Call for Artists living in California
“Dia de los Muertos”
Entry Deadline is Sunday, September 16, 2007

For years, Long Beach has celebrated Dia de los Muertos in a huge apartment complex and courtyard. The 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space (2cc) is now a neighbor and has been invited to participate. This year the gates on both sides of the alley will open wide to encourage an exchange of culture, art, fun and flow of community from the apartment courtyard to 2cc’s gallery and garden. The courtyard is a magical place where altars, candlelight, marigolds, Aztec dancing and live music will fill the air. In addition to the exhibition and the community ofrenda, 2cc’s garden will likewise be transformed with altars, calaveras, music, movies, delicious food & desserts and craft vendors. Please join us.

Cash awards $500, $300, $200, $100 plus the infamous Eye Opener Statue.
2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 901-0997
for more info: 2ndcitycouncil@earthlink.net

Tucker Nichols (Phantom Galleries 2005) is having his second solo exhibit at ZieherSmith gallery in New York City which opens Sept. 6 and on view thru Oct. 6th.

The installation above, that Tucker did with Steve Lambert for Phantom years ago in the old Woolworth building (now Black Sea Gallery), is a pretty good example of the simple brilliance of Tucker's art. I remember we were all cleaning the dirt and grime from the front windows. Tucker and Steve weren't settled on what they wanted to do yet. Just then a car drove up in front of the space, in line for the light to change green, and they heard someone in the car tell their passenger, "I just woke up from the most beautiful dream...." and then drove off. Tucker looked at Steve and said "that's it!" and they painted these words on the window. It was so perfect for that bleak area that needed transformation.

In the ZS press release, Tucker is quoted as saying: “I’m trying to capture the early part of a thought—before it’s fully formed, before it makes perfect sense. The early part of a thought is bold and simple and not yet worn down by practical concerns. I want to celebrate our willingness to complete the story, to make sense of things even when there’s so little to work with. I’d rather build an open circuit and ask you to close the gap yourself.”

On Saturday Sept. 8 from 11am - 5pm, Kathy Aoki will be printing a 3ft x 3ft linoleum cut with a steam roller on the street at the Center for the Book in San Francisco. This free event includes ten artists with big lino-cuts, vendor tables, and kids activities.

This unique fundraiser doubles as a rollicking street fair with an expanded book arts and printers sale. The large lino cut prints will be auctioned off at the annual Gala Dinner/Fundraiser. This year watch artists pull prints from large-scale linoleum blocks carved especially for the occasion by: Kathy Aoki, East Side Editions, Michael Carabetta, Leif Fairfield, Mary Laird, Paul Madonna, Brandon Mise, Rik Olson, Maia de Raat, Patricia Miye Wakida, and William T. Wiley.

Saturday September 8th, 11am to 5pm
San Francisco Center for the Book
300 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA
415-565-0545

The ICA Print Center has announced its fall schedule of Monotype and Beginning Etching which will take place on numerous dates throughout October and December. For full schedule and pricing, click here.

Join artist Isis Rodriguez for a conversation on contemporary art and the New Inspirational Movement. The New Inspirational Movement is a philosophical and spiritual movement to build a new culture of artists who want to be visionaries, rebels, and critics. The New Inspirational Movement is a place where artists can talk freely about their art, resisting the expectations of the art world.

Thursday, Sept. 20th, 7pm - Free Admission
MACLA, 510 South First Street
Downtown San Jose

Congratulations to Werner Glinka (long time Phantom & former KALEID artist) on his upcoming exhibit GA8 in Sausalito.

The Consul General of Germany and Fingerhut Gallery of Sausalito invite you to the premier exhibit of 8 world renowned German-American artists.

Artists' Reception: Saturday, October 20th, 7- 9 PM
Please RSVP to 415-331-7225

Artists include: Bertolt A. Schmidt-Print Maker/Painter, Silke Henkell-Wallace-Painter, Werner Glinka-Mixed Media, Ines Tancre-Mixed Media, Inge Infante-Painter, Natasha Julicher-Sculptor, Susanne Kaspar-Photographer and Heike Seefeldt-Mixed Media/Painter

Fingerhut Gallery, 690 Bridgeway Sausalito, CA

Works Access (Works/San Jose's monthly conversation with local artists) features artists Jesse Houlding, Marina Shretenberg, Charlene Tan, and Annie Vought, all of whom will discuss their unique process as exhibited in the concurrent exhibition eXact-O!.

Thursday September 20th, 6:30pm
Works/San Jose, 451 South First Street, San Jose
free and open to the public

Rob Lehman (a current KALEID artist) is exhibiting a lot of new work at Laurel's Cafe with a lunchtime reception on Friday, September 28, at 12 noon to 1pm. Stop by and have some lunch and peruse the new exhibit!

Laurel's is open Monday through Friday, 8-5
138 E. Santa Clara St. (between South 3rd and 4th streets)
downtown San Jose

Dance With Death, Christine Benjamin, 36" x 36", acrylic on canvas

Christine Benjamin (Phantom & KALEID artist) is one of many artists in the Dia De Muertos Show at Alma Gifts and Culture in Santa Cruz.
Opening reception: Sat., Oct. 13th, 5-7 PM , show runs until Nov. 11th

Alma Gifts & Culture
1705 Mission St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831.425.2562
Hours: Tue-Sun 11-6

Kevin of the Intersections for the Arts has sent an invitation to all south bay community artists to participate in their Call for Entries for their Annual Juried Exhibition.

San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts teams up with Southern Exposure on their 16th Annual Entry Fee-Free Juried Exhibition, 7th Annual Film/Video Screening, Day of Public Interventions, and Performance Series of works by Northern California artists.

"This year Southern Exposure has joined up with their new neighbor and old friend, Intersection for the Arts, to present a series of juried projects. With the same commitment to innovative, experimental, and risk-taking art we collectively decided on the theme, GROUNDED? What does it mean to be grounded and what does the journey in search of grounding look like? We invite artists to submit work that responds to this idea in some way, shape or form."

Entry forms for GROUNDED? can be found at locations throughout the Bay Area as well as on our websites at soex.org and theintersection.org. (Applications will also be available at Anno Domini and KALEID galleries.)

For more information or questions about the juried show please contact Maysoun Wazwaz (SoEx) at 415-863-2141 or programs@soex.org and Kevin Chen (Intersection) at 415-626-2787 or kevin@theintersection.org.

Earlier this year we told you about a call for entries by San Francisco's CITY|SPACE that was seeking proposals for creative and surprising new SOUVENIRS of the San Francisco Bay Area. A memory for the tourist that arrives and departs, a collection of images and mementos to take home and revisit, the souvenir encompasses expectation and recollection of places, people, and adventures.

Although often ignored, souvenirs are ubiquitous representations of the places we inhabit, written in the kitschy dialect of sno-globes and postcards. But souvenirs also navigate more intimate geographies, of personal feeling and memory. Wish You Were Here will reimagine the souvenir's unique position between landscape, memento, and memory. ~CitySpace

John Kurtyka (Phantom & KALEID artist) answered the challenge, and was accepted, with the Welcome to Silicon Valley CURSOR (the searcher) John says of his proposal: "Its face includes a variety of skin colors–like those whose work brought it to life and began its search (some got rich, many made a living, bought homes and raised families–some families broke up because of the stress and long work hours.) Its not polite to point–so it acquiesces silently to our every whim–cursoring across the colors and flashing lights of your screen–pointing to knowledge as well as opinions informed by ignorance and poor reasoning–searching for doorways and plateaus of understanding as well as reinforcement of suspicions and prejudices. IF KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, THEN ACCESS TO POWER MIGHT BE THE NEXT BEST THING."

There is an exhibit of accepted submissions in the works as well as a possible publication. Congratulations John and keep us posted!

There will be a photographic retrospective of Fred Roessler’s photography from 1995-2007 of historic Willowside Ranch in Pescadero. A beautiful selection of the buildings and farm equipment, animals, as well as the old cheese house and it’s presses.

We will have memorabilia from the old ranch, and give visitors the opportunity to try their hand at painting a silver gelatin print with oils.

Willowside Ranch By Fred Roessler
Norton Gallery @ Pacific Art League
668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto
Reception Friday Oct 5, 2007 from 6-9 pm

PELLET (aka Kyle Perera) has several new works up at 49 & 55 South First Street just past Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose. The exhibit will be on view 24/7 from the sidewalk through November 2007.

There are two titled exhibits, the one at No. 49 is Daydreams Turn to Nightmares. Pellet says of this display: Almost all of my little characters are either obliviously happy, in a state of awakened sadness or disappointment, or too stupid to realize all of the destruction around them, as well as their impending doom.

The No. 55 space is titled: That's Not Good! The monkey paintings are fairly simple and easy to digest, while some of the pieces in between them are saturated/overloaded with information, kind of like a normal conversation full of facial and body gestures, inside jokes, intonation, and a million other signals that we have to take in and put into context in order to communicate even the most basic, crude, unclever joke.

Take a stroll down North First and visit Pellet at www.pelletfactory.com

Deborah Anderson, (current KALEID artist) will be teaching a polymer clay class in which students will create a fun and colorful bracelet made entirely of polymer clay with different designs on each side, so that it can be worn either way.

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 from 10am to 2pm.
Location: Michaels Art & Crafts Store, 5550 Snell Ave. (at Blossom Hill Road), San Jose
The cost for the class is $40., you must go into the Michaels Store to sign up.
Michael's phone # is (408) 694-0658.

For more information, click the "continued reading" link below, or email: maraha@aol.com or phone (408) 998-5303