Special Message to Artists from the New York Foundation of the Arts

We felt this worthy of sharing with our artist friends ... there is assistance out there, much more needed....

The information below is from the New York Foundation for the Arts newsletter... 



"Hello Friends,

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is back in our offices for the first day today. On behalf of everyone at NYFA I am writing to express support and concern for those of you affected by Hurricane Sandy. We sincerely hope this email finds you and your families safe and well. I want you to know we are here to assist you in whatever ways we can, and there are some specific initiatives about which I want to make you aware:

1. If you have suffered losses of any kind as a result of the storm, please take a few moments to fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HurricaneSandyRecovery. It will be vital in our efforts to communicate your needs to funders, elected officials, the media and other interested parties.

2. If you had an event cancelled due to the storm, we are happy to offer you a free event listing in NYFA Classifieds through the end of the year. Simply send the information to: joblist@nyfa.org ATTN: Michon.

3. NYFA's offices at 20 Jay Street (suite 740) in DUMBO are open and we encourage you to come by for free coffee and refreshments. If you are without power you can use computers, Wi-Fi and recharge your cell phones or just spend some time talking to other artists.

4. We have an updated list of emergency resources on the home page of NYFA's website at www.nyfa.org.

In the next weeks, we will be scheduling a series of workshops on topics related to emergency recovery such as legal issues, assessing the value of your work and other insurance questions. As soon as these are confirmed, we will get a schedule out to you.

Finally, NYFA will be working closely with CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists' Emergency Resources), the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response, as well as funders and government agencies to determine the most effective ways to provide coordinated support efforts.

Please know that NYFA is here for you; contact me or any staff member with questions, concerns, ideas or problems. The work you create is vital to helping us all cope in difficult times and, for those of you now going through difficult times of your own, I want you to have my personal assurance that NYFA will do whatever we can to help you.

Best wishes,
Michael "

CALL TO ARTISTS!

Call to artists, THEME DIVISION entry forms & OPEN DIVISION entry forms for Ironstone's 16th Annual Spring Obsession Art Show now available!  Download from the pages in this blog or go to www.ironstonevineyards.com - events - art show.

THEME DIVISION entries due Friday, January 4, 2013.
OPEN DIVISION entries due Friday, February 1, 2013.

See entry forms for details.

THEME DIVISION winner
     $500. prize

OPEN DIVISION winners:
*     1st place $1000.00
*     2nd place $500.00
*     3rd. place $250.00

All accepted artists eligible for participation on opening SPRING OBSESSION EVENT weekend, March 2, 2013.

Download entry forms and more information from: 
* blog pages listed above
*  www.ironstonevineyards.com
*email for an entry to be emailed to you at cgomez@ironstonevineyards.com.
*  http://ArtDeadline.Com
If you wish to have entries mailed to you, please send a stamped, self addressed envelope to:

Ironstone Spring Obsession Art Show
1894 Six Mile Road
Murphys, CA 95247

You may pick up your entry form at Ironstone's Tasting Room or Heritage Museum.

Quilter's Shoes! More Shoes!

What does a Quilter wear on the feet?

 What does a quilter wear on the feet? Take a look at these! See more, come out today, Saturday & Sunday see for yourself. It's the Mountain Heirloom Quite Fair.

Quilts Quilts and more Quilts!

It is Quilt time at Ironstone starting Friday with the Mountain Heirloom Quilt Faire XXXV.

The vendor level is packed this year!  Even overflowing up to our Museum level. Watching all the unloading and setting up today is exciting. Can't wait to take a walk through the booths and see what's new from last year.

Even if you aren't a big quilt fan, this is a must see event. I love the Guild's "store". Every year I find great stocking stuffers and special gifts for best friends and family, all hand made with great prices.

Another treat is always the pathway markers. Made up of a variety of styles of shoes, these eye catching eye candy treats are decorated by guild members into some of the most fun pathway markers you would ever want to see... great ideas for family parties!  But, those aren't out yet! 

We will have to wait until tomorrow to see those little jewels

Vintage in Jeopardy?

One of our guests brought to our attention a case up for review by the Supreme Court this month.  They were upset at the thought that if this issue is passed by the SC, they won't be able to sell their mother's vintage glass or their Toyota without permission from Toyota or the German glass maker.  

Amazing how these little issues are decided by so few that alter so many lives and we know nothing until its too late. 

If you care, check it out and pass the word....

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-on-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04

Upgrade time & Fall Colors Galore...

            “Due to Upgrades and Maintenance in the Heritage Museum, our vault and Crystalline Gold Specimen will be closed for viewing. We are sorry for the inconvenience. All other areas of our wonderful winery and grounds are open.

Please come visit us and see the wonderful Fall Colors starting to appear throughout the Gardens and Grounds and the smells of harvest that are filling the winery”.

More Artists Join the fun! "ART & AUTOS" Artists painting up a storm at Ironstone Foundation Concours d'Elegance, Sat. Sept. 22.

      

Lorna Hunt

lhunt@mlode.com

www.lornahuntfineart.com

www.aloftartgallery.com

Though Lorna has drawn and painted for most of her life, it wasn’t until the last 15 years that she has been able to dedicate her time to fine art.  

She enjoys the flow and spontaneity of watercolor, and also the rich, juicy qualities of oil paint. Oil paints are well suited to Plein Air painting, and that combines well with her love of the outdoors.

Lorna feels privileged to have studied with many area artists and to have participated in workshops given by local and nationally known artists.

She emigrated from Argentina to Pleasant Hill, Ca. in the early 60s, raised a family in Livermore, Ca., grew almonds in Ripon, Ca. and retired to Sonora where she can indulge in her artistic endeavors.

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 Sunny Sorensen, sunny.sorensen@yahoo.com 

Sondra Sorensen

N

ative Californian, Sondra (Sunny) Sorensen graduated with honors with a BA in Studio Art from University of California, Davis in 1979. There she studied oil painting under acclaimed California artists Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Peterson; and ceramic sculpture under the late Robert Arneson. She entered competitions for a year after graduation, won a couple prizes, did odd jobs, and eventually took off for Scotland where she lived for two years.

Returning to California, she had to get a real job.  “I had the outlook of an artist—even as a kid I loved to draw—but not the discipline to make it a career move.  At the same time, I was too impatient to teach art¸ but I loved the educational scene, and would have happily become a professional student had someone offered to foot the bill.” Finally she landed a job in a high end private high school and went on to wear multiple hats of  the Tin Cupper, Glad-hander, Organizer, Magazine Editor, Writer, and Designer. To relax, she led Sierra Club backpack trips in the Sierra for ten of those years. Teaching, she thinks, would have been less stressful.

When the millennium rolled over, Sunny retired from the multiple-caps job, with hand and arm injuries due to excessive computer work, waited four years for the injuries to subside, and then turned to pastels, planning to take up art where she left off. “I thought I wanted to paint the Sierra and deserts I had schlepped through over the years. Only there was a problem.  As a delinquent Bay Area Figurative studio artist who at one time leaned toward pop art, I was unprepared to paint landscapes, especially on location. A monumental learning curve loomed before me and all I had to get around it was an untrustworthy bicycle. So I looked up the pastel artists who painted the way I thought I wanted to.” For three years she took workshops from Richard McKinley, Richard McDaniel, Kim Lordier, Gil Dellinger, and Marc Hanson.

In 2008, Sorensen again became interested in figurative work, and although she continues to do landscapes in both pastels and oils, she is leaning more strongly to the live figure. She quickly learned that painting from a photo can be a curse that it doesn’t take the place of what you really see. “One of the reasons,” she says, “is that each individual sees the same scene or subject differently with two eyes. When you paint from a photo, you end up painting what the camera sees with its one eye. If I use a photo, it’s generally as a loose reference from which I depart after the first margarita.” 

Sorensen, who divides her time between Mexico and Hathaway Pines, has been accepted into several competitions, won a few awards, including first place in Ironstone’s spring competition in 2009, accepted commissions, taught a few plein air workshops and runs a summer eight-week  life drawing class at Town Hall Arts in Copperopolis.   Recently she has started up a summertime plein air group, Calaveras Outdoor Painting Society (C.O.P.S.), which has been written up in The Union Democrat (Sept 21, 2012).Anyone with plein air painting experience who lives in Calaveras County is welcome.

Contact: sunny.sorensen@yahoo.com  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleinairpainter/

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Anthony Pooler

 Anthony Pooler,   acp42@sbcglobal.net

Anthony Pooler is a local artist, currently residing in Modesto. He works primarily in watercolor and acrylics. His art education started at an early age, as his great grandfather, mother, and uncle were all artists. He is also an avid fly-fisher and fly-tier. This occasionally leads to conflicts about whether to fish the stream or to paint it.

His formal art education includes instruction at UC Berkeley, with additional classes at Cal State Hayward. Images include plein air work as well as paintings created from photos from his extensive travels. Of special interest as subjects, are landscapes, and vintage and classic automobiles. He is a member of the Central California Art Association and the Valley Suncatchers. His work can be viewed on the website of fineartamerica.com, and frequently at the Mistlin Gallery and other local venues.

Commissions are welcome.

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Cheryl Bloomfield

  Cheryl Bloomfield;   bloom1010@att.net

My love of art began at a young age when teachers would ask me to paint backdrops for school theater and portraits of fellow students. This led to a senior high art award after four years of art classes given by a devoted and creative teacher.

While raising our children, I used my hands to construct orthodontic appliances for six offices in the Bay Area, and oil painted as a “break” from our busy family schedule.   As our children matured, I dove into painting wall murals as a business known as “Have Brush—Will Travel” in homes all over San Joaquin County, California.

I have read and studied art books and artists, but taking plein air workshops by Kathleen Dunphy has inspired me to take off in my creative aspirations. There is so much to learn and an abundance of materials to learn from, that  I can’t soak it in fast enough. I will forever be studying art to learn to convey my message.  I want to show people, who can’t or don’t travel, the beautiful treasures of scenery on the back roads of America, and just how special this country is.