 30, 2013
Reception: June 8th, 3-5pm
Download Prospectus & Entry at: http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/
Deadline: Jpeg & Prospectus deadline Sunday, March 31, 2013, 11:59pm
Questions: cindy@scal.org
Santa Cruz Art League
526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Wed. – Sat. Noon – 5
Sun. Noon – 4
831-426-5787
www.scal.org
2013 Open Studios Art Tour applications are now available.
Deadline to apply is midnight, April 30, 2013.
2013 Open Studios Art Tour Applications will be accepted online at www.zapplication.org.
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,
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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:
Members Exhibits:
Art Store in Scotts Valley – Featured Artist: Nancy Riedell 2/1 – 4/30, 2013
Location: The Art Store and Gallery 216-E Mt. Hermon Rd. (in the King’s Village Shopping Center) Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (831) 438-0830
Hours: Mon-Fri 10-6. Thurs 10-8. Sat 10-5. Sun 12-5
Exhibits Around Town:
“A Figurative Affair,” which has become an annual event in Santa Cruz, is scheduled to open on March 1st and will run through April 20th. Co-curators Susan Hancey, Sefla Joseph, and Carol Bowie, who joined the curating team this year, bring together some of Santa Cruz’s most exciting figurative painters and sculptors: artists Susana Arias, Barbara Bartels, Hildy Bernstein, Bonni Carver, Linda Christensen, Barbara Downs, Michele Giulvezan-Tanner, Stephanie Heit, Bridget Henry, Howard Ikemoto, Carol Jeneid, Sefla Joseph, James McElheron, Ron Milhoan, Laura Rice, Ronna Schulkin; and sculptors Robert Blitzer, Carol Bowie, Lila Klapman, and Lisa Silas.
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:
The Walt Disney Family Museum:
104 Montgomery St. The Presidio of San Francisco waltdisney.org/snow-white (200 artworks surrounding the process of creating the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. through April 14, 2013.)
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.
Legion of Honor:
Artful Animals
November 17, 2012 – April 28, 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.
This first part of a two-part exhibition focuses on creatures both domestic—like dogs, horses, and rabbits and exotic (elephants, monkeys, and camels). Part two will examine fish, fowl, insects, cats, and rodents. Fun juxtapositions draw attention to both commonalities and contrasts among the broad assortment of creatures. Seen together, these works reveal the breathtaking variety not only in the animal kingdom, but also in humanity’s artistic interpretations of it.
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