Ron Rigge, a member of the Pleasanton Art Leagure, will hold a Meet and Greet upstairs at the Firehouse Arts Gallery in Pleasanton, CA. For more information, please visit the events and exhibits page at https://www.pal-art.com/exhibits-events/

Pleasanton League member Ron Rigge will be displaying his CA Mission portfolio upstairs at the Firehouse Arts Center. The reception will be on Saturday, April 27th 1-3pm.

For more information, please see Pleasanton Art League

Awards will be handed out to the participating students. For more information, please visit Pleasanton Art League

Guest speakers Ali & Joe Hall, How to Launch your Art Business

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Learn how to launch your art business and more: Essential tips & tricks. 

Join us for an engaging open forum, questions and answers session around how to start your art business co-taught by Ali and Joe Hall. This discussion is crafted for small creative ventures seeking clarity on how best to set up your business and understand essential tax information. Learn firsthand about setting up an art business through an open dialogue covering registration, licensing, and essential foundational steps. Join us for an enriching conversation! 

Disclaimer: It's important to note that while we bring real-world experience, we are not tax accountants or financial advisors. Our class is an educational opportunity to share knowledge and spark discussions, providing a foundation for informed decisions on your artistic and business journey. 

About the Artist

Design with Ali started to help people connect with their space through personalized and unique abstract art and design that complements their style. Ali's passion for teaching others and giving back to the community led her to launch the business. She believes art and design can positively impact mental health, and offers personalized workshops to unleash creativity. Ali's expertise in fine art, graphic and product design allows her to create custom art and decor that are meaningful and conversation pieces. Design with Ali's vision is to bring happiness to every space through personalized art. Previously, she taught how to set up your art booth and shared her best practices workbook. 

 The Livermore Art Association is presenting a workshop on gouache techniques, led by artist Jenna Hobbs.

Curious about gouache? This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy a 4-hour gouache painting workshop with local artist Jenna Hobbs. You will have a brief overview of the medium, followed by a step by step painting session where you will recreate one of Jenna's existing 3’’x3’’ paintings together. The session also involves painting something from your own reference and plein-air painting. 

WHEN: Saturday, April 6, 2024, 10AM - 2 PM

WHERE:  Bothwell Arts Center

2466 8th St #4604, Livermore, CA 94550

COST: $50

https://livermoreartassociation.org/classes-and-workshops/f/april-6-gouche-workshop-by-jenna-hobbs

Livermore Art Association's first solo show on the RLCC Art Wall in 2024 is TYPESCAPES by graphic designer and artist Qiuwn Li. It is an exploration of type as images resulting in expressive and imaginative works of art. Definitely a show to see. https://livermoreartassociation.org/

About the Artist

Qiuwen Li is an award-winning graphic designer and a design professor living and working in Santa Clara, CA. She has exhibited internationally inUSA, Korea, China, Italy and Poland.Her work revolves systematic design and experimental typography, exploring the relationship between legibility and illegibility:using typographic shapes as images. Graphic elements (shapes, color, pattern,type) are constructed, deconstructed and then reconstructed in order to create a richer experience and extend their meaning into something more visceral,expressive, and imaginative. 

Artists by Artists is a conversation about connections - connections to our history, to art, and to each other. Curator Tiffanie Heben brings together works by twenty artists who represent a range of artistic practice in our community through time. By pairing new works by contemporary artists with works created by artists from our past, she invites the audience into a dialogue about how relationships are formed and community is strengthened.

Artists by Artists is a conversation about connections - connections to our history, to art, and to each other. Curator Tiffanie Heben brings together works by twenty artists who represent a range of artistic practice in our community through time. By pairing new works by contemporary artists with works created by artists from our past, she invites the audience into a dialogue about how relationships are formed and community is strengthened.

Museum hours are 10-4 Tuesday through Saturday.

A reception will be held at the Museum on Main for the annual show Imagination Expressed. For more information, please visit Pleasanton Art League

Join a free artist demonstration/talk with Tony Molatore on “All Aboout Fine Art Printing” For more information, please visit Pleasanton Art League

There will be a reception for the Pleasanton Art League member Olga Symonenko upstairs at the Firehouse Arts Center on March 9th. For more information, please visit the Pleasanton Art League website at Pleasanton Art League

Learn  to create a truly unique and stunning art piece, with multiple layers  and textures of fabric. Using simple materials, students will learn many  techniques for creating a base, covered with beautiful overlays of  fabric, surrounded by shapes that extend outward, giving the piece added  shape, dimension and excitement. The final piece will hang on the wall.  No sewing involved, no art experience necessary, just enthusiasm,  creativity, and a sense of adventure! Vicki will offer many  demonstrations, answer questions, and give many technical and aesthetic  tips along the way. Students will also gain inspiration and  encouragement from the creative work of their fellow students.   $230 per person - includes materials

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As an artist, do you struggle with navigating social media? The Livermore Art Association is proud to present Art Talks, a discussion focused on all things related to social media.

Livermore Art Association presents Art Talk.

February- What do you give away when you sell?

Time for sharing, feedback and thinking about selling a

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Hosted by LAA

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82551160520
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Meeting ID: 825 5116 0520

This event is free and open to the public.

Qiuwen Li is a Graphic Designer, Design Professor from Santa Clara, CA.  She was born in China, received her B.F.A. in Graphic Design from St.Cloud State University, MFA in Visual Studies focusing in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Qiuwen’s design has been exhibited at the Boston University Art Galleries, CICA Museum (Gyeonggi-do, Korea), Tree Art Museum (Beijing, China), A plus A Gallery (Venice, Italy) and MCSU Art Gallery of the Faculty of Art (Lublin, Poland). She was recognized with several awards during her career - Winner of Design and Design International Award, Winner of Creative Quarterly in both Fine Art and Graphic Design Category, and Winner in The Society of Typographic Arts.

Demo

Qiuwen Li will showcase various series of work that merges typography, form, color, and language into abstract compositions presented as posters. Across all of her pieces, there is a notable exploration of the interplay between linguistic and visual communication. The demonstration will provide you with deeper insights into her artistic practice by employing an AR tool called Artivive, using tangible examples as illustrations. Artivive (https://artivive.com/), an augmented reality platform for art in her work. 

In the artist's own words,  "My experimental typography work, I am interested in the space between linguistic and pictorial communication. My work explores the relationships between legibility and illegibility: typographic shape as image. As a designer, I understand the need for legibility, but I am more concerned with communicating something more visceral, expressive, and imaginative. I am influenced by the Global Style in contemporary graphic design, which includes transforming the simple 2D space of the printed graphic into an abstract deep space that seems to extend from the poster to the wall and worlds beyond".

http://qiuwenli.com/ 

Georgia Jacobs

Frame of Mind 

925-321-9488

georgiajacobs867@gmail.com

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Come and meet artist Mike D’Amelio at the Firehouse Arts Center, upstairs, on Saturday, February 3 from 1-3. For more information, please go to Pleasanton Art League