Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.*The first Tuesday and third Tuesday will be an open paint day and/or presentation day. These have proved to be enjoyable. Bring your supplies and join us.a reminder: Please send your SCWS annual $35 dues to Dale Johnson. Also, if you have a gallery page on this website, please remember to also send a $10 fee to take care of the annual hosting fee with Iversen Design. Also reminder: you must be a member to have a page on the website.
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Aire and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
An invitation from Elizabeth Schilling to Santa Cruz Plein Air watercolorists:
Hello, our organization is hosting a First Friday at the SC Mission to feature Plein Air artists in action Aug. 7 from 5-8. People are invited to capture scenes in the sunset hours, exhibit and sell. We will have a light dinner buffet as a treat for those that RSVP to me.
Elizabeth Schilling, Events Coordinator, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks-831-239-6012 144 School Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Membership News:
Decisions from the annual Santa Cruz Watercolor Society meeting that took place on February 2015: The Watercolor Society has decided that this year’s annual show (November: the Blitzer Gallery http://rblitzergallery.com) will be limited to membership only. The approach is an historical perspective and showcase of membership. There will be a section for individual member entries, but the general format will be artist sections that will be submitted by email or website and pre approved. (You will design your own panel with the work you consider most identifying to you as a watercolorist and include a statement of you as a watercolorist as to interest and/or intention.) The cost and size for panel and/or individual submissions will be determined by the size of space available at the Blitzer so that the costs of the rental are covered. That information will be provided soon.
There will also be a scholarship fund created for membership to assist with hanging fees for this show for members who are experiencing financial difficulties. Linda Lord has graciously volunteered to contribute matting and framing for one piece. Individual members who want to contribute to this fund, please contact Dale Johnson (426 4588).
The Blitzer Gallery will be contributing $70 toward the cost of postcards, SCWS will provide the extra cost for a total of 500 postcards.
You will also be provided through email an image of the postcard that you can subsequently email.
The reception for the show will be the First Friday of November. Instead of contributing finger food, please volunteer to contribute to the allotment for refreshments that will be handled by the Blitzer Gallery.
The Blitzer Gallery will hold 20% of sales. Pieces that are not for sale are acceptable and will be included in the exhibit.
SCWS will continue to advertise via posters and will set aside monies for this. If you want a poster for public display, please contact Aimée Nelson
Lee Taiz will set up radio publicity.
The Blitzer Gallery will provide publicity through the SC Sentinel.
Diana Henrichsen will contact the Pajaro for publication.
Ignacio Alvalos, Dale Johnson, Nancy Howe, Aimée Nelson and Linda Lord will handle the hanging preview for the show.
Laura Crosser and Lee Taiz will handle the receiving of paintings at the Gallery.
Shirley Motmans and Linda Valdes will handle the pick up.
We are continuing to collect historical visuals. Please contact Aimée There will be a committee for developing this information for presentation: Anne Harding (you have been volunteered), Nancy Howe and Aimée Nelson. Melita Israel has already graciously done preliminary work on this. If you have any ideas for Critique surrounding development of the show (demos for presentation) please contact Aimée
The SCWS will continue to support the SC Art League student show with a contribution of $150 toward the show and $50 award for best watercolor.
*To exhibit in the Annual show your $35 annual membership fee must be up to date.
Also, to maintain your page on the SCWS website, one needs to be a member (see $35 above). There is also a $10 annual fee to cover the website hosting fee. To continue having a page on the website your membership fee ($35 annually) and ($10 hosting fee) must be up to date.
Members exhibits:
Dale Johnson has paintings on exhibit at Avanti’s Pizza Restaurant on Mission St.
Coastal Art Alliance: ongoing at The Hindquarter ( Linda Lord, Anne Harding, Lee Taiz, Sammy Fantham, Judy Feinman, Jere Ann Hall, Marilee Gregory, Nancy Howe)
Santa Cruz Art League is hosting Watercolor – Central Coast Artists Exhibition: March 27 – April 19
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society members who will be exhibiting include Lee Taiz, Nancy Howe, Carol Riddle and Linda Lord.
Exhibit Opportunities:
*Santa Cruz Watercolor Society at the Blitzer Gallery, November 2015- logistics will follow soon.
Open Studios Art Tour Santa Cruz 2015 OPEN DATE: 2/1/2015: DEADLINE: 4/30/2015 Jury Fee: $40.00 Event Dates: 10/3/2015 – 10/18/2015 Arts Council 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.
Santa Cruz Art League: 85thAnnual Statewide Landscape Exhibit:
| June 5 through July 5, 2015, Reception: Sat., June 13, 2015, 3-5pmRené de Guzman, Senior Curator Oakland Museum of CaliforniaJuror Lecture: Friday, June 12, 7pm; $18 / $15 SCAL member
Look at Land: Highlights from the Oakland Museum Collection Deadline for Entries: jpegs received at www.OnlineJuriedShows.com by Sunday, April 5, by 11:59pm Open to United States residents. Submissions include printmaking
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Classes:
Bonni Carver is offering a Fourth Annual Mission San Antonio Workshop Wednesday, May 5-Friday, May 8 with a unique opportunity to stay in the Mission. Meals, accommodations, instruction and demos are included in the $250 fee. Arrive Wednesday for dinner, leave Friday after breakfast. Go to www.carverart.com workshops for more information or bonnicarver@aol.com or 831 763 3603.
Bonni is also having a workshop at Sierra Retreat Center, Malibu, Thursday, May 14-Sunday, May 17. Situated 150 feet above the Pacific Ocean, the views are spectacular. In addition to daily demonstrations and instruction, there will be opportunity to visit Getty Villa and the Adamson House. All 8 meals, 3 nights double occupancy rooms (singles also available) for $600. For more information: www.carverart.com workshops.
June 13 and 14, Bonni will offer a workshop through Santa Cruz Art League, Bonni’s Garden, Watsonville, instruction in plein air, bring a brown bag lunch. All skills welcome $150. www.scal.org
June 27 & June 28, Catered Watercolor Workshop, Bonni’s Garden, Watsonville. Catered food, demos, instruction, $175. All skills welcome. bonnicarver@aol.com
Art League:
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Watercolor – Thursday
This class is geared to facilitate those who have never painted and those who have advanced their skills. Most class sessions will include a demo and then time to work on the elements of the demo. Information on materials, including colors and “gimmicks”,and tools is given throughout the six-week period. The goal of this class is to encourage the joy of painting, while improving skills and knowledge.This is a “fun” class, so bring a sense of humor and whatever materials you have and enjoy. Levels: All, Offered: 6 Thurs. May 7, Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm, Class Fee: $155 / $135 Members, Levels: All. 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.
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Art League… Introduction to Loosening Up with Watercolor Leslie Wilson We will be using a “direct” painting approach. Producing a painting starting from a contour drawing. We will focus upon improving drawing techniques, planning the picture plane, mixing colors on the paper and applying the elements of design for dynamic results. Class starts with a teacher demo. There will be a description of materials – paints, brushes, paper, palette, etc. Using landscape or seascape photographs as source material, each student will develop a painting using their own creative abilities and with individual attention from the teacher. At the conclusion of the class, we will do a critique (voluntary participation) which is intended to help reinforce the concepts and techniques.Bring a bag lunch. Offered: May 23 & 24, 9am-3:30pm. Level: All. Fee: $160 / $140 Members. Instructor: Leslie Wilson, has focused on watercolor painting for more than 20 years, capturing the moment in vibrant light and color, both plein air and in the studio. “I love transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary and reminding people of the places they have been, the people they have met, and the truly remarkable light and color in our world.” University of Maryland, B.A. Secondary Art Education, 1973. She teaches in the East Bay area. She is a member of CWA and is published in North Light Books, Splash 11, Spring 2010 – “The Other Side of the Mountain”
Exhibits you might not want to miss (Santa Cruz):
R. Blitzer Gallery: Gallery hours Tuesday – Saturday,11 am – 5 pm. March 6 – 28, 2015. Two long time Santa Cruz artists: Ray Ginghofer, Painter. Fred Hunnicutt, Sculptor.
Scotts Valley’s ‘Art in the Library’ Celebrates ‘The Original Selfie’ Self Portraits by Area Artists Featured in Latest Installation-Runs –April 25
Exhibits in the Bay Area:
The first West Coast survey of the art of Pierre Bonnard in half a century will open at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in early February 2016. “Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia” opens this week at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and will travel to Madrid before coming to San Francisco, its sole American venue.
Asian Art Museum: 200 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA 94102 415.581.3500
Seduction: Japan’s Floating World– through May 10
The Printer’s Eye Ukiyo-e through May 10
Woven Luxuries (Indian, Persian and Turkish textiles) through Nov. 1
Tradition On Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics August 19, 2014 — April 5, 2015
Exquisite Nature: 20 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (14TH-18TH C.) March 2 — November 1, 2015
Sanaz Mazinani: Threshold March 27 — May 3, 2015
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California September 20, 2014–April 12, 2015- Oakland Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California illuminates local histories and social forces that changed the face of art in—and beyond—the Golden State. Weaving together art and ephemera from the collections of the Oakland Museum of California and SFMOMA, the exhibition tells the stories of four creative communities at decisive moments in the history of California art: the circle of artists who worked with, influenced, and were influenced by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Francisco in the 1930s; the legendary painters and photographers associated with the California School of Fine Arts in the 1940s and 1950s, including Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Minor White, and Imogen Cunningham; the free-spirited faculty and students at UC Davis in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Bruce Nauman; and the streetwise, uncompromisingly idealistic artists at the center of a vibrant new Mission scene that took root in the 1990s through the present, including Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Amy Franceschini, Ruby Neri, Alicia McCarthy, and Rigo 23, along with many others. Focusing equally on the artworks and the contexts that fostered their creation, Fertile Ground presents an intimate and textured history of personal relationships, artistic breakthroughs, and transformative social change.
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA May 08 – September 27, 2015 On view at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Featuring approximately 45 artworks, Portraits and Other Likenesses will demonstrate how artists from the early 20th century to our own time have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual-cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait. On view in the newly renovated galleries at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Portraits and Other Likenesses will feature paintings, sculptures, photographs, and videos from SFMOMA, many of them recently acquired and on view for the first time as part of the collection. The exhibition situates key historical artworks by Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, Seydou Keita, and Wifredo Lam in dialogue with recent works by living artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Dawoud Bey, Nick Cave, Mildred Howard, Glenn Ligon, Rodrigo Moya, Chris Ofili, Paula Santiago, Yinka Shonibare, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, Fred Wilson, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. Portraits and Other Likenesses is curated by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, guest curator for MoAD and Caitlin Haskell, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA.
Monterey Museum of Art–Pacific Street 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940 831.372.5477 http://www.montereyart.org Monterey Now: Warren Chang October 23, 2014 – April 6, 2015 MMA La Mirada Artist Warren Chang, born 1957, is nationally recognized for his realist paintings of biographical interiors and local field-workers of the Monterey County area. Influenced by masters such as 17th-century artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), and 19th-century artists Jean-Francois Millet (1814–1875), and Winslow Homer (1836-1910), among others, Warren Chang creates subtle narratives that celebrate the human spirit. A native of Monterey, his work is also inspired by the novels of John Steinbeck and the magnetic beauty of the region.
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