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Current Art Exhibit

Southern California Plein Air Painters Association (SOCALPAPA) Art Exhibition and Sale:

Painting the California Landscape

Soldiers Barracks Gallery
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Seven Days a Week
April 4 - July 14, 2009

The Southern California Plein Air Painters Association, founded in January 2000, was first known as "The Friday Group". The original group of painters met in a landscape-painting course at Irvine Valley College in August of 1999. At the end of the course, they decided to continue to meet weekly and paint the landscape in and around Orange County. By February of 2001, the group had grown to 50 members, and formally became known as the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association (SOCALPAPA), representing the locale of the membership. The current membership is over 250 with members in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado as well as throughout California.

In 2005, SOCALPAPA held their first annual Mission San Juan Capistrano show and sale. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, additional successful shows were held here at the Mission. In 2009, SOCALPAPA has again been invited to return to the Soldiers Barracks Gallery.

The Mission show is a juried exhibition of sixty plein air landscape paintings by members of SOCALPAPA. Judges are present during the reception evening on April 3rd to announce their decisions for award winning pieces. All paintings on display are for sale throughout the length of the exhibition, and many of the artists are present at the Mission on the evening of the reception. In addition, 20% of the proceeds from each piece sold in the gallery show and 25% of the proceeds from those sold in the outdoor show will be donated by that artist towards Mission preservation.

This year's exhibition also includes a special award in honor of the memory of Tony Forster, the late Mayor of San Juan Capistrano whose family also once owned the Mission itself. He passed away in June of 2007, and he is greatly missed by everyone whose lives he touched. The award is judged and presented by Tony's widow, Ann Forster.

The exhibition is included with paid admission to the Mission, and is free to all Preservation Society Members of the Mission.

To request more information, please call our Special Events Hotline at (949) 234-1315. Or for more information about SOCALPAPA, please visit their website: www.socalpapa.com

Upcoming Art Exhibits

Villas & Verandas Art Exhibition and Sale
Our Land, Our People, Our Mission

Soldiers Barracks Gallery
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Daily
July 19, 2009 – October 7, 2009

Curated by Aida Ganddini and Ron Deak, owners of San Juan Capistrano's own Villas & Verandas Fine Art Gallery, the 5th annual "Our Land, Our People, Our Mission" exhibition features oil paintings from 20 artists of California's landscape, people and history. Also included in the show are colonial Santos (saints) which are a part of the gallery's extensive museum quality collection of such pieces. Featured artists include Jason Situ, Robin Hall, Grace Schlesier, Anita Hampton, Kevin Kibsey, Phil Starke, Dali Higa, Craig Pursley and Mary Ann Ohmit, Janine Salzman, Ron Deak, Marjorie Taylor.

The show will kick off with an Artists' Reception and Art Sale Saturday, July 18th from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Barracks Gallery located near the front entrance of Mission San Juan Capistrano. Guests will have the opportunity to meet many of the artists whose work will be available for sale. A portion of all proceeds from this show will be directed towards Mission preservation.

The exhibition is included with paid admission to the Mission, and is free to all Preservation Society Members of the Mission.

An Art Reception and Sale will be held on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

For more information on how to get to the show, please call the Special Events Information Hotline at (949) 234-1315.

For more information on Villas and Verandas, please visit their website: www.VillasAndVerandas.com or call (949) 493-7200.

Suzi Chauvel
Godspeed

October 11, 2009 – January 5, 2010
Soldiers Barracks Gallery
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily

Artists Reception:
Saturday, October 10, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Artist Grant Opportunity

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation will begin accepting Senior Artist (55 year of age or older) Project Grant applications on January 2, 2009. This $12,000 grant supports accomplished visual, literary and performing artists who provide educational, mentoring or therapeutic experiences for in-need people served by nonprofit organizations of their choice.

The application deadline is March 31st 2009.

For more information go to www.picernefoundation.org or contact Victor Nelson, Executive Director at 760-435-2205 or vnelson@picernefoundation.org