"Fundraiser / Beer Party"

Come one, come all ...
It's a FUNDRAISER!
It's a BEER PARTY!
dA Center for the Arts is hosting the introduction party for Dale Bros. Brewery's late spring seasonal beer, Dude of York. They will be raffling off great prizes, and every raffle ticket you put into the jar will be rewarded with a sample of this new beer, a creation inspired by the session beers of England. Dale Bros. Brewery T-shirts and glasses will be available for purchase with a portion of the sales going to benefit dA Center for the Arts.
Your support of the dA is always important to its survival. In these tough economic times, the dA needs your support more than ever. Come out and celebrate the dA with friends and a beer.
Monday, April 27, 2009
5:00pm - 8:00pm
dA Center for the Arts
252 S. Main Street
Pomona, CA
909-397-9716

Smogdance Film Festival at the Fox Pomona

The dA is selling tickets for Smogdance and hosting after parties each night.

They will be open today, Friday, at Noon until 7PM, and will re-open around 9PM to host the after party for Smogdance attendees and filmmakers.

Saturday they will be open from Noon to Midnight.
Smogdance starts at 7PM and the gallery will stay open for last Saturday fun and the after party for Smogdance.

Sunday, Smogdance starts at 5PM, the gallery will open at 6PM in preparation for the final after party for the Smogdance Film Festival.

Monday, it doesn't stop, they have a fund raiser from 5PM to 8PM,
Sponsored by Dale Bros. Brewery, where they will introduce their new beer: Dude of York!
Stop by have a beer and help the dA!


Smogdance starting times
Friday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 26 at 5:00 p.m.
Smogdance Schedule of Films
http://smogdance.com/2009.html
Smogdance Silent Art Auction
Host:
dA Center for the Arts


The 11th annual Smogdance Film Festival with it’s tradition of showing independent films will also present an art auction that has an intimate connection with one of the films being screened at the Pomona Fox Theater.

Six prominent Downtown Pomona and Inland Empire artists will be representing the viable and thriving art scene in the area, and it is not by accident that a majority of these artists were involved in one of the documentaries being shown at Smogdance.

The project, TENTS OF HOPE, with the film entry "TENTS ~The Patchwork Project", a documentary by Francesca Roveda, is a film about communities gathering support for the people of Darfur, symbolically and literally.

Local communities across the U.S. raised money, purchased and painted tents in locations nationwide committing their efforts not only to a political cause, but in practical terms, allowing these tents to be donated to the struggling refugees in the Sudan.

Though our own local area artist’s segment in the film was modest, their spirit, energy and effort to this project was not, and again, these artists are offering up their talents and works to support Smogdance and raise money for dA Center for the Arts.

During the Smogdance Film festival, in the main lobby of the Fox there will be six artists displaying 12 pieces of art (two paintings per artist).

The artists participating are:

Fr. Bill Moore SS. CC., A. S. Ashley, Manny LeGaspe', Thomas Stubbs, Juan Thorp, and Alex Couwenberg.

The Silent Auction will last the entire three days of the Smogdance Festival with bidding closing 15 minutes after the end of the last film on Sunday.

Some of the artwork in this auction is listed into the thousands of dollars, but starting bid price on all works is 50 dollars each, with $10 minimum raises thereafter.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get incredible art at a bargain, and help support the dA Center for the Arts!

The greatly anticipated opening of the Pomona Fox Theater will present for its first truly public event since its restoration, the 11th Annual Smogdance Film Festival, bringing this dA Center for the Arts production back home to downtown Pomona.

This three day event, beginning Friday, April 24 will feature a broad range of independent films including comedy, animation, drama, documentary, etc., and what better venue than the Fox Theater to showcase these film makers and their cinematic work?

When: Friday, April 24th 7pm
Saturday, April 25th 7pm
Sunday, April 26th 5pm

Admission: $10.00 per night or $20.00 Festival Pass
General Admission
$ 8.00 per night or $16.00 Festival Pass
Student/Senior

Where: Pomona Fox Theater, 301 S. Garey Avenue

Silent auction winners will be announced during the Sunday after party at the dA after the Film Festival.

Please contact A. S. Ashley about any questions concerning the Smogdance Silent Art Auction:

a.s.ashley@hotmail.com
661.428.1772

Fun day in Pomona with good friends

Bunny Gunner and crew was at the "5th Annual Taste of Pomona" sponsored by the Pomona Chamber of Commerce. We had a nice booth with merchandise, pictures of our gallery and shop, and some framed art to show off. Some of the restaurants in attendance included, Tony's Famous French Dip, The Sheraton, McKinley Grill, Safron Catering, DBA256 Wine Bar, Double Tree Hotel, and some others. Also the City of Pomona had a booth along with other organizations such as the YMCA and Western University. It was a great night with lots of good food and good music. The stars of the show seemed to be a group of students from Village Academy who were lucky enough to meet President Obama. Our mayor, Eliott Rothman was in attendance and even helped us load our truck as we packed up. The night was a good time, thanks to Frank Garcia and Pomona Chamber for throwing another successful event.

After the "Taste" we headed back to the Arts Colony just in time to catch a stellar performance by Kimya Dawson. She was kind enough to return to the arts colony were she has played in the past in places like 51Buckingham and 5iftybucks gallery. Her set was amazing, including songs from newer kids albums and some old favorites that make your heart weep and jump for joy all at once. Thanks Rolo, Terry, Joe and the dA for bringing such cool talent to the ears of us Pomonians.

We finished off a great day with a couple of beers at dba256, thanks Johnny for a fun night at Dabooya!
-Juan and Susie

April Artwalk

Yet another great Art Walk. The star of the show again would have to be the dA Gallery and their CGU show. Rolo, the curator has been frequenting Claremont Graduate University's shows held every Tuesday and picking through the grad students studios to find the right stuff. And stuff he found, the show features work from over 20 students ranging from a huge brightly colored fabric stage with stuffed hanging forms, to a spray foam monkey swinging from a tire. Nothing traditional at this show, its all over the edge make you think and look twice kind of work. Just around the block was the "Vegas Show" hosted by Franz Keller and Bob Pece of SCA Gallery. This show pulled out all the stops, and the dice, and the cards. The feature of this show seemed to be the painting-assemblage of 17 year old budding artist Cecilia LeGaspe. You might recognize the name since her father is a famous local who was working on a giant totem pole painting at the Po Gallery. Manny also had work hanging at the Glass House Record Store, including some 4 new paintings specially for the show. Moving on down the block, Alex Brown put together yet another benefit show with ceramic pots available at a mere $5. Just next door Magic Door 4 books was having a book signing and talk with a quite famous author. There was a nice crowd gathered there to listen to his words of wisdom. Back on the home front, Bunny Gunner featured the work of Ryan Chorbagian, who's first show ever was quite a success. Ryan's pieces were continuously being praised and admired. His assemblage pieces consist of wood and metal found boxes filled with other found trinkets such as religious statues, flash bulbs, wire, candles, old discarded photos and other interesting gems. Just next door, Inkd Chronicles displayed the drawings and paintings of David Cook. A regular to the space, David's graphite drawings have a sort of surreal and psychedelic feel with faces transforming into other beings and animals. All in all, another great Art Walk to keep the year on the right step. Get ready for next month, and summer, its going to be hot in more ways than one. Art walks are every 2nd Saturday of the month from 6pm - 10pm.

Pomona Art Walk this Saturday April 11th

Our Friends from Bedlam Magazine posted this on their website....Check it out!


The Pomona Art Walk is a wonderful opportunity to discover a quaint, tree-lined community centered on an approximately ten-block square area that has retained much of its classic Main Street charm (this was where the exterior town scenes were shot for The Cat in the Hat) while adding some quirky and architecturally intriguing elements that make it an ideal strolling zone. But it is the quality of the newish galleries, such as the da Center for the Arts, the Bunny Gunner Gallery and more than a dozen other arts venues, that draw crowds from across L.A. to this enticing event on the second Saturday of each month, six p.m. to whenever. A map of the Walk is included among the Art Walks Maps section of this website (see the menu bar at the top of the page).

The assemblages of Ryan Chorbagian featured at Bunny Gunner Gallery are reason alone to make the trek, as are the always-innovative installations at the da, just around the corner, which this month features work by Claremont Graduate University students, curated by Rolo Castillo, who is more or less the godfather of the Pomona arts scene (kissing his ring is not, however, mandatory). This is NOT your usual show of student work, however. Castillo has hand-picked the works of gifted and startlingly original artists that will not disappoint visitors.

Chorbagian's assemblages at Bunny Gunner have narrative, religious and festishistic elements that suggest deeply personal totems. There is a touch of nostalgia to them, and the warm materials (wood, faded photos, curious metal
Ryan Charbogian, "Fish Hook," assemblage

instruments graced with the patina of time) make these objects attractive for their pure physicality alone.
Bunny Gunner's gallery is an intimate space that is always interesting to visit, filled as it is with the paraphenalia of working artists and the tools of its custom-framing business as well as bits and pieces of artwork from once and future BG shows.

Ryan Chorbagian Fill Box
April 11th through May 6th
Opening reception, April 11th, 6 p.m.
Last Saturday reception, April 25th, 6 p.m. BUNNY GUNNER art services Art Gallery. Fine Art Framing. Graphic Design. Signage Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 7pm 266 W. Second St. Pomona, CA 91766, 909 868 2808, BUNNY GUNNER.com.

event date / time:
Apr 11 2009 6:00pm - 11:00pm
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Tonight at LACMA

Late Night Art

April 4, 2009
8 pm–midnight

TWO ACCLAIMED EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures
Franz West: To Build a House You Start with the Roof,
Work: 1972–2008

DJ/VJs STRAIGHT FROM BERLIN
Pioneer video scratcher Safy Sniper and independent filmmaker, curator, DJ Christine Lang

INTERACTIVE ART MAKING
Engage with playful work derivative of Franz West’s Adaptives with Finishing School

IN-GALLERY READINGS
New Yorker staff writer and author of Honey and Junk Dana Goodyear
Poet, journalist, art critic, and Art Center teacher Amy Gerstler
Winner of the Berlin Prize Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award for poetry, author August Kleinzahler
Writing students from USC read work inspired by the Franz West exhibition

LIVE MUSIC
Tom Peters performing Hanne Darboven’s Wunschkonzerte
Opera 17 A&B and 18 A&B on double bass

FOOD & DRINK
Sausages on the grill with German ale and wine

ADMISSION
Call 323 857-6010 or stop by the LACMA Box Office for tickets ($10).
Advance purchase only available until March 27. tickets may also be purchased at the event.

In-kind media support provided by LA Weekly.

Education programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education. Funding for the DJ/VJ has been provided by the Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles. The Readings have been organized by Brighde Mullins, Director, Master of Professional Writing Program, USC.

Header image: A.R. Penck, Der Übergang (Passage), 1963 (detail), oil on canvas, 37 x 47 1/4 in (94 x 120 cm), Sammlung Ludwig, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, © A.R. Penck

The Leak of Contemporary Artists

Exhibit Dates: April 11 to April 27, 2009
Opening Reception: April 11th, 6-10 pm
Closing Reception: April 25th, 6-10 pm
Exhibit Location: The dA Center for the Arts, 252 S. Main St., Pomona Arts Colony

The dA Center for the Arts proudly presents The Leak of Contemporary Artists, a curated exhibit comprised solely of art students from Claremont Graduate University. This unique show is an opportunity to showcase some of the groundbreaking work being produced by CGU today. The show includes 34 artists, with work ranging from painting to sculpture, to site-specific installations. The quality and variety of work is not only impressive, but a demonstration of the force CGU has become in the LA art scene and beyond.

Rarely do we see such an ambitious, original and professional, collective of art students in a show outside of the academic scene. The work is inventive, critically concerned, and varied in expression - exemplifying CGU’s focus on individual visual languages.

At the dA, curator Rolo Castillo’s creativity and energy produces shows that are new, exciting and outside of the box. With the guidance of his inventive and open nature, CGU artists are encouraged to take chances with their art and displays. Nicole James explains, “There is a freedom I feel here that I don’t feel in other galleries. The space doesn’t feel traditional and I really like that”. Fresh art meets a fresh space. The result is art that is enhanced by the surroundings.

The Leak of Contemporary Artists hopes to showcase the first “leaks” of this new breed into the art scene, and to call recognition to the high quality of artists and art at Claremont Graduate University.


The dA Center for the Arts is a non-profit community organization that has been the heart
of the Pomona Arts Colony marking 25 years in June 2009.
For more information contact Terry Castillo at 909-397-9716, www.dacenter.org

Art Show to benefit local organizations who help people in the midst of changing their lives.

"RHYTHYMS: Vessel Forms by Patricia Ferber and 'Small Pleasures' by Ingrid Lilligren"

Bunny Gunner Gallery, March 14 - April 8, 2009.

Patricia Ferber is an established southern California ceramic sculptor and will be showing ceramic vessels and "Spiral Vessels", a new direction in her work over the past year and a half. Technically challenging, the artists says "they giving me inspiration in the continuation of my clay endeavors".

Ingrid Lilligren teaches at Iowa State University in Ames and is a southern California ex-patriot. 120 of her "Small Pleasures", created one a day over the course of one year's time from dry pastels and eggshells will be installed in the gallery. She is using all proceeds from sales to benefit local organizations who help people in the midst of changing their lives.

Ferber is primarily a sculptor who works in varied media. Encompassed are clay pieces, paintings, as well as large architectural and environmental landscape works. About her ceramic work she says, "Ceramics involves me in a cathartic process tapping my creative potential to a greater extent than any other media utilized. During this process the clay serves as an extension of my imago mundi". Further work may be viewed at PatriciaFerber.com.

When Lilligren began the project that resulted in 243 "Small Pleasures" she settled on a strict format: a 7" x 7" square with a centered circle of 4 _". By working with limited materials; dry pastel surrounding the circle where the eggshells are contained she was able to "explore what it would feel like to do the same thing over and over". In addition, the artist explained, "You get very creative when you limit yourself". More work at ingridlilligren.com.

The exhibit runs from March 14 - April 8, 2009. Opening reception will be during the Second Saturday Artwalk, March 14 from 6 to 9pm and a Last Saturday reception will be on March 28 from 6 - 9pm.

Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday from 10am - 7pm. Phone - 909-868-2808; bunnygunner.com.

FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.

Last Saturday, 2nd Metro Night Out

Have you been to one of the last Saturdays? Well, there's lots more to do now. January was the first "Metro Night Out", which is like your typical gallery 2nd opening but with a few added features. The DPOA has brought the farmer's market, usually held on Wednesdays, to the Artwark and Last Saturday. This includes live music, fresh vegetables and fruit, gifts, info booths, food and other fun stuff. Also included in January was a car show. Several clubs brought out their shiny low-ridin tricked out cars for all of us to enjoy.
 
February's "Metro Night Out" promises to be just as exciting. People are catching on that it's a better night to see the art when 2nd Saturday might be too crowded or just to crazy to talk to anyone. We know that all too well here at Bunny Gunner.
I don't remember talking to anyone, so if I didn't say hello, stop by this Saturday and we can all get a chance to chill out. Remember it is "All U Can Eat" our biggest show of the year, we sold over 200 pieces, but there's still lots of great finds to choose from and some of the artists have replenished their stock. So if it was too crowded to see the art, or you just didn't make it to Pomona, this Saturday is a great chance to see art, do the walk, get some veggies, listen to the band and have a good time.

To find out who's and what's showing at the galleries go to Pomonaartcolony.com 
for the times and listings.

-Juan
All You Can Eat
At Bunny Gunner, Thru March 11
By: Stacy Davies

One of the feelings a great art show always elicits is a yearning for more art: sometimes the show is so wonderful that you just can’t get enough, other times, you just haven’t found that one piece to connect with—and looking for art that speaks to us is why most of us go to see art shows in the first place.

Susie and Juan have taken care of all of the above for you in their new buffet-styled show, a free-for-all of over 100 pieces that cover every wall and fill every corner in their petite gallery. The guidelines were basic—no theme, each piece must be 5x7 or smaller, and each artist could submit up to ten pieces—and the result is truly an artistic smorgasbord of color, shape and content of everything from Shag-styled bikini babes and wistful desert scenes to ceramic tiles and construction paper.

Manuel Ortega’s dual Mickey Mouse wood panels strip away the warm and fuzzy Steamboat Willie façade and give us a somewhat possessed and possibly anarchist rodent instead. Amy Bystedt offers up five funky “Polaroid” pictures of vintage suitcases photographed in random landscapes—under a bridge, on a grassy knoll, on a city street—as if the poor little luggage has lost its way, or perhaps has finally decided to travel alone (no more waiting in the hotel room for some dreary human!). Photography artists Leslie Brown and Sally Egan also go retro—Brown with a series of colored pencil treated pics of rockabilly chicks at a salon, heads under hairdryers and gossip flowing like beer, and Egan with a hilarious set of “JC Penny Portrait Studio”-type shots, you know, the kind that have both a frontal smiling face shot and a three-fourths pensive one superimposed up in the corner? Except that Egan put her three-fourths shots in sparkly orange wine glasses adding yet another layer of comedic kitsch.

Other notable pieces include Sarah Riedel’s four-toned cutouts of an angst-ridden woman, Finishing School’s black ski mask mini-mobiles (doesn’t everyone need a terrorist dangling from their rearview mirror?) and Peter Owens architectural graphite and blocked color drawings of industrial landscape and buildings. There really is something for everyone in this show—and a great overall collection of interesting and thought-provoking pieces. There’s also some high-calorie gluttonous fun, and what else would you expect with a title like this? (Stacy Davies)

All You Can Eat at Bunny Gunner, 266 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 868-2808; www.bunnygunner.com. Open Tues.–Sat., 10AM–7PM. Thru March 11. Free

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As an extra bonus you get a tour of the Arts Colony with these Lovely Ladies ( The Red Cup Society) I'm a member,  but will be holding post at Bunny Gunner. Just meet at the dA at 7:00 PM on Saturday and soon after that the tour begins....I guarantee you will have a blast!
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The Red Show
Closing Reception: February 28, 2009 6-10pm
Exhibition Location: The dA Center for the Arts, 252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766. 909.397.9716 The Pomona Arts Colony.
www.dacenter.org
www.pomonaartwalk.com

The Red Show
At the dA Center, Thru February 28
By: Stacy Davies

The dA curator, Rolo Castillo, is a real anarchist. He doesn’t give a hoot about writing long, curatorial dissertations on why he’s put together a project, and really, I give him props for it. It does lend itself to a hodgepodge, anything-goes-mentality, but sometimes that can be refreshing, and Castillo certainly has a keen eye for art that works.

This weekend, on lovey-dovey V-Day, he’s put together everything red. Doesn’t have to mean Valentines, of course, there are other forms of red—some people might be engaged in bloody couple squabbling and single types may be tossing back too much pinot in hopes of snagging a midnight shag. Whatever your motive and agenda, The Red Show will certainly give you something to think about—and might even be a hotspot for acquiring a spindly or Rubenesque pickup.

Castillo’s piece, as usual, is a riot. In the large-scale Church Fight two multi-colored birds wearing rubber rooster caps square off in front of a house of worship. Each bird has a word bubble that reads “tomato.” One of the fowls is most likely pronouncing it toe-mah-toe, you see. And they’re fighting—two cocks in front of a church, about something petty. Love it.

Other works of note include Mark Lindley’s Deja Rouge—a canvas of layer upon layer of chunky red tones—and Eric Ward’s molten lava-y Rupture, a fiery piece of Plexiglas with protruding piles of pseudo-magma. Thomas Stubbi’s culty bizarre Dogma Eat Dogma in which a group of hooded pagans worship a red Fu Dog and giant banana split will no doubt keep your internal conversation pleasantly befuddled. CM Venice McCurdy’s vintage red book impaled with nails that spell out “read” and A.S. Ashley’s clever, goopy-red mouse trap Missed You Again are small treasures that are just too clever. Perhaps most intriguing pieces, however, are Richard May’s dual men’s room doors covered with repetitive stenciled text: “be a man”; each door is also painted up with a figure of Iron Man and Superman, as well as collaged clippings of a lynching, a black boy in tears, the Lone Ranger, Tarzan, and signs that read “thou shalt not cry” and “thou shalt not display weakness.” Harsh, jacked up, and fantastic—just what you need on such a sentimental day. (Stacy Davies)

The Red Show at the dA Center for the Arts, 252 S. Main St., Pomona Arts Colony, Pomona, (909) 397-9716; www.dacenter.org. Thru Feb 28. Free

Tonight in Pomona

This Saturday, February 21, 5-10pm

works by
MICHAEL MAAS & BOB PECE
at the new
5IFTYBUCKS GALLERY

213 E Holt Ave. Pomona
one block east of Garey, sharing the corner with the American Legion

5IFTYBUCKS GALLERY is in an 1950's car dealership structure brought back to life at the end of 2008 by Rolo Castillo and his phantom crew.

The American Legion has their famous steak dinner for $8.00 served from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
(They also offer chicken and a vegetarian plate.)

New Show at The Claremont Museum of Art

Juan painting his mural for The Claremont Museum of Art....still a little ways to go!

Install

Detail

Accompanying James Hueter: A Retrospective
Citrus Processor by Juan Thorp
Part of OUTSOURCE: The CMA Public Panel
Located in the eastern end of the Packing House courtyard, the Museum’s newest public initiative invites artists to create sight-specific outdoor installations. Pomona-based Juan Thorp created a new painting on canvas for the space, titled Citrus Processor. Furthering the artist's investigative imagery of deconstructed machinery, this work references the history of the Museum’s home, The Packing House, and the City of Claremont's unique association with the citrus industry.

James Hueter: A Retrospective
February 22 – May 3, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, February 21, 2009, 7 p.m.
This retrospective exhibition chronicles the work of James Hueter, one of our region’s most dedicated artists and best-kept secrets. Hueter epitomizes a generation of artists who established their reputations in Claremont following World War II and contributed importantly to the creation of the art-rich environment we enjoy today. A 1948 graduate of Pomona College and 1951 recipient of a Masters Degree from the Claremont Graduate School, Hueter has enjoyed a career that spans 60 years and continues to be as productive as ever.

James Hueter: A Retrospective surveys Hueter’s art from his early realist and surrealist paintings, through a long period of investigating and refining hybrid forms of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and architecture. The exhibition culminates with recent works that meld all of these disciplines, exploring multi-faceted realms of representation and illusion. With more than 75 works on view, new generations will discover an artist of diligent devotion to a vision sustained through decades of experimentation, refinement, and perseverance.

This is the first such exhibition to examine the entire range of James Hueter’s unique artistic vision, realizing a core mission of the Claremont Museum of Art to celebrate the region’s rich artistic heritage through in-depth exhibitions of its most prominent local heroes.


James Hueter: A Retrospective is generously sponsored by Gould Asset Management LLC of Claremont, CA.

Additional support for this exhibition has been provided by Dr. Janet Myhre, Mathematical Research Analysis Corporation,
Schenck & Schenck Photography, Bunny Gunner Art Services, and Swan Graphics.

Pomona Art walk review

Wow! what a great art walk! every venue was hopping.

Thank you all for coming out and being a part of the excitement!

We haven't quite recovered yet but here are some pictures.

You know what they say "a picture speaks a thousand words"

-Susie

Come join us for Valentine's Day

ALL U CAN EAT

The best thing happening on Valentine's day is the Pomona Art Walk. Bring your date and enjoy the art, dining and atmosphere the Pomona Arts Colony has to offer. If you don't have a date, find one, or enjoy some of the "Anti-Valentines" day shows at some of the galleries. We have some awesome shows lined up for your enjoyment, just check the venues Pomonaartscolony.com

We here at Bunny Gunner would like to invite you to ALL U CAN EAT.

All U Can Eat 2009 is our show that is not to be missed.
This will be our 4th annual show featuring the work of over
90 artists and close to 500 pieces of art. All the work in it
is 5" x 7" or smaller and the average price is around $50.
If you remember the past shows, the stuff flies off the wall,
so get here early...HERE'S A SAMPLE FROM EACH ARTIST....THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE!


Don't miss this chance to collect work from your favorite artists.


The dA Center for the Arts will have its annual opening for The Red Show a.k.a. Simply Red. The Red Show is an open call exhibition that's focus is on any artwork that contains or represents the color red. The color red is one of the most representational, symbolic and vibrant colors in the spectrum. Its presence alone commands the attention of the eye. Its uses range from representing love, anger, passion, decadence and pain. This dynamic color will surely inspire artists to create work that astounds us all.

However, The Red Show does not celebrate only the color red, it is also an eagerly anticipated highlight event for The dA Center for Arts. Running annually for the last 21 years, the show has become a staple in the community, one which people prepare for all year. At The dA itself, The Red Show has become a grounding tradition, anchoring itself in the community as a reliable idea with unexpected results. The Red Show acts as a beacon of crimson for local artists, fresh new artist, and Pomona Arts Colony patrons. Everyone is always welcome at The Red Show.


At SCA Gallery it's the

“THE BLUE SHOW"

Art Exhibition at SCA Project Gallery -101
Blue painting, photography, drawing, mixed-media, sculpture,
ceramics, video installation

Opening Reception, Saturday, February 14, 2009 6 - 9 pm
Concurrent with 2nd Saturday Pomona Art Walk

as the nearby dA Center has their annual RED SHOW,
we have the BLUES

Visit our new STREET LEVEL GALLERY #101,
Founders' Building 281 S. Thomas Street, Pomona

BLUE is the color of COOL, the color of CALM, the color of TRUE
BLUE is an OCEAN, or a NOTE, or a MOOD

Aladdin Jr.is having a Reception & Sneek Peek
Come taste samples of traditional Mediterranean food during the Second Saturday ArtWalk.

Farmer's Market and so sooo much more!!!!!

-Susie

The Claremont Forum Gallery

This one is for our good friends over at the Packing House in Claremont.
Claremont has their ArtWalk on the 1st Friday of every month.
It's really cool! Lots of art venues, especially in the Packing House.
There's The Claremont Museum of Art
Beautiful Crap with art from the very talented Karen Green
Amber Noland + Link Contemporary Art Presents:
ASAD FAULWELL

Thomas Stubbs  has some paintings in Replay, Thomas is also the featured artist on the Metro Pomona website,

He is an amazing painter!

The Claremont Forum Gallery
presents:
"PRINCE HARRY PLAYS POLO"

paintings and drawings by Warren Travis
opening reception:
Friday Evening, February 6, 2009
@6:00 p.m.

located at:
586 West First Street
Claremont
phone: 909-626-3066

Warren Travis

Education:
B.F.A. University of Texas l954
M.F.A. Stanford University l967
California College of Arts and Crafts
Warren has designed costumes and in some instances scenery for over l50 productions on the West Coast. Professional work with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, CPA, Mark Taper Forum and San Francisco Ballet.

Since his retirement from the University of California he has studied figure drawing and painting at The California College of Arts and Crafts under Tom Watts, Claire Brees and Melisse Herman.

Designs for the Department of Dramatic Art, University of California at Berkeley's Production of War of the Roses were exhibited on slides in the Prague Quadriennale.

The Theater Internationale Exhibition in Novi Sad Yugoslavia and Prague featured his designs for Judevine Vt. which he designed for ACT.

The Los Angeles Theatre Critics Award for Designs at the Mark Taper Forum.

The Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for his work with California Shakespeare Festival. Designs for King Lear, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Richard II. Pericles Prince of Tyre.

West Coast Dramalogue Award for Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry at American Conservatory Theatre and Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare at Ashland Shakespeare Festival.

Designs for San Francisco Ballet's Badinage with music by Stravinsky opened in the San Franciso Opera House and went on the European Tour with that company in l979.

Scene Design USA exhibition at Lincoln Center in New York City in l979. The designs featured were for Cyrano De Bergerac, designed for the Department of Dramatic Art in Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley, CA.

Warren Travis is a retired Professor Emeritus from Department of Drama, University of California at Berkeley where he taught Costume Design and Costume History and instituted The Costume Study Collection and Undergraduate Minor in Costume.

l997: Visiting Artist in Residence at Stanford University. Taught Design for Directors and designed costumes for Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, which reopened the recently remodeled and refurbished Memorial Theatre at Stanford.

Studied drawing at Cluny Museum- Paris, France.

-Susie

Jeff Soto at The Riverside Art Museum

Have you been to Riverside lately?
Well, if you're an artist or someone who really appreciates art,
you gotta get your butt down there.

The Riverside Art Museum is featuring a solo show of the works
of Jeff Soto: Turning in Circles. How is Jeff Soto, a world renowned artist, showing in Riverside you ask? Well, he's from there. Returning to his hometown to do an awesome show is really a treat for the rest of us who might not have a chance to see his work shown outside of California. Susie and I got to see it with an empty gallery, being able to enjoy each piece to it's fullest and spending plenty of time starring. The paintings have a wide variety of painterly brush work and rendered illustration mixed together.

The main wall is a huge installation painting where Soto painted on the wall and also attached wood discs with images on them.

Actually the pictures give you an idea, but you have to see the real thing for yourself.

A great time to go would be on this Thursday, February 5th, Soto will be there doing a book signing. It is also Riverside's art walk that is held every 1st Thursday from 6-9pm and a great time to see the other openings in the area. Thanks Jenelle Lowry for the Museum Passes and sharing this great exhibit with us.
-Juan

This Saturday in the Colony

To Celebrate the Closing Reception of The Gun Show this Saturday, Jan. 31

The dA will begin festivities at 5pm with a new and improved Martini Club

Most of the galleries will be open and The Farmers Market will be open at Thomas Plaza from 5PM to 9PM. Fresh produce from Certified California farmers, organic fruits and vegetables, crafts, food, live entertainment, and more. This Saturday night we will also feature a "Cruise Night", open to all show cars, and car clubs. The cars can be seen in the parking lot behind Thomas Plaza, between First and Second Streets.
(check out http://www.pomonaartwalk.com/ and http://metropomona.com/home.php for all the cool things happening around the colony Saturday)

Then at 8pm:

KSPC 88.7FM and the dA Center for the Arts presents

"General Profanity" – A concert series

Featuring

Bobb Bruno (http://www.myspace.com/bobbbruno)

Halloween Swim Team (http://www.myspace.com/halloweenswimteam)

Ojos Rojos (http://www.myspace.com/rojosojos)

Brian Dolphin (http://www.myspace.com/briandylandolphin)

Admission free, donations welcome!
FMI: promotions@kspc.org

http://dacenter.org/

Thursday Screen Printing Classes at the dA

*Thursday Night Screen Print Exposition*

The Screen Printing Exposition is a chance to watch the process. Every Thursday instructor Rolo Castillo will demonstrate different aspects of the screen printing process. It may involve t-shirts, fine art prints, show posters, or whatever Rolo is currently working on in the print shop. The exposition can be a prelude to the Saturday workshop which is more intensive, where the class as a whole creates a piece of art or a t-shirt to take home.

Every Thursday 6pm to 10pm • $10 • (limit 10 people)
Instructor: Rolo Castillo
Ages 14 to 105
Intensive Screen Printing Workshop
Every Saturday 2pm to 6pm
$75
dA Center for the Arts
252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766-1630
Tel: 909.397.9716
Fax: 909.629.8697
www.dacenter.org
www.myspace.com/dacenterforarts

Y-ART SALE

You don't want to miss this!

Here's a chance to pick up art by some well known local artist or art supplies at yard sale prices!

Y:-Art sale is January 31 on Saturday, 8-2 . It is to be held inside the Packing House in the Claremont Forum Gallery. 586 West First St. Claremont, 91711
Art and art related materials, beads, unique fabrics at yard sale prices. It is the place to buy art and art related things and materials at low prices...cheap! This is their fifth year. For more information you can speak to Jan Wheatcroft 909-626-3066
e-mail Claremontforum@gmail.com

My Sweetie, Juan Thorp will be there with his art and maybe some items from around the shop, panels, canvases, art supplies, frames, mats, etc...

-Susie

“Let them Eat Steak”

"Let them Eat Steak" at the newest gallery in Pomona, 5IFTYBUCKS GALLERY.

Originally in L.A. 5IFTYBUCKS GALLERY has seen many venues, and mostly in Pomona. Artist Rolo Castillo along with wife, Terry have successfully run the gallery and brought much energy and excitement to the Pomona Arts Colony. After L.A. the gallery moved to 2nd St. by the corner of Park Avenue, where it spent many years hosting some of the greatest shows in Colony history. Then later it visited Antique Row and was located next to Locust Plaza, now it has it’s new home on one of Pomona’s busiest streets, Holt Avenue. It is right along side the American Legion on the corner of Gibbs, one block East of Garey at 213 E. Holt Ave.

Where do they get all the energy? Along with 5IFTYBUCKS, Rolo and Terry have also successfully revitalized the dA Center for the Arts as Curator and Director. In the past, they also created 51Buckingham which was located at “The Vault” building and later moved to Taco Nazo. Popztlan was their gallery and home on the corner of 3rd and Main, and now this!? We love the energy these two bring to the Colony, it has been a motivation for us all to “GET UP OFF YOUR BUTT!”

So What’s in store for this Saturday?

Amy Bystedt and Sally Egan have both been photographers for over ten years, and have been friends for longer. They have always wanted to do a collaborative piece and now got the perfect opportunity when approached by Rolo. “Let Them Eat Steak” is a series of self-portraits in which the Artists portray themselves in common social situations while using the idea of the classic American snapshot to exaggerate these familiar activities.

Amy and Sally will both be on hand and ready to eat steak. The American Legion, being a great neighbor, is hosting a steak dinner. The dinner is from 5:30 – 7:30pm and is only $8. So get there early and get there hungry.

If that wasn’t enough on your plate, our Mayor will be on hand for a ribbon cutting ceremony at 5pm kicking off the opening of our newest gallery 5IFTYBUCKS.

-Juan and Susie