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"Art is for everyone. The Artist. The Viewer. The Point is ART." APRIL 2020
"Art is for everyone. The Artist. The Viewer. The Point is ART."
APRIL
2020
Hope on Tewksbury, March 24, 2020George Tomberlin, AOPR Photo Group
Throughout this edition of the AOPR Newsletter you will find photographic images bymembers of the AOPR Photo Group. Although the Photo Group's monthly gatheringshave been discontinued for the duration of the Shelter in Place Order, the members aresharing work online with one another and here, in this newsletter, with all of us. Many
thanks to the photographers whose work serves to engage, entertain, and inspire us:Rita Gardner, Irene Hightower, Bill Johnston, Jr., DJ Leland, Sharon Taylor-Ward,George Tomberlin, and Louise Williams.
EXHIBITION CALENDAR In keeping with the current Shelter in Place Order and to help keep all of us as safeand well as possible, the following exhibits will remain in place until the Shelter inPlace Order is lifted and the risk of COVID-19 infection and spread is mitigated. Newexhibits will be installed when it is safe. If you are currently scheduled for an exhibit inone or more of the AOPR venues, please contact Bob Colin, Exhibition CommitteeCoordinator at [email protected] Thank you.
Caitlin Hibma in the Post Office Windows 104 Washington Ave., Pt. Richmond
If you are walking around town (practicing safe social-distancing), take time tolook at Caitlin Hibma's beautiful notebooks and works on paper.
Jim Dewitt at Kaleidoscope Coffee 109 Park Place, Point Richmond
Kaleidoscope Coffee is currently open for take-out.
Business hours as of March 31, 2020: Wednesday-Sunday, 9am - 4pm
Jean Brady, paintings El Sol Restaurant, 101 Park Place, Point Richmond
El Sol Restaurant is currently open for take-out. Business hours as of March 31, 2020: Monday-Saturday, 9am - 7pm
John Warhus, Louise Williams, and Dee Bell. Starbucks, 133 Park Place, Point Richmond
CURRENTLY CLOSED
AOPR Committee Members' Group Show Lara's Fine Dining, 1900 Esplanade Dr., Richmond
CURRENTLY CLOSED
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Taking It Outdoors (TIO) Installation DayDATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
(See Update below)
TAKING IT OUTDOORS (TIO) UPDATE
The response to Taking It Outdoors (TIO) has been tremendous. We’ve received over130 images of amazing art works. We have reviewed all of them and almost everyimage would make a wonderful banner to display in Point Richmond. We will create anddisplay a banner using at least one piece from each person who submitted work.
If we have enough banner sites, it is our intention to make and display morebanners. We wish we could be more precise at this time, but we won’t know how manybanners to make until we know how many places there are to hang them. Fortunately,we identified most of the sites before the Shelter in Place Order disrupted our efforts.We will provide more information as soon as we can get back on track. We appreciate your understanding and patience during this difficult time. Thank you so much for being wonderful artists and amazing supporters of AOPR andour community. The TIO Group
Cumulus Clouds Over Mount Tam at SunsetDJ Leland, AOPR Photo Group
Interview with AOPR member
RICHARD WARD
by Rita Gardner
Photo credit:
When did you first get interested in art?When I was a child my dad would take us to Chicago. We’d always go to the ArtInstitute, and he introduced me to the wonderful architecture in downtown Chicago. Istarted taking art classes in grade school. My fascination with photography began atabout age fifteen. I took photography classes in high school as an elective every year. Who were some of your influencers?In my high school photo class, the teacher (George Strimbu) introduced us to the great
master photographers, Weston, Ansel Adams, Stieglitz, Strand, Walker Evans, etc. Inthe photography department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, I met Aaron Siskind,Harry Callahan, and Chuck Swedlund. A big influencer was my photography professorHenry Holmes Smith at Indiana University. Other influencers: Josef Sudek, PaulCaponigro, Irving Penn, Michael Kenna, Eugene Atget and many more.
How does your working career and your art intersect?I trained as a professional photographer at an art school in Milwaukee, going on to get aBA and MFA in fine arts and photography at Indiana University with the idea of teachingat the college level. Instead, I went on to a career mostly in sales, usually photographyrelated, and continued with my own personal work. I had a very brief stint as anarchitectural photographer in Fresno and for the last 30 years I've been doing a greatdeal of photography with my work at Ifshin Violins in El Cerrito. I'm now working part-time and have been spending more and more time doing my own work.
What project are you working on these days?I'm doing still life using miniature figures on violins, toy cars (especially vintage DinkyToys), antique cameras and anything else. I've just started photographing vintage dollheads mostly from my sister's collection. I continue to photograph architecture. I've notdone much portraiture (never fully comfortable with it) so I decided I need push mycomfort level. For years, I've been working with the concept of motion, using longexposures so that moving objects blur but stationary objects remain sharp.
Tell us how you’ve used your interesting “mini-me” figure to create unusualphotographic tableaus?I've been working on still lifes with miniature figures for a while now and I wanted aminiature figure of myself. In Key West, Florida, I found a shop called "Mini Me" wherethey will create a miniature sculpture of yourself. I've included "mini me" in some still lifework and on our travels in front of important landmarks. It's a work in progress.
Photograph by Richard Ward
If you’d like to contact Rich Ward, email him at: [email protected]
If you would like to submit an interview of an AOPR member, please contact RitaGardner, Communications Coordinator, at [email protected] (text 510-289-7318). Interviews are limited to approximately 450 words and must include a photo ofthe interviewee or his/her/their work. All submissions will be reviewed by theCommunications Coordinator in advance of publication.
Fearless Photographers: Bob Colin, John Wordworth, and Richard WardSharon Tayor-Ward, AOPR Photo Group
AOPR ACTIVITIES All AOPR activities have been suspended until they are safe to resume. For informationabout the status of an activity, please contact the activity Chairperson. Thank you. Art TagChairperson, Bonnie Leonard, [email protected] The final presentation of "Faceless Portraits" has been postponed. It has beententatively rescheduled to September 13, 2020. Please take the summer tocreate and be safe. - Bonnie
Painting, Drawing, and Mixed-Media Discussion Group Contact, Betsy Kellas, [email protected] (Please put AOPR PDM in thesubject line.)
Studio Visit Activity Contact, Betsy Kellas, [email protected] (Please put AOPR SV in thesubject line.)
Have an idea for a member activity?
Here's what you do... If you have an idea for an activity you would like to create, please email thenewsletter editor at [email protected]
Menage a TroisLouise Williams, AOPR Photo Group
Would you like your work onAOPR's Facebook cover?
In order to make our Facebook page more engaging, Claudia Randel(AOPR's Facebook Editor) is inviting members to submit images of their artwork(including photographs taken in and around Point Richmond) for the AOPRFacebook cover (the large photo at the top of the AOPR profile). The artwork must beoriginal and created by the person who submits it.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINESTo prepare your image:
Because the Facebook cover is a horizontal (landscape) format, your images mustbe wider than they are high. You may need to crop your image to fit the format.
Size your image at least 820 pixels wide by 312 pixels high with at least 200 dpiresolution
To submit your image:Send an email to Claudia Randel [email protected] with:
Your nameA two-sentence description of your imageYour photos (attached)
Claudia will contact you when she has received your images.
PLEASE NOTE: By submitting an image to Claudia, you are agreeing to let AOPRreproduce your image for publicity and promotional purposes.
How a Neighbor Child Kept Busy...Rita Gradner, AOPR Photo Group
MEMBERSHIP NEWS Membership Coordinator, Nancy Whitley
We announced last month that we were ending our 2020 membership drive at the endof March. However, with the current state of affairs, we will continue sending thenewsletter to those why have not paid. When the calls for exhibitions resume, you willneed to be a member to respond.
If you do not intend to renew, please send an email stating suchto [email protected] . To renew, you may pay online or by check. To pay online goto https://artsofpointrichmond.com/join. Select your payment option and click the ‘buynow’ button. Online payments are subject to the small PayPal fee. If you chose to pay by check, make it payable to Arts of Point Richmond. Mail it to Artsof Point Richmond, P.O. Box 70471, Richmond, CA 94807. Stay safe and creative!
Spring Poppies
Irene Hightower, AOPR Photo Group
AOPR FINANCE$ Finance Coordinator, Irene Hightower
VOLUNTEERS WILL STILL BE NEEDED AFTER WE GET THE “ALL CLEAR”
These two types of volunteering jobs are important, and you only need to do them a fewtimes a year. Please consider helping!
Volunteers are needed to help with organizing, inventorying and maintainingsupplies in our Bridge Storage locker.
Volunteers are also needed to assist Richard Melvin in transporting supplies,exhibition and other equipment to events during the year.
To volunteer or for more information, contact: Irene Hightower: [email protected]
On the Bay Trail at the Richmond HarborBill Johnston, Jr., AOPR Photo Group
MEMBER-TO-MEMBER (M2M)BULLETIN BOARD
Resources: AOPR member Marilyn Hertzberg shares this link to financial resources for artists: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876893/emergency-funds-for-freelancers-creatives-losing-income-during-coronavirus
AOPR Finance Coordinator Irene Hightower shares these "virtual tour" sites to "visit"while sheltered in place: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/virtual-tours
https://www.sfmoma.org/museumfromhome/
Calls for Entry:Please contact the individuals and organizations sponsoring the following calls toconfirm deadline and exhibition dates. Thank you.
"EXPRESSIONS 2020", a national juried exhibition, Marin Society of Artists , San Rafael, CA Entry deadline: April 6, 2020 Exhibition dates: May 21 through June 13, 2020 Open to all United States resident artists 18 and over. You are invited to submit digitalimages of up to a total of ten (10) of your original works, not previously shown in aMarin Society of Artists juried exhibition. Open to all media except video, film orinstallations. Only online entries, via CaFE, with digitally uploaded images will beaccepted. Exhibition of accepted artwork will be in our gallery in San Rafael, CA Juror:Andrea Schwartz of Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California More information HERE.
"Left Coast" Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of ContemporaryArt (MarinMOCA ), Novato, CA Entry deadline: April 16,2020 Exhibition dates: June 6 through July 19, 2020 Juror: Ken Harmon Hashimoto, curator, gallerist and arts writer based in New York City.
AOPR members are encouraged to check the following "call sites" for comprehensivelists of local, regional, national and international calls to artists:California Arts Council Call for Entry (CaFE) EntrythingyMembers are encouraged to share call sites and specific calls for entry in all areas ofcreative expression. Send information to [email protected]
Help Wanted/Help Available:
If you're using this time to look through family photos, travel pictures, even your ownartwork, Mom & Pop can help you turn them into books, posters, stickers, and other
print media without leaving your home!Contact: Kelly "MOM" Nicolaisen at Mom & Pop Art Shop
http://www.mompopartshop.com https://www.facebook.com/mompopartshop/
24 W Richmond Ave., Point Richmond, CA 94801 510-730-1154
Empty Ink Cartridges Wanted: Staples gives AOPR a $2.00 credit for each empty inkcartridges brought in for recycling. This credit helps pay for printing we do there. If you
have any cartridges to donate, please bring them to the next AOPR event and givethem to any AOPR Coordinator or contact [email protected].
AOPR members are welcome to share information about art-related services they needor can provide. Send information to [email protected].
May Newsletter Submission Deadline:
April 29, 2020
To submit art-related images and information:
Please send submissions to [email protected] current AOPR members may submit information for publication.The Editor reserves the right to edit submission copy to fit a formatted space.The Editor reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not clearly aligned with themission of the organization.
Arts of Point RichmondMISSION STATEMENT
The Arts of Point Richmond is a community association established to enrich our community by promoting
support, appreciation and exposure for the Arts.
LEADERSHIP COORDINATORS Communications Coordinator - Rita Gardner
Membership Coordinator- Nancy WhitleyExhibitions Coordinator - Bob Colin
Finance Coordinator - Irene HightowerRecording Secretary - Caitlin Hibma
Founder - Altha Humphrey AOPR Newsletter Editor - Betsy Kellas
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