I am making log salt and pepper shakers for the holidays! They will be available at The Compound Gallery for Holidayland!

HOLIDAYLAND IS BACK!
NOVEMBER 27- DECEMBER 20TH

Opening Reception: Plaid Friday, November 27th 6-9pm (wear Plaid!)
First Friday Reception: Friday, December 4th, 6-10pm

*additional holiday cheer events Dec 13th and 20th 4-8pm
Galleries are open extended hours during the sale:WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY 12-8pm

This is the second year we will be joining forces with Blankspace located next door to create a holiday Extravaganza! This year we are looking to offer more local original artwork, handmade crafty items, accessories, cards, ornaments, tote bags and creative fun stuff. Both galleries will be themed with rustic Paul Bunyan decor and will feature over 100 great local artists, designers and craftspeople. Small works of art, ceramics, accessories, paper goods, household goods, gifts for kiddies, jewelry and many more affordable indie gifts. Many fun activities through out the sale including-   Get your holiday photo taken in our themed photo booth (proceeds go to Art in Oakland Schools) and spin the Wheel o’ bounty for prizes.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (see Blankspace for more artists!):  1.by.liz, Adrian Van Allen, Alissa Goss, Amy Martin, Anne Garvey, Art for a Democratic Society, Audrey Roy, Ben Belknap, Brandy Gardner, Brave Moonman, Claudia Bauer, Christopher Romer, Crystal Morey, Ezme Designs, Flock Home, Foxes and Robbers, Hue Yang, Jake Gillespie, Kate Donaldson-Fletcher, Katie Kaapcke, Laura Borchert, lemonade handmade jewelry, Lena Verderano Reynoso, Linea Carta, Lucie-Lu, Matt Reynoso, Masako Miki, Michelle Morby, Noah Sakamoto, Noelle Nakama, Phineas Wilson Peale, Esq., Recession Clothing, Roberto Gastelumendi, Ryan McJunkin, Shannon Ingraham, Tallulah Terryll, Terrariums by Kat Geiger, unatuna, Villain Accessories, W.Ho Made It, Willow Branch Jewelry, YaChin Bonny You, and MORE!!

See www.plaidfriday.com for more info on Plaid Friday!

I am in a wonderful show, Brittle Wonders, that opens tomorrow evening at Los Medanos College. The show is a thoughtful creation organized by artist and curator David Tallitch including artists Amanda Smith, Darren Cockrell, Cindy Williamson, Diana Fayt, and myself.

Opening reception for the artists

6:30-8:30 PM on Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Los Medanos College Art Gallery will host Brittle Wonders: Ceramic Art in the San Francisco Bay Area from November 11 – December 10, 2009. Brittle Wonders is a group show featuring the work of five Bay Area ceramicists, representing a diversity of approaches to the art of ceramics. The San Francisco Bay Area has a strong ceramics tradition, with innovation and insight into the human condition as its hallmarks. The five artists presented in Brittle Wonders continue in this tradition. Each uses ceramics to offer fresh insight into life as it is today, employing unconventional techniques to create distinctive artworks – these “brittle wonders.”

Amanda Smith creates bas-reliefs depicting a strange world filled with ordinary things and populated by fierce young girls who seem to be always up to the daunting challenges facing them in their beautiful land. Crystal Morey creates delicate ceramic figures and drawings that expose our vulnerability as a species and the tenuous relationship we have with the natural world – a relationship that we lose to our own peril.  Darren Cockrell fires his work “in a wood-fired kiln for 8-10 days where rivers of flame and layers of ash build to provide a surface that integrates the process into the piece” – a violent process that is appropriate for his vessels inspired by the forms of bombs and harbor mines. Diana Fayt studied ceramics and printmaking, and combines both in her work in a process she calls “etching in clay,” the result of which are striking vessels and platters covered with intricate drawings depicting intimately observed flora and fauna. Cindy Williamson creates rugged sculptures of humans, animals, and combinations of the two – all imbued with a haunting, life-like quality that defies the fired clay that they are made of.

An opening reception for the artists is scheduled from 6:30-8:30 PM on November 11, 2009. A Gallery Talk by the exhibiting artists is scheduled for 7:00-8:30 PM on November 19, 2009. The public is invited to attend both events, which will take place at the Los Medanos College Art Gallery, located in the Library building at Los Medanos College, 2700 East Leland Road, in Pittsburg, California. The Los Medanos Art Gallery is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 12:30-2:30 PM and 6:30-8:30 PM. Admission to the gallery is free; however, parking costs $2.00. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For more information call (925) 439-2181, ext. 3463 during regular gallery hours.

www.losmedanos.edu

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