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News

NEW! The April 2008 Newsletter is now available online. Click here to read! (Large full-color Acrobat PDF file, 2MB. May take up to 30 seconds to load [cable/DSL], or longer [modem].)

Digital Gallery & Slide Show: Do you want images of your work on permanent display in the lobby and on the Art League web site? The Digital Gallery & Slide Show is running on the lobby computer, replacing the old and underutilized Slide Registry, light box, and 3-ring binders of photos. Entry/Contract forms are available in the lobby, or click here for an online form.

Wanted: Docents - We are in dire need of docents! Duties - answer phones, signing people up for classes, helping the office with mailings. Can you spare 3 hrs a month? Call Doreen - 426-5787 for training.

Articles for the Newsletters - Have you been to an exciting art place, a fun workshop or had an inspiring artistic adventure? Your experiences enlighten and educate your fellow Art League members. If you would like to share, please call Cindy at 426-5787 or e-mail: cindy@scal.org.

Wanted: IDEAS! We are in the planning stage for next year's Weekend Workshops, Artspeaks, and gallery exhibitions. If you have ideas of what you would like to see happen at your Art League, please phone the office at 426-5787 or e-mail cindy@scal.org.

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Call for Artists

Call to Artists - The Santa Cruz Library's main branch has a new showcase to display small scale 3-D objects, including jewelry. Also, looking for 2-D artists with medium to large scale paintings. Each exhibit space is available to SCAL members, who meet the criteria, for two month periods. Contact Donna at 454-9424.

Call for Artists - The ACCI Gallery in Berkeley is having their National Juried Exhibition. Deadline is May 30. Exhibit is July 11 - August 17. Open to U.S. artists, all media. Application fee: $30, for up to 3 entries. Jurors: Suzanne Baizerman and Kate Eilertsen. For prospectus/entry send SASE to Lizah Horner, ACCI Gallery, 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709, or go online at www.accigallery.com.

Call for Artists - "All Media '08" Open for all media (of course). Fee: $25 for up to 2 entries, $15 each for additional entries (no limit). For prospectus/entry send SASE to "All Media '08", Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. #6, Chico, CA 95928. Phone: (530) 895-8726. www.chicoartcenter.com.

Call for Artists - California State Fair "California Fine Art". Deadline: May 30. Exhibit: August 15-September 1. All media. Fee $20 per entry. For prospectus/entry send SASE to C. Buchanan, California Fine Art, P.O. Box 15649, Sacramento, CA 95852. (916) 263-3161. Online at www.bigfun.org/fair/competition_information.asp.

Call for Artists - Community TV, 816 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, will now be hosting Members' art shows for 2 month periods. Contact Doreen Davis at doreen@scal.org.

Call for Theatrical Artists - New Winter/Spring classes for Children, Teen, Adult & Family Programs: www.WESTperformingARTS.com or 425-9378

Call for teachers - Looking for artist volunteers who are interested in painting with seniors at Aegis Assisted Living in Aptos. Please contact: Maria Nesheim at 684-2700 ext. 207

Call for Artists: SCOP, Santa Cruz plein air oil painters are a wonderful group of artists. We meet every Tuesday for paint outs and have self-critiques once a month. Interested artists please contact Suzanne Elliot at 429-9135.

Artist wanted: Additional membership benefit! Members may use the lobby to have a one person show that will correspond with the dates of gallery shows. Call Doreen, Thursday & Friday, at 426-5787.

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Outstanding in Their Field

• Lee Reiff's oils and pastels are showing at Theo's, 3101 Main, Soquel, through the month of May. For info, call 462-3657.
• Kathryn Stowell will be showing her acrylic paintings at Many Hands Gallery, 510 Bay Ave., Capitola, May 1 through June 13. Reception: May 18, 3-5pm.
• James Aschbacher, Carol DePalma, Richard Bennett, Mike McClellan, Maggie Renner Hellmann, Lou Renner, Amy Stark, Paul Rodriques will be in the Art & Chocolate Artist Tour, May 10 & 11, 11 to 5 in the Live Oak and Pleasure Point areas. Call 462-9337 for info.
• Judith Johnson Darrow and 15 other artists are in "A Community of Artists" at the Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz, May 2 - June 29. For info call (408) 373-2854.
• Michele Hausman's oils will be in the Los Altos Rotary Show, May 17 & 18, Lincoln Park, Los Altos.
• Susanna Arias and 40 Santa Cruz Clay Artists are exhibiting at "Clay @ the Cow Works" May 2 - June 1. (At the old Salz Tannery.)
• W.Downey Dyer and Michael Linstrom will have Giclee' prints at Laser Light Photographics, 7960 Soquel Drive, Aptos, May 1 -31. Reception, Friday, May 9th, 5-8pm. For info, call 685-1366.
  
• Judith Feinman and her four collaborating author/friends have written an exciting mystery: "The Jewel Box" is on sale at the Santa Cruz Art League lobby.
  
• Carol Bowie's mixed media are displayed at the Galleria Design Center in San Francisco.
• Christianna Hunnicutt's ceramic sculptures are in an ongoing show in the Chambers Gallery, Cambria.

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Director's Meeting

Next meeting Thursday, April 17th at 5:15pm. All welcome! Learn the latest. It's your League, so get involved, have fun! Refreshments. Art League Classroom.

Exhibition Committee Meeting

Next meeting Wednesday, April 9th, at 5pm. Helping hands make our rotating exhibits possible in lieu of an art director or curator. Yes, you are needed and welcomed for as little or as much time as you can invest. The return? Great times, immersion in the art scene, fabulous people! Come learn the ropes of installing an exhibit.

Logos for Websites

Now available: Logos for members, other associations, Art Leagues, and galleries to put on their websites. If you use a logo, please apply a link to it to www.scal.org. Click here to choose a logo.

Please note that the Santa Cruz Art League logo is a trademark of the Santa Cruz Art League. Use is permitted as supplied. Any visual or textual alteration is forbidden.

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