Studio Odd Hours, which you may or may not remember, has ceased to exist. For those of you who did not know of the “intelligent, New American Art” displayed in downtown Fort Bragg, or who refused climbing the flight of stairs leading to the second-story exhibition room on First Fridays: shame on you. The norm-bending [...]
by Bruce McEwen
Celebrating his first anniversary in Boonville, this reporter strolled the 14th Annual Boonville Art Walk last Saturday, July 10th. The day was sunny and hot with about six knots of welcome cool winds gusting intermittently through the valley, fresh off the Pacific 25 miles to the west. A year ago, a backward, blundering bumpkin blew [...]
A deeply rural art gallery at the end of a Comptche dirt road is not likely to attract many visitors. Or any visitors. And sure enough its curator, Dan Parker, laughingly says of his remote enterprise, “It’s the only gallery you can’t get to.” And the only one I know of, at least at ordinary [...]
by Jan Wax
It’s been said that Mendocino County with its population of just under 90,000 souls, has more artists per capita than any other county in California — and Anderson Valley is the place many of these artists call home. Recently, a group of them formed the Artists’ Guild of Anderson Valley, with a main focus of [...]
by Sara Liner
Tucked away, up a narrow staircase above Tangents–on the corner of Main and Laurel in Fort Bragg–sits Odd Hours, an art gallery and studio space run by local artists Jason Cowan and Inga Petersen. “How refreshing, “ said one attendee at Studio Odd’s recent Friday night invitational showing. “I don’t see a single sunset or [...]
Jacob Hewko is gluten-free–but he’s also one of the Mendocino Coast’s most talented and provocative young artists, breathing fresh life into the local art scene and creating images on paper that rival your most bizarre dreams. After a few years working as a bike messenger in Portland and San Francisco, the corn chip-munching minimalist recently [...]
The famous and also infamous director Werner Herzog is giving seminars for aspiring filmmakers (which the Rand Corp. pegs at 75% of the U.S. popu lation). Included in the curriculum is: “…the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own [...]
The good news: Attorney Brandt Stickel has been removed as President of the Board of Directors of the Mendocino Art Center (subsequently resigning) and a new slate of officers have been elected. The new officers are: Tom Becker, President and Treasurer, Dr. Richard Miller, 1st Vice-President, Dr. Don Paglia, 2nd Vice-President, and Leona Walden, Secretary. [...]
An overflow crowd packed the main gallery of the Mendocino Art Center for last Wednesday afternoon’s highly anticipated Board meeting. Board President Brandt Stickel said that each speaker would have four minutes each to address the board. He explained that there would be no board response — this was simply the community’s chance to be [...]
