Art Event, San Diego

If you love the sounds composed by Joel P. West and the Tree Ring in Wes Bruce’s current Art installation at the Center Museum you won’t want to miss their next show on November 4^th at Sushi Art.  Also performing that evening will be The Vision of a Dying World.  Follow this link to Sezio’s website for more information.

http://sezio.org/news/Four-Day-Weekend.aspx

San Diego Art Event

Alternative Painting November 6, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Work with artist Ingram Ober to create alternative paintings using anything but a stuffy old paintbrush.  Come bearing items you would like to drag through paint and onto the canvas.  We will also have a few odd painting instruments in supply for you.  Be ready to create, have fun and get messy! Below are some pictures of things that might be fun to bring.

$10 Members, $13 non-members

As part of the Center’s Student Ticket Initiative, we are offering 5 FREE tickets to any college students that want to attend Almost Edible Art.  These tickets are first come first serve.

To reserve tickets call (760) 893-4100

Wes Bruce - Concert and Crash

Concert and Crash, November 12th 6:00 p.m. …

Join Artist Wes Bruce, Museum Director Olivia Luther and me for an adventurous night in the Museum.  Concert goers will hear the sonic qualities of musicians Joel P. West & the Tree Ring while amerced within Bruce’s Ms. Augustine Greane Fort structure. Those who wish to ‘crash’ with us will dine in the museum galleries, savoring tastes inspired by Bruce’s artwork and intimately experience the work by spending the night alongside friends and found objects within Bruce’s incredible installation.  I will even serve you coffee and bagels in the morning from our great deli across the street.

Get your tickets now!  There are a limited number of tickets for this special event. Tickets are first come first serve.

To reserve tickets call (760) 893-4120

Concert, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Tickets $10 Members, $15 non-members

Concert, Dinner and Museum Sleep Over, 6:00 p.m.Nov. 12th – 10:00 a.m. Nov. 13th

Tickets $50 Members, $55 non-members

Art Contest, San Diego

If you haven’t yet submitted your drawing for Marisol Rendon’s Mouth Watering Contest you only have a few weeks left!  The last day to enter the drawing contest is November 7^th.  Here are some images of drawings we have received so far. 

The selected drawings will be projected onto Rendon’s plate sculpture in her current installation, Esperanto, as well as be printed on t-shirts to be sold in the Museum.  Proceeds from the sale go to Feed the Children Organization.

Dia de los Muertos … Come if You’re Living

Monday November 1, 2010

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Join us for the Center’s 15^th annual Day of the Dead Celebration!  This FREE event is a wonderful combination of energy and emotion while we morn those we have lost and acknowledge our own mortality.  The Museum’s Sculpture court be transformed by Eloy Tarcisio’s installation, Muerte de Todod Ofrenda de Participacion (Death Comes to Everyone, a Participatory Offering.)  Bring photos and keepsakes to decorate your own grave plot for someone or something you have lost.

The Center’s Education Studio’s will hold a plethora of art projects where you can decorate your own sugar skull, make papel picado [tissue paper flags to honor the dead], create your own paper skull masks and much more! In addition artists Daniel Martinez, Flor Kendall and Tomasito Wold will run creative workshops. 

To top it off there will be performances by Ballet Folklorico Tierra Caliente and a reading by author John Phillip Santos in the Center Theatre.  To fill your belly and quench your thirst enjoy complementary refreshments of Pan Dulce and Mexican Hot Chocolate.  The Museum will be open free for this event from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

More Letters to Ms. Augustine Greane

Here is another touching letter written by one of you to Ms.  Augustine Greane.

“My name is Kaylee Renee Patton

I live in a world where imagination is

Dead. My heart aches for those without

The mind to see the wonders of the world

Ad I see them.  But they can’t and so

They live there unaware of what

They are missing.  But I know. And I

Live.  And I see”

                        -Kaylee Renee Patton

And another one …

Fantastic Forts - Fantastic Fun

Those that attended Fantastic Forts this past Saturday explored Wes Burce’s installation, Ms. Augustine Greane, discussed the imagination of fort building with Wes and built what became a brightly colored fort constructed of flags, blankets, sheets, pillows, rope, yarn, and paper behind the Museum in our very own Grape Day Park.  I would like to thank Brian, Wes and his friends, Max, Emi and Jason who made this event possible!  Since the event sold out and because it was such a fantastic day we have decided to open a second Fantastic Forts date!Second Fantastic Forts Date When: December 4, 2010, Noon-3:00 p.m.Where: Center Museum Call (760) 839-4120 to purchase your tickets now. See below for a handful of pictures of the event.

Off the Wall - Saturday October 30, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Off the Wall - Saturday October 30, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Jump into action with artists Doris Bittar, Diane Gage and Jonathan Glasier as they explore Arabic, Aztec and Chinese culture through the art of pattern, poetry, music and dance.  Also performing will be Zaytouna Dance Troupe, Muevete Dance Studio and Silk Road Dancers.

$7 Members, $10 non-members

As part of the Center’s Student Ticket Initiative, we are offering 5 FREE tickets to any college students that want to attend Almost Edible Art.  These tickets are first come first serve.

To reserve tickets call (760) 893-4100

Dream up, design and create your fantasy fort with artist, Wes Bruce.

Fantastic Forts - Saturday October 9, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Recommended for ages 5-10                                                                     This special event gives kids and young at heart adults the chance to work alongside artist Wes Bruce to build their very own fort.  It will be a day of imagination, scavenger hunts, story telling and fort building.  Guests should bring a bag lunch.

$10 Members, $15, non-members

Prices include the admission for one child and one parent

Each additional adult or child without parent is $7/ Members and $10/ non-members

As part of the Center’s Student Ticket Initiative, we are offering 5 FREE tickets to any college students that want to attend Almost Edible Art.  These tickets are first come first serve.

To reserve tickets call (760) 893-4100

Feedback

Stephanie Weaver, Experienceology

It is not often that our Museum staff has the pleasure of discussing our exhibitions and receiving feedback on them from other Museum professionals and artists.  Thanks to SDEEG , a lovely group of people who took time out of their busy day and weathered horrid traffic to come to us, we got to do this yesterday.  Sometimes one gets so close to something that it becomes hard to see it.  My painting teachers always told me ‘Make a few marks and then take a step back to observe what those colors and strokes did to the rest of the painting.’ Curating is not so different from this method.  Yesterday Olivia and I were given a chance to step back and look at what the Museum has created and how it appears to the public.

We received amazing feedback on the strengths of the show and on things that could be improved upon in the future.  Since this meeting my mind has not stopped spinning around all the aspects and ideas we can update in the exhibition as well as points I will keep in mind when approaching our next interactive exhibition which will open in August of 2011 [that is not as far away as it seems at first glance].  This has also inspired me to tackle some of the things I would like to change about this blog.  Until now setting up a section for reader comments and questions has proven a technical issue [as I am slowly becoming technically savvy].  With this said I am now on a mission to figure out how to let you comment and leave your mark on the blog.  For now if you have any questions or feedback please email me at tsmith@ci.escondido.ca.us and I will post all appropriate questions and write responses to you.

‘Touched, unsettled, and awash in troubling/sweet nostalgia after visiting the Wes Bruce installation at California Center for the Arts in Escondido. Experience it before Dec. 31. BEAUTIFUL.’ - Erica Kelly