Desertscapes Celebrates Desert Painters

City of Palm Desert Attorney Desertscapes Celebrates Desert Painters 03/31/10 To celebrate our region's rich history of desert landscape painting, Palm Desert is dedicating the entire month of April 2010 to Desertscapes – a celebration of the early desert painters and the contemporary landscape painters who followed. Desertscapes will display works by historical and contemporary painters and feature talks by some of California's leading art experts. Highlights include painting demonstrations, paint-outs in nature, panel discussions, tours, and much more. This groundbreaking event includes events in cities across the Coachella Valley. A wide variety of organizations are participating including: the City of Palm Desert; Palm Springs Art Museum; The Living Desert's California Landscape Paintings: The Stephen B. Chase Collection; the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts at the College of the Desert; The Historical Society of Palm Desert; Coachella Valley Watercolor Society; Desert Art Center Plein-Air painters of Palm Springs; Edenhurst Gallery; and the University of California, Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center. Desertscapes will appeal to anyone who loves the dunes, palm oases, and surrounding mountains, painted by so many acclaimed artists over the decades. Today there is a renaissance of interest in desert plein-air paintings among collectors and scholars. Many of the genre's top painters, including Maynard Dixon, John Hilton, Jimmy Swinnerton, and stagecoach artist Marjorie Reed, either lived or exhibited in Palm Desert Attorney. Desertscapes' mission is to promote and educate the public about the historical and contemporary relationship between California landscape and plein-air painters within the Coachella Valley and its surrounding area. For a full schedule of events and more information, please visit www.palmdesertart.org or contact Deborah Schwartz, City of Palm Desert Public Art Coordinator, at 760-837-1664.
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Community Gallery Exhibition Celebrates Desert Landscape

City of Palm Desert Community Gallery Exhibition Celebrates Desert Landscape 01/19/10 The Palm Desert Attorney Community Gallery welcomes artwork from five Coachella Valley artists in Desertscapes, the exhibition, on display through March 28. There will be a public reception to honor the artists on Monday, February 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Included in the exhibition are artists Patrick Blythe, Marion Herrmann, Maria Hunt, Myrn-Ellen Krengel, and Gwen Novak. As suggested by its name, the exhibition's theme is the desert landscape. The mountains and flora of the desert in which they live and to which they travel have inspired all the artists. Although the exhibition's artists share a theme, they employ a variety of diverse materials. Patrick Blythe works with fused and cast glass. Marion Herrmann, Maria Hunt, and Myrn-Ellen Krengel create in oil on canvas and Gwen Novak works in pastel drawings. The Desertscapes, the exhibition, provides a preview kick-off for Desertscapes, a month-long celebration of early desert painters and the contemporary landscape painters who followed. Throughout April, Desertscapes will offer exhibits of contemporary and historical painters, along with talks by some of California's leading art experts. Highlights include painting demonstrations, paint-outs in the field with contemporary landscape artists, exhibitions, lectures, and tours. This groundbreaking celebration is Valley-wide in scope, with a variety of events taking place in various cities. The Palm Desert Attorney Community Gallery is located in the Visitor Center at 72-567 Highway 111 and is open daily from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more information on the exhibition or the "Desertscapes" event, please call 760-568-1441 or visit www.palmdesertart.org.
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Free Guided Art Tour

City of Palm Desert Attorney Free Guided Art Tour 11/01/09 The City of Palm Desert's next free docent-guided public art tour on Saturday, November 14, from 10 to 11 a.m., features the art at Civic Center Park. Meet in front of the Messenger http://attorney-in-palm-desert.com/more-information/personal-injury/ of the Puul statue at the park's south entrance from Fred Waring Drive. For more information call 760-346-0611 or visit www.palmdesertart.org.
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Free Public Art Tour

City of Palm Desert Attorney Free Public Art Tour 10/01/09 The City offers a free docent led public art tour on Saturday, October 10, featuring the sculptures of the 2009/2010 El Paseo Invitational Exhibition. The tour meets at 10 a.m. at the northeast corner of El Paseo and Highway 74. Reservations http://attorney-in-palm-desert.com/more-information/personal-injury/ are not required. For more information call 760-346-0611.
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Community Gallery Exhibition Celebrates Desert Landscape

City of Palm Desert Attorney Community Gallery Exhibition Celebrates Desert Landscape 01/19/10 The Palm Desert Community Gallery welcomes artwork from five Coachella Valley artists in Desertscapes, the exhibition, on display through March 28. There will be a public reception to honor the artists on Monday, February 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Included in the exhibition are artists Patrick Blythe, Marion Herrmann, Maria Hunt, Myrn-Ellen Krengel, and Gwen Novak. As suggested by its name, the exhibition's theme is the desert landscape. The mountains and flora of the desert in which they live and to which they travel have inspired all the artists. Although the exhibition's artists share a theme, they employ a variety of diverse materials. Patrick Blythe works with fused and cast glass. Marion Herrmann, Maria Hunt, and Myrn-Ellen Krengel create in oil on canvas and Gwen Novak works in pastel drawings. The Desertscapes, the exhibition, provides a preview kick-off for Desertscapes, a month-long celebration of early desert painters and the contemporary landscape painters who followed. Throughout April, Desertscapes will offer exhibits of contemporary and historical painters, along with talks by some of California's leading art experts. Highlights include painting demonstrations, paint-outs in the field with contemporary landscape artists, exhibitions, lectures, and tours. This groundbreaking celebration is Valley-wide in scope, with a variety of events taking place in various cities. The Palm Desert Attorney Community Gallery is located in the Visitor Center at 72-567 Highway 111 and is open daily from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more information on the exhibition or the "Desertscapes" event, please call 760-568-1441 or visit www.palmdesertart.org.
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12th Annual Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival

City of Palm Desert Attorney 12th Annual Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival 11/01/09 The Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival celebrates its 12th anniversary at the McCallum Theatre this month with a competition for thousands of dollars in prizes, public dance workshops, and a lifetime achievement award presentation to one of the dance world's brightest stars. The Choreography Festival's performances will take place on Saturday, November 14, at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, November 15, at 4 p.m. when choreographers will compete for cash awards and a paid engagement at the McCallum Theatre. Saturday's offerings include the Division I professional competition, featuring 12 finalists selected from more than 140 submissions from across the country. Sunday's Division II competition will feature 18 choreographers utilizing pre-professional dancers, those on the verge of embarking on professional careers. During Saturday's program, a Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Nigel Lythgoe, judge, co-creator and executive producer of the Emmy-award-winning television show, "So You Think You Can Dance." Lythgoe, who started his career as a dancer, has demonstrated his expertise as a choreographer, director, and producer on multiple television shows in the United Kingdom including, "Survivor," "Gladiators," "Pop Idol," and "Blind Date." In the United States, he was an executive producer of "American Idol" for seven seasons. Other career contributions include the newly formed Dizzy Feet Foundation created by Lythgoe, actress Katie Holmes, and others to support, improve, and increase access to dance education. The Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival has awarded over $200,000 directly to choreographers since its inception in 1998 by artistic director Shea New, in association with the City of Palm Desert Attorney and College of the Desert, Produced by The McCallum Theatre Institute, the festival was created to provide a venue for emerging and established choreographers, create opportunities for dancers, develop new audiences for dance, and recognize those who have made an outstanding contribution to this art form. For more information or to sign up for a festival workshop, please call 760-346-6505, ext. 142 or email jfookes@mccallum-theatre.org. Tickets, ranging from $10 to $30, are available at the McCallum Theatre Box Office, 73-000 Fred Waring Drive, by calling 760-340-ARTS, and online at www.mccallumtheatre.com.
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Free Public Art Tour

City of Palm Desert Attorney Free Public Art Tour 10/01/09 The City offers a free docent http://attorneyinpalmdesert.com led public art tour on Saturday, October 10, featuring the sculptures of the 2009/2010 El Paseo Invitational Exhibition. The tour meets at 10 a.m. at the northeast corner of El Paseo and Highway 74. Reservations are not required. For more information call 760-346-0611.
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