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Designed by local conceptual artist Marie Miller, participants painted a variety of primed cardboard boxes then stacked them onto armatures made out of irrigation pipe, brackets and wood. No two sculptures turned out the same yet all reflect the range of creativity and imagination alive in our wonderful town.
Margo Newman and Howard Spector
Co-Chairs, The South Pasadena Arts Council
Photos by Michael Newman Photography
Pasadena Arts Council serves as the fiscal sponsor for the South 
Pasadena Arts Council.
IT’S ECLECTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND ART WALK TIME OF YEAR AGAIN AND WE'RE GEARING UP FOR THE BIG DAY
WE HAVE TWO OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE:
Our last work day to prepare is this Sunday May 1st from 11am to 2pm at the SPARC storage space behind Carrows. (Enter off Hope Street). We'll be finishing up priming the boxes and preparing the armatures that we'll be using for the festival. Please come lend a hand. (Those of us who've been working on these have been having a lot of fun!)
WE'LL NEED EVEN MORE HANDS ON DECK FOR THE ACTUAL FESTIVAL
SATURDAY MAY 7th
5-10 pm
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP MAN THE ART ACTIVITIES DURING THE FESTIVAL.
SHIFTS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONTACT margo.newman@socal.rr.com TO SIGN UP FOR EITHER THE WORK DAY OR THE FESTIVAL
THANKS!!
The South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC) is participating with the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce in this year’s Eclectic Music Festival and Art Walk, scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 7, 2011. The Festival and Art Walk is a very well publicized event, historically attended by 5,000 people. This would be a great opportunity to showcase artwork and celebrate the arts in our community while supporting the South Pasadena Arts Council at the same time.
SPARC will be utilizing our Giant Easels, which will be set up at the Eclectic Music Stage on Mission Street in the parking lot at Citizens Bank. We will be looking for 6-10 artworks that can be displayed outdoors on the easels. Artists will be juried so as to provide the opportunity to all South Pas artists who are members of SPARC to be considered.
The jurors for this event will be: Katya Shaposhnik, Director of SPACE Gallery, Thomas Fields, Curator for the South Pas Gallery, and Carlos Chavez-Andonegui, Executive Director of the Fremont Gallery.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Any interested artist may submit three to five JPEG images (72 dpi resolution) of work completed in the last three years, which sufficiently represents your work. Please indicate the medium and the size of the work. If you are selected to participate, you may produce a new artwork or submit an existing artwork representative of the sample you sent in.
Also, in order to participate, artists must be current members of SPARC or they can apply for membership by writing a check for $30 and mailing it to: SPARC, P.O. Box 3272, South Pasadena California, 91301. The check should be made payable to the Pasadena Arts Council with a note in the memo line that reads SPARC. They are our fiscal receiver for all contributed monies.
JPEG images must be attached to an email and sent to Howard Spector, Co-Director of SPARC at howarddspector@gmail.com by 5:00 pm on Saturday, March 26th. If you are chosen to participate, a SPARC representative will contact you to arrange to drop off your artwork. All selected artwork must arrive by Saturday April 23rd.
In order for the work to fit on our Giant Easels, the “field” of the artwork must be at least 35” tall x 55” wide. On this field the actual artwork can be smaller (i.e. 20”x24”). Works can be paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings. No freestanding 3D work will be accepted.
SPARC is planning to hold a silent auction of the submitted artworks, so we would ask you to provide your retail sales price and a minimum that you would like the bidding to start. No sale will be below the minimum. You will also have the opportunity to have publicity and contact information with your artwork at the Festival. Artists will receive 40% of any sale of the artwork, unless you stipulate that the artwork is a donation to SPARC for fundraising purposes.
Please Note: SPARC will make every effort in good faith to protect artwork, however because it is an outdoor venue with many people SPARC will not be responsible for insuring the work, and thus will not be responsible for any loss or damage that might occur as a result of participating in this event.
SPARC is calling for Artist/Painters/Sculptors/Art Lovers to come to our kick off meeting on March 5, 2011, 11am-1pm at 1011 Fair Oaks Ave for the upcoming Eclectic Music Festival & Art Walk event that we are participating in on May 7, 2011.
Big Easels
If you or someone you know is interested in providing a piece of artwork to be displayed on the Big Easels, (i.e.- we need artists to create a finished piece to display on the easels on the day of the event. The easels will be set up around the main stage area.) Please come to the 11:00 am kick off meeting on March 5, 2011 at our temporary home in the old paint store where the Calder Circus installation is 1011 Fair Oaks Ave. At the meeting we will be discussing and deciding over size, subject, guidelines and if you want your piece to be auctioned at the event.
Totem Pole Sculptures
If you, or someone you know who is interested in the Interactive Totem Pole Sculptures, we will be having a brain storming meeting about how people/event attendees will be creating the art with our interactive sculpture, painting cardboard boxes, stacking them to crate a 3D sculpture, adding texture, graffiti, etc. Please come to the 12:00 noon kick off meeting on March 5, 2011 at our temporary home in the old paint store where the Calder Circus installation is. We will go over the structural armature building, cardboard box construction & painting date(s), types of materials people can use and the logistics of how the day will run.
See you there,
Marie Switzer / SPARC Interactive Event Consultant
This past organizing year has been a good one for our newly formed South Pasadena Arts Council (SPArC)! We are going to have a group meeting Saturday, February 5th at 2pm at our Art Attack Space at 1011 Fair Oaks Ave in South Pasadena.
