Events
Save the Date: Annual Spring Studio Sale 2017
Mission Industrial Studios Open for Spring Sale
May 6th & 7th | 1 – 6 with evening art activities May 6th from 6 -9
Eleven artists in the Mission Industrial Studio complex will open their studios to the public for a weekend of creativity. The artists will have works on display for sale and will be available to discuss their process, some will offer demos and have hands-on activities for visitors.
The eleven artists include, Jamie Abbott, Lucia Bruer, Barbara Downs, Nora Dougherty, Sefla Joseph, Joey Kochlacs, Majio, Kirk Mc Neill, Stacey Pollard, Susan Wagner & Jenni Ward. These studios are typically only open during the county wide Open Studios Art Tour in October and some rarely open to the public, making this weekend event a unique opportunity for the public to visit the artists in their work space. The artists range in medium from painting, to glass, to metal, wood and clay, offering something for everyone’s artistic taste. This event hopes to offer a creative experience for both locals and visitors to the Santa Cruz area.
The studios are located on the westside of Santa Cruz on Mission St extension between Swift St. and Natural Bridges Dr. and will be open on May 6 & 7, 2017 from 1 – 6 on Saturday and Sunday with additional art events from 6 – 9 on Saturday evening.
Highlights planned for the event include Nora Dougherty’s work.shop. trailer, a mobile art gallery on location, a clay seed bomb making activity at Jenni Ward’s earth art studio, and Kirk Mc Neill’s large scale sculpture the Sharky-Go-Round on display. Food Trucks AGoGo will be onsite in the late afternoon on Saturday offering tasty local tacos along with live music from The Dooners. After the sun sets, art movies around a campfire with marshmallows will round out Saturday’s activities.
The Evocative Garden
2017 NCECA Annual Exhibition:
The Evocative Garden
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center | Portland, OR
www.disjectaarts.org
March 8- April 1, 2017
Opening Reception March 23, 2017 6-9pm
JUROR/ CURATOR: Gail M. Brown, curator will select works for the exhibition in coordination with NCECA Exhibitions Director Leigh Taylor Mickelson.
ABOUT THE EVOCATIVE GARDEN
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is pleased to announce that in 2017, esteemed curator of contemporary craft Gail M. Brown will launch this new series with The Evocative Garden, an international juried and invitational exhibition exploring natural and cultivated worlds. Invited artists include Megan Bogonovich, Jess Riva Cooper, Kim Dickey, Linda Sormin and Dirk Staschke.
A breadth of implied and articulated dramas will be staged as a personally defined natural landscape or more formalized garden scenario. In works of ceramic sculpture, installation, object and vessel format, each participant will offer a new or recent work- some potent objects-as-metaphors, with sub-text and, others as choreographed scenes with figuration or the figure/s implied in a verdant location, in vocabularies from nuanced realism to personal symbolism. Each will be designed to reference an array of issues- nature’s fragility and sustainability, the wild and the tame, life’s appetites and dilemmas, conflict and resolution, the everlasting and the temporal- social and historic events, of the natural world and the human condition. Artists remind us that nature and the articulated garden, as context, stimulation and tactile allure, is a seductive, universal, ever present enticement.
~Gail M. Brown, Curator
Pop Up Art Show!
Pop Up Art Show: Sunday February 12th, 4 – 8 | Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery
Join us at the brewery for an afternoon with local artists sharing their creations. Affordable and unique gifts just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Oh yeah, did I mention you can drink beer while you shop?
See you in the Beer Garden!
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery
402 Ingalls St | Santa Cruz
Take Aways: Art to Go!
Next week, I drop off artwork at Pajaro Valley Art Gallery for Take Aways: Art to Go! and I’ll be showing some new work from my Lichen Series. The image below is a prototype for the final pieces, I’ve been working on so you’ll have to come to the exhibit to see the real deal! The exhibit is a major fundraiser for PVAC and all work sold is immediately removed from the show and replaced with new work, so the exhibit is always changing. All work is created by local artists and is priced under $300, so come find some sweet deals at the show! Details below…
February 8 – March 19, 2017
Opening Reception February 12th from 2-4
Closing Reception March 19th from 2- 4
37 Sudden St | Watsonville
www.pajarovalleyartscouncil.org
Open Studios 2016
SAVE THE DATE! So excited to launch the new studio space with my 12th year participating in the Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Artist #228
October 8,9, 15 & 16 | 11 – 5
Join us at our NEW LOCATION:
2523 C Mission St Santa Cruz
For more information about the art tour visit:
Arts Council of Santa Cruz County
First ‘First Friday’ at the Arboretum
Mark Your Calendar: August 5 is ‘First Friday’ at the Arboretum!
The Arboretum will host its first ‘First Friday’ free event on August 5 from 2:00 pm–7:00 pm. Visitors can meander the paths of the Aroma Garden to view the beautiful, one-of-a-kind outdoor sculptures by nine local artists: Jamie Abbott, Jeff Arnett, Jennifer Henning, Coeleen Kiebert, Marilyn Kuksht, Anna Martin, Kirk McNeill, Cristie Thomas/Scott Lindberg, and Jenni Ward. Two of these artists will offer workshops or demonstrations.
WORKSHOP:
Jamie Abbott’s sculptures are inspired by biomorphic forms, which he encapsulates with organic elements. Using thin gauge wire and wire tools, Abbott will guide participants in the wrapping and connecting of branches, pods, leaves, and many other materials collected from the Arboretum gardens.
• Sessions at 2:00-3:15 pm and 3:45-5:00 pm;
• Limited to 20 persons per session; to sign up, call the Arboretum office at 831.502.2998;
• $10 for Arboretum members; $20 for non-members;
• Participants are welcome to take their sculpture home or have it installed in the Art in the Arboretum exhibition until it ends October 10.
DEMONSTRATION:
Kirk McNeill is the artist-blacksmith of Freedom Forge, located on Santa Cruz’s West Side; McNeill works with hot forged iron, bronze, and copper, creating unique sculptures, in both modern and historical designs, to enhance buildings and landscapes. He will bring his portable forge to give blacksmithing displays.
• Demonstrations from 3:00-5:00 pm; visitors will be able to watch how an artist uses his skills and tools to create pieces of art.
Susana Arias, the curator of the exhibit, will be on hand to answer questions about Art in the Arboretum, an on-going event showcasing local sculptors and their work.
Save the Date: Reflections | Shadows
My Bone Series Wall Installation will be included in the upcoming Reflections | Shadows exhibit at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts in downtown Healdsburg California.
About the show:
The physical aesthetics and conceptual connotations evoked by reflective material or projected dark shapes of shadows may create intriguing design, trick the eye, or distort our view. The exhibit presents artists’ interpretations using these phenomena as design, metaphor, layers of reality, a state of mind or mythology to evoke images of truth and poetry.
Show Dates:
July 21 – August 28
Artist’s Reception July 23, 5 – 7pm
Artist’s Salon July 28, 5 – 7pm
Poetry Night August 17, 7pm
Closing Tea August 28th 2 – 4pm
130 Plaza St., Healdsburg, CA 95448
Sculpture IS: In the Garden OPENS!
Join me at the 10th Anniversary of Sculpture IS: In the Garden, this Thursday June 9th from 5-7pm at Sierra Azul Gardens in Watsonville. The garden is filled with pieces from every medium and style. The exhibit is up through October 31st, Sierra Azul is located at 2660 East Lake Ave, Watsonville across from the fairgrounds.
Art at the Arboretum Opens Tomorrow!
Art at the Arboretum
May 18 – October 10, 2016
Opening reception June 1st 5-7
UCSC Arboretum
Join us for the inaugural “Art in the Arboretum Opening Reception” on Wednesday, June 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the Aroma Garden. Refreshments will be served at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop entrance.
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum is thrilled to partner with Susana Arias who is one of the curators of Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden’s Sculpture IS exhibits and welcome an exceptional group of local Santa Cruz artists for Art in the Arboretum “Sculpture’.