Dreamweavers and Crocker Museum News
Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento , and Dreamweavers Theater in Napa are two art venues who produce newsletters to which I subscribe. To follow is information about upcoming performances and exhibitions with links to their respective websites. - Viktorya
See the Edwin Deakin exhibit before it’s too late and get geared up for the May Art Auction.
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience celebrated painter Edwin Deakin's beautiful works depicting picturesque scenes of California and European landscape, architecture and still life. Exhibit closes April 20.
ASG Evaluation Day
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 10 AM-4 PM
The Art Service Group will sponsor an appraisal session that focuses on evaluations of oriental objects and art with Lee Kavaljian and Randall Abbot. Informal appraisals are $10 per item or $45 for five items. Call Marilyn at 916.564.1230 for an appointment.
Coming Up: Art Auction 2008
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 5 PM
GENERAL TICKETS $150 • PATRON TICKETS $200
Mark your calendars for our very popular Art Auction! This is your chance to collect works of art by the region’s most distinguished artists. Enjoy a summer evening filled with gourmet food, fine wine and friends. Patron tickets on sale now. General Tickets go on sale April 15. For reservations or additional information, please call 916.808.7843.
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The Last Act is a Solo, by Robert Anderson. One Weekend ONLY in MAY!
Dreamweavers to Hold Fundraiser for Alzheimer's Awareness
Written by L. Krohn
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Dreamweavers presents an exclusive fundraising event hosted by the "Rockin' Ramblers", the Alzheimer’s Association's North Bay staff team, to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Wine Country Memory Walk. The event features exclusive performances of Robert Anderson's The Last Act is a Solo. The powerful one-act play will be performed in the intimate Black Box venue at 8pm on May 2nd and 3rd, and at 2pm on May 4th. Complimentary refreshments will be served before all performances.
Tickets are $40 for the evening performances, and $35 for the matinee and must be paid for in advance.
Personal checks, MasterCard, Visa and American Express are all accepted.
Reservations may be made by calling the Alzheimer's Association at 707-573-1210.
All proceeds over and above the royalty fees go directly to the Alzheimer's Association Wine Country Memory Walk. In addition to the proceeds going to a worthy cause, the performance is sure to touch all who are fortunate to see this play. We, at Dreamweavers, appreciate your support and are pleased to bring this poignant and moving play to you.
Crocker eNews – Don’t Miss the Edwin Deakin Exhibit at the Crocker
Last Chance to See the Edwin Deakin ExhibitionDon’t miss the opportunity to experience celebrated painter Edwin Deakin's beautiful works depicting picturesque scenes of California and European landscape, architecture and still life. Exhibit closes April 20.
ASG Evaluation Day
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 10 AM-4 PM
The Art Service Group will sponsor an appraisal session that focuses on evaluations of oriental objects and art with Lee Kavaljian and Randall Abbot. Informal appraisals are $10 per item or $45 for five items. Call Marilyn at 916.564.1230 for an appointment.
Coming Up: Art Auction 2008
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 5 PM
GENERAL TICKETS $150 • PATRON TICKETS $200
Mark your calendars for our very popular Art Auction! This is your chance to collect works of art by the region’s most distinguished artists. Enjoy a summer evening filled with gourmet food, fine wine and friends. Patron tickets on sale now. General Tickets go on sale April 15. For reservations or additional information, please call 916.808.7843.
Refer Your Friends to Crocker eNews and Win $50 at Arden Fair Mall!
Dreamweavers Troupe, Inc.
Dreamweavers is located at 1637 Imola Avenue, to the rear of the Riverpark Shopping Center in Napa, California. 707-255-LIVE (5483).The Last Act is a Solo, by Robert Anderson. One Weekend ONLY in MAY!
Dreamweavers to Hold Fundraiser for Alzheimer's Awareness
Written by L. Krohn
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Dreamweavers presents an exclusive fundraising event hosted by the "Rockin' Ramblers", the Alzheimer’s Association's North Bay staff team, to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Wine Country Memory Walk. The event features exclusive performances of Robert Anderson's The Last Act is a Solo. The powerful one-act play will be performed in the intimate Black Box venue at 8pm on May 2nd and 3rd, and at 2pm on May 4th. Complimentary refreshments will be served before all performances.
Tickets are $40 for the evening performances, and $35 for the matinee and must be paid for in advance.
Personal checks, MasterCard, Visa and American Express are all accepted.
Reservations may be made by calling the Alzheimer's Association at 707-573-1210.
All proceeds over and above the royalty fees go directly to the Alzheimer's Association Wine Country Memory Walk. In addition to the proceeds going to a worthy cause, the performance is sure to touch all who are fortunate to see this play. We, at Dreamweavers, appreciate your support and are pleased to bring this poignant and moving play to you.
Celebrated painter Edwin Deakin's beautiful works depicting picturesque scenes of California and European landscape, architecture and still life were incredibly moving. Fortunately, I got to view the exhibition before it closed on 20 April 2008.
While looking at Edwin Deakin's paintings and sketches in the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento CA, one could appreciate this amassed collection of his work as the true gift it was, that the Crocker pulled this exhibition together. To follow is a description from the Crocker, with a Deakin quote.
Deakin knew the Crocker Art Gallery (as it was formerly called) well and thought highly of it. He visited in 1888, three years after Margaret Crocker donated the gallery building and collection to the citizens of Sacramento. Impressed, Deakin spoke warmly of his visit:
He says he doubts if in the Louvre the doors are finer than in this gallery. Of the paintings Mr. Deakin gives a frank and critical opinion, commending most in comparison with similar works abroad, and . . . thinks the city possessed of a great treasure in such a property. The artists agree that the School of Design is situated in rooms not surpassed, if equaled by any. For more information about the artist
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa952.htm
Deakin's imagined and real worlds came through his brush. I stood in front of his "Grapes and Architecture" paintings for several minutes, and then sat in a chair looking directly at the painting again and again, quickly jotting notes. (I'm sorry to say I couldn't find an image of these paintings to show here.) My notes follow:
Deakin's "Grapes and Architecture" have a musky, grayed atmosphere, out of which finely rendered grapes extend toward the viewer, as if they are welcome to be picked, plucked, and popped into one's mouth for a succulent squirt of sweet sugar from this ripened fruit of the vine. As a painter and one who has painted grapes, bunches and bunches of them, these Deakin grapes are iconic and one can see the relationship to one of his endeavors of Japanning. The atmosphere Deakin creates fills the canvas background's outer regions with a hazy, smoky quality, muting the subject. There seems to be little transition from the gray phthalo blue/green with tinges of turquoise to the foreground grapes in robust purple, dark and full, rounded and transparent.
It's an amazing accomplishment, achieving contrast that doesn't have to be grounded in reality, yet the realism is so ultimately satisfying that even one like myself who prefers abstract expressionism, can drool and dream of having the control to paint like Deakin.
The conversation between viewer and the artwork itself rambles through so many realities that for a painter like myself, while looking closely at perspective, use of color, atmosphere and image placement on the canvases, questions came up of how did he do that? Beyond that a desire to explore realism was evoked.
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Hi.... I see that you've updated your website/blog ....looks good... but I thought we were going to trade links... I do have yours on my blog
thanks
Ann
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Mea culpe, Ann. Complete oversight on my part -- you now are on my friend's list. Thanks! V
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