Saturday, July 18, 2009

Band Spotlight: Judgement Day

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” -Victor Hugo

Surely Victor Hugo must have been talking about Bay Area Acoustic-Metal band Judgement Day....


Judgement Day @ Chasing The Moon 7.07.09 from Scott McDowell on Vimeo.




There is something wonderfully unique and fascinating about Bay Area Acoustic Metal band Judgement Day.... and we are thrilled to announce that they will be performing for the Creative Arts Department!


Visit Judgement Day online: http://stringmetal.wordpress.com/

Writer's Spotlight: Laurel Anne Hill


The Creative Arts Department is pleased to announce that award-winning, local author Laurel Anne Hill will be hosting multiple writing workshops this year, among them: Breathing Life Into Your Writing and
Creating New Worlds: Writing Fantasy

LAUREL ANNE HILL grew up in San Francisco, with more dreams of adventure than good sense or money. Her close brushes with death, love of family, respect for honor and belief in a higher power continue to influence her writing and her life.

Komenar Publishing released Heroes Arise, Laurel’s debut parable, in October 2007. ForeWord Magazine selected Heroes Arise for a Book of the Year Award for 2007 (bronze, science fiction category). Heroes Arise was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist and has received cover endorsements from Jean M. Auel, Kim Stanley Robinson and Robert J. Sawyer. Laurel has served as a presenter at numerous events, including the World Science Fiction Convention, the World Fantasy Convention, Readercon, BayCon and the East of Eden Writers Conference.

Laurel's fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in the Contra Costa Times, Nth Zine, Lynx Eye, the San Jose Mercury News, Space and Time, and a variety of small-circulation magazines. KQED-FM broadcast her perspective in 2004 about the plight of homeless families.

In 2005, Laurel was awarded first prize in the Ninth Annual Captivating Beginnings Short Story Contest. She received an honorable mention in the 2004 Soul-Making Literary Competition, an extended community arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill, San Francisco Bay Area Branch. One of her personal essays won honorable mention in the Foster City 2003 International Writer’s Contest.

Laurel is a member of California Writers Club (San Francisco/Peninsula Branch), the Women’s National Book Association, Broad Universe and Women Writing the West.


To learn more about Laurel or her materpieces, visit her website at http://www.laurelannehill.com.


Wednesday, July 8, 2009

How Can I Get Involved?


The Creative Arts Department is about more than just observing- we want this to be a place where all can get involved and can enjoy and give back to this amazing art mecca!




Here are various ways YOU can get involved:

Volunteer!
We are seeking individuals who have a definite interest in and love of art. Art background is a plus, but we would like to give anyone a chance to be involved.
Individuals need to be open, willing and flexible and must be able to work in a team. Volunteers must also commit to
atleast 1 three hour shift.
In exchange, you will recieve one free day pass to the fair, a free food voucher, and a parking pass.

Volunteers will be needed during the festival itself, (August 15-23) but ALSO to aide us in our intake/pickup days. Contact us for more information about volunteering!


Sponsor!
Are you an art lover but don't have the time in your schedule to volunteer? Donate! We are asking for gifts from as little as $50 to give as prize money to our winning artists. This is a great way to directly give back to your local artist community and support the Creative Arts Department.

Message from the Directors

The Peninsula Fair is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, so be sure to visit The Creative Arts Department. Come and participate in what promises to be an energetic and uplifting showcase of local artistic talent --- everything from paintings, photographs, and stunning sculptures --- to kinetic wave art, painted doors --- and so much more. This year we are expanding our contests to also include graffiti art, surreal paintings, and sand carved glass. We are especially excited about giving the Literary Division a stronger presence than ever before, such as spoken word performances with musical accompaniment

The theme for the Creative Arts Department this year is “Carry the Light.” We hope our show will both uplift and challenge fairgoers to reflect on how much we have to be grateful for, and to help instill the thought that there is so much we can do to uplift one another. Carry the Light” is not just a slogan, it is an ideal that also challenges us all to dream a better dream for ourselves. The assumption that some of us are highly creative, while others are not, is one that we seek to challenge. We are all called to paint a masterpiece with our lives.

Our “Carry the Light” theme has been incorporated into the overall design of the art floor. When visitors enter the art department this year, they are in for a treat. For the first time, the Creative Arts and the Floral Arts departments have been combined for a double-dose of creativity. We have also “planted” kite bouquets that reach up to the ceiling with tails of light trailing down to the exhibit areas. We want our visitors to feel as if they are stepping into something special, even magical, when they enter this department.

We invite you to come out in support of our local artists. Perhaps you, yourself, are an artist in the rough. Perhaps you, too, are meant to carry the light.

-Boris Koodrin & Kayte Van De Mark, Directors of the Creative Arts Department

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Artist Spotlight: Reuben Margolin


The PF Creative Arts Department is pleased to announce that we will be showcasing Reuben Margolin's wonderful Pentagonal Wave sculpture. The Pentagonal Wave has 288 strings originating from a single rotating point in the upper structure. The distribution of the strings causes the silver cardboard tubes to undulate in the form of a five-pointed star.




Reuben Heyday Margolin has displayed his paintings and sculptures all over the Bay Area, as well as the world. Margolin has studied Monumental painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia as well as Classical drawing and painting at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy and recieved a BA in English from Harvard University. He has held prestigious internships at the Kanoria Centre for the Arts in India, The Tartaja Cave in Spain, as well as the Orchardton House in Scotland.


For more information on Reuben Margolin, or to see more of his work, visit him online!