Tag: Arts Fri, November 20, 2009
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The Pulsating Landscapes of Artist Richard Mayhew
Nov 13, 2009, by Maureen Davidson News
LANDSCAPES, they’re called—but the toneful, moody, electric pieces in Richard Mayhew: After the Rain, at the Museum of Art and History through Nov. 22, are not portraits of topography. In an interview in the intimate Art Forum gallery, on the museum’s top floor, the slender, elegant Mayhew discusses his vivid, animated works, which lifted my spirits the first time I saw them.
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Cabrillo’s Creative Complex
Oct 09, 2009, by Traci Hukill Community
To the approximately 1600 people who snapped up free tickets to this weekend’s gala opening of Cabrillo’s new Visual and Performing Arts Complex in a freakish 56-minute display of enthusiasm for the arts on the first day tickets became available: Congratulations. Your efforts were not in vain. The three “sold”-out performances, a mélange of music, theater and dance, will be staged in a shiny new showpiece of a venue, the Crocker Theater, the crown jewel in a glitteringly modern complex 11 years in the making.
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The Tannery Puts On A Party
Jun 02, 2009, by Jaime Nabrynski News
With the live-work spaces at the Tannery arts complex complete, this weekend’s Grand Opening sheds light on the next phases of development: performance art spaces and studios.
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Ten Questions for Amber Coverdale Sumrall
May 27, 2009, by Staff Community
The Santa Cruz poet answers our burning questions about what she’s reading, what she’s learned and what she’s currently snacking on.
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Art in Uncertain Times
May 05, 2009, by Don Rothman OpinionWe are searching for new paradigms with which to understand the global economy, and this search includes bewilderment at how greed can be shameless, lies and selfishness can abound even among decent people, and, despite our access to vast amounts of information, how our ignorance is (sometimes tragically, sometimes comically) irrepressible. It occurs to me that it’s through our exposure to art that we have developed a capacity to keep asking “what if?” sorts of questions and to discern the human consequences of catastrophes. Art can prompt us to hope for…and design…a better way.
