Two artists of our Enso community, Lisa Petrides and Mauro FF, will have their music related sculpture featured in an art show in Berkeley. Lisa incorporates an actual viola into her multi-media work which includes acrylic paint, metal, and images. Mauro’s piece makes use of the innards of a piano to create a graceful and tactile sculpture.
“Sounds Like Art” | Opening Reception
Monday May 19 | 6 - 9pm
Downtown Bar & Restaurant
2102 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, California 94704
(510)649-3810
On Monday May 19 from 6-9pm, Downtown will host an opening reception “Sounds Like Art: a visual exhibition of music and sound”. The show features 12 artists working in a wide range of mediums, and will hang until the end of August. Mark your calendars, come and meet the artists, and join us as we celebrate all the arts - culinary, auditory, and visual. Performing live for the reception: Diana Rowan on harp, backed by Daniel Berkman’s (AKA Colfax) looped electronic audio-scapes.
From youtube: “Looking like the wreckage of an Alien space craft, this Futuristic Sculpture is Art Jim, but not as we know it. Commisioned by a forward thinking Burnley Council, The collection of tubes makes the strangest sounds when the wind blows, which is often round the location at Crown POint, on the moorland overlooking Burnley. Seen in the background is Pendle Hill, famous for the PENDLE WITCHES. Maybe in the sculpture, the myth lives on. Let me know what YOU think.”
My Venus sculpture will be featured in the Intertidal Art Show at Alta Bates Hospital! Hurrah! I was concerned that she may not meet the criteria because of a nudity restriction. I thought it may be iffy and so I am glad she will be displayed.
She really was created in the spirit of celebration and joy. She is connection between the ocean, nature, beauty and the abundance of the feminine. All the shells were gathered over the years by me and friends, so they are included with intention and love.
Click here for some more info on my other pieces in the show.
Hope you may be able to see her in person.
“Intertidal”
Included in the show are:
Photographs by Jamie McHugh
Photo art by Tara Gill
Collages by Susan Adame
Sculpture by Judy Shintani
May 10 - July 10, 2008
Always open
Artists’ reception Sat. May 10, 5-7 pm
Community Art Gallery
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
2450 Ashby Ave, Berkeley
In April, we went camping at Steep Ravine Campground near Stinson Beach, Calif, with Clifford and his friend. I have been wanting to post these beautiful photos for awhile and I’m finally getting to it. It was a beautiful 2 days with warm weather so we could hike around and take naps under the trees. We did a lot of shell collecting too. We wanted a relaxing retreat with hardly any other people around and this met the ticket!
Just north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate is Mount Tamalpais, 6,300 acres of redwood groves and oak woodlands with a spectacular view from the 2,571-foot peak. On a clear day, visitors can see the Farallon Islands, 25 miles to sea, the Marin County hills, San Francisco and the bay, hills and cities of the East Bay, and Mount Diablo. On rare occasions, the Sierra Nevada’s snow-covered mountains can be seen 150 miles away. Coastal Miwok Indians lived in the area for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. In 1770, two explorers named the mountain La Sierra de Nuestro Padre de San Francisco, which was later changed to the Miwok word Tamalpais. With the Gold Rush of 1849, San Francisco grew and more people began to use Mount Tamalpais for recreation. Trails were developed and a wagon road was built. Later, a railway was completed and became known as “the Crookedest Railroad in the World”. It was abandoned in 1930 after a wildfire damaged the line.
Services & Amenities - 9 rustic cabins and 7 campgrounds:
* Backpacking Camping
* Comfort Station
* Disabled Access Site
* Fishing
* Hiking Trails
* Horseback Riding
* Parking
* Ranger Station
* Restrooms
* Telephone
* Toilet, Accessible
This week the theme has been story telling for me. I came across this great website calledsome people.
Here is how Harrell Fletcher, one of the artists who started the some people project explains it:
The idea is that people select other people that they know or would like to know and make a web documentary about them. The documented people need to be alive and willing and really interesting in one way or another (and not already well known). My hope is that eventually the site will become a vast archive of interesting people that you most likely otherwise would never find out about.
There are a few documentaries on the site already, but I’m hoping people will start to add more and more–revealing otherwise hidden lives and creating new documentary approaches within the public space of the web.
The plan is that eventually there will also be Some People exhibitions, publications, radio pieces, and video screenings selected from the ever growing content on the Some People site.
Check it out. I found the stories very charming and interesting. Who knows, maybe I’ll put some up of my own about my favorite interesting people in Half Moon Bay!
