Fountains Dance With The Color of Art

Music by Cover 2 Cover, Art by Bob Cradic

Did you know the fountains were filled with the “color of art”, Thursday in Carlsbad, CA?  Well, they were bubbling over with entertainment and art.  Artists and musicians from all over San Diego, joined in to participate in Thursdays on the Coast, The Experience.  Gearing up for the summer, people gathered for this month’s event .with multiple venues opening their doors to shopping, food and art exhibitions, as customers strolled the 3  hour event.  Live music by Cover 2 Cover out of San Diego,http://www.cover2coversd.com , and Rick Hutchinson set the tone for the evening drawing crowds to the centers.

Visitors, Sharise Smith and her family, out of Green Bay WI, enjoyed the artist Char Cee, demonstrating and stated “this is such a great evening” so many people are smiling and seem so happy, do this often?”  Darah Abel, and her boyfriend John State, out of Encinitas, commented “we came to see what was up, and were gonna stay, were enjoying this, a lot of different things to see”.

The Phantom Gallery

The art galleries reported high attendance at their exhibitions and the COAL Art Gallery, reported “seeing more than 130 visitors through their gallery in 3 hours, a nice turnout”, stated Felix Bonomo; Gallery Manager. Oceanside Art Gallery featured Celeste’s stunning artwork while.  The Phantom Art Gallery was crowded with people viewing the new display of artists as Co- Gallery Directors Janet Beyries and Alan Kathof attended to their guests and their silent auction. The New Village Arts, Foundry Studios held their monthly public interactive art project, that is being raffled off, when completed, meanwhile enjoying a very special celebration for Music and Art Manager, Laura Kurner.

Artist, Kay Rivers

A raffle and a Carlsbad Silent Street Auction are slated for July/August, with art being displayed at  surrounding sponsor locations.  The art will be up for two weeks and the silent auction winners will be announced, August 25^th.  So bring a friend and walk the event next month on July 28 from 5:30 - 8:30 and see for yourself what a great venue this is for bringing a lot of art and artists and art lovers together.

Hosted by the Carlsbad Village Association we will have self guided walking maps, and event information available at the event center on the corner of Grant and State St.  Our volunteers will be happy to assist you with questions and directions.

Come join us and get in the mood and don;f forget to visit our Sponsors on this website and at http://www.shopcarlsbadvillage.org and new on our YouTube: ThursdaysontheCoast,

Visit Cover 2 Cover on YouTube:  http://youtu.be/j4Sn4JtsmeE.

The Phantom Gallery Hosts a Silent Auction, June 23, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

The winners of the Silent Auction will, in turn, donate the prize money from the winning bid to the American Red Cross for Tornado Disaster Relief in Hackelsburg and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Hoping to generate lots of bidding competition, the auction opens on May 26th during the Artists' Reception which coincides with Thursdays On The Coast Art Experience and it will run through the month to the next reception on Thursday June 23rd when the winners will be announced.

Says Alan, "It's a winning situation for all involved".  The highest bidders take home a fabulous award winning piece of original art by a first-class artist, visitors have a fun evening shopping, dining, listening to music, viewing fine art and we "Stay Home in America:" with our help!  You can't beat that!!"

The Phantom Gallery is located in Suite 104, The Shops at Village Faire between Carlsbad Village Drive and Grand Avenue in of course, beautiful coastal Carlsbad.

Nancy Parkinson Bruce , Exhibition at the COAL Art Gallery, June 2011

Nancy Parkinson Bruce an award-winning artist Carlsbad resident regularly shows at the COAL.  Ms. Bruce considers herself to be very fortunate having spent most of her life surrounded by beauty.  Born and raised in Colorado, she also spent several years in Utah and Alaska before finally moving to Southern California, where she began her 28-year career of teaching art and photography to junior and senior high school kids. 

She is a graduate from Colorado University at Boulder with a degree in Art, and also holds a Master’s Degree from San Diego State University.  She has also continued honing her talents through years of teaching, practice, workshops and courses at the college level.  She has studied with well-known artists including Tony Richards for printmaking, the nationally renowned watercolor artist, Zoltan Szabo, as well as abstract artists including Risë Parberry and Pat Dew, among others.

As an artist, she has been on a journey exploring different mediums, her most recent being abstract paintings in acrylic.   Prior to this obsession with acrylics, Ms. Bruce worked in watercolor and continues to share her passion for watercolor through teaching at the Carlsbad Senior Center.  For many years, while painting with watercolors, Ms. Bruce also learned the ancient craft of printmaking.  This process involves etching a picture from a metal plate.  Intricate designs are literally carved out of the metal surface and bathed in acid to create what will eventually become a textured plate used in a special hand-turned printing press; each layer of color is printed separately. 

Stop by and visit Nancy Parkinson Bruce and her exhibiton through the month of June 2011.