California Desert Arts Incubator

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.

Rancho Mirage Library Features Barones

“LET’S FACE IT”
Larger-than-life
Hyper-realistic cutout wood portraits
By Karen & Tony Barone

Rancho Mirage Library Exhibition
December 2007 through March 2008

The portraits in this exhibition were executed mostly in 2002. In these works the Barones have paid a return visit to classical portraiture using elements of Italian Renaissance drawing. Using variations of sienna and umber the Barones have created large- scale photo-realistic portraits of the head and face only. Because the Barones consider themselves primarily sculptors, they uniquely execute the portraits on one-inch thick maple veneered wood using the natural wood grain and coloration as the medium ground.

The Barones describe this photorealism style of portraiture as “…not portraits of the subject, but rather portraits of a photograph of the subject.” Keeping one foot in the “artist as craftsman” tradition of 15th century Europe, the Barones carve away the silhouette, freeing the subject from its rigid rectilinear material. The unique combination of materials and hyper-realist execution allows them to gently and carefully place the other foot solidly in the contemporary art world.

Modern Masters Photo Open Tomorrow Night Dec. 19th

PHOTO OPENING AT Modern Masters
December 19th
5-8:30 p.m.

Featuring artwork by:
David Blank
Christopher Cichocki
Sherri Breyer
Peter Gurnz
Tom Johnson
Kimberly Nichols
Yekaterina Yushmanova

73-200 El Paseo
Suite 3A
Palm Desert, CA.

Photo Opening In Conjunction With Film Festival

P E R S P E C T I V E S
Photo Open Featuring:
STEVEN ARNOLD
SUNNY McNAIR
JANUARY 12TH – FEBRUARY 9TH 2008
JANSSENARTSPACE

In conjunction with the Palm Springs Film Festival
Janssenartspace is proud to present the photographic work
of Steven Arnold and Sunny McNair in PERSPECTIVES, an exhibit where two
levels of existences, meet at a common plane.
Opening Reception will be held on January 12th 2008 6-9pm.

Regrettably, Steven Arnold passed away in 1994. His photographs can be seen
in several museums worldwide, including Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Private collections include Salvador Dali, Cher, Goldie Hawn, Lauren Hutton,
Yves. St. Laurent and many others. Born in Berkeley, California, Steven’s black
and white photographs are staged eroticism. He uses dramatic lighting, much
like we see in old film noir movies. Arnold uses a mixture of “pleasure-dome,
prop-house wonderland.” Inspired by friend Salvador Dali, the staged photograph
was a perfect opportunity for Steven Arnold to avoid the compromises one was
forced to make in commercial filmmaking. One of Steven’s models and friend,
Brett Kester, has accumulated several original, signed photographs of the
artist known as Steven Arnold, which will be exhibited at Janssenartspace
through February 9th.

On the other side of the spiritual universe we have Sunny McNair in her
first gallery exhibit. At a young age, she began with sketching, painting and
now photography. The technique behind her “morphography” was discovered
by accident, but she has since made some very purposeful contributions to the
world of monochromatic photography. The misshapen faces reflect her eccentric
upbringing, in all its many facets. In her work, she attempts to capture those
fleeting moments where a plane of existence is out of whack, where we cannot
decide between one or the other, where we love and hate at the same time,
and where our greatest discoveries are made. Gathering inspiration from the
wonderful randomness of it all, she takes picture after picture, looking for
the next rhapsody of expression.

JANSSENARTSPACE. 333 S. Indian Canyon Drive. Palm Springs, Ca. 92262
760.864.9922 . Stevenjanssen.com

A Chance to Buy Great Art!

ARTrageous Auction 2008 – A Contemporary Arts Auction at the Palm Springs Art Museum
Monday, January 28, 2008, 6:00 pm

Get ready for the eye-popping ARTrageous Auction 2008, sponsored by the Palm Springs Art Museum's Contemporary Art Council for the purpose of raising funds for acquisitions, programs and exhibitions. All who attend the evening will enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres while viewing the museum-quality artwork. After a catered dinner the live auction will begin, conducted by noted auctioneer James G. Niven. The highly acclaimed artists in this auction include: Louise Bourgeois, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Frank Stella and many others. Sharing the excitement of the heated bidding is part of the experience; it’s absolutely—ARTRAGEOUS! All works to be auctioned will be on exhibition in the Museum on January 25, 26 and 27.

The Auction is chaired by Myrna Kaplan and Audrey Strachan with Marilyn Loesberg for Art Acquisitions and Carol Frankel and Jeanne Levitt for Underwriting. For more information please call 760.322.4823.

San Francisco Poet Evelyn Posamentier Coming to the Art Museum

On Thursday December 20, 2007 noted San Francisco poet Evelyn Posamentier will read at the Palm Springs Art Museum as part of the Live Out Loud! Poetry Series. The reading will take place in ZONE 101 at 6 p.m. and is free to the public.

Evelyn Posamentier’s poems have appeared in The Diagram, Born Magazine, 3 am Magazine, The SoMa Literary Review, The Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Nthposition and Drunken Boat.

The Live Out Loud! Poetry Series continues this year with Featured Poets on Thursday’s Free community Evenings. The readings take place in ZONE 101 from 6-8 pm on the third Thursday of each month. This year the evenings will be split among Featured Poets for the first hour and an open mic session welcoming audience participating for the second hour.

Funding for the series is generously provided from Poets & Writers Magazine through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

New Gallery Opening in P.S.'s Backstreet Art District

“The figure has always been a source of inspiration for me. Its ever changing shapes, colors and lines have been a stimulus in my exploration process for 35 years. Figurative drawing and painting became my conduit to the beauty of sensuality, flow of spirit and the ties to earth.”

I.M.A.G.E.S. BY Gideon
Gallery Location:
Backstreet Art district
2680 Cherokee Way
Palm Spring, CA 92264
Phone: 760.250.1521
Email: info@ImagesByGideon.com
Website: www.ImagesByGideon.com
Opening Hours:
Wed. through Fri. 2:30-5:00 pm
Sat. 1:00-5:00 pm
Sun. 1:00-4:00 pm

The Grand Opening is being held Saturday, December 8, 2007 from 6 to 9 pm.