Posts Tagged ‘artist’
Coachella Valley Arts News – January 2021
Artist Pia Camil’s Lover’s Rainbow for Desert X 2019. The 2021 event has been postponed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. GRANTS AND FINANCIAL RELIEF Gov. Newsom proposes $25 million for arts in California (Californians for the Arts)The funds support a grant program for museums and theaters and $15 million to the California Arts…
Read MoreJust Add Tech: Kristin Winters’ ‘Novel Virus’ Earns Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’
So many artists — and arts organizations writ large — are turning to technology to reach and expand their audience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Count La Quinta-based artist Kristin Winters among them. A fixture on the local art scene, frequently exhibiting in Palm Desert and Joshua Tree, Winters combines experimental video and traditional printmaking in…
Read MoreDonna Miller-Haggerty Captures COVID Emotions in Watercolor, Wins CDAC Grant
As an artist, Donna Miller-Haggerty of Palm Desert strives to create works that stems from her heart as well as her environment. “My most recent paintings were made to inspire positive thoughts and hope during these uncertain and difficult times,” she says of pieces like Inside Looking Out, a watercolor and collage that illustrates the…
Read MoreWatercolor Painting Earns Adam Enrique Rodriguez Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’
A fixture on the Coachella Valley art scene, Adam Enrique Rodriguez is known for his street art — he created murals at Desert Trip, Rhythm Wine and Brews, and Joshua Tree Music Festival — and his followers on social media know he’s equally adept at painting landscapes as well as scathing political caricatures. When COVID-19…
Read MoreDeanna Fainelli’s ‘Instagood’ Wins Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’
In March, artist Deanna Fainelli relocated her studio from downtown Indio to a makeshift space in the gardening shed at her home in Palm Desert. “With limited supplies, I was forced to rethink my creative process,” she says. “Under normal circumstances, my work focused on urban scenes handprinted over abstract mixed-media surfaces. I decided this…
Read MoreCOVID Watercolor Wins Artist and Educator Mindy McEachran a Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’
Some folks think of watercolor as a sketching medium, a pursuit to lay down plans for something bigger and, presumably, better. But nothing competes with its intimacy and, to the artist, its immediacy. Watercolor, in fact, is a medium for masters. It allows no time to hesitate; the artist must anticipate and execute every stroke,…
Read MoreAnthony Tran Paints, Sings, Wins Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’
Drawing on his love for Japanese culture, La Quinta-based artist Anthony Tran went to work on a new watercolor, Keep Fighting, an 11-by-14-inch painting on paperboard depicting, in a kaleidoscope of colors, a samurai — masked as a sign of the COVID-19 times — with his sword held high, ready to come down on anything…
Read MoreNew Kiln-Worked Glass by Paul Messink Earns CDAC Artist Grant
Paul Messink — a kiln-work glass artist and instructor who creates hand-painted, multilayered glass panels showing nature and figures in deep dimension — has been using his shelter-in-place time to explore different subjects and experiment with new techniques. His latest work, You Are Not Alone (shown above), on 25 layers of hand-painted glass, responds to the…
Read MoreKas Infinite Projects a Wall of Light to ‘Keep Art Alive’
A spectacle composed of light and land, Restrictive Measures reveals how Chris Sanchez, aka Kas Infinite — a Coachella-based multimedia artist known for creating dramatic interventions in the environment — feels about sheltering at home. “This is a project that translates my personal experience here in the Coachella Valley during this COVID-19 crisis,” Sanchez says,…
Read MoreCDAC Awards ‘Keep Art Alive’ Grant to Artist and Educator Meridy Beth Volz
Sheltered at home, artist and art educator Meridy Beth Volz of Desert Hot Springs is busy teaching five art classes a week via Skype to boys incarcerated at Indio Juvenile Hall. She was placed at the facility for a pilot program called Art with Heart through the Riverside County Office of Education. Although funds have…
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