Posted: September 25th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, City, Event | Tags: Art, Chalk Art, City of Santa Clarita, Festival, Street Painting | No Comments »
Everyone loved Bella Via – Bella Via was great! The Newhall Land and Farming Company created the event as a marketing tool for Valencia 1n 1999, and in doing so pumped this community full of creative spirit and energy. They shut down Town Center Drive and turned the street into an explosion of color and shape, joy and beauty. The visual artists loved it, the kids loved it, and the public loved it. Newhall Land loved it, but killed it because… well, it’s complicated. They got the pictures and the publicity, but did not get the national sponsorship required to continue the costly festival. There were four good years, though, and when Bella Via went away it was sorely missed. Enter the City of Santa Clarita. After many complaints, the City made the decision to bring the street painting festival back to life in the form of the Santa Clarita Street Art Festival in 2005.
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Posted: September 12th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art | Tags: Art, College of the Canyons | No Comments »
College of the Canyons has a really great art gallery tucked into the first floor of the M Building (no, my bad, now Mentry Hall), and there is an outstanding student exhibition up right now. The COC photo students were selected to take part in a mentorship with photographer Karen Halverson as part of “Where We Live: Student Perspectives,” a project sponsored by the Getty Museum. The fruit of this process is a focused collection of landscapes and otherscapes available for your viewing pleasure, but only for another few days – the show comes down Saturday, September 22nd. The gallery is open 11-3 Monday through Thursday, and Saturday from 10-2. Get there quick.
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Posted: September 4th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Event | Tags: Art, calarts, evelyn serrano, the other project | No Comments »
This will be something to see. Artist Evelyn Serrano will erect a refugee tent on a hillside overlooking Valencia for her work “The Other Project” – a weeklong look at that which we think of as different from us or ours. Her temporary home will host a number of performances, discussions, and workshops scheduled throughout the mornings and evenings (cooler than noon) beginning September 11th. Events include a Town Meeting between City officials, members of the Santa Clarita Arts Advisory Committee, the public and the CalArts Community, and also a public conversation with Gustavo Areliano – author of LA Weekly’s award winning column “Ask A Mexican.”
For more information, visit theotherproject.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Photos from the event below
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