Community Guide 2017
Spring Art Show by Jack Kamesar
Sounds for Art by Terry Garthwaite
The Spring Art Show brings together people from the Valley who take this opportunity to share their creative work. Larry Rippee is the Arts & Events Coordinator who coordinates the show and publicity. He is steadfast in encouraging and receiving the art. Some of the artists are professional. Some are inspired to do a piece every year just for the show. Some have only ever done the one piece that they bring. Others consider what they would create if they were to make something for the next year. Artists deliver their work on Thursday morning. The Arts Committee curates and hangs 100 pieces that day. Some years 300 people come to the Opening Reception. It is inspiring to discover those who live in the Valley who choose to express themselves. The Spring Art Show is a great celebration of our community’s creativity.
As soon as a child enters your life it’s a new world. It’s a small world, after all. In the ’80s and ’90s I was pretty involved in the Valley community—first on the board of the Cultural Center (now Community Center), where my main interest was providing creative opportunities for kids. Artist Barbara Andino-Stevenson and I got grants from the Marin Arts Council for rehearsal space for a local boy band and for children’s art shows, includ- ing one that would incorporate student music as an ambience for the work. Putting the music together was my job. I found kids in grades 1 through 8 to individu- ally come to my house to record. They were nervous when they arrived—unsure of what lay ahead and how they’d do—yet excited to be part of a recording, part of the art show. They each had their own special time to record their music—singers (including my nieces who lived in the Valley), a sax player, and a tap dancer. I used my 4-track tape deck so there’d be plenty of room for do-overs. To get the rhythms of the tap dancer I just pointed a mic on a boom stand toward her feet and let her go. And the others had an opportunity to be a star for a minute on the mic. I fixed and mixed the recordings and made a cassette tape (too soon for CDs), “Sounds for Art.” And there they were at our Grounds for Art opening for all to hear, recorded for posterity. We sold the cassette at the opening and at our local video store. Still have a copy.
I love the Community Center because it brings the community together for wonderful events and does a good job of taking care of those who have the least among us. Wendi Kallins
Sculptor and member of the SGVCC Arts Committee, Jack Kamesar (Photo by Donn DeAngelo)
2015 Spring Art Show reception (Photo by Michel Kotski)
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