SJICA MONOTYPE MARATHON
Opening reception, Friday March 5, 2010, 6pm to 8pm.
Silent Auction, Saturday March 27th, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Preparations are underway at The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) for the gallery’s annual Monotype Marathon – a print exhibition and fundraising event that features more than 100 original works on paper created by some of the Bay Area’s finest printmakers. The exhibition runs from March 6th through March 27th at the ICA and culminates with a silent auction fundraising event on the evening of Saturday, March 27th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, March 5th from 6pm – 8pm, preceding the monthly South First Friday Gallery Walk.
The 2010 Monotype Marathon event begins with an intensive weekend of art making by more than eighty professional artists in printmaking studios throughout the Bay Area. These artists are invited by the ICA to produce a number of monotypes during the marathon printmaking weekend event held in January. The ICA selects the best work produced by each of the artists to showcase in the exhibition and to offer for sale in the silent auction. Proceeds raised from the auction go toward the ICA’s exhibitions and educational programs.
The ICA seeks support for the Monotype Marathon from its members and from the community by selling sponsorships of $300 that enable artists to participate in the printmaking workshops. Each $300 sponsorship donation serves as the opening bid on any of the works in the auction. All Monotype Marathon sponsors are guaranteed to receive a unique work on paper from the auction. Sponsorships are on sale now. Contact the ICA by phone (408.283.8155) or email (info@sjica.org) to purchase sponsorships.
I am very excited and honored to be one of the artists producing a monotype for this annual event.
More information HERE.
Preview the prints HERE.
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BAY VAN GALLERY - Closing Reception
Bay Area Visual Arts Network Gallery, featuring work by Modesto Covarrubias.
Closing Reception - November 19, 2009 5 to 7pm
455 17th Street
Oakland (between Broadway and Telegraph, just a block from BART)
(510) 508-1764
The exhibition runs through November 30 and is available for viewing by appointment. (510) 508-1764
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Closing Reception - November 19, 2009 5 to 7pm
455 17th Street
Oakland (between Broadway and Telegraph, just a block from BART)
(510) 508-1764
The exhibition runs through November 30 and is available for viewing by appointment. (510) 508-1764
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BAY VAN GALLERY
The Bay Area Visual Arts Network Gallery will be featuring the work of Modesto Covarrubias in October 2009.
October 2nd to November 30th, 2009
Opening reception, Thursday October 15th, 6pm to 9pm
Closing reception, Thursday November 19th, 5pm to 7pm
Bay VAN is currently accepting submissions for their 2010 Artist Registry.
You can also join Bay VAN here.
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GALLERY 555 - OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA @ CITY CENTER
Modesto Covarrubias & Benicia Gantner
New works by each artist presented in the voluminous space of 555 12th Street in downtown Oakland.
Exhibition Dates: August 20 to November 13, 2009.
Opening Reception: August 20, 5pm - 7pm
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New works by each artist presented in the voluminous space of 555 12th Street in downtown Oakland.
Exhibition Dates: August 20 to November 13, 2009.
Opening Reception: August 20, 5pm - 7pm
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YOUNG AMERICANS on GALLERY CRAWL - KQED
The kind folks at KQED visited the Mills College Art Museum a few weeks ago and have featured the exhibition YOUNG AMERICANS in their online Gallery Crawl series. Enjoy.
Stoked Americans
or here on YouTube
or here via iTunes
If you haven't seen the show yet, come by before May 31, 2009!
Here are some blogs that have featured the show:
Talking Art
If You Can't Make It Good Make It Big
Art Business
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Stoked Americans
or here on YouTube
or here via iTunes
If you haven't seen the show yet, come by before May 31, 2009!
Here are some blogs that have featured the show:
Talking Art
If You Can't Make It Good Make It Big
Art Business
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YOUNG AMERICANS
May 3, 2009 through May 31, 2009.
Opening reception, Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7 to 9pm.
Come experience Young Americans, the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Featuring work by 10 emerging artists:
Andrew Witrak, Annie Vought, Brian Caraway, Esther Traugot, Gina Tuzzi, Joseph Berryhill, Kate Pszotka, Leigh Merrill, Modesto Covarrubias, and Steuart Pittman.
The Mills College Art Museum is proud to present Young Americans, featuring works by the 2009 Master of Fine Arts degree recipients. This exhibition provides an opportunity to see works in all media created by a promising group of emerging artists eager to share what they have been developing during their graduate program with a broader audience. This year’s exhibition is curated by Terri Cohn, Bay Area writer, independent curator, and faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In the brochure accompanying the exhibition, Cohn observes that the ten artists who will receive their MFA degrees this year are unusual in their choice to name their MFA show Young Americans. The title situates them as citizens emerging within a national context, and suggests that in addition to their collective experiences as youthful Americans—with the burden of history this implies, this identity also affords them an intrinsic right to personal freedom. A desire for a sense of security—articulated in various metaphoric and formal ways—is one fundamental concern expressed through their work.
Kate Pszotka’s fascination with the idea of home and stability has motivated her consideration of family members, which she represents iconographically with everyday objects, realized as paper cut out line drawings. Gina Tuzzi’s seemingly simple, naïve structures—houses, barns, huts—stacked on trucks to become rolling homes, or represented as drawings, underscore a sense of safety and comfort in the mythic past of coastal California.
In related ways, Esther Traugot’s knitted tree sweaters and forest of trunks with projected flower pattern coverings suggest the utopian potential of the natural world, as well as her desire to protect and preserve it. By contrast, Leigh Merrill’s large-scale photographs explore the relationship between fantasy and reality in our constructed environments, blending urban and suburban architecture and landscape styles, or cut and artificial flowers. Modesto Covarrubias has spent much time creating rooms and shelters as means to define and express his fears, insecurities, and sense of vulnerability, while Andrew Witrak’s sculptures pose slightly ridiculous solutions to the question of what can provide some fleeting impression of safety or exit: lifejackets sewn together; a beeswax boarding pass. Annie Vought translates found handwritten letters to wall-mounted versions created with cutout text, fragile portraits of each author that are reminiscent of silhouettes.
Joseph Berryhill’s paintings express a tension between order and chaos, proposing ways that animate experience can be distilled into visual experience. Steuart Pittman’s abstract paintings reflect what he calls a “longing for quiet beauty in a chaotic, high-speed age,” while Brian Caraway creates tools and rules to implement his mixed media works, relating his process-based investigations through texture as they change over time.
As artists who have come of age in the extraordinarily volatile circumstances of the 21st century, these individuals focus on singular modes of expression as a way to make sense of and stake a claim in their separate and collective futures. Their works express a sense of hope and possibility, going forward into their lives as young Americans.
In addition to an essay by Cohn, the illustrated catalog for Young Americans contains an essay by critic Glen Helfand. This publication will be available in the gallery during the course of the exhibition.
The Mills College Art Museum, founded in 1925, is a dynamic center for art that focuses on the creative work of women as artists and curators. The museum strives to engage and inspire the diverse and distinctive cultures of the Bay Area by presenting innovative exhibitions by emerging and established national and international artists. Exhibitions are designed to challenge and invite reflection upon the profound complexities of contemporary culture.
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613
510.430.2164
http://www.mills.edu/museum/
directions to Mills College
directions to the Mills College Art Museum
Mills College Art Museum
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-4:00pm
Wednesday 11:00-7:30pm
Monday Closed
Admission is free for all exhibitions and programs.
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Opening reception, Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7 to 9pm.
Come experience Young Americans, the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Featuring work by 10 emerging artists:
Andrew Witrak, Annie Vought, Brian Caraway, Esther Traugot, Gina Tuzzi, Joseph Berryhill, Kate Pszotka, Leigh Merrill, Modesto Covarrubias, and Steuart Pittman.
The Mills College Art Museum is proud to present Young Americans, featuring works by the 2009 Master of Fine Arts degree recipients. This exhibition provides an opportunity to see works in all media created by a promising group of emerging artists eager to share what they have been developing during their graduate program with a broader audience. This year’s exhibition is curated by Terri Cohn, Bay Area writer, independent curator, and faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In the brochure accompanying the exhibition, Cohn observes that the ten artists who will receive their MFA degrees this year are unusual in their choice to name their MFA show Young Americans. The title situates them as citizens emerging within a national context, and suggests that in addition to their collective experiences as youthful Americans—with the burden of history this implies, this identity also affords them an intrinsic right to personal freedom. A desire for a sense of security—articulated in various metaphoric and formal ways—is one fundamental concern expressed through their work.
Kate Pszotka’s fascination with the idea of home and stability has motivated her consideration of family members, which she represents iconographically with everyday objects, realized as paper cut out line drawings. Gina Tuzzi’s seemingly simple, naïve structures—houses, barns, huts—stacked on trucks to become rolling homes, or represented as drawings, underscore a sense of safety and comfort in the mythic past of coastal California.
In related ways, Esther Traugot’s knitted tree sweaters and forest of trunks with projected flower pattern coverings suggest the utopian potential of the natural world, as well as her desire to protect and preserve it. By contrast, Leigh Merrill’s large-scale photographs explore the relationship between fantasy and reality in our constructed environments, blending urban and suburban architecture and landscape styles, or cut and artificial flowers. Modesto Covarrubias has spent much time creating rooms and shelters as means to define and express his fears, insecurities, and sense of vulnerability, while Andrew Witrak’s sculptures pose slightly ridiculous solutions to the question of what can provide some fleeting impression of safety or exit: lifejackets sewn together; a beeswax boarding pass. Annie Vought translates found handwritten letters to wall-mounted versions created with cutout text, fragile portraits of each author that are reminiscent of silhouettes.
Joseph Berryhill’s paintings express a tension between order and chaos, proposing ways that animate experience can be distilled into visual experience. Steuart Pittman’s abstract paintings reflect what he calls a “longing for quiet beauty in a chaotic, high-speed age,” while Brian Caraway creates tools and rules to implement his mixed media works, relating his process-based investigations through texture as they change over time.
As artists who have come of age in the extraordinarily volatile circumstances of the 21st century, these individuals focus on singular modes of expression as a way to make sense of and stake a claim in their separate and collective futures. Their works express a sense of hope and possibility, going forward into their lives as young Americans.
In addition to an essay by Cohn, the illustrated catalog for Young Americans contains an essay by critic Glen Helfand. This publication will be available in the gallery during the course of the exhibition.
The Mills College Art Museum, founded in 1925, is a dynamic center for art that focuses on the creative work of women as artists and curators. The museum strives to engage and inspire the diverse and distinctive cultures of the Bay Area by presenting innovative exhibitions by emerging and established national and international artists. Exhibitions are designed to challenge and invite reflection upon the profound complexities of contemporary culture.
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613
510.430.2164
http://www.mills.edu/museum/
directions to Mills College
directions to the Mills College Art Museum
Mills College Art Museum
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-4:00pm
Wednesday 11:00-7:30pm
Monday Closed
Admission is free for all exhibitions and programs.
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The HOME SHOW
FIVEten Studio presents
The Home Show
April 3, 2009 to May 29, 2009
Opening Reception: May 1, 2009, 6 to 9pm
Glenna Alle
Linda Braz
Modesto Covarrubias
Miriam Fagan
Dave Higgins
Elyse Hochstadt
From the abundance of home decorating and DIY shows, and the continued success of "Cribs" to the inability to rebuild in the 9th Ward and the continuing mortgage crisis, there is an overwhelming amount of attention on "home." As a space for nesting and pro-creating, as well as for all manner of self-expression the home can function as the locus of the intersection of art and design. Working in that liminal space, Fiveten Studio and artists Linda Braz and Elyse Hochstadt present "The Home Show," an exhibition of 6 Bay Area artists whose work explores, expands, questions and distorts the definition of home, while simultaneously blurring the boundaries between art and design.
The exhibition opens for Oakland's Art Murmer Friday, April 3, 2009 with a formal reception on May 1, 2009 from 6-9pm and runs until May 29th. Gallery hours are Thursday-Saturday 11am-6pm.
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The Home Show
April 3, 2009 to May 29, 2009
Opening Reception: May 1, 2009, 6 to 9pm
Glenna Alle
Linda Braz
Modesto Covarrubias
Miriam Fagan
Dave Higgins
Elyse Hochstadt
From the abundance of home decorating and DIY shows, and the continued success of "Cribs" to the inability to rebuild in the 9th Ward and the continuing mortgage crisis, there is an overwhelming amount of attention on "home." As a space for nesting and pro-creating, as well as for all manner of self-expression the home can function as the locus of the intersection of art and design. Working in that liminal space, Fiveten Studio and artists Linda Braz and Elyse Hochstadt present "The Home Show," an exhibition of 6 Bay Area artists whose work explores, expands, questions and distorts the definition of home, while simultaneously blurring the boundaries between art and design.
The exhibition opens for Oakland's Art Murmer Friday, April 3, 2009 with a formal reception on May 1, 2009 from 6-9pm and runs until May 29th. Gallery hours are Thursday-Saturday 11am-6pm.
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THE LIBRARY OF MAPS
January 31 to March 7, 2009
The Bonnafont Gallery
946a Greenwich Street
San Francisco, CA
415.441.4182
Opening Reception Saturday 31 January, 2009, 6 to 8
Closing Reception Saturday 7 March, 2009, 2 to 5
Poems by Moira Roth
With photography by Dennis Letbetter
and drawings by Slobodan Dan Paich
Music specially created for the exhibition by Pauline Oliveros, The Library of Maps, Part IV
Broadsheets by Max Koch
Performance at Opening Reception by Modesto Covarrubias, The Knitter
This exhibition pays special homage to the gallery's founder, Philippe Bonnafont (1938-1993), the first in California to show the work of architects as art. In that spirit, we exhibit broadsheets of three of Moira Roth's poems from her Library of Maps series, a 41-part narrative: The Map of the Heart, The Unruly Map of Threads, and The Map of Stones.
The poems are accompanied by drawings by Slobodan Dan Paich, photographs by Dennis Letbetter, a weaving directed by Esther Traugot, and a collection of stones from various parts of the world. The exhibition is supported by a Donor-Advised Fund of the Tides Foundation.
The 2009 Artship Exhibition Series addresses - directly or indirectly - the rise and fall of civilizations around issues of freedom of speech and expression, and notions of alignment and misalignment of place. In the ebb and flow of history, times of cultural flourishing are frequently followed by times of oppression and darkness. The central work of the series is the Artship Ensemble's original theater piece, Burning of the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
Exhibition continues Weekends 2 to 5pm
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The Bonnafont Gallery
946a Greenwich Street
San Francisco, CA
415.441.4182
Opening Reception Saturday 31 January, 2009, 6 to 8
Closing Reception Saturday 7 March, 2009, 2 to 5
Poems by Moira Roth
With photography by Dennis Letbetter
and drawings by Slobodan Dan Paich
Music specially created for the exhibition by Pauline Oliveros, The Library of Maps, Part IV
Broadsheets by Max Koch
Performance at Opening Reception by Modesto Covarrubias, The Knitter
This exhibition pays special homage to the gallery's founder, Philippe Bonnafont (1938-1993), the first in California to show the work of architects as art. In that spirit, we exhibit broadsheets of three of Moira Roth's poems from her Library of Maps series, a 41-part narrative: The Map of the Heart, The Unruly Map of Threads, and The Map of Stones.
The poems are accompanied by drawings by Slobodan Dan Paich, photographs by Dennis Letbetter, a weaving directed by Esther Traugot, and a collection of stones from various parts of the world. The exhibition is supported by a Donor-Advised Fund of the Tides Foundation.
The 2009 Artship Exhibition Series addresses - directly or indirectly - the rise and fall of civilizations around issues of freedom of speech and expression, and notions of alignment and misalignment of place. In the ebb and flow of history, times of cultural flourishing are frequently followed by times of oppression and darkness. The central work of the series is the Artship Ensemble's original theater piece, Burning of the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
Exhibition continues Weekends 2 to 5pm
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OPEN STUDIOS - MILLS COLLEGE
Saturday, December 13, 2008
12 Noon to 5pm
More info here:
Mills College MFA Open Studios Blogspot
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12 Noon to 5pm
More info here:
Mills College MFA Open Studios Blogspot
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YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL
Center for Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe
October 10-26, 2008 | Muñoz Waxman Gallery
Opening reception Friday, October 10, 5-7 PM
"Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our emotions." - Wassily Kandinsky, 1912
You Know How I Feel is the product of several years of collaboration between five local, national, and international artists. The exhibition includes slow-motion video; photographic abstractions; soft, sensual sculptures; paintings and drawings; and still adaptations of filmic conversations. You Know How I Feel is a plea between lover and beloved, the top and the bottom, the leader and the followers. This yearning to connect at the most fundamental level aims towards something more humane, perhaps a moment of trust, a shared history: ourselves and what we think we know about each other.
You Know How I Feel will also feature guerrilla-style interventions in and around the Muñoz Waxman Gallery, converting it into a visually expressive testing ground of multifold emotions and meta-emotions.
The 5 Artists: VICTOR BARBIERI, EILA KOVANEN, VERONICA SAHAGUN, ROBIN WARD, & MICHAEL WONG
Featuring Guest Artists:
Marcelo Balzaretti
Sarah Barsness
Laura F. Gibellini
Dorothy Goode
Keith Hale
Melanie Lacy Kusters
Modesto Covarrubias
Besty Lam
Eric Reyes Lamothe
Aline Mare
Beth Mitchell
Francesca Pastine
Deborah Poe
Neli Ruzic
James Tantum
David Tomb
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October 10-26, 2008 | Muñoz Waxman Gallery
Opening reception Friday, October 10, 5-7 PM
"Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our emotions." - Wassily Kandinsky, 1912
You Know How I Feel is the product of several years of collaboration between five local, national, and international artists. The exhibition includes slow-motion video; photographic abstractions; soft, sensual sculptures; paintings and drawings; and still adaptations of filmic conversations. You Know How I Feel is a plea between lover and beloved, the top and the bottom, the leader and the followers. This yearning to connect at the most fundamental level aims towards something more humane, perhaps a moment of trust, a shared history: ourselves and what we think we know about each other.
You Know How I Feel will also feature guerrilla-style interventions in and around the Muñoz Waxman Gallery, converting it into a visually expressive testing ground of multifold emotions and meta-emotions.
The 5 Artists: VICTOR BARBIERI, EILA KOVANEN, VERONICA SAHAGUN, ROBIN WARD, & MICHAEL WONG
Featuring Guest Artists:
Marcelo Balzaretti
Sarah Barsness
Laura F. Gibellini
Dorothy Goode
Keith Hale
Melanie Lacy Kusters
Modesto Covarrubias
Besty Lam
Eric Reyes Lamothe
Aline Mare
Beth Mitchell
Francesca Pastine
Deborah Poe
Neli Ruzic
James Tantum
David Tomb
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IMMEDIATE FUTURE: THE 2008 MURPHY AND CADOGAN FELLOWSHIPS IN THE FINE ARTS
September 6 - October 18, 2008
Location: SFAC Gallery (Map It)
Artists: Bren Ahearn, Michael Arcega, Elisheva Biernoff, Tom Borden, Modesto Covarrubias, Eilish Cullen, April Grayson, Claire Jackel, Anthony Marcellini, Robert Minervini, Robert Moya, Michael Namkung, Moses Nornberg, Daniel Ochoa, S Patricia Patterson, Hilary Pecis, Jeff Ray, Gina Tuzzi, Jina Valentine, Annie Vought, Sara Wanie, Andrew Witrak, Imin Yeh, and David Yun
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is proud to present Immediate Future, featuring works by the recipients of the 2008 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts. This exhibition provides a first-glance at what is being produced by promising artists within regional graduate programs. For many featured artists this exhibition marks their first major exposure, and for all participants it represents an opportunity to share what they have been developing in their graduate studios with a broader audience.
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts are annual awards sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation to assist art students in funding their final year of graduate studies. In partnership with the Foundation, the Arts Commission Gallery is committed to showcasing works by outstanding Bay Area art students through the annual fellowship exhibition. The jurors for this year’s awards were Lisa Dent, Charles Mobley, Denise Ruiz and Meg Shiffler.
Bay Area colleges and universities represented by the twenty-four 2008 recipients are the Academy of Art University, California College of the Arts, Mills College, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University and Stanford University. Media represented in the show includes drawing, film & video, installation, mixed media, painting, printmaking, performance and sculpture.
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Location: SFAC Gallery (Map It)
Artists: Bren Ahearn, Michael Arcega, Elisheva Biernoff, Tom Borden, Modesto Covarrubias, Eilish Cullen, April Grayson, Claire Jackel, Anthony Marcellini, Robert Minervini, Robert Moya, Michael Namkung, Moses Nornberg, Daniel Ochoa, S Patricia Patterson, Hilary Pecis, Jeff Ray, Gina Tuzzi, Jina Valentine, Annie Vought, Sara Wanie, Andrew Witrak, Imin Yeh, and David Yun
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is proud to present Immediate Future, featuring works by the recipients of the 2008 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts. This exhibition provides a first-glance at what is being produced by promising artists within regional graduate programs. For many featured artists this exhibition marks their first major exposure, and for all participants it represents an opportunity to share what they have been developing in their graduate studios with a broader audience.
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts are annual awards sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation to assist art students in funding their final year of graduate studies. In partnership with the Foundation, the Arts Commission Gallery is committed to showcasing works by outstanding Bay Area art students through the annual fellowship exhibition. The jurors for this year’s awards were Lisa Dent, Charles Mobley, Denise Ruiz and Meg Shiffler.
Bay Area colleges and universities represented by the twenty-four 2008 recipients are the Academy of Art University, California College of the Arts, Mills College, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University and Stanford University. Media represented in the show includes drawing, film & video, installation, mixed media, painting, printmaking, performance and sculpture.
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BAKE SALE: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF MILLS COLLEGE MFA STUDENTS
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 6-10pm
Location: Blankspace Gallery
6608 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94608
This exhibition will feature work by students who are beginning their second year of the program, as well as work by students beginning their first year of the program. Also featured is tenxten, a limited edtion set of prints by 10 of the featured artists.
For more information, check out the blogspot (includes artists' sites, and other tasty tidbits...which will be featured at the exhibition as well...)
Mills Bake Sale
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Location: Blankspace Gallery
6608 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94608
This exhibition will feature work by students who are beginning their second year of the program, as well as work by students beginning their first year of the program. Also featured is tenxten, a limited edtion set of prints by 10 of the featured artists.
For more information, check out the blogspot (includes artists' sites, and other tasty tidbits...which will be featured at the exhibition as well...)
Mills Bake Sale
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