SCAPE Newsletter - July 2024

Message from our PRESIDENT

By Kathy McGill

Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s Showtime!  I’m delighted to report that we have finalized our fall show, and it’s coming up fast.  We will be back at the beautiful Music Academy of the West on September 13-14. The show is being held on Friday and Saturday this year.  Aside from that, the format will be much the same as it has been the last two years.

I’m thrilled to announce that our beneficiary for the show will be Explore Ecology.  Explore Ecology is an environmental education nonprofit that has been active in Santa Barbara County for over 34 years.  I’m sure many of you are familiar with them, as they run the much beloved “Art from Scrap” Creative Reuse store at the corner Garden and Cota Streets.  Their other programs include Environmental Education in classrooms and on field trips throughout the County, and a robust School Gardens program at over 30 schools.

In their own words, Explore Ecology “empowers our community to protect and preserve the planet with innovative environmental education and nature-based learning. We educate over 30,000 children a year, inspiring them to engage with the natural world, think critically, and experience the value of environmental stewardship.”  

The theme for this year’s show is “Central Coast Reflections”.  The theme is intentionally broad in order to honor the great diversity of our natural world, as well as our diversity as painters.  Explore Ecology is especially interested in coastal scenes, since much of their work has a coastal focus, but you are free to let your paintbrush wander where it will.

Karen Glancy is busy putting the prospectus together, and it will be out very soon.  You will find more details in the Exhibit section of this newsletter.  

For those who want to know more about the great work Explore Ecology does, here are links to their website and to their 2024 impact report:

https://exploreecology.org

https://exploreecology.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/explore-ecology-2024-impact-report.pdf

Happy painting!

Kathy

Exhibit News

 

Good News!  We have secured a fall show, no small feat in this post Covid world.

Look for the prospectus at Online Juried Shows soon! 

"Central Coast Reflections",  Sept 13-14, 2024

This show will feature reflections of the artist on the ecology of Santa Barbara County. It includes landscapes, seascapes, fresh water and people, animals, and buildings.

Make sure to down load the prospectus  so you have the important dates and information of the show.

A few things to remember that were a small problem during recent shows.

YOU put your card into the attachable pocket - make sure it gets on the correct painting. It goes on the lower left of the painting back. When turned around to face the painting  it is on the right.

Prices and titles cannot be changed once the entries close, but you can change them by going into online juried shows, in your account,  before the close of the entry deadline

Paintings will be checked in at the start and checked out at the end the exhibit, with one exit point .

This information will be repeated for you closer to the show.

Karen Glancy