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FALL 2015 Features

60 Women of LPAPA

Celebrating the Female Members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association written by Kimberly Johnson

Plein air painting has been revered for centuries and practiced by greats such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. However, a simple Google search of noteworthy plein air artists shows a dearth of female representation.

64 In Memoriam: Orange County Artists A Celebration of the Lives and Work of Four Successful Orange County Artists written by Elizabeth Nutt

Cheryl Ekstrom • Richard White • Terry Thornsley • Phillip Stewart Charis

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around town 34 Second Serving Welcoming Raw Salt

“Raw Salt is really the first step towards evolving into something larger and broader,” explains Walsh.

38 Welcoming Virga Gallery

Having already managed galleries in Oxnard and Santa Barbara, Siauciunaite chose to make Laguna Beach the home of her newly premiered Virga Gallery.

40 Welcoming the Delgado Gallery

“I wanted to create an environment that was different,” explains Delgado. “There aren’t a lot of women who have galleries, and I wanted it to be a little softer, a little more soothing…”

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Looking Back 44 Bringing the Swingin’ 60s to Laguna Beach Mr.Hobbs Takes a Vacation Filmed almost entirely in Laguna Beach’s Crystal Cove, with additional footage from Dana Point and Malibu, Hobbs is a 60s family farce swinging between slapstick and doubletakes (flawlessly executed by Stewart), along with some rather arresting bits of adult sass.

profiles 48 American Eden William Wendt Paints Southern California

He worked as a commercial artist during the day and took evening classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and by 1893 was able to set himself up as a professional painter.

52 Inspiration Exchange World-renowned artist Jian Wang devotes his summer to working and teaching in Laguna Beach “For selfish reasons I came to Laguna for the summer.

I have been here many times, but I’ve never stayed long enough to paint here. This summer I hope to produce many specific paintings of Laguna, because it is so beautiful.”

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LGOCA

La g u n a G a l l e r y o f C o n t e m p o r a r y Ar t

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art is the world’s first all-humanitarian art gallery. Each artist is committed to a philanthropic cause where they physically donate their time to help those in need.

We showcase top local artists as well as a diverse collection of international contemporary talent.

“Modern day Rodin” Maxwell Carraher is a native of Los Angeles who has been scupting for most of his life.

He taught himself a 3,000-year-old process of casting bronze called the “Lost Wax Process.”

Maxwell’s sculptures strive to enlighten intrinsic ideas and fundamental emotions that occur inside all people, creating a sense of love.

Canadian artist Eric Nado has made it an intrinsic part of his creative process to explore urban relics and to collect industrial pieces. Using his creative passion, he transforms them into contemporary sculptures that pay tribute to our collective industrial past that exude and inspire a sense of nostalgia.

Since 2012 he has acted as a Cultural Mediator to many “City Summer Initiatives” in Montreal. Eric speaks at art classes and conferences that target children and young adults in social reinsertion.

His gift to the universe is helping young adults and teens through the process of art to create confidence and self worth.

“Through the power of love we can do anything.”

- Christiana (ChristianaFineArt.com) “As an artist I feel the need and responsibility to take care of Mother Earth, to forgive, to love, to always be learning, and appreciate and respect the sanctity of every living thing.” -Adolfo Cuban refugee Adolfo Girala’s two passions are creating beautiful art with the message of love and feeding homeless children globally.

Israeli & Eastern European artist Christiana found her passion for art at the early age of four. This creativity and love has been with her throughout her life.

“Without my life starting out the way it did, in and out of foster homes, I would not be driven to help others. My journey through art has led me all over the world, teaching, building, and creating new paths for underprivileged children and other people in need.”

View our collection at www.LGOCA.com or come by the gallery for a private tour.

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Scultpure, When I Need You by Maxwell Carraher; Painting, Tierra Roja by Adolfo Girala

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18 Name a seat at the Musco Center for the Arts

Designed by renowned architects Pfeiffer Partners, with acoustics tuned by Nagata Acoustics, Musco Center for the Arts will provide a professional-caliber venue for students, both on stage and behind the scenes, to hone their talents and prepare for a life and career in the arts.

20 20th Anniversary of Taste For Charity

All had an opportunity to view and bid on over 40 pieces of art that were donated by local artists plus baskets of goodies donated by merchants of Laguna Beach.

22 Mike Duggan Creates Art Rack

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Duggan’s photography expresses his “view of man’s role in the world, and how little we tend to notice our impact in ways that count.”

22 Sunday Afternoon in Sherman Gardens

Metaling in the Garden sculpture exhibit at Sherman Gardens was the first of what will surely be a much loved summer event.

24 Sip, Talk & Walk at Sawdust Art & Craft Festival Here you can get a taste of Sawdust’s half-century history, tempt your palate with a bit of vino and touch base with contemporary artists as they share their talent and passion with you.

26 Summer Art Destination Art-A-Fair

Having solidified itself as a fixture in Laguna Beach culture, Art-A-Fair thrives as an annual one-stop-shop for all things involving creative expression.

30 Festival of Arts at the Ritz-Carlton

As the official hotel partner of the Festival of Arts and the Pageant of the Masters, the Ritz-Carlton showcases select works from 25 Festival of Arts exhibitors in its Art Exhibit Space.

On the cover : ‘Lady in Red’ Cheryl Turner (1964)

by Phillip Stewart Charis

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name a seat in the spotlight at Musco Center for the Arts

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new era for the arts begins

at Chapman University in Spring 2016

with the opening of the highly anticipated Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center

for the Arts. Chapman broke ground for the center on September 6, 2012.

Founder and Chairman of Gemini

Industries, Inc., S. Paul Musco and his wife Marybelle are well-known throughout

Southern California for civic leadership,

philanthropy and passionate support for education.

The Muscos’ institution-building

efforts on behalf of opera in Southern

California are legendary and have done much for audience development on the

local scene and for forging connections on the national and international level. Their tremendous support of Opera Pacific,

Los Angeles Opera, Opera Chapman and the Opera & Choral Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts has

had profound effects on opera in Orange County and Los Angeles.

Designed by renowned architects

Pfeiffer Partners, with acoustics tuned by Nagata Acoustics, Musco Center for the Arts will provide a professional-caliber venue for students, both on stage and

behind the scenes, to hone their talents and prepare for a life and career in the arts.

Naming seats in the Marybelle and

Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts is a

once in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate

and shine a spotlight on family and friends, or even your personal passion for the arts.

When completed, the $78 million

Center will be one of the largest university centers of the arts in Orange County,

allowing the University to present worldclass performances of opera, musical

theatre, symphony, theatre and dance. Visit www.chapman.edu/copa/musco-center/

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STARTING AT ONLY $59/month!*

20th ANNIVERSARY

OF TASTE FOR CHARITY

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Artist Tom Swimm

ver 500 guests had an

opportunity to experience good food,

art, wine, and music at [seven-degrees] raising over $100,000 for the following

local charities: CSP Youth Shelter, First Thursday’s Art Walk, Laguna Beach

*On approved credit. Subject to change.

Plein Air Painters Association, Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Fund,

Assistance Fund, No Square Theater, and All had an opportunity to view and

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bid on over 40 pieces of art beautifully

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displayed by [seven-degrees] that were donated by local artists plus baskets of

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goodies donated by merchants of Laguna

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The Artistic Equivalent of Champagne

Beach. Zack Krone of California Coast Auctions, conducted a Live Auction

Art-A-Fair Abby Hill

consisting of selling “nothing” for $100.

Pageant of the Masters

Exceptional live auction items were an

MAIDY MORHOUS Laguna Dance Festival

escape to The Montage Laguna Beach, to a

STATE

GREG C. RILEY Sawdust Festival

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one week in an authentic Stone Home in a

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France, to a beautiful art piece painted

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Medieval Village in Flavigny Sur Ozerain,

Art Resource Guide

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Mike Duggan Creates Artist Magazine Rack D. Michael Duggan is taking his talent to the street by designing a magazine rack for

Laguna Beach Art Magazine that will highlight his unique artistic voice. Duggan uses

photography to express his “view of man’s role in the world, and how little we tend

to notice our impact in ways that count.”

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON in Sherman Gardens

The Worn Sidewalk Reflections is in San Miguel D’Allende, Mexico - wonderfully worn paving stones from centuries of hurrying.

Metaling in the Garden sculpture

exhibit at Sherman Gardens was the first of what will surely be a much loved summer event. This summer seven metal sculptures were uniquely

displayed amidst the gardens. Some sculptures

were placed in a garden area because there was a

natural and artistic symbiosis between sculpture and Garden. Other sculptures

inspired the horticulture staff to re-design garden areas and create artistic harmony between sculpture and landscape. Mary Tarango (pictured left) was the artistic force behind all but the Champagne Flute. She resides in Manhattan Beach and continues her artistic endeavors. The Exhibit was sponsored by Laguna Nursery, Laguna Beach. The Exhibit ran from May 1st through August 2nd. l 22 lLagunaBeachARTmagazine.com

Shadowed Space in Iao, Santorini, Greece where the lights and shadows are among the best in the world - and the wandering around in the morning is beyond compare.

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Sawdust

Sip, Talk & Walk at This Year’s Sawdust Art & Craft Festival written by Kimberly Johnson For nearly 50 years the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival

has offered a unique combination of art, exhibitions and

Coordinator Kelsey Paprocki, “You’ll enjoy a wine

tasting—either a red or a white—with a little background

activities for Laguna Beach

on the wine. After the tasting, you’ll be guided

What with all of Laguna’s hot

about the history of the festival, gaining insight

Southern California sky paired

unique art presentations from a variety of

beachside appeal of the city—

different artists who will discuss their artwork

residents and visitors to enjoy.

around the grounds by a docent, learning

selling points—that sunny

into Sawdust legend and lore while exploring

up with the atmospheric

artists. Each tour,” Paprocki adds, “will feature

you have an ideal example of

and demonstrate how they create it.”

can be. The ten-week event

seasoned Sawdust attendees alike. Here you

daily, and organizers have

history, tempt your palate with a bit of vino

a wide variety of workshops,

they share their talent and passion with you.

can take part in.

7:00 every Wednesday from June 26 through

what an arts and crafts festival

This event is perfect for first-time and

draws thousands of visitors

can get a taste of Sawdust’s half-century

taken on the task of providing

and touch base with contemporary artists as

classes and events that visitors

Sip, Talk & Walk is scheduled for 3:00 and

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Laguna Beach’s Summer Art Destination

Art-A-Fair written by Kimberly Johnson photography by karin horlick

For 49 years, Laguna Beach’s annual Art-A-Fair has drawn thousands of local and international visitors who anxiously await a chance to experience the nine-week celebration of art. The juried exhibition, which this year features 124 locally and globally recognized artists, is one of the community’s most highly attended and anticipated attractions for good reason. Having solidified itself as a fixture in Laguna Beach culture, Art-A-Fair thrives as an annual one-stop-shop for all things involving creative expression.

A small committee of dedicated local artisan-volunteers handpicks vendors with the community in mind. Since Art-A-Fair serves literally thousands of guests each year, it’s only right that a generous variety of media be represented to appeal to guests’ artistic tastes. This year, the festival showcases photographic work, glassblowing, ceramics, jewelry and paintings utilizing watercolor, oil, acrylics and more.

Festivities kicked off on June 26 with an inaugural ribbon-cutting ceremony at the fairgrounds. From there, each week until Aug. 30, a tantalizing medley of attractions has been scheduled. Each Thursday through Sunday, audiences tour the premises of 777 Laguna Canyon Road and are met with live music. From jazz to surf punk, from blues to soca, the rhythms and melodies that flow from the festival grounds encourage attendees to join in with laughter, movement and vivacity.

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through creative means. If dancing is not your forte, any of the adult art workshops are sure to boost your knowledge and confidence.

This year widely published and regularly showcased wildlife

Having creative professionals at one’s fingertips, ready to be analyzed and utilized as vehicles for knowledge, is just one reason Art-A-Fair is a place you want to be. As a community-oriented event,

artist Carol Heiman-Greene held a

Art-A-Fair festival also functions as a

popular workshop on capturing the

platform to stimulate and encourage

varying aspects of wild animals and

burgeoning local creative scenes.

their natural habitat in acrylics. As Heiman-Greene states, “When you look at my paintings and see the spirit and character of the animal, I have done my job.” Colorado-born artist and naval serviceman Bill Denham offered a workshop emphasizing the

“I believe that until one has loved art, ... part of their soul remains incomplete.”

In addition to workshops and live performances, the event included a July 12 art and wine auction featuring pieces donated by Art-A-Fair artists and wine courtesy of local vendor The Stash. The auction’s proceeds will go to support the Laguna College of

essence and grace of traditional oil

Art + Design. Such investments are

painting. “I believe that until one

an unprecedented treat, as strategized

has loved art,” he says, “part of their soul remains incomplete.” Artisan

funding for local institutions of higher learning can only encourage city

of 28-plus years Laura Curtin, whose sunny outlook complements her

growth and the cultivation of culture.

teaching, held a workshop on experimenting with oils to create surreal

The growth of Laguna Beach’s creative network—thanks in

depictions of the magic and wonder of life. “I create paintings to make

large part to events such as Art-A-Fair—is a reminder of the value of

people smile,” Curtin explains. “Every painting is a place I want to be.”

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Festival of Arts at the Ritz-Carlton written by Elizabeth Nutt

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‘Granny Smiths’ by Marie Tippets

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embers of the media were

invited to enjoy an evening at the Ritz-Carlton,

Laguna Niguel on June 4 in preparation for the 2015 Festival of Arts. As the official hotel partner of the

Festival of Arts and the Pageant of the Masters, the

Ritz-Carlton showcases select works from 25 Festival of Arts exhibitors in its Art Exhibit Space. The works are on display from May 7 through September 30.

Deanne French, the hotel’s Director of Public

Relations, hosted the event, which began with

a champagne toast and private viewing. The 25

showcased artists, who have been carefully selected from among the 140 award-winning local Festival of Arts exhibitors, present one work apiece in the Exhibit Space, with nearly every artistic medium

represented. The result is a diverse, well-curated and beautiful collection that bodes well for the success of the Festival.

This year’s Ritz-Carlton exhibit included a

pigment ink print by Christopher Wayne Allwine titled Date Night. Also included were a giclée on

canvas by Paul Bond, The Girl Who Circumnavigated the World in a Dream of Her Own Making, and Marie Tippets’ Granny Smiths pastel. Sharon Jackman’s Ocean Platter and Gary Monji’s sculpture Silk

Flower Series, Leaf Top Jar #1 were featured. Oil

on canvas, glasswork, photography, watercolor and mixed media works were also among the showcased pieces.

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Coast Line view of the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel

‘The Girl Who Circumnavigated the World in a Dream of her Own Making’ by Paul Bond

‘Ocean platter’ by Sharon Jackman

Following the private viewing, media

representatives were invited to dine at Raya, the Ritz-

topped off with a Coconut Lime Tart.

At 150 feet above sea level, Raya offers

Carlton’s signature restaurant. Raya offers pan-Latin

breathtaking ocean views—the perfect setting in which

meats and local produce, and was named “Restaurant

Masters or a day at the Festival of Arts.

coastal cuisine featuring sustainable seafood, organic of the Year” by Riviera Orange County in 2011. Chef

to relax after taking in an evening at the Pageant of the For more information about the Ritz-Carlton’s

de Cuisine Steve Wan created an innovative summer

partnership with the Festival of Arts and the

mouthwatering dishes as Hamachi in Aguachile, a

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Pageant of the Masters, or to book a package, visit

opening night photography by karin horlick

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Second Serving welcoming Raw Salt written by Kimberly Johnson Laguna Beach’s premiere contemporary Latin

gallery, Salt Fine Art, is well-known in the community for providing compelling art from established artists while highlighting the rich value of Latin culture.

Luckily for us, the two women responsible for the gallery, owner Carla Tesak Arzente and director

Suzanne Walsh, haven’t chosen to rest on their laurels.

In April, with a new mission in mind, they opened one of Laguna’s most talked about new galleries—Raw Salt.

“Raw Salt is really the first step towards evolving

into something larger and broader,” explains Walsh.

That need became crucial when the two realized and acknowledged a pair of common art world issues.

“Raw Salt began as a solution to two challenges

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“We wanted to bring fine art at an affordable cost and also be able to present and support young artists.”

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when presenting fine art,” the director continues. “We wanted to bring fine art at

an affordable cost and also be able to present and support young artists.” With an

emphasis on providing newcomers with a platform while also supplying homemakers, art enthusiasts and collectors with affordable options, their venture benefits all parties involved.

Raw Salt is already proving its worth in Laguna, connecting the community to

the world. “All of our artists are in the beginning to early mid-points of their careers and come from all over the world,” Walsh points out—and she doesn’t mean this

figuratively. The gallery currently represents ten artists hailing from countries such as France, Spain, Cuba, Russia and Japan, all bringing their unique cultural and artistic traits to the table.

Raw Salt exhibits a continually changing show displaying pieces from each of

the gallery’s ten represented artists. To get a taste of one of Laguna’s hottest new

contemporary art hubs, don’t pass up the pure and pleasant flavor of Raw Salt. Visit the gallery at 1492 South Coast Highway or online at www.rawsalt.net. l

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Welcoming

Virga Gallery written by Kimberly Johnson After appearing in 13 exhibitions in 2014—

both juried and solo—internationally recognized Lithuanian-born artist Virga Siauciunaite began thinking seriously about where she’d put down

artistic roots next. She has pursued an art career with vigor and ceaseless activity for nearly

her entire life, producing a legacy of vigorous

expression. And as a genuine creative spirit, she has done it all, from executing murals to spearheading

galleries and taking part in nearly 200 exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe since 1981.

Having already managed galleries in Oxnard

and Santa Barbara, Siauciunaite chose to make

Laguna Beach the home of her newly premiered Virga Gallery. “I wondered, ‘Where’s the best

place, a real mecca for art?’” Siauciunaite explains.

She mentions the community’s rich history of art appreciation and its many cultural festivals as

defining factors in her decision. Visit her beachfront gallery at 206 North Coast Highway, where a

permanent body of work is on display, or head to www.virgaart.com for more information. l

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Welcoming the Delgado Gallery written by Elizabeth Nutt

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ong-established Laguna Beach watercolorist Lydia Delgado opened the doors to her new gallery at 1550 South Coast Highway on May 9. The gallery reflects the artist’s unique vision, and represents more than just a space to exhibit her nature-inspired work.

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was different,” explains Delgado. “There

aren’t a lot of women who have galleries, and I wanted it to be a little softer, a little

more soothing. People walk in and they get

that sense, and say they feel comfortable and relaxed, and I guess that’s what I wanted to put out there.”

This Zen-like mindset was, in fact, the

impetus for the start of Delgado’s career as an artist. Following a car accident in the mid-

1980s that forced her to leave her job in the

financial sector, she relocated to Laguna and re-evaluated her life, deciding that painting

was what she was meant to do. She enrolled in art classes at LCAD, and a year later showed

her work at the Sawdust Festival. This year is her 28th as an exhibitor.

Though Delgado has shown her

paintings in other Laguna galleries, she

sees her new venture as an opportunity to

create a collaborative, community space. “I

love working with people,” she says. “I love

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creating commissions and special things for them, and being their eyes, their

memories. Flowers and plants are classic, and they have a tendency to remind

people of the past … It’s a very intimate thing.”

The artist looks forward to future

visits at her in-gallery studio from an

increasing number of clients, who were more than happy to celebrate the new space with her in early May. “It was a

great turnout and a wonderful celebration of my clients and students,” she says.

Looking to the future, Delgado will

continue to teach painting, and hopes to

host lectures, discussions and celebrations at the gallery for those who share her

passion for studying flowers and plants.

The Delgado Gallery is open

Mondays and Wednesday-Sunday,

from noon to 6 pm, as well as by special

appointment. For more information, visit www.delgadowatercolor.com. l

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Looking Back

Bringing the Swingin’ 60s to Laguna Beach

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation written by Stacy Davies

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D

uring the early decades of filmmaking, children

were an afterthought. There were a few serials such as the

Our Gang comedies and the Dead End Kids in the 1930s, but for the most part, children were just a chaser to very stiff adult

bourbons, and even the suggestion of a family-oriented film was considered too mundane to waste precious celluloid on—

unless you could wrangle in a

mega star like Shirley Temple, of course.

The late 1930s and 40s

ushered in the first animated films, but family situation

comedies were still neglected

unless they served as backdrop for animal adventure tales that focused on Lassie, Flicka, or

that champion horsewoman, Velvet. By 1950, however,

Hollywood realized that there

was a solid market for Nuclear Age domestic tales gone awry, and it began a dedicated push

for “family films.” Again, most turned out to be adventure

stories for young boys, such as

Disney’s first live action offering, Treasure Island. Domestic family

flicks finally came into vogue with 1960’s Pollyanna, and the model for wholesome family entertainment was set. Little

did Hollywood or audiences realize, however, that a cultural storm loomed on the horizon that threatened to upset their dizzying domestic bliss.

The 1960s saw the dismantling of the studio system,

and as filmmakers turned toward greater realism, it seemed

The 1960s saw the dismantling of the studio system, and as filmmakers turned toward greater realism, it seemed family fun would be shelved for bikini babes, psychos, and philandering secret agents.

family fun would be shelved for bikini babes, psychos, and

philandering secret agents. Scrambling producers realized that in order to salvage the genre, they had to introduce grittier, or at least more pronounced adult elements, into the domestic domain. The new wave of family films (the saccharinely

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brilliant Sound of Music and Mary

Poppins excepted) would now attempt to balance old-fashioned ideals with edgier, sexually-liberated trends guaranteed to

send shockwaves through the puritanical hearts of the moral majority.

In Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, that

early experimentation makes for seriously chaotic psychology, not to mention an odd culture clash mash-up in which a wholesome young man can sing a

song called “Cream Puff” to a young

lady just a few scenes after her father

offends a German housekeeper with a

misinterpreted remark about “sun on the

beach.” Cream puffs and sons of bitches— welcome to 1962!

Based on Edward Streeter’s novel,

Hobbs is screenwriter Nunnally Johnson’s (How to Marry a Millionaire) semi-spicy

modern mayhem gift to director Henry

Koster (Harvey). Helming the chaos is the illustrious Jimmy Stewart, fresh off of

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and the ever-stunning Maureen O’Hara, who’d just brought in big box office with The

Deadly Companions and The Parent Trap.

Such a legendary team certainly ensures a sure-fire hit, no? Well, it certainly ensures about two hours of fluff and sexual

innuendo set against a fabulous coastline.

Filmed almost entirely in Laguna

Beach’s Crystal Cove, with additional footage from Dana Point and Malibu, Hobbs is a 60s family farce swinging between slapstick and double-takes

(flawlessly executed by Stewart), along

with some rather arresting bits of adult

sass. One of the first eye-poppers arrives when O’Hara questions Stewart about

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down, referring to the twenty-something siren as “just a big kid,” which prompts O’Hara to sweetly snark: “Ah ha … but

that was Humbert Humbert’s first report

on little goody-two-shoes wasn’t it?” Yup, a Lolita reference in a “family film”—get out your rosary.

Other questionable quips are

peppered throughout, including Stewart telling the blonde that O’Hara is “36-2636 and still operational,” and there’s a

heap of gloves-off parenting that would force today’s helicopter parents into

meltdown, such as when Stewart refers to

his monstrous grandson as a “little creep”

or jovially suggests that he’s going to pick up a copy of Playboy for his 14-year-old son.

These are the gems that make the

film worth a two-hour time-grab—that

and its refreshingly quaint focus on the

relationship between Stewart and O’Hara absent their children. In fact, the bevy

of offspring are all pretty dreadful, and

while Fabian was inserted to fill seats with teenagers, the trials of Stewart contending with the broken-down beach rental that

O’Hara has secured for the summer (“If

it’s good enough for Edgar Allan Poe, it’s good enough for us!”)—that’s comedy gold.

Laguna is the other big star of

this screwy send-up, and its pristine,

uninhabited coastline and clifftops serve

as a picturesque and ironic setting for the

gags and grins. It’s a lovely “last hurrah,” really—John F. Kennedy would lose

his life the following year, and the lens of Hollywood would continue to turn

toward bleak fare such as Dr. Strangelove

and The Graduate. Family films were here to stay, however, and their attempts to

bridge idealism with reality produced a

dozen classics, many of which would be deemed too harsh for kiddies today. No matter. As Mr. Hobbs proves, the heart of the family film isn’t really doe-eyed

angels gone awry or pre-pubescent brats igniting pandemonium—it’s the adults,

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American Eden William Wendt Paints Southern California written by Grove Koger • images courtesy of laguna art museum him), Wendt told a friend that he wished he “were away from Chicago again,”

and sure enough, he was drawn back to the Golden State the following summer.

He visited the art colony of St. Ives in

Cornwall in 1898, and then pushed on

to Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Beaux-Arts. Back in

Chicago he mounted his first important

solo show in 1899, exhibiting almost four

dozen paintings and selling nearly half of them, one to an up-and-coming architect named Frank Lloyd Wright.

T

Wendt married sculptor Julia

Bracken in 1906 and shortly afterward

the pair moved to Los Angeles, becoming founding members of the California Art

Club. Then in 1918 Wendt built a second

home and studio in Laguna Beach, where he became a founding member of the

“The perfection of this Spring day and

Chicago—that “stormy, husky, brawling”

of Genesis,” wrote William Wendt to a

it a few years later. He worked as a

the gladness thereof make one think

friend. It was an age, he continued, “when the earth was young and the morning stars sang to each other.”

The year was 1898 and the occasion

was the naturalized citizen’s fourth

city, as Carl Sandburg would describe

commercial artist during the day and took evening classes at the School of the Art

Institute of Chicago, and by 1893 was able to set himself up as a professional painter.

Wendt visited Santa Barbara in 1894,

visit to California, which was destined

and seems to have been overwhelmed by

most accomplished works. But Wendt’s

following year, and in 1896 exhibited four

to become his home and inspire his

vision of this new American Eden was a

complex one, and for much of his life he

was ambivalent about the place of human beings in it.

Born in 1865 in Benzin, a village

in what is now northern Germany,

Wendt was apprenticed for a time to a

cabinetmaker. But thanks to the help of an uncle, he was able to immigrate to

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California’s landscape. He returned the

canvases on California subjects in a group show in Chicago at the Art Institute. A

critic for one of the city’s papers sensed how the state had liberated Wendt’s

palette. “Never was a redder hill than the one that rises with lines of young trees

climbing up it,” she wrote; “never was

greener grass than that below; never was bluer sky than that beyond.”

Despite such praise (or perhaps it so

accurately described California’s effect on

Laguna Beach Art Association. Yet despite his organizational efforts, Wendt appears to have craved the solitude that Laguna

offered. He confessed to an associate that he was “often very low in spirit.”

The remainder of Wendt’s life could

be summed up in a long list of awards

and accomplishments, one of the most important of which was a gold medal

from the 1925 Pan-American Exhibition in Los Angeles for his five-foot-wide

painting Where Nature’s God Hath Wrought.

In time he became known as the Dean of Southern California Painters.

Wendt’s early efforts as a cabinet

maker and commercial artist had paid

off, as his paintings show a meticulous

attention to detail and the juxtaposition of colors. He worked for the most part en plein air, but while some of his

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canvases showed the influence of the

Impressionists, they register something entirely different than the joie de vivre that animated the works of the French

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a mystical veneration of nature, especially the Edenlike landscapes that he had

discovered in California. Only occasionally do they suggest the presence of men and

women. The magnificent peak in Wendt’s

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1925 award-winner certainly dominates the canvas, but look carefully and you’ll see a tiny house perched on its lower flanks.

You can see the same human

presence in a recent gift to the Laguna Art Museum. A donation from Robert

and Shirley Foster, the work dates from

1933 and shows a more modest scene of rolling hills enveloping a narrow road.

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Experts believe that Wendt painted it in either El Toro or Trabuco Canyon, and

since he didn’t give it a title, the museum is simply calling it ‘Untitled Landscape.’

Aside from the painting’s intrinsic artistic quality—it’s rendered in luminous but

carefully modulated greens and yellows— it’s an example of the artist’s acceptance

of California’s evolving landscape. As the museum’s Executive Director, Malcolm

Warner, notes, the painting shows Wendt finding a balance between “the natural

and the man-made.” In William Wendt’s

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‘Wanna Wearing Blue,’ 2015, oil on canvas, 36x24”

I

nternationally acclaimed printmaker

and painter Jian Wang was inspired by

and studied under the likes of celebrated

artists Wayne Thiebaud, Fred Dalkey and Oliver Jackson. Wang has exhibited his

work in shows and at galleries around the world, but he has a special connection to Laguna: Dawson Cole Fine Art—at both

its Laguna Beach and Carmel galleries— has represented the artist for over 15 years.

‘Still Life with Silver Ball,’ 2003 Over the years, Wang’s longstanding

working relationship and friendship with Rich MacDonald Jr. of Dawson Cole has

Inspiration Exchange World-renowned artist Jian Wang devotes his summer to working and teaching in Laguna Beach written by Elizabeth Nutt

encouraged the artist to return annually

to the United States. Then on a 2014 trip to California, the Chinese-born artist

took an opportunity to catch up with

Wayne Thiebaud, whom he considers a close friend. During this meeting,

Wang proposed an idea that he’d been

thinking about for a while: that the two

artists collaborate and, for the first time

in their careers, put on a student/teacher exhibition together.

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Held in Laguna Beach at Dawson

Cole in September 2014, the exhibition was a success in its own right, but

it was also significant in that it led

Wang to put down deeper roots in

Laguna. At the reception, Wang had

an opportunity to speak with Jonathan

Burke, President of the Laguna College of Art + Design, where Wang was

sold-out workshops, one in portrait/ figure drawing and painting, and

one devoted to landscape painting en plein air. The workshops culminated

in an end-of-summer student/teacher

exhibition at the Dawson Cole Gallery in Laguna.

“I have always felt that in my

presented with a rare opportunity: to

career, a gallery representation is

Summer Artist-in-Residence.

Wang, “so I am hoping that I can

join the LCAD community as its 2015 “What’s wonderful,” says Burke,

“is that we have a significantly

talented artist here who is completely devoted to his art, and who is also

eager to share his knowledge of what it means to be an artist, and a multicultural artist.”

Throughout the summer,

Wang—who resided with his wife on campus—had use of LCAD studios ‘Wanna Wearing Yellow Necklace,’ 2015, oil on canvas, 30x15”

Additionally, the artist taught two

for printmaking and for painting.

instrumental for an artist,” explains bring the students to that level, to give them the experience and opportunity of working with a gallery. It’s very

exciting for me, that my classes are

full and with a waiting list, so that is

a happy thing for me as an artist, who has traveled from thousands of miles away.”

Wang thoroughly understands the

power of good mentors and teachers.

He was a child of the Cultural

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“... we have a significantly talented artist here who is completely devoted to his art, and who is also eager to share his knowledge of what it means to be an artist, and a multi-cultural artist.”

‘Wanna Wearing Earrings,’ 2015, oil on canvas, 15x30

‘Cliff, Laguna Beach #1,’ 2015, oil on rag board, 12x10”

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Revolution in China, and when he was

It is clear when speaking with him that Wang loves what he does and finds great joy in teaching.

finally able to pursue higher education,

his parents forbade him from applying to art school. Instead, he studied, and later taught, engineering. But he recalls with happy nostalgia getting his hands on

underground publications about painters such as Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Wang longed to experience what he believed

was the inspiring life of an artist, but it wasn’t until he was in his late twenties

that he understood that his dream could still be realized. That’s when an art

teacher at his university saw his work and encouraged him to apply to art school

in America. He later went on to attend UC Davis.

It is clear when speaking with him

that Wang loves what he does and finds great joy in teaching. It is also a rare

opportunity for the students enrolled in his workshops—students whose work ‘Wanna,’ 2015, oil on canvas, 30x48”

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was juried into the public exhibition in

August. As Jonathan Burke points out,

“To bring someone here who has such a

‘Figure Study at LCAD #11,’ 2015, pen and ink on rice paper, 18x14”

highly individualized style, who is known for using paint in such an incredibly

visual, visceral and expressive way that

is extraordinarily bold and courageous— because it’s so hard to manage—is incredible.”

Wang’s style is indeed distinct

and authentic; he describes himself as neither an expressionist nor a realist painter. He uses a brush and palette

knife and thick oil paint to capture and

‘Summer in Rancho Santa Fe’

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“It’s realism with an expressionist method, it’s an honest way of leaving the marks and leaving the observation of what I see from my surroundings.” create space, color, and light, essentially shaping his paintings’ images by manipulating materials. “The method I use to paint is expressive,” he says. “It’s realism with an expressionist

method, it’s an honest way of leaving the marks and leaving the observation of what I see from my surroundings.”

This past summer in Laguna, Wang happily took in his

surroundings, eager to absorb inspiration during his six-week

residency. Though of course he was busy teaching and working ‘Figure Study at LCAD #14,’ 2015 pen and ink on rice paper 18x14”

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on a folio of prints that he will donate to the college as part of

LCAD’s collection, he was thrilled to devote so

‘Harvester on Laguna Beavh,’ 2015, oil on canvas, 24x36”

much time to painting here. “For selfish reasons I

came to Laguna for the summer. I have been here many times, but I’ve never stayed long enough to paint here. This summer I hope to produce

many specific paintings of Laguna, because it is so beautiful.” l

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Women of LPAPA

Celebrating the Female Members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association written by Kimberly Johnson

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In June the ‘New York Times’ ran an article publicizing a highly anticipated book titled ‘Woman Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader.’ Nochlin is, of

course, the groundbreaking writer and American art historian behind the 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women

Artists? First published in Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness and later reprinted in ArtNews, the

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piece is noted as a groundbreaking examination of the crucial

need to open a dialogue regarding female participation in the ‘Race Day-Hui Lai Chong’ Lori Putman world of art.

As keywords like “women” and “art” remain prominent in the headlines of the world’s most powerful news outlets,

it’s time to assess just how far the female community has come since Nochlin’s essay first appeared some 44 years ago.

It’s also worth noting that many of the women working

and creating careers in Laguna Beach came of age at the time

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Nochlin’s essay was published or shortly afterward. Why Have

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anyone studying the topic of women in the arts. And whether

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There Been No Great Women Artists? is required reading for

directly exposed to the text or indirectly affected by its message of female empowerment, the women engaged in building the creative community stand as living testaments to the essay’s

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objective.

The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association has 12 board

members, 6 of whom are female. Toni Kellenberg, the current president and an artist in various media, is female. Of the

approximately 400 LPAPA members scattered across America, Germany, Australia and far beyond—211 are female. This is

what female representation in the art world looks like today.

As plein air painters, members of LPAPA differ from

other artists in that they work outdoors while exposed to the

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elements. The medium is deeply romantic, and sometimes involves a degree of isolation. Plein air painting has been

revered for centuries and practiced by greats such as Vincent

Avantgarden Gallery

Santora Building, Santa Ana

Celeste Gilles Board of Directors, and Toni Kellenberg President

Bear Street Gallery/Studios South Coast Plaza Village

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Mary Linda Strotkamp, Board of Directors; Kim Lordier, Signature Member; Rosemary Swimm, Execitive Director and Toni Kellenberg, President; Cynthia Britain, Founding Member & First Female President; Debra Huse, Signature member & Board of Directors.

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While Swimm clearly recognizes the capabilities of her peers as creators and as women possessing every facet of “womanhood,” we’re still dealing with an unfortunate trend regarding women in creative leadership positions van Gogh and Claude Monet. However,

“Mothers running households, raising

plein air artists shows a dearth of female

effective artists.” While Swimm clearly

a simple Google search of noteworthy

representation. While history has done justice to early 20th century American plein air painters Mary Agnes Yerkes

and Mary Cassatt, there is no denying a striking lack.

In her essay, Nochlin writes, “The

question ’Why have there been no great women artists?’ is simply the top tenth of an iceberg of misinterpretation and

misconception; beneath lies a vast dark

bulk of shaky idees recues [received ideas] about the nature of art and its situational concomitants, about the nature of

human abilities in general and of human excellence in particular, and the role that the social order plays in all of this.”

Throughout her writings, Nochlin

questions the notion of female inadequacy and shines an iridescent light on the situational and social impediments

women face. She asks, “What if Picasso

had been born a girl? Would Senor Ruiz

have paid as much attention or stimulated as much ambition for achievement in a

little Pablita?” Would the iconic painter we regard as having nearly god-like artistic capabilities still be treated as

children and still being passionate and

recognizes the capabilities of her peers as creators and as women possessing every

facet of “womanhood,” we’re still dealing with an unfortunate trend regarding

women in creative leadership positions.

It’s a trend that demands that they take on a role of minimized femininity à la

Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.

And what this leaves us with in many cases is the reality that the art world

has just barely begun to recognize the

accomplishments of the female population in a significant way.

So here we take a moment to

celebrate the strength and achievements

of the women selected by LPAPA’s experts for Signature Membership: Lai Chong

Hiu, Kathleen Dunphy, Carolyn Hesse-

Low, Debra Huse, Kim Fancher Lordier,

Rita Pacheco, Camille Przewodek, Robin Purcell, Lori Putnam, April Raber, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Elizabeth Tolley and

Kim VanDerHoek. Besides providing

leadership within the association, each of

these members is expected to teach in one of its educational or mentoring programs.

We commend these award-winning

“great” if his anatomy were that of a

artists, passionately working en plein air

her seriously?

as women. Given this pattern of skill and

woman? Would the art world have taken In a recent phone conversation with

LPAPA Executive Director Rosemary

Swimm, the topic of women as artists and women as familial and maternal

beings arose. “The talents these women

possess are quite amazing,” notes Swimm.

while asserting their identity and power

assertion in the female art community, we edge closer to dismissing the notion that there have been no great female artists

and move towards recognizing them as equal players in the world of art. l For more information visit lpapa.org

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In Memoriam: Orange County Artists A Celebration of the Lives and Work of Four Successful Orange County Artists written by Elizabeth Nutt

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Cheryl Ekstrom

qualities that Ekstrom embodied in her own life and . The works

of longtime Laguna Beach resident and celebrated

work.

Another one of Ekstrom’s recent pieces, a bronze

sculptor, artist, and storyteller Cheryl Ekstrom can

titled Misplaced Heart with a Wolf at Her Back, employs

museums and galleries. Ekstrom was the recipient of

women known as ”suffragettes.”A thought-provoking

2014, and one of her final contributions to Laguna’s

for identity and the struggle for self-realization, it

was presented at the 2015 Art Star Awards Gala in

Bold, creative, and uncompromisingly authentic,

can be viewed as a metaphor for conducting life’s

authenticity placed her in a league of her own. She

be found around the globe in private collections,

a replica of the nineteenth-century dress worn by the

the $5,000 [seven-degrees] Inspiration Grant award in

commentary on societal constraints, woman’s search

artistic community was her series Setting Forth, which

questions and re-examines tradition—classic Ekstrom.

April. The series—a flotilla of small sculptural boats—

Ekstrom was an artist whose unique style and

journey with boldness and a sense of adventure, both

passed away in June at the age of 71.

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Richard White

and Crafts. He spent the rest of his life in Southern California. was a

well-regarded contemporary ceramic artist with an enormous following. He was also

White helped move ceramics into the realm of

contemporary art. In addition to creating with clay, he experimented with drawing and

a celebrated educator, teaching in the

worked with wood, metal and concrete,

College for nearly twenty years and

and a creative thinker who thought that

department from 2002 to 2010. Raised

of firing ceramics—was just as crucial

ceramics department at Saddleback

among other media. He was an innovator

serving as the chair of the college’s art

the artistic process—especially the act

in Palo Alto, White spent summers with

as the final product. White’s work can

cultivated a lifelong love for the ocean.

at the Laguna Art Museum, as well as at

his family in Laguna Beach, where he

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be viewed in the permanent collection

the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Los

Angeles County Museum of Art. He passed

away in February at age 63.

photo by tom lamb photo by tom lamb

Terry Thornsley

collections around the world, but he is

nature which paved the way for his career

including his celebrated mural installation at

had a passion for exploring movement and as an artist. As the son of a Navy family, he spent the bulk of his childhood traveling,

and he passed most of his time sketching and painting. Thornsley began his career as an

artist in 1972 at 14, and relocated to Southern

California only four years later in order to live by the sea. He was a passionate outdoorsman and naturalist as well as an avid sea kayaker,

and his beautifully rendered fish, coral, marine mammals and sea birds reflect his soulful connection to the ocean.

Thornsley’s art is held in private

best known locally for his public works,

the lifeguard headquarters on Main Beach,

Grace, and the bronze sculpture that adorns the entrance of the Montage Laguna Beach, Peacescape. Thornsley was also a prolific

painter who loved to camp and render the

landscapes around him en plein air. He passed away in May at age 57 from natural causes,

and though he did not marry or have children, he leaves behind a significant legacy: the

importance of venerating and celebrating the beauty of nature.

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Karen Adnoff Pinaquy (2011)

Duke Kahanamoku (1966)

Phillip Stewart Charis

Hannah Hacker (2012)

was

widely known for his striking formal photographic portraiture.

For over 50 years he created impressive life-size photographic

portraits that look painted, and his Old-World-style-meets-thedigital-age work redefined the concept of “fine art.” Charis’s

immediately recognizable museum-like photographic ‘canvases’ reflect his long study of classical painting. Using the medium of

photography, he managed to capture the magnificent essence of traditional Renaissance portraiture.

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Born in Detroit, Charis began exploring photography at age

14 and launched his career in photographic portraiture in the

mid-1960s. He was passionate about photography as an art form and about the revival of formal portraiture in modern society.

Charis was also a lecturer and teacher, and although his studio and gallery were based in San Juan Capistrano, he completed commissions across the United States. His accomplishments

included receiving the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Professional Photographers of California. Charis passed away in June at the age of 88. l

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Calendar Fridays and Saturdays, 10 am and 2 pm Sawdust Studio Art Classes 935 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Pottery, glassblowing, jewelry, fused glass and more! $95.0+; Sawdustartfestival.org (949) 494-3030

Daily, 11 am-5 pm “Marks on the Land, the View from Here” Forest & Ocean Gallery 450 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach Abstract aerial photography by Tom Lamb forestoceangallery.com/home (949) 371-3313 Now-August 30 Sunday-Thursday 10 am-9 pm, Friday & Saturday 10 am-10 pm Art-A-Fair Fine Art Festival 777 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Discover 125 distinguished artists at this juried fine art festival. Enjoy live music, outdoor cuisine, daily art workshops, watching artists create. Adults $7.50, seniors/military $4.50, children under 12 free Art-a-fair.com; (949) 494-4514 Now-August 30, 10 am-11:30 pm Festival of Arts Summer Fine Art Exhibit— “Marks on the Land, the View from Here” Abstract aerial photography by Tom Lamb 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Saturday, August 1-31 Jules Cheret, original “Maître d’Affiche” The Vintage Poster 1492 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach “Masters of the Poster” antique posters on display.

Free to visit; TheVintagePoster.com; (949) 376-7422 Saturday, August 1, 2015, 10 am Laguna Nursery Garden Walk 1730 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Meet at 10 am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach. Lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200 Saturday, August 1, 6-10 pm Downtown Santa Ana First Saturday Art Walk AvantGarden–The Art Gallery, Historic Santora Bldg 201 N Broadway, Santa Ana Features the works of 16 cutting edge artists Artavantgarden.com; (714) 558-8843 70 lLagunaBeachARTmagazine.com

Monday-Sunday, August 5-September 13, 10:30 am-5:30 pm (Sunday 11 am-3 pm) Postcards Featuring Photography of Int’l Award-Winner George Kaczmarek Showcase Gallery, S Coast Plaza Village 3851 S Bear St, Suite B15, Santa Ana Opening Reception Saturday, August 8, 5-7 pm Features the photography of George Kaczmarek with the mixed media works of 30 other artists OCfinearts.org; (714) 540-6430

Thursday, August 6, 5-10 pm First Thursday Art Walk—New works by Virga and Guest Artist to Be Announced Virga Gallery, 206 N Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Wine and snacks served VirgaGallery.com; (949) 338-0554 Thursday, August 6, 6-9 pm Green Opening Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach International juried show celebrating the color green. On display August 3-28 OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com (978) 473-9658

Thursday, August 6, 6-9 pm Art Walk Exhibition Opening—“Stillness and Illuminations” by Lawrence Terry, ”Southern Comfort” by Mada Leach and “The Seihakuji Project” by Marjorie Sanders Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach SandstoneGallery.com; (949) 497-6775 Thursday, August 6, 6-9 pm LPAPA in Residence ”Van Gogh Inspiration” Exhibit & Sale Forest & Ocean Gallery 480 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach LPAPA artists exhibit paintings inspired by Van Gogh. Show runs until September 1 Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Thursday, August 6, 6-9 pm First Thursdays Art Walk Artist Eye Laguna Gallery 1294 S Coast Hwy # A, Laguna Beach Each month features new artwork from 16 resident artists; Artisteyelagunagallery.com; (949) 497-5898 Thursday, August 6, 6-9 pm Art Walk Open Gallery Paris by the Sea Gallery 784 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting Sheila Olsen fine art Seascapes Collection; SheilaOlsen.com; (949) 423-9990 Thursday, August 6, 2015, 4-6 pm Laguna Plein Air Painters Association City Hall Cultural Exhibition Laguna Beach City Hall 505 Forest Ave, Laguna Beach Artists’ wine & cheese reception. Join us for a glass of wine and view the work of LPAPA artists.

Show runs through August 14 Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Thursday, August 6, 7-9 pm Casa up Close—Evan Marks, Executive Director, the Ecology Center Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Evans is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano.

Tickets: $12, Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Friday, August 7, 6-8 pm Open Casa—Casa Coastal: Russ Hennings, Photographer Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Gallery opening luau. Free admission Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Saturday, August 8, 5-8 pm DMAC Season 3 Art Reception Del Mar Art Center 1555 Camino Del Mar #314, Del Mar Del Mar Art Center celebrates San Diego artists and their latest creations. Food, drink, music and art DMACgallery.com; (858) 481-1678 Sunday, August 9, 7:30 pm Bolero & Hot Latin Nights Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 8808 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine Sizzling rhythms and the sounds of Spain, including Bernstein’s America, selections from Bizet’s Carmen, and Ravel’s intoxicating Bolero.

Tickets from $25; PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799 Tuesday, August 11, 4-8 pm Trunk Shows at Just Looking Boutique Just Looking Boutique Lumberyard Mall 384 Forest Ave # 8, Laguna Beach Nancy Golden presents Nancy Goldenwear, her handmade leather jewelry using repurposed leather and a curated selection of semi-precious stones, buffalo horn and resin links, and Lynn Rosencrantz shares her love of the planet by creating fashion bags and cuffs. Please join us!

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Wednesday, August 12, 9 am Casa Wellness Wednesday—Casa Yoga Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente This class is suitable for first-time and seasoned yoga practitioners! $5 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Friday, August 14, 7-8:30 pm 2015-2016 Casa Captivating Season Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Casa Romantica announces its upcoming 20152016 Casa Captivating Season programs and concerts. Free. Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Saturday, August 15, 5-8 pm Welcome to the Gallery Wine and Cheese Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join us in welcoming new artists to the gallery OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658 Saturday, August 15, 7-10 pm Artist Reception Laguna Art Lounge 1951 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting works by Sheila Olsen Fine Art SheilaOlsen.com; (949) 423-9990 Saturday, August 15, 2-5 pm Portrait Workshop AvantGarden–The Art Gallery, Historic Santora Building, 201 N Broadway, Santa Ana Live model, no instruction, just a great place to paint! Fee $12;Artavantgarden.com; (714) 558-8843

Saturday and Sunday, August 15 & 16, 11 am–6 pm Grand Opening Event The Art of Dr. Seuss Gallery 265 Forest Ave, Laguna Beach Grand Opening festivities including photo opportunities with The Cat in the Hat, refreshments and games. Free. Drseussgallery.com

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Sunday, August 16, 2-3 pm Free Dance Performance Festival of Arts grounds 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Free public dance performance by Los Angeles-based Jacob Jonas The Company, led by a skateboarderturned-street performer LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Sunday, August 16, 8:30 pm CASA CINEMA—Disney’s Up Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Free showing of 2009 American Pixar film Up at Casa Romantica.Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Thursday, August 20, 7 pm Casa Cool—Max Bennett Quartet Established by internationally known bassist and composer Max Bennett, the Max Bennett Quartet combines jazz, blues, rock, and Latin music.

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Saturday, August 22, 8 pm Star Trek Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 8808 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine Boldly going where no one has gone before, J.J. Abrams’ 2009 blockbuster Star Trek returns to the big screen for a symphonic night at the movies with live score! Tickets from $25 PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799 Saturday, August 22, 10 am Laguna Nursery Garden Walk 1730 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Meet at 10 am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach; Lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200 Tuesday, September 1 – September 30 The World of World War 1 through Original Antique Posters The Vintage Poster 1492 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Free to visit. TheVintagePoster.com; (949) 376-7422 Thursday, September 3, 5-10 pm First Thursday Art walk—New Works by Virga and Guest Artist to Be Announced Virga Gallery, 206 N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Wine and snacks served VirgaGallery.com; (949) 338-0554 Thursday, September 3, 6-9 pm Flora & Fauna Opening Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach International juried show celebrating plants and animals. On display August 31-September 25 OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com (978) 473-9658 Thursday, September 3, 6-9 pm Art Walk Exhibition Opening Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting “Cosmic Dream” by Sunny Kim, “Dreamscapes” by Ann Kim, and “The Seihakuji Project” by Marjorie Sanders SandstoneGallery.com; (949) 497-6775

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Thursday, September 3, 6-9 pm Art Walk Open Gallery Paris by the Sea Gallery 784 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting Sheila Olsen fine art Seascapes Collection; SheilaOlsen.com; (949) 423-9990 Thursday, September 3, 6-9 pm Roberta Nieto at First Thursdays Art Walk Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Orange County Creatives proudly presents original paintings and sculpture by Roberta Nieto Nietoart.com; (978) 473-9658 Thursday, September 3, 6:45 pm Laguna Art Museum 7:30 pm Salt Fine Art Gallery Free Dance Performances Third performance TBA Free public dance performances during Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk.

See website for further details LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Thursday, September 3, 6-9 pm First Thursdays Art Walk Artist Eye Laguna Gallery 1294-A Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Each month features new artwork from 16 resident artists; Artisteyelagunagallery.com; (949) 497-5898 Friday, September 4-27 during the Los Angeles County Fair The Art Classic Millard Sheets Art Center, 1101 W McKinley Ave, Pomona Exhibition preview Saturday August 8, 6-8:30 pm In partnership with the Los Angeles Art Association, the Millard Sheets Art Center presents “The Art Classic”—10 visions for contemporary art at the LA County Fair Saturday, September 5, 8 pm Tchaikovsky Spectacular Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 8808 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine Cannons and fireworks in the 1812 Overture, plus The Sleeping Beauty and Rachmaninoff’s popular Piano Concerto No. 2. Tickets from $25 PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799 Saturday, September 5, 6-10 pm Downtown Santa Ana First Saturday Art Walk AvantGarden–The Art Gallery, Historic Santora Building, 201 N. Broadway, Santa Ana Featuring the works of 16 cutting edge artists Artavantgarden.com; (714) 558-8843 Wednesday, September 9, 9 am Casa Wellness Wednesdays—Casa Yoga Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente This class is suitable for first-time and seasoned yoga practitioners. $5 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Thursday, September 10, 4:30 pm Master Class for Dancers 12 and Older Laguna Beach High School Dance Studio 625 Park Ave, Laguna Beach Intermediate and advanced dancers are invited to dance class led by personnel from Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC, an audience favorite at the 2014 Laguna Dance Festival. $25 per student; $15 observer; student package $50 (master class and performance) LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Thursday & Friday, September 10 & 11, 7:30 pm Dance Performance with Pre-Performance Talk at 6:30 pm Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Cuba’s hottest contemporary troupe, Malpaso Dance Company, brings its precise, high-energy movement to Laguna for its West Coast premiere.

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Saturday, September 12, noon-3 pm Technique Class and Repertory Workshop for Dancers 12 and Older Laguna Beach High School Dance Studio 625 Park Ave, Laguna Beach Intermediate and advanced dancers may take part in in a class led by personnel from Cuba’s top troupe, Malpaso Dance Company. $25 per student; $15 observer; student package $50 (master class and performance) LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Saturday, September 12, 7:30 pm Dance Performance Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Alonzo King LINES Ballet presents Biophony, an exploration of nature with soundscape by Bernie Krause and composer Richard Blackford, and Concerto for Two Violins. Two performances only. General admission $60; students with ID $35; LINES performance and post-show reception $125 LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Saturday, September 12, 9 pm Post-Performance Artists’ Reception Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Mingle with performers and choreographers from Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company and Alonzo King LINES Ballet at a reception that includes food from K’ya Bistro Bar and wine. $75 reception only; LINES performance and reception $125 LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Sunday, September 13, 10 am–noon Master Class for Dancers 12 and Older Laguna Beach High School Dance Studio 625 Park Ave., Laguna Beach Intermediate and advanced dancers may experience a class led by personnel from San Francisco’s beloved Alonzo King LINES Ballet. $25 per student; $15 observer; student package $50 (master class and performance) LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Sunday, September 13, 2 pm Dance performance with pre-performance talk at 1 pm Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Rd Alonzo King LINES Ballet presents Biophony, an exploration of nature with soundscape by Bernie Krause and composer Richard Blackford, and Concerto for Two Violins. Two performances only.

General admission $60; students with ID $35 LagunaDanceFestival.org; (949) 715-5578 Monday-Sunday, September 16-October 25, 10:30 am-5:30 pm (Sunday 11 am-3 pm) Florals in Photography and Paintings Showcase Gallery, South Coast Plaza Village, 3851 S Bear St, Santa Ana Features the works of invited photographers from the Vietnamese Photo Club with the paintings of OCFA artists in conjunction with the Orchid Society Show at South Coast Plaza. Opening Reception Saturday, September 26, 1-3 pm Ocfinearts.org; (714) 540-6430 Saturday, September 19, 5-8 pm Welcome to the Gallery Wine and Cheese Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join us in welcoming new artists to the gallery OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658 Wednesday, September 23, 5:30-9 pm Taste of Laguna Tivoli Too! 777 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach Savor a vast variety of local fare presented by some of Laguna Beach’s leading culinary stars.

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Saturday, September 26, 5:30-10 pm Toast to the Casa A Slice in Time: Fundraiser Event Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Sit amidst the orange groves and soak up the sweet Southern California era when citrus was king.

Tickets $175, Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Saturday, September 26, 5-8 pm “Fall” Art Exhibition Vanessa Rothe Fine Art 418 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach All-new works by top American Russian and Ukrainian realists and impressionists Vanessarothefineart.com; (949) 280-1555 Thursday, October 1-31 The Art of Laguna Beach’s Sister Cities The Vintage Poster 1492 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Free to visit, TheVintagePoster.com; (949) 376-7422

Thursday-Saturday, October 1-3, 8 pm & October 4, 3 pm Beethoven’s Ninth Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 615 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa Beethoven’s crowning achievement, concluding with the inspiring “Ode to Joy.” Tickets from $25 PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799 Thursday, October 1, 6-9 pm Art Walk Exhibition Opening Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting “Art under Pressure” by Anne Moore and “Community” by Lynn Welker SandstoneGallery.com; (949) 497-6775 Thursday, October 1, 6-9 pm Art Walk Open Gallery Paris by the Sea Gallery 784 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Presenting Sheila Olsen fine art Seascapes Collection SheilaOlsen.com; (949) 423-9990 Thursday, October 1, 5-10 pm First Thursday Art Walk—New works by Virga and Guest Artist to Be Announced Virga Gallery, 206 N Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Wine and snacks served VirgaGallery.com; (949) 338-0554 Thursday, October 1, 6-9 pm First Thursdays Art Walk Artist Eye Laguna Gallery 1294-A Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Each month features new artwork from 16 resident artists; Artisteyelagunagallery.com; (949) 497-5898 Thursday, October 1, 6-9 pm Human Opening Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach International juried show exploring what it means to be human. On display September 28-October 30.

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Saturday, October 3, 6-10 pm Downtown Santa Ana First Saturday Art Walk AvantGarden–The Art Gallery, Historic Santora Building, 201 N Broadway, Santa Ana Featuring the works of 16 cutting edge artists Artavantgarden.com; (714) 558-8843 Saturday, October 10, 10 am Casa Kids—Scarecrow Making Workshop Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Casa Romantica’s Garden Director Lisa Chmura will lead a hands-on workshop for kids of all ages.

Free Admission. Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Wednesday, October 14, 9 am Casa Wellness Wednesdays—Casa Yoga Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente This class is suitable for first-time and seasoned yoga practitioners. $5.00 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Saturday, October 17, 11 am-1 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Quick Draw Main Beach to Heisler Park Laguna Beach Watch as 35 invited artists from across the country take on the challenge of completing a painting in 2 hours; Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Saturday, October 17, 1:30-2:30 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational—Meet & Greet the Artists Laguna College of Art & Design, 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Meet the 35 invited artists Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Saturday, October 17, 2:30-3:30 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Quick Draw Silent Auction Laguna College of Art & Design 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Bid on the Quick Draw paintings completed by the 35 invitational artists; Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Saturday, October 17, 5-8 pm Welcome to the Gallery Wine and Cheese Reception Orange County Creatives Gallery 761 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join us in welcoming new artists to the gallery OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658 Saturday, October 17, 2-5 pm Portrait Workshop AvantGarden–The Art Gallery, Historic Santora Building, 201 N Broadway, Santa Ana Live model, no instruction, just a great place to paint. Fee $12;Artavantgarden.com; (714) 558-8843 Monday, October 19, 10 am-noon 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Kid’s Paint Out & Cookie Reception Heisler Park, Laguna Beach Watch local students paint. This event is designed to educate the students about plein air painting.

The students will be paired with plein air painters attending the invitational to gain inspiration and learn new techniques from the masters Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Monday, October 19, 6:30-8:30 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Plein Talk Ask Us Any Question Forest & Ocean Gallery 480 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach The public is invited to join in on an open and lively discussion with artists and a panel of experts discussing plein air painting and collecting Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635

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Wednesday, October 21, 11 am-2 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational LCAD Next Generation PaintOut Heisler Park, Laguna Beach This event is designed to cultivate the next generation of plein air painters from the Laguna College of Art + Design. Watch local students paint Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635

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SAVE THESE DATES Thursday-Saturday, October 22-24, 8 pm Fray Plays Schumann Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Schumann’s delightful Piano Concerto with David Fray and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1.

Tickets from $25 PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799 Thursday, October 22, 7 pm Casa up Close—Kenneth Khachigian Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Campaign strategist, speechwriter and attorney Kenneth Khachigian was a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and chief speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. Tickets: $12 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139 Thursday, October 22, 11 am-12:30 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Outdoor Artist Demonstrations Heisler Park, Treasure Island Park & Main Beach, Laguna Beach The public is invited to watch and learn how artists work in different media; Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Friday, October 23, 7-10:30 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Collectors’ Soirée Gala Reception (ticketed event) Tivoli Too 777 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Attendees will have the first chance to view and purchase, in advance of the general public, the artwork presented for awards judging Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Saturday, October 24, 10 am-7 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Public Art Show and Sale Tivoli Too 777 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Art show opens. An opportunity to meet the participating artists and purchase artwork. Free to the public; Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Sunday, October 25, 10 am-3 pm 17th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational Public Art Show and Sale Tivoli Too 777 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach An opportunity to meet the participating artists and purchase artwork. Free to the public Lpapa.org; (949) 376-3635 Monday-Sunday, October 28-December 6, 10:30 am-5:30 pm (Sunday 11 am-3 pm) Portraits in Steam Showcase Gallery, South Coast Plaza Village, 3851 S. Bear St., Santa Ana Features the works of collaborators Yoko Mazza and Steve Crise combining their love of trains with the paintings of 30 other OCFA artists Ocfinearts.org; (714) 540-6430 l

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