Appreciation for Sennott's Monotype Prints is Increasing

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Patricia Sennott is completing the task of setting up 20 new pieces of art for the Sewell Gallery in Eureka. She is the featured artist for the month of May with her reception May 3 during Main Street's "Arts Alive". Her success and prices will both only be going UP!

Educator, silk painter, & monotype print specialist, Sennott's gentle nature & intense talent will both be on display.

From what is now called the STEW ART STUDIOS in Arcata, we have Libby George, Susan Bornstein, Carol Anderson, Allison Curtis, Steven Vander Meer, Laura Montague & last but never least,... Patrica Sennott. 

Sennott's work can also be found at the 
Arcata Artisans Cooperative Gallery 
as well in local private collections.

An HSU Studio Arts graduate, her academic career began in Kentucky. After graduating from Humboldt, it wasn't until she experienced a week long workshop at Bennington College in Vermont that she was introduced to her new love & voice of expression,... monotype prints.

As a educator, Sennott taught for 3 years in the Western Pacific in the Marianas Islands. Currently she is teaching privately in both printmaking & watercolor. She can be reached through the author at: theartsqueen@gmail.com.



Sewell Gallery Fine Art (707) 269-0617
Arcata Artisans Cooperative Gallery (707)825-9133 
Eureka Main Street (707) 442-9054

Empty Mansions: Dolls As Art

"Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune"

1919 Photoplay Magazine

I was so struck with the beauty & naturalness of the doll collection that was featured in the book titled : "Empty Mansions" that I wanted to present the reflections of a child's imagination.

An era of quiet solitude provided the protagonist her backlit set of dolls & personal history. Cramming her mansions with precious friends, her dolls, Huguette Clark preferred a single room in a hospital setting to participating in the "real world".

Paper dolls, bisque dolls, ritual dolls, teddy bears have all been part of every civilization throughout history. Dolls are art in many instances.

Parellel Universes anyone? Clark's doll collection is documented in the above book available on Amazon. 

 

Humboldt Ballroom Dance Chapter To Celebrate 20 Years

 

“As a founding ballroom dance group member, it is very rewarding to see the grand growth of social dance in our community in the last 20 years” - Molloy.

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One big change in the last 20 years is the name and structure of the original organization, previously known as the United States Association of Ballroom Dancing  in America (USABDA). The organization now includes Ballroom Dancing supported by the Olympics under the umbrella of  the DanceSport Federation.  Providing for education of Social Dance for children throughout the country is also part of the USA Dance Mission.

The current Board of Directors for the local Redwood Chapter # 4013 includes Debbie Weist. Julie Hayes-Ryman, Shelley Sloan, Jason Slyter, and Peggy Molloy. While the group has designated titles, they all help one another as a team to get the monthly dances up and running. They are continually on the lookout for prospective members for future Boards, and can always use volunteers for setup and takedown of each event. The public is welcome.

With long term goals to celebrate the 20 year benchmark, the immediate plans revolve around the Redwood Coast Jazz Festival. The USA Dance group will have a food booth on Thursday, March 27 at the Adorni Center. Businesses who would like to donate to the food inventory are welcome. They will have a credit listed at the booth.

Social Media has shifted the methods that the local chapter communicates with its members. With two Facebook accounts and Twitter updates available, these digital vehicles are combined with the traditional press releases and fax machines to radio stations and newspapers.

Contact information is as follows:

Facebook addresses “Redwood Coast Dances” & “USA Dance Humboldt Chapter”

Twitter address for announcements follow @artbizca_ching

National website www.usadance.org

National phone number (800) 447-9047

Local Email usadances@gmail.com

website www.redwoodcoastdances.com

 

Byline:  Peggy Molloy has a BA in Art As Communication (Humboldt) with an MS In Entertainment Business (Full Sail University). She has performed with The Joffrey Ballet, The Opera Company of Boston, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival & The Santa Barbara Ballet Theatre. She is a member of American Society of Composers, Authors

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Chatting With Author/ Performance Artist Tracey Barnes Priestley

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Tracey Barnes Priestley is a pioneer of a new sort of gal. I state this because as a female writer with a play to produce, I have been educated to analyze my target audience. Baby-boomers? Older women only? I hate to create more division in our audiences than we have already as a society. Culture nuts? Art lovers who appreciate previous eras?

I grit my teeth at the term "chick-flick" however, I recognize my rememberances of NYC in the 70's riddled with ballet scores & The BeeGees most likely will not draw a younger, sportier crowd.
(I want to be wrong on this).

We are all getting older & living longer. Many of us have a great deal more to get done in our own "Second Half's"... I began noticing who among us was able to market to my age group, taking the blows in stride yet able to come back up smiling. This ability is a version of true sportsmanship.

Priestley has been at it for awhile now & I admire her for it. She took her elegant lankiness to the stage responding to her own archives of newspaper writings, predominantly letters that she had received from readers dealing with "the reality of being over 50 in the 21st century". Acting, singing & dancing with the Humboldt Light Opera Company, & a lover of music, her show THE SECOND HALF was set with actress/ director Valerie Gillett-Bourne. It was performed with energy & humor.

Her recent book titled "DUCK POND EPIPHANY" is available on her website www.thesecondhalfonline.com which constitutes her first novel. Priestley can be contacted via Twitter @TraceyAfter50. Hopefully, we will get updates in the future about Tracey after 100.

Is Art A Good Investment? Visiting Monaco Wealth Management

Francis Bacon's
1969 painting titled
"Three Studies of Lucien Freud" sold for a tidy $142,405,000
 at Christie's NYC.

So what's up with the outrageous prices paid for art held in the International Art Markets?

Ballet Russes by August Macke, 1912

My personal interest in Monte Carlo began as I studied Dance History. I bumped into a fabulous character named Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929).

Diaghilev founded & directed the magazine
WORLD OF ART (Mir Isskoustva) which was published for a period of 6 years, primarily funded by Czar Nicholas II. In 1906 Diaghilev organized an exhibition of Russian painters in Paris at the Fall Salon in the Grand Palais. Thus he began his exporting of the Russian visual & performing artists to the galleries & stages of Europe.

This included composers Stravinsky & Debussy. Painters being Picasso & Matisse, with dancers being Nijinsky & Pavlova.

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From the halls of famous dance figures, this visionary leader saved the lives of many artists as they were harbored in Europe during war. Many then came to America seeking freedom & a safe place to work.

In my mind I have always equated artistic wealth with the famous BALLET RUSSES DE MONTE CARLO, although this title refers to companies founded after the death of Diaghilev.


Wealth Management, with expertise in the arts, is a feature of monacowealthmanagement.com

Quote "World record art sales as super-rich snap up Freuds, Koons, and Warhols...$142m spent on Bacon triptych represents just fraction of global demand for art sending avalanche of cash to auctions."

It has long been my theory that art is our ancient global language so for me, channeling the power of money into the power of art is a natural. I appreciate the expertise & financial acumen offered by those in Monaco, they obviously have a positive attitude which goes hand-in-hand with the abundance they live within.