Shows, Artists in Action, Special Sales, ACM News, Openings, Opportunities, other Not-to-be-missed Happenings!

Artists in Action

Our gallery is part studio: an artist is often working on a project and is happy to talk to you about the process or just let you observe. You might even have a chance to join in.

Most days are WYSIWYG. Sometimes artists plan ahead and we can post future sessions here.

FUTURE SHOWS

June 1 - July 6, 2010

ACM Member Jim Moorehead: Photography.

The show, Wildlife Images in a Dry Country, presents dramatic scenes in Tansania, East Africa, during a severe drought. Join us on safari, through his visuals, to experience the heat, dust, desperate search for water, and adaptive behaviors, that affected the animals Jim captured with his camera. Sites visited include Serengeti Plain, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park, and the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Refreshments at the Second Saturday opening will relieve the parched feeling that might develop while engaged in the show.

July 6 - Aug 2, 2010

ACM Printmakers: Debra Lennox, Jessica Jade Norris, and Karen E Reynolds

August 3 - Sept 7, 2010

ACM: Lynne Robertson and Robert Yelland

September 7 - Oct 4, 2010

ACM: Shizuko McConathy: Tributes to E.John Robinson

October 5 - Nov 1, 2010

TBA

November 2 - Dec 6, 2010

Friends of ACM Members

December 7 - Jan 3, 2010

ACM Annual Winter Members Show

January 4 - Jan 31, 2011

TBA

February 1 - Feb 28, 2011

TBA

March 1 - April 4, 2011

TBA

GOOD NEWS!

May ’10

We are happy to welcome new Guest Member Ed Duarde, a plein air painter and a new resident in Mendocino. We anticipate that he will become a permanent Co-op member in the near future. To see some of his work close up, visit our gallery. Learn more about Ed from his web site

http://fineartbyduarde.blogspot.com

June ’10

Lisa Orselli is teaching another class on encaustics. Information at the top of this page will be posted soon.

What’s encaustics? Click on LINKS (above) and go to Artlex to find out more.

April ’10

Did you know....

that the well-stocked Art Supplies section at Harvest Market at Mendosa’s in Mendocino is the effort of our own ACM member Cliff Larson? If you haven’t been there lately, check it out. He makes decisions based on local workshops and instructors’ supply lists (without infringing on items instructors prefer to sell themselves) as well as tapping his own expertise as an artist. The variety of products continues to grow. Cliff will be happy to make special orders for individual artists (like us!) and to follow up on suggestions for additional materials that should be included. Well done Cliff!

April ’10

Debbie Lennox is one of the team of two architects who have submitted plans for a new multipurpose center for artists created from the old drying shed on the GP property in Ft Bragg. Be alert for further developments!

CURRENT SHOWS

Still on Display:

Oil Pastels by

Jacquelyn Hewitt

Guest Artist for January

Buy Art on cards

by ACM members

Cards feature

reproductions of

original art

and are sold individually

or in sets.

Painting by Karen Bowers

PHoto by Jim Moorehead

See our new “Gallery Open” banner sewn by Lynne Butler!

WORKSHOPS by ACM Artists

Exploring Encaustics

Instructor: Lisa Orselli

Designed primarily for beginners this workshop will introduce you to some of the many ways you can work with this flexible medium. We’ll explore textures, layering, incising, adding paper and other objects as well as combining other media such as oil, pastels and graphite. It will be fun and youl end the day knowing how to safely set up at home.

Date: June 26, Saturday

Time: 10:30-3:30 (break for lunch)

Location: Racine’s, Ft. Bragg

Price: $65 includes materials

To register or ask questions call Lisa Orselli 937-4271 or by e-mail landb@mcn.org

May 4 - June 1, 2010

Two Shows!

Shanti Balsé: Mystical Journeys

Shanti says this about her upcoming photography show:

“I travel the world

both to interact with it

and to seek the Mystical

World. My new show

reflects the journeys I

have taken that are

mystical in nature, and

what the world reflects

back to me when I seek

to see underneath Her

"mundane" cloak, which

really is more of an

illusion than the spiritual

nature that She is.”

Shanti Balsé is a Co-op member.Click on Home to visit her Artist’s page.

William Di Dio,

Guest Artist for May

Sculpture

Reflectiing on his work and

process, William says,

"My Joy in sculpting comes

from the challenge of the

stone to release that which is

in it. For this, of course, I must

wait for the stone to tell me."

Photo by Arlene Moorehead

Jim Moorehead photographs Mendocino Bay from our second floor deck on a lovely day. For wilder fare, be sure to see our show in June, which will feature Jim’s photos of Africa.