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October 10 Auburn Art Walk Brings Season to a Close
The final Auburn Art Walk of 2013 will be held from 6 to 9 pm on Thursday, October 10 in businesses
throughout Old Town and Downtown Auburn. Enjoy an evening of live music and artist receptions in
more than two dozen businesses. The art is for sale, and after the Art Walk will hang for two months. A
free shuttle connects all venues every 20 minutes.
The Arts Building Gallery presents the 20th Annual Autumn Art Studios Tour Preview Show Gala
Reception the same evening from 4 to 6 pm in the Main Gallery with seventy-five Placer County artists
participating this year. The Preview Show is the perfect place to plan your itinerary for the Studios Tour,
which takes place November 8-10. Studios Tour three-day Passports will also be on sale during the
evening. New this year, the $10 Passport offers raffle prizes of $100 in “Art Bucks” for tour goers. Visit
www.PlacerArts.org/programs/aast for Passport details, a list of participating artists and other tour
planning tips. The fall edition of PlacerArts’ Perspectives on Arts quarterly is the official tour guide to the
Autumn Art Studios Tour, containing a map with locations and directions and indicating those artists
conducting live demonstrations.
Also at The Arts Building, the Dorothy Crites Gallery features a Batik Retrospective and the works of
Helen W. Phillips entitled, Journey of Adventure and Discovery, while The Alley Gallery features Del Oro
student photographers’ works from their 2013 Southwest travels. Not to be missed is the Grand
Opening of the cooperative DownstairsGallery! and newly refurbished Clay Arts Studio featuring “Artists
in Cahoots” Larry Ortiz and John Kennedy with ceramics and Raku ware; Jim Lee with sculpture; Linda
Green’s and Max Redpath-Kennedy’s paintings, drawings, handmade books and cards. Live music by
Midyne, food, drink, door prizes and a raffle: including art supplies and lessons from Linda Green and
the Clay Arts Studio artists, round out the evening’s program.
Three first time artists this year, all from Auburn, are Katie O’Sullivan with encaustic art at Cabe’s 958;
Annie Hess with leather-wrapped jewelry at Jumbo Giant for one night only, and at The Domes during
business hours is Julien Caruso with water-based pigment paintings.
Judy Mayfield, a ceramic artist for 17 years and more recent fused glass artist with a studio and gallery
in Grass Valley, is showing at Amber Collection. Her work is inspired by her extensive travels as a former
airline stewardess and her affinity with the native art of the Hopi in the southwest and the indigenous
people of Peru and Mexico. She specializes in highly-decorative functional art. All her ceramic pieces are
high fired and food safe. “My latest venture into dichroic fused glass jewelry is very exciting and I love
the glow of light and color it emits.”
Michael Kent Murphy, local architect and Autumn Art Studios Tour artist, is showing paintings at
Monkey Cat Restaurant. Kaz Huette with wood, concrete and ceramic works is at Meritage Motors, and
Craig Stephens, local master oil painter, is featured at Sierra Moon Goldsmith. The Christian Science
Reading Room presents the photographs of Dan Ernest while Ordaz Gallery features Ted Conrad’s
colored pencil pieces and oil paintings by David Conrad, son of owner Frank Ordaz.
Cool resident, Maria Soto Bigelow, presents European Landscapes at Auburn Naturopathic Medicine.
Maria is a self-taught photographer who shoots and develops film and prints in a darkroom and says,
“To see in color is natural – to see in black and white is magic!” She also uses digital. Karen Burns, of
Granite Bay, brings digital photography and mixed media to Studio 49 and at Club Car, the theme is
“Trees’ featuring the works of three local artists and venue employees. Kate Kendrickson, originally from
Sheridan, Wyoming, studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and Design and shows acrylics and oils;
Kaitlin Kahn, who moved from the bay area two years ago and also studied at the Minneapolis School of
Art and Design, presents graphite and mixed media, while Kelly Baxter, originally from southern
California, now residing in Cool, studied at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design shows watercolor
and charcoal.
Auburn Old Town Gallery presents A Confluence of Style: Collaborative works of member artists in
various media with David Wright providing guitar and vocals. Other group shows include Reflections by
the Placer Artists League (PAL) at the Auburn City Hall with various media; six students of Thien Dao with
ceramic works at Old Library Art Studios (OLAS); students of Tracy Owens at Studio Eight02; studio
artists at Southside Art Center in Fall Colors with music by Southside Ensemble, and many artists, many
media at The Golden Swann.
Live music provided by the Auburn Arts Commission includes Michael Cain bringing marimba to
Meritage Motors; the eclectic Purdon’s Crossing at Central Square; Auburn Irish Session with authentic
Irish music at Herschel Young Park and Michael Murphy’s Burning Man Berserker on the streets of Old
Town. In the unlikely case of rain, please check www.PlacerArts.org/programs/artwalk for alternate
locations for entertainment.
Auburn Art Walk is a program of PlacerArts, produced entirely by a team of diligent volunteers who have
kept this popular event alive and well for 20 years. For a complete list of venues and featured artists,
view the online map at PlacerArts.org/programs/artwalk. You may also pick up a free map at PlacerArts,
808 Lincoln Way, or at any of the venues, which are marked by red “Auburn Art Walk” signs.
PlacerArts, celebrating its 30th Jubilee in 2013, is the Arts Council of Placer County, a non-profit,
public benefit agency and the designated State-Local Partner of the California Arts Council for
the County of Placer.
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