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Dot Brovarney

Literary Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Storytelling; Visual Arts: Performers and Writers

Proceeds from Dot Bovarney’s book will support Art from the Ashes, a Redwood Valley Healing Mosaic Historian Dot Brovarney has been involved in the cultural arts in Mendocino County since 1989. She works as an author and publisher through her business, Landcestry. Dot has an extensive curatorial background at the Mendocino County Museum and Grace Hudson Museum. Her exhibits include A Passion for Plants & Place: Carl Purdy of Mendocino County; Edward S. Curtis and the Hudsons: Creating the Arts & Crafts Indian; and Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family, and Friends. Among her publications are The Sweet Life: Cherry Stories from Butler Ranch and Remember Your Relations, based in part, on her oral histories with Pomo elders. Currently, she is writing a book about Lake Leonard and Reeves Canyon in the upper Russian River watershed. When Brovarney heard about Art from the Ashes — a healing mosaic project led by Elizabeth Raybee and Nori Dolan — she was inspired to help. Art from the Ashes is a community-built mosaic scheduled to be installed at the Redwood Valley Grange in October; the one-year anniversary of the Redwood Fire. Wishing to add some sweetness to collective fire-healing (and just in time for cherry season) Brovarney is offering half of the profits from her book, The Sweet Life: Stories from Butler Ranch to support of the project. Below are some pictures from the Butler Ranch. “The stories in The Sweet Life are really all about community,” says publisher Dot Brovarney. “The book’s storytellers convey the communal spirit that the Butlers created through their annual cherry harvest. This mosaic project, too, offers an opportunity for gathering together, and sharing an enriching community experience.” The book is available at Mendocino Book Company, Gallery Bookshop and Braggadoon on the Coast, Grace Hudson Museum, Mendocino Optical, Bona Marketplace, and Westside Renaissance Market in Ukiah. For more information, call 272-8305.

Lavender Grace Cinnamon

Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Music, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Performance Art, Performers and Writers

“Music is my medicine, my story of healing. my offering to you, on your journey, to help you find your Medicine in your own song, with in your own rhythm.” Lavender Grace Cinnamon is dedicated to the tools of Heart Song Medicine, for the good of all, for the collective evolution of all beings. She is a Sacred Ecology Specialist, and facilitator of Intuitive Drum Song, a course created by the lands and people of Northern California, informed by the lineage of her Celtic Ancestors & the influences of Moorish song and dance. At the very core, Lavender Grace is instructed by the Bees. She moves to the rhythm of the hive, the path of co-existence, the life song path, the life dance to the beat of the heart drum. Dedicated to the shared responsibility of our times, to elevate our consciousness. Come, show up, be courageous, you are needed! She is a facilitator, musician, actor, dancer, poet, artist, and consultant to those in need of her services. For more info visit www.honeyhivemendo.com

Cathleen Micheaels

Literary Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Media and Visual Communications

Bill Mulvihill

Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts

Bill Mulvihill has lived on the north coast since 1970. In the early seventies he worked with Mendocino Art Center instructors Charles Stevenson and Dorr Bothwell. He was also involved in theatre productions performed there, doing posters, stage managing, costume and set design. In the years since then, Bill has worked in many art mediums, drawing, portraiture and printmaking being particular favorites. After completing the College of the Redwoods Graphic Communications Program, he received the certificate in May 2007. Currently, in addition to working with the Arts Council of Mendocino County, he is assistant editor for the Fort Bragg – Mendocino Coast Historical Society newsletter, “Voice of the Past”. Bill also does other design/layout work, digitizing analog audio, & CD and DVD disc design and duplication.

Larry Wagner

Media; Visual Arts: Photography

Richard Weiss

Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Media and Visual Communications, Painting

I’m proud to make an announcement. My 3-D painting “Tintin & l’Affaire de l’Orbe Pourpre” (Tintin & The Case of The Purple Orb) won, at the 57th Annual Art in the Redwoods Fine Arts Exhibit, both Best of Show and Most Popular (voted by viewers), a first in Gualala Art history. I also would like to announce 2 upcoming solo exhibitions in 2019: Tim Carmody gallery in May, and Gualala Art Center in June. The common thread present in all of my work is a joyful playfulness. My work puts the viewer, whatever their age, back in touch with some childhood feelings. I have seen individuals entering my exhibit with family members, obviously not wanting to be there, and within seconds, their attitude changes. Their eyes lighten up and their facial expression is transformed. They are obviously enjoying themselves. My paintings are interactive, and require a participation from the viewer. There is a playful inter-action taking place. I place cultural icons and other elements of contemporary popular culture into a new context to illustrate thought provoking social, political or cultural issues. _________________________________________________________________________________ PDFs TO VIEW: Mona Series + Kinetic Mona Kinetic Paintings + 3 D Paintings Acrylic & Oil Lightbox Water Soluble Color Pencil + Pencil Work Pen & Ink + Whimsical Sculptures Glass Painting ______________________________________________ LINKS TO VIDEOS Tintin & The Case of The Purple Orb (00:49) The King & The Duke (00:48) Nuns With Guns (00:46) Mona Blue Sky (00:35) Mona Purple Sky (00:39) Pandemonium Fairyland 2 (01:37) ________________________________________________ Below: – The King & The Duke – acrylic on wood panel – 22 x 37 inches (3 views of the same painting) In my kinetic art, the image changes depending on your relative position to the painting. The gallery visitors are seen playfully walking back and forth in front of the painting to witness the transformations of the image. In other paintings, the viewer can physically transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities. My work is extremely detailed, packed with hidden whimsical information that can only reveal itself upon scrutiny. Using a bright palette, I paint in acrylic on multi-faceted wood structures. Below: Nuns with Guns – acrylic on wood panel – 37 x 37 inches – (3 sides on 1 photo) My goal is to provoke an element of surprise, and transmit playfulness and whimsy to the viewer. _________________________________________________________________________________ Watch the video presentation of my work: https://www.facebook.com/richard.weiss.942 – Animated slide show of pen work: Watch the trailer and selected scenes from my film The Book: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebookthemovie/featured – Short morphing video created for The Book – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVQAFSc8wM&spfreload=10 *- The Book website: http://www.thebook-themovie.com/ * – Alejandro Jodorowsky: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/ My work encompasses painting, sculpting, pencil work, music, film and animation. Here is a sample of my work in these different disciplines. Music: I created Dédicace, a conceptual album reuniting internationally known musicians from four continents. Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky used Dédicace extensively in his film Tusk. As a singer/song writer, I performed in Europe and Africa. I worked as music producer and wrote jingles and film scores in Europe and America. I played guitar in the Sausalito-based improv. band These Are Not My Hands. Film: I wrote, directed and produced The Book, a kitsch science fiction feature film (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers meets Flash Gordon) that pays homage to the sci-fi classics of the 70s and 80s. Official Selection of festivals in America, Australia and Asia, The Book won 13 awards in 2011, and was hailed as “cult material” by critics and festival audiences. Fine Art: I freelanced as a graphic artist in Paris and San Francisco, and created whimsical window paintings for businesses and corporations. Living on the Mendocino coast since 2002, I have been exhibiting my pointillist drawings in local galleries. In 2015, I began working in acrylic and mixed media. My Pop art Surrealism style is playful. The subjects are illogical and irrational. I worked on a series of thematic subjects, such as Mona Lisa, and a whimsical series of lit painted boxes. I’ve developed interactive paintings that invite the viewer to transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities.

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