UPCOMING CALAFIA SHOW IN FEB

Hear yea, all artists of the heart and soul. Our tentative SCA Calafia show plans are:

Art submittal: Sunday, Feb 10

Opening night: Tuesday or Wednesday, Feb 12 or 13, 6-9pm

Entry fee for SCA members: $10

Works: Any kind of wall art, ready to hang (a regretable limitation)

Theme: Nominally of the heart, extended to include every kind and aspect of love

Show closure: TBD

E-Mail Eileen Anderson ASAP that you plan to sumit a work.

About Face – Portraiture Now

At the Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA), 2300 Ocean Avenue, Long Beach, through March 23, 2008, check it at www.lbma.org

What could be more uncool in today’s art world than a portraiture show? LBMA answers with a large show of large and small works, with gems in many media. These are the new old masters, with drawing and painting skills that emulate and rival the greats of the past.
The stated goals are: to capture a likeness, to show the non-stereotypical, and to probe the psyche. If you still treasure these values in art in the digital age, then this is the show for you. What else is drawing and painting about in this post-Postmodern era?
“About Face” works on the first floor are works after 2000, and so much more engaging than the permanent collection in “Picturing Identity” on the second floor. In many ways the second floor collection is more didactic and more radical in style, but also so dated in its ages. The newer work has power, seduction, a blend of the analytical and the holistic. Some to hate, lots to admire, a few with magic to inspire. Recommendation: Try a local afternoon tour with art friends, taking in the LBMA, MOLAA and the UAM at CSULB, all free on Fridays.

SCA Artist Membership Welcoming

The Next SCA Artist Membership Welcoming will be held January 15th, 2008, at the Jan meeting.

Bring artwork if possible. SCA plays a central role in the Orange County arts community by providing local artists and the public with exceptional exhibitions and programs, as well as a forum for exchange and education through lectures, workshops and networking opportunities. SCA serves a cross section of artists of all mediums, career levels and socio-economic backgrounds. By supporting the emerging talent at the onset of their career path, we hope to influence all the cultural stakeholder groups in OC and contribute to the cultural identity of our community. SCA is pledged to providing emerging artists with the experience, education and exposure needed to create and sustain a career in the arts. Membership screenings are held regularly at SCA meetings.

Here are the specifics:Next Orientation Tuesday, January 15, 7-9pm

Location to be provided on the SCA website soon.

Applicants must be social and may provide or talk about some art materials during the Membership meeting:

1. Two (2) original pieces of artwork created within the last 30 years.

Possible guidelines for submitting artwork: none but your own creativity

2. Membership for 2008 fee: $35 (make checks payable to Southern California Artists)

3. Pledge to support SCA activities and membership

For more information on SCA’s programs and services please visit our website at http://www.southerncaliforniaartists.com/.
Note: SCA members please distribute this notice to all of your artist friends. If prospective members cannot attend this meeting, then contact Marilyn Todd at (949) 581-9941 for an application form.

Only once a year does LA have two international art fairs, and they both occur the same weekend in January (1/26-1/27), and only 4 miles apart in Santa Monica. The LA Art Fair at the Barker Hanger (see below) is for historical, modern and contemporary art, plus prints this year. The Art LA Fair at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (at Pico and Main Sts) is for contemporary art. Anyone interested in a group for Saturday, 1/26/2008, starting at the Art LA show? If so, then form a car pool with SCA members and friends from your area of Orange Co. (Note: about $20 entry for each). Lunch and coffees available at each place. Anyone near Corona Del Mar, call Marilyn Ellis who would like to car pool (949) 675-3717. So see you and some great art at the fair.

13TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES ART SHOWJANUARY 23-27, 2007
Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, 3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica 90405
For further information, please contact:KR Martindale Show Management(310) 822-9145,
fax (310) 822-1979E-mail, info@laartshow.comWeb site, http://www.LAArtShow.com

CAL JOINS SCA

Our long time friend and husband of Marilyn Todd, Cal Todd is joining SCA. Many already know Cal from his attendance and support at meetings and exhibitions with Marilyn. Although he is not yet persuaded that he has artistic leanings, he is volunteering his support as a deputy to the VP and P in organizational activities. For instance, he will make initial contacts with applicants, E-Mail them the membership list, and recommend contacts with members working in the same media. So members are asked to participate also to help SCA grow.

Cal is also a nautical enthusiast and volunteers as a sailor with a Coast Guard group and serves on a research ship for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He is providing his organizational skills there as well. Welcome aboard, Cal.

SCA Holiday Party 07

MondayEve, 21/11/07
To: SCA Membership
From: Thom Wright
Subject: SCA Holiday Party of 12/9/07

SCA artists celebrate SCA 07, our 10th year as SCA, 22nd year including OC VA. Graciously hosted by founding member Janet Adams, our potluck accomplished the following:

Election of the 08 board of volunteers:
Thom Wright – Pres
Marilyn Todd – VP and Membership
Paula van der Lans – Treas
Laurie Sequeido – Sec, plus alternates
Randall Holbrook – SCA Webmaster

Discussion of 08 goals:
a. More focus on our artwork
b. Membership growth – invite your artist friends
c. Maintain our non-profit status and community support
d. Better communication using our website and blog messaging – all members are encouraged to check weekly at www.southerncaliforniaartists.com and contribute art news
e. Membership participation to make events happen – no permanent chairpersons
f. Alternating days of the month and locales for meetings/programs. A weekday evening, then a Saturday morning schedule
g. Better artist networking – invite SCA and interested friends to meetings, informal meetings of groups with common media and interests

Next meeting in January 2008:
a. Planned for Thursday, Jan 17, place and time to be announced
b. Discussion of year’s plans
c. How to be an effective smaller group
d. Review of SCA members survey

Urgent request: we need someone to chair the Calafia show in Feb – contact Thom
Please send your 08 membership dues of $35 to Paula van der Lans, Thom Wright

Marilyn Ellis Exhibition at Aliso Viejo Library

Marilyn Ellis shows her recent Art work at the Aliso Viejo Library, 1 Journey Ave., Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 starting the last week of November 2007 through February 2008. Her brightly colored abstractions are an interesting contrast to the light contemporary interior architecture of architect Bryan Jeannette. Marilyn has worked on her interpretation of the String Theory in physics, where the string has replaced the atom, to make her space, color and line in Art extremely vibrant. In his book, "The Elegant Universe", Physicist Brian Greene unites Art, Music and Physics.

This is the second time Marilyn has shown in this library, which is an architectural gem in itself. It was very pleasant that Marilyn Todd, the curator, invited her to show again. The first time was with Bart Palisi, not long after the building was constructed around 1997. Cal Todd was kind enough to hang the work. He said it was the first time the librarian had asked him to put one of the paintings just in front of her desk so that she could look at it.

DIA DE LAS MUERTOS SAN MIGUEL ALLENDE MX 2007

OLA!

I RETURNED LATE LAST NIGHT FROM AN EXCITING WEEK IN SAN MIGUEL ALLENDE MX WHERE THE TOWN CELEBRATED DIA DE LAS MUERTOS. I'D RECOMMEND THE TRIP TO ANYONE WHO HAS AN INTEREST IN "MOCKING DEATH" AS THE MEXICANS DO, WITH MUSIC, JOY, ART AND FOOD. I WAS ABLE TO STUDY A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF FRIDA KAHLO PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, LETTERS, RECIPES, SHORT STORIES, MEDICAL DRAWINGS AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS. THE COLLECTION IS PRESENTLY BEING AUTHENTICATED AND ARCHIVED. A CATALOGUE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I WAS OVERWHELMED WITH THE DEEP, PERSONAL NATURE OF THESE KAHLO WORKS. MANY WERE PAINTED SPECIFICALLY FOR DIEGO. I ALSO HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF OBSERVING A PRINTMAKING SEMINAR AT THE BELLAS ARTES. I LEARNED TWO NEW PROCESSES BY WATCHING THESE TALENTED PRINTMAKERS IN ACTION.

DE LA CASA DE CAROLINA EN EL ANA DE SANTA

SCA Trip to OCMA Nov. 15, 6 to 8PM 2007

Just to supplement the SCA e-mail of Oct. 30 I thought I would use my first blog as a supplement of information on the "Birth of the Cool" show at OCMA. By coincidence I received a complementary issue of Art Ltd. a few days ago. There are several very good articles on the current show at OCMA, one being written by the Curator, Elizabeth Armstrong, "The Square and the Cool" which is from the OCMA catalog. Also 0f interest is the article "Abstract Classicism in Retrospect" by writer, curator Peter Selz and "The Illusionist" about Tony DeLap, UCI former Art Prof and resident of CdM. Docents have been fortunate to see his studio there. My next blog will probably be on my work which will show through Curator, Marilyn Todd, at the Aliso Viejo Library.

by Marilyn Ellis BA UCLA Art History, Studio Art and Spanish 1960 MA CSUF Art with thesis on Mexican Muralists 1977(no MFA given that yr).

Art Lecture at CSULB Theater this week

Oct 31 at 5 pm: CSULB Art Department Lecture by Visiting Artist at the Theater (on 7th St.)
Free to attend, park in side road off of 7th St, enter at East Campus Drive, Long Beach
October 31 : Cat Chow; fiber
Elegantly simple in form, yet complex in construction, Cat Chow's labor-intensive work, which began as a series of garments, is fascinating for its intricacy and use of common materials in unexpected ways. She has exhibited in numerous design, art and contemporary craft shows, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum at F.I.T. in New York. She was recently awarded an Urban Artist Initiative Grant from New York City and has been nominated for the Fashion Design Award of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2007. Cat Chow currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

October 17, 2007 meeting

Very happy to know that SCA will always be in good hands.

Thank you

Carole choucair Oueijan
http://www.FineArtbycarole.com

OCTOBER 17,2007 MEETING

WOW! Thanks to all who attended our meeting last night. We had a a spirited, passionate discussion about the future of SCA. The atmosphere was electric. Positive suggestions were flying around the room. Later, Eileen and I discussed our feelings of OPTIMISM about SCA's future. The involvement of the members last night gave us hope that SCA will not only remain intact but also evolve into a more vibrant organization.

The minutes of the meeting will be sent to your emails. Be on the alert.

Please leave your comments by responding to the blog at the bottom where it says COMMENTS.

SIGN UP FOR A GOOGLE ACCOUNT. USE THE BLOG TO KEEP CONNECTED.

Carole

GERI LUMIAN'S ART-WELCOME HOME!

WELCOME HOME GERI. YOUR PAINTING IS WONDERFUL. I WISH YOU A SPEEDY RECOVERY AND A RETURN TO GOOD HEALTH. PERHAPS YOU CAN COME TO OUR NEXT MEETING.

BEST WISHES,

CAROLE GELKER

http://www.carolewilliamsgelker.com/

Bravo Carole!

Congratulations on your selling! Happy for you.

Kisses

Carole Choucair Oueijan
www.FineArtbyCarole.com

FRIDA KAHLO 100TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

The FRIDA show at PICTURE THIS was a great success. At the opening reception many people even dressed as FRIDA and DIEGO.

My painting was sold. I am thrilled.

Glad to see the website up and running Randall. Thanks for giving us all the opportunity to communicate with each other.

Carole


http://www.carolewilliamsgelker.com/

Hello Carole Choucair

It's good to hear from you. I guess right now we are the "Blogging Caroles' ".

The three Corgis are great. Thanks for asking.

Also, thanks for the kind words about my work.

I hope our blogging will encourage other SCA member's to participate.

Carole

http//carolewilliamsgelker.com

Thank you Carole Gelker

Thank you Carole for your kind words. I also admire your work. Very unique and inspiring.

I guess, only the two Caroles are Blogging here on SCA!!!!

Hope to see you soon.

How are your dogs?

Carole Choucair Oueijan
http://www.FineArtbycarole.com

Congratulations Thom Wright and Bart Palisi

Looking forward to seeing your pieces in the OCCCA September show.

Carole Gelker

http//www.carolewilliamsgelker.com

Congratulations Carole

Your floral piece is exquisite. It's wonderful to see your work. I am always inspired by not only the complex ancient craft you work with but also your feminine aesthetic. Since we live over 60 miles away I can be a part of your latest work and accomplishments in the art world.

Bravo!

Carole Williams Gelker

http://www.carolewilliamsgelker.com/

Thank you Randall, great website!

Thank you Randall,

The website looks great!

I am also a member of a mosaic forum called MAO MosaicArtistsOrg a Yahoo group. It is really worth it to communicate with other artists and share our thoughts and experience. I'm glad that SCA artists can now get in touch in an easy and convenient way.

The MAO forum surprised me on August 6th and posted my artwork that was in SCA Chapman show on their home page. I was so happy. This forum have 3691 members from all over the globe. It will be there for a period of one month. You can check it up. Here is the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mosaicartistsorg/

Thank you again Randall for your support.
Cheers

Carole Choucair Oueijan
http://www.fineartbycarole.com/

LOVE TO SEE SCA MEMBERS ART!

Hello SCA members:

I'd love to see visuals of your art.

I think the blog could be a great way to have a visual art connection with each other.

We've got a group of very talented people with busy lives.

Maybe blogging will help us get to know each other better.

I love this blogging business.

Randall you've created a monster!

Carole

Hello Everyone!

Couldn't resist sending you all this photo I took in Rosarito Beach last week.

My first blog to the site--hope it works.

Best Regards, Carole

Blog Invitation

There has been an invitation sent to all active members to sign up to our blog. Follow the directions, they are fairly simple. We look forward to reading your posts!

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Southern California Artists web site!