Posted by cafpress on: Fri 6th Apr, 2012

Saturday, April 21, 6 PM

Video and public space artist Laurel Beckman gives a lecture at CAF on her work as an artist and professor. Beckman’s art is an investigation of perceptual phenomena, language, the built environment, and affect. By working with and nurturing eccentric public spaces such as digital billboards and gas pump TV screens, Laurel Beckman highlights perception and public display while attending to themes at the crossroads of consciousness, social conditions, meta-physics, and science. Employing a wide range of media and distribution strategies, her sanctioned and unsanctioned projects often enlist commercial and civic spaces in efforts to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape. Beckman is a professor of Digital Media, Experimental Video/Animation, and Public Space Arts at the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and honors artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Mon 14th Nov, 2011

Friday, November 18, 7 pm

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

The artist Stephanie Dotson will be speaking on the conceptual territory of printmaking echoed in non-print work.

Stephanie Dotson subverts the narratives inherent in her processes with a mad arsenal of working techniques to create a new patois where opposing realities parallel narratives from her own life.

Solo exhibitions of her work include the Three Walls Gallery in Chicago, Vox Populii in Philadelphia, and Trace Gallery in Athens, GA. She has completed several artist residencies including the Bemis Center in 2004 and has received full Joan Mitchell fellowships to residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in 2007 and the Atlantic Center for the Arts In 2010. Dotson is presently Chair of the art department at the Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, CA, where she lives and works in her studio. Stephanie studied poster and print arts in Havana, Cuba as a student in 2006, where she plans to return in Summer 2010 as the director of her printmaking study abroad program.

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The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Tue 11th Oct, 2011

Friday, October 14, 7 pm

“Information overload leads to pattern recognition” Marshall McLuhan

Harry Reese will be speaking on his recent work and ideas, highlighting particular visual, conceptual, and perceptual patterns that appear in or accompany the various projects he has made or participated in over the last three decades.

Harry Reese is a Professor in the Department of Art and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Associate Dean of the College of Creative Studies. In partnership with his wife Sandra Liddell Reese, he publishes limited edition books and prints for their Turkey Press & Edition Reese imprints. He has received grants and significant recognition from a number of organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. ADMISSION IS FREE

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 3rd Jun, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 7 pm
smART Talks: Betsy Gallery, Mosaic Images and Demonstration
Combining classical handmade Italian glass smalti and 24 karat gold tesserae with recycled porcelain, ceramics and found objects, Betsy Gallery’s contemporary mosaics give new meaning to this ancient craft. The incorporation of noble materials and historical, psychological, and literary references transform what was once considered a craft into art of the highest caliber. Betsy’s formal training began at the Art Institute in Chicago, and her mosaic studies have taken her to Mexico, Spain and Italy.

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.
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Posted by cafpress on: Wed 29th Sep, 2010

Friday, October 15, 7 pm

smART Talks: Ken Bortolazzo

Bortolazzo, a Santa Barbara native, discovered an early passion for complex puzzles, which evolved through his interest in Minimalism, Op Art, and Kinetic sculpture towards a body of work called optikinetics—kinetic sculptures in stainless steel. From his studio in Santa Barbara, Bortolazzo has developed a national reputation in contemporary sculpture, which is an invitation to examine the dichotomy between object and nature, and to ultimately explore the possibilities that dwell within that vision. He is represented by Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, Santa Barbara. FREE

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and honors artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

Image: Ken Bortolazzo, HEXAD (SMALL), 1988, Stainless steel, 11 x 12 x 12 in.

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