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FAC 02-28-2006 - CITY OF CUPEIQ1NO AGENDA FINE ARTS COMMISSION Regular Meeting, Conference Room A 10300 Torre Avenue Cupertino February 28, 2006 7:00 P.M. CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Minutes of November 15,2005. COMMISSION REORGANIZATION 2. Introduction of new members Ann Woo and Mike Harkin 3. Selection of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson PRESENTATIONS 4. Proposal for a Veteran's Memorial sculpture - presentation by Donna Axelson and Sandra James about a sculpture by Sandy Procter. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONER REPORTS 5. Arts-related news updates ftom Commissioners 6. Select representative(s) to attend the monthly Mayor's meeting (1st Wednesday, 7:30 a.m.) UNFINISHED BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS 7. Consider offer ITom Diana Argabrite to coordinate the children's artwork exhibit at the 2006 Cherry Blossom Festival 8. Update on Council action of November 15 regarding the General Plan · Requires public art for projects that are 50,000 square feet or larger · Minimum requirement is v.. of one percent, with a cap of $1 00,000 · Consider developing a process to manage these projects · Discuss percent-for-art ordinance February 28, 2005 Cupertino Fine Arts Commission Page 2 STAFF REPORTS 9. Procedures for handling volunteer and donation offers 10. Review of current ad hoc committee list NEWS ARTICLES 11. Media coverage ADJOURNMENT In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the City of Cupertino will make reasonable efforts to accommodate persons with qualified disabilities. If you require special assistance, please contact the city clerk's office at 408-777-3223 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. w. STANLEY PROCTOR ...... ····'''·""·N·.~'~·~~_·,.....,- CATALOG OF BRONZE SCULPTURES L¡ -I PARTIAL LIST OF COLLECTIONS: White House, Roosevelt Room - Washington, D.C. Florida Fallen Sheriffs Memorial- Tallahassee, FL WWII Memorial for the Arts Foundation - Farmers Branch, TX University of South Alabama - Mobile, AL Hackensack University Medical Center Memorial - Hackensack, NJ Florida Highway Patrol Memorial- FL Ludington City Park - Ludington, Michigan Raymond James Financial Art Collection, - St. Petersburg, FL Boyds Bears, Inc. - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Florida Youth Ranch Memorial- Live Oak, FL Palm Desert EI Paseo Art Collection - Palm Desert, CA Florida Governor's Mansion Children's Park - Tallahassee, FL National Jewish Center Hospital - Denver, CO Living Desert Museum - Palm Desert, CA Tallahassee Memorial Hospital- FL Polk Museum of Art - Lakeland, FL Bay County Public Library - Panama City, FL Fairhope High School- Fairhope, AL Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library - Tallahassee, FL John H. Phipps, Inc. - FL Florida Association of Broadcasters - FL Byers Choice, Inc. - Chalfont, PA Lawton Chiles Foundation - Tallahassee, FL Arnica, Ine. - Boston, MA Maymount Gardens Foundation - Richmond, VA First United Methodist Church - Pensacola, FL Hillside Galleria - Sedona, AZ Palm Beach Percent for the Arts - Palm Beach, FL Summerville Central Park - Summerville, SC County Courthouse - Moultry, GA Veterans Memorial Park - Collegedale, TN Riverside Medical Center - Chicago, IL SANDY HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE FOLLOWING SHOWS: Easton Waterfowl Festival in Easton, MD - 1999 Featured Sculptor Southeastern Art Exposition in Charleston, SC - 1998 Featured Sculptor Thomasville Plantation Art Festival in Thomasville, GA - 1997 Featured Sculptor Artistic Waters Show at the Tampa Aquarium in Tampa, FL Birds in Art Exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in Wausau, WI Safari Club International in Reno and Las Vegas, NV Sculpture in the Park in Loveland, CO Loveland Sculpture Invitational in Loveland, CO Masters Wildlife Show in Ligonier, PA Wildlife in Art Exhibition in Wausau, WI Sculpture in the South in Summerville, SC Proctor Fine Art and Hillside Galleria Tour 0' Arte in Sedona, AZ Altermann Morris Art Auctions in Houston, TX and Dallas, TX Morris Whiteside Renaissance Auction in Hilton Head Island, SC PROC'I'OR FINE ART 671 Highway 179 Sedona. AZ 86336 www.oroctorfinp.:trt.com 1928) 204· ¡ 908 Fax (928/ 204- ¡ 923 emaif: proctorart@sedona.net 4-2-. Kimberly Smith From: Sent: To: Subject: Diana Argabrite [argabritediana@fhda.edu] Friday, February 10, 2006 5:22 PM Kimberly Smith Re: EuphratlCherry Blossom Festival Importance: High Hello Kimberly, I hope all is well with you. Many changes are afoot for the Euphrat - maybe you caught the Cupertino Courier cover article on us in the January 25th issue. In any case, we are excited about the future new building and the changes ahead. The Arts & Schools Program is also thriving and keeping me busier than ever! I am writing today to inquire about the Fine Arts Commission and the Cherry Blossom Festival in April. I have been in touch with the coordinator Laurie Matsushita and do plan on presenting another exhibition of Cupertino children's artwork. She asked if I would be the contact person and say a few words on stage this year (as I did last year when Hema was unable to attend). I'm happy to be the contact person but thought it would be great to invite one of the commissioners to say a few words if they were available. (I can also speak if no one is available.) Could you put this on the next agenda? I was planning on calling the exhibit; "Mixing Colors; Artwork by Cupertino Children." Featuring studies in color and cultures by Cupertino area children and youth. Thanks so much, Diana Argabrite 7-1 1 policy 2-62: Heritage Trees Protect and maintain heritage trees in a healthy state. Strategy Heritage Tree List. Establish and peri. odically revise a heritage tree list that includes trees of importance to the community. Cultural Resources Public art enhances Cupertino's image by giving it character and identity, and mak. ing it attractive to residents and visitors alike. It enhances a·business's image by pro~ viding good public relations and good will within the community. The City intends to make public art a reality by promoting it in public and private development and by incorporating art works into future revitaliza~ tion plans where possible. ¿f'i-: c;æyEIiiI'ì .. ~fJ~J;? A CIVIC ENVIRONMENTWHERETHE ARTS EXPRESS AN INNOVATIVE SPIRIT, CELEBRATE A RICH CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND INSPIRE INDI- VIDUAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ~ Policy 2-63: Public Arts Stimulate opportunities for the arts through cooperative relations between local business and the City. Strategies: -.....__._.,-_..'--~ 1. Ordinance. Develop and adopt a One. Percent for Art ordinance, which requires public and private develop. ment ro set aside 1 % of their total proj. ect bud et for on~site art. HOT o PIC LU-5 OPEN SPACE, PARKS AND TRAILS 2. Promote Art. Promote visible artworks in public and private development and gateways to the City. 3. Public Art Guidelines. Follow Public Art guidelines to assure that the pro. posed public art is appropriately scaled and fits into the context of its sur~ roundings. 4 Artist Workspace. Encourage the development of artist workspace, such as live/work units. OPEN SPACE, PARKS AND TRAILS Cupertino's open space policies and programs have guided the development of regional, community and neighborhood parks, playing fields and trails that are treas. ured resources to its residents. Residents and workers have numerous nearby choices for enjoying nature, hiking, golfing, playing ten. nis or soccer, working out or just playing. These activities build community by bring. ing people together in common gathering places and tying neighborhoods together through connecting trails. Regional Resources Several public agencies share the task of acquiring, maintaining, accessing and developing open space lands for the enjoy. ment of residents of Cupertino and its neigh- boring cities. 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N U U 'S 2!1.~ 0 ..g ~ 'E'~ 0 ~ £3 .¡¡; :: 5 e '9' æ ~.s !a ] ¡Q">. ~ 0 . 0' 0 0 -ã ~~JI~¡ji~~I~J.~~~~t~¡~t§§¡~~ ~8~~~~~~~8~~§§~ji¡~]~j~~ê~~~ ~~U.o~~uUNÆ~~NO(O.SÆ.o~Z~u~.s~s< ¡ ..¡: i.J ~ ~ .~ .s ~~.8 ~~] / D~ d.... ¡ '£1 ~ 5'æ .~ Õ~]§ ~ ¡g:;::; ~ o - ~.~ Na:¡UO The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 1 of2 R WWW.CUPERTINOCOUFIIER.COM January 25, 2006 Cupertino, California Since 19./7 _..'...""....i.._ _.....................- _..,........ ....-. -,............- 1~:ii\l'" ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Steven Cohen, Dentist EI Camino Hospital ~ PDF: Download the Cupertino Courier newspaper (8 MB) Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer Com Slar; Footwork: A clay feet art project is metaphorically leading De Anza's Euphrat Museum De Anza ceramics instructor Linda Mau came up with the idea for the clay feet art project. Neil'S Vallco bid to build a tall garage is denied Footwork Longtime mechanic moving on By Anne Ward Ernst Council OKs Whole Foods' biggest store De Anza ceramics instructor Linda Mau came up with the idea for the clay feet art project. More Art center allows children to follow creative impulse If -I http://www.community-newspapers.com/archives/c~ocourier/2oo60125/index.html 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page lof6 ~ÕURIEß .January 25, 2006 Cupertino. California SïJ1cC 19../7 _.................._ _.I.....'..L.....~ _,.,......... ....., _,_..n,_",,_ Cover Story ih, Photograph by J""Iueline Ramseyer Students, faculty and others have created feet of clay that may eventually be placed in the walkway of De Anza's Euphrat Museum of Art permanent facility. Footwork: A clay feet art project is metaphorically leading De Anza's Euphrat Museum By Anne Ward Ernst People who work in or around the Euphrat Museum of Art are not afraid of change. In fact, they embrace it. Change is what inspired the museum's newest exhibit, says Diana Argabrite, director of arts and schools programs for the museum at De Anza Community College. The current student art show, which began Jan. 23 and runs until fI/2- http://www.community-newspapers.com/archiveslcupertinocourier/20060 I 25/cu-cover I.shoo. 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 2 of6 Feb. 23, is part of a larger, rotating exhibit called Change 2005/2006. Change will be noticeable in March when the museum moves for the first of three times over the next two years while plans for a new building are finalized and eventually built. Current plans place the new museum within a complex of the school's campus that is expected to include a 400-seat theatre and a classroom for art history, furthering the interrelationship between the school and the museum. The broader scope of Change 2005/2006 includes lectures and discussions that delve into change in the arts and academic community. It also features, among other art, some 50 pair of clay feet designed and decorated by students, staff, faculty and others. Linda Mau, a ceramics instructor at the college, came up with the idea for the clay feet, which will be on display throughout the show. Metaphorically speaking, she says the feet will help show the way to the new museum, but she wants even more clay feet tiles to guide the way. "The clay people are the ones who are leading the march to the new Euphrat Museum," Mau says. The art show and the whole "Change" program is like a drum roll for what's to come for Euphrat and the De Anza Community College campus. The first step will be the museum's move to temporary facilities for an unspecified time, but most likely less than a year. While in the temporary location, the museum's existing building will be altered, and the museum will return to smaller quarters and stay there for about two years. The back-and-forth movement gives the museum good footing for the next step, which will occur sometime in 2008 when the museum moves into its new building, in a new complex on campus. Over the years, as education budgets have constricted, so too has the museum's space, and it gave up bits and pieces of its real estate to college classrooms. Thanks to passage of Measure E in 1999--a $248 million bond to renovate and expand college /1- '3 http://www.community-newspapers.com/archives/cupertinocourier!20060125/cu-coverl.sh... 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 3 of6 facilities to meet current health, safety and instruction standardsn the Euphrat Museum will eventually be given some elbow room. "Overall the [museum's] space should be larger, but we're not talking huge numbers," says Janet Rindfleisch, executive director of the museum. Rindfleisch says the new complex will relate to the overall objective of combining arts, culture and history. Argabrite and Mau hope to make the clay feet tiles part of Euphrat's and De Anza's history. They aren't quite sure how the "footwear" will be included in the design, but they have put their collective foot down and say clay feet "tiles" are a sure footprint somewhere in the design. One idea they've kicked around is grouting some of the clay feet into a path that leads to the doors ofEuphrat's new building. The clay feet project evolved on its own. The "footwear" comes in a wide range of sizes, and the designs and decorations are equally as varied. Mau says there were no rules about how to create one's clay foot design, but progressively they got more creative. When people first started making the clay feet, some just stamped on the moist, rolled clay while wearing shoes and left a sole imprint. Some added color. Some added words. Some did nothing at all. But some of the footwear looks as if it is ready for take-off. For example, Inna Razmakhova traced her bare feet and cut out the clay around the image. Left behind was a canvas for Razmakhova to etch in all her toes and toenails and add a pair of wings to each foot. They look as if they are heaven-bound. Joanne Vadeboncouer took a different approach. She used the x- ray image of her nephew's broken foot to help her draw on all the tiny bones of a foot. She's partial to creating bone-art, and she says she does a lot of bone-inspired sculpture, but not in a morbid or dark way. In all 50-plus pairs of clay feet, Mau says no two have had the same shoe sole imprint. l(-~ http://www.communit}.-newspapers.comlarchiveslcupertinocourier/20060125/cu-coverl.sh... 2/1412006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 4 of6 In a previous time, instead of leaving footprints in clay, students would have found themselves walking through a setting of orchards of apricots and prunes. "When I go back I can still feel the old orchard. I smell the apricot. I smell a little of the plum. I smell the wisteria," Fred Euphrat says. Euphrat, who lives in Healdsburg, owns a forest management company called Forest, Soil & Water Inc. He is the grandson of E.F. and Helen Euphrat. His grandparents sold the property to Foothill College in 1959. The property had been the San Franciscan couple's weekend retreat and Fred Euphrat, a fourth-generation San Franciscan, remembers spending summers there with his mother, Susan. His childhood memories are of the land. He remembers the orchards, vegetable gardens and some of what still remains, the cottages and the Le Petit Trianon--a building originally constructed by another family for its own use and entertainment. Le Petite Trianon currently houses the California History Center, a program of the social science division of De Anza College, and the California History Center Foundation, a community-based, nonprofit organization. Eating warm prunes off the ground remains Fred Euphrat's strongest memory. The prunes are gone now, but he says he also remembers "running around" the winery--a building which at one time served as the school's bookstore. The winery was a leftover from a previous owner, Harriett Pullman, who lived there with her husbands, Francis Carolan, and, after his death, Arthur Schermerhorn. An oak cork tree used by the winery to make bottle corks still stands next to the Flint Center, Rindfleisch says. E.F. and Helen Euphrat, who owned the Pacific Can Company in San Francisco, bought the property from Pullman in 1940. "I think [my father] paid $68,000 for it," says Jack Euphrat. The property stretched across what is now Highway 85 and included a ranch with the Le Petit Trianon, cottages and orchards. The couple was friends with Foothill College's founding 1(-5 ..http://www.community-newspapers.comlarchives/cupertinocourier/20060125/cu-coverl.sh. 2/1412006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 5 of6 superintendent, Cal Flint, who convinced them to sell the property for a new community college school site. "My parents were older, and they enjoyed the company of the Flints," says Jack Euphrat. "Dr. Flint was one of the sweetest guys you'd ever meet. He was like a snake medicine man, he could sell anybody anything. Mrs. Flint was a lovely lady in her own right." Jack Euphrat is uncle to Fred, and son of the couple who sold the property to the college. They got an offer they couldn't refuse, says Fred Euphrat. E.F. and Helen Euphrat were guaranteed they could live on the property for life, which they did. Jack and Fred Euphrat don't remember any interest in arts on the part ofE.F. or Helen. Nevertheless, shortly after Helen died, the Helen Euphrat Gallery was born thanks to a grant from the family. It was renamed the Euphrat Museum of Art to avoid the commercial connotation connected with galleries and better reflect its purpose--to research, produce and present challenging exhibitions and educational materials that provide a resource of visual ideas and a platform for communications. One of the museum's most active and successful programs is the arts and schools program that Argabrite runs. It includes an after- school art program for elementary schools with large numbers of "at risk" students, a fee-based art program, teaching tours of Euphrat exhibitions, school assemblies and collaborations including public art projects and exhibits of student work at schools and community venues. Students from De Anza are encouraged to participate in the programs as it gives them an opportunity to try working in a teaching or classroom atmosphere, and it provides the younger students with whom they are working some time with a mentor. The arts and schools program is responsible for myriad projects in Cupertino and Sunnyvale, including an installment at the Quinlan Center that focused on friendship and sharing. The most recent art installment is a collaborative mural at Braly Elementary School in Sunnyvale. A project "near and dear" to the heart of Argabrite was the Fair Housing for All project that involved children from Cupertino and (Hf http://www.community-newspapers.com/archiveslcupertinocourier/20060125/cu-coverl.sh... 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 6of6 Sunnyvale Union School districts. The collaborative series of projects helped children learn about the Fair Housing Act and the importance of the laws. The projects included a large-scale folding book, a mixed-media sculpture, a polymer clay assemblage and a large-scale group block print with interactive elements. Another popular program at the museum is family day. Three to four thousand people come to the event for hands-on activities that include cross-cultural art projects and performances for the young. To support the museum and its programs, Rindfleisch, who has been at the museum since its beginnings, says a yearly fundraiser is held at a private home in Los Altos hills, and the museum's website has a "donate now" button. For more information on Euphrat Museum of Art, or the student art show, go to http://www.deanza.edu/euphrat! Copyright © Knight Ridder ¡(-1 .http://www.community-newspapers.com/archiveslcupertinocourierI20060125/cu-coverl.sh.. 2/1412006 The Cupertino Courier I 0607 I February 8, 2006 ~ÕURlE~ February 8. 2006 Cupertino. California Since /9·¡- _......'-........L_ _.......!.......L..- _..,..,.... ........., Education Photograph by Daniel Sato The new mural at Braly Elementary School, 'Endless SpacelBoundless Knowledge,' was the inspiration of three Braly students. In a collaborative project, three De Anza College students picked up on the concept and created the painting on the outer wall of the multimedia building. Braly students inspire mural painted by De Anza students By Anne Ward Ernst The new mural at Braly Elementary School is big, but the sense of community it evokes is even bigger. The collaborative mural "Endless Space/Boundless Knowledge" reflects that theme with elements of outer space such as stars, a space shuttle and Earth and the school. II--i http://www.cupertinocourier.com/cu-educationl.shtml Page 1 of3 -........-...- I~:\ul'" ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Steven Cohen, Dentist EI Camino Hospital ~ PDF: Download the Cupertino Courier newspaper (8 MB) [lI,er .I tor; Serving Time: Azuma Japanese CuisÎne has survived News Contested condos at Vallco get council OK Bay Area Friends dispels myths City of Cupertino to become a hotspot Women's art at Quinlan is in many different mediums Court says CUSD must pay $700,000 to student Sheriffs report 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0607 I February 8, 2006 Page 2 00 Flying large in the center is the school's mascot, an eagle. The Columns bird soars above a cluster of numbered buildings, which represent Perkins on Real Estate the school campus. letters & Opinions V· ·bl tì h h I k· I h b· h ·b bl d Cartoon" DeCinzo ISI e rom t e sc 00 par mg ot, t e rIg t, VI rant ues, re s " and yellows pop off the outside wall of the multipurpose building. Letters The finished piece is a collaboration between youngsters at Braly and students from the Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza Community College. Gardening Columnist: Tony Tomeo Communltï The project started two years ago when the PT A had some money Obituaries for a project. The PT A agreed on a collaborative mural, but EducatIOn decided the subject of the mural should be the students' idea. The school held a contest and selected the artwork of three Braly students as inspiration for the mural. The entries were turned over to Diana Argabrite, director of arts and schools for the Euphrat Museum of Art. Euphrat offers an after-school art program at Braly and other area schools. The museum program has also installed collaborative artwork in community buildings such as the Music Center at the Quinlan Community Center in Cupertino. Argabrite selected three De Anza students--Kate Stewart, Joanne Vadeboncouer and Marcos Perez--to combine the Braly students' three separate pieces into one. "We turned it into one sort of cohesive super-drawing," Stewart says. Stewart and Vadeboncouer painted the mural over several weekends. Perez contributed to the design effort but then transferred to UCLA and had to leave before the drawing and painting on the wall began. Using a grid system to maintain proportion, Stewart and Vadeboncouer transferred the drawing from paper to wall. Neither had worked on a piece of such scale, but both say they loved the process of climbing a ladder, using big brushes and getting messy. They were only able to work on the mural on weekends. Though the school was empty then, Stewart and Vadeboncouer http://www.cupertinocourier.com/cu.educationl.shtml Braly students inspire mural painted by De Anza students Columnist: Joseph DiSalvo Sports Wrestlers prepare for rugged league finals Underwood, Smith are both 'Outstanding' Feedback Something to say? .-;."'"'\ f Baseball ;5an J06e' \~.. /r-7 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0607 I February 8, 2006 Page 3 on say they were far from alone. "There were a lot of families who used the school [on the weekend): people walking dogs and riding bikes," Vadeboncouer says. "They would stop and ask us questions. That's what murals are all about: It's a big key about murals, getting the community involved." "My favorite part was the community involvement and knowing that this would mean something to the kids," Stewart says. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Sunnyvale school in December, the De Anza students met the Braly students who created the initial art pieces. "We got to go up to the children who did the work and thank them for letting us create this mural for them," says V adeboncouer. Principal Lorraine Moore says says all the students feel a sense of ownership of the mural because Braly students came up with the concepts. "The kids were just screaming their Braly pride," Vadeboncouer says of the children's response at the ceremony. Copyright © Knight Ridder [(..-[0 http://www.cupertinocourier.com/cu-educationl.shtml 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 06071 February 8, 2006 ,.tÕURJ.E~ February 8, 2006 Cupertino. California 5ìil1ce 19-17 _..,................... _.........:......LI[~ _,.,..u..·. News Photograph by Brian Connelly Cupertino resident Diane Cassidy entered her piece 'Karma' in the 'Heart to Heart' show on display at the Cupertino Quinlan Center. Women's art at Quinlan is in many different mediums By Sandy Sims Sunnyvale resident Dana Eaton has entered her print "Hearts and Hope" in the "Heart to Heart" show, which is on display at the Quinlan Community Center in Cupertino. The South Bay Area Women's Caucus for Art is giving a valentine to the community in the form of an art show and sale with a "Heart to Heart" theme. The show, in progress through Feb. 28, includes the works of Cupertino artists Diane Cassidy and Kate Curry and Sunnyvale artists Connie Rizzuto and Eaton. http://www.cupertinocourier.com/cu-news3.shtml Page I on -..,,"..'--.- 1~:\ul~1 ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Steven Cohen. Dentist EI Camino Hospital ~ PDF: Download the Cupertino Courier newspaper (8 MB) Cover .II Or¡ Serving Time: Azuma Japanese Cuisine has survived News Contested condos at Vallco get council OK Bay Area Friends dispels myths City of Cupertino to become a hotspot Women's art at Quinlan is in many different mediums Court says CUSD must pay $700,000 to student Sheriffs report II-I! 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier 1 06071 February 8, 2006 Page 2 00 "It's a celebration of love's colors, textures and forms," says Columns Eaton, president of the 40-member group established in 1989 as a Perkins on Real Estate local chapter of the national Women's Caucus for Art. Letters & Opinions Cartoon: DeCinzo A 2004 Cupertino distinguished artist, Curry's award-winning work hangs in private and corporate collections in Russia, Bolivia Letters and the United States. Her worked has been exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art's artists' gallery and U.S. Fish Gardenlflg and Wildlife Service national headquarters in Arlington, Va. Columnist: Tony Tomeo Vigorous brushstrokes and bold usage of color define her Eden- like landscapes. CommuflIt¡ Obituaries Cassidy, 75, has won many best of show awards for her multi- layered images. When Cassidy retired in 1990, she earned a master's degree in photography and began her current work, which she calls digital collages. She combines two or three layers of photo images, and sometimes more, to create something new. She says her finished pieces often take on surprising new meanings. Cassidy's piece "Karma" in this show is created from two images with the grill work coming from a third. The dominant picture is of a father, daughter and grandmother. Cassidy says the love this piece reflects is of family. Eaton's pieces in the show are "Hearts and Hope" and "Frills of Love." She says they are joyful pieces. "Frills has different textures," Eaton says, "which captures the idea of love's many textures." Eaton--who began her art career in college studying painting and weaving--has ended up in making prints. The works are a monotype, which involves creating an image from ink and various materials on plexiglass. She transfers the image with a press onto wet paper. The textures, not the materials, transfer. Eaton, 54, says art is problem-solving. "I'm always having a dialogue with my art about its design and color," Eaton says. Eaton says when a person puts a piece together, it has to work. "It's like putting together a dance or a musical composition," she says. "It all has to go together." II ~ 1'2-- http://www.cupertinocourier.comlcu-news3.shtml Education Braly students inspire mural painted by De Anza students Columnist: Joseph DiSalvo Sports Wrestlers prepare for rugged league finals Underwood. Smith are both 'Outstanding' Feedback Something to say? ..~~'fPI, f. Baseball l5an J068. \\W.'..~ 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 06071 February 8,2006 Page 3 00 Rizzuto is also a printmaker, but she uses the sun and solar plates to create her images. The piece she has entered into the show is called "Midnight Insight," an award-winning print inspired by a sketch of a model. Eaton says this is the first time the women's art group has staged a valentine-themed show. About 20 ofthe members are participating with 30 pieces. Freestanding or sculptural exhibits are not allowed at Quinlan, so the show is a mix of paintings, prints, photographs, digital prints and mixed media ranging in size from 6-by-6-inches to 30 by 40 inches. Most of the pieces at the show are for sale. The South Bay Area Women's Caucus for Art group show "Heart to Heart" is at the Cupertino's Quinlan Community Center, 10185 N. Stelling Road, through Feb. 28. Hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and closed on Sundays and holidays. For information on the Women's Caucus. visit www.sbawca.org. Copyright © Knight Ridder 1(-/3 http://www.cupertinocourier.comlcu-news3.shtml 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 1 of3 ~ÕURJER January 25, 2006 Cupertino, California Since /9F _..................._ _,.......,......IL:.~ _..,......." ...-. _.:.u._.r"'_ . News " Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer '~ - Claire Chou, 61/2, inspects her tool, a plastic knife, before using it to etch her drawing of a traditional Chinese god for the upcoming Lunar New Year. Claire is a student at the Cupertino Education Center of the SOHO Children's Art Museum in Taipei. Art center allows children to follow creative impulse By Joanne Griffith Domingue The artwork is extraordinary. Swirls of teal fill a page, with eyes, teeth and just a bit of red tongue to define a lion's head. In another painting, careful detail lets one almost feel the bristles of house painting brushes drawn in shades of red and orange. These and about two dozen other paintings by Cupertino children ages 4-12 hang in an upstairs hall gallery at the Children's Discovery Museum in downtown San Jose. The art is part of an ({-"Ii http://www.community-newspapers.comlarchiveslcupertinocourierI20060125/cu-news3.sh... 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 2 of3 exhibit, "The World Through Children's Eyes," which runs through Jan. 31. "This is amazing work," said Lisa Ellsworth, arts educator, at the museum. "It's some of the most impressive art work I've seen." The children all take art classes--taught in Mandarin--at the Cupertino Education Center, a project of the SOHO Children's Art Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taipei museum has multiple centers for teaching art to children. Several years ago, it opened its first American center in Fremont. Parents in Cupertino began driving their children to the East Bay for art classes. The classes became too crowded, so the parents invited Janey Tien, manager of the Fremont center, to open a studio in Cupertino. Four years ago she did, and now the Cupertino Center has 100 students who come weekly for 90- minute classes. The teachers are trained in Taiwan and use projects developed by the design group at the Taipei museum. The director of the Taipei program came from SOHO in New York City, so the full name of the local studio is the Cupertino Education Center of the SOHO Children's Art Museum in Taipei. "Kids' art is very special," said Tien. "We think kids are very creative. " Tien explains that these are not traditional art classes. In traditional classes, "the teacher teaches and corrects, and all the pictures look alike. Our way, we talk with the kids. We teach about color. The children always mix color in class. Then they create their own project. They can choose their own design. We don't correct." A project might be called "tools" with resulting pictures of scissors, paintbrushes or screwdrivers. Another could be "mountain," with mountains of any color or shape a child imagines. A favorite theme was "radish," with purple and blue radishes radiating spiny little roots from a gentle wash of color. These children know radishes do not have to be red. "As the light changes, the radishes look different," Tien said. The children note these subtleties and their colorful radishes bloom on the page. 1(-/-5 .http://www.community-newspapers.com/archiveslcupertinocourierI20060125/cu-news3.sh.. 2/14/2006 The Cupertino Courier I 0605 I January 25, 2006 Page 3 on Those at the Cupertino center "really honor the children," Ellsworth said. The children do "sophisticated work. It takes a good, high level institution to see these results," she said as she looked around at the work hanging in the museum. "Often you get a prescribed result. But that is not part of their process as educators. I appreciate that." The exhibit, "The World Through Children's Eyes, "from the Cupertino Education Center, continues through Jan. 31. The Children's Discovery Museum is located at 180 Woz Way, in downtown San Jose. For more information about the museum, call 408.298.5437 or visit its web site, www.cdm.org. For more information about the Cupertino Education Center, call 408.865.0502 or visit its web site, www.sohoartusa.com. The studio is located at 10675 S. De Anza Blvd., in Cupertino and is open from 3-7, closed on Mondays. Classes are taught in Mandarin. Copyright © Knight~idder 1I~(~ http://www.community-newspapers.comJarchiveslcupertinocourier/20060125/cu-news3.sh... 2/14/2006