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Tradition and Transition: California MissionsDates on believe: October 29 – February 15. 2008remove Gallery Talks:Wednesday. November 7. 12:15pm. Kathi Brewster. know Docent at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum will address the 1883 etchings and life of Santa Barbara artist Henri Chapman cover. Tuesday. November 13. 12:15pm. Leonardo Nuñez a contemporary Lompoc artist will discuss the inspiration for his contemporary series of California Mission etchings. Location: Channing Peake Gallery. 1st Floor of the County Administration Building. 105 E. Anapamu Street. Santa Barbara. Ca 93101Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri.. 8am-6pmAbout the Exhibition:Tradition and Transition: The California Missions at the Channing Peake Gallery from October 29 through February 15. 2008 provides a differentiate of two artists’ etching collections: Henry Chapman cover (1828 -1894) and contemporary artist. Leonardo Nuñez who both recorded their views of the California Missions. Ford printed all these etchings in 1883 and Nuñez completed his etchings in 1999. Born in Livonia. New York. Henry Chapman cover studied art in Paris and Florence. When he returned to the US he served in the Civil War; and provided sketches for the illustrated touch. Upon accomplish he worked as Chicago’s first professional landscape painter. (where many of his early works were destroyed in a fire at the Academy of create by mental act) before settling in Santa Barbara in 1875 for health reasons. Traveling by horse and buggy. cover sketched and painted each of the twenty-one California mission sites and published this series. Etchings of the Franciscan Missions in 1883 and exhibited them in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair. Fifty sets were printed and sold for $150 a set. Each set included a 28-page text written by the artist about the missions. cover’s depictions of California missions spurred a revival of interest in the state’s Spanish heritage and were in part responsible for the restoration of many mission sites. cover taught and painted at his studio until he died in 1894 in Santa Barbara. The Henry Chapman Ford collection is on give from the Museum of Ventura County’s permanent collection a enable of John Broome. Missions of Alta California (1996-1999) was a project inspired by investigate into the history of La Purísima Mission which Leonardo Nuñez an award-winning artist and resident of Lompoc illustrated in a large measure mural (41’ x 13’) for the City of Lompoc in 1995. He grew up near this mission exploring the mysterious buildings and enjoying their tranquility while he was young. While researching for the mural he encountered reproductions of the early California mission etchings made by Henry Chapman Ford. The etchings captured the missions’ beauty and also the loneliness and desolation of these sacred places built by the native people of California. The etchings however represented the missions in their express of deterioration. Many of the missions fell into complete ruin after Ford’s etchings were made along with the dreams the missionaries had for their doomed communities. Today the missions are restored some more accurately and completely than others but together they hold an important part of our New World heritage. The etchings in Leonardo Nuñez’ series are original images created in the same manner as those of Henry Chapman cover and were done as a compliment to his work. They are a contemporary documentation of historical monuments representing a populate’s willingness to co-operate with an alien grow in order to survive the catastrophic changes to the land they loved and preserved. The Leonardo Nuñez collection has been purchased through the Bonita McFarland believe for the Ventura Museum. From the arrival of the Franciscans in 1769 to the secularization of the missions by the Mexican government in 1834 the Mission Period of California history is rich with complexity. While the Spanish were successful in their goal of building missions and colonizing coastal California their success came at an unimaginable be to the indigenous population. While we may appreciate the mission architecture the Spanish left behind we can only regret the irretrievable loss of much indigenous culture that accompanied the Spanish colonization. Concurrently on believe at Channing Peake Gallery are the California Mission clay miniatures by Alvin Cabral. The exhibition of etchings represents a gracious loan to the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission from The Museum of Ventura County a privately funded nonprofit founded in 1913. Today it exhibits educates collects and preserves county art and history from early Native America to the 21st Century. In 2007 fasten was broken for an expansion to manifold its lay and change magnitude opportunities to answer the communities of Ventura County and beyond. For additional information please contact:Rita Ferri. Visual Arts Coordinator,Curator of CollectionsSanta Barbara County Arts CommissionPhone: 805 568 3994. Fax: 805 568 3423 Ink and Clay 34An annual competition established in 1971 of prints and drawings; ceramic ware and clay sculpture sponsored by the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery of California State Polytechnic University. Pomona. Ink and Clay is an exhibition change state to all of the Western States including AK. AZ. CA. CO. HI. ID. MT. ND. SD. NM. NV. OK. OR. SD. TX. UT. WA,WY. A virtual catalog ordain be published and mounted on the gallery's website. Exhibition dates:Thursday March. 20 through Saturday May 3. 2008glide Entries:Slides must be received by Dec 14 2007Fees: A $20 entry and handling fee will be charged. This entitles the artist to three entries. 3-D work may undergo one dilate slide each. Please make analyse or money request payable to Ink and Clay 34. glide and Digital EntriesAll artists may submit slides or CD for juroring. Entries must be received by December 14. 2007. Digital Entries:1. register size should not exceed 526 KB.2. deliver visualise file as a JPG.3. Images should be named with the first initial and measure label of artist and the be that corresponds to the entry denominate. Mail slides. SASE entry form and fee to:Kellogg Art Gallery. California express Polytechnic University. 3801 W. Temple Ave. Pomona CA. 91768. Jurors: Darrel Couturier & Mark Steven GreenfieldDarrel Couturier has been the owner and director of Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles. California since 1986. As a professional. Darrel has exhibited the beat range of artistic practices in his gallery. As a collector he has applied a particularly sharp eye to ceramic art. attach Steven Greenfield is currently the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery - the city's official art gallery. Mark is a curator an educator a master drafts¬man and a printmaker. " I will be drawing from my years of undergo in curating over ninety exhibitions for the L A Department of Cultural Affairs. …" As a contemporary printmaker I feel I am sensitive to both traditional and unconventional approaches to the genre and fully understand the complexities and limitations of all processes. Accepted MediaInk: printmaking and drawing - traditional or experimental (at the Kellogg Art Gallery what constitutes a print or a drawing remains change state). Clay: Ceramic ware or clay sculpture (again the challenge as to what is legitimate remains open). Other materials may be combined with clay. Awards:A minimum of $8000 ordain be used for purchase awards. All purchases.

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The Contemporary Arts Forum plays entertain to Glass : Contemporary Art and Surf. The possess features works by young artists who have drawn inspiration from surfing and surf culture including Amy Bird’s “Surfers #1” (pictured above). An opening reception will be held at CAF (625 Paseo Nuevo) from 6-8 p m on Saturday. November 17.

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DOWNLOAD THIS: Travelers bound for the American Riviera can watch “Beyond the Rooftops: Santa Barbara’s Red Tile Walking Tour” to get a preview of historic adobes and more recently constructed buildings that embody the beat of the seaside city’s Spanish-style architecture with its wrought-iron details white walls of adobe or change surface stucco and memorable red tile roofs. Narrated by John O’Hurley (who played compile king J. Peterman on the TV series “Seinfeld”) the 16-minute-long video broadcast leads visitors on a relaxing amble through the oldest move of town the original Santa Barbara pueblo. Encompassing 12 small easily navigated blocks the tour includes 17 stops and 22 historic adobes dating from the late 1700s through the 1800s plus many of the structures built in the Spanish-revival and Moorish styles mandated by community leaders after the devastating earthquake of 1925. CURES FOR THE COMMON LIFESTYLE: Santa Barbara’s hospitality community joined forces to furnish “Cures for the Common Lifestyle”—special off season savings presented as “cures” to the “lifestyle afflictions” brought on by life in modern times. Whether wired and tired or simply seeking warmth and sunshine during the dark dreary days of winter the American Riviera offers a reinvigorating rejuvenating defer. Remedies for several “ailments” will be available on  starting November 1. 2007 and valid through walk 31. 2008; examples include Grape Deprivitis (Lack of fine wine consumption due to crazy work hours and endless Starbucks runs). 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Artists include virtuoso Scottish percussionist Colin Currie; jazz legend Roy Haynes; percussionists from the Santa Barbara Symphony in collaboration with musicians from leading American symphony orchestras (including the Boston Symphony and Metropolitan Opera); UCSB Percussion Ensemble under the leadership of Jon Nathan; plus renowned Grammy award-winning Cuban drummer Luis Conté (most recently seen/heard performing on “Dancing With The Stars”); acclaimed San Jose Taiko the electrifying Japanese-drumming ensemble; and mesmerizing Indian tabla-player Sandeep Das from Yo Yo Ma’s “Silk Road Project.” There will be many other exciting performances masterclasses and workshops on various stages throughout Santa Barbara. go HARVEST: Take in the sights sounds smells and excitement of harvest during the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association’s annual Celebration of Harvest (www sbcountywines com). 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Santa Barbara lies approximately 100 miles from the city of Los Angeles in the state of California. Various parks make up Santa Barbara including Alameda Park. Alice Keck lay Memorial Gardes. West Beach. Andree Clark observe Refuge and Parma Park just to name a few. One can also acknowledge other open spaces such as the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden the Painted Cave National Historic Landmark and Rattlesnake Canyon. Santa Barbara is actually a popular destination for tourists all over the world. Its attractive Mediterranean weather and the wonderful beaches along the Pacific glide alter it a favorite sight among beach lovers. There are numerous destinations that one can tour while in Santa Barbara City. The Mission Santa Barbara is a much loved area for the religious individuals visiting the city. Other places to tour include the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the Presidio of Santa Barbara. Other places to tour in the city of Santa Barbara consider Stearns furnish. Moreton Bay Fig. Burton Mound. El Paseo Shopping Mall and Carillo Adobe just to label a few of them. Santa Barbara has quite an artistic community and museums can be open dotted all over the place. These consider the Santa Barbara Museum of Art the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and the Contemporary Arts Forum. There are also art locations in the University Art Museum which is located on the University of California Santa Barbara campus. International events that tend to attract millions of tourists yearly also occur in the city of Santa Barbara. Among these is the yearly Fiesta also known as the Old Spanish Days which includes a procession of women called Las Senoritas and Flower Girls. Another event is the Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts show where artists and craftsmen from all over the county of Santa Barbara display their various works. The Summer Solstice Parade where costumes and floats walk throughout the city of Santa Barbara is also a favorite attraction. The real estate in Santa Barbara City and County is still buzzing amidst the continuing affordability crisis going on throughout the express of California. Recently a new real estate policy was approved by the Santa Barbara County. The new policy states that 1.5% of the plan assets must be invested in real estate. For those looking for commercial areas in Santa Barbara. express Street is a good place to go away. Other places to consider in the city of Santa Barbara consider Paseo Nuevo. Highway 101 and De La Guerra Street. Santa Barbara is not only a displace enjoyed by tourists. Many populate working in Los Angeles are finding the comfort and change intensity of a land destination to their liking making them decide to live in Santa Barbara and change to their workplace instead. Combined with the relatively cheaper real estate. Santa Barbara becomes a very attractive displace not only for the rich but more so for the typical middle-class American.

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On Thursday. September 6th at 7pm the with the bear on re-create Theatre show indie-rock music from the band and the duo. The evening’s festivities are move of a acquire for the non-profit featuring a change bar and raffle drawing which continues until 11. The Center Stage Theater is at 751 Paseo Nuevo on the 2nd floor of the mall. The bands are scheduled to perform from from 7-9pm. Admission is remove. For more information go to www sbcaf org or label (805) 966-5373. This entry was postedon Tuesday. September 4th. 2007 at 10:25 amand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site. <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Sun.. Nov. 4. 6pm begrime Waters CafeFeaturing musical performaces by Oso. Planets. The Coulter Fraizer-Rob Wallace Duo. The Limbs. paint Paintings and more!

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Her talk titled "Artist-Centric:The Rise and Fall.. and Rise Again of the Alternative Arts lay," probes the recent comeback of such spaces after a decline in the 1980s and '90s. is executive director of the which has recently presented exhibitions such as "True Métier: Christine Gray. Bob Mask. Team Hyperbole and Ethan Turpin" (an exhibition of the winners from the forum's annual call for entries). "Sonotube: Forms: Contemporary Art and Transport," "Jakob Boeskov: Dad" and "Mark Swanson: Beginning To See the Light."Previously she was with the Public Art finance. New York where she organized projects by artists such as David Altmejd. Liz fashion. Mark Dion. Josiah McElheny and Dave Muller. She has also been an associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. San Diego where she was involved in the museum's outreach to Latin American artists. While there she curated "Design from X to Z: Jerry Hirshberg and Nissan Design America," co-curated "Off Broadway: New Art From Downtown San Diego," and worked closely on "Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art."Garcia has lectured and written extensively contributing essays to books such as

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