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You’re in for a treat

Go here and enter in some text.  Hit submit and out comes your wordle, word art.  Click on Wordle.net’s gallery to see some samples.  Words that are repeated will appear larger.  If this makes no sense to you, please just go to the site and play around.  It is super cool!  If you’re a teacher, [...]

Sketch Book Society – free!

Just got this from my Nucleus email newsletter:

Nucleus Sketch Book Society Sessions Every Wednesday | 6:00PM – 9:00PM

The Sketch Book Society is an informal club for professional and aspiring artists to gather, share, draw, and inspire one another. Hang out and meet local artists in a [...]

How to look at art without feeling inferior

What a great title!   LACMA is hosting a free lecture on looking at art.  Here’s its blurb:

"Milton Esterow, editor and publisher of ARTnews, talks about the international art scene, the art market, art journalism, art criticism, and changes in taste and fashion, followed by questions from the audience. Born in New York City, Esterow was [...]

Riverside Dickens Festival

 

The Riverside Dickens Festival is this weekend, February 6-8, 2009.  Have tea with Queen Victoria, enjoy a Victorian Era fashion show, performances, and much more.

Inaugural Chinatown Art Night

LA’s Chinatown is having its first Art Night on Saturday, January 24, 2009, from 7 – 10 pm.  This will be a quarterly shindig featuring contemporary art, clothing, furniture, music, performance and design.

Sounds like fun and it’s free!

 

 

Best Movies of 2008

 Bee Vang and Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino

I’m a little late on this post, but the best movies I saw this year were Milk and Gran Torino.  Milk just had so many great themes running throughout it: having passion and truth in your life, making the world better for others, giving people hope and [...]

Wish Tree for Pasadena

Here are photos from Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree Project installation in Old Pasadena, which has now closed.  Read about it here.  See a video about the project here.

 

 

 

 

This man wished for a healthy baby.

Many, many people wished for world peace.  

Huntington Gardens

 

Howeeduzzit and Yolanda Gonzalez Shows

On Sunday, November 30, from 1 – 5pm, two Alhambra art galleries will be having closing shows.  I’m pretty sure the art, music, food, and festivities will be great.  The Howeeduzzzit show is called "Jazzed About the Blues" and features art inspired by music.

Howeeduzzit Gallery 821 [...]

Make a Free Tile at the South Pas Arts Fest

This Saturday, November 15, the City of South Pasadena will be hosting its Fall Arts Fest, featuring artist open houses, holiday boutiques, art-making workshops, music performances and much more.  Check out the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce’s site for details.  Mission Tile West (853 Mission) will host a free tile-making workshop from 2 pm [...]