November 2012 Newsletter
Thre will be no Crit group on Dec. 18 or Dec. 25 or Jan.1. Crit will resume at the Art League on Jan. 8. The following meeting , Jan 15 will be the Annual Meeting of the Santa Cruz Watercolor Society at 229 Fridley Drive, Santa Cruz.
Please reserve January 15 for our potluck social and business meeting. 11am. ( 229 Fridley )
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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($25 yearly)
Opportunities to Exhibit:
Northwest Watercolor Society invites artists to enter the 73rd Annual International Open Exhibition: April 15 – May 31, 2013. Anticipating $10,000 in awards. Online entries accepted beginning November 1, 2012 at www.NWWS.org.
The most notable juried exhibition sponsored by the NWWS is the Annual National Open Exhibition. Painters in water media including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and egg tempera are eligible to enter. The exhibition has grown tremendously in size and reputation since it’s inception in 1940, with annual awards totaling more than $10,000. It attracts talented painters from across the United States and Canada. The full color catalog produced to accompany the exhibit showcases the entire range of water-based media being created by contemporary artists each year. Entry deadline February 4, 2013, 11:59 PM P.S.T. Juror: Nationally recognized artist, Mark Mehaffey. is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society-Dolphin Fellow, the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America –master status, Watercolor West, Watercolor USA Honor Society and the Rocky Mountain Water Media Society, among others. Mehaffey has won major awards in juried exhibitions across the country including the Beverly Green Memorial Purchase Award from the National Watercolor Society.
For more information and the prospectus visit the NWWS website at www.NWWS.org.
Member News:
Susan Hancey, (an acrylic painting), Pat Michaud-Towery and Shirley Motmans (both with watercolor paintings) have been juried in to the Triton Museum Statewide Watercolor Competition and Exhibition.
The show dates are: December 8, 2012 to February 3, 2013. The reception for the artists will be held on December 7 from 6pm to 8pm.
Linda Lord will be offering a six week botanical only class at the Art League. 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 Jan. 10 Time:1:00- 4:00pm Fee:$145 / $125
Nancy Riedell’s Tulips in New York City won the monthly round for October in the Daniel Smith 11th Annual Art Contest. There were over 500 entries, Nancy’s painting has been entered into the Annual Contest where there will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner. Prizes include a trip to the Daniel Smith store in Seattle WA, a $6,000 tabouret (work space), and $1,000 in cash. All of the winners who have moved into the Annual Contest will receive a $100 gift certificate.The winners will be determined in April 2013.
Members Exhibits:
Anna Huskey is exhibiting at Azhar Hair Design, 507 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, – December. Reception: First Friday Dec. 7 from 6-9. The reception December 7 at Azhar will include in the exhibit A Collaborative Puzzle Woodcut by Members of the Baren, an International Online Printmakers Forum. The print is 30″ by 66″ with theme The Baren Cairn.A Cairn is a pile of rocks that mark the trail. Maria Arango, who lives in Las Vegas, sent out to each of the 84 participants, including myself and another Santa Cruzan Frank Trueba, a shaped block of wood to carve. We sent them back to Maria to arrange and print on the 3 pieces of BFK. The project was to be a year however it took two years and one month. Maria Arango describes the finished piece as “Tucked amoung the carefully piled stones you will find secrets of old cultures, traces of passages from wayward travelers, memorials to friends, a vast variety of critters and natural encounters, portraits, philosophies, mysterious symbols, and writings, friendly unique human figures in interaction with nature, landscapes and, course rocks.”It is a great feeling to see the fruition of this dedicated collaboration that tied together people who have not met. Maria jokes saying”being a hermit in ‘real’ life ,could it be that this is my own version of socializing?”I see this collaborative effort and wonder could the print makers in our Santa Cruz area structure a collaborative piece?Printmakers please come for FirstFriday reception December 7 2012 to Azhar Hair Design, 507 Cedar Street.The collaborative print will be shown there for the month of December.
Exhibits Around Town:
MAH (Museum of Art and History) August 11- November 25: Rose Sellery- 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:
Natural Discourse: Artists, architects, scientists and poets in the Garden.
An exhibition at the UC Botanical Garden
–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.
This exhibition brings together photographers, jazz musicians, and discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina and life in New Orleans and Cuba.
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
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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