artist in the schools fundraiser - madera county arts council
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Provide Madera County residents
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Spring 2010
ARTIST IN THE SCHOOLS FUNDRAISER
Join us for an evening of art, appetizers and “Romeo & Juliet” presented by the Coyote Drama Productions on Thursday, April 8th. The pre-show party will be from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at the Circle Gallery; then show time at Madera High School is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.00 from board members or at the Circle Gallery. Limited to 100! Proceeds will pay for art supplies for the AIS grant which currently covers all first grader classes in the Madera Unified School district.
Despite a rainy evening, there was a good turnout for the Poetry Out Loud competition on February 5th. Twelve students from four high schools competed, and the winner was Yosemite High Sophomore Jazmin Jones, who chose Kipling’s “If” because she thought it had a good message and touched her heart. Her second poem was the contemporary poem “Broken Promises” by David Kirby. Jazmin, a member of YHS varsity swim team, practiced her poems while swimming. She won $250.00 and competed against students from twenty-five other counties at the state finals in Sacramento on March 15 in the State Senate Chambers in Sacramento.
Second place was Yosemite High Senior Alisa Choin, who recited “To the Ladies”, an eighteenth century feminist poem by Lady Mary Chudleigh and “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg. She received $150.00. Third place was Madera High Junior Kara Grimes, who recited “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and the emotional “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks. She received $100.00.
Madera County Arts Council director, Pam Beecher, introduced
POETRY OUT LOUDSupervisor Tom Wheeler who spoke about the importance of arts education. Anson Brown played classical guitar between poems and at intermission.
Judges were Fresno County librarian Mina Abdollahian, Coarsegold essayist, poet and creative writing instructor Pilar Graham and Yosemite poet James Downs.
The event was hosted by Mary Lee Gowland, Madera County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. Poetry Out Loud was created by the National Endowment for the Arts to encourage the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance, and to help students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. It is administered by the Madera County Arts Council and the California Arts Council, with sponsorship provided by Sierra Telephone Company.
Jazmin Jones, First Place 2010 Poetry Out Loud
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MCACBoard of Directors
DianneRich,Au.D,
President
TinaHolmquist,
Vice President
JeanKato,
Secretary
Chris Monroe
Treasurer
AbigailAnderson-Shine
Marlene Lee
RoseMaryMontelongo
DuncanNeedham
Julie O’Kane
KevinSchwin
FranceySwim
Tina Unti
Staff
PamelaBeecher,Ph.D.
ExecutiveDirector
AmberSaulsbury,
Bookkeeper
NancyBurckert,
Business Manager
SherrilRoyce,
EducationalPrograms
Manager
MaryLeeGowland,
NewsletterEditor
Club YES…
Sherril Royce is busy placing artists in the Club YES after school program and also in every single first grade class in the Madera Unified School District. “It’s very rewarding,” Sherril says. Luckily we have many dedicated artists trained to teach first grade classes during the school day.
The current slate of artist/
ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS UPDATE
Artists Create Painted Violins To benefit the Youth Orchestras of Fresno, (which has two
students from Madera - Jordan Lomeli, cello, and Levi Dougherty, viola) ten unplayable instruments have been transformed into works
of art by various artists who were chosen through an application process last fall. The decorated violins will be on display at the Fresno Arts Council through March 15, then at Artes Americas March 17 – 25. They will be auctioned off March 27 at “An Evening of Enchantment” concert/dinner/auction at the CSU Fresno concert hall. Contact Julia Copeland 559-275-6694 or [email protected]
Attention High School Seniors High School seniors in Madera County who intend to major in the
arts may apply for a scholarship from the Madera County Arts Council, through their school guidance counselors. The deadline to apply is April 1. Notification will be sent to the individual schools and awards presented on senior night at each school.
teachers includes Diana Baldrica, photographer who teaches the basics of photography. We also have two poets teaching creative writing, L. Anne Molin and Mary Lee Gowland. All of the first grade art classes are available from the California Arts Council’s Job Stimulas Grant funds.
MARCH IS YOUTH ARTS MONTH
Circle Gallery will have an exhibit of artwork from local high school students.
Exceptional Artwork by students from Madera High School, Liberty High, Madera South High School and Pioneer Tech will be on display at the Circle Gallery from March 18th – March 31st in recognition of Youth Art Month and a national celebration of the arts and education.
This year judges will award first
and second prizes in four categories. Students will receive awards in the categories of Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media, and 3D.
Celebrating National Arts in the Schools Month
Presented by the Madera County Arts CouncilThursday, March 18, 2010
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S DESK
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Art Stimulus Funding for Madera Kids!
Oh yes, we applied for stimulus funding last year in an effort to save jobs for artists who teach art in the Madera Unified Schools through our visiting-artist program at the Arts Council. And yes, we received money to provide art lessons for each and every first grader in the district one day a week at all 16 elementary schools in the Madera Unified School District this semester. These funds are already working and the response has been fabulous!
Artists arrive at the school with art supplies for all the kids that they will teach during the month. Each lesson has been written and rewritten and approved by the arts program manager at the Arts Council. The lessons all comply with the State of California Visual and Performing Arts Standards. The artists meet regularly for training sessions, and they continually adjust their lessons to fit the student’s needs. Every month they rotate to different schools, so that by the end of the school year, all the kids will have been exposed to various lessons including painting, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media. These lessons also present extensive vocabulary for first graders with words like perspective and shading and cube and they talk about famous artists and learn names like Van Gogh and Picasso.
The Arts Council’s federal stimulus grant saved nine jobs: one administrator and eight artists. Although these are part-time jobs, the artists are working four days a week at two to five hours per day teaching material that the school district can’t afford to offer the kids. They bring exuberance to the classroom and provide an opportunity for the classroom teachers to observe students learning under different conditions where creativity, dexterity and boldness often advance the
student’s ability to succeed. They get messy and they learn to clean up, and they get to handle paint and clay and pastels and understand the use of these materials. They gain skills in creativity and determination and they love it! The teachers love it too. When a few artists had to miss a couple of days due to illnesses, the teachers and students missed the lessons very much. Their most pressing question was whether or not they could make up the lessons that they missed.
These current budget conditions have forced us to eliminate many of the school activities that attracted many of us to learning in the first place. Some of my most memorable school days were when the gym teacher, the choir lady, and the art teacher came around. My paintings, poetry books and clay sculptures were the things that my mother saved from my elementary school days. Many of the MUSD schools plan to display these art works at the end of the semester, and we will select some of the very best examples to display on the administrative office walls. Moms and dads should save these precious art works in a very special place at home, because our schools today can’t guarantee that there will be any more. We will apply for more grant funding for next year and we’d like to include the first and second grade, but we won’t know until the end of the summer. Wish us luck!
Amber Saulsbury from Madera is our new
bookkeeper.
Welcome Amber
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FigGardenVillageArt&Music Festival May1,2010,10-7pm.
Setuptimeis7am-9:30am.Feeis$75,
plus20%commission.ContactSally
Oh-Weisse,PartnersNArt,559-299-
application form.
FriendsoftheNorthFork Branch Library are sponsoringthe2010Artinthe Garden Tour Saturday,June13from1–5p.m.Three
gardensintheCascadelWoods&Leisure
Areawillbethevenuestodisplayyour
art.$10.00entryfee.TheFriendsof
the Library will supply cookies and the
manpower for refreshments and ticket
sales.ProceedssupporttheNorthFork
Library. For more information and an
applicationtodisplayyourart,please
contactDebbieMyers,559-877-4229.
CALLS FOR ART
V i s i o n A c a d e m ySPRING WoRKSHoPS
For costs, locations and times please call 559-683-6876
March 27 - The Art of Vocal Performance, Edna Garabedian
May 1 – Painting the Elements, Joan Brumley
May 22 – Brass Class II Music, Pat Mierkey
May 22 – Chinese Brush Painting (Chinese Children), Joy Harvey
June 12 – Fantasy Forest Painting, Diane Detrick-Bopp
June 19 – Using Mixed Media -Bring New Life to Old Art, Kathleen Mattox
June 26 – Chinese Brush Painting (Birds), Joy Harvey
oNGoING CLASSES
Monday evenings – Oakhurst Community Band at Yosemite High School
Thursday evenings – Sierra Chamber Singers & Kids at NCUMC
EVENTS & PERFoRMANCES
March 20 – Grand Night for the Arts – Oakhurst Community Center
March 21 – Oakhurst Community Band Concert – Yosemite High School
April 28 - Oakhurst Elementary Choir - Oakcreek School
June 5 & 6 – Sierra Chamber Singers Concert – Music of the 60’s
SuMMER FINE ARTS CAMP
Monday through Friday, half or full day, Performance Friday.
For children going into grades 2 – 8.
June 14 – 18 “River Child”
June 21 – 25 “American Dream”
June 28 – July 2 “Dinomotion”
artsOf The
Coarsegold Art, Dinner and Music in the MeadowThe seventh annual benefit for the Coarsegold Historic Museum will be held on
Saturday, June 5th. The theme this year is Sharing Hands. Artists may rent space to demonstrate their arts and crafts. Tents and tables are limited, so please sign up early. There is no charge for demonstrating, but if you wish to sell your art, a $20 donation to reserve space is requested, then $10 will be reimbursed when you attend, to offset the cost of a dinner ticket. Everyone is expected to purchase dinner tickets, as this is a fund raiser. Dinner tickets are $15, before June 1; from June 1st to June 5th tickets will be $20. Entertainment is by the “String Bandits,” a lively and toe tapping Bluegrass and Country music band.
Registering in advance is important, as space is limited and will be assigned on a first-come basis. Please register by May 25th. If you are bringing guests, be sure they have their dinner tickets, and remind them to bring some comfy chairs to sit on, as the museum chairs are metal. Doors will be open to the public at 3:00 p.m. Demonstrators set up by 2:15. Contact: Vivian Aumond-Capone: 559-642-6033 [email protected] or Kay Good: 559-642-4242, [email protected]
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Please check it out and see if you like
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get a link on our link page to their own
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NorthForkSpringFlingTheSquirrelCageTheaterPresentstheir
annual“SpringFling”,Saturday,May7
&8attheNorthForkCommunityCenter.
Dinnerisfrom6–7p.m.andtheshow
served,startingat7:00,willfeaturethe
NorthForkCommunityChoir.Tickets
are$10foradultsand$5forchildren.
ContactGenadeMasters559-877-2129.
Let’sTakeaTriptoSanFrancisco!WeareplanningatriptothedeYoung
Museum’sImpressionismExhibitionsthis
summer.Ifyouwouldliketobeincluded
on a group tour for one day and one
nighttoSanFanciscotoseetheexhibit
andaplay,pleasecallMCAC(661-7005).
Thepricewouldincludeaboxlunchon
thebus,ticketstotheexhibit,atheater
ticket and one night at a hotel plus
asmalldonationtotheMCAC.Your
afternoon and dinner would be free
time on your own. Put your name on
the list for July! The date will be
determined soon.
TIMBERLINE GALLERY From March 2 until May 2, the Timberline Art Gallery in Oakhurst will have a
unique new show on exhibit, “100 Small Wonders for $100 or Less”. Each painting will be no larger than 10” by 10” including frames, if they are framed, and many will be much smaller. There will be oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and mixed media works, as well as diminutive sculptures, ceramics, fiber art works, weavings, spirit figures, colorful chakras, tiny gourds, glass pieces, and jewelry. Able to concentrate on reduced-size works, Timberline artists have created tiny treasures at reasonable prices for personal art collections or gifts.
upcoming instructional classes at Timberline are: April 9 – 10 Watercolor/Mixed Media, Janet Morita;
May 7 – 8 Plein Air Oils or Acrylics, Mark Gudmundsen;
June 11 – 12 Mixed Media, Kathleen Mattox
WRITERS’ CONFERENCECentral Valley Writers’ Workshop will hold a two day conference at the Best
Western in Oakhurst, on April 23rd and 24th. Speakers are award winning editor, author and anthropologist Pat LoBrutto, Alanna Ramirez of the Trident Media Group in New York, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen of Larsen Pomada Literary Agency in San Francisco and international private investigator turned author, Steven Gore.
The conference fee is $150 for the two-day event, or $100 for Saturday only. One on one sessions with the agents and editorial consultant are $30 each. Lunches, $10. Reservations may be made through the workshop’s website, centralvalleywriters.com, or by mailing a check or money order to Central Valley Writers’ Workshop, P.O. Box 503, Chowchilla, CA 93610. For more information contact Conference Chair H. L. Arledge, (559) 304-5087, or Glenna Jarvis, (559) 665-7381.
ANNUAL GALA FOR THE ARTS The theme for our annual gala on June 19th is Australia, “Art Down Under”. The
dress will be casual and the music will reflect Australian culture. The event will take place at the Sagouspé Hangar at the Madera Airport on June 19th.
Tickets are $ 60.00; Program Sponsor $50. Sponsor deadline is May 31.
FOCUS ON ART Saturday, April 17th from 11:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Works by the artist Joanne Margosian Morris will be on display at the Circle Gallery for a month beginning April 17th. She will show her brilliantly colored tumbled stone tile murals and acrylic paintings. Joanne studied art at Fresno City College, and Art History at Fresno State. She lived and worked in the Central Valley for many years and has shown at River Park Art Studio and helped coordinate many shows and festivals. She was listed as on of the top three Fresno Artists in 2008 in Fresno Magazine. Joanne focuses her work on old world Tuscan Landscapes inspired by a trip to Italy. She also paints bistros and and cafes and does some plein air painting. Some of her tiles are published by companies such as J.C. Penny and she has created two wine labels for two different companies. Join us on the 17th for a chance to meet the artist.
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Calendar…March 5 – April 2 Abraham Lincoln Exhibit, Oakhurst 559-658-6999
March 12 – 13 Ragtime Festival, Fresno Flats, Oakhurst
March 20 Grand Night for the Arts, Oakhurst 559-683-7071
March 21 Community Band Concert, Oakhurst 559-683-7071
March 27 Evening of Enchantment, Fresno 559-275-6694
March 29 Amateur Aperture Show, Oakhurst
April 8 AIS Fundraiser, “Romeo & Juliet” Madera 559-661-7005
April 17 Focus on Art, Circle Gallery, Madera 559-661-7005
April 18 – 25 Wood Carver’s Rendezvous, Oakhurst 559-658-2405
April 23 – 24 Writers’ Conference, Oakhurst 559-304-5087
April 28 Squirrel Cage Theater Spring Fling, N.F. 559-877-2129
April 30 Tri-County Art Show, Oakhurst 559-658-8844
May 1 Fig Garden Arts & Music Festival, Fresno 559-299-5351
May 7-8 Spring Fling, North Fork 559-877-2129
May 9 Chowchilla Art Show 559-665-3135
May 15 Focus on Art, Circle Gallery, Madera 559-661-7005
May 22 – 23 Home & Garden Show, Oakhurst 559-683-7766
June 5 – 6 Sierra Chamber Singers, Oakhurst 559-683-7071
June 5 Art, Dinner & Music, Coarsegold 559-642-4242
June 13 Art in the Garden, North Fork 559-877-4229
June 19 Annual Gala for the Arts, Madera 559-661-7005
June 27 Oakhurst Community Band, Oakhurst 559-683-7071
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Tri-CountyArtShowYosemiteWesternArtistspresentthe
annualTri-CountyArtShowatStellar
GalleryonOakhurst,FridayApril30th.
Mediaincludepastels,watercolor,oil,
fiber,sculpture,ceramics.Locatedat
40982Highway41inOakhurst.Phone
559-658-8844.
ChowchillaArtShowThefourthannualIronGatesArtShow
willbeheldSaturday,May9thfrom
10–4attheParkviewPalms
Breezeway,515SouthRobertsonBlvd.
HostedbytheChowchillaArtGuildand
CoffeeCats.Therewillbeartondisplay,
wine tasting and local cookies and
pastries. For more information call Joy
at559-665-3135.
AbrahamLincolnTheWildWonderfulKingVintage
Museum in Oakhurst is featuring
“AbrahamLincolnSelfMadein
AmericaLearningExhibits”through
April2nd.Themuseumislocated
at40680Highway41.Contact
inwiththeexhibit,theGoldenChain
Theater in Oakhurst is presenting
“TheLincolnAssassination”byRoger
Clugston. The play runs from March
5–28,FridaysandSaturdaysat7p.m.;
Sundaysat2:00.Call559-683-7112or
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