Author: OC Art Blog

The OC Art Grant is back. Three $500 grants for drawing, painting, photo and sculpture and one $500 grant for graduate students and one $400 grant for undergrad students will all be awarded on May 2nd in the Santa Ana Artists Village at 8pm.To be considered send your CV, Statement and ONLY 4 images on printed on heavy white paper with details by Feb 7th to:Grand Central Art Center125 N. BroadwaySanta Ana, CA 92706ATTN: DSABC Orange County Art Grant (w/SASE)Contact davidmichaellee@yahoo.com for more details. ...

04 January, 2009 /

January 4, 2009:  Huntington Beach, CA – The Hoff Foundation announced today that it will award quarterly grants totaling $1,500 to the following Artists and Arts Organizations based in Orange County and Long Beach. Diana Markessinis: $750 for studio equipment support.McLean Fahnestock: $750 for upcoming installation project.The Hoff Foundation is a private arts foundation formed in 2008 with a commitment to and passion for the arts. Since its inception one year ago The Hoff Foundation has distributed $13,500 to various individual artists and arts organizations....

04 January, 2009 /

Most of the financial drama circling museums has been coming out of LA but it seems some of the bad news is starting to bleed into Orange County. Looks like OCMA has delayed the upcoming Diebenkorn show 6 months due to financial reasons. Orange County already had shaky support for its arts organizations during the good times. Things could get pretty ugly around here before it gets better. More to come I'm sure. ...

24 December, 2008 /

Here are some images from Saturday night at @space. Now that I am a bit freer, I have more time to go looking again. I swung by @space to say hello to Julie and to chat with her. My friends and I had one of our galleries night out. We wanted to go to Riverside to see the new Jeff Soto show, but decided against it because of time. We ended up at our usual second Saturday hangout, Pomona, to do their artwalk and...

16 December, 2008 /

Congratulations to HB based painter Sherie' Franssen. It seems SF based art critic Kenneth Baker loved her new show currently up at Dolby Chadwick. The review can be read HERE. Always nice to see an OC based artist get well deserved recognition nationally. ...

16 December, 2008 /

American Public Media wants your input. They want to know how artists, art, investors, gallery owners, and people in the arts community in California are working through the current financial crisis. Go to THIS LINK and let them know how you are managing in these difficult times. ...

02 December, 2008 /

A new (to me) gallery, World Gallery is opening Revolver this Saturday night from 7-11pm. The location is 1980 Placentia in Costa Mesa. Go support the new effort! ...

19 November, 2008 /

This Saturday night Naturally Synthetic opens at @Space gallery and will feature artists Candace M. Briceno, Amy Caterina, Shannon Faseler and Dameon Lester.  The opening will run from 6-9pm. Don't miss it! ...

06 November, 2008 /

This Sunday is the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival. The event will run from 11 to 5pm and with over 60 vendors participating it should be a great place to get some early holiday shopping done. The event will be held at 2202 N. Main Street in Santa Ana. See you there! ...

06 November, 2008 /

Grab your fixed gear, your beach cruiser, your old ten speed, or your tricycle just grab something because Thursday night is the Little Pharma Drug Run. Starting at MOCA, participants will first meet for a costume-making workshop and other activities. Dressed as their favorite pharmaceuticals, they will then embark on a group tour of the late-night drugstores of downtown Los Angeles. The event will culminate at Fringe Exhibitions in Chinatown, which will be hosting an incarnation of Finishing School’s Little Pharma, an interdisciplinary project investigating alternative medicines and lifestyles as viable antidotes...

05 November, 2008 /

The OC Art Blog's very own Chris Hoff led a meditation workshop for Finishing School's exhibition Little Pharma Physic Garden this past Saturday at Fringe in Chinatown. Chris gave a short lecture then led everyone into a 20-minute meditation. I have to say that Chris was a great teacher. Incredibly knowledgable from all of his years as a practitioner. Even though I was raised a Buddhist, I've gotten away from practicing meditation for so long. Life tends to pull you in different directions. But I...

03 November, 2008 /

soundDowntown 2008 is a one-day music festival on Saturday, November 15, featuring a lineup of over 50 locally and nationally recognized bands, DJ’s and performing artists at various venues throughout the Artist’s Village of downtown Santa Ana. This festival marks the recent re-launch of the historic Yost Theater, the re-establishment of Koo’s music programming at the Yost, the renovation of Festival Hall, the developing entertainment district along the Fiesta Marketplace, and the expanding visual arts components of the East Village as well as the 4th Street...

30 October, 2008 /

 Election day is near and the OC Art Blog will start endorsing certain candidates and certain prop's that we have a special interest in.Let's start with our first endorsement. NO on Proposition 8.I was going to do a little rant about separation of Church and State or how this great country of ours was founded by certain individuals that were escaping religious persecution, etc. etc. then I thought it would be better to let our great constitution do the talking.the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

28 October, 2008 /