June Collagraph

Artist of the Month

Artist Reception: 

Saturday June 8th 4-6pm

Theresa Bayaca

From the Artist:

My journey as a plant and fiber artist began here in Stockton on the Bayaca family farm. Growing up, I was inspired by many objects of nature to draw and use color. Plant fibers were abundant but most prominent was the Manila hemp rope used to secure crates of produce. This rope provided an opportunity to learn about natural fibers. Hemp has the unique characteristic of expansion under tension, and when released of tension, the rope contracts back to its resting state. This versatility makes an already resilient fiber stronger. Manila hemp is my gateway fiber. It opened my mind to understanding the many applications of fiber such as fabric, which led me to the batik process.

Batik is an ancient art, as evidenced in first-century Egyptian tombs and other parts of the world; the Middle East, India, Central Asia and Africa. Today it is practiced world wide, but is especially accomplished in Asia. In Ukraine, Easter eggs are also decorated with melted wax and dyes.

The word "Batik" is of Indonesian origin, from "ambatik," referring to "dots" or spots of wax on cloth dipped into dye. Wax resists dye, therefore, batik is a resist technique. The process involves repeated waxing and dyeing until the design is completed. It is work intensive, but the result is worth the effort.

“Go with the flow” is a good way to describe the process, as the artist must move quickly, in rhythm with the flow of hot melted wax. The fluid nature of the wax as it cools and the overlaying of successive dyes produce a unique one-of-a-kind design on cloth. No two pieces can be exactly the same, each piece is truly original.

The signature of melted wax on contemporary batik is the same as on works from more than two thousand years ago. Some things simply do not change. The art of batik has stood the test of time.

The Stockton Art League provides a forum for local artists to work and exhibit art at the Elsie May Goodwin Gallery. This is a very special place to view art, to learn about art, and to share creative energy. For this, I am very grateful.
 

As an artist, I hope to share this joyful journey of fiber and color. Please enjoy the view.

Theresa Bayaca, Plant and Fiber Artist

[email protected]

Director's Corner

Greetings All!

June is here, and it's the perfect time to dive into your creative projects! Whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting out, there's no better moment to get those ideas flowing. If you need a little help or inspiration, don't hesitate to reach out. We're always here to support your art endeavors.

Exciting news! The submission deadline for the Haggin Museum Juried Show is July 21st. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work and be part of an esteemed exhibition. We encourage all our members to participate and represent the incredible talent within our community.

I'm thrilled to share that I’ll be busy this month instructing high school students at the Pacific ceramics studio. This two-week program gives teenagers a unique taste of the college environment and a chance to explore their artistic potential. It’s always inspiring to see young artists grow in 10 days fully invested in the art studio.

With that being, Kat will be managing the gallery for the month of June. Make sure to stop by and visit the gallery to see what exciting workshops are coming up. It's a great chance to stay connected and inspired by the many events happening in our area. 

So, grab your brushes, your clay, or whatever medium you love, and make something amazing this month.

Let's make this June a month of creativity and growth!

Best, Jessica

"Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe." - Jerry Saltz

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June 27 12-4pm
June 28 12-4pm
June 29 12-2pm 

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San Joaquin County

MISSION:

1. To Promote and Support ALL artists, art organizations, and cultural bearers in San Joaquin County.
2. Create Grants to artists, art organizantions and cultural bearers in San Joaquin County.
3. To host Poetry Out Loud sponsored by the California Arts Council.

2024 SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY SURVEY ON ARTS, CULTURE, AND CREATIVITY

Please provide input on forming a Local Arts Agency to represent San Joaquin County (SJC) in partnership with the California Arts Council, a state agency, arts.ca.gov.
 

With support from the California Arts Council, Amador County Arts Council (Amador Arts) has been charged to mentor the creative community of San Joaquin County (SJC) in the development and establishment of a county arts council to participate in the State-Local Partner grant https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/state-local-partners/. This program directs state funds to each county and provides for local arts and cultural resources, the national Poetry Out Loud recitation competition for high school students, local arts and cultural grants, and partnerships within the network of State-Local Partners.

San Joaquin County-based Creatives, Artists, Arts organizations, Arts students, Teaching Artists, Cultural Practitioners, Cultural Centers, and arts and culture lovers of all disciplines and ages are invited to participate in this public survey. Your feedback is essential to planning an arts council that will best serve the entire community of SJC and represent the SJC creative economy and cultural landscape at the state level.

Next Stops:
Manteca/ Lathrop
Hatch Workshop

Upcoming Workshops

Do you want to host your own event? 

NEW Monthly Watercolor Workshop with Andrea Morris

June 16th 11am-2pm

About the Instructor - Andrea Morris:

Andrea Morris, our skilled instructor, has a passion for sharing her profound knowledge and love for art with fellow artists. With a journey marked by discovery and a deep fascination with artistic expression, Andrea has honed her expertise in oil painting. Her guidance will provide you with valuable insights and techniques that will elevate your own artistic journey.

Whether you're a beginner eager to dip your toes into the world of oil painting or an experienced artist seeking to refine your skills, this workshop promises an enriching experience. Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today to embark on this artistic journey with Andrea Morris at the Goodwin Gallery.

Note: All skill levels are welcome. Materials will be provided. Just bring your creativity and an eagerness to learn!

Artist Bio:

In her decades-spanning practice, Andrea Morris has explored wildlife and the human form through different material and mediums. Self-taught, she has explored and refined her style of portraying her subjects in a colorful and contemporary way. Andrea has been teaching advanced levels of painting in watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, mixed media and drawing for more than ten years. Her work has been displayed and exhibited in many art venues in California.

Andrea’s greatest joy has been in sharing her knowledge and love of
art with fellow artists and documenting her journey of discovery and fascination in artistic expression.

For registration questions, please contact Jessica at [email protected]

Note: Minimum 4 participants for the workshop to run. If the workshop is under-enrolled, participants will be refunded their registration cost.

2 Day Tie Dye & Batik Workshop with Theresa Bayaca

Instructor: Theresa Bayaca, Fiber Artist

Workshop: Tie Dye and Batik on Fabric

Fee: $75, materials included. SAL members get 10% off.

Schedule: This 2-day workshop consists of two 2½-hour sessions.
- Saturday, June 15, 3:00-5:30pm
- Saturday, June 29, 3:00-5:30pm

What to Bring:
- An overshirt or apron
- Comfortable clothing

Workshop Overview:
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of tie dye and batik, both of which are resist techniques. By the end of the workshop, you will have created a batik design on cloth and a wearable art item: either a T-shirt or a 26” Silk Chiffon Scarf.

Day 1:
- Practice using the tjanting tool on cloth
- Draw your design onto cloth
- Batik your design
- Apply dyes to your batik design

Day 2:
- Practice different folds and ties on paper towels
- Apply dyes and observe the effects
- Choose your item: T-shirt or Silk Scarf
- Tie and/or fold the item
- Apply dyes to your chosen item
- Allow the item to dry
- Rinse thoroughly

Join us for a creative and enjoyable experience as you explore the art of tie dye and batik under the guidance of fiber artist Theresa Bayaca.

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No Session in June
We will continue in July

Figure Drawing Sessions are non-instructed open studio sessions featuring a live nude model. The session fee is $15 (+ a suggested $5 tip for the model). Artists must bring their own easel, drawing board, and materials. Space is limited to 12 participants per session... sign up early to secure your seat by clicking below.

Etiquette: Once the model disrobes, the gallery will be locked. Late arrivals are welcome, but they will be allowed in only during a break between poses. There is NO PHOTOGRAPHY OF NUDE MODELS allowed. Conversations and music must be kept at a low level. Artists and models are welcome to give any feedback and concerns to a monitor.

Youth Art Program

Scholarships are available. Submit requests to [email protected] Register Online at https://square.link/u/Wl4iLqsq

Art Opportunities

National Juried Exhibition is Back!

Deadline: Saturday, July 21, 2024 10:59 PST 
Cash awards: Best of Show: $1,000, Second Place: $500, Third Place: $250 and additional cash merit/juror awards.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. based artists working in fine art media, excluding video and installation art.

Jurors: 
Gina Werfel

While many artists have turned to representation to embody life in 2023, Werfel uses abstraction with disjunctive marks and colors to convey the cacophony of political/cultural currents that surround her.

Werfel has been working on multi-panel paintings that convey movement; breaks between the panels provide rhythmic stops as the viewer’s gaze travels across the span of paintings.Contemporary dance provides a rhythmic metaphor, and, like musical polyphony, her paintings involve multiple independent “voices”- glimpses from her studio environment layered withvestiges of gestures that suggest fragmented memories.

As they generate virtual universes, Werfel’s compositions echo the spatial complexities of landscape and water- intersections of nature and architecture, or underwater reflections with fragmentsfloating in fluid, veiled spaces. 

Solo exhibitions include the American University of Paris, France and Prince Street Gallery in NYC. Residencies include the American Academy in Rome, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy, the Djerassi Foundation and Yosemite National Park. 

Werfel received her MFA at Columbia University, New York Studio School (Certificate) and Hamilton College (BA). She is Professor of Art Emerita at University of California Davis.

Juror 2 
TBA

City of Stockton Arts Commission

On View
- Local and Regional Works

Haggin Museum

Ezra Tucker’s wildlife art is characterized by its dynamic composition, unexpected color, lighting, and scale. Its large scale gives a sense of dignity and presence to each creature. His subjects seem alive and animated, ready to step out of two dimensions into a three dimensional world. 

Though his background is as a commercial illustrator and designer, Tucker’s use of earth tones and warm light give his subjects the glow of an old master’s work. Of his current work, the artist says, “The challenge I have for myself is to present the beauty and majesty of the natural world to encourage the preservation of wildlife and diversity through my art.” 

This exhibition, featuring approximately 35 paintings by Ezra Tucker, is organized and traveled by David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director David J. Wagner, L.L.C. 

Few people today recognize the name Joseph Christian Leyendecker and yet he was arguably this nation’s most popular commercial artist during the first four decades of the 20th century. His paintings helped sell everything from men’s clothing to breakfast cereal and he helped define the modern magazine cover.

Haggin Museum houses the largest public collection of original artworks by the “Golden Age” illustrator. The museum’s core Leyendecker Gallery displays over 40 pieces of original work and personal ephemera. In honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Haggin is displaying a collection of rarely seen original works and sketches by the artist. The selection includes J.C. and his brother Frank’s sketches, allowing viewers to get a closer look at the artists’ process.

Lodi Open Studio Tour

de Young Museum

SFMOMA, San Francisco

Art of Noise at SFMoMA

Picture the last time music moved you. Imagine how the sound was amplified. Think about what initially drew you to that album cover or concert poster. How did design shape your experience?

Explore this question with us in Art of Noise. This exhibition is a multi-sensory ode to how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years. Don’t miss:

Floor-to-Ceiling Gallery of Music Graphics

Pore over 400+ San Francisco psychedelic rock posters, featuring legendary bands like the Grateful Dead. See icons of graphic design by Milton Glaser and others. Mid-century modern album covers, as well as hip-hop, punk, and rave flyers complete this expansive display of incredible color and creativity.

Music Technology and Innovative Product Design

Chart over a century of sound in over 100 objects, from early phonographs to the Music: Not Impossible Haptic Suit, which translates sound onto the skin through vibration. Discover experimental music devices with design choices that will surprise you.

teenage engineering’s Design Touch

Settle into a seating landscape that invites you to connect with others through music. The Swedish music-tech company has applied their unconventional design mindset to the exhibition experience, from this plush, sound installation to the look and feel of the gallery spaces.

Zanele Muholi: Eye Me

Pier 24 Photography

Pier 24 is one of the largest venues in the world dedicated to viewing photography. Since its inception it has always been free to view the comprehensive collection of more than 5,000 works by 500 photographers, all purchased by the Pilara Foundation.

The gallery space is nearly 27,000 square feet and attendance has always been by reservation and limited, to provide the viewer a serene experience while looking at the Pilara collection, along with other private collections on loan, like that of Bob and Randi Fisher.

The staff only mounts one exhibition per year, while also co-sponsoring the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program, with the California College of the Arts. Pier 24 has also published 20 books on photography.

Excerpt: TURNING THE PAGE

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In its more than ten years, Pier 24 Photography has exhibited many thousands of photographs, and thus hundreds of thousands of hypothetical words. Up until now, every show has begun with the Pilara Foundation Collection and expanded from there. Turning the Page is the first exhibition that does not feature works from our collection. Instead, it looks at and celebrates the photobook, a medium that has undergone its own renaissance parallel to our years in operation. Each of the galleries presents works from a distinct photobook, whether an iconic volume or a recent monograph. The content, sequence, and design of each selected book guided our approach to that particular installation, aiming for a thoughtful translation of its overall tone and intent. Ultimately, Turning the Page invites you to consider how the viewing context impacts our understanding of a photographic project.

Among the classic works represented here are Robert Frank’s Les Américains (The Americans, 1958), Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu (Ravens, 1986), Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home (1992), and Jim Goldberg’s Raised by Wolves (1995)—four photobooks that speak to the breadth of the medium across the second half of the twentieth century. Many consider The Americans so influential that every photobook since has been either in conversation with it or in rebellion against it. Ravens trades Frank’s restless questioning of the American dream for a dark, introspective processing of grief in the aftermath of Fukase’s divorce; both demonstrate how image sequencing can evoke feeling and narrative. Pictures from Home and Raised by Wolves build upon these precedents, combining image sequence, page layout, and text to tell powerful stories and reveal certain truths.

Over the past twenty years, photobooks have become increasingly essential to many photographers, offering a distinctive medium for fully realizing their visions—often pushing the boundaries of the book form along the way. This approach to design and layout extends to how several of the featured photographers have installed works from their projects. Few artists have explored the photobook’s range as extensively as Rinko Kawauchi, whose Ametsuchi (2013) unifies book design with her project’s concept and visual content; her lyrical installation echoes the sequence and design within her book’s pages. Vasantha Yogananthan’s A Myth of Two Souls (2016–21) is a series of seven individual yet related photobooks, one for each chapter of the Hindu epic the Ramayana, upon which the project is loosely based. The design of Rose Marie Cromwell’s El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (2018) is based on Cuban charadas—small photocopied pamphlets that guide people in placing bets in Havana’s underground lottery by assigning numbers to everyday objects; Cromwell’s nonlinear approach to image sequencing is also informed by this random system. And in Wires Crossed (2023), Ed Templeton documents two decades of his life as a professional skateboarder in a dense, frenetic sequence evoking the look and feel of the skate world he helped create. These four photographers have conceived unique installations for Turning the Page that speak to the kind of engaging experiences they are known for creating when translating their works from page to wall.

Pier 24 Photography has long believed in the photobook as an essential vehicle for both discovering new and exciting photographers, and looking deeply at the history of the medium. Additionally, we have contributed to the photobook community with our own publishing program. As with all of our shows, we hope you will see both familiar works that call out to you as old friends might, and unfamiliar photographers for you to encounter. It is this eye toward the future, with a humble respect for the past, that unifies the work on display. We hope you will join us as we turn the page together.

Richard Avedon | Libby Black | Rose Marie Cromwell | Rineke Dijkstra | Robert Frank | Masahisa Fukase | Jim Goldberg | Curran Hatleberg | Rinko Kawauchi | Baldwin Lee | Helen Levitt | Zanele Muholi | Cindy Sherman | Donavon Smallwood | Alec Soth | Larry Sultan | Ed Templeton | Vasantha Yogananthan |

Goodwin Gallery Hours

Open Studio Days at the Gallery

Resources

Free Days at the Art Museums

THIRD SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH 

Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA
General admission is free the first Tuesday of every month. (Admission is partnered with deYoung Art Museum - See both in the same day) 

deYoung Art Museum - San Francisco, CA
General admission is free the first Tuesday of every month. (Admission is partnered with Legion of Honor - See both in the same day) 

Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, CA
Free First Sundays

Kanopy

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