Mendocino County Art Association
P.O. Box 517
Ukiah, CA 95482
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Mendocino County Art Association (MCAA) is the oldest art association in Mendocino County. Artists of all media, skill levels and interests are welcome to join our group for inspiration, support and camaraderie.
On these pages, you will find the many benefits available to members (from education programs to an Open Studio). We would love to have you join and participate in as many activities as possible.
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The menu item "What's Happening" (to the left of this window) lists all events for the year (links will provide more details).
Sandy Oppenheimer
One of our favorite local artists, Sandy Oppenheimer, returns for another fun workshop. Using her method (which she calls "painting with paper"), you will make a portrait of your favorite animal or bird.
For inspiration, check her website, www.sandyoppenheimercollage.com and on the top banner click "More" and it will give you a drop down menu with two great options - one is Alphabet Animals and the other is Animals of the World.
Registration for members opens on 7/22/2019 and non-members can register starting 8/5/2019. Click HERE for the poster and registration form.
Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ukiah Garden Clubhouse
1203 W. Clay Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
Workshop Fees: $60.00 for members and $80.00 for non-members, with a materials fee of $15.00. The tools list will be sent upon registration. Enrollment is limited.
Samantha Buller
Practice the art of letting go, and focus on what you are seeing!
Samantha’s love of color completely drives her work. In this workshop Ms. Buller will provide instruction on how to create clean color and confident brushstrokes while painting still life works from life. Following a demonstration, participants will warm up by painting five to six 20-minute to 40-minute paintings to loosen up and be more “painterly." Practice the art of letting go, and focus on what you are seeing. The afternoon session will be slower while working on one or two larger paintings.
Samantha received her BFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Her work reflects the beautiful light and modernism that is found in Northern California and has been shown in the Hall of Justice in San Francisco, in businesses, hospitals and several galleries, as well as on the set of a prime-time television show. She studied abroad in Italy, which greatly influenced her love and passion for the arts. She comments, “Italy was full of rich, golden colors. The culture is truly inspiring for any type of artist." She continues to develop her style as she paints, never wanting to get bored and continually striving to grow. To find out more about Ms. Buller, her travels, her studies, and her work visit her website at www.SamanthaBuller.com.
Registration for members opens on 8/19/2019 and non-members can register starting 9/19/2019. Registration closes October 1, 2019. Click HERE for the poster and registration form.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ukiah Garden Clubhouse
1203 W. Clay Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
Workshop Fees: $75.00 for members and $95.00 for non-members. The tools list will be sent upon registration. Enrollment is limited.
...are sponsoring a one-day only Open Studio Tour on September 14, 2019 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Click HERE for the poster and map!
...at the Grace Hudson Museum is a must-see. Six local quilt artists were juried into the show: Holly Brackmann, Cassie Gibson, Ann Horton, Adriana Dakin, Robin Goldner and Laura Fogg.
In conjunction with Stitching California there will be a "Quilters Circle" walking tour of other nearby venues with quilt shows. Mama's Medicinals will host Betty Lacy and Laura Fogg's show called "in Our Opinion: Quilts with a Voice" through August. "In Our Backyard" with quilts by members of the Mendocino Quilt Artists and Rag Tag Quilters will be at the library through the end of September. The Savings Bank will host another show by Betty Lacy and Laura Fogg "Our Precious Planet" in September and October. Lastly a juried quilt show called "Well Traveled" will hang at the Art Center Ukiah (in the back of the Corner Gallery) throughout September. Maps and show dates are printed on rack cards available at all of the locations."
...planned for October at Art Center Ukiah and your chance to participate - it's absolutely ghoulish!
Our October celebrations frequently involve costumes and masks. This will be a wonderful opportunity to display your handmade creations and wear them too, since this show will end several days before Halloween. We are looking for the MOST...creative, beautiful, macabre, zany... in all media, wearable or not. Wall art related to the theme is welcome too.
Open to all Mendocino and Lake County residents, $25.00 fee for the first entry, $10.00 for each subsequent entry, with checks made out to Art Center Ukiah. Completed entry forms and all ready-to-hang work (NO sawtooth hangers) must be delivered for jurying to the Corner Gallery (201 S. State At. in Ukiah) no later than noon on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. Artists are encouraged to email photos of their submissions to the Art Center Ukiah at by the middle of September for possible inclusion in the publicity for the show. A refund will be given to the artist for any work not accepted in the show. The First Friday show opening is October 4, 2019 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm.
All unsold work must be picked up from the gallery at the end of the show on Tuesday, October 29, 2019."
...meets on Saturdays at The Corner Gallery from 10:00 a.m. to Noon.
Please Note:
There will be NO Critique Group for the months of August and September. We will be back in the swing of things in October.
...Registration for all Summer Art Stays is open! For those of you who don't know about Emandal, it is an historic old family camp on the Eel River east of Willits, where summers are now dedicated to getting artists together for the time of their lives. There will be three full days sandwiched by two half days to explore, create, share inspiration and enjoy the creative process.
Perks are incredible organic home-cooked food (much of which is harvested daily from the enormous garden), a lovely happy hour with all of the other artists from the various workshops, all the time you want to lounge in or near the river, or read in the library, and bottomless home-roasted coffee throughout the day. All included in the very reasonable fee.
Please go to the emandal.com website to view the possibilities. You can scroll down on the "Art Stays" button to find workshops with complete descriptions and materials lists."
...is teaching an art quilting class at Emandal during their third Art Stay session, which runs from September 18 - 22, 2019. Work at your own pace on small art quilts in this beautiful setting.
..."An Herbal Treasury," which is a watercolor and herb class. This class offers you an opportunity to paint, create your own journal, and make wonderful medicinal and body products that you can take home.
...that one of your membership benefits is being able to display your art work at the Corner Gallery?
MCAA has pre-paid a portion of the rental cost for two panels, loosely referred to as the "pony walls," each measuring approximately 3 feet wide by 6 feet tall. A member can hang their work on one of the panels for a fee of only $25.00 for the entire month!
Jeanette Carson coordinates the schedule so if you are interested, please contact her at 707-462-8916 and she can give you all the details.
It doesn't take very many pieces to fill the panel and won't it be a thrill to walk into the gallery on First Friday and see your work hanging there?
...is a long-term project undertaken by the Mendocino College. Click HERE for details about the Phoenix Project.
...can be found HERE.