California Desert Arts Incubator

Katherine Finchy Kids' Gallery at PS Library

Tuesday, February 5th - Features a Kid’s Gallery Opening Featuring Art from Katherine Finchy Elementary School at the Palm Springs Library.

Celebrate the budding artists from Katherine Finchy Elementary School. Enjoy light refreshments as you view the artwork.

The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Youth Room.
For more information call Youth Services at 323-8199.
The Palm Springs Public Library is located at 300 S. Sunrise Way, on the corner of Baristo and Sunrise in Palm Springs. 760-322-READ, PS library

Robert Dunahay

-Photo by Kimberly Nichols

Robert Dunahay is one of the role model artists of the desert in that he is a full-time artist whose discipline takes him daily to his enormous warehouse studio in Palm Springs where he consistently pumps out brilliance in varieties. He was recently featured in Palm Springs Life's annual Art and Culture issue and can be found right now in The Bottom Line Magazine. Pick one up at newsstands around town.

Janssen Art's Featured Painting for January

FEATURED PAINTING FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY

W a r m S a n d 2007
24" x 24"
Mixed media on canvas
$800
For more information.

Calling All Youth Artists! - Spread the Word

If you are a youth artist, this is one of the best art auctions per year to submit work for. Not only are you hung in a real El Paseo gallery, but you have the chance to win a sum of money if you win first, second or third. Also, your money goes towards a good cause! For more information, email greg@gayassociatedyouth.org.

Introduction to Poetry Workshop

INTRODUCTION TO WRITING POETRY
UCR-PALM DESERT EXTENSION
WINTER QUARTER, 2008

Monday nights, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
January 28th - March 4th
Eight (8) class meetings total

Instructor: Ruth Nolan, M.A.
Associate Professor of English, College of the Desert
poet, author, editor

Designed for all levels of aspiring poets! The class will meet in a supportive, critique-based workshop and discussion format. We'll review basic form and techniques of poetry writing, and most of all, enjoy poetry!

For more information and registration:

University of CA, Riverside Extension
phone registration: (800) 442-4990
Online registration-- keyword: "poetry"
Introduction to Writing Poetry: code #073AHCC07

you may also contact Ruth Nolan at runolan@aol.com (760) 964-9767

Trapdoor Poetry to Feature Randolph Maxted

Trap Door Poetry
is pleased to present
Randolph Maxted
Sunday, January 13
6 - Open Mic
6:30 - Guest Reader
 
Born and raised in Canada, Randolph has lived in California almost half his life.  He is a dual citizen and lives in Palm Springs.  He studied theatre and English literature at Montreal’s McGill University, and has been writing poetry for 30 years.  He was involved in the literary scenes in Vancouver and Santa Barbara before moving here.  In Vancouver, he wrote and directed several plays, and both there and since coming to the States has had pieces published in several literary magazines.  In Santa Barbara, he did readings of his work on community cable television, in addition to being involved in numerous solo and group readings.  Since arriving in Palm Springs, Randolph has been involved with the Desert Pride Community Center, where he twice co-produced the art auction benefit, “Tasty Plateful”.  He has published four chapbooks, and plans to release another collection of poetry in 2008, as well as a memoir.  Randolph publishes and co-edits(with Lee Balan) “The Intriguist”, a grassroots literary journal, which will put out its fifth issue shortly.  He says, “I think it is of utmost importance that we writers and artists support each other, partly because there is a much larger segment of the general population than us that will not support us.  Our common goal is to share and foster thought and creativity, and always to make it fun and empowering to do so. ”
 
 
Palm Springs Wine & Art - 242 N. Palm Canyon Drive, PS - 325-9991
 
 
“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop its going to sleep.” Salman Rushdie

DEZART SHOW

What: Group Show – “CONTEMPO TRIO”
Aaron Jasinski, Judy Poldi, Silvia Poloto

When: January 3 – February 10, 2008
Artists Reception:
Saturday, January 12th, 6-8pm

Where: Dezart One Gallery
2688 Cherokee Way (Cherokee Way & Matthew Dr.)
Palm Springs, CA
(760) 328-1440

THREE WOMEN : THREE VISIONS

View works by artists Kimberly Nichols, Elizabeth Stephenson and Jacque Tatum at the Desert Pride Center. Opening reception is January 12th, Saturday, from 7-9 p.m. Refreshments will be served. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the art will benefit the Desert Pride Center.