Arizona
Garden of the Soul April 4-June 30, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Craig Cheply will be exhibiting in Herberger Theater's group show Garden of the Soul, juried by Joan Thompson from the Arizona Print group. Opening reception: April 4, 5:30-7:00pm. Herberger Theater is located at 222 E. Monroe St., Phoenix, AZ. Phone: 602.254.7399. www.herbergertheater.org.
Masters of Illusion-Unveiling the Mystery of Trompe L'Oeil May 3-August 2, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member muralist/contemporary realist Craig Cheply will be exhibiting in the juried exhibit Masters of Illusion-Unveiling the Mystery of Trompe L'Oeil at the new Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ. Phone: 480.350.2867. Reception: May 3 from 6:00 to 9:00pm.
Natural Dye Workshop August 8-10, 2008. This 2 1/2 day comprehensive workshop taught by ArtistsRegister.com member AristsRegister.com member Jane Hoffman shows you how to create a rich palette of beautiful, lightfast and washfast color from natural dyes. We will be using native, cultivated, and imported dye material including plants from Jane's dye garden. She will share her knowledge and methods for producing many shades of color from each dye-pot. You will learn to prepare the dye, to mordant and dye protein fiber (i.e. wool, silk, mohair, alpaca), and to experiment with color by using post-mordant baths, exhaust baths and over-dyeing. Class fees: are dependent upon number of participants: 4 = $240; 5 = $192; 6 = $160; 7 = $138; 8 = $120; 9 = $107; 10= $96. Materials will be provided. Materials fee: $25 Location: Jane Hoffman's Blue River Wilderness Retreat, directions can be found at www.blueriverretreat.com
Outside In Exhibition continues through May 18, 2008.Tucson Plein Air Painters Distinguished Artist Members Annual Show: Outside In, featuring ArtistsRegister.com member Ginger Bowen. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 North Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ 85743.
Table Manners An exibition featuring ArtistsRegister.com members Ginger Bowen and Deborah McMillion-Nering, Table Manners continues through September 14, 2008. This exhibition offers a refreshing look at artwork and objects created from an imaginative range of materials, and celebrates decades of artists transforming the family table and kitchen devices into objects of beauty, whimsy and wit. The messages of the materials, and their very familiarity, add layers of content and the delight of recognition. Arizona Museum for Youth, 35 N. Robson, Mesa, AZ 85201.
Tapestry Weaving Workshop Saturday and Sunday August 23rd & 24th, 2008. Hours: Saturday: 8:00am-5:00pm / Sunday 8:00am-3:00pm. Waugh Mountain Alpacas presents a weaving workshop taught by return instructor and AristsRegister.com member Jane Hoffman. Beginning level introduction to tapestry weaving at our beautiful ranch setting. Fellowship with friends old and new. Advance registration required. Cost: $175 per person, includes cost of the loom (yours to keep), materials, and breakfast and lunch both days. Visit the Events page at www.waughmtnalpacas.com for more details, information and directions to the ranch.
The Portrait May 20-June 18, 2008. The Portrait, featuring ArtistsRegister.com member Deborah McMillion-Nering. Shemer Art Center, 5005 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85018.
Valley Stories May 7-June 27, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Craig Cheply will be exhibiting in the juried exhibit Valley Stories at Tempe Public Library Gallery, 3500 S. Rural Rd., Tempe, AZ.
Contemporary Crafts Market June 6, 7 & 8, 2008. Contemporary Crafts Market featuring ArtistsRegister.com member Aryana B. Londir. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90401.
Kathyanne White at La Jolla Fiber Arts The La Jolla Fiber Arts Gallery will feature a solo exhibition with ArtistsRegister.com member Kathyanne White's work. The exhibition opens August 1, 2008 and runs through mid September 2008. La Jolla Fiber Arts, 7644 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Marisa Atha at Haight Ashbury Street Fair Sunday, June 8, 2008 from 11:00am to 5:30pm. ArtistsRegister.com member Marisa Atha will be participating in the Haight Ashbury Street Fair, located at Upper Haight Street in San Francisco, California. For more information, go to: www.haightashburystreetfair.org
Marisa Atha at Mission Indie Mart Sunday, June 29th from noon to 5:00pm. ArtistsRegister.com member Marisa Atha will be exhibiting at Mission Indie Mart at 12 Galaxies Bar, located at Mission and 22nd Street in San Francisco, CA. For more information, go to: www.indie-mart.com
Carol Watkins at Boulder Arts & Crafts Cooperative May 7-June 17, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Carol Watkins will be the featured artist at the Boulder Arts & Crafts Cooperative at 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, CO. Carol will be at the First Friday Artist Reception on Friday, June 6 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Don Mitchell Retrospective Exhibition Exhibition continues though July 13, 2008. Life Is A Leaky Boat, a retrospective exhibition of work by ArtistRegister.com member Don Mitchell. Over 70 sculptures will be exhibited at the Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St. Littleton, CO. Retrospective funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 S. Gallup Street, Littleton, CO 80120-2703. Phone: 303.795. 3950
Don't Fence Me in Exhibition continues through May 18, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Carol Watkins will be participating in Don't Fence Me in, Art Quilts of Piecemakers and Quilt Expressions at Longmont Museum and Cultural Center at 400 Quail Rd, Longmont, Colorado. Reception: March 21, 7:00-9:00pm.
New Works: Embroidery April 24-May 18, 2008. New Works: Embroidery by ArtistsRegister.com member Rob Watt exhibited at Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204. www.sparkgallery.com
Plein Air Artists of Colorado Juried Exhibition July 11-26, 2008. Plein Air Artists of Colorado (PAAC), a national organization, presents a juried show of their members' finest original paintings created "en plein air" in the past year, inluding work by ArtistsRegister.com member Leslie Allen. The work will be for sale at Abend Gallery, located at 2260 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206. The Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony will be on Friday, July 11, 2008 from 5:00-9:00pm. There will be voting for an Artists’ Choice Award and the public is invited to vote for a Peoples’ Choice Award. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served. www.pleinairartistscolorado.com
Waterways July 25- September 7, 2008. ArtistsRegister members Ann-Marie Kuczun and Karen Poulson and Sibylla Mathews had their multi-media proposal accepted and will exhibit Waterways at the Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, CO. Opening reception: First Friday, August 1st from 5-7pm. Normal hours: Monday-Thursday 10-9, Friday-Saturday 10-6 and Sunday noon-6.
The Artist Project April 25-28, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Connie Noyes will be participating in the The Artist Project, an exhibition and sale featuring original work from cutting-edge artists undiscovered by the gallery community. Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL. For more information, go to: www.merchandisemart.com/artropolis/index.html
Ways of Seeing May 3-July 31, 2008. Gallery Fifty has brought together three artists for Ways of Seeing. In this group show you will see three unique perspectives from Delbert Michel, ArtistsRegister.com member Debra Lanning and Jennifer Gardiner. Gallery Fifty is located at 830 Cottageview Drive in Traverse City, Michigan. www.galleryfifty.com
Perpetual Motion: Paintings and Works on Paper Exhibition contiunues through June 8, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Jean Arnold will be having a solo exhibit entitled Perpetual Motion. Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 North 27th Street Billings, MT 59101. For more information, go to: www.artmuseum.org
Naomi Nickerson at Truckee River Gallery May 14-25, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Naomi Nickerson exhibits her new work at the Truckee River Gallery in downtown Reno. The work is the result of a recent exploration into alternative mediums and the abstracted, expressive landscape. The large, heavily impastoed pieces reflect Nickerson's interest in the immediate environment and the viewer's response. The work will hang at the Truckee River Gallery from May 14th through May 25th with an artist's reception on Saturday, May 3rd. Truckee River Gallery, 11 North Sierra Street, Suite 100, Reno, NV 89512.
Needles & Pins: Textiles and Tools Exhibition continues through January 4, 2009. Some of ArtistsRegister.com member Cathy Haight's Indonesian tools are on loan to the Museum of International Folk Art for its Needles & Pins: Textiles and Tools exhibit. The exhibit encompasses a worldwide view of textiles and how they have been made and decorated over history. Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM.
Group Exhibition Featuring Jay Kyle Peterson June 14, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Jay Kyle Petersen will be showing in a juried group museum exhibit at Battery Park New York City over looking the Statue of Liberty. The exhibition will also include some of his Pima Community College artists resume class students, NYC artists, museums and galleries. Curated by Dr. Sharon Lippman PhD. Jay is from Tucson, Arizona.
Christine Pendergrass at the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center July 1-30, 2008. Ceramic sculpture by ArtistsRegister.com member Christine Pendergrass will be featured in a 2-person exhibition. Included will be her unique water works where masses of undulating rivulets of clay suggest falling water. Elsewhere, traces of life appear in imagery drawn from medical diagnostic tests and as footprints mingling with animal tracks. Her signature ceramic fans will also be shown. Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E. Main St., Hillsboro, OR 97123. Phone: 503.615.3485.
Poltergeists, Horseheads and Domesticity July and August 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Laurel Hausler's solo show Poltergeists, Horseheads and Domesticity will be on display at Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main Street, Brattleboro Vermont. For more information, go to: www.galleryinthewoods.com
Rackets and Remidies May 2-June 13, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Laurel Hausler's apothecary-themed solo show Rackets and Remidies will be on disiplay at The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314.
One Woman GhostFest October 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Laurel Hausler's show GhostFest will be exhibited at Nevin Kelly Gallery, 1517 U Street, NW Washington, DC 20009. For more information, go to: www.nevinkellygallery.com
Fiberarts International April 12-June 22, 2008. ArtistsRegister.com member Carol Watkins will be participating in Fiberarts International at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, One Clay Square, Charleston, West Virginia 25301
