Featured Artist: Bay Area’s Artist Steven Yu
Bay Area Artist Steven Yu’s work will be featured at this years Big Wow convention in May. Big Wow is CA’s, premier Comic Book, Art and Pop Culture Event held every year in San Jose.
Check out the trailer for Steven’s sci-fi graphic novel called, “Neo Eras: Volume 1”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3T10Y_w3Y
Visit http://www.bigwowcomicfest.com for more information on the Big Wow convention.
Call for Art!
Power Box Art, a partnership between Alameda Municipal Power (AMP), Park Street Business Association (PSBA) and RhythmixCultural Works (RCW) is seeking artists who live or work in Alameda to design art for 10 utility boxes in the Park Street Business District.
*Artists must live or work in the City of Alameda.
*Deadline for submissions is Monday, June 16 at 5 p.m.
*Visit http://www.alamedamp.com/art for more information.
Alameda Arist Meetups: What’s New
Over the next several months Alameda Artists will be incorporating Benoit Philippe’s “Creative Exercises: For artists and everyone else”.
Lessons will include subjects such as “Negative Space” and ” Composition”. We will be meeting up at least twice a month at Redux Contemporary Art Center and Studio 23 Gallery and Studio through-out the series. There is a suggested donation of $3. Updates and more information can be found at http://www.meetup.com/Alameda-Artists.
Click Here to download the “Creative Exercises”
Hope to see you at the next Alameda Artist Meetup!
Art Event & Call For Art: Ballena Bay Art Show
Exciting art event happen on the island of Alameda in Ballena Bay Marina on Sunday, June 22, 2014 between 12 pm – 5 pm.
Alameda Artist’s will have an exhibit at The Ballena Bay Art Show. If you would like Alameda Artists to represent your work,
please send your digital submissions to: art at alameda artists dot com
You can also contact Wes &/or Jess through https://www.facebook.com/AlamedaArtists for more information on participating in the Alameda Artist Exhibit.
Space is limited so get your entries in soon! Digital submissions for review deadline: June 2nd
For information on this event or how to get your own art space/exhibit visit: https://www.facebook.com/BallenaBayArtShow
Out and About: 2nd Friday
Studio 23 is the working studio/gallery home of the Alameda Artists group. We open up to the public on Second Fridays for the gallery walk from 7PM – 9PM – Come by, hang out and meet fellow artists and people visiting the gallery.
More Info:
http://studio23gallery.com/2ndFriday/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/2nd-Friday-Art-Walk/79128038802
https://www.facebook.com/groups/alamedaartists/
Out and About: Drink & Draw
Unleash your creativity during Drink & Draw Wednesdays, here at the New Parkway Theater. We’ve got arts and crafts upstairs on the mezzanine, and plenty of local libations to fuel your creative flame at the bar underfoot. Quite fitting for the city that boasts the largest percentage of artists anywhere in the US.
Take a peak at what Drink & Draw has been up to this past year: http://oaklanddrinkanddraw.tumblr.com
Alameda Artists: Who we are
Alameda Artists is a Meetup group for all Bay Area Artists. It’s free to join!
Visit http://www.meetup.com/Alameda-Artists to sign up.
Want to be a featured Artist? Email: art at alamedaartists dot com with information on your upcoming event and you might be selected.
Have the inside scoop on upcoming Bay Area Art Event? Send details to: art at alameda artists dot com.
We’ll do our best to get it in our next newsletter!
Thx!
Wes and Jess