Space is FREE to all artists, and pop-up tents and tables are supplied. Artists just register for a booth, then show up with your art. If you are interested in having a booth, click on the button to register. We have open spaces still available throughout the Market’s season, so register for as many as you like until Sept 22. If you are a student or group of students who are interested, you are welcome to register!
Students created personal narratives in sketchbooks with images and text as they thought about what it means to live in their community and its context for their personal stories. Artist Cameron Kelly provided the driving vision for this project in collaboration with Courtney Boyden, one of the existing BLAST after school coordinators and Jennifer Spangler, Arts Education Coordinator at Butte County Office of Education (BCOE). Building on student interest for an outdoor sketching program that Boyden started, this year-long after school program helped students use art
as a way of seeing their world. This partnership between Chico Art Center, the Chico Unified School District After School Program, and the Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) was funded by a Youth Arts Action Grant from California Arts Council with additional support from California County Superintendents Arts Initiative. For more images visit chicoartcenter.com
May 27, 2020, Chico Art Center
December 11, 2019, Chico State Arts Collaboration Space, Arts Building for an Honors Course Gallery Walk.
Lily Derecktor Gaul, an Honors student and Early Childhood Development Major at CSU Chico, helped conceptualize and produce this project. Students were prompted with three questions. Who and what are you thankful for? What helps your gratitude grow? What do you hope to have or achieve in your future?
Derecktor Gaul says about her motivation to teach, “Children, like flowers, are delicate and need to be watered with hope. Children’s dreams and ideas are what keep the world spinning. The art they create and the words they write are signs of development and improvement. As impressionable as they are, it is important to indulge and protect their imaginations to keep them as authentic as possible. Children are beautiful because of the authenticity of their honesty and hope which is shown in all that they create. When they come together and work on a project their art is enhanced. The Gratitude Flower is a demonstration and reminder of the hopefulness and authenticity children bring into the world.”
November 1-22, 2019, Chico Art Center
OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR
*Register late by July 31st for an additional fee of $25
2. Video tutorials to help you make quality photos and videos.
3. Support with your webpage design and content.
4. Local resources for contacting photographers and videographers.
Questions? For questions about the gallery exhibition, contact the Gallery Director, Cameron Kelly at gallerydirectorcac[at]gmail.com. For other questions contact OSAT Team Leader, Lisa Freeman-Wood at Lfreemanwood[at]yahoo.com
Greetings Artists!
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Images by former OSAT Artists
$100 ¼ Page
$175 ½ Page
$350 Full Page
$450 Full Inside Front or Back Page
$600 Back Cover
All ads include banner ads on ChicoOSAT.com for the entire year and a link from banner ad to your Website or FB Page. Banner rotation: Ads on ChicoOSAT.com rotate throughout all of the Artist Pages.
Details:
Banner Ad Size: Top and Bottom Banner 72ppi / 468x60 pixels, no animation (OSAT Homepage not available)
Reporting is available upon request
Banner format: Standard formats accepted are JPEG. Image resolution MUST be 72 pixels per inch and RGB color. Maximum file size for all media is 25K. Ads submitted exceeding maximum file size will be adjusted (for optimum load time). Client-produced ads should be e-mailed to your advertising representative.
We can build your online banner ad for an additional $20 per design
Deadline for art submission to build your online ad is one week prior to the scheduled insertion onto the OSAT Website. You may create and e-mail us an online ad JPEG, one week prior to the scheduled run.
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To purchase Ad Space:
Pay with cc via our website or call (530) 895-8726
Send check to: Chico Art Center, 450 Orange Street, Ste 6, Chico, CA 95928
Questions? Contact Lisa Freeman-Wood at Lfreemanwood@yahoo.com or (805) 405-7902
Reception: Saturday, August 6, 5-7 PM
Photorealistic, oil paintings depicting movement of the human body by Idaho based artist, Heather Martindale.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As humans, we force what cannot be controlled and resist what comes naturally. We are conditioned to feel and to act certain ways, creating the layers that humanity needs in order to cope with the circumstances of life. The fabrics in my work represent the complexities of human emotion. The weight, transparency, and trajectory of each layer provoke feelings and questions from the viewer, much like the stimuli of our lives.
While investigating my own mental state as I created each piece, I saw many parallels and contradictions between the natural world and the human way of being. Perceptions of simple necessities like clean air have become polluted by the intricacies and controversies of a pandemic. As a result, a simple fabric mask has become an emotionally charged layer in our society. Water, fluid and full of movement, mimics the effortless path of least resistance available to us. Yet we find every way to create barriers. The result feels like the weight of the world resting on our shoulders. Similar to the seductive nature of a Summer campfire, we are captivated by social media rivalry. Both have the power to destroy communities and connection.
Introspection presents the opportunity to take a moment to stop, breathe, and observe what feelings come up. Peeling back the layers of conditioned responses allows us to be fully self expressed.
July 2-31
Reception: Saturday, July 16, 5-7 PM
This exhibition is generously sponsored by Ann & Tony Slocum.
Flowers have a transformative presence. There is beauty and function in a flower. Flowers play a vital role in the continuity of nature, in the creation of seeds. I particularly love roses. I love their graceful lines, the way they grow in space, the range of colors, sizes, and their scent. I try to honor their ephemeral nature by painting them as close to real as possible so that their fleeting life is captured. As Henry Beecher Ward said, “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
I started my Rose Series in December 2019 and will continue for the foreseeable future. Painting beauty is particularly vital to me because I live surrounded by the devastation and destruction of the Paradise, California Camp Fire that occurred November 8, 2018. I know many roses are hybridized or modified but they don’t know or care, they just bloom, taking shape and existing in space with abandon. I take my own photos of flowers in order to paint them. My friends and husband know that I stop for flowers everywhere and have taken many pictures in my friend’s gardens.
Freeman-Wood resides in Magalia, California. She has served on the board of Chico Art Center as Vice President for two years and continues to serve as President.
I specialize in women empowerment, birth, and motherhood portraiture. I normalize non-sexual nudity and help empower women to feel confident and comfortable in their own skin, unapologetically and authentically with ease. Growing up, I saw generations of women in my family struggle with self love and self care. I felt confused when I heard negative self-talk coming from the beautiful souls I was looking at. In turn, I did the same. Through my own journey I became aware of the pattern, connected the dots and I am now actively choosing another way. I serve the movement that empowers women to accept ourselves with love and grace. My style can be described as artistic documentary. I love to flow with the natural environment of the present moment.
Arredondo lives and works in Los Angeles, California and formerly served on the Board of Directors at Chico Art Center. For more info, visit her website, Loose Beauty Photography.
I employ fictional spirit animals in my artwork to explore nature, the future and the spiritual worlds. I enjoy utilizing animals because they are everywhere in the world, create food and clothing options and have a long history of spiritual abilities amongst different cultures. My musical background adds a dimension to my approach, as nothing is completely planned out beyond a sketch and a theme. In ceramics, I like to let the clay speak to me and try not to overthink what I’m doing. I like letting the clay evolve on its own in my hands and sometimes I even surprise myself with the results.
Animals have many relations with humans, including working and living together and being companions and pets. Many cultures have sought dominion over nature, causing extinction to animals and injuring their environments. I try to give a voice to animals through fictional and non-fictional deities, by utilizing cultural history and environmental science. I always find interest in how others interpret any type of art and hopefully instill reflection of some environmental thoughts into the viewers mind.
Whalen is a visual artist and musician based in South Lake Tahoe, California. He is an artist and board member of Tahoe Art League.
The work Self-Portrait with Skeleton portrays me standing next to a human skeleton. Careful examination reveals that it has been assembled, prepared for anatomical study, and suspended by a thin monofilament line. As the skeleton has such a metaphoric portent, viewers interpret the work through their understanding of life, death, and spirituality. It examines our physical, ephemeral nature and confronts death directly.
Ruiz teaches studio art at the college level in Butte County and lives in Chico, California.
