| OCT16 | Free to the general public |
Community Conversation:
Americans for the Arts ACTION Fund
Saturday, October 16, 2pm
Berkeley Art Center is pleased to host a community gathering/creative conversation as part of Americans for the Arts ACTION Fund, a nationwide effort to encourage a movement that helps to guarantee healthy arts funding and arts education in America, and stimulates dialogue about the arts in communities. Interested parties, especially in the neighborhoods of North/West/Central Berkeley and the greater East Bay area, are encouraged to visit and talk informally as a group about the arts in our local community and potential larger impacts. The dialogue will be informally moderated.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| OCT23 | FREE to the general public, children and families encouraged! |
Family Event!
Native Plantings with Susan Schwarz and Friends of Five Creeks & Create with Nature Zones with Zach Pine
Saturday, October 23, 1-4pm
Friends of Five Creeks, led by local resident Susan Schwarz, will lead a day that begins with a family tour of the exhibition, Intimate Nature, and an opportunity for individuals of all ages to participate in a casual afternoon planting natives just beside Berkeley Art Center and alongside Codornices Creek. Adjacent to the planting area, participating artist Zach Pine will host a Create-With-Nature event – sticks, leaves, rocks, and redwood needles collected on site will be the inspiring materials for collaborative artistic expression. Join us to create ephemeral works that connect us to each other and to the natural world!
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| OCT29 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Berkeley PathWanderers exhibition tour
and neighborhood walk
Friday, October 29, 10-12pm
Join this local walking group for a tour of the exhibition, Intimate Nature, followed by a leisurely walk on historic paths near Codornices Creek, some of which served as inspiration for the works on view. A special opportunity to become intimate and engaged with nature, right in your own backyard!
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| OCT30 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Fall Lecture Series: Robert Hudson
Saturday, October 30, 4pm
An artist central to Bay Area Sculpture, Robert Hudson has forged forty years of assemblage from funk through to an astonishing spatial complexity. The sculpture of Robert Hudson not only beckons, it is most apt to stand up and reach out to grab and hold fast. In Hudson's hand, color, shape, and texture conspire to create forms defying their very material and weight. In an intricate balancing act, the works seduce the eye in a dance both humorous and poignant.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| NOV13 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Eco Art Video Salon
Saturday, November 13, 4pm
A unique opportunity to be part of a roundtable discussion with leaders and educators of the current Eco Art movement, including Susan Leibovitz Steinman, WEAD – Women Environmental Artists Directory, Tricia Watts, Ecoartspace co-founder; and activist artists Sharon Siskin and Andrée Singer Thompson. The event features short videos of artists and Eco art projects, including Mark Brest Van Kempen, Robin Lasser & Adrienne Pao, Jackie Brookner, and others.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| NOV18 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Movie Night: A Sense of Wonder
A co-benefit with WEAD (Women Environmental Artists Directory), Berkeley Art Center is pleased to screen A Sense of Wonder, an intimate portrait of America’s most successful advocate for the natural world, Rachel Carson.
Thursday, November 18, 7pm
Beautifully shot in Maine at Rachel Carson’s cottage by award winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Answers the question on how one person (one woman) can radically change the world. Rachel Carson’s work initiated the American environmental movement and Earth Day. One-woman performance artist tour de force: Written, acted & directed by Kiulani Lee.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| NOV20 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Artist Lecture Series: Martin Facey
Saturday, November 20, 4pm
A painter who left Los Angeles for decades of New Mexico landscape, Martin Facey returned to California with a palette infused with saturated color and a visual purity of form. Taking seed germination as a visual metaphor for life and its myriad formations and developments, Facey has created a vocabulary of vibrant abstraction. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Facey has honed a language both vigorous and poetic.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| NOV28 | SUGGESTED $5 contribution; Free for BAC members |
Visual Thinking Strategies
Sunday, November 28, 2pm
Berkeley Art Center is pleased to partner with Visual Thinking Strategies to offer this dynamic experience in adult art education to our members. Deepen your connection to art through one of the most respected art education methods in the country through the VTS facilitation method created by noted educator Philip Yenawine. Tour the gallery and participate in a group dialogue about works on view. Additionally, a few of the artists in the exhibition will be present to talk about their work.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
| DEC18 | $10 general admission/contribution; Free for BAC members and students (/w Current photo ID) |
Artist Lecture Series: Terry St. John
Saturday, December 18, 4pm
In images which are deep and lush in paint and light, Terry St. John creates pulsating landscapes and languid figures. This work, which may be viewed as a touchstone for Bay Area Figurative traditions, consolidates visual language into a weighted space of sculptural presence. With an imposing strength of form, Terry St. John renders an environment which captivates the viewer..
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw [at] berkeleyartcenter.org
