LPAPA Artist Member Randy Sprout‘s painting “Avalon Harbor Early Morning” is featured in Fine Art Connoisseur’s “9 Outstanding Paintings From Artists Over 65”. Click here to read the full article: Fine Art Today

Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) received a generous grant of $3,000 from The Festival of Arts (FOA) Foundation to supplement their educational projects. This generous grant will be used to partially fund LPAPA’s Educational Plein Air Project. Three portions of the Plein Air Project will once again be presented during the annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational to inspire our next generation of artists.

LPAPA’s Plein Air Project – Recent nominee at LBAA Art Star Awards Best New Arts Program – A program where LPAPA artist/mentors introduce students to the history of plein air painting through lectures, demonstrations and in field study (where students are given art supplies to create their works of art) along with a field trip to museums. Click here to read the full article in Stu News Laguna.

 

LPAPA Signature Artist Member Larry Cannon will be exhibiting two watercolors at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art in Malibu in a California Art Club all-media exhibition to be held from May 19 through July 29.  Further details at CannonWC.com.

Image: Point Dume, 16″ x 20″ Watercolor

We are delighted to share that there are a number of LPAPA members participating in the upcoming California Art Club’s “Art Between the Lines” show opening April 29, 2018 (Artists’ Reception Sunday April 29, 2018; 2pm – 4pm) and continuing until July 8, 2018. Participating LPAPA Members include Nanette Biers, Scott Hamill, Ellen Howard, Paul Kratter, Richard Lindenberg, Kim Lordier, Clark Mitchell, Camille Przewodek, Robin Purcell, and Barbara Tapp.
Click here for details: Art Between the Lines.

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Image: LPAPA Artist Member Ellen Howard, “Between Storms,” Oil, 12″ x 24″

The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association received the 2018 LBaa Art Stars Award for “Best Arts Program” for its Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. Now in its 20th year, the 2018 Plein Air Invitational will be presented during the week of October 6-14, 2018; click here for details.

In addition, LPAPA Artist Member Tom Swimm was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. LPAPA also received nominations for Best Arts Collaboration for its Plein Air Project lead by Director of Education Jeff Sewell, and LPAPA President Toni Kellenberg received an Arts Leadership Award nomination.

Click to read article in the Laguna Beach Indy