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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center’s Restore Project features a pastel making workshop this Saturday, Oct. 20, from 1 to 5 p.m.
Adults and children age 12 and up are invited to make their own pastels from a range of colors of earth pigments sourced from Lake County’s beautiful hills, as well as traditional art pigments.
Participants are encouraged to bring clay earth from their own environment in a 16- or 32-ounce container to enrich the palette of colors available.
Please register in advance for this class at www.middletownartcenter.org/restore, email
“Making art from dirt has its beginnings as far as our species has been around,” said workshop Instructor Channing Rudd. “Humans have always used local materials for painting on cave walls, our bodies, and even burying the dead. This class will delve deeply into the various aspects of making pastels using our local clay soils in the process … From dirt to art.”
Rudd grew up in New York and received his BFA at Syracuse University. He studied under the renowned Bauhaus professor Peter Piening, friend of painters Maholy-Nagy and Paul Klee. Primarily a plein air artist, Rudd moved to Lake County in 1980 and has taught art at Woodland College Clearlake Campus since 1994.
The Restore Project provides Lake County residents with low-cost art classes and the opportunity to learn or refine skills in a variety of materials techniques. Classes take place most Saturdays through May 2019.
Fall and winter classes include clay, woodworking, metalworking, felting, concrete, dry point, block printing and more. Late winter and spring classes will focus on personal and collaborative projects, studio time, mentoring and guidance to create personal and group work.
On Saturday, Oct. 27, Nicholas Hay will lead a dry point etching class. On Sunday, Nov. 4, the Restore Project features an introduction to natural woodworking with Marcus Maria Jung from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Restore project was made possible with support from the California Arts Council, a state agency, with additional support from local organizations, businesses, and individuals. Visit www.ca.arts.gov to learn more about the California Arts Council’s important work in communities and schools throughout California.
The Middletown Art Center is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, there will be an adult dance party at the Big Valley Hall, 1510 Big Valley Road at the Lakeport / Finley border.
This will be your last chance this year to gather with volunteers from Lake County Fire Recovery Benefits at the hall, which will be all "dressed up" for this early Halloween party.
Veteran blues guitarist and vocalist Levi Lloyd will be returning to Lake County, along with Ron Lacey on keyboards, Mark Chole on bass and Geoffrey Whyte on drums.
Lake County musicians were invited to sit in, including: Keith Crossan on sax, David Neft on keyboards, Rob Watson on bass, Howard Dockens on guitar, Dee Wils on vocals and Tim Peregrina on guitar.
Costumes will earn special treats at the door and may win one of several prizes, so don't be afraid to get creative.
Musical selections will tap into classic rock, blues, R&B and funk, so get ready to dance your cares away. Most exciting and original dance moves can also earn recognition and a small prize.
Drinks for sale will include: wine donated by Don Angel Cellars, Cache Creek Vineyards, and Shannon Ridge Family of Wines; beer donated by Coors and Lagunitas Brewing; flavored sparkling water donated by Crystal Geyser, spring water and soda.
From 7 to 8:30 p.m., hall members will be selling beef and vegetarian lasagna, garlic bread and salad for $12.
Bring cash or checks for the raffle and silent auction which includes gift certificates, wine, jewelry, household items and more. Entry is $10 at the door.
Brad White Blues Productions has become the sole sponsor and members of the Big Valley Hall have agreed to waive venue rental fees. So, all proceeds will be sent to the NCO Wildfire Fund for Lake County for the Mendocino Complex fire survivors.
Additional information is on Facebook at Lake County Fire Recovery Benefits or phone 707-278-7126.
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UKIAH, Calif. – The Mendocino College Art Gallery is pleased to announce “Changing Minds in the Age of Changing Climate,” an interactive art installation by artist, designer and educator Purin Panichphant.
A traditional opening of the art show will be held on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. and a gala reception with the artist will take place before the Theater Department’s performance of “Museum” on Friday, Oct. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The opening reception is free and tickets for “Museum” can be purchased at the box office.
In this hands-on exhibit, viewers are invited to “self-educate” through their interaction with eight pieces of Panichphant’s artwork.
As the name suggests, the content of the show deals with our changing climate by viewing it from a new and fresh approach.
Panichphant calls upon viewers to experience what change looks like through image based puzzles and simple group participation technological tools.
As the artist puts it: “Through my art, I create canvases for my audiences to play and build on the ideas of one another – to take a pause from the world of ‘ugh!’ (and lift it) to ‘aha!’ Art is no longer constrained to canvases or sculptures, but rather makes use of dynamic and interactive elements that engage the audience’s senses.”
Gallery hours are Tuesdays and Thursday from 12:20 to 2 p.m., and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact the Gallery 707-468-4500, which is located at the main Ukiah campus of Mendocino College at 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah.
A traditional opening of the art show will be held on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. and a gala reception with the artist will take place before the Theater Department’s performance of “Museum” on Friday, Oct. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The opening reception is free and tickets for “Museum” can be purchased at the box office.
In this hands-on exhibit, viewers are invited to “self-educate” through their interaction with eight pieces of Panichphant’s artwork.
As the name suggests, the content of the show deals with our changing climate by viewing it from a new and fresh approach.
Panichphant calls upon viewers to experience what change looks like through image based puzzles and simple group participation technological tools.
As the artist puts it: “Through my art, I create canvases for my audiences to play and build on the ideas of one another – to take a pause from the world of ‘ugh!’ (and lift it) to ‘aha!’ Art is no longer constrained to canvases or sculptures, but rather makes use of dynamic and interactive elements that engage the audience’s senses.”
Gallery hours are Tuesdays and Thursday from 12:20 to 2 p.m., and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact the Gallery 707-468-4500, which is located at the main Ukiah campus of Mendocino College at 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah.
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I love this short poem, which collects a fried chicken bucket of all too many dreary details and dresses them out in graceful formal rhyme.
It's by Matthew Buckley Smith, who lives in North Carolina, and is from the Fall, 2017, issue of Rattle, one of the best of the contemporary literary journals.
His most recent book of poems is “Dirge for an Imaginary World,” published by Able Muse Press.
Undergrads
The place we lived was only an idea,
Nothing to do with the failed cotton mill town
Where a record shop, some bars, and a pizzeria
Were all we ever cared to call our own.
From nightmares of a happy life with kids
We'd wake in boozy sweat to find the floor
Still cobbled with bottle caps and take-out lids,
Our twenties crumpled safely in a drawer,
Unspent like all the hours ahead that night
We met each other in the common room
And found somehow without the help of light
Our way across the river by the time
Dawn spilled down from the campus to the banks
We'd come to, single, sobered-up again,
To see the morning glories give their thanks
For things we had, and hardly noticed, then.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2017 by Matthew Buckley Smith, "Undergrads," from Rattle, (No. 57, Fall, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Matthew Buckley Smith and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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