"Build Your Own Art Shack"

Workshop with Hurley resident artist and Art Shack artist Jason Maloney
Sunday, July 18, 2010 (1:00 p.m.)



Students K-8 are invited to Laguna Art Museum for a workshop in conjunction with the Museum's current exhibition Art Shack. Learn the art of shack-making from Hurley resident artist and Art Shack artist Jason Maloney (pictured above), and take home your very own art shack.



Only 40 spots available!

>>Click here to pay your $25.00 materials fee and to reserve your space for the workshop!

>> For more information, please contact Jackie Bunge at 949.494.8971 x207

>> Click here to view all Art Shack educational events

Win 2 Summer Passes for Art Shack!

To celebrate the opening of our summer exhibition, Art Shack, we are giving away 2 Art Shack Summer Passes ($30.00 value) which allows you to visit the Art Shack exhibition as many times as you like through October 3rd!!

In order to be automatically entered just comment on this blog post about "What Kind of Art Shack Would You Build?" You must be a follower of the Museum's blog in order to win. Winner will be contacted by July 15, 2010. Take advantage of this special offer and the chance to come see one of the most exciting exhibitions this summer!

The show includes over 30 different types of shack environment created by note-worthy artists, including Don Ed Hardy, Paul Frank, Mark Ryden and Marion Peck, and many more. For more information about the artists included in the show or about show hours, please visit the Museum's website.

We are excited to hear everyone's ideas!

Last OsCene Events: Allen and LaFarge Performance and Portfolio Review

This Sunday is the last day to check out Laguna Art Museum's OsCene 2010: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, and it is also the last day of programming for the exhibition.

On Sunday, May 16th the Museum will be hosting two exciting events:

Live Performance by Robert Allen and Antoinette LaFarge of their video installation: Hangmen Also Die (12:00 p.m.):

Hangmen Also Die is a multi-media performance orchestrated by OsCene 2010 artists Robert Allen and Antoinette LaFarge. The work begins with a monologue by a live actor interacting with the projected environment. The live performance then merges with the projection, creating a recurring environment that changes over the course of a 70-minute cycle. The installation slowly breaks up as Allen and LaFarge note, “triggering successive attempts to salvage meaning by re-interpolating material.” Ultimately, the work almost completely disintegrates. The actor’s performance reflects upon issues of political actions and systemic consequences drawing from a number of texts addressing these concerns: The Measures Taken (1930) by Bertolt Brecht; Hangmen Also Die! (1943) by Bertolt Brecht, John Wexley, and Fritz Lang; Mauser (1976) by Heiner Müller; and recent U.S. government documents.

Actor: John Mellies
Videographer: Amy Kaczur

Following the performance is a Portfolio Review For Art Students (1:00 p.m.)
An afternoon of portfolio reviews by industry professionals for students who are interested in attending art school and questioning how they will further their practice.

>> FREE for Museum Members, free for non-members with paid admission.

>> For more information, please contact Jackie Bunge at 949.494.8971 x207.

Come and take advantage of these special events and afterward have a last look at the OsCene 2010 exhibition that is closing that day!!!

Hello everyone!!!

The Museum was buzzing with excitement on Saturday with our annual IMAGINATION CELEBRATION! All the children, their families, and the Museum staff and volunteers had a blast listening to live musical performances, making Lagoonie Aliens, and creating other great works of art! Over 400 visitors came to Imagination Celebration, and we hope that all of you had a great time and will join us next year!!


Here is some great pictures of the festivities! If you want to find out more about Imagination Celebration or other events that Laguna Art Museum has in store, please come check out our website!!

Interview with Education Curator Jackie Bunge

Imagination Celebration at Laguna Art Museum is just around the corner! You and your family are invited to attend this FREE fun-filled day at the Museum on Saturday, April 24 (11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.).

Attendees will enjoy hands-on art projects, face painting, live music, Museum exhibitions, the Art Detective game, refreshments, and more!

>> Click here for more information

In the meantime, we interviewed Laguna Art Museum's Education Curator Jackie Bunge who runs Imagination Celebration at the Museum.

Laguna Art Museum: How many years have you been running Imagination Celebration?
JB: This will be the third year I have helped with the event, but the second year I will be running it!

Laguna Art Museum: What is your favorite part about Imagination Celebration?
JB: My favorite part of Imagination Celebration is seeing the kids and their families enjoying a day in the Museum, along with all of the hands-on activities and musical performances!

Laguna Art Museum: Do you have a particularly fond memory from a past Imagination Celebration at the Museum?
JB: Yes, I loved watching the face painting last year. The kid’s love face painting and it was great to see their eyes light up when they saw the face painting table! Kids have such wonderful imaginations, so it is always wonderful to hear the designs they ask the face painters for. The best design request last year was a green and red tiger breathing fire while jumping on the moon! Needless to say…the face painters had their work cut out for them!

Laguna Art Museum: What are you looking forward to most for this year’s event?
JB: I am really looking forward to the music performances….they always add so much energy to the event!

Laguna Art Museum: What is your favorite part of your job as Education Curator at Laguna Art Museum?
JB: I love working on public programming, workshops, lecture series and tours. I love that the museum is able to offer so many exciting programs to the surrounding community.

Thanks to Jackie for taking time out of planning for this Saturday's big event to talk to us!

And to all you readers, we hope to see you at the Museum this Saturday armed with new and innovative face painting ideas.

Imagination Celebration

IMAGINATION CELEBRATION is almost here!

SAVE THE DATE!
April 24, 2010
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
A fun-filled day for the entire family!

Admission is FREE thanks to a donation from the Arts Council, a support group of Laguna Art Museum. Reservations are not required.

Families will enjoy a fun-filled day of hands-on art projects led by members of Laguna Outreach for Community Arts (LOCA), face painting, refreshments, and more.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the Museum's current professional exhibitions (OsCene 2010: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, and Artists in California, Early Twentieth Century: From the Permanent Collection), and current student exhibition (Plaster Friezes of the OC created by 3rd grade students from St. Mary's School, Aliso Viejo).

Musical performances will take place every hour by musicians from local schools including The St. Mary's Drumline.

This year's hands-on art projects will focus on upcycling which is the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value.

Hands-on Art Projects and Facilitators

Colleen Corbett, Lagoonie Aliens
Create your own alien and spaceship sculptures with recycled cans, tubes and sprials. Add googly eyes and have some out-of-this-world fun!

Mike Tauber, Tiki Totems
Create a sculptural head of a tiki figure. Start with a cardboard cylinder, add fringy hair, noodley eyes and mouth, and draw on face paint for good luck. Add a feather to make it fun.

Reem Khalil, Earth Bags
Create a bag by upcycling fabrics, newspapers, string and more!

Suzette Rosenthal, Creative Collage
Have fun taking various bits of paper ‘trash'-wrapping paper, candy wrappers, magazine cutouts, security envelopes-and turning them into a one-of-a-kind visual expression of yourself!

>> For more information, please contact Jackie Bunge at 949.494.8971 x207.

http://www.lagunaartmuseum.org/

Volunteer for Imagination Celebration!

Volunteers needed for Laguna Art Museum’s Imagination Celebration: Open the Door to Art Saturday April 24 from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Enjoy working with children and their families in creating hands-on art projects, assist with refreshments, help set up musical performances, and more!


Imagination Celebration, a program of Arts Orange County in partnership with the Orange County Department of Education, dynamically connects community, arts organizations, universities and Orange County students in providing meaningful access to the arts. This collaboration presents a county-wide arts festival offering free or very affordable events in performing and visual arts in order to highlight creativity as the center of a livable, healthy community.
Click here for more information.

If you are interested in volunteering for this fun-filled event, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Derry Coe at covail@fea.net.