SDVAN Monthly Message for May 2008

Dear SDVAN Visitors, Art Resources and Artists,

• NEW Banner Our thanks to Lynn Jennings and the SD Guild of Puppetry who are displaying at Terminal 2 at the SD Airport until August 1 including Indonesian Shadow Puppets, "Thru Thurber's Eyes" (A SDPG work based on "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", SDPG Educational Programs at Freese Elementary. Watch for the The San Diego Guild of Puppetryat the block party for the New Children’s Museum ’s ( 200 West Island Avenue) on May 4 from 12-4 pm
  
  
• NEW! Art Resources Focus: Visual Arts Resource for the Physically and Mentally Challenged Artist by Melissa Regas, Honeybee Creations

• NEW SD Art Prize : Dangerous Women: Eleanor Antin with emerging artist Pamela Jaeger, Opening Reception: Sat. May 17, 7 pm to 9 pm, R3 Gallery 2421 India Street San Diego, 92101. We are so pleased to announce that the honorary chairpersons for this exhibition are Cap and Julie Pinney
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• SECOND CHANCE TO ENTER - PLEASE NOTE: VISION TO PAGE Due to a technical “glitch,” we may not have received your entry for the Vision to Page writing competition. If you did submit an entry, please call Laurie Brindle at 760.740.5479 or re-enter online. Because of this situation, the deadline of the contest has been extended to FRIDAY, MAY 9TH. We apologize for any inconvenienceVision to Page vision2page.nctimes.com Competition: Words on Art in support of the exhibition, Innocence is Questionable, featuring the six recipients of the 2006/2007 SD Art Prize at California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum . This competition is sponsored by SD Visual Arts Network ($400 in prizes) and the North County Times who are supplying the judges Laura Groch, features editor, Pam Kragen, entertainment editor, Gary Warth, features writer, online entry form as well as publishing the winners. Please click on the links and read the details of this exciting competition to encourage more people to write about art

• Remember May 31 last day SD Art Prize in North County - Innocence is Questionable featuring all 2006/2007 SD Art Prize Artists, Raul Guerrero, (*May 16) and Yvonne Venegas , Jean Lowe (*May 3) and Iana Quesnell (*May 10), Ernest Silva and artist May-ling Martinez (*May 23) *Gallery Talks 2:00pm - 3:00pm . Exhibition until May 31, 2008, curated by Mary Catherine Ferguson, museum director California Center for the Arts , Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd. Escondido, 92025: For more info: 760.839.4170 Teresa Ramirez
  
• Our immense thanks goes to all the Performance Slam artists for an outstanding evening at CCAE. Read about it on the PSlam page. Kevin Freitas , Art as Authority; Sara Plaisted Urban Tribal Dance; Zuriel Waters; Jaysen Waller; Ted Washington, Pruitt Igoe; Ed Decker ( our $100 winner!); and Marilyn Klisser and Aura Thielen, Emerge Art Center

• NEW! SmART Collector – Meet the Collectors: Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaitre . Read a report on their interview chaired by Hugh Davies of the MOCA. You can see selected video works from their collection in the show Revolutions at the UCSD University Art Gallery until May 17

• NEW! A+ Art Blog Art Collecting Clubs Part II - Notes from the lecture by Jori Finkel, frequent contributor on arts issues for the New York Times and Art + Auction Magazine from her presentation at the San Diego Fine Art Society plus a report on the Inside the Wave exhibition at the SDMA both by Patricia Frischer, the coordinator of SDVAN.   

• NEW! April RAW Gossip Column report by Ally Bling Bling with news of our local artists, museums and a line up of future ArtRock! Radio guest.
  
  
• Remember submit your May events for PICKED RAW before the end of April Branching Out in our Picked RAW section will feature new resources just listed for the first time on SDVAN. We now have over 1200 listings in our directories. Both are edited by Georgia Hoopes who received our thanks as editor of Picked RAW
  
• NEW! Art Review by Kevin Freitas “ Noyer le Poisson" & The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization and El Anatsui at San Diego State University
  
• NEW! Doug Simay LA Picks for April/May
  

Patricia Frischer
coordinator, SDVAN, 760.943.0148

Everyone is invited to attend our committee meetings which are every other month on the second Tuesday at 10 AM. The next meeting is Tuesday, June 10 at 10 am. Please consider becoming more involved with SDVAN by giving of your time, expertise, or with donations . Please feel free to contact us with suggestions or questions.

On a personal note: Watch for my A+ Art Blog from London next month as I scour the city for art during my yearly visit over the pond.

I am sorry to miss the opening reception for the last in the 2007/2008 series of the SD Art Prize. Please do attend on Sat. May 17 from 7 to 9 at R3 Gallery at 2421 India Street and congratulate both Eleanor Antin and Pamela Jaeger. Please touch base with Julie and Cap Pinney and thank them for their support of the SD Art Prize for me.

We are sorry for the glitch on the North County Times for the Vision to Page art writing contest. You still have time (until May 9) to win $300 if you can put some words together about the Innocence is Questionable show at CCAE….junior prize is $100 and we are offering internships on SDVAN as well.

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