Spring is around the corner, and March is a busy month for Signature Members of the Plein-Air Painters of America. Several members are teaching workshops in Arizona, Texas, California and Florida (see below). And many others are in southern Utah during the first week of the month to paint Zion National Park for the exhibition and sale at The Haggin Museum. It's a great time renewal! UPCOMING PAPA EVENTS
American Legacy: Our National Parks
Thirty-eight top plein-air painters document National Park Service sites across the United States in this exhibition of more than 100 artworks. Each artist has selected a protected landscape that has been added to our national patrimony over the past two centuries.
 Six outstanding Guest Artists join PAPA Members this year. Quang Ho is painting Arizona's famed Grand Canyon. Jeremy Lipking is documenting California's Kings Canyon National Park. Kathryn Stats reveals the subtle tones of Capitol Reef National Park in her home state of Utah. Cumberland Island National Seashore off southeastern Georgia is the subject of West Fraser. Joseph McGurl has taken his paints and easel into Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area off Massachusetts' Atlantic shore. And Walt Gonske tackles the breathtaking Black Canyon of the Gunnison, in Colorado, whose name derives from a gorge so deep and narrow that sunlight rarely penetrates it, casting the canyon walls in dark shadow (right). Put the opening weekend sale, October 2-3, 2009, on your calendar and contact Susan Hallsten McGarry,
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, for an invitation. The exhibition is on view through January 10, 2010, and will travel thereafter.
SIGNATURE MEMBER NEWS
 Jean LeGassick & Gil Dellinger in Quietude: Paintings of the High Sierra
This group show at Knowlton Gallery, Lodi, California, features paintings done by artists who often mule pack into the High Sierra,March 3 to April 25, 2009, with an opening reception March 7, 1-5 pm. (Gil Dellinger, Fall Runoff, acrylic, 48x60). Three PAPA Members at Pasadena History Museum
Look for John Budicin, Lynn Gertenbach, and Ray Roberts in the Pasadena History Museum exhibition Contemporary Masters, Artistic Eden II: Scenes of Contemporary Life in the San Gabriel Valley. The exhibition is on view through April 11, 2009. Jean Perry in Cowgirl Up!
Perry was invited to show with 57 additional women artists in the 2009 exhibition and sale Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona. The sale opens with a weekend of events on March 27-28. Linda Tippetts at C.M. Russell Auction of Original Art
Tippett's work is showcased in exhibit room 282 at the CM Russell Auction at the Heritage Inn, 1700 Fox Farm Road, Great Falls, Montana. Her painting Daybreak on Rising Wolf (right) will be included in the Saturday night auction. PAPA Members exhibit on Catalina Island
Tickets go on sale in March for the Society for the Advancement of Plein Air Painting (SAPAP) sale featuring John Budicin, Mary DeLoyht-Arendt, Kenn Backhaus, Frank LaLumia, and Jean LeGassick. The sale takes place Saturday, June 6, 2009, at the Catalina Visitor's Country Club, Avalon, California. For an invitation contact SAPAP, PO Box 2293, Avalon, California 90704-2293. Kroll Roberts Gallery
Ray Roberts has opened Kroll Roberts Gallery just two doors north of the Laguna Art Museum at 305 North Coast Highway in Laguna Beach. Gallery hours are 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment.
Don Demers represented by Vose Galleries
Demers recently joined one of the oldest galleries in the United States. Vose Galleries in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1841. Look for a one-man show in October 2010.
Plein Air America
Matt Smith, Kenn Backhaus, Jean LeGassick, Ron Rencher, Frank LaLumia, and the late Charles Sovek are featured in this exciting set of episodes broadcast on PBS. For air times and to order DVDs go to http://www.pleinairamerica.com/ Frank LaLumia featured in Southwest Art
 LaLumia works in both oils and watercolors. For this March 2009 feature in Southwest Art titled "Color & Light," LaLumia says that he uses watercolors "to capture the softness, fluidity and the spontaneity of a subject." (Left: Wedding in Old Mexico, watercolor, 22x30)
STUDY WITH THE BEST
To learn more about these growth opportunities, please go to Member Workshops on the PAPA web site for registration information.
Ned Mueller
March 9-13, Scottsdale Artist's School, Arizona
Kenn Backhaus
March 22-26, St. Petersburg, Florida
Gil Dellinger
March 28-29, Knowlton Gallery, Lodi, California
Matt Smith
March 31-April 3, San Antonio, Texas
Ron Rencher
April 6-10, Canyon Lake, Texas
John Budicin
April 6-10, Texas Hill Country |
