The last month has been filled with show updates. We finally received confirmation that Sterling will be in the Carmel Art Festival again. This means that we had to drop out of the Los Altos Rotary Club Show again. We hadn’t planned to apply, but were invited. Since Sterling had already been accepted into the Los Gatos Plein Air Paintout, he will have two paintouts in May. If he had been accepted into the Sonoma Plein Air Paintout, it would have been three.
We received word today that he has been accepted into the Sonoma Art and Artisan Show on Sonoma Plaza, June 6-7. Since we are now in ARTrails Open Studios, we decided to do this show instead of Art at the Source Open Studios. Art at the Source has been a lot of work since it is also two weekends and we have to set up at another artist’s studio (since it is only West County). Also in June, we will be returning to the Marin Art Festival and the Montclair Art Festival.
In July, we return to the Los Altos Art & Wine Festival, which will be our only South Bay Art Festival since we were waitlisted for the Palo Alto Arts Festival. We would probably have gotten in if we had accepted an 8” x 10” booth, but that seemed too small last year. We were also rejected from the Napa Valley Art Festival at the end of August. We recently received an invitation to the Estes Park Plein Air Paintout. We participated in this in 2006 and 2007. Last year we tried out the Palo Alto Show instead. Because we had planned to do one or both of the other two August art shows, we had not planned to participate this year and also signed up to do Wednesdays at the Waterfall at the CazSonoma in Cazadero at the same time. We could still go to Estes Park, but would miss the end of show activities. We are waiting to hear back if that will work. If not, we will consider applying to two other August shows: the Gualala Arts Festival and the Bodega Bay Art and Wine Festival.
We were rejected from the Sausalito Arts Festival again. The remaining shows for the year are still being juried.
We were accepted into the Napa Valley Museum Biennial Plein Air Show. This year, the show was limited to Sonoma and Napa Artists. It includes many artists that Sterling has studied or painted with including Camille Przewodek, Alfredo Tofanelli, Carole Gray-Weihman, Larry Cannon, and Wendy Brayton. Sterling has two paintings accepted: Chicken Run and Bodega Head. The show runs through June 7.
Bodega Head
