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Art at the Vineyard

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Exhibition and Art Sale: Saturday April 22, 2017 – 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 32 Winds Wines, 1010 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, California

32 Winds Wines is hosting seven artists from the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) to paint Dry Creek Valley, Healdsburg and the surrounding area. The participating artists — Saim Caglayan, Sandra Jones Campbell, Laurie Hendricks, Cydette Vikander Knoop, Rebecca Noelle and Carole Gray-Weihman — will be painting on location April 19th – 21st with the art work to be exhibited and available for purchase on Saturday April 22nd, 1pm – 5pm.

All are welcome to come and enjoy the art show, and if you so desire…enjoy a sampling of 32 Winds award winning wines and Sonoma Style specialties for $20 per person (Complimentary for Founders Club Members of the winery).

A portion of the proceeds of the art sales will be donated to the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art organization with a mission dedicated to painting the landscape and the plein air painting tradition.

For more information: info@32windswine.com or (707) 433-1010

California Wildflowers

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LPAPA Artist Members Rich Gallego and Beth Winfield, and their painter friends, share about this year’s crop of wildflowers in California. Although the state suffered a terrible drought last year, this has been a wet winter and early spring, and this and other favorable conditions have resulted in a crazy abundance of blooming wildflowers in the Golden State. For the full story, visit OutdoorPainter.com.

Painting Image:  “Poppies” by LPAPA Artist Member Rich Gallego

Arnold Creek Estuary

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Michael Gibbons, LPAPA Signature Artist Member from Toledo, Oregon traveled to Mahonia Hall, Salem, the Official Residence of Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown on March 16 to complete the filming of “Yaquina”, a Traveling Exhibit DVD showing the Yaquina Watershed from Toledo to Newport through the 40 oil paintings the artist has done over a 30 year period of time as a study focusing on the history and changing landscape of that area.

Peter Vince, retired TAG teacher from Toledo High School worked with students to make the DVD through a Grant received from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund under sponsorship of the Yaquina River Museum of Art, Toledo. The Design Team of Gibbons, Vince, and composer Gabriel Salcedo along with Toledo High School students filmed Gibbons with his “Arnold Creek Estuary” 62”x42” oil painting that hangs in the dining room of the Hall. Credit of inspiration is given by and to the Team in using this art as a key point for creating the DVD.

Dan Little, husband of Governor Kate Brown, gave the group a personalized tour of Mahonia Hall, the Ellis Lawrence Architect designed home built in the 1920’s and carefully renovated to the era. Salcedo treated the group to a mini-concert on the baby grand piano in the living room , playing his original composition for the DVD, “Yaquina Impressions” .

For more information and to find out exhibit locations or to book a showing of “Yaquina” Traveling Exhibit, please contact Michael Gibbons at (541) 336 2797 or email michaelgibbonsart@charter.net