Meet the twenty-two artists who are opening their art studios on STUDIO TOUR TEN

Each of the images link to the individual artist page on the STUDIO TOUR TEN website…

Special earlybird $15 ticket price until March 4……..Buy Tickets Here

 

• Carole Clum • Rick Badgley • Karen Kimball •

____________________________________________________________________________

 

• Anne Birkholz • Deborah Dal Zuffo •

____________________________________________________________________________

   

• Nancy Jonnum • James Entz • Elsah Cort •

____________________________________________________________________________

   

• Mona Selph • George Smith • Clayton Porter •

____________________________________________________________________________

   

• Anne Haxton •  Jeffrey Jay •  Martha Widmann •

____________________________________________________________________________

 

   

• Jana Botkin •  Shirley Keller •  Marn Reich •

____________________________________________________________________________

   

• Nadi Spencer •  Christine Sell-Porter •  Wendy McKeller •

____________________________________________________________________________

• Nikki Crain, our featured artist •

____________________________________________________________________________

 

Concert on the Grass on Sep 25 in Three Rivers

See details at concertonthegrass.org.

Nikki Crain featured at the Art Co-Op

Three Rivers weaver, Nikki Crain, is the featured artist for the month of January at the Art Co-Op.
A reception will be given for her on January 2 from 2-6 pm.

“Weaving is my delight! I enjoy using beautiful natural fibers and yarns to make practical items to wear or use. Each handwoven piece is one-of-a-kind or limited edition. I create cloth that can’t be duplicated in a factory.  Playing with dyes reminds me of opening a new box of crayons in kindergarten. What fun awaits! I also love candles and want the healthiest ones possible so I pour natural vegetable soy candles.”

Marn Reich at the Art Co-Op

Marn Reich, one of the Studio Tour artists, is the featured artist throughout November at the Art Co-Op in Three Rivers.  The gallery is open Tues-Sunday from 10- 6 pm.

She says, “I began working in clay about 15 years ago. I love the challenges it presents – getting it to assume the shape and color I desire and keep it without collapsing, cracking or discoloring. Once I’ve conquered a particular challenge, I’m on the lookout for another – making something bigger, smaller, more lifelike, more whimsical.

I enjoy working at home, surrounded by my favorite things, but I also enjoy working with others and having the stimulation and input of others’ ideas, comments, and criticisms, so I also work once a week at a studio in Visalia, where I can interact with friends and fire my work.

_________________________________

Next month the gallery features another Studio Tour artist, George Smith.

First Saturday Creativity in Three Rivers

Celebrate the creative talent of Three Rivers!  Starting on October 3, collaborating shops and galleries in town will be showcasing the art of Three Rivers on the first Saturday of each month.  For more information visit the 1st Saturday blog.

(left to right, Wendy McKellar, Miriam Briks (Dhrti Dasi), Heart’s Desire Gift Shop)

_______________________________________________________________________

TWO FOR ONE…

Also on October 3, visit the Three Rivers Environmental Weekend at the Three Rivers Arts Center, local artists will be showing creative art for the home and garden. See details here.

Three Rivers ex-patriot emerges as fiber artist

Maggy Pavlou, who we all knew as the creator of Gallery 198 (where the Historical Museum is now ) from years past in Three Rivers, has become a very busy, celebrated fiber artist near Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Her work is featured in about twenty five galleries around the country.  She makes one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces from handmade felt.  She was featured in the cover article “Maggy Pavlou: Felted Landscapes” by Kathaleen Roberts, in Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Fiberarts magazine.

She will be showing her work at the 19th Annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado on July 3-5, 2009.

Read more about her work at her new artist blog at maggypavlou.wordpress.com and drop her a line in the comments section.  She is missed here and very much appreciated for her exquisite support of Three Rivers artists at the beloved Gallery 198.

Youth Art and Acting Classes in Three Rivers

Starting on June 20, for seven Saturdays, from 12-2 pm, the Discoveries West Gallery and Archives offers Youth Art Classes for kids age 10-16.  Materials will be included including acrylics, watercolors, pencil, India ink, and charcoal.  Class fee is $35.  Call 550-471-8657 for registatration.

__________________________________

Starting on July 8, weekly 90 minute Acting Classes for Young People will commence for ages 9-16.  The classes will be taught by Eileen Farrell of Three Rivers, a professional director and former Hollywood talent agent. Class fee is $65 per month, with free introductory class. Call 559-561-0361 for information and details.

Views of Yokohl Valley: July Exhibit at Arts Visalia

The group art show, entitled “Views of Yokohl Valley”, will be held throughout July at Arts Visalia at 214 Oak Avenue in Visalia (across from the Depot Restaurant.)  The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 5:30 pm. The reception with the artists will be on Friday, July 10th, 2009. from 6-8 pm. The public is cordially invited.

The idea for the show was originated by Three Rivers artist, Mona Fox Selph, who, along with a number of other artists and friends, attended the Yokohl Ranch Planned Community EIR Scoping Meeting In Exeter on March 3, 2008. Many people at the meeting were shocked to grasp the huge size and scope of the planned development, and realize the impact it will have on the health and environment of all of the citizens and wildlife of Tulare County. The plan is for a city of 10,000 homes with all of the additional infrastructure and water needs that it would entail. The goal is to attract 30 or 40 thousand people of means from other areas, which the developers claim will benefit the area economically. Those in opposition believe that the environmental costs are far too high, and that true development benefits would come instead from projects within the boundaries of existing cities within the county, not additional sprawl away from those centers, with destruction of a huge area of the natural environment.

“Storm over Yokohl Valley”  30″ x 40″ oil painting,
by Mona Fox Selph, all rights reserved

Mona Fox Selph, was a friend of Ray Strong, a well known California landscape painter who spent his final years in Three Rivers. Ray was a founding member of the Oaks Group, a collection of landscape painters from the Santa Barbara area which held numerous shows over several decades raising both public awareness and funds, and thereby saving many hundreds of acres of beautiful coastal land from development. She approached Kevin Bowman, director of Arts Visalia, with the idea of a show about Yokohl Valley. Kevin agreed, stating, “I have always felt that art offers the opportunity to raise discussion of difficult subjects, and I envision this exhibition as a vehicle for creative reflection.”

For more information about Yokohl Valley, visit website of Tulare County Citizens for Repsonsible Growth at www.tccrg.org. Tulare County Citizens for Responsible Growth (TCCRG) is a diverse group of local residents united by concerns about the direction of future growth in Tulare County. Reflecting the expressed values and wishes of our county’s residents, they are working to ensure that future growth in Tulare county protects our local economy, communities, and natural resources. They support directing growth into our existing communities and protecting our agricultural land and open space for future generations.

views of Yokhol Valley from tccrg.org

Telling kids it’s okay to paint on the walls

Three Rivers artist Nadi Spencer starts a new mural with the help of local kids.

You can watch it unfold on the outside wall of Three Rivers Drugs on HWY 198.

The Art of Living Well

The Kaweah Artisans and Sequoia Mountain Healers present “The Art of Living Well” on May 23 and 24, 2009 from 10-4pm at the Buckaroo at 42251 Sierra Drive, Hwy 198, in Three Rivers.  Enjoy a peaceful day on the river with local artists and healers.  Take home an original work of art.

Featuring:

Ginny Wilson, Photography
Janene Lasswell Organic Natural Bath and Skin Care
Kay Packard Hand and Finger Print Analysis
Tina St. John Jewelry Designs
Richard Blakemore Acupressure (Sat)
Kristi Tilchen Deep Tissue Massage (Sun)
Julie Doctor, live music on the river deck

The Quail Painting Series: Works in Progress

Eddie McArthur is painting her love for our native California Quail with a series of four paintings.
She says, “It’s funny; whenever I get rolling on a series, the paintings come quickly. And, when I’m stuck, well, I’m just stuck.”

The Pair (#2 in the series)

Read the rest of the story at Eddie’s blog called “Living My Art” at artbyeddie.blogspot.com Follow Eddie is on twitter @eddie_art

Twitter as a medium for art-making?

Three Rivers (California) Artists Join in a New Online “Art Talk”

The artists of Three Rivers are talking about the creative life, using Twitter as an artist’s medium. As they prepare for the Three Rivers Biennial Artists’ STUDIO TOUR 9, slated for March 19-20-21 in 2010, artists have begun to talk about their art-making process in an online inclusive conversation. The increasingly popular Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers.)

The Studio Tour organizer, Elsah Cort, has embedded a special Twitter search “widget” on the main Studio Tour website, where anyone can view the most recent comments by the artists. Within 10 seconds of an artist posting a “tweet” it appears in “Art Talk” on the website. The artists are using the special code that allows for all the updates to be gathered together in the twitter conversation. You can follow this collaborative art essay at www.threeriversartstudiotour.com, use the link for “Art Talk.”

“The potential of Twitter as a way for artists to share their ideas and creative process is continually evolving,” says Cort. “Many artists around the world have been using twitter since its launching in the summer of 2006. Artists can refer visitors to online blogs and websites that function as online galleries and commentaries.” As the local Three Rivers artists deepen into their twitter conversation with each other, the personal experience of artist contact, that the Three Rivers Artists’ Studio Tour has been well known for in the last 17 years, will be available to the many art enthusiasts who are looking forward to STUDIO TOUR 9.

During STUDIO TOUR 9 in March 2010, visitors will be invited to join the Twitter “Art Talk” conversation, as they visit the artists and studios, by posting twitter updates in real time using the special twitter search code.

The artists who have joined “Art Talk” (so far) are listed below.

Elsah Cort | www.twitter.com/Cort_art | www.elsahcort.com | www.thedeeperwell.com

Aranga Firstman | www.twitter.com/Firstman_Art | www.arangafirstman.com

Shirley Keller | www.twitter.com/Keller_art | www.sblaircreativeplay.blogspot.com

Eddie McArthur | www.twitter.com/eddie_art | www.artbyeddie.net | www.artbyeddie.blogspot.com

Nadi Spencer | www.twitter.com/Nadi_art | www.cafepress.com/nadispencer

Martha Widmann | www.twitter.com/widmann_art | www.marthawidmann.com

Three Rivers Artists’ Studio Tour, main twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/art_talk

Redbud Festival: art fun in Three Rivers

The Redbud Festival is sponsored by  the Arts Alliance of Three Rivers. Call 559.561.4417 for more information.

Jana Botkin: micro to macro

Standing on the platform of a flat bed truck, Jana is painting a mural in Exeter, California.
Her chronicle of the process is now on Day 38….  cabinart.net/wordpress
The mountains of Mineral King, in Sequoia National Park, have been her painters’ heart connection for a long while.

See Jana’s portfolio at cabinart.net
She is a Three Rivers Artists’ Studio Tour Artist

Day One is February 5, 2009…Painter’s sky at sky’s edge

Day 38 is April 8, 2009…blue on blue
“As I paint in silence (relatively speaking) and solitude each day, ideas come …”

Adrian Gregori Green shares his life’s work…

Adrian’s Biography from his website where he says, “See my work, my best biography at www.Earthom-Arts.org “

Born in rural California in 1925, I spent much of my early youth in the high mountains of the Sierra Nevadas.  This has been a continuing experience all of my life.  My summers are spent in a camp nestled amongst the high granite peaks.

My higher education consisted of a major in art at the University of California at Berkeley where I earned my B.A.  While there I was a student of Henry Schaefer-Simmern, who was a pioneer in art education.  I took post graduate work at his Institute of Art Education where I participated in his method of unfolding inherent image making capacities in children and ordinary laymen or non-artists. I assisted Schaefer-Simmern in some of his classes and monitored all of his classes.

In 1948 I visited Mexico.  I returned there in 1949 for several months studying at the Art Institute at San Miguel de Allende.  Pre-Columbian art had a profound effect upon me.  I went to Mexico as an aspiring painter and left there as a fledgling sculptor.  Since then I have continued working almost entirely in stone for over 50 years.

In recent years I have continued my sculptural endeavors at my home and workshop close beside the Kaweah River in Three Rivers, California.  My summer high mountain workshop is 25 miles away at an elevation of nearly 8000 feet.

Studio Tour 9

The Three Rivers Artists’ Biennial Studio Tour is expanding to three days
for STUDIO TOUR 9 on March 19-20-21 in 2010.

Artwork by James Entz, Marn Reich, Martha Widmann, Carole Clum and Jana Botkin.