ART BEAT : CITY CALLING FOR PORTRAITS.Byline: Lori Moody The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Cultural Affairs Department has put out a call for contemporary portraits by Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, artists. All artwork for the open-call exhibition ``About Face: All City Open'' must be delivered to the exhibition sites - the William Grant Still William Grant Still (May 11,1895 - December 3,1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own (his first symphony) Arts Center, 2520 S. West View St.; Watts Towers Watts Towers, group of folk-art towers in the Watts section of Los Angeles. The complex was built (1921–54) single-handedly by the self-taught Italian immigrant Simon Rodia (also spelled Rodilla, 1879–1965). Arts Center, 1727 E. 107th St.; and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Barnsdall Arts Center Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. - beginning at noon on June 30. The exhibition will open July 10. All entries must be original and completed since January 1994. For further information, (213) 485-4581. Black history exhibit The California Afro-American Museum is hosting a Smithsonian traveling exhibition that looks at the life of African-Americans before the Civil War. The exhibit, ``Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South,'' which runs through June 23, features tools, musical instruments, household items, objects of spiritual significance, engravings and photographs of African-Americans living in urban and rural areas. There also are dramaticized interviews with former slaves taken from transcripts of the 1930s Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration. . For information, call (213) 744-7432. Make kids art-smart The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. volunteer docents to lead art gallery tours for schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school . An orientation meeting is scheduled 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Huntington. Applications will be accepted at that time. Training begins in the fall. For further information, contact the Huntington's Education Department at (818) 405-2126. Festival for summer If you need some ideas for summer vacation, the annual Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters The Pageant of the Masters is an annual festival held by the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California. The event is known for the "living pictures" wherein classical and contemporary works of art are recreated by real people posing in almost exact detail to the work of art they in Laguna Beach is just around the corner. This year's festival runs from July 7 through Aug. 31. The famed Pageant of the Masters, which will be staged daily at 8:30 p.m. during the course of the festival, features a series of artworks re-created in detail with real people taking the roles of characters in a painting or sculpture. For general Festival of Arts information, call (714) 494-1145. Order forms for Pageant of the Masters tickets are available by sending your name and a postcard to: Festival of Arts, P.O. Box 1659, Laguna Beach, Calif. 92652. For phone orders, call (800) 487-3378. |
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