Up in Middletown (just over Mt. St. helena and Calistoga) there is an cool art project. They take an open space and install art projects creating a Sculpture Walk. It makes for a unique way for the artist and regular folks (you and me) to experience both the park and the art. Submissions are open for 2006.
Here's details:
(area codes listed are 707)
EcoArts Homepage
from
Take part in EcoArts
Submissions are being accepted now for the 2006 display, which will be
installed May 13 through 21. Deadline to submit is March 15.
Applications are available at the Lake County Arts Council's Main Street
Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport, and can be downloaded at
www.ecoartsoflakecounty.org. They should be returned to EcoArts of Lake
County, P.O. Box 8, Cobb, CA 95426, or e-mailed to karenturcotte@yahoo.com
For more information call Karen Turcotte Williams, 928-0323.
and
A virtual arts experience
Sophie Annan - Special to the Record-Bee
MIDDLETOWN -- EcoArts of Lake County will bring its 2006 Sculpture Walk to
a computer near you, thanks to a $5,000 grant from SBC.
The Excelerator grant will help create a CyberWalk of pieces in the 2006
Sculpture Walk, whose actual works will reside in 107-acre Middletown
County Trailside Park, off Route 175.
Sculpture made from, or relating to nature, is sited along both sides of a
3/8 mile central trail through meadows and woodland.
The fourth annual show will be installed in May, and de-installed Oct.
21-29. (For information on how to submit an application to have your work
considered for the display, see the "At a glance" box.) An early June
reception is planned. The 2005 exhibit can still be seen online at
www.ecoartsoflakecounty.org. It featured artists from Lake County and
around the nation.
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The SBC Excelerator program was created to help nonprofit groups fully
integrate technology into their ongoing operations and community outreach.
Phase I of the EcoArts "cyber presence" creation of its Web site was an
all-volunteer effort.
"Excel chose us because we're trying to serve the needs of an underserved
community," said Karen Turcotte Williams, EcoArts' founder and
coordinator.
The revamped Phase II Web site will give 360-degree views of the works,
and "later live views of the walk," she added.
Artist eve s. mosher is the Webmistress. "She's now working on a Ph.D. in
visual arts in New York, but is still very much a Bay Area artist,"
Turcotte Williams said.
EcoArts has no officers. Its board members are Janet Grace-Riehl, a visual
artist and writer who was in a recent Illinois show curated by Judy
Chicago; Rolf Kriken, a bronze artist who had works in a recent Oakland
Museum show on Vietnam; Turcotte Williams, who is herself a sculptor and
visual artist; John Randall Williams, who wrote the SBC grant; and Xian
Yeagan, former director of the Lake County Arts Council.
During the 2005 exhibit, Middletown High School had a submission, the
Konocti Council of Girls Scouts worked with artist Sophie Houdet
Lauterborn to create a brilliant banner, there were three private docent
tours and 650 color self-tour guides were distributed at the Walk.
EcoArts also has a new e-zine; to subscribe, write to karenturcotte@yahoo.com
and
EcoArts branches into film
The Coyote Film Festival this summer at Guenoc Winery, 21000 Butts Canyon
Road, Middletown, is an EcoArts project which will showcase local
filmmakers' work and present feature films monthly through the summer.
The opener is Rivers and Tides: Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist
whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature. It's
tentatively set for the third Friday and Saturday nights, June 16 and 17.
Filmmakers interested in submitting their work for review and anyone
interested in volunteering may contact Karen Turcotte Williams, 928-0323
or karenturcotte@yahoo.com.
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