Saturday, April 24, 2010: Carolyn Vosburgh

Carolyn, what a spectacular and outstanding presentation of your work! It was so exciting after all this time (over a year and a half of meeting) to finally get to see what you create. As you can tell from all of the swooning, it was clear that your work was well-received by all.
Congratulations on a full, rich body of work. You are prolific.
All you need is a large space to display and you'll be ready for a mid-career survey.
Thank you for all who attended and sending out love to those who didn't. You missed a good one.
Other notes:

Look for Beth's contribution to the web performance on:
"Low Lives 2" on Friday, April 30 at 5:00pm.
Event: Low Lives 2
What: Performance
Start Time: Friday, April 30 at 5:00pm
End Time: Friday, April 30 at 8:00pm
Where: http://www.facebook.com/l/8485c;www.ustream.tv/channel/low-lives-2#more

Check out Judith's piece in the exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art

I've added "Persist", the book that Carolyn mentioned to the reading list, to the right. You can click on it and go directly to Amazon.com

Our next meeting: Sunday, May 23 at Phoebe and Craig's house. Discussion only. We will be talking about "How to keep on keepin' on". Or something like that.

Thank you everyone for showing up and being honest and respectful.

Seven Arrows Masquerade Festival

Here is a link to see some photos of our (Phoebe and Clinton) school's 2010 Masquerade Festival performed at the Broad Theater in Santa Monica. Those giant costumes are hanging on either side of the stage. Clinton and I are at the end of the photos.
It was wonderful and exhausting! The kids were fantastic.

La Casa del Tunel

Here are some photos that Peggy wanted share. She will be participating in a show in Tijuana in April at La Casa del Tunel. Her friend Clark Fox (we met him at Sandy's) will also be in the show.
Road trip.

Crit Clusters

Side Street Projects is offering something called Crit Clusters. It's a similar idea to what we do, except that is has distinct parameters. Beth passed this info on to me and I found the short video description to be quite interesting. You may want to do it, or just check the link to see what kind of guidelines they provide for their crits. It is an 8 week course and each person also receives feedback on working as artists the in the "real" world.
They work from a book called "Artist's Guide: How to make a living doing what you love" by Jackie Battenfield. The title alone sounds like a must-read. It might be a good idea for all of us to get this book and have ourselves a big chat.
Thank you Beth!

Nick Cave at the Fowler

Go see this wonderful, wild exhibit at the Fowler Museum in Westwood!

Next meeting: Sunday, February 21, 2:00

No studio visit next time, but a chance to converse. We discussed meeting at the M Cafe in Culver City. The tables should be large enough to accommodate us all. If the weather is too funky, we can do it at my house, or at Kate & Tom's place.

If you have specific topics that you'd like to address, send us out an e-mail with your thoughts.
I am interested in: What are the reoccuring themes, the continual question, your life's work, what do you find yourself coming back to over and over?

See you next month!

Carolyn is up next!

Plucked: Curated by Zelda Zinn

Please check out Zelda's show at:
The Sam Francis Gallery
Crossroads School
1714 Twenty-First Street
Santa Monica 90404
1/14/10 - 2/19/10
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 3:00 P.M.

Here's a link to Aline Smithson's Blog Lenscratch discussing the exhibit. It also includes some wonderful images.

Congrautlations Zelda!