SCA Members Show Runs Through 12/30

The SCA Members Show is in the Gallery with over 200 pieces in a variety of media. A number of pieces have already sold, so if you're looking for a fantastic gift this is the place to shop. And if you don't find anything in the gallery, there is always the "Store" with cards and jewelry and other things that glitter.

SCA Annual Members Show Coming Up

Don't forget to submit your artwork for the Annual SCA Members Show & Holiday Sale. This is a nonjuried exhibition and the deadline is Tuesday, Dec. 7, 3 to 6 p.m. The maximum size limit is 25" wide, but please get a copy of the prospectus for complete guidlines, they are available on our website or at the Center.

The show opens on Friday, December 10, 6 to 7:30 p.m. and runs through December 31.

Also, Dine to Donate! On the day of the reception, Dec 10, the Brown Street Grill, just a block away from the Center, will be hosting a Dine to Donate fundraiser for us. They have great food, so please support them and help them support the Art Center. The coupon is available at the center and on our website.

New Website!

Hi everyone, it's been a while since my last post, but now I want to announce the NEW Sebastopol Center for the Arts website. Go to http://www.sebarts.org/ and see for yourself. If you have a shortcut on your computer that you used before you may have to refresh or redo the shortcut. In any case get to the new site however you can, it really is nice.

The next question is what do you want to see on this Blog? What is the best use for it?

SCA Members Show (A Show of Our Own)

Hi Blog visitors, The Annual SCA Members Show is coming right up. This is a nonjuried show with a focus on sales of artwork for the holidays. If you are not a current member you can sign up when you bring your piece in. There is a size limit so you will want to get the prospectus and read it carefully. You can get a prospectus on our website, http://www.sebarts.org/, or request one via e-mail to satrip@sonic.net, or come into the Gallery and pick one up. The deadline is Monday, November 30, 3 to 6 pm.

Dualities Exhibition -- Slide Show

Here is a sampling of work in the Dualities exhibition, which continues through November 29.

DUALITIES

The Dualities exhibition is opening on Thursday, October 22, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Expect the unexpected and be sure to check out the Yangtze River. I will post photos from the installation next week.

Dualities Take-in & Jurying

We took in almost 200 works for the Dualities exhibition. Juror, Claudia Chapline, selected 60 pieces. There is some really interesting work and it should be a great show. If you entered work into the show and would like to know if it was selected, please go to the SCA website, http://www.sebarts.org/, and then to the Visual Arts page.

Call to Artists for DUALITIES

Our next juried exhibition is DUALITIES. For this exhibition we are seeking artwork that depicts both sides of a duality, e.g. birth/death, yin/yang, war/peace, serious/foolish, light/dark, movement/stillness, soft/hard, etc. Open to all media including video and installation.

The juror, Claudia Chapline, is an international multi-media artist, writer, and curator. She was the recipient of the 2006 Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. She is owner of the Claudia Chapline Gallery, and she is currently President of Art at the Cheese Factory.

I'm looking forward to all the creative and imaginative work that will come in for this show. You can download a prospectus from our website, www.sebarts.org. Deadline to enter is Monday, October 5, 3 to 6 pm.

Portraits and Vessels in Wood

Here is a slide show from the current exhibitions. Portraits in Main Gallery. Ancient Shapes: Vessels in Wood in Gallery II.

Ancient Shapes: Vessel in Wood

Ancient Shapes: Vessel in Wood, work by Robert Gauthier, opens in Gallery II with a reception on Friday, Sept. 11, 6 to 7:30 PM. Gauthier's work is stunning and photos don't capture their exquisite detail and alluring presence, so you have to come in and see them in person.

Portraits exhibition opening

Portraits, an exhibition of over 70 pieces opens with a reception in the Main Gallery on Friday, Sept. 11, 6 to 7:30 PM, and will run through Oct. 18. Come in and see who you know, or would like to know. Next week I will post a slide show of the installation and some of the pieces.

PORTRAITS

Our next juried exhibition is all about portraits, actually it's called "Portraits", and will be juried by Lucinda Barnes, who is chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum. We are looking for artwork that expresses the likeness, character and uniqueness of a person in any media including video and installation. We are looking for traditional portraits as well as not so traditional. You can get complete guidelines on the prospectus which is available on the SCA website, or in the gallery, or we can e-mail one to you by sending a request to satrip@sonic.net.

Wide Open: National Juried Exhibition

Wide Open, a national exhibition juried by Philip Linhares, chief curator of art, Oakland Museum of California, will continue through September 6. Mr. Linhares selected Where's Mom, by Inez Dorfman, as Best of Show, and Merit awards went to Drill it, Pump it, Bury it, Carry it, by Allegra Burke, Treasure Maps, by Gael Fitzmaurice, and Apple Orchard, by Alicia Oceguera. The show coordinators selected three pieces by Rebecca Graham, Last, Volpe, and Lupo, for the Coordinators award. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the artists who entered their work for this exhibition.

Wide Open -- Jury Results

On Tuesday, Philip Linhares spent several hours here at the Art Center giving careful consideration to the 370 submissions for the Wide Open exhibition. At the end of the day he had selected approximately 72 pieces for the show. There were a lot of hard choices, and there were many more that he would have liked to include if we had the room to display them.

This is the first exhibition for which we are doing online posting of jury results, so we hope you will be patient with us as we try to make this a smooth process. The prospectus stated that the results would be here, however, since then we have been able to post them on our website, which is a better way to do it. So, for jury results go to http://www.sebarts.org/, Visual Arts, and follow the instructions for Jury Results. That should do it. I hope. Let me know how it works.

Gallery Talk with Donna Seager

This Thursday, July 9 at 7 PM, Donna Seager will be here to give a talk on The Book As a Medium for Art. Donna was the juror for the Bibliophoria exhibition, currently on view in the gallery. This will be a great opportunity to meet Donna and hear what she has to say about book art. Admission is $5 for SCA members and $7 for nonmembers. Hope to see you here.

Bibliophoria: through July 26, 2009

We had a fun opening for the show, it's always nice to have people come from a distance to attend the openings, and we always love our regulars. Here are some photos of the installation. But come see the show, if you haven't already, and plan to take some time looking at the books.

Bibiophoria -- Opening

Bibliophoria, a juried book arts exhibition, with nearly 70 pieces juried by Donna Seager, opens Thursday, June 18 6 to 7:30 pm. The show includes work by artists from around the country, but most from Northern California and many from Sonoma County. Here are a couple of the pieces in the show, next week I will post some installation shots.

Call to Artists -- Bibliophoria

Our next juried show is Bibliophoria, a national book arts exhibition. Deadline for submitting entries is Monday, June 1, 3 to 6 pm. Go to our website www.sebarts.org to download a prospectus, or send me an e-mail at satrip@sonic.net and I will send you one. Or, you can always come into the Art Center to pick one up.

Art at the Source -- Preview Exhibition

Opening this Friday, May 22, 6 to 8 PM is the Preview Exhibition for the Art at the Source Open Studios. The open studios event will take place on two weekends, June 6 & 7, and June 13 & 14. Excellent opportunity to see and talk to artists in their studios and buy work directly from them. The Preview Exhibition is a great way to see samples of their work and plan your tours.

Art in Iron -- a wild and fun 2-day event

The Art in Iron 2-day exhibition in the gallery was an amazing event, May 16 & 17. A dozen hand-made, one-of-a-kind custom motorcycles filled the gallery and made it sparkle with all the chrome and metalic paint. Also, on the walls we had the iconic work of Stanley Mouse, who was there on both days signing posters and greeting his fans. Take a look at the slide show in the side bar, because if you missed the event you wouldn't believe how beautiful the gallery looked.