Gualala Arts • July 2017 Exhibitions • Events • Workshops • Classes • And More 9th Annual Auto Show and Pinewood Derby honoring Waterman Racing Components, Inc. 50thAnniversary The Summer of Love Fest & “1967 Musical Revue” also Sus’s 50th birthday bash! Exhibits: Gualal Arts Center: 50th Anniversary of Summer of Love Works Revisioned, Works Revisited Dolphin Gallery: Ron Bolander, Fine Art Photography Doric Jemison-Ball II, Ceramic Sculptures 1 Contents Dolphin Gallery Exhibit.....4 Gualala Arts Exhibit.....5 Special Events....6-12 JULY 2017 Coming Soon.....13-16 Workshops.....17 Gualala Arts, Inc. 46501 Old State Highway Announcements.....18 PO Box 244 Gualala, CA 95445 Applause.....19 707-884-1138 Mark Your Calendar.....20 GualalaArts.org [email protected] Arts Center Hours Weekdays 10 am–4 pm Weekends Noon–4 pm Dolphin Gallery Hours 39225 Highway One Gualala, CA 95445 707-884-3896 Hours: 10 am–5 pm Wednesday through Monday, Closed Tuesday Executive Director David “Sus” Susalla Gualala Arts Board Members Roland Stoughton, President Peggy Berryhill, Vice President Don Krieger, Treasurer Lynn Bailey, Secretary Chris Beach, Mark Gross, Karen Hay, Sheralyn Kirby, Andrea A. Lunsford, Bob Mitchell, Alfredo Orozco, Barry Weiss, Kitty Wolfe SKETCHES, July 2017 Printed on 30% recycled paper. © 2017 Gualala Arts, Inc. Editor: Gualala Arts Staff Art Director: Paula Power Mailing Staff: Violet Arana, JoAnn Aiken, Trudy Armer, Marilynn & Dick Balch, Irma Brandt, Pat Chaban, Nita Green, Karen Tracy, and Harriet Wright. On the Cover: Ceramic sculpture by Doric Jemison-Ball II. 2 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE 1967-2017, 50 years of… Love! How blessed I have been over the past 50 years of my life! For 50 years people have been creating, developing, playing, painting, writing, composing, improvising and performing -- driven by passion and the love of art. I am honored to play the cards I have been given and work for our community to share Celebrating the Summer of Love! our love of and for the arts. Together, we have created a thriving Arts Center here in the redwoods. As my father said to me before he passed, “For the first time in your life you are using all of your skills and qualities to benefit your community… your love of the arts, accounting and business background, people skills and your hard work and dedication are paying off. I am proud of you!” Thanks, Mom and Dad, for providing me with the gifts and tools that allow me to pay it forward. From a rocky start during the Detroit Riots of 1967, we are indeed a blessed family that has grown to include and embrace the West Coast of California. The following pages of Sketches are a glimpse into what a special place Gualala Arts is for our community and for me personally. I am absolutely blown away by the diversity of the life that we lead. We go from hosting a great summer art program for youth, to a world-class chamber music weekend, to a rare auto show honoring some of the most creative inventors of automobile components. We then move on to celebrating the Summer of Love and my birthday with com- munity, friends and icons of the music industry, all of this rounded out with inspiring exhibits from past, present, and beyond! What do all of these things have in common and why are we doing them? For the LOVE of it! We look forward to celebrating the love and diversity of what we have all created together. I am truly humbled by the outpouring of love, kindness and creativity. I carry your love with me everyday I hope in some way that you will carry mine with you... Cheers to 50 more! David “Sus” Susalla Executive Director 3 DOLPHIN GALLERY | EXHIBITIONS Opening Reception Saturday, July 1, 5-7 pm Exhibit remains through Sunday, July 30 Ron Bolander Fine Art Photography & Doric Jemison-Ball II Ceramic Sculpture Ron Bolander, “Dinner Guests”. Dolphin Gallery Hours Disturbing... Wednesday - Monday The July 2017 exhibit at The Dolphin Gallery features Ron Bolander 10 am - 5 pm and his long-time friend and fellow artist Doric Jemison-Ball II who Closed Tuesday is also having his first two-person show at The Dolphin. The show’s title, “DISTURBING,” is most appropriate as both are noted for their free unorthodox creations meant to provoke thoughtful responses in Information the viewer. GualalaArts.org Bolander says, “ ‘DISTURBING’ is a show that does not pander to the taste of summer tourists. There are no pictures of lighthouses, 707-884-3896 weathered fences or barns, of Bowling Ball Beach or cows standing 39225 Highway One on a clifftop. There are no shiny, oversaturated, over edited sunsets at the beach, no glossy aluminum pictures of harbor seals, breaking waves or gamboling sheep. This show will be diametrically opposite to what one conventionally sees on the coast.” Jemison-Ball is best known for his quirky ceramic pieces, taking the traditional craft a step further by adding a variety of figures from cartoon rabbits to baby doll faces. He might even crack open a pot to reveal an interesting interior. In fact, the person who introduced him to ceramics had him smash his first 14 pots to remind him that the process of creation was more important than attachment to the piece. Since 2009, Jemison-Ball has won first place in ceramics at the an- nual Art in the Redwoods (AIR) show four times. His work stems Thrown pot with hand-built interior. Doric Jemison Ball II organically from his background more than from the two years of formal study he completed in ceramics. 4 EXHIBITIONS | GUALALA ARTS CENTER 50th Anniversary Opening Reception Exhibit Friday, July 7, 5-7 pm Exhibit remains through of the Sunday, July 30 Summer Part of the of Love Summer First edition “Joint Show” poster of from the private collection of David “Sus” Susalla. Love 1967. Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Pink Floyd, the Doors. Where were you Fest that year? If you were in Golden Gate Park you may have been among the hippies and the dreamers, a “flower child” looking for the utopian dream of peace and love. The psychedelic scene was barely a year old, but Bay Area residents Elaine Jacob Foyer & Mohr Mezzanine were already collecting the works of five young graphic artists making names for themselves as masters of the psychedelic poster Weekdays 10 am - 4 pm -- Wes Wilson, Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso and Weekends Noon - 4 pm Rick Griffin. The “Big Five” longed to be taken seriously as artists. On July 17, 1967 (Sus’s birthday!) they got their wish with a group free exhibition at the Charles Moore Gallery on Sutter Street in San Information Francisco. Because of the era, the exhibition was titled “Joint Show” GualalaArts.org and each of the artists designed their own poster for the event. Enjoy a little trip back in time at Gualala Arts Center with The 707-884 -1138 Summer of Love exhibit and Summer of Love Fest (see page 12) 46501 Old State Hwy. celebrating Sus’s birthday with the mood of the time. 1967. Summer of Love art work including Bill Graham posters, Willie B’s BGP postcard collection, original Stanley Mouse paintings, and a 1967 Joint Show poster will be on loan from private collections. Works Revisioned/Works Revisited For this show, curated by Leslie Moody-Cresswell, artists are asked to delve into their past portfolios and reinterpret older, past works according to their skills acquired and knowledge of their world Lesie Moody- today. Cresswell “Mermaid’s Featuring 2-D and 3-D works, displayed side-by-side, allowing the Purse” viewing audience to see first-hand an artist’s progression and also revisioned get to know the possible recurring themes and or symbols which and “Ladders” are often revisited. revisited. 5 GUALALA ARTS CENTER | SPECIAL EVENTS Gualala Arts Chamber Series Presents: 15th Annual Summer Chamber Music Weekend Saturday, July 8 and Sunday, July 9 4 pm Roy Bogas & Friends This year’s 15th Summer Chamber Music Weekend with Roy Bogas and Friends will feature founder Roy Bogas on piano, with Amy Coleman Hall Hiraga playing violin, Peter Wyrick playing cello, and Nancy Ellis, on viola. $30 advance for each concert, plus $5 day of The ensemble will also be joined by violinist Cordula Merks, new concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and guest $50 advance for both concerts artist cellist Mariko Wyrick. Bogas describes Merks, his new available at Arts Center only collaborator, as “a fabulous musician… a wonder all by herself.“ For these concerts, Bogas will share his newly completed chamber version of Ernest Bloch’s seminal work “Schelomo: a Hebraic Rhapsody.” Bloch, a renowned 20th c. composer and former resident of the Mendocino coast, was Bogas’s friend and mentor. Schelomo (Solomon) was originally written for cello solo with full orchestra and Bogas recently transcribed it for solo cello accompanied by string quartet and piano, an effort which he describes as a “labor of love.” Mariko Wyrick’s participation enables the ensemble to play Schubert’s Quintet for Two Cellos, another rare opportunity. In addition, the ensemble will play works by Mozart, Haydn and Information Dvorak, completing the program of extraordinary music, exquisitely GualalaArts.org performed. 707-884 -1138 46501 Old State Hwy 6 GUALALA ARTS CENTER | SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS | GUALALA ARTS CENTER Gualala Arts Presents 9th Annual Gualala Arts Auto Show and Pinewood Derby Saturday, July 15 Public Hours 10 am-4 pm Arts Center Grounds Honoring the 50th anniversary Free Parking $5 suggested donation of Waterman Racing Components Participants can arrive at 7 am & the men who built it! Judging starts at 8 am Gualala Arts celebrates and this past April was the Waterman Racing Components’ company’s 50th Anniversary.