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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 5 - June 24, 2008

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 and 2007, additional successful shows were held here at the Mission. This year, SOCALPAPA has again been invited to return to the Soldiers Barracks Gallery from April 5-June 24, 2008.

The Mission show is a juried exhibition of sixty plein air landscape paintings by members of SOCALPAPA. Judges will be present during the reception evening on April 4th 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 will be present at the Mission on the evening of the reception. In addition, 25% of the proceeds from each piece sold will be donated by that artist towards Mission preservation.

This year's exhibition will also include a special award for Best Mission Painting. This award will be given in honor of the memory of the late Mayor of San Juan Capistrano, Tony Forster, 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 exhibition is included with paid admission to the Mission, and is free to all Preservation Society Members of the Mission.

An Artists' Reception and sale will be held on Friday, April 4th between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. in the Soldiers Barracks Gallery located near the front entrance of the Mission. The reception is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

To request more information, please call the Mission at (949) 234-1317. Or for more information about SOCALPAPA, please visit their website: www.socalpapa.com

Upcoming Art Exhibit

Villas & Verandas Art Exhibition and Sale:

"Our Land, Our People, Our Mission"

Soldiers Barracks Gallery
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Daily
June 29 - September 29, 2008

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, June 28th 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, June 28, 2008 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.

Future Art Exhibition
In the Soldiers Barracks Gallery

A Call to Artists

Mission Issues Call to Artists Wishing to Display their Work in Barracks Gallery

Mission San Juan Capistrano is issuing a "Call to Artists" for 2009. The Mission usually exhibits representational art featuring the California missions, landscape and history, portraits of people with a cultural connection to the missions, and coastal and other images themed to Southern California.

Interested artists should mail a mail a biography, resume and a CD or prints of at least six images of their work to: Sabrina Irsay, Mission San Juan Capistrano, 26801 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. For information, contact Sabrina Irsay, sirsay@missionsjc.com

2009 Show Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008

Senior Artist Project

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is currently accepting grant applications for The Senior Artist Project. The application deadline is March 31st, 2008.

The Senior Artist Project gives accomplished visual, performing and literary artists the opportunity to provide educational, mentoring and therapeutic experiences to underserved populations. The grant supports experienced artists, age 55 and older, who are motivated to contribute to their community. Selected artists will receive a grant of $12,000 for this 12-month project. The grant is intended to cover six to eight hours a week of actual contact time with an underserved group of the artist's choice, and will be paid out at 1,000 dollars per month. Artists may submit an additional request for reimbursement for materials directly related to service provision.

To be eligible for the grant artists must be:

• Age 55 or older
• Live in North San Diego County or Southern Orange County
• A practicing artist in the literary, visual, or performing arts

Visit the Foundation website at www.picernefoundation.org or contact Victor Nelson, Executive Director at 760-435-2205 for further information about submitting an application and eligibility requirements for the Senior Artist Project.

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is a private operating foundation in Oceanside, California whose mission is to support healthy and adaptive human development throughout the life cycle. We accomplish this by creating, developing and evaluating innovative and creative programs that are sustainable and provide significant value to the lives of individuals and a healthy society.