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Friday, January 2, 2009

Images of Sonoma County Coast


Here are a few images to inspire you to take a drive out to our stunning Sonoma County Coast. I have the privilege of visiting the Coast every month when I deliver newspapers to our coastal communities. - Enjoy!






Kayakers in Jenner heading toward the mouth of the Russian River



Lucas Wharf fishing boats
& “watchbird”.


Biologist coming to shore in Bodega Bay



All Photos © Vesta Copestakes 2008

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Artist Profile - Adrenne Hatkoff

FEATURED ARTISTS: Adrienne Hatkoff is not only an accomplished and prolific water color artist, she's also a gerontologist who teaches local seniors, as well as an art instructor an Santa Rosa Junior College.

Artist Profile – Adriane Hatkoff
My introduction to Adriane Hatkoff happened while I was passing through the lobby of Prudential California Realty in Sebastopol. Adriane was rushing to hang her paintings for the show that is currently on exhibit there. I was on my way out of my office – rushing to my next obligation. At that brief encounter, I knew that she was someone I had to interview. That quick glance at a beautifully executed watercolor might have been what struck me but I now know that it was something more visceral. I identified myself and asked if she would like to be featured in the Artist Profile. Without hesitation, she said “yes” and continued placing paintings throughout the building. Here is a woman who has more things (or at least as many) going on in her life than me.


When first entering Adriane’s home, you know that she has a special relationship with a whippet. There are whippets on the calendar, on a covered dish and in many paintings. The most prominent whippet is Jasper, a rescued pet, who is with Adriane at home or away. Jasper is not the first whippet in Adriane’s life and will definitely not be the last. According to the whippet rescue site, a whippet owner “is involved with her dog, who considers her dog part of the family, and who has an easygoing nature herself.” “A whippet prefers a relatively quiet household. He's sensitive to human emotions.” It sure sounds like Adriane to me.

Some of you may know Adriane from her life as the Senior Day Program director. Three days a week for four and a half hours each day, Adriane entertains, cajoles and inspires a collection of West County residents. Her education in gerontology, the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging, makes her the perfect candidate for this important work. This summer she added teaching drawing and painting for SRJC Adult Education to her resume. The opportunity to teach to highly educated and motivated retirees has merged two of her worlds into a single creative outlet that provides as much satisfaction to her as to her students.

Adriane’s strikingly lovely paintings of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Costa Rican beaches and lotus flowers create another pursuit, art entrepreneur. Adriane promotes her watercolor paintings in the forms of original artwork, giclees and note cards. The colors are vibrant and the scenes compelling. At one time, Adriane did primarily plein air painting but today she prefers to photograph her subjects or environs from various perspectives and then develop her own interpretation in the solitude of her studio. You can see a large collection of these works at the Prudential Real Estate office at 7300 Healdsburg Avenue in Sebastopol for the next couple of months.

Adriane’s journey to this multi-faceted life in West Sonoma County is equally as eclectic. She started her adult life by rebelling as soon as she reached college in New England. She was away from home and grabbed the opportunity to study art as an elective while still taking the courses that were parentally approved. Her rebellion resulted in joining the New York publishing business as an illustrator of children’s books for J. P. Lippinncott Publishing. A side benefit of the tenure at J. P. Lippinncott was an education in production processes at NYU. This background is evident in Adriane’s business acumen for promoting and selling her art. After a few expeditions and career moves, she decided to move to San Francisco. She bought an old house to renovate and took odds jobs and attended San Francisco State to pursue credentials in gerontology. What she thought was a two year project and lifestyle lasted eighteen years. She moved to Brisbane, south of San Francisco and worked in assisted living facilities on the Peninsula.

While attending a watercolor workshop in Point Reyes, she met a fellow artist who was looking for a house sitter in Forestville. Adriane jumped at the chance and relocated with her whippets that were aging and enjoyed the quiet of the country. There was no going back to the congestion and noise of urban living. Adriane Hatkoff may be busy and may have as many hats as when she lived in the city but her life is calmer and very creative in the serenity of West Sonoma County. Check out her artwork at Prudential or on her website, www.adrianedesigns.com.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sonoma County Artist Studios Open for Visitors

Helen Caswell
Discover Sonoma County Art Country

A program of the Arts Council of Sonoma County, ARTrails is an annual fall tradition and Sonoma County’s largest and most visible arts event. Voted “Sonoma County’s Best Outdoor Art Event”, ARTrails provides a rare opportunity for the public to meet local artists in their studios and learn about their diverse creative processes and techniques. Through hands-on demonstrations as well as intimate conversations, ARTrails artists will take you into their world where colors, shapes, materials, and textures merge into unique and collectible works of art.

ARTrails leads you into Artists’ Studios
Sonoma County ARTrails Lead Beyond the Vineyards into Artists’ Studios Food and Wine may define the region’s reputation, but Sonoma County’s heart and soul are expressed by its artists. This October, ARTrails Open Studios celebrates 23 years of Art Country hospitality as 143 visual artists open their workspaces to the public.

Now, one of the Sonoma County’s best kept secrets is out as local and visiting collectors alike gear up for the annual event—one of the nation’s oldest open studio programs and the only juried event of its kind in the North Bay.

ARTrails provides the rare opportunity to view original artworks in their natural habitat: the artist’s studio. Because it is a self-directed tour, Sonoma County ARTrails can be tailored to fit into anyone’s unique interests and schedule.

SPECIFIC DETAILS:
ARTrails studios are open two weekends, October 11-12 and 18-19, 2008, 10am - 5pm.

Visual media represented include: painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, woodwork, and wearable art.

Visitors from previous years’ ARTrails events have traveled from as far and wide as Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, Canada, Austria, Germany, Spain and beyond.


Preview openings/exhibits in two locations:

Arts Council of Sonoma County Gallery
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 27, 4pm - 6pm
404 Mendocino Ave., Suite C
www.sonomaarts.com
(707) 579-2787

September 27 - October 24, 2008
Wednesday - Friday, 12pm - 5pm
Saturday, 12pm - 4pm

Saturday & Sunday, 10am - 5pm
(only during ARTrails weekends)



Graton Gallery
Opening Reception:
Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3pm-6pm
9048 Graton Rd., downtown Graton
www.gratongallery.com
(707) 829-8912

October 5 - October 24, 2008
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:30am - 6pm

ARTrails operates under the auspices of the Arts Council of Sonoma County (ACSC). Initialized in 1985 by a group of artists with an educational mission that continues today, the program continues to win recognition by the public as “Sonoma County’s Best Outdoor Art Event”. ARTrails 2008 welcomes 19 new artists, selected from 61 applicants in a blind jury process. There are no quotas on the number of artists or media types selected.

For more information about ARTrails, visit www.artrails.org.

The Arts Council of Sonoma County is a federally designated non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the visual, performing and literary arts within Sonoma County. In partnership with the California Arts Council and the County of Sonoma, the organization serves as a conduit for coordinating arts information, programs, services, and technical assistance countywide. For more information, please visit www.sonomaarts.com or call (707) 579-2787.

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

International Artists Honor Life...and Death


We treasure our loved ones while they are alive and find our own ways to honor them when their bodies die. For some, scattering ashes in ceremony provides solace - Dust to Dust. For others creating a vessel to hold our loved ones remains honors their life. Artists from across the planet who have created urns for the ashes of those we love will display their works at Funeria in Graton starting September 27, 2008


4th International Funerary Art Exhibition
Opens in Graton at
Art Honors Life® | The Gallery at FUNERIA


Ashes to Art® | scattered installations include award-winning work from a British designer, a short film of a Viking funeral by West County artist Rik Olson and 80 original artist-made urns, vessels and reliquaries in all media

More than 80 original personal memorial artworks by 64 sculptors, potters, woodworkers, gold and metalsmiths, stone carvers, mosaic and glass artists and others working in media as diverse as cut paper and computer-generated 3D forms will be featured during the 4th biennial “Ashes to Art | scattered” exhibition at Art Honors Life, The Gallery at FUNERIA, September 27-November 30, 2008, 2860 Bowen St. #1, Graton, CA 95444. An artists opening and awards reception is being held September 26, 6-8 PM. Exhibition admission is free. Guests are asked to RSVP for the opening reception at www.funeria.com or by calling 707 829 1966. During the exhibition, the gallery will be open Wednesday through Saturday, Noon-5 PM and by appointment.

The unique art objects featured in the exhibition are intended to contain all, or some portion, of an individual’s cremated remains—either permanently for keeping at home, placement in a columbarium niche, burial, or temporarily prior to scattering or other dispersal. Some artworks are designed to be shared by companions. Also featured are a greater number of urns created for pets than in previous exhibitions. It is the first time that this seminal exhibition is opening in Sonoma County since its 2001 debut at San Francisco’s historic Fort Mason Center. Ashes to Art exhibitions have also opened in Philadelphia, and portions have toured at Onishi Gallery in New York’s Chelsea arts district and at Le Bourget in Paris.

Two special installations at this exhibition include several designs by young British product designer Nadine Jarvis (www.nadinejarvis.com) in her American debut and one short poignant film by Sebastopol, California artist Rik Olson. Olson built a wooden boat for his father’s and brother’s ashes in order to enact a Viking funeral with his family as co-participants in July 2008. Both artists’ imaginative and beautifully executed concepts address the increasingly favored process of ash scattering. More than 40% of survey respondents who are considering cremation for themselves would like their ashes scattered, mostly in water. More than 60% of all California residents, and the populations of most western states, are choosing cremation for themselves and their loved ones. The choice of cremation throughout the US is expected to grow from 32% of all deceased currently, to more than 50% by 2025, and perhaps sooner.

Ashes to Art is presented by Northern California-based FUNERIA, a unique arts agency and exhibition organizer that promotes and sells original artist-made urns and personal memorial artwork through wholesale and retail channels worldwide. The Graton installation of the show is also made possible through the generous support of Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary (www.hillsidememorial.org)—the most prestigious Jewish cemetery in Southern California with a rich tradition of serving all Jewish families and particularly those who are among the most well-known and beloved writers, producers and performers in the entertainment industry, as well as respected arts advocates, political figures and philanthropists.

On January 18, 2007, preceding its first Open House, FUNERIA, its artists and clients were featured in The New York Times in an article by Patricia Leigh Brown who cited Art Honors Life as “the nation’s first art gallery dedicated to cremation urns and personal memorial art.” Maureen Lomasney, FUNERIA’s founder and president who organized the first Ashes to Art competition with the help of two friends and many volunteers in 2001 has been a Sonoma County resident for 19 years, and is a writer, designer, fine arts photographer and the gallery’s director. In 1992, she founded Tannery Creek Press, which introduced “Sonoma Skyscrapers”—a locally printed poster and photo essay in black and white of three icons in the rural landscape.

For further information about the exhibition, opening reception or additional sponsorship opportunities, call 707 829 1966 or email arthonorslife@funeria.com.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Warren Arnold - Stone Sculptor

Once Warren Arnold found a local source for soapstone in Forestville, CA, he moved from carving wood, to sculpting stone. Don’t miss the opportunity to see Warren’s upcoming shows. You can, also, see Warren’s work at Art Trails on the second and third weekends of October.

Warren Arnold
Every mass of stone is awaiting a sculptor who will release the joy it contains and bring nature and man into harmony. Nature and man in consort – each supporting the other in sustaining and creating beauty. The image is pure West Sonoma County. It is, therefore, befitting that Warren Arnold is the shaper of marble in the midst of a small farm on the south outskirts of Sebastopol. Warren Arnold did not become a part of the West Sonoma County culture by happenstance. He was teaching and living sustainability long before it became a buzzword for the Green Movement. Even while living in the urban environment of Berkeley, Warren and his wife, Maile, raised chickens, rabbits and bees as well as vegetables in rooftop boxes. He shared the lessons of living with nature in the classes he taught in Orinda for the Contra Costa County school system. He developed a nature area for students to learn first hand how to work with the environment instead of against it. He expressed his profound fascination with nature’s untold secrets through sculpture.

His dedication to sculpting began over 40 years ago with wood but once he discovered a supply of soapstone in Forestville, he was hooked on stone. Trips were taken to Sebastopol to buy apples. Sonoma County appeared to be the idyllic Eden within reach of mortals. In 1976 the couple purchased their small farm with the plan to spend weekends and summers away from their normal lives. Soon they could not go back to the confines of the city and began their not-so-normal daily lives on the farm. Over thirty years later, Warren and Maile live off of the land in a manner that was once common but has long ago gone the way of one room school houses and crank up car windows. They grow their own food including livestock, heat with firewood from their land and produce solar energy for their household needs. Pre-existing outbuildings house the hay for the animals and keep the firewood dry through the winter but most importantly provide ample studio and display space for Warren’s art.

It is clear from the urban farm in Berkeley that Warren does not have an issue with going against the tide. You might recognize his name from the controversy which rose around his Whale Project that placed a series of seven totemic sculptures along the coast of Northern California from south at Big Sur to north at Trinidad. Only six remain today and one is the hotly contested “Whale Ballet” at Doran Beach Park in Bodega Bay. But don’t expect all of his works to be whales frolicking in the waves. At each opportunity to display his sculptures, Warren picks a new theme. His fun is in doing something that has not previously been done. Arches, lovers, sunrises, sea mammals – they each have their own aura but all speak of Warren Arnold’s love of form and texture. His upcoming Labor Day Weekend venue is at the Blue Gum Farm Gallery on Hall Road. Warren, Jocelyn Audette and Hanya Popova-Parker will be showing their depictions of fragments from the coastal shore in an exhibition they have coined FRAGMENTS. The three artists draw inspiration from the same broken objects collected on beach walks and express their observations each in a different medium – stone, watercolors and oils. They have made this collaboration in the past with enthusiastic success. Warren has a completely different series, titled STORMS, planned for this October’s Art Trails.

Sonoma County benefits from Warren’s residence. He has been an instrumental personality in the yearly Sculpture Jam and was recognized for his work in 2007 with a proclamation from the Sebastopol City Council for his Leadership and Dedication to Sculpture Jam over many years. He is curator for the upcoming Ten Year Review of Sculpture at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts which will showcase the works of 13 Sonoma County sculptors. His most recent community effort is the tables and benches at the Sebastopol Skate Park which is finally poised to open.

All of these things are being propelled by the internal energy of Warren Arnold. And what did I find him doing when I came to visit? He was at the controls of his forklift with his last large chunk of Indian marble (the remains of The Whale Project) poised above a pile of pallets. 2700 pounds of stone that will be transformed into yet another polished masterpiece over the coming months. Don’t miss the opportunity to see Warren’s upcoming shows. The Blue Gum Farm Gallery is at 4787 Hall Road, Santa Rosa. Exhibit hours are Saturday, August 30, through Monday, September 2, from 1 to 5. You can, also, see Warren’s work at Art Trails on the second and third weekends of October. www.artrails.org/

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Tony Mininno - “Touching Earth”

“Setting Sun-Shell Beach” by Tony Mininno
www.tonymininno.com - 707.874.2200

Tony Mininno is an Occidental, CA artist and resident who is one of the co-op artists at Plaza Arts Center in Healdsburg. In addition to his work on display at his home gallery, Tony's paintings will be featured in San Francisco from September 6th through November 6th at William Trophy Fine Arts.

“Touching Earth”
recent paintings by Sonoma County painter Tony Mininno.

September 6 – November 8, 2008.
William Torphy Fine Arts, 255 California Street, San Francisco, CA
Lobby at Battery & California.
Hours; 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM weekdays.
510.222.8215. For information, contact: william@torphyart.com

Like so many Sonoma County artists, Tony is a transplant from the East Coast, where he grew up in New York City. He trained under Giuseppi Trotta and Sylvia Applezweig, as well as attended the New York School of Visual Art and the Pan American Art School. Recently, Tony was a featured artist at the Ocidental Art Center's booth at the Friday downtown Occidental Farmer's Market where he demonstrated his skills and sold prints and cards of his work. My favorite place to find Tony is out in Duncan's Mills when he occassionally works at Pig Alley and where you can find an extensive collection of his prints and cards for sale.

Tony is a delightful person to meet and has learned the fine art of promotion while serving the needs of Plaza Arts Center. To learn more about Tony's art, please visit his web site, keep an eye out for the Art at the Source tours when you can visit his home studio, and watch for notices of exhibits featuring Tony's work in the WCG Art Calendar and on our web calendar.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Russian River Artists Fair


Fifth Annual Rio Nido Art and Crafts Festival

Russian River Artists will display their art work and crafts again at the Fifth Annual Rio Nido Art and Crafts festival on Sunday, August 17 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Rio Nido Homeowners Park.


Some of the participating artists include: Matt Bedford—fused glass, Beverly Bird--painting, Patty Bird-- pastel paintings, Suzanne Farnocchia—crafts, Robert Feld--jewelry, Edward Garcia--photography, Shannon Hartlip-- crafts, Mike Hoover--Encaustic works, JackiGail Jackson-Bird-- photography, Patty Karcie-- painting, Rebecca Lichau-- glass works, Shane Lunt,--painting, Patty Roland-James and Robert James-- books, Shirley Spencer--jewelry, John Underwood--painting, Robert Valdez—photography, Stacy Waring,-- handpainted crafts, Maryanne Weimer-- photography, Don Wilson—woodcrafts.

While the art and crafts festival is taking place, the Rio Nido Homeowners Association will be serving breakfast in the park from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

The art festival is free, the Homeowners Pancake Breakfast is $6.00, children pay $3.00.

For more information email: aquila@aquilaink.com, or bvdrio@sonic.net or call 869-8284.


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The Painting Sisters of Rio Nido
by Patricia Roland-James


Beverly and Patty Bird love to paint gorgeous Sonoma county landscapes. While both work directly from the scene, Beverly also uses photographs, she says, so she can recall what inspired her. Patty enjoys painting the scenery that she once drove through while she worked as a rural carrier for the Guerneville Post Office.

Beverly enjoys working in acrylics and oils. She loves acrylics because “they are versatile and allow for a lot of spontaneity.” Since she uses glazing in her work, acrylics dry quickly. She uses oil for alla prima work and her figurative painting. She describes her work as “realistic, leaning toward impressionistic,” and her focus is “capturing color created by the light.”

Patty enjoys working with pastels. She says they “suit both the rapidly changing conditions of outdoor painting and my spontaneous nature. The dry pure pigment can be layered thickly and stroked softly, almost simultaneously. The vibrancy of the pigment reflects the sparkle of the air and the nuances of the changing seasons.”

Art has been a significant part of their lives since childhood. Their parents, particularly their mother, encouraged them to draw and paint. Beverly says she was supported early on in her art work by compliments from teachers and other students. In junior high she thought she wanted to be a fashion designer (she made her own clothes) and in high school she continued to study art and she received a prize for a painting at the LA County Fair. She graduated from CSU Long Beach with a BA in Art, thinking that she’d become an art teacher, but instead she went to work as a county social worker and ended her public service career as a staffer for the State Legislature.

Patty can’t remember when she didn’t love art. She painted horses from a very early age. She won a library contest in jr. high for three dimensional illustrations. She studied art in high school. She didn’t major in art like Beverly but with her math and science background, she attended the University of California at Davis to become a veterinarian. She didn’t finish her degree but instead went to work for the post office and continued to paint.




Besides getting her art degree, Beverly has taken classes at Santa Rosa Jr. College, participated in various workshops including Frank Gannon, Kathryn Cerasoli, and Tesia Blackburn. Her paintings have been exhibited at Art at the Source, Cloverdale Art Center, Sonoma County Fair, the Rio Nido Annual Art festival, the Finley Center, and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts Life Drawing Show.



Patty has also taken art classes at Santa Rosa Jr. College. She attended Golden West and Orange Coast Colleges in Southern California and participated in workshops with artists Frank Gannon, Camille Przewodek and Marsha Connell. She is currently a member and bookkeeper for the Gallery Art Collective in Monte Rio. She has had exhibitions at River Images, the Mermaid Festival in Monte Rio, the Russian River Food and Wine Fest, 4 years of the Rio Nido Art and Crafts Festival, SCA Shows in Sebastopol, including En Plein Air. The Café Bazaar and West America Bank in Guerneville have also exhibited her work.

Both artists will be displaying and selling their beautiful art at the Fifth Annual Rio Nido Art and Crafts Festival on Sunday, August 17th, from 10 AM to 3 PM in the Rio Nido Homeowners Park. Admission is free. At the same time and place the Homeowners will be serving a delicious pancake breakfast from 9 AM to 12 PM. The cost for the breakfast is $6.00 for adults, $3.00 for children.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Connecting Artists to Art Lovers

Artists & Art Lovers Benefit

Art Direct Sonoma is THE resource for upscale fund-raisers for all kinds of community groups and businesses.


By Dawn Bell

Art Direct Sonoma came into being as a response to a long winter and several glasses of wine. Bette and Dawn had long understood their wish to work together on “something” and after many hours of hashing out the pros and cons of each idea, something began to become clear. Art was the constant in all of these conversations.

Art Direct Sonoma was born out of those discussions and came into being as a way to satisfy their desire to work together, share their mutual love of art and their appreciation of the beauties of Sonoma County. With Dawn’s background in events and fund-raising and Bette’s complementary skills in sales, marketing and business development, it all came together on a shoestring budget during a long winter of rising gas prices, a Presidential campaign and a few more glasses of wine.

Art Direct Sonoma was created to fill the needs of local artists and art lovers. We are not a gallery, but we do work directly with artists to bring their work to private and public events where it can be viewed and purchased. Our goal is to help the artist sell their work to an audience they are unable to reach. That’s our job and it’s what we love to do.

Business owners, fund raisers and private individuals interested in hosting art shows can work with Art Direct Sonoma to create the perfect event without the hassle of managing all the details. Art Direct Sonoma works closely with each client to set the tone for their event. We work with you to choose the number and type of pieces desired. We’ll also create and mail your invitation, set up and manage the show, and we can even cater the event for you.

Art Direct Sonoma is also THE resource for upscale fund-raisers for all kinds of community groups and businesses.

Art Direct Sonoma will work directly with artists to help decide what events are right for them. We will continually invite them to events all over the County where sales for their work are most promising. And, we will display samples of their work on our website to help our clients design their events visually.

For a full schedule of events and complete information - check out their web site at: http://www.artdirectsonoma.com/

Contact Art Direct Sonoma at: adsonoma@aol.com
707-869-5611

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Art on the Russian River, CA

Art Event in Russian River – Beautiful Art, Beautiful Success
EcoRing and Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods Partner Project

By Dawn Bell


Everyone who has been privileged to live or visit among the redwoods, river, coast and vineyards has been tempted by a piece of art that depicts a favorite view. What many of us love too, is the image of an artist painting out of doors and experiencing what we see while somehow transferring the moment to canvas. Plein air painting (painting a landscape outdoors) is the practice of capturing life where the light is constantly changing, where one must work quickly in order to safeguard the essential essence of the mood and feeling of light in a painting.

In the early days of May, twelve nationally renowned artists to the Russian River to do all of this and more. EcoRing and the Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods helped organize this wonderful event highlighting the beauties of Sonoma County, but much of the hard work was accomplished by Nancy Ferrier of Christopher Queen Galleries in Duncans Mills who knows the ins and outs or juried art events and who has cultivated relationships in the world of art for thirty-two years.

The artists were treated to dinners and receptions throughout the week while they chose locations among the required venues: the coast, the grasslands & forests, the vineyards and the towns along the Russian River, in this juried event. The opening reception and dinner was held on Thursday, May 2nd at the Village Inn & Restaurant in Monte Rio. Artists, guests and volunteers enjoyed food, wine and river views on the decks and terraces at this historic inn.

The final event took place on Sunday, May 4th in Duncans Mills where the artists participated in a “Quick Draw”. They were given ninety minutes to complete a painting which was then auctioned to benefit EcoRing and the Stewards. More than one hundred art lovers enjoyed this fascinating event that provided guests the rare opportunity to watch talented artists create and craft their works of art. Auction winners were announced at a champagne reception at 11:30AM. The event raised nearly $10,000 in gross proceeds.

More than sixty works were created during this week-long event and will be featured at Christopher Queens Gallery in Dunacns Mills through July 7, 2008. The Gallery is open daily from 11AM to 5PM expect Tuesdays. For more information about this show, contact Christopher Queens at (707) 865-1318 or visit their website at http://www.christopherqueen.com/

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