AWE Gallery Events and More

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1-4pm at AWE Gallery Annex

The San Francisco Peace and Hope 2014 Fest is a celebration of the arts, honoring the SF Bay area literary spirit. Kit Kennedy will be the emcee and program includes readings by poet and artist contributors in the journal. Elizabeth Hack, founding director will comment about the evolution of SFPH and harp music will be performed by Patrice Haan. Great food and drinks provided.

San Francisco Peace and Hope  www.sfpeaceandhope.com is an online literary journal that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art.  Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus, serves as the adviser, and has written the magazine’s foreword.

San Francisco Peace and Hope  sfpeaceandhope.com is an online literary journal that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art.  Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus, serves as the advisor, and has written the magazine’s foreword.

Who We Are
September 11 2001 hearts and lives were broken, our emotional reference system to what makes our world make sense…fractured at best. On September 12, 2001, SF Peace and Hope was born.

For me, this experience is like being in the desert without visual anchors; a stark, solitary confinement of too much illogical space and suddenly out of a mysterious pocket of earth is a peacock. He fluffs his feathers up high and wide. He shows us our humanity and our beauty in the midst of dust and death.

The eyes of the peacock’s feathers are said to be the symbol of eternal life; renewal, the eyes of the stars seeing us in our—in the words of Al Young—”deathless truths”. The poems in SF Peace and Hope are those stars beaded into the large plume of humanity—they say simply, ‘we are bigger than politics and even death, we have the strength of a renewing spirit’. – Niya C. Sisk

More info at http://fourws.blogspot.com/2014/01/san-francisco-peace-and-hope-2014-fest.html

list of participants:
Kit Kennedy: Emcee
Patrice Haan – harp music during reception

Poets reading:
Susan Gangel.
Erica Goss, poet laureate of Los Gatos
Jane Green
José Luis Gutiérrez
Patrice Haan
Sherri Rose-Walker
Vince Storti
Nancy Wakeman

Artists presenting:
Susan Black
Elaine Drew
Judy Seidel

Lake in Fog by Mary Ciafolo

An Artistic Journey: Inspired by the Morris Graves Foundation

Fourteen Watercolor painters convened at the Morris Graves Estate and Foundation near Eureka to engage artist Morris Graves’ techniques, portfolio, and legacy. The show at the A Woman’s Eye Gallery Annex reflects that encounter.

Events during the show include:

1. Saturday December 1 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM – Artist Reception
2. Saturday December 14 at 1:00 PM a Holiday Concert by Vocal Divine. Original, Folk and Classical Guitar, Voice.
3. Sunday December 22 at 4:00 PM Holiday music by Golden Gate Harmony

Wooded Wonderland by Carol Fridenberg

An Artistic Journey reflects  the five day journey that fourteen watercolorists shared at the Morris Grave Foundation where they learned from his work and painter in his environment.  The painting experience was coordinated by local artist and instructor Kay Russell.

Watercolorists in this show: Gail Block, Mary Clofalo, Sue Fandel, Carol Freidenberg,  Joselyn Hunter, Peter Jamochian, Marlene Kramer, Mimi Makowsky, Camille Morishige, Lynette Porteous, Pam Robinowitz, Peg Robinson, Liz Schiff, and Heather Solway.

Painting my Mimi Makowsky

From the Seattle Times:  “One of the Northwest’s most revered artists — and certainly the most legendary — Graves spent the last 35 years of his life at The Lake, this remote 195-acre estate in Loleta, Calif. Graves died here in May at the age of 90 and set off a tsunami of nostalgia for the glory days of Northwest art, the days when the Museum of Modern Art and its employees bought up Graves paintings by the dozens and Life magazine made famous “The Mystic Painters of the Northwest.” A charismatic personality and world-renowned artist, Graves lived a life that vacillated between the utter seclusion of his several forest abodes and a glamorous dalliance with the cream of international society.

Painting by Liz Schiff

In the Northwest, Graves became as famous for the amazing houses he built as for his introspective paintings. But few ever saw these places, and the public was generally excluded. At the California home that was his last, Graves maintained a heavy veil of secrecy. Stories abound about his reclusiveness.”

AWE Gallery is open every Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM.  The work of the collective of 6 artists in the main gallery is also always changing so drop by and enjoy lots of wonderful art.  (Free parking at herchurch, the purple church).

Enjoy a glass of wine and wonderful watercolors!

FROM THE QUEER CANON – Sunday November 24 at 2:00 – 4:00 PM in the A Woman’s Eye Gallery Annex (at herchurch).  Every spring LGBTQ poets from around the country converge on Santa Barbara for the Annual Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest, to celebrate LGBTQ poetry and poets.

This month, the Fest is coming to San Francisco. On Sunday, November 24th, seven Northern California poets who’ve participated in the Santa Barbara event are meeting to read their own work and that of other poets from the queer canon. It will be an afternoon packed with poetry and open to all.

The Poets:  Nixson Borah (Atascadero) reads Robert Peters. Giovanna Capone (Oakland) reads Pamela Sneed. Marc Hofstadter (Walnut Creek) reads James Schuyler. Glenn Ingersoll  (Berkeley) reads Paul Mariah. Tobey Kaplan (Oakland) reads Djuna Barnes. Kit Kennedy (San Francisco) reads Sappho. Jan Steckel (Oakland) reads Gabriela Mistral

Info at:

http://www.whitman-stein.org/The_Whitman-Stein_Poetry_Fest/Welcome.html