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Painting by Jerrold
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Flyway Festival Art Exhibition and Paintout
Bay Area Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibit: Artists of all ages, professional or student, are invited to exhibit their original art work at the 2010 San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. Questions: call 925-838-5991. Photographers and painters of all ages and skills are invited to exhibit original work that depicts and celebrates local wildlife, San Francisco Bay native habitats, and landscapes from Mount Tamalpias on the west, to Mount Diablo on the east, Baylands to the south, and wine country to the north. Special emphasis will be on migratory birds of the Pacific Flyway and their habitats, the wetlands and tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay Estuary, Carquinez Strait, San Pablo Bay, and the historic sights of the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve. Please note: Works depicting Pacific Coastal landscape are outside the parameters of this exhibit and will not be accepted. Fees: $20 for up to 3 entries. Entry Forms postmarked or submitted via email by January 30, 2010. Click here for an entry form. For information call 925-838-5991 or 707-557-9816 or send an email.
Also! North Bay Wetlands and Wildlands Plein Air Paintout and Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout
The North Bay Rgional and Wetlands Plein Air Paintout and the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout is separate from the Bay Area Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibit. Entry fee is $20 for up to 3 entries in one or both categories of North Bay Regional and Wetlands and/or Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve. Payable when works are delivered January 31st or February 1st 12noon-4pm. Use the same entry form as provided for the Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibition. For information call 925-838-5991 or 707-557-9816 or send an email or download this application (PDF format; Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Subject and Media:
Original artwork in any media–– representational and abstract, two and three dimensional–– will be accepted that depicts and celebrates local wildlife, San Francisco Bay native habitats, and landscapes from Mount Tamalpias on the west, to Mount Diablo on the east, Baylands to the south, and wine country to the north. Special emphasis will be on migratory birds of the Pacific Flyway and their habitats, the wetlands and tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay Estuary, Carquinez Strait, San Pablo Bay, and the historic sights of the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve. Please note: Works depicting Pacific Coastal landscape are outside the parameters of this exhibit and will not be accepted.
We Heartily Welcome Members of the Benicia Plein Air Group as our 2009 Flyway Festival Art Exhibition Team
Thanks so much to Sue Wilson, Jerry Turner and the dozens of fellow artists from Benicia Plein Air Group, aka "DaGroup" who came forward with a strong commitment in 2009 to ensuring the continuing success of this amazing art show and who have chosen to return to make it the best nature photography and art show ever! Learn a bit about them here. Members of their group have donated paintings to our silent auction. Be sure to bid often and up and support the Flyway Festival. Finally, visit www.pleinairlinks.org to track the group's contributions to our regional outdoor art scene and to learn how to become a part of this great group of artists who have done so very much individually and as a group to bring you another splendid art show this year. The bottom line for our artists and our Festival is our invitation to you to seriously consider purchasing the art you find in our Exhibition. It is here for 3 days only. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to view some of the finest nature art in the region. The artists are surely willing to discuss prices with you. They would be happy to show you some of the rest of their portfolios. Make that investment in art today and in the process, you will be helping the Festival, too. Artists have generously given back to the Festival through their art sales.
History and Organizers of the Wetlands to Ridgetops Art Exhibit and North Bay Wetlands and Wildlands and Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout:
The Wetlands to Ridgetops Art Exhibit was founded at the second Flyway Festival in January 1998. From that moment on it has grown and flourished and become a keystone to the annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. Curated for many years by Susan Schneider (www.susanschneider.com) the show was refined and expanded under her guidance. Her introduction in the last few years, of the Plein Air Paintout featuring themes as broad as North Bay Wetlands and as specific as Mare Island Landmarks and beginning 2 years ago with an addition of Mare Island Shoreline Preserve, have lent an air of advocacy to the Exhibition for special and even threatened features of our "north shore" landscapes. We wish to sincerely thank Susan for her long-time commitment to the Flyway Festival Art Exhibitions. We note the role Susan's dad Howard and her husband Brian have played in ensuring the success of past shows.
We want to acknowledge others who have had significant roles in ensuring the quality and success of the Flyway Festival Art Show over this long time period. A committee of artists worked diligently together for a number of years to produce the exhibit. Barbara Wankum and her grand daughter Andrea Petty, along with Barbara's husband John, made a lasting improvement to the quality of our display resources and the space itself. Barbara handled registrations and cataloging of entries and artist interfaces for many years. All three spent countless hours on the upgrades to our show and it shows!
Sarah Evans has been the steady behind the scenes volunteer support staff every step of the way for our Art Exhibition. Volunteers beyond listing have made the space shine and our hearts burst with pride with their contributions to painting, washing windows, scrubbing the floor and preparing food and serving guests during our opening reception.
Volunteer for the Flyway Festival Art Exhibit and Paintout Auction: As the Exhibition grows, the need for volunteers to help ensure the quality and continued success of the show has become critical. We urge you to consider volunteering for the many different aspects of pulling this show together and...taking it apart! It is totally dependent on volunteers and you are needed now! Call 925-838-5991 or email us your availability beginning Wed. February 3 through Sun. February 7th. We really appreciate your involvement.
2009 Art Show Youtube Movie: posted by Sue Wilson http://www.youtube.com/user/doersdoit#p/u/25/VETyf1DTznk
Opening Reception and Festival Host |
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Friday February 6th
Wildlife Expo Building 897, Mare Island
5:30-7pm Festival and Art Exhibit Opening Reception
Enjoy good company at the opening of the Flyway Festival and its Fine Art Exhibit with our Opening Reception and Festival Host, Weston Solutions. Preview fine art, sample wines of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, the Carneros region, and Solano County. Local recorder and violin duo Bert and Dorothy Barth of flutes of fancy will provide background music for the reception. They will perform Celtic music from Green: Songs that Celebrate Our Natural World. Completed in 2010, Green is Dorothy Barth's sixth anthology of duo arrangements based on traditional tunes by Playford, O'Neill, and Gow.
7pm-9pm Place Bids on Art in our Silent Auction
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Photograph by John
Klycinski
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Place bids in our Silent Auction till Sunday 3:45pm, Wildlife Expo, Building 897.
7pm-9pm Shop and Bid Early
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Photograph by John
Klycinski
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Start your bidding on the on the silent auction and shop early with art and birding supply vendors in the Wildlife Expo Hall, Building 897.
