Art Salon

Pajaro Valley Arts – Art Salon, March 23, 2023
Featured Artists: Linda Christensen, Dag Weiser and Juan R. Fuentes

Art Salon – March 23, 2023

Linda Christensen, Painter
Linda Christensen paints rich colorful images of the figure, blending the
freedom of her abstract sensibility while portraying the emotional moment
in human pose. She enjoys challenging herself with obstacles in a composition
and venturing forward in the unknown to search for a creative solution, an
intentional process of art mirroring the painter’s life.

Dag Weiser, Multimedia Artist
Dag Weiser works in a variety of media including oil, pastel, ink, bronze,
collage, and very often cardboard gaining him the moniker “Mr Cardboard”.
His creative works include music, sound collage, as well as collaborations with
dance and theater groups. He is “one of Santa Cruz’s most daring and
mischievous artists, a playful yet committed provocateur whose work often
shines with pointed political messaging and irreverent humor”.

Juan R. Fuentes, Printmaker, Social Activist
Juan Fuentes is an artist/activist in support of the global movement for social
change. His posters and relief prints address many issues relating to
communities of color, social justice, racism and international struggles for
liberation. His beautiful designs have been translated into three monumental
mosaic murals of the ongoing Watsonville Brillante Project installed outside the
Civic Center parking garage.

Pajaro Valley Arts – Art Salon, August 24, 2022
Featured artists: Yonat Michaelov, Jody Alexander and Tobin Keller

Art Salon – August 24, 2022

Pajaro Valley Arts – Art Salon, April 13, 2022
Featured artists: Abi Mustapha, Natalia Anciso and José G. Ortiz.

Art Salon – April 13, 2022

Pajaro Valley Arts – Art Salon, January 26, 2022
Featured artists: Adon Valenziano, Victoria May and Kathleen Crocetti.

Art Salon – January 26, 2022

Adon Valenziano, sculptor, creates elegant
naturalistic images he terms “biometamorphs”.
Using a combination of bronze,wood and glass
the images are deeply rooted in the natural
world in combination with the synthetic or
machine world.

Victoria May, multimedia artist, constructs
highly-crafted conceptual objects pairing
contrasting found, discarded materials that
often emphasize dichotomies like crude and
delicate, hand and machine, speaking to the
contradictions we witness daily.

Kathleen Crocetti, prolific multimedia artist has
a dual studio and public art practice. Her studio
work explores a long-standing fascination with
optics, color and light. Her public art projects
continue to beautify our cities and demonstrate
how art has the power to bring us together for
the greater good.

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon, we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters; Jeff Arnett, Lucien Kubo and Angela Gleason who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.
Art Salon August 19, 2021

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon, we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters; Wendy Aikin, Arleene Correa Valencia and Lynda Watson who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.
Art Salon, May 13, 2021

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon during shelter-in-place (SIP), we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters; Guillermo “Yermo” Aranda, Daniella Woolf, and Peter Thomas who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.
Art Salon, February 10, 2021

Visit our artists links here:

Daniella Woolf
https://daniellawoolf.com/
Volume 1, pages 001-059: https://youtu.be/lrm8cOODjlw
Volume 2, pages 060-121: https://youtu.be/DhGdVQJw4eI
Volume 3, pages 122-182: https://youtu.be/hPH_D_gwtl8
Volume 4, pages 183-242: https://youtu.be/MImGyqCxK_s
Volume 5, pages 243-295: https://youtu.be/fqmvlTghOwQ
Volume 6, pages 296-365: https://youtu.be/mdBVCkvHK7A

Peter and Donna Thomas
http://members.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/

Guillermo Aranda
https://www.yermoaztlan.com/

Art Salon December 3, 2020

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon during shelter-in-place (SIP), we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters;  Heidi Alonzo, Randie Silverstein, and John Babcock who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.
Art Salon, December 3, 2020

Visit our artists links here:

Heidi Alonzo
http://heidialonzo.art/

Randie Silverstein
https://www.randiesilverstein.com/

John Babcock
https://www.babcockart.com/

Art Salon October 14, 2020

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon during shelter-in-place (SIP), we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters;  Jane Gregorius, Jean Sheckler Beebe, and Carmen Léon who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.
Art Salon, October 14, 2020

Jane Gregorius
https://janegregoriusartist.com/

Jean Sheckler Beebe
https://www.jeansbeebe.com/

Art Salon June, 25, 2020

The Gallery is too small to host our Art Salon during shelter-in-place (SIP), we hosted our most recent Salon via Zoom. Click the link below to view the movie of the presenters;  Chris Miroyan, Susanna Waddell, and Rose Sellery, who shared their artwork and discussed their practices.