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NORTHRIDGE - Forget the Getty, Armand Hammer Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. Hammer was CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and development company. and all those other museums. The best art exhibit in town for the next two weeks is being held right here in the heart of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. in an unpretentious little gallery located in a Northridge strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. off Reseda Boulevard. You don't need reservations to get in, street parking is plentiful, and it doesn't cost a dime to walk around and browse. The exhibit features the best artwork of the most talented kids we have in schools today from kindergarten to 12th grade. It's fine art the public rarely gets a chance to see and enjoy because usually it's on display only in the classroom for parents and friends to stop by and enjoy for one special night. Not anymore. Not since a co-op of more than 600 local artists called VIVA vi·va interj. Used to express acclamation, salute, or applause. [Italian and Spanish, (long) live, both from Latin v - Valley Institute of Visual Art - opened its gallery to these kids, and said c'mon in and stay awhile a·while adv. For a short time. Usage Note: Awhile, an adverb, is never preceded by a preposition such as for, but the two-word form a while may be preceded by a preposition. . ``It doesn't do the kids any good to have their art hung on a wall nobody comes to see,'' said VIVA president Connie Larson. ``We wanted to make their art accessible to the entire community because they deserve it, and because the art is very, very good.'' This show means a lot to the kids over at Canterbury Avenue Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Pacoima, and students at other schools in the Valley, who have worked hard to make the cut and have their artwork on display in a real art gallery. ``It's a showcase,'' said Canterbury school Canterbury School (Connecticut) is a private, co-educational college preparatory lay-Catholic boarding school in New Milford, Connecticut. Canterbury School (Florida) is a private, co-educational college preparatory day school in Fort Myers, Florida. Principal Marilyn Parlen. ``This takes the child's learning beyond the school site and out into the community. I've never seen our kids so excited.'' For 10-year-old Claire Chantrjaroen, one of the 17 Canterbury students who won awards in the Los Angeles School The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. District's Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → Festival, it's a chance to have someone besides her mom and dad see the still-life portrait she's been working on meticulously in art class for weeks. ``It's kind of exciting knowing people from all over are going to be walking by your picture and looking at it,'' she said Wednesday, only a few hours before the opening night reception and awards ceremony. Kool-Aid and cookies, instead of wine and hors d'oeuvres, were served. An opportunity like this lights a fire under kids, and makes them want to do better next time, and the time after that, said Canterbury art teacher Militza Bergamo. ``Studies have shown that children score higher in tests and do better in academic studies when they've had art classes,'' she said. ``The way art is taught now encompasses history, math, everything. We talk about the artists, techniques, the whole gamut. It's not just coloring books and crayons anymore.'' No, it's not, says Ann Goldman, LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) visual and performing arts adviser for the Valley district. ``We're on a 10-year plan to bring art instruction to every student in the school district, and an exhibit like this helps bring recognition to these students and their art teachers out in the community. ``It's been remarkable, the effort on the part of VIVA,'' she said. ``This space is their professional venue, and they are giving it up for two weeks to donate it to our students. ``The VIVA members have taken the time to frame each individual piece, hang them up, and provide us the venue.'' All the kids need now is for someone to come by and enjoy their work. So, for a few weeks, forget the Getty, Armand Hammer, and all those other museums in town. Stop by the VIVA gallery, and catch the work of the newest, best young artists in town. The exhibit runs today through June 2, at VIVA, 8516 Reseda Blvd., Northridge. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Student artists, front row, from left, Claire Chantrjaroen, Kathryn Hart, and Brandon Chavez. Back row, Daniel Edery and Jonathan Brophy. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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