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Save This Date: Spring Equinox Sound Bath Friday March 19
You are invited to resonate in a Spring Quinox Sound Bath, Friday, March 19, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Join Jamie Bechtold and Mary Frances Spencer as they welcome the Vernal Equinox with an energizing Spring Concert of Planetary Gongs and Crystal Singing Bowls. Sit back (or bring a blanket and lie down) in the Center's majestic main gallery and relax while being bathed the powerful vibrations of reverberating sound.
RSVP recommended 323-226-1617
$10.00 suggested donatation
For more informationL
NELAArt Second Saturday Gallery Night, February 13
Saturday, February 13, NELAart presents: SECOND SATURDAY GALLERY NIGHT
WHEN: The Second Saturday of Every Month 7:00-10:00p.m.
WHERE: Highland Park and surrounding neighborhoods.
NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night is a free self-guided tour of the galleries, non-profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).
NELA has a tradition in the arts that dates back to the early 1900s.
The tradition continues with new spaces opening regularly. NELA is now one of L.A.'s most exciting destinations to view contemporary art.
Individual gallery hours may vary:
Avenue 50 Studios, 121 North Avenue 50
Cactus, 5434 Eagle Rock Boulevard
Cafe de Leche, 5000 York Boulevard
Future Studio, 5558 North Figueroa Street
hi tree, 131 North Avenue 50 (behind Avenue 50 Studio)
Jose Vera Fine Art, 2012 Colorado Boulevard
Judson Studios, 200 South Avenue 66
Kristi Engle Gallery, 5002 York Boulevard
Land of Odd Gallery, 4690 Eagle Rock Boulevard
La tierra de la Cuebra, 240 South Avenue 57
MorYork Gallery, 4959 York Boulevard
New Puppy, Unit 1, 2808 Elm Street
New Stone Age Mosiacs, 4532 1/2 Eagle Rock Boulevard
Outpost for Contemporary Art, 1268 North Avenue 50
Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Boulevard
She Rides the Lion, 133 North Avenue 50
THIS, 5906 North Figueroa Street
Toros Pottery, 4962 Eagle Rock Boulevard
2 Tracks Art Studio, 135 North Avenue 50 (Next to Avenue 50 Studio)
WORKSPACE, 2601 Pasadena Avenue
York Studios, 5029 York Boulevard
NELAart is based in Highland Park and consists of galleries and art organizations located in Northeast Los Angeles who are dedicated to increase the visibility of the thriving arts community in the area. Northeast Los Angeles has a long tradition in the arts. Many working artists now continue this tradition by making their homes and having their studios here. The neighborhood is also home to many galleries, alternative arts spaces and arts organizations. NELAart provides a resource to share information and ideas, and assist in promoting galleries and organizations. Please join us in celebrating the arts in Northeast Los Angeles.
Operation Santa Paws Now Open for Donations
For the next several days, our office will serve as a donation center for Operation Santa Paws.
- OPERATION SANTA PAWS seeks donated pet toys for shelters and rescues to improve the health and demeanor of those pets while reducing their stress to increase the animals' chances of being adopted. The simplest toys can make the animals much more comfortable.
Durable puppy/dog toy, such as indestructible Ball, Nylabone, Kong, Booda, Gumabones, Velva or Best Ball brand toys
Pup-Peroni, soft Milk Bones or other soft jerky type dog treats.
Dog and cat shampoo
Dry puppy food
Large and medium food/water bowls
Durable kitten/cat toys
Cardboard serving trays for use as litter boxes
Heating pads for infant animals
Cleaning supplies and air freshener spray, kennel cleaning supplies
Scrub brushes, rubber curry brushes, mops, brooms heavy-duty water hoses
Laundry detergent, dishwashing gloves, baking soda, bleach, paper towels
Plastic aprons or smocks
blankets, bath towels (used or new)
6' nylon dog leashes
Flannel baby blankets for kittens
Paper towels & bathroom tissue
Top-loading cat carriers
Cardboard cat scratchers
Ziplock food storage bags, all sizes; 33 and 13 gallon trash bags
Liquid hand soap; Bleach; Dish/laundry detergent
NOTE Because of safety and/or housekeeping concerns, stuffed toys, tennis balls, rawhide items and pig ears cannot be accepted.
You can bring items and donations to our office at
5526 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Ask for Pat Barr or Dan Jordinelli
“Testimonies Two – Contemporary Ex-Votos” — Artists’ reception — Saturday evening, December 12, at Avenue 50 Studio
The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present Testimonies Two – Contemporary Ex Votos. Curator Raoul De la Sota has assembled a group of artists for a special exhibit focusing on the Mexican-rooted art form of the ex-voto.
Lesser Saint No. 5 – Richard Turner
Curated by Raoul De la Sota
Ex-votos historically were devotional visual offerings to the Church for a miraculous cure or for some intervention by a specific religious figure that prevented harm or death. In 16th century Spain they were painted directly onto the interior church walls as murals depicting the miracle. The paintings themselves were called Milagros or miracles. In 18th and 19th century Mexico they became the source of income for itinerant artists who depicted in their paintings some sort of miracle. These artists, often academically untrained, created their works at the request of families, painting with inexpensive oils on whatever small scraps of material was convenient and cheap, most often tin or wood. The works ranged from the charmingly rustic to the aesthetically profound. The works were then in turn donated by the family to a nearby church as gratitude for its intervention. In the 20th century the craft continued but with less religiosity and more pleas for financial help or for material goods. In all cases there was always a narrative text painted onto the surface that described the event and the stated gratitude of the donor. Frida Kahlo was a modern artist who admired and patterned some of her work after these forms.
The present-day work by these diverse artists involves personal stories, narratives of gratitude and portrayals of visual histories. Some are graphic representations of difficult times while others are simple tokens of thanks for life’s pleasures. In form they are sculptures, assemblages, collages, photographs and paintings. They are no longer directed to a religious institution but rather are personal messages directed to a contemporary audience.
The exhibit opens with an artists’ reception on Saturday evening, December 12,, 2009 from 7 to 10 p.m. and closes with an artists’ panel discussion on Sunday, January 24, 2010.
Yrneh Brown, Martin Charlot, Mita Cuaron, Ruth De Nicola, Diane Gamboa, Pat Gomez, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lucy Hagopian, Cidne Hart, Wayne Healy, Heriberto Luna,
Dorothy Magallon, Rafael Matias, Susanna Meiers/Peter Liashkov, Andrés E. Montoya, Toti O’Brien, Suzanne Siegel, Richard Turner
For further information please contact:
Kathy Gallegos, Director, Avenue 50 Studio, ave50studio@sbcglobal.net
Raoul De la Sota, Curator, raouldelasota@sbcglobal.net
Avenue 50 Studio, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA 90042
323-258-1435
“Testimonies Two – Contemporary Ex-Votosâ€� — Artists’ reception — Saturday evening, December 12, at Avenue 50 Studio
The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present Testimonies Two – Contemporary Ex Votos. Curator Raoul De la Sota has assembled a group of artists for a special exhibit focusing on the Mexican-rooted art form of the ex-voto.
Lesser Saint No. 5 – Richard Turner
Curated by Raoul De la Sota
Ex-votos historically were devotional visual offerings to the Church for a miraculous cure or for some intervention by a specific religious figure that prevented harm or death. In 16th century Spain they were painted directly onto the interior church walls as murals depicting the miracle. The paintings themselves were called Milagros or miracles. In 18th and 19th century Mexico they became the source of income for itinerant artists who depicted in their paintings some sort of miracle. These artists, often academically untrained, created their works at the request of families, painting with inexpensive oils on whatever small scraps of material was convenient and cheap, most often tin or wood. The works ranged from the charmingly rustic to the aesthetically profound. The works were then in turn donated by the family to a nearby church as gratitude for its intervention. In the 20th century the craft continued but with less religiosity and more pleas for financial help or for material goods. In all cases there was always a narrative text painted onto the surface that described the event and the stated gratitude of the donor. Frida Kahlo was a modern artist who admired and patterned some of her work after these forms.
The present-day work by these diverse artists involves personal stories, narratives of gratitude and portrayals of visual histories. Some are graphic representations of difficult times while others are simple tokens of thanks for life’s pleasures. In form they are sculptures, assemblages, collages, photographs and paintings. They are no longer directed to a religious institution but rather are personal messages directed to a contemporary audience.
The exhibit opens with an artists’ reception on Saturday evening, December 12,, 2009 from 7 to 10 p.m. and closes with an artists’ panel discussion on Sunday, January 24, 2010.
Yrneh Brown, Martin Charlot, Mita Cuaron, Ruth De Nicola, Diane Gamboa, Pat Gomez, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lucy Hagopian, Cidne Hart, Wayne Healy, Heriberto Luna,
Dorothy Magallon, Rafael Matias, Susanna Meiers/Peter Liashkov, Andrés E. Montoya, Toti O’Brien, Suzanne Siegel, Richard Turner
For further information please contact:
Kathy Gallegos, Director, Avenue 50 Studio, ave50studio@sbcglobal.net
Raoul De la Sota, Curator, raouldelasota@sbcglobal.net
Avenue 50 Studio, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA 90042
323-258-1435
Arroyo Arts Collective Recovery Discovery Tour November 22: Edem Elesh
What is the Recovery Discovery Tour?: "The Recovery Discovery Tour," is a self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington, organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective.
Where: Starts at the Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Highland Park, CA 90031
When: November 22, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
As part of the Recovery Discovery Tour, artist Edem Elesh will open his home studio in Mount Angelus, a hilltop neighborhood in Highland Park.
From an absolutearts.com review:
The work of Los Angeles based painter, Edem Elesh, finds itself in the murky waters of the viewer's unconscious.Fantastical, dream-like and dystopian, Elesh's imagery is set in our postmodern time, at an intersection where the subject matter of various sorts has been cut loose from it's origins and dropped onto the foreign occupied space of the canvas.With an irreverence and narrative approach to working, each subject has been abandoned and ultimately left to stake its claim in a new and unfamiliar territory.When asked about the conception and drive of an individual painting, Elesh straightforwardly replies that, "Everyday situations of existence" are always where his subject matter remains fertile.
ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE RECOVERY DISCOVERY NOVEMBER 22: STEVEN ANDERSON IS BACK!
Steven Anderson last opened his home studio on the Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery tour in 2003. After a five year hiatus, Steven's home studio high in the hills of Eagle Rock will again be a featured destination on the tour.
From the artist's web site
Steven L. Anderson was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971, and raised by a family of creative environmentalists. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 1988 and the following year attended the University of Michigan with the plans of being a "renaissance man." It was here that he began to make small collages using an approach of appropriation and re-contextualization that would serve as a basis for his creative process.
A post-graduate slacker/LSD experience in the newly split Czech Republic convinced Steven to follow a path through the arts, leading him to the Art Institute of Chicago to train as a painter, printmaker and graphic designer. It was here that he met and fell in love with his wife Liz (Department of Graphic Sciences), his life-long love and inspiration. Agnes Anderson joined the family in 2007.
Steven's career as an artist has been a cycle of collaborative and individual production, focusing on the nature of power and the power of nature. In 1998 he joined Cakewalk Magazine as co-publisher; designing, editing and raising money for issues 2-6. Steven has also been a driving force in 2004's October Surprise curatorial project in Northeast Los Angeles. Other fruitful collaborations have included Fat Farmer Bob and His Colourful Crazy Beard (2008-), Fuz Fon (1999-2001) and Chicago's Free the Real World Coalition (2001). Steven has art-directed and designed for In These Times (1998-2001) and WhiteWalls (1999-2003) magazines in Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (2003-04) and 1105 Media inc. (2003-current) in Los Angeles, among others.
The Andersons currently reside in Northeast Los Angeles with cats Big D. and Kittenhead Jenkins.
What is the Recovery Discovery Tour?: "The Recovery Discovery Tour," is a self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington, organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective.
Where: Starts at the Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Highland Park, CA 90031
When: November 22, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Recovery Discovery Tour Its Not Too Late
ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE RECOVERY DISCOVERY TOUR ADVANCE TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
Recovery Discovery Tour tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of the Tour. Advance tickets are still available at Galco's Soda Pop Stop, 5702 York Boulevard in Highland Park or on-line at www.arroyoartscollective.org. Hurry!
You may think, “Wow, 17 years! Hmmm, 17 years? There's always next year.” Well, maybe not. You never know when there will be another chance to visit any of this years' 100 artists' homes and studios. What wonderful treasures might you miss? For example, new to the Tour this year are Margaret Alarcon, Kraig Blue, Molly Cleator, Carol Es, Matthew Freeth, Betty Phoenix Wan Hamada, David Reed James, Stephen James, Rebecca Janes, Susan Loraine Kromka, Irma LaPointe, Antionette Miller, Earl Parson, Michelle Perone, Rebecca Quesada, Darren Ragle, Gigi Scully, Richard Scully, Warner Traynham and Mark Verrillo. 2003 was the last time Steven Anderson was on the Tour. Now he's back. What's he been up to? Or you might want to see what Linda Lyke, Raoul De la Sota, Margaret Garcia, Michael Arata and J. Michael Walker, to name a few, have been up to this year.
You can walk, bike, take your car or leave the driving to us. Let the Arroyo Arts Collective plan your itinerary with one of our shuttle routes.
And have you heard about the Arroyo Bucks? What's up with that? Because this is the Recovery Discovery Tour we're offering a little financial stimulus package of our own. When you spend $100 or more on the work of any one artist your Arroyo Buck will give you a $10 discount.That's the Tour for free. What a deal!
WHO: The Arroyo Arts Collective
WHAT: 17th Annual Recovery Discovery Tour
WHEN: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 9:30am to 5pm
WHERE: Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Los Angeles 90031
Countdown to Arroyo Arts Collective Recovery Discovery Tour November 22: Meet Artist Carol Es
On Sunday, November 22, artists' homes and studios throughout the Northeast Los Angeles Communities of Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington will open their doors during “The Recovery Discovery Tour,” the Arroyo Arts Collective's 17th annual self-guided auto tour.
The Moppet Studio of Carol Es will be one of the featured destinations on the Arroyo Arts Collective Recovery Discovery Tour.
Carol Es is a visionary mixed-media fine artist and writer with curatorial experience, as well as a musician and recording artist, and a web designer skilled in PHP and MySQL databases, DHTML and Java scripting.
Halloween Mourning Tours Today at Heritage Square Museum
Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25
12 to 4 pm.
Enjoy creepy happenings at Heritage Square Museum at its Sixth Annual Halloween and Mourning Tours©. Learn all about death and mourning etiquette during the Victorian era and participate in a funeral inside one of our historic homes. Find out about Victorian Spiritualism – what it was, who followed it and why, and perhaps have your future foretold by a medium. See how other cultures celebrate and remember their loved ones as we look at the Mexican traditions and customs of El Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Finally, discover how even the intricate details of clothing played a role how Victorians showed their loss of a loved one.
On Sunday, (Oct 25), the Halloween and Mourning Tours program is more family friendly. Children ages 2 to 12 may come play period games, make 19th century harvest crafts, choose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch (while supplies last), and listen to spooky stories in the Ford House by the San Gabriel Valley Storytellers.
Admission prices are $10.00 for Adults, $8.00 for Seniors over 65,
$5.00 for Children 6 to 12 years, and Free for Children under 6 and Museum members
Halloween and Mourning Movie Night
Saturday, October 24, gates open at 7 pm.
Guests are invited to bring a picnic, blankets, chairs, and candy while enjoying classic scary movies at Heritage Square… if they dare. The scheduled features include “The Unknown”, a silent horror movie made in 1927 starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, and “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” a comedy directed by Charles Barton, starring Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange. Guests are encouraged to wear warm clothing. Beverages and popcorn will be available for purchase.
Admission to the Third Annual Halloween and Mourning Movie Night © is
Free for Museum members and $10.00 for the general public.
The gates will open at 7 p.m. for picnics with the show starting at dusk.
These events were made possible through the kind support of:
Lichas Flowers II
San Gabriel Valley Storytellers
Josephu Dupree
Las Cazuelas Restaurant
Videotheque
Haunted Harvest Festival- Old LA Farmers Market
Haunted Harvest Storytelling Festival at the Old LA Farmers Market
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009
3-8 pm.
North Figueroa & Ave & Ave. 58
Free Event! Everyone Welcome!
Entertainment- Grammy Winner Mariachi Divas, We Tell Stories, Taiko Drumming and Ballet Folklorico
Trick or Treating
Face painting
Pumpkin Carving Contest- Enter and Pick up your free pumpkin at Figueroa Produce.
Costume Contest
Fresh Produce, Gourmet foods and Handcrafted Arts & Crafts. Plus lots more
Free Parking- Enter at Ave. 57
Harvest Festival- Good Shepherd Lutheran School
Harvest Festival at Good Shepherd Lutheran School
Saturday, October 24, 2009
11 am- 5 pm.
6338 North Figueroa St.
Free Entry
Games, Bake Sale, Pumpkin Painting, food, prizes and more.
See the incredibly scary Haunted house. Not for the faint of heart.
