I’m already too late getting the word out about this workshop on the 12th, but I wanted to at least be in time for the Art Career Day Conference on the 17th. Between the workshops and the conference, Art Without Limits is offering some incredibly valuable resources to the community. It is incredibly rare for artists to have an opportunity to learn how they can work towards making a living through their creative output. For any of you out there who aspire to be a professional artist, I can’t recommend these programs highly enough.

March 8, 2012      Volume II – Issue 2

BUSINESS WORKSHOPS!!  JOIN US Presented by Art Without Limits & The Santa Barbara Performing Arts League  March 12, 2012 6pm-?  ”Copyrights – What artists need to know!”    The Pescadrome Art Space (Fishbon),101 S Quarantina St, enter on Carpinteria St Two local attorneys, with art backgrounds,Ian Smith of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP,  and Shannon Liu Senn who is practicing in copyright, trademark, and entertainment law, field questions about the rights to artistic and intellectual properties in the age of digital media. Preview of Spring Awakening will be presented by Out of the Box Theater Co. PAL will launch their new website.   The workshop is followed by a social time. PRE-REGISTER at info@sbstage.org April 9, 2012 6-8pm “Insurance…What do I need?” Tom Caesar, Director Hub International Insurance Location TBA PRE-REGISTER at info@sbstage.org   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presented by Art Without Limits May 14, 2012 6-8pm “What is My Art Worth?” Elizabeth Stewart, Location TBA PRE-REGISTER at julie@awolsb.org has an extensive background in appraisals, galleries and how the art market works. Learn how you can work that. ART CAREER DAY CONFERENCE Art Without Limits has set up a coalition of arts organizations  to present the 2nd annual ART CAREER DAY CONFERENCE at Fe Bland Forum at SB City College MARCH 17, 2012 – Noon – 5 pm Junior High thru College students FREE with PRE-REGISTRATION at WWW.ACDC-SB.ORG   Santa Barbara County students will hear speakers: Emcee – David Starkey, Keynote Speaker – Kip Fulbeck Andy Davis-Film, Michael Irwin-Painting, David Grossman- Music,Ulrike Kerber-Graphic Design, Ann Dusenberry-Acting.   Roundtable discussions will be held in over 14 subjects to choose from. REFRESHMENTS – ENTERTAINMENT by Naked Walrus band.   Schedule is available on the website. PRESENTERS: Art Without Limits-Julie McLeod & John Ogilvie, SBCC Creative Writing Department-David Starkey, Notes for Notes & New Noise-Jeff Theimer, Santa Barbara Bowl, Ginny Brush-SB County Arts Commission, Michelle Magnusson-Partners in Education, Dug Uyesaka and Rod Lathim   SPONSORS: Art Without Limits, Santa Barbara City College- Creative Writing Dept.,Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, lynda.com, Notes for Notes   Last year’s event left the future artists knowing they could approach Santa  Barbara professional artists for support, advice, guidance and mentorship. Several mentorships were started from the event with Art Without Limits.   WWW.ACDC-SB.ORG

Alright, here it is. 1st Thursday is upon us and once again there are too many places to see in a single night.  Because of this I try to mix it up from month to month so we get so see new things and visit the places that have been unjustly neglected.  This month we’ll be visiting a very eclectic group of venues, as has become the custom. And there are sure to be a few surprises.

The Art Crawl will begin promptly at 5:30 this month, so we’ll have time to start our evening with the Santa Barbara Art Collaborative’s “Art in the Mayor’s Office”. If you have never been in a mayor’s office, this is your chance. It is an incredibly cool thing that Mayor Schneider opens her office to the public for this event. This round the Mayor’s office is hung with prints from the Santa Barbara Print Makers. The office will close at 6 o’clock, so don’t be late.

The Art Crawl has brought out larger and larger crowds over the passed few months, and I’d like to encourage anyone reading this to join us for the evening.

Finally, remember to wear comfortable shoes and grab a snack before you come. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. See you on Thursday!

Below the map I’ve put previews of a limited selection of what we’ll see on Thursday.

click on the map to enlarge the image

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Wall Space Gallery

113 W. Ortega St.

wall space is excited to showcase the talented photographer and creative artist  

Jane Gottlieb for the month of March in the gallery.  

Vivid, an exhibition of select works from Gottlieb’s many series showcases the unique hand painted approach Jane takes to image making. These one of a kind prints have a rich vitality and energy that is unlike any other artist working in contemporary photography today.

Her bright, vibrant visions bring Spring to Santa Barbara with a bang.  Hues of yellow, pink and blue cover the walls like masterstrokes from some of the world’s greatest painters.  In the idea of Gauguin, Monet, and Picasso, Gottlieb wows us, surrounding us in Technicolor dreams.

After traveling the world, Jane brings home these explosive visionary postcards full of effervescence and sparkle.  These images take you by surprise, take your breath away and fill you with new life, new ideas of how to see the world around us.

Join us on March 1st, during First Thursday’s Art Walk between 6 – 8pm to celebrate Jane, her Technicolor vision and these creative works.

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The Project

E. de la Guerra St @ de la Guerra Plaza

Philip Koplin

Exhibitions on view: February 26 – April 22, 2012

Opening Reception: February 25, 6:30 – 8 pm

Flights from Wonder: Christopher Chiappa, Liz Craft, Martha Friedman, FriendsWithYou, Jon Pylypchuk, Carolyn Salas, Mindy Shapero, Shinique Smith, and Phoebe Washburn

Special thanks to: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, NY, Casa Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA; The Daily Sound, Santa Barbara, CA; Robert Johnson, Santa Barbara, CA; Jon and Lillian Lovelace, Santa Barbara, CA; Montecito Messenger; ParentClick, Santa Barbara, CA;Santa Barbara Independent; Santa Barbara News-Press; Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA; and X-TRA, Los Angeles, CA.

Bloom Projects: Afruz Amighi,Suspended City

Special thanks to:The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, NY, Susan E. Bower Exhibition Fund, Santa Barbara, CA; Casa Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA; Brush & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Barbara Independent; Santa Barbara News-Press; and Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA.

This weekend is packed with local arts events, including this not-to-be-missed event on Friday at City College’s Atkinson Gallery. For a list of other events going on this weekend, make sure and check out the “Upcoming Events” calendar.

A T K I N S O N   G A L L E R Y
THE CAN(N)ON ART STUDIOS
February 24 – March 23, 2012

Elizabeth Folk, Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Kimberly Hahn, Zacarias Paul,
Steven Soria, James Van Arsdale

Opening Reception: Friday, February 24, 5–7pm
Artists Panel Discussion: Wednesday, March 14, 4:30pm

SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE
721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2394
Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 10–7pm    Friday–Saturday, 10–4pm
(805) 965-0581 x3484    http://gallery.sbcc.edu

The Can(n)on Art Studios In a small industrial complex in Goleta resides The Can(n)on Art Studios. This is not a business but a private art studio complex, normally visited by appointment only. At the Atkinson Gallery, the Can(n)on group goes public, with its six artists exhibiting their inventive, singular works in a range of media, including sculpture, painting, installation, printmaking, and digital works. These talented, young artists are representative of the broader contemporary art culture, inclusive and pluralistic, often with a conceptual leaning. Gone are the days of when a student had to choose to be a sculptor or a painter or whatever narrowly defining term was given. While it is certainly fine to work, say, in the painting tradition, many artists are choosing to expand that tradition or selecting the appropriate media for their expression, perhaps just for that particular work. The next project might require an altogether different medium(s) and a completely different aesthetic approach. The Can(n)on artists are healthily open to a variety of ideas and materials. Our community is the beneficiary of their positive, non-exclusive attitude. Welcome to the Goleta – good land – future.

Elizabeth Folk is a sculpture, installation, performance, and video artist. Many of her works often exist as insertions into public spaces that invite audience interaction or collaboration. Folk’s Just Play! Restaurant,a life-sized restaurant board game, was featured at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum. You may have seen Glory Spa, her mobile spa vending machine engaging a space in your neighborhood. Folk received her Masters of Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She teaches for the College of Creative Studies and the Art Department at UCSB, and 4-D and New Genres at SBCC. www.elizabethfolk.com

Saul Gray-Hildenbrand was born in Petosky, MI. He received his B.F.A. from Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI and studied sculpture at Kingston University, Surbiton, England. Saul works in a variety of media from oil painting to ceramic sculpture. His work is influenced by folk and modern art. Saul’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures are a reaction to the world around him – sometimes mundane, sometimes ironic, and sometimes absurd, with a sprinkling of dark humor and misanthropy. The figures often reside in an ambiguous space, and their expressions come from observations of people in public spaces. The artist is attracted to anonymous figures and open narratives. He is the head-preparator at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

Kimberly Hahn was raised in California and Texas. She studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, England and the University of Texas, Austin, Texas where she received a B.F.A. Hahn works in many media with a focus on photography. She has been in numerous exhibitions including A Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX; Eating Apples in Paradise, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; California Visual Artists, Second City Art Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA; and Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Ana, CA. www.kimberlyhahn.com

Zacarias Paul was born in 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. Paul’s artwork explores the recontextualization of the commonplace by revisiting visual languages found in abstract, geometric, constructive and hard-edge painting, deftly traversing various mediums such as painting, printmaking, photography and video. The processes, the materials and the spaces created are the substance of his work, where the viewer becomes an ever changing element in the cycle of the creation of it. His work has been exhibited at AP’ART Contemporary Art Festival, France; at Pomona University, Los Angeles, CA; Kitsch Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara. www.zackpaul.com

Steven Soria received an B.F.A. in Sculpture at Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA and has pursued contemporary and tradition techniques utilizing various media including painting, sculpture, installation, and video art. Soria’s work explores the many facets of multi-media installation, and blurs the lines between high and low-tech objects. His work is influenced by family trades: auto body, auto-mechanics and leather crafting. He is a third generation leather-smith. Soria’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the Southern California area, with a concentration in Los Angeles including Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, A&D Museum, Los Angeles, CA, and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. www.stevensoria.com

James Van Arsdale is a mixed-media installation artist, designer, and musician. He received an M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and a B.F.A., University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX. His artwork has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions including recently Eating Apples In Paradise at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and Color System, Color Strategy at the University of Texas Dallas, Dallas TX. Recent solo exhibitions include (Safe Inside My) Green Zone at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and Everything You Hear Is True at Left Coast, Goleta, CA. He was a recipient of the William T. Colville Foundation’s Artist Grant in 2009. From 2006-2010 he performed in the indie-rock band The Coral Sea. www.jamesvanarsdale.com