SDVAN Monthly Message for Feb 2006

Dear SDVAN Visitors, Art Resources and Artists,

Don’t be surprised when you visit the SDVAN site and see a NEW LOOK. We are in the process of bringing the site up to date with a new navigation system and a new look. Pardon our glitches as we work out all the bugs.

• New SmART Collector
  Art Tours starting in San Diego – See this list of places to go with wonderful guides. Helps expand your mind, your taste and your art collections. We hope to add to this feature over the months
  Douglas Simay's Best Picks of Los Angeles Exhibition – We are please to present these picks by one of the leading collectors of San Diego.
  
• NEW Our current banner is in support of The Outdoor Art Foundation's and it’s Outdoor Art Initiative for Carlsbad Village. Artists include Alexandre Safonov, David Wirth, Sandra Chanis, Becky Guttin, James Hubbell, T.J. Dixon & James Nelson, Maher Morcos, Peter Mitten, Christopher Lee, Jon Koehler, and Madelynne Engle. The Carlsbad Masquerade is   on Sat, February 25, 6 pm to midnight at "Ocean House" (formerly Neimans) 300 Carlsbad Village Dr., Carlsbad/ In aid of The Outdoor Art Initiative for Carlsbad Village co-sponsored by the Carlsbad Village Business Association, Museum Artists Foundation and the San Diego Visual Arts Network. For more info and tickets, $60 now and $75 at the door contact: 760.434.2553 info@shopcarlsbadvillage.org. All our Banner Art is sponsored by sandiegoartist.com. Thanks as always to Ann Berchtold for her terrific work in preparing these images for us. Check out the Archived Banners to see images you may have forgotten over the year.
  
• NEW A+ Art Notes is an occasional feature written by Patricia Frischer coordinator of SDVAN. Watch for Monthly Message mentions of new notes. In the first, she discusses exhibitions featuring Art Collectors

• Remember RAW Gossip Column report : Ally Bling Bling’s January column is now posted. Once you list an event with us, please do send a follow up of how the event proceeded. We will give you extra coverage if you mail tidbits to Ally Bling Bling

• Remember PICKED RAW Check out the special Save the Date 2006 edition of Picked RAW as well as the Picks for February edited by Jeneen Ausk. Enter your events NOW!!! To be eligible for March’s Picked RAW, events have to be listed by the last day of the previous month. We also have a special link to the Bill Fark’s article in the North County Times. that is a year end review of the visual arts in the north county.

• REMINDER – when posting a competition or jury show on SDVAN, make sure and enter the due dates for application as the ending date of the event listing and click COMPETITION as the type of event. Artists can search by Competition to find all the open exhibition in this way.   Make an additional separate listing for the actual show dates. There are many competitions right now especially with Digital Art Month coming up this spring, so Art Resources, please list these due dates for the competitions soon.

• The growth of site continues and we now have totals for 2005, which show the growth of the site is almost 100% from 2004. We had 30.936 unique visitors with a total of 45,845 visits, 206,506 pages viewed and 474,409 hits for 2005. Our thanks to all of you for listing your events and visiting the site and especially for spreading the word as we strive to serve the Visual Arts in the San Diego region.

We always welcome you to our SDVAN meetings. The next is our Tuesday Feb 14, at 10 am. Yes start your Valentine’s Day with us! Let us know if you would like to join us and we will send you an address and driving instructions.

Patricia Frischer

coordinator, SDVAN

On a personal note:

Judi Misset, founder and CEO of Jazzercise, has selected nine "very abstract “ artworks out of the 54 entries to be exhibited in the boardroom of the Jazzercise Corporate Offices, 2460 Impala Road, Carlsbad, CA through April 30, 2006. Bev Stuber of the Oceanside Museum of Art Artists Alliance made this possible and we congratulate this national company for taking advantage of the talent in North County. I am lucky enough to have one work “Water Remembers” in this show.

If you are a member of the Art Glass Guild or Art Glass Association of Southern California, then you are invited to attend a State of Arts Lecture by yours truly on Feb 33 at Gallery 25 in Spanish Village in Balboa Park from 6 to 8 pm.

Please note: The Robert Pincus lecture at the Art and Science Forum of the Salk Institute has been moved from February to May. On Friday Feb 3, Brian Dick conceptual artist will be substituting.

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