Susannah Israel will be the Inaugural Artist in Residence at Oregon Coast School of Art, in April 2023. She will spend the month next to the Umpqua River in Gardiner, Oregon, exploring and making work in response to her surroundings. Of particular interest to the artist is the stark contrast between her home in post-industrial east Oakland and the small community of Gardner (population 50), which she expects will offer new direction and ideas for her work. Director Emily Free Wilson and Susannah Israel met at Archie Bray in the summer of 2002 and have maintained ties across decades. They will celebrate being back in the studio together with a free workshop "Wild & Free" offered to the community April 15-16th. The workshop will emphasize collaboration and creative exchange. For more information: OregonCoastSchoolofArt.org/classes/free-spring-workshop/

Left, Emily Free Wilson; right, Susannah Israel.

Poster for the OCSA workshop "WIld & Free" April 15 - 16 2023

Susannah Israel demonstrating her art in SF

Emily Free Wilson at the OCSA studio

Sheila Ghidini will have a solo exhibit of drawings and sculpture titled What Is Not and That Which Is at Pastine Projects, San Francisco, CA, April 7-May 6, 2023.  The show includes a series of sculptural wall works which utilize found furniture and chairs as their material. In this case, found chairs are reconfigured, with their real and illusionary cast shadows drawn on the wall. Thread and map pins extend the forms.  For more information: SheilaGhidiniProjectSpace.com 

Sheila Ghidini, "Incantation", 2023, found chair reconfigured with

graphite and chalk drawn illusionary and real cast shadows

on the wall, 32 x 38 x 6 inches.

Sheila Ghidini, "Transparency of Shadows", 2023, reconfigured

found wood chair with graphite and chalk drawn cast shadows,

38 x 12 x 7 inches

Sheila Ghidini, "White Spaces", 2022, sculpture constructed of

found wood furniture on casters, 62 x 12 x 10 inches

Rick Crawford will participate in “Le Grand Atelier”, the French international artists’ collaboration event which is supported by AFTAB, the French association of woodturners, and held in the charming 16th century village of Aiguines. It runs from June 25 to July 2, 2023, and this will be Rick’s third time participating there, and his eleventh time overall worldwide. Watch the "Chorus" video on their website. Rick says, “I felt very honored when I was asked to narrate it. These events will make an impact on your future art.”  See the link at:  le-grand-atelier.fr

Rick Crawford, in design discussion with some of the artists.

Photo by AFTAB.

Rick Crawford, discussing project design with a paper maker. Photo by AFTAB.

Rick Crawford, group photo of 2017 participants. Photo by AFTAB.

Zahava Sherez is having a solo show titled Luz InCorporada / InBodied Light to kick off a world tour for her "InBodied Light" project, with fifty sculptures carrying the message of unity, equality, human rights, and compassion. Zahava has been officially invited by the Cuban government to have a 6-week exhibit in the Museum of Colonial Art across the street from Havana’s main cathedral in the center of the old town. The exhibition is curated by Lisset Alonso Compte, Havana and Rodrigo Arciniega, Mexico City. Opening reception is May 19, 2023; artist talk is May 25, 2023.  For more information: LaHabana.com/guide/museo-de-arte-colonial

Zahava Sherez, "InBodied Light", image of official poster and banner traveling with the exhibit.

Bronze, resin, pigments, mixed media, light; 2-7 feet tall.

Zahava Sherez, "Being 13", 2021, Resin, pigments, mixed media, light;

22 x 3 x 3 inches; photo: Carlos Diaz Corona, Guadalajara, MX.

Zahava Sherez, "Being 2", 2018, Resin, pigments, mixed media, light;

24 x 3 x 3 inches; photo: Phil Cohen, Oakland, CA

Zahava Sherez did a live interview online about her work “InBodied Light” with Felipe Zurita Quintana, Marketing Director, Charter for Compassion, on February 23, 2023. The interview begins at minute 9:37 on this link: Instagram.com/tv/CqJIWjkgAMF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Two of Charles Stinson's bronze sculptures will be in the show Third Generation: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Today, co-curated by Susan R. Kirshenbaum and Catherine Merrill. The curators state,

The Bay Area Figurative Movement never died and continues to thrive. San Francisco Bay Area artists and models founded the Models Guild in 1946, and it’s no wonder that we still have such a healthy, lively community, chock-full of dedicated talent. Some of us even flourished during COVID and sheltering-in-place, as we continued drawing, painting, and sculpting on Zoom sessions around the world. What does our figurative community look like? We are artists and models; teachers and students; our styles are anywhere from classical to pop; our techniques are everything from digital to hand-ground pigments; and our community encompasses the very experienced and the relatively new to exhibiting. This exhibition explores a full range of styles and approaches combined with skill and craft. 

Also in the show are works by Joseph Abbati, Jane Fisher, Madelyn Covey, Susan R. Kirshenbaum, Catherine Merrill, Diane Olivier, Fernando Reyes, Randall Sexton, and May Shei. The exhibition opens April 4 and continues through 26, 2023, at The San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Opening Reception is 2-4 PM Saturday, April 8, 2023. More information: sfwagallery.square.site/shop/bay-area-figurative-movement-today/233 

Charles H. Stinson, "Pleurant #1", 2023, cast bronze, 7 x 12 x 7 inches 

Charles H. Stinson, "Ganda Bherundasana", 1999, cast bronze, 15 x 15 x 7.5 inches

Charles adds, "Remember what you were doing when the Covid shutdown was announced? I had just finished installing pieces in the Mission College Vargus Gallery show Bamboo & Haiku, curated by Dotti Cichone. The opening reception was cancelled and gallery doors were locked with the pieces inside for a year. A new article describes the show and photos from the exhibition are at this link, including my "Device for Splitting Particles", which is featured as the header image."

• Jane Ingram Allen, copy editing

• Charles Stinson, page layout

• Jeff Key, photo editing