SDVAN December 2008 Monthly Message

This is a great group. Walter --- On Mon, 11/24/08, San Diego Visual Arts Network <info@sdvisualarts.net> wrote: From: San Diego Visual Arts Network <info@sdvisualarts.net> Subject: SDVAN December 2008 Monthly Message To: wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 11:07 PM SDVAN December Message 2008 Dear SDVAN Visitors, Art Resources and Artists HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS Our great THANKS to all who have responded to DONATE FIVE AND HELP US THRIVE Pleae take a look at the updated page.If you have not sent in a donation yet, please consider doing so before the end of the year so we can add you and a link of your choice to this page which will be online until November of 2009. All donations are tax deductible and our project remains a 100% volunteer effort. We now have over 1300 resources listed on the site, 3-4000 unique visitors a month and over one million hits a year on www.SDVAN.net This is your SDVAN Annual Holiday Potluck Lunch Reminder. Join us in our once a year THANKS Feast: Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 11 am to 3 pm. Back by popular demand: Costume Jewelry Exchange (men's and women's repurposed). New this year: Art Card Sales Opportunity (no commission just bring your cards to sell or exchange). Please bring a dish or drink of your choice serving approx. 8 people. Our thanks to Judith D'Agostino for the use of her image above. As always the party is held at 2487 Montgomery Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, Ca 92007. RSVP, please, so we have an idea of numbers. patricia@SDVisualArts.net 760.943.0148. NEW Banner: features the projects of 2008. Enormous THANKS goes to the volunteers that have made these programs possible. THANKS for our past banner to Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Mireille des Rosiers, Raul Guerrero, Gerrit Greve, Alida Cervantes, Dan Camp, Pamela Jaeger, Raymond Ellstad, Patricia Bean, andJeff Yeomans. These artists have work in the Who do You Love? - Movers & Shakers: Who's Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World at the L-Street Fine Art Gallery at the Omni Hotel, 628 L Street, SD, 92101, Show continues to Wed, Feb 4, 2009. NEW Art Resources Focus and NEW SD ART PRIZE 2009 Established Artists Kim MacConnel and Richard Allen Morris were announced as recipients at the opening of Who Do You Love? - Movers & Shakers: Who's Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World. They will each choose an emerging artist to mentor for the exhibitions held at the L-Street Gallery in 2009. The emerging artists nominated will be featured at an exhibition in the New Contemporaries II at the Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery in February as well as Spotlight exhibitions during the year. NEW! A+ Art Blog - Big turkey dinner coming up? There is always room for Hungry for Chinese Art, a look at the new Saatchi Gallery in London plus a slightly closer but still eastward look at the Palm Springs Museum of Art by Patricia Frischer, the coordinator of SDVAN. NEW October RAW Gossip Column report by Alexandra Rosa shows just how active the art scene is right now. We may be affected by the recession but artists continue to astonish us with their productivity. THANKS to all the venues which support them and THANKS to Ally for getting us informed. NEW PICKED RAW PEELED Monthly writing about the Picked RAW events peeled to show their inner goodies. Our THANKS to Georgia Hoopes, Katherine Sweetman(who writes from Tijuana with a translation by Felipe Zúñiga), Louisa Garcia (Winner Vision to Page Art Writing Competition) and Amy Preci who report on the PICKED RAW events this month. Remember submit your December events for PICKED RAW before the end of November. Branching Out in our Picked RAW section will feature new resources just listed for the first time on SDVAN. Both are edited by Georgia Hoopes. Please consider becoming more involved with SDVAN by giving of your time and expertise, Please feel free to contact us with suggestions or questions. We are now looking for volunteers for the second phase of our Movers and Shakers project. Please note that everyone is invited to attend our committee meetings. Mark your calendar on Sunday, February 8 from to 4 pm to 6 pm when we will experiment with our first weekend gathering. We hope this will allow many of you who work during the day to become more involved with SDVAN. Our February meeting is traditionally a brainstorming meeting for projects for the new year. Patricia Frischer coordinator, SDVAN 760.943.0148 On a personal note:A seminar on affordable work/live space for artists will be held on Wed, Dec 10, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd. SD 9210 in Balboa Park. This public meeting facilitated by ArtSpace is funded by Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This will be a time to voice your opinions and provide feedback on the unique needs of PERMANENT work/live spaces for artists in San Diego. More info: Synergy Arts Foundation If for some reason you cannot read it or if the links are not live for you, please see the message online at http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/message.php. Remember you can also see what is happening in the Visual Arts on any given day by clicking on the calendar on our home and events pages. PS: If you no longer wish to receive our emails then you can remove yourself by clicking the SafeUnsubscribe link below. 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