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Textile and Fiber Arts Grant Opportunity

Posted: Nov 13, 2018

We are currently welcoming proposals from Mendocino County organizations and governmental entities (including museums), and public and private schools for education and appreciation of textile and fiber arts. Grants will be made for programs and projects including, but not limited to: special projects, speakers, publications and exhibitions; community and K-16 education programs; scholarships and internships advancing textile and fiber arts; and equipment. Total available funding: $2,000; grant range $500-$2,000 Deadline for Submission: December 20, 2018 by 5:00 p.m. You can find the guidelines and application links at: http://www.communityfound.org/grants-scholarships/grants/field-of-interest-grant-program/textile-and-fiber-arts-endowment-fund/

Have you ever wanted to be a Willits Center For th...

Call for Artists ; Volunteer

Posted: Nov 12, 2018

The Willits Center For The Arts relies on the support of our Volunteer Gallery Hosts to keep our center open. We have many opportunities open for December and into 2019 please email Holly at manager@willitscenterforthearts.org or call us at 707.459.1726

The Willits Holiday Craft Fair Needs Volunteers

Volunteer

Posted: Oct 26, 2018

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The Willits Holiday Craft Fair December 7th, 8th & 9th We need volunteers to help with the following tasks: Assist with vendor set-up and decorations Assist with food for vendors Sell tickets at the raffle table (2 hour shifts) Assist with kids craft table set-up, activity and clean-up Assistance with clean-up Please email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org for more information or call Holly at 707-459-1726

Call To Artists

Call for Artists ; Opportunity

Posted: Oct 26, 2018

It’s that time of year when we look to members to fill the galleries with their variety of printing, sculpture, photography, jewelry, textile arts, and other creative creations for the holidays. Not a member? Click here to Join WCA and join in the show. Members may submit three pieces up to 16″x 20″. Please send three images of your work to gtm1950@gmail.com for publicity. Questions, contact Gary Martin at gtm1950@gmail.com.

Call to Artist for the SPACE Trashion Show

Call for Artists

Posted: Oct 15, 2018

Call to Artists for the SPACE Trashion Show — a showcase for beautiful, outrageous, unique and theatrical fashion created from recycled materials. Apply by Feb.1, 2019. Packet and details at www.spaceperformingarts.org/trashion. Celebrate wearable art made from materials that have been diverted from the waste stream combining fashion, environmentalism and performing arts into social activism. Fashion show on Sat., April 13, 2019, at SPACE Theater. A benefit for SPACE.

CALL for ARTISTS for Art Center Ukiah shows Decemb...

Call for Artists

Posted: Oct 11, 2018

December – Small Works $10 fee for the first piece and $5 for each additional entry. Multiple pieces of jewelry may be displayed on a board or frame that roughly measures 16″ x 24.” If the display is larger it will be charged as additional work. Delivery date deadline: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27 This show will be hung a week earlier than other ACU shows so it will be up and open to visitors on December 1st for the annual Holiday Open House and Craft Sale. January – Deep Winter January is our coldest, wettest season. Trees are dormant, nights are long, rivers rise and residents hunker down close to the fire. How do you relate to this chilly, dark season? Do you (or your subject) celebrate it or do you put your energy into hoping for warmer weather? Open to all Mendocino and Lake County residents, $25 fee for the first entry, $10 for each subsequent entry, with checks made out to Art Center Ukiah. Completed entry forms and all ready-to-hang work must be delivered to the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) no later than noon on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Artists are encouraged to email photos of their submissions to acugallery@att.net by the middle of December for possible inclusion in the publicity for the show. A refund check will be mailed to the artist for any work not accepted in the show. The First Friday show opening is January 4 from 5-8pm. February – Bejeweled This show will feature jewelry of all kinds for Valentine’s Day. We are looking for pins, necklaces, earrings and bracelets in metal, plastic, fiber, clay, paper, stones or whatever you want to combine into an exquisite object of beauty. We also hope to see lavish wall art, either embellished or representing subjects that are bejeweled. This show will be a flight of fancy and a feast for the eyes. Open to all Mendocino and Lake County residents. For jewelry, pieces must be displayed on a board or frame that is in the 16″ x 24″ size range, ready for hanging. Larger displays will be charged as multiple entries. Artists can supply their own display, or contact the gallery to borrow a framed piece of foam core. There is also the possibility of reserving a shelf in our jewelry case (gallery phone 462-1400). $25 fee for the first entry, $10 for each subsequent entry, with checks made out to Art Center Ukiah. Completed entry forms and all ready-to-hang work must be delivered to the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) no later than 5:00pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Late entries will not be accepted. Artists are encouraged to email photos of their submissions to acugallery@att.net by the middle of January for possible inclusion in the publicity for the show. A refund check will be mailed to the artist for any work not accepted in the show. The First Friday show opening is February 1 from 5-8pm. March – Go Figure If you are a figurative artist and would like to participate in the Quick Draw demonstration, please email Jacquie at jlolich@pacific.net by the middle of February. Participation in this event will be by invitation only. Live models will be drawn by the selected artists, while gallery visitors look on and admire the process. The First Friday live event is March 1 from 5-8pm. April – Gaia The Greek goddess Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life; the primal Mother Earth goddess. And the first Earth Day, which was held on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Where do these two concepts intersect in your mind? Representational or abstract, we are hoping to see your inspirations in all media. Open to all Mendocino and Lake County residents, $25 fee for the first entry, $10 for each subsequent entry, with checks made out to Art Center Ukiah. Completed entry forms and all ready-to-hang work must be delivered to the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) no later than 5:00pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Late entries will not be accepted. Artists are encouraged to email photos of their submissions to acugallery@att.net by the middle of March for possible inclusion in the publicity for the show. A refund check will be mailed to the artist for any work not accepted in the show. The First Friday show opening is April 5 from 5-8pm. May – 10th anniversary of our Student Photo show This one speaks for itself and will be curated by high school photography instructors. It is not open to the public. June – Please Be Seated Once again Art Center Ukiah will bring you our almost annual Chair Affair. You are invited to embellish and donate a spectacular chair for this important fundraiser and compete for the $100 Viewer’s Choice cash award. All proceeds from the silent auction will help us keep our doors open. Your donated chair can be as beautiful, nutty, repurposed or fanciful as you like, but PLEASE, we want it to still be functional as a useable piece of furniture when you are done doing your magic with it. We are also looking for two-dimensional “chairy” art for our walls. Indoor chairs, outdoor chairs, formal chairs and funky chairs… it’s up to you to delight us with your interpretation of the theme. Open to all Mendocino and Lake County residents. No entry fee for donated art chairs. $25 fee for the first wall art entry, $10 for each subsequent entry, with checks made out to Art Center Ukiah. Completed entry forms, all chairs and all ready-to-hang work must be delivered to the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) no later than 5:00pm on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Late entries will not be accepted. Artists are encouraged to email photos of their submissions to acugallery@att.net by the middle of May for possible inclusion in the publicity for the show. A refund check will be mailed to the artist for any work not accepted in the show. The First Friday show opening is June 7 from 5-8pm.

2018 Gualala Salon and Salon des Refusés Call to ...

Call for Artists

Posted: Oct 01, 2018

Important Dates Turn in entry form by November 19, 2018 Deliver artwork by November 27, 2018, noon to 3 pm Opening reception is November 30, 2018, 5 to 7 pm Pick up artwork December 30, 2018, noon to 3 pm 2018 Salon des Refusés Judges About Judge Evan Hobart Evan Hobart was introduced to clay as a young child in 1993, when he participated in a ceramics after-school art program in the San Geronimo Valley in West Marin. Evan received his Bachelor of Arts from Humboldt State University in 2004 under the tutelage of Keith Schneider, Jim Crawford and Louis Marak. He completed his Graduate Degree from San Jose State University in 2011 working with Stan Welsh and Monica Van den Dool. Hobart has taught ceramics at San Jose State University and Medicine Hat Community College, as well as private classes at Sweet Spirit Ceramic Studio in San Rafael, California. From 2011-2012 Hobart was an Artist in Residence at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Evan is currently the Ceramics Program Manager at the Mendocino Art Center. Evan is also the ceramics professor at Mendocino College in Fort Bragg. Hobart’s work is exhibited in the USA and Canada, and is represented in many private collections throughout California. The annual Gualala Salon & Salon des Refusés is a juried and judged fine art exhibit showcasing outstanding visual art and artists without regard to the type of media. The annual Salon & Salon des Refusés is the largest exhibit at Gualala Arts aside from Art in the Redwoods; it has the largest number of entries of any other open call show and fills both the Burnett Gallery and Elaine Jacob Foyer. The Salon is sponsored by generous donors; not by Gualala Arts or the North Coast Artists’ Guild. Many artists save their best new art for this exhibit, as the Salon has gained much notoriety as a judged show by well-qualified people in the arts one that provides significant awards. As per tradition, the judges decide what artwork is accepted into the Salon exhibited in the Burnett Gallery. The art not juried into the Salon by the judges is displayed in the Salon des Refusés (Rejected) located in the Elaine Jacob Foyer. Thus, all artwork submitted into the show will be exhibited at Gualala Arts. Which artists are selected into the Salon is a tightly kept secret until the opening night. As in previous years, significant prizes will be awarded to first, second and third best art piece. This year’s monetary awards are first prize of $1,000, second prize of $750, and third prize of $500. The People’s Choice awards in the Salon des Refusés are first prize of $100, second $175 and third $50. The award for Emerging Artist Under 18 years of age is $100. The original Salon des Refusés was an art exhibition that took place in Paris in 1863, showing works that had been rejected by the official Paris Salon conservative judges. These judges represented the French Academy and were advocates of traditional, orthodox style of painting and sculpture. In 1863, they rejected almost 3,000 pieces of work which resulted in loud protests by the artists. Emperor Napoleon III, ever sensitive to public opinion, ordered a new exhibition to be organized – dubbed the “Salon des Refuses” – in order for the public to judge the merits of the artwork themselves. In the spirit of the original Paris Salon des Refusés, all visitors will be able to vote for the “People’s Choice” awards. In fact, many artists prefer to be selected as a “reject” to receive the public’s opinion! History and inspiration of the Paris Salon Gualala Salon has its origins in the annual Paris Salon sponsored by the French government and the Academy of Fine Arts. The Salon began in 1725 and became a showcase of the best academic art. A medal from the Salon was assurance of a successful artistic career; winners were given official commissions by the French government, and were sought after for portraits and private commissions. In those days exhibiting in the Salon was one of the only means artists had of marketing their work and therefore exclusion from its annual selling exhibition threatened their reputation and livelihood. In 1748, a jury of awarded artists was introduced. From this time until 1890, the Salon was considered the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world. The Salon exhibited paintings floor-to-ceiling and on every available inch of space. Printed catalogues of the Salons are primary documents for art historians. Critical descriptions of the exhibitions published in the gazettes marks the beginning of the modern occupation of art critic. The Gualala Salon and corresponding Salon des Refusés are inspired by the original Salon des Refusés held in 1863 of the refused artwork by the official Paris Salon. The exhibition was ordered by Emperor Napoleon III after the outcry caused by the number of rejections. The increasingly conservative and academic juries were not receptive to the new Impressionist painters, whose works were usually rejected, or poorly placed if accepted. Some were rejected from the ‘official’ exhibition because their works were considered by the committee too subversive and some even thought that these artists posed a danger to society.

Looking for Local History related Art

Call for Artists ; Volunteer

Posted: Aug 19, 2018

The Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Historical Society is seeking donations of local history related artwork to be prizes for a fundraiser to be held in 2019. Please contact Bill Mulvihill, bill@artsmendocino.org for more information. The FB-MCHS is also looking for more docents to great Guest House Museum visitors. Please contact David Maki, dmaki@mcn.org for more information.

"Small Works" Local Artists

Call for Artists

Posted: Apr 27, 2018

December “Small Works” This is an opportunity to show small pieces, including jewelry, for the holiday shopping season. There is no theme or parameters for this show other than the size restriction of 12″ maximum in all dimensions. We encourage submissions in all media. $10 non-refundable entry fee for the first submission, $5 each for subsequent submissions. Multiple pieces of jewelry may be displayed on a board or frame that roughly measures 16″ x 24.” If the display is larger it will be charged as additional work. ALL WORK MUST BE DELIVERED TO THE CORNER GALLERY BY TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27. This show will be hung a week earlier than other ACU shows so it will be up and open to visitors on December 1st for the annual Holiday Open House and Craft Sale.

Venue Rentals

For Rent

Posted: Feb 23, 2018

Need a space for your event or class? Check out the Willits Center For The Arts! We have 2 lovely spaces available for rent. The Great Room features a stage and wooden dance floor and has a capacity of 175. The Classroom is a more intimate setting for smaller classes or seminars and features a large utility sink, large screen for presentations and is Bluetooth capable. The capacity for the classroom is 35.

Rhoda Teplow Designs

For Sale (or Free)

Posted: Sep 23, 2017

RHODA TEPLOW DESIGNS STUDIO OPEN UPON APPOINTMENT: CALL 707 964 2787 After graduating from the University of California in Berkeley, Teplow taught French at Saratoga High School before entering the Peace Corps. She was assigned to teach in Togo, West Africa. In her village of Lama Kara she became acquainted with African trade beads which were actually millefiori beads that had been brought from the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon of Italy. Her first necklace consisted of those glass beads. Returning to California she accepted a job teaching at the Summerhill School on Road 409 in Caspar. That house was used in the movie, “Over Board.” She began to teach the dances she had learned in West Africa and formed a dance company named “Ivory”. For 10 years Teplow was the founder and director of the acclaimed Mendocino Dance Series bringing dance companies from around the world to Cotton Auditorium. After her years of producing, she was asked to be the agent for La Tania, the world-class Flamenco dancer who was living in Willits, CA. She later promoted the jazz singer Scotty Wright and booked jazz acts into the Ocean Club at the Hill House. In the 1990s she began teaching all subjects at Coastal Adult School for the Fort Bragg Unified School District. Rebecca Jarrett, owner of Anansi Village, asked Ms. Teplow to work part time in sales. It was at Anansi Village that Rhoda once again started making jewelry out of African beads. Since then, she has been displaying her jewelry in Fort Bragg at Depot-Vente and Edgewater Gallery, the Mendocino Art Center, Artists’ Collective of Elk, the Dolphin Gallery, and the Willits and Gualala Art Center. Her newest location is Caspar Curiosities. Her body of work incorporates her own porcelain beads, brass from the Ashanti tribe, recycled glass beads from the Krobo tribe in Ghana, and beads she has collected from around the world during her travels. She is now proud to be using hand carved jade from the middle fork of the Eel River in Mendocino County which she took in 2013, 2015 and 2017 to represent her collection in the cities of Miasa, Azumina and Omachi, Japan.

The Arts Council of Mendocino County seeks volunte...

Posted: Aug 08, 2016

Approximate time commitment: 3-5 hours per week. (approximately 1 afternoon per week) Duties: Assist Executive Director with programs and office administrative assistance as needed in the Ukiah office. For a list of programs & mission statement, please see: www.ArtsMendocino.org. Sample tasks might include: Filing Data Entry Errands Research Gallery/event programming Member Services REQUIREMENTS: Professional, motivated attitude Good communications skills both written and spoken Basic knowledge of office programs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Email address Having your own laptop is a plus. BENEFITS: Introduction to arts administration Work Experience & expanded skill set Areas of professional growth might include: Grant Management Program Assistance Publicity / Press Relations Gallery / Event Management Letter of Reference / Recommendation provided upon successful completion of internship program period. To apply: Please send a letter of interest to: director@artsmendocino.org stating your career goals and work experience, a list of your personal and professional strengths and skills, and a list of the skills you would like to develop. Please include a resume and the names of two individuals who would be willing to serve as references. Please indicate the times/days of the week you are available. Volunteering is a wonderful way to become part of the creative fabric of our community. Many of our member organizations are looking for volunteers to help support their programs, as well as the Arts Council itself. All volunteer opportunities can be found in the Opportunities section of this site.

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