October 23rd, 2009 12:57pm
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Want to see good art by local artists? Have you thought about a trip to Graton?
The Graton Gallery is housed in a quaint storefront on the tiny town’s central block, defined by a stop sign at either end, just off Highway 116, just north of Sebastopol.
Run by a small core of partners, all artists, the gallery likes to feature the county’s best, while having some fun with its …
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TAGS Ann Martin Garland, Graton Gallery, Monty Monty, Mylette Welch | CATEGORY Art, Galleries
October 7th, 2009 04:59pm
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Anyone who thinks there is something dainty and precious about art has not yet encountered the work of North Coast sculptor Bruce Johnson.
For decades, Johnson has created massive wonders from his favorite material — ancient redwood.
His current show, “Uprooted,” runs through next April at the Paradise Ridge Winery and Sculpture Grove in Santa Rosa
Johnson used roots, logs and copper boulders to create 11 new sculptures with titles like “Outburst,” “Rock …
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TAGS Art, Bruce Johnson, Paradise Ridge Winery, redwood, Santa Rosa, sculpture | CATEGORY Art
October 2nd, 2009 01:44pm
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Since summer, we’ve been treated to poetry at the workplace and live dance at gas stations, but now it’s coming to a close.
Arts Sonoma, a two-month-long, Sonoma County-wide series of exhibits and performances, many of them in unconventional venues, ends Sunday, Oct. 4.
Arts Sonoma coordinator John Moran offers a few closing highlights:
* The Santa Rosa Youth Symphony ensembles perform at 5 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 3) in front of Santa Rosa …
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TAGS arts, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County | CATEGORY Art, Dance, Music, Poetry, Theater
September 30th, 2009 08:00am
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Do friends tell you that your child looks just like Charlie Brown, Lucy or Linus?
Or even Snoopy? (Good grief, some friends.)
Anticipating the 60th anniversary of the “Peanuts” comic strip next year, a panel of celebrity judges has agreed to jury entries in the “First Official Peanuts Look-a-Like Contest.”
Moms and dads across the country are invited to submit photos of their children looking like one of these Peanuts characters: Charlie Brown, …
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TAGS "Peanuts", Art, cartooning, Charles Schulz, Comic strips, Sebastopol, Sonoma County | CATEGORY Art, Comic strips
September 29th, 2009 02:47pm
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We all know we live in ever-changing world, but have you ever considered how much even the maps of our world have changed?
“Envisioning the World,” an exhibition featuring world maps from 1450 through 1700, runs from Friday, Oct. 2, through Jan. 17 at Santa Rosa’s Sonoma County Museum.
One woodblock print map from the late 1400s shows the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and way over one side, a tiny …
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September 15th, 2009 01:22pm
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Cartoonist Brian Crane, 60, of Reno, creator of the “Pickles” comic strip, has made stars of his two wily, white-haired, main characters, Earl and Opal.
The strip now appears in 600 newspapers, and four book collections have been published so far.
He’s coming to Santa Rosa this week, and took time to talk about his work in a phone interview last week. Here are a few samples of what he had to …
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TAGS "Peanuts", "Pickles", Brian Crane, cartooning, Charles Schulz, Comic strips, Santa Rosa | CATEGORY Art, Comic strips
September 10th, 2009 01:31pm
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Leave it to Sonoma County’s “Mr. Music” to give other people presents on his birthday.
He’s giving you seven hours of live bands on Sunday, Sept. 13, at Mr. Music’s 60th Birthday Bash and Free Music Festival.
For those who don’t already know, the Sebastopol musician is founder of The Love Choir, a community chorus that performs throughout the county, and the Mr. Music Foundation, which supports and provides school music programs.
For …
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September 4th, 2009 11:23am
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The time has come to rename this blog.
The word “Arts” doesn’t cover it all. It doesn’t describe a blog that includes political humor by Will Durst, one-liners by Eric Idle, a long list of accordion jokes and a short shot at the latest “Star Trek” film.
It is true that I do try cover visual arts and theater in Northern California and shall continue to try, even though both scenes have …
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TAGS Art, Eric Idle, Film, humor, Music, Poetry, Star Trek, Theater, Will Durst | CATEGORY Art, Film, Music, Poetry, Theater
September 1st, 2009 12:00pm
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Rebecca Love, one of the co-founders of the Sebastopol Gallery two years ago, has long been known for her “life sculptures” — face and body casts turned into colorful art.
Marin County gets a look at her work in “The Silent Ones,” a new two-person exhibit opening Wednesday (Sept. 2) at the the Linda Penzur Jewelry Studio and Gallery in San Anselmo.
The show also includes oil paintings on board and serigraphs …
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August 31st, 2009 06:18pm
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Thousands of free spirits will convene through Labor Day weekend on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the annual Burning Man communal gathering and arts festival.
And one of them will be Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy.
Jeannie Schulz, widow of “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schulz, is taking up a boat-shaped car with a cutout of Snoopy on the bow.
The name of the craft? “H.M.S. Beagle,” of course, with no apologies to Charles …
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