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October 2020 | Open Studios Art Tour

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Open Studios Art Tour is an annual Butte County tradition. Artists share their private studios with the public to explore. This event series is produced solely by Chico Art Center (CAC) volunteers as our major fundraising project of the year. Your participation and patronage pledges your commitment to visual artists in your region and helps make CAC's programming possible all year. Many thanks to our sponsor, Heithecker Financial and local businesses advertising in the Tour Guide Booklet. We hope you'll support local artists and businesses with your patronage.

OCTOBER 1, 2020 – JULY 31, 2021

Connecting Art Patrons with Northern California Artists.

  • Look at art + crafts
  • Learn about creative processes
  • Visit artists studios
  • Collect Northern California Art

ABOUT OSAT

Visit ChicoOSAT.com all year for artist updates of available artwork and in-person Studio Visit availability. With COVID-19 still active, we have adapted this year’s Open Studios Art Tour (OSAT) to accommodate required safety measures.

OSAT is an annual Butte County tradition. This event is produced solely by Chico Art Center (CAC) volunteers as our major fundraising project of the year. Your patronage pledges your commitment to arts and culture and helps make CAC’s programming possible all year.

Many thanks to our sponsor, Heithecker Financial and local businesses advertising in the Tour Guide and ChicoOSAT.com. We hope you’ll support local artists and businesses with your patronage.

BENEFITS

Instead of having the traditional tour for only two weekends, as we have in previous years, we encourage you to visit ChicoOSAT.com all year, from October 1, 2020 – July 31, 2021 for artist updates and Studio Visit availability.

STAY SAFE

It will be important to practice social distancing, use masks and hand sanitizer for both visitors and the artists while visiting Artist Studios. Artists may make special requests when scheduling appointments with visitors.

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Chris Kaufman/Appeal-Democrat Waif Mullin, of Chico, with his bird Pappi, will have a show of his pastel work at The Theater Gallery on Plumas Street in Yuba City.
VISIT ChicoOSAT.com TO PREVIEW ARTWORK & PURCHASE ACCESS
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How can I purchase a Tour Guide?

Purchasing a tour guide gives you preview information about a majority of the artists, how to contact them, and which artists welcome in-person Studio Visits. Purchase Tour Guides for $15 at the following locations:

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Sept 2020 | Flora: The Other Endangered Species

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My chosen plant is endangered San Francisco Lessingia Germanium. It is native to the sand dunes of the San Francisco Presidio and the sand dunes on San Bruno Mountain. I had a very small part in helping to restore its dune habitat at the Presidio when the only expertise needed was muscle. In the painting the Lessingia are entangled and competing with a fanciful arrangement of colorful but invasive flora. I included the Myrtle’s Silverspot Butterfly also endangered because it thrives around Lessingia but its larvae are very vulnerable to the pesticides sometimes used to help keep invasive vegetation at bay. I had to add the graceful but very invasive “Naked Ladies” (Amaryllis Belladonna) because to me they signal “August,” grateful to see something predictable about 2020.
Linda Larson (San Francisco), Intertwined, 2020. Oil on panel, 24x18 inches
September 5, 2020

Focusing on native, threatened, and endangered plants, this exhibition helps us think about how important biodiversity is to the health of the regions we live in. Increasing awareness and knowledge of plants, plant life cycles and how to use them effectively in our lives is essential. How do we grow our future? Many regions need replanting after wildfires. Each artwork will be accompanied by the artist’s statement about the status of the plant and its habitat.

Due to fluctuating COVID-19 Guidelines for Butte County, our gallery has remained closed. The exhibit will be online only.

Generously Sponsored by Ann & Tony Slocum

Jurors

Adrienne Leigh Edwards, PhD, is a Botanist & Plant Ecologist at CSU, Chico.

Joani Bosque worked for Hedgrow Farms, a native seed nursery and is currently planting a pollinator garden at the Feather River Nature Center & Native Plant Park.

For purchases or questions, please contact Cameron Kelly, Gallery Director at ckelly@chicoartcenter.com

Zoom Reception Saturday, September 26th at 5:00 pm

  • Jurors, Adrienne Edwards, Botanist and Joan Bosque, Permaculturist respond to selected artworks
  • Cash prize winners announced and invited to speak about their work
Watch the recorded Zoom Reception here
Shannon Keller (California), The Live Forever, 2020, 22 x 30 inches, pencil on paper, $800
Erin Hunter (California), Upper Bidwell Wildflowers (for Desi), 2016, 11 x 11 (unframed), NFS
Joan Keesey (California), Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea), 2013, Watercolor, 18 x 21 inches, NFS
Joan Keesey (California), Plummer's Mariposa Lily (Calochortus plummerae), 2011, Watercolor, 18 x 20 inches, NFS
Erin Hunter (California), Smith's Blue Butterfly and Coastal Buckwheat, 2011, acrylic, 8x10 inches, $900
Joan Keesey (California), Matilija Poppy, 2014, Watercolor, 19 x 22 inches, NFS
Erin Hunter (California), Floral Compass, 2017, acrylic, 24 x 24 inches (unframed), NFS
Rebecca Botelho (California), Lilium occidentale I, 2020, watercolor on paper, 11 x 13 inches, $250
Rebecca Botelho (California), Astragalus tener var. titi I, 2020, watercolor on paper, 11x 13 inches, $300
Keith Buswell (Nebraska), Siena, 2019, etching, 20x19 inches, $650
Keith Buswell (Nebraska), Orvieto, 2019, etching, 20x19 inches, $650
Keith Buswell (Nebraska), Pisa, 2019, etching, 20x19 inches, $650
Lauren Eisen (Colorado), Containment, encaustic, paper, grasses, smokebush on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, NFS
Lauren Eisen (Colorado), Firelight Encaustic, metal, paper, grasses, clematis pod on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, NFS
Lauren Eisen (Colorado), Ring of Fire, encaustic, paper, oregano, smokebush on wood panel, 12 x 24 inches, NFS
Linda Larson (California), Intertwined, 2020. Oil on panel, 24x18 inches, $1100
Helen Klebesadel (Wisconsin), Fringed Prairie Orchid, 2016, watercolor on canvas, 20x16 inches, $1200
Emily Suñez (California), Rise of Parish's Daisy, 2020, Oil on wood, 16x16 inches, $750
Gracie Gomes (California), Limnanthes Douglasii, 2020, colored pencil, 11x14 inches, SOLD
Dolores Mitchell (California), Stream of Gold, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, $585
Helen Klebesadel (Wisconsin), Disappearing Prairie II, 2019, watercolor on paper, 40x30 inches, $6000
Marily Geary (California), Mending the Mountain, 2019, fiber, 52 x 40 inches, $2700
Saskia Krafft (California), Santa Barbara Island, 2020, pencil on paper, 11.69 x 16.53 inches, $650
Judy Kane (California), San Mateo Thornmint, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, $220 As a gardener, I regard any kind of mint the way you regard someone with no respect for boundaries. Liable to run roughshod over any kind of delineation. So if I had the opportunity, would I invite this plant to my garden party? Probably not. But fighting the loss of the species, the encroachment on its environs by development, is always necessary and the right thing to do.
Meghan Lacombe (California), Veiny Monardella, 2020, Oil Paint, 20x20 inches, $175
Carolyn McLeod (California), Cleveland Sage, California Fuchsia, and Pipevine Swallowtail, 2020, Photograph, 13 x10 inches (framed), $150
Lori Harrington (California), The Button Willow 2020 Photograph, 8x10 inches, NFS
Carolyn McLeod (California) Crysalis and Coulter's Matilija, 2020, Photograph on wrap canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $150
Carolyn McLeod (California), Coulter's Matilija Poppies, 2020, Photograph on wrap canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $150
Helen Klebesadel (Wisconsin), Prairie Milkweed Flower, 2016, watercolor on canvas, 20x24 inches, $1800
Marvey Mueller (California), Plummer's Mariposa Lily, 2020, Watercolor, pen & ink, 16x20 inches, $250
Alicia Escott (California), Collaborations with Wildflower Seeds: Metabolic Rifts and Domestic interiors, 2020, found plastic, soil, wildflower seeds, water, life force, NFS
Alicia Escott (California), Installation from Now the Totality Hits Us First, 2019, mixed media, NFS
Alicia Escott (California), Collaborations with Wildflower Seeds: Metabolic Rifts and Domestic interiors, 2020, found plastic, soil, wildflower seeds, water, life force, NFS
Julie Nagle (New Jersey), Blaze, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 5' x 6', $7000
Julie Nagle (New Jersey), Summer, Snow Mountain Ranch, Colorado, 6 x 8 feet, $9000
Patti Lloyd (California), Deep Roots, 2020, mixed media, $150
Sawyer Rose (California), Blue Sky, 2016, oil on panel, silver solder, copper, 45 x 45 x 1.5 inches, $4800
Sawyer Rose (California), Queen of Flowers 2013, oil on panel, silver solder, copper, 16 x 16 x 1.5 inches, $950
Sawyer Rose (California), Thicket, 2014, oil on panel, silver solder, copper, 21 x 21 x 1.5 inches, $1000
Robert Allen (Maryland), Earth Freshener, 2015, Latex paint and silkscreen ink on rigid polyurethane foam with applied pine scent, 74 x 44 x ¾ inches, $1425
Erin Wells (California), Buckwheat Endangered, 2020, Acrylic and Mixed media, 20 x 16 inches, $180
Julie Nagle (New Jersey), Afterimage, 2020, acrylic on un-stretched canvas (pins directly to wall), 8 x 12 feet, $20,000
Julie Nagle (New Jersey), Afterimage, 2020, acrylic on un-stretched canvas (pins directly to wall), 8 x 12 feet, $20,000