December 2010
1 post
We Have Moved!
This is my last blog entry here at Tumblr. Come follow us on our new blog at http://artoperation.blogspot.com/. I’m sorry for any inconvenience but promise there will be lots of fun to follow in the future! Making the switch is easy just visit our new blog and click on the Follow button located on the right hand side of the page. Our new Blogger platform allows you to write in and...
November 2010
6 posts
San Diego Art Project
Over the past three months our bathroom hallway has been covered with chalkboard paint so that you could write to us about what shade of green you think you are? Here are a few things that were up on the walls last week.
Patricia Patterson, Just Another Thursday
For months Now Olivia [Our Museum Director] and Mary [our Museum Registrar] have been working on curating the upcoming exhibition, Patricia Patterson: Here and There Back and Forth. Every Thursday at 9:30 a.m. they meet at Patterson’s house to discuss and work on the exhibition. To give you all a peek into this process and Patterson’s home, I snuck into last Thursday’s meeting to take some...
Artist in Residence Week Wrap-up
Artist in Residence week has now come to a close. It was invigorating to have all the artists back in the Museum galleries activating the space once again. In response to all your changes each artist has come back to their artworks and altered or added to them in order to create their ‘finished’ piece. As expected the artists surprised us with great happenings during this process and have...
Concert and Crash, A Huge Hit!
Last weekend [Friday Nov 12th, 2010] the Center Museum had its first ever sleepover in the Museum. This event included a concert with music by Meg & Bryan and Joel P. West with violinist Kelly Bennett [see image], a gourmet dinner designed and prepared by our very own Chef Justin Robinson and a fun adult friendly sleepover. Above are some pictures of the night. Thank you everyone who...
Leveled - Art Events in San Diego
This day has been nuts. We rarely have two TV camera crews come through the Museum in one day, but today was the day! Kelly Bennett came through representing NBC to take footage of Leveled and interview our artists. The clips from this footage along with Bennett’s piece on our show will air on NBC this Friday, November 12th around 4:30 p.m.
In addition we just finished up shooting with FOX...
Ingram Ober, Artist’s Website
Check out Leveled artist, Ingram Ober’s fantastic new website, http://ingramober.com/
Make sure to look at the images of The Red Century, they are gritty and inspiring!
October 2010
10 posts
Art Event, San Diego
If you love the sounds composed by Joel P. West and the Tree Ring in Wes Bruce’s current Art installation at the Center Museum you won’t want to miss their next show on November 4th at Sushi Art. Also performing that evening will be The Vision of a Dying World. Follow this link to Sezio’s website for more information.
http://sezio.org/news/Four-Day-Weekend.aspx
San Diego Art Event
Alternative Painting November 6, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Work with artist Ingram Ober to create alternative paintings using anything but a stuffy old paintbrush. Come bearing items you would like to drag through paint and onto the canvas. We will also have a few odd painting instruments in supply for you. Be ready to create, have fun and get messy! Below are some pictures of things that might be...
Wes Bruce - Concert and Crash
Concert and Crash, November 12th 6:00 p.m. …
Join Artist Wes Bruce, Museum Director Olivia Luther and me for an adventurous night in the Museum. Concert goers will hear the sonic qualities of musicians Joel P. West & the Tree Ring while amerced within Bruce’s Ms. Augustine Greane Fort structure. Those who wish to ‘crash’ with us will dine in the museum galleries,...
Art Contest, San Diego
If you haven’t yet submitted your drawing for Marisol Rendon’s Mouth Watering Contest you only have a few weeks left! The last day to enter the drawing contest is November 7th. Here are some images of drawings we have received so far.
The selected drawings will be projected onto Rendon’s plate sculpture in her current installation, Esperanto, as well as be printed on t-shirts to be sold in...
Dia de los Muertos ... Come if You’re Living
Monday November 1, 2010
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Join us for the Center’s 15th annual Day of the Dead Celebration! This FREE event is a wonderful combination of energy and emotion while we morn those we have lost and acknowledge our own mortality. The Museum’s Sculpture court be transformed by Eloy Tarcisio’s installation, Muerte de Todod Ofrenda de Participacion (Death Comes to Everyone, a...
More Letters to Ms. Augustine Greane
Here is another touching letter written by one of you to Ms. Augustine Greane.
“My name is Kaylee Renee Patton
I live in a world where imagination is
Dead. My heart aches for those without
The mind to see the wonders of the world
Ad I see them. But they can’t and so
They live there unaware of what
They are missing. But I know. And I
Live. And I see”
-Kaylee Renee...
Fantastic Forts - Fantastic Fun
Those that attended Fantastic Forts this past Saturday explored Wes Burce’s installation, Ms. Augustine Greane, discussed the imagination of fort building with Wes and built what became a brightly colored fort constructed of flags, blankets, sheets, pillows, rope, yarn, and paper behind the Museum in our very own Grape Day Park. I would like to thank Brian, Wes and his friends, Max, Emi and...
Off the Wall - Saturday October 30, 2:00 p.m. -...
Off the Wall - Saturday October 30, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Jump into action with artists Doris Bittar, Diane Gage and Jonathan Glasier as they explore Arabic, Aztec and Chinese culture through the art of pattern, poetry, music and dance. Also performing will be Zaytouna Dance Troupe, Muevete Dance Studio and Silk Road Dancers.
$7 Members, $10 non-members
As part of the Center’s Student...
Dream up, design and create your fantasy fort with...
Fantastic Forts - Saturday October 9, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Recommended for ages 5-10 This special event gives kids and young at heart adults the chance to work alongside artist Wes Bruce to build their very own fort. It will be a day of imagination, scavenger hunts, story telling and fort building. Guests should bring a bag...
Feedback
It is not often that our Museum staff has the pleasure of discussing our exhibitions and receiving feedback on them from other Museum professionals and artists. Thanks to SDEEG , a lovely group of people who took time out of their busy day and weathered horrid traffic to come to us, we got to do this yesterday. Sometimes one gets so close to something that it becomes hard to see it. My painting...
September 2010
7 posts
On a Mission
In concentrating on the success and needs of each day: getting up, showering, feeding yourself, getting to work on time, brewing coffee, checking your emails, getting your tasks done and sometimes just keeping your sanity while you trudge through all of the above, we can loose sight of the big picture. - Who are we? What do we want to be? What do we want to achieve in this life? This morning...
If it Moves... It May Eventually Break
Well, I may have cursed myself when I said, ‘Luckily so far nothing major or drastic has happened’. Much to our chagrin, the tricycle from The Green Century is temporarily off Museum grounds being repaired. Many of you who have visited over the past month rode your hearts out and put the tricycle into the bike hospital! The good news is, this means you are coming in, interacting and giving it...
This Week in Art – Last Blog on Earth
I highly recommend using Kinsee Morlan’s blog, Last Blog on Earth, as a resource on what is going on in the San Diego art scene. I check this weekly and always find things I am interested in, random and small or large and happening. You will find out about art organizations, small alternative spaces, new upcoming artists as well as learn more about those that have been around the block. But...
Check out the latest article on Leveled in the San...
Interactive installation takes visitors to a new ‘Leveled’ San Diego Union Tribune As the youngster rode in circles under the watchful eyes of his parents, Serena and Jason Piniol, at the California Center for the Arts Escondido Museum, …
Your Inner Child
Within The Secrets Surrounding the Life and Psychology of Ms. Augustine Greane there are hidden two-typewriters. Every day patrons visit the Museum and type to Wes and Ms. Augustine Greane about their inner most thoughts. At the end of each day the Museum guards [David, Joe, Danielle or Alex] collect these notes and hand them to me. I put them in a file to keep them safe until I next see Wes. ...
So I haven’t yet….
Blogged about the public’s interaction with the art and how it’s going. So here goes…
As always when you let people touch things, some of those things break. This is an issue the Museum anticipated and as expected some breakage has happened. Luckily so far nothing major or drastic has happened and we have dealt with things as they have come.
With that said so many things that we could not...
Ober Fever
Hot commodity, Ingram Ober who is currently showing The Green Century at our Museum and was in Here Not There at MCA La Jolla this Summer is in yet another show. Let’s rephrase that, is another show. Ingram Ober’s solo show, Vantasy opened last night at Southwestern College Art Gallery. Support the arts and enjoy this interesting exhibition inspired by 70’s van art and...
August 2010
10 posts
Meditative Motions and Furry Fruit
Some of our Museum programs are fast, paced packed with high energy hustle and bustle. As a driven and competitive person running around solving problems and watching the commotion, I enjoy these programs very much. With that said I often forget to slow down and enjoy things that do not include instant gratification or neon lights. This past Saturday not only did I get to revel in rediscovering...
Don't miss Almost Edible Art - This Saturday,...
Join us for Leveled’s first special event! Participants will delight in communal creation with exhibition artist Marisol Rendon. Learn how to stuff and sew fabric fruit and vegetable sculptures, all of which may be taken home with you at the end of the day. This workshop reflects Rendon’s current installation, Esperanto, on view at the Center Museum as part of the current...
Leveled, Opening Night
Can we say a busy whirl wind of creativity! There were playful, imaginative and fun filled people bursting from every seam. I can’t say enough how lucky I feel to have worked with the four artists in the show and how grateful I am to our prep crew. In addition none of this would have even happened if not for our Museum Director Olivia Luther and President Vicky Basehore, who supported...
North County Times
Check out the latest article written about Leveled in the North County Times.
Museum’s new ‘Leveled’ exhibit invites visitors to touch
Leveled's opening is just around the corner...
Come join us for Leveled’s opening night this Saturday, August 14, 2010.
Go ahead and touch it
Check out the latest article written by Kinsee Morlan on CityBeat and get to know more about Leveled: An Interactive Experiment in Art specifically two of the works in the show by Doris Bittar and Wes Bruce.
The Dulcimoon is Born
For her work Tec Tang Tarab, specifically the Tarab element, Doris Bittar in collaboration with Diane Gage and Jonathan Glasier created a one of a kind instrument which they have named the Dulcimoon. Within Tec Tang Tarab you will be able to slide an elegantly designed, richly colored blue metal panel across the wall from left to right and right to left which will pass over the Dulcimoon plucking...
Wes interview
Check out Wes and his ‘forts’ progress on his latest Sezio video.
http://vimeo.com/14009530
End of a long week.... beginning of another.
This week was amazing. We saw huge fabric sculptures hoisted into the ceiling. I took my first nap in Wes’ fort and crawled through its maze of rooms to see the delicately intimate items that are starting to fill it’s insides, Ingram rode his ‘green’ tricycle for the first time in the Tower Gallery, kick starting the process of installing his large scale green paintings. I gave a behind the...
Sezio
If you have never been on Sezio I highly recommend it as a wonderful place to get information on the art happenings of San Diego. Check out Sezio to read an article recently posted about Wes Bruce and his upcoming installation here at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum.
July 2010
8 posts
Meet Nathan, Leveled's Videographer
One of the great perks of Museum work is that everything is always shifting and no day is exactly like the one that came before it. We are constantly meeting new people; artists, patrons, collaborators, other museum professionals, journalists and for this exhibition, a videographer. Nathan is currently working to make a short video for each of the four works in Leveled that will document the...
Doris and her Wall(s)
Every round we end up asking our prep crew to do something totally different than we have ever done before. This time we asked them to build a bridge connecting three walls into one. Below you will see some stages of this process as well as the beginnings of Doris Bittar’s work.
Wes and Gallery One
It is really exciting to see Wes at work. Here are the beginnings of his Ms. Augustine Greane fort structure.
Wes at Work
The paperwork, phone calls, emails, faxes and meetings all become worth it the second the artists and their work drive into our parking lot. You plan and plan based off guesses and imaginary happenings of the future and sometimes in the thick of it you forget that there is this wonderful light at the end of the tunnel where all the things you planned for will come to fruition.
This past...
And the Magic Begins...
Sunday July 25th, 2010 was the first official day of Leveled Installation. I can’t tell you how exciting it is to watch the pieces of these ‘installations to be’ come through the Museum’s doors. Part of Marisol Rendon’s work, specifically a huge comfy and deliciously smooth white leather couch, was recently dropped off [see below image]. When the exhibition opens...
CCAE on Sign on San Diego WS Radio
Last Friday, July 16, Olivia Luther [our Museum’s Director], Leah Masterson [CCAE Public Relations Manager] and I went down to San Diego to talk to Drew for his Community Spotlight program on Sign on San Diego’s WS Radio. We talked about the Center, what we do there and what is coming up in the near future, thus Leveled! I was a little nervous but found I love radio and would be...
Meet Beth
Beth is Museum Coordinator here at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum and has been since January 2010. Beth is from the Detroit metro area and moved to California this past December. She hates winter weather and thus loves California and I am guessing will be a lifer. She just recently married Chris Meinhardt in Vegas, officiated by Elvis [you know the later years...
Leveled: The Beginning
It all started with a small idea. How can we make artists and their viewers have a closer relationship where the experience of art is the main focus?
One thing led to another and the exhibition Leveled: An Interactive Experiment in Art was born. To start the process I selected 15 local installation based artists and asked them to propose interactive installations that had some reference to...