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September 2010

From the Press

Well, summer is almost gone for another year and fall is creeping up on our creative tails.  How time flies when we are all having fun!  And being busy! 

September brings a special show honoring Dorcys Burchell’s art career.  Let’s gather at the Art Hop to show our appreciation for her contributions to the Center and celebrate her 90th birthday!

A heartfelt welcome to our new members this month, Tymon Gouker, Cheryl Mansu and Don Tomick!   I am so pleased to see the diversity of media and talent in our organization.  I must say we have a curious gallery!

A sincere THANK YOU to all our Chairpersons and Committee members.  All your precious time and hard work is greatly appreciated.  I think you are SUPER GREAT! 

We still have a few Chair positions and committees that need to be filled, so members don’t be shy . . . if you haven’t signed up for anything yet, please call the gallery or a Chairperson and get involved.  The Chairpersons have a good deal of responsibility and put in a lot of hard work to keep the Center running smooth and looking beautiful for the benefit of each member and the community.  They would welcome help from committee volunteers with open arms.   

“And so, my fellow [Artists]: ask not what your [Center] can do for you - ask what you can do for your [center].”
Namaste
--Deborah Morgan

NEWS

 

 

5th Annual Lodi Open Studios Tour Planned

Lodi Open Studios Tour Lodi’s 5th Open Studios Tour will be held Saturday, October 9, 2010 and Sunday, October 10, 2010.  Hours are from 11:00am to 5:00pm both days.  This Open Studios Tour offers the public an opportunity to visit  artists in their working spaces where they will demonstrate their work, answer questions about their displayed art and sell finished pieces. 

Presented by the Lodi Community Art Center, with support from local businesses, the Lodi Open Studios Tour will showcase local and surrounding area artists.  All net proceeds benefit local Artists. 

TOUR DETAILS

Tour Tickets are $10.00 per couple and will be available at different locations. Artist Registration fee is $80.00.  

Applications and Sponsor Forms may be obtained at www.lodiartcenter.org, or by calling 209-333-3855.

For more information or to sponsor this event, please contact the Lodi Community Art Center at 209.333.3855 or send an e-mail to the Lodiartcenter to request info pack.


Samuel Bassett and Pepe Pool have been juried into the Stockton Art League show at the Haggin Museum with their welded steel piece, "Garden Arch".  They also were juried into the "Color and Design" show at the Horton Gallery at Delta College with their concrete sculpture, "Up, Over, and Out".  Both shows run concurrently in October.

J. Strote is doing an Alzheimer's fundraiser. Items can be donated at a box at the gallery before Saturday.

Small Works Invitation Planning

Do you know when our next invitational art show will be?  It’s not in March, it’s in November.  It’s our Invitational Small Works Show.  Last year we got more than 180 entries.  That’s a lot of art.  It takes a lot more preparation than our normal gallery show needs to pull it off.

We will need a show manager to organize recruitment of artists, recruiting a judge, receiving the art and setting up the show.  Our Spring Show had 293 entries that got displayed, to put it in perspective.

Last year, a few people got swamped with work, the victims of a successful art recruiting effort.  This year, if we start now, we have time to think through what to do and how to promote this special show.  But, it is not something that can be put off until the month before the show.  We need a chair and a show committee now!

Think of this plea for planning to be another clarion call for an ongoing year-long marketing plan.  Good events don’t just happen on their own. 

Rich Allen

Facebook:

Become a Facebook friend to Lodi Community Art Center, then suggest it to your Facebook friends in Lodi and surrounding areas or to artists anywhere.

 
 
Membership
 

Featured Artist Schedule for 2010 - 2011:

June 2010: Leland Choy
July 2010: Deborah Morgan
August 2010: Mary Sibert
September 2010: Jean Janssin
October 2010: Mike Fallon
November 2010: Sam Bassett and Pepe Pool
December 2010: Suzie Wilbourn
January 2011: Frances Scott
February 2011: Helen Krummenacker
March 2011: Joyce Costa
April 2011 Aaron Hall
May 2011: Rich Allen
June 2011: JC Strote

Gallery Show Themes:

October: Keeping it Lively
November & December: Small Works Show
January: It’s Almost Like a Song
February: Treasures from Travel
March: Homage to Impressionism
April: Artist at Play
May:  Close to Home
June: Americana
July: Membership Competition

 
Notice to Featured Artists of LCAC:

Please email images of your art to Karen Jahnke-Barila, kbarila@lodi.gov at the library before the 5th of the month PRECEDING your show.  She makes "joint" posters for us and the Library that go in the kiosks downtown and needs images ahead of time.
--Ed. note: And let's give a big "Thank you" to her for helping us out! Her hours are limited, so having the images well in advance will help her make the best use of the time available.

To all upcoming Featured Artist:  

Would you like to have your biography featured in the upcoming newsletter?  By submitting you Biography, people will have a chance to learn more about you and the art you offer.   If you have an upcoming “Featured Artist” Show, Please submit all of your info to me by the 15th of each month to have them listed in the Monthly Newsletter.  Please email me at marygphoto2@yahoo.com or drop of your bio at the Art Center for submission.

Gallery policies:

1)  All work must be for sale, except up to 10% of the Featured Artist Show. Boost the price if you hope it does not sell. 2) We don't hang reproductions (giclees), except up to 10% of the Featured Artist Show. You are welcome to sell these as matted items in the racks.  3) Paintings should be wired for hanging. Wire ends should be taped.  4) We take in work on the last Saturday of the month and allow work to come in through the following Tuesday morning. Anything beyond that places an unfair burden on those preparing the gallery for First Friday.  5) The gallery Chairman is in charge of gallery appearance. Please don't take it upon yourself to rearrange. 6) Hanging fees make a significant contribution to the gallery. If you do not have hanging work, please consider donating at least a $5 hanging fee equivalent each month. This request is not directed toward those who hang art and also have cards, jewelry, or the like in the gallery. 7) We are always in need of additional staffers--we have from 40 to 44 staffing slots to fill each month depending on how the calendar runs. We don't have enough artists showing for the required once a month 4 hours staffing to cover it all. Sign up for an extra spot if you can. Consider staffing even if you are not showing that month. It keeps you in touch with what we are doing.  8) A piece of art should be shown in only one regular member show per year—that art might be shown again in a competitive show or in a featured artist show, but we want to maintain a fresh look in the regular monthly shows.

 

Calendar

September 2010 Featured Artist: Jean Janssen. September theme, Remembering. This month only submit no more than two art pieces. SPECIAL RETROSPECTIVE SHOW  of the work of Drocys Burchell.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28: Deliver work for September Show to the gallery between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm. Okay to leave work early. Just be sure to fill out inventory card and pay hanging fees.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: First Friday Art Hop  6 pm to 9 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: Board meeting, 5 pm in the studio.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14: Member Meeting 7 pm . Speaker Don Tomick on Giclee
Thursday, September 16, 2010 Meeting of Haute Couture Société. Grace Methodist Church, 1625 N. Lincoln Street, Stockton: 6:30 P.M. Refreshments 7:00 P.M. Meeting
SEPTEMBER 16 TO 19: Lodi Grape Festival. LCAC artists will do demonstrations in Chardonnay Hall.
SAT-SUN, SEPT 25 & 26: Workshop by Sabina Hart Turner in the Studio. See the classes & workshops section for detains. SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 25: Intake of art for OCTOBER show,  Theme: Keeping It Lively. OCTOBER FEATURED ARTIST: Open Studio Artists’ Sampler.
OCTOBER 9 & 10: Open Studios Tour
OCTOBER 14: Rotation of  non-hanging, non-sculptural items in gallery. (cards, prints, unframed originals, jewelry, scarves, and items not currently subject to hanging fees). See Gallery Notes for further information.
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER: Small Works Show
MARCH 18-20 2011: 51st Annual LCAC Spring Show at Woodbridge Winery
 

Classes

Tuesdays:

--Oil Painting 9 am to 12 noon. Taught by Jean Justeau, 333-9899 or justeau@sbcglobal.net. - $12 OR $14 (NON MEMBERS)

-- Patti Wallace   RIGHT BRAIN DRAWING & OTHER STUFF: 1-3 TUESDAYS-$12 OR $14 (NON MEMBERS)

--Watercolor Class by Wendy. Starting September 7, 2010: Lodi Community Art Center
Tuesday Evening 6-8 p.m.
(NO class the second Tuesday of each month)$10.00 per Student, per Session To reserve your spot please call Wendy at 559-970-9834.  Or email at lodi.wendy@yahoo.com.

Thursdays:

--2nd & 4th Thursdays. We are called "LODI MandM's"! Mixed Media Group. 10 am to 12:30 pm. A dollar donation for the art center.

ART WELLNESS: ALLOWING ART TO BRING YOU OUT OF THE PAST: USUALLY THURSDAYS, 1-3 $20/$22 (NON MEMBERS)PLEASE CALL TO BE IN THIS GROUP: 209-986-1673 PATTI WALLACE

Fridays: Mommy and Me, 4 pm. For ages 2-7. $5.00 with PATTI WALLACE

Special weekend class: > SABINA TURNER'S TWO DAY WATERCOLOR PAINTING CLASS: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 10-4PM @ THE STUDIO CLASSROOM OF THE LODI COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $100.00 for members/ $120.00 for non members with a non-refundable $50 deposit to hold your spot, SIGN UP @ THE LODI ART CENTER front desk. (Deposit, of course,  will be applied to the class fee!)
> TITLE of class:  COLORFUL WATERCOLOR  PORTRAITS WITH A LIMITED PALETTE (USING A MODEL)

Contact these teachers for classes:
Stained glass workshops with Rochelle Perry available. No times are set as yet; she would like to be contacted by those interested in learning so she can work out details. Stained and faux stained glass techniques for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. She is a professional artist and teacher, and most members are familiar with her work. Rochelle Perry 209-339-0491 winecountrystainedglass.com rochelleperry75@yahoo.com cell phone 209-747-6506

CALLING FOR NEW STUDENTS & ANY REQUESTS FOR SPECIFIC MEDIA OR TOPICS DESIRED! J.C. Strote would do a fused glass class if we could drum up some takers! Let her know if you would like to learn to create some beautiful jewelry!( jcstrote@earthlink.net)LET ME KNOW, TOO! PATTI WALLACE, 368-2589 or 986-1673, WORKSHOP/CLASS CHAIR!

Also:
OUR FRIEND, CLEMMIE KING IS TEACHING  A CLASS IN TRACY!
Introduction to Chinese Brush Painting
Come learn about the history and evolution of Chinese Brush Painting. We will also venture into the wonderful world of learning to create the beautiful brush strokes needed to paint the four most prominent symbols Bamboo, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, and Plum. You will learn how all of these are essential to the Chinese culture and how they are important in the character development of an individual. Students will amass skills necessary to create the fundamental brush strokes (with traditional Asian tools. This class meets once a week for 6 weeks.
 
Instructor: Clemmie King
Location: Visual Arts 2
Note: $50 supply fee due at time of registration.
 Instructor: Clemmie King
Location: Visual Arts 2
Note: $50 supply fee due at time of registration.
 
Class #27838
Wednesdays: 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27  at 3-5PM
Ages 15-Adult
Resident Discount: $ 115          Cost: $127
 
Registration is already available online at www.atthegrand.org and at the patron services located at 715 Central Ave in Tracy, Ca. Hardcopies of the catalog will be available at the end of this month.

Shows

First Friday Art Hop Lodi:

Lodi Community Art Center, 3171 Lakewood Mall 333-3855  *  Thomas Theater Gallery at Hutchins Street Square, 125 South Hutchins Street 367-1780  *  Lodi Public Library, 201 West Locust Street 333-5566  *  Java Stop, 321 South Hutchins Street 369-9381  *  Scooters, 121 West Elm Street 369-8100  *  Vision Flooring & Interiors, 906 West Lodi Ave 369-1166

The 56th Juried Exhibition at The Haggin Museum:

Sponsored by Stockton Art League.  September 2 – October 31.  Cash awards over $5000.  Open to all US artists.  No photography or computer art.  CD deadline July 7, 2010.  Juror: Margot Schulzke.  Prospectus: #10 SASE to Teresa Hickey, 1031 Elmwood Ave., Stockton, CA  95204 or www.hagginmuseum.org  Inquiries: elmhickey@sbcglobal.net

Pasos Vineyards Fall Art Show 2010 David Jon Foster presents “Liquid Stranger”:

Foster's ever changing style and return to the past is a true abstraction that is reveled in 12 new watercolor paintings shown for the first time. Explorations retrospective DMAX movie during reception only, 8:00pm Special Barrel Room photography exhibit.

Artist Reception and Show Preview: Sat. September 25th 6:00-9:00PM Musical Performance by World Music Man Levi Huffman

Show: Sunday September 26th 12:00-5:00PM Musical Performance by Nu Jazz Guitarist/Composer Travis Vega

Meet the Artist, Wine Tasting, Food, Refreshments, Bottle Service, Live Music, Bottle and Case Discounts on Selected Varietals

Free Event Pasos Vineyards Winery Vino Piazza 12470 Locke Rd. Lockeford pasoswinery.com 727-3153 davidjonfosterart.com     663-3056 A David Jon Foster Studio Production

Grape Festival

LCAC will repeat its presence at the Grape Festival this year with a booth in the Art Show building.  We need volunteers to staff the booth and to demonstrate their art while they’re there.  Last year was the first time in a while that we have done this and it was well received.

This year’s festival runs Thursday, September 16th thru Sunday the 19th.  We need artists to demonstrate how they create art from 4 pm to 6 pm and 6 pm to 8 pm each day.  This is not teaching a class, it’s just doing your thing in public.  People will ask questions when they are curious.  I got the most questions from kids last year.  There will be parking passes for staffers for the day they are scheduled.

This is a chance for us to let the public to know who we are, where we are and about the classes and events we sponsor.  We will have flyers and brochures to give away plus posters and signs telling our story.  This costs us little more than our time and is effective public relations.  I will have a sign-up clip-board in the gallery.  You can do it in pairs, if you wish.  It’s fun.  Sign up.
--Rich Allen

Meeting of Haute Couture Société Thursday, September 16, 2010; Grace Methodist Church, 1625 N. Lincoln Street, Stockton; 6:30 P.M. Refreshments 7:00 P.M. Meeting
Our organization focuses on fashion design and fine needle arts. Monthly meetings feature speakers and innovative programs. Workshops are instructed by accomplished artists on a variety of techniques and skills. We also offer bus trips to special events, artist studios, and museum exhibits at nominal cost. All interested persons are invited to attend this presentation.
Featuring Jay Nicolas Sario: A Look Back on His Project Runway Experience and a Peek at His Spring 2011 Collection. Sario, 32, developed his design skills at Honolulu Community College. Describing himself as a visual merchandiser, he is the lead stylist for Gap, Inc. in the kids’ division in San Francisco. His participation in the 7th season of Project Runway earned him a position of 4th runner-up and national exposure. He just completed a high fashion line for Spring that will be shown in three cities in October, but we will see it first!

 

Lite Art:


by Caroline Henry

 

       Sweet September! Having led a school-centered life as a student, a mom, and a teacher, for most of my life September was a time of beginnings. Then Lodi district went to year-round schedules, then to a schedule which begins midsummer. September lost its old sense of promise as beginning of a crisp new year, reverting to a season of crisp apples and newly harvested grapes promising good wines, a season of culmination & harvest.

Where’s the art connection? It’s Grape Festival time. Community organizatins indulge in the ephemeral art of the grape mural, which in a few days travels the distance from beauty to ripening compost. In addition to the regular art show, individual local artists are invited to enter a competition for the best grape and wine themed work of fine art.  If you’ve been around the old vineyard a few times, you may wonder just how many possibilities are to be found in the grape and its products. Haven’t they all been done? Even the wall art of ancient Pompeii celebrates the bounty of the grape. However, it could be worse—think of the art possibilities in Tracy’s Bean Festival, Gilroy’s Garlic Fest, the Holtville Carrot Festival, or the California Prune Festival in Yuba City. Pour some wine and drink a toast to the grape—see, it could be a lot worse!

What to do for the theme competition? If you are a landscape artist, a vineyard scene is a natural. If you specialize in still life, grapes and wine will figure into your arrangement. The range of artists belonging to the Art Center involves a lot wider territory that landscape and still life alone. Is everyone else to be left out? I see the portrait artist producing a weathered-faced farmer or field hand, a young beauty sipping wine, a cute child indulging in bright round grapes. Specialize in nudes?—use a few grape leaves to obscure strategic points—much more user-friendly than fig leaves. Abstract artist—maybe you could play Jackson Pollack and dribble various vintages across a large watercolor sheet; my table cloths can attest to the permanence of the colors. Moved to do tribute art? Perhaps a Mondrian in nothing but black, white, and shades of  purple—saying something new about grapes by converting the plump globules into crisp rectangles. That’s getting into the spirit! By now you may be ready to tackle some artistic beans or posable prunes!


 

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to have posted on our links page please send Webmaster David Jon Foster an E-Mail letting him know. david@davidjonfosterart.com
 
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Area Galleries 

Tidewater Gallery
223 E. Weber Avenue, Stockton, (209) 463-4033.   
Gallery Hours:  Tuesday through Friday, 10 am - 5pm.  Saturday, 11- 3pm  
 
University of the Pacific's Reynolds Gallery
1071 Mendocino Ave Stockton(209) 946-7323 reynoldsgallery@pacific.edu
 
LH Horton Jr Gallery
Located on the ground floor of Shima Center on the campus of
 San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton. (209) 954-5507 gallery@deltacollege.edu
 
Stockton Art League's Goodwin Gallery
Tuesday through Friday, 11am-5pm Saturday, 10am-4pm 
1902 Pacific Ave Stockton CA (209) 466-6604
 
David Jon Foster - Studio Gallery
Located at Pasos Vineyards Winery, Vino Piazza 12470 Locke Road Lockeford CA
12 to 5 Fri., Sat. and Sun. david@davidjonfosterart.com (209) 663-3056
 
Studio 20 Gallery
 
Knowlton Gallery
209.368.5123
www.knowltongallery.com
115 South School Street #14 Lodi Ca 95240
 

 

Membership Information

We would be pleased to have you join our organization. We have been in existence for over seventy years and are a nonprofit entity run entirely by volunteer artists.  We have our own Art Gallery, Class Room and Studio where our members are encouraged to paint, show, and demonstrate their art work.  Members who display work in the gallery pay $5 per piece for each month display/hanging period. All gallery art will be for sale to the general public, with a 30% commission for the Art Center.

Art Center projects include; the Spring Art Annual (an open show at Mondavi Winery), the Annual Small Works Show, the Annual Membership Show, 1st Friday Art Hop, the Student Gallery, Student Scholarships, great classes and fun workshops and free art demos from the regions leading artists.

Our gallery at 1373 Lakewood Mall on Ham Lane in Lodi is open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and is staffed by our Members.  We will also be open from 6:00pm to 9:00 pm every first Friday of the month for the Art Hop show. Membership meetings are at 7:00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the gallery and the meeting includes a demonstration by one of our members or a visiting artist.   Classes and workshops will be held by our member artists. These classes are available to our members as well as the general public. New members are always welcome. If you would like to become a member just send us an E-Mail and we will have our membership Chair contact you with all the information.

Membership is open to artists and those Interested In supporting the arts.  Annual Membership dues are:  General Membership $35,  Student Membership $10, Sustaining Membership $100-$499, Donor: $500-$999, Patron: $1000.

The Lodi Community Art Center is an Incorporated Non-Profit (501c) Educational Organization. 

Lodi Art Center Board of Directors

President: Deborah Morgan  625-7852  deborahmorgan@softcom.net

Vice-President: Rich Allen  327-8616  richallen40@sbcglobal.net

Secretary: Suzie Wilborn  368-2207 cllctr55@sbcglobal.net   

Treasurer: Pam Bechill  333-0323  pbechill@comcast.net 

Newsletter Chair: Caroline Henry 931-0682  cdhenry209@comcast.net

Membership Chair:  Valerie Pinaglia                  

Workshop Chair: Patti Wallace  745-5877

Spring Show Chair:  Rich Allen  327-8616  richallen40@sbcglobal.net

Gallery Chair: Samuel Bassett  210-7097  

Traci Stamper

Small Works Show Chair: Lisa Goldman

Rich Allen 327-8616 richallen1940@sbcglobal.net

Grant Writing Chair: Christine Grant

Electronic Media/Technical Chair: Pepe Pool pepepool@comcast.net

Webmaster:  David Jon Foster  663-3056  david@davidjonfosterart.com

Newsletter Editor: Helen Krummenacker  helenkrummenacker@gmail.com
 

 

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