The Lompoc Valley Art Association (LVAA) is preparing for the Cypress Gallery’s annual fall open competition show. The exhibition will show competing pieces from Sept. 30 through Oct. 26. The competition is open to all local artists. Anyone who wants to compete in the show is required to appear at an ingathering on Sept. 29 […]
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Santa Barbara County Arts Commission is accepting grant applications
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission is currently accepting Community Arts Enrichment Grants for its fall cycle, with a deadline of Sept. 30. This is the Commission’s sixth grant cycle since the grants program was developed in 2012 through a partnership with the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation. Community Arts Enrichment (CAE) grants are allocated to […]
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Santa Maria Philharmonic Society offers an elegant evening event
The Santa Maria Philharmonic Society is celebrating the start of its 15th season with a benefit kick-off event, An Elegant Evening of Dinner and Dancing, on Oct. 4. The fundraiser event is $100 per person, with table sponsorships available as well. The black-tie-optional event is taking place at the Santa Maria Country Club and will […]
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Unique perspectives of place are showcased in the Betteravia Gallery’s latest exhibit
The white tiles leading away from the back hallway of the Betteravia Government Building mimic the way colorful photos of Morro Bay are lined-up, hanging on the wall. The contrast is stark, and the blues, pinks, purples, and grays of David Passage’s twilight photos burst into the bland hallway. On the opposite wall, about five […]
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Star Voice selects finalists
More than 140 Tri-County area singers applied to the Star Voice singing competition happening at the Chumash Casino on Oct. 18, but only 12 local vocalists could make the cut. The selected few represent talent from as far north as Atascadero and as far south as Simi Valley between the ages of 18 and 67. […]
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Wildling Museum offers basic photography workshop
The Wildling Museum is offering a photography class, Basic Photography Workshop: Understand Your Camera and Create Beautiful Photographs, on Sept. 27, Oct. 20, and Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to noon. Instructor Natalie Morris will lead the two-hour Saturday classes that include a classroom lecture and hands-on photography. Classes take place at the Wildling Museum, […]
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Central Coast Music Teachers Association holds presentation in Santa Maria
The Central Coast Music Teachers Association is inviting all private studio music teachers on the Central Coast to a kick-off luncheon event at the home of Betty Hansen in Santa Maria on Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. for a short business meeting and presentation. Local pianist, tuner, and piano technician Larry Keast will make the […]
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Altrusa announces funds for nonprofits
The Altrusa International Foundation Santa Maria Inc. has announced that the organization’s Fall 2014 Grant Funds applications are now available for local nonprofits. Programs that bolster literacy and childcare and programs for people with disabilities have benefited from Altrusa’s funds in past years. Applications are currently available at Children’s Resource and Referral Services, 705 E. […]
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The Dixie Swim Club celebrates Southern sisterhood with laughs
It’s important to have friends you can rely on in life, even if it’s only once a year. The Santa Maria Civic Theatre’s opening production for the community theater’s 56th season is The Dixie Swim Club, which follows a group of college friends who meet on the same weekend in August every year at a […]
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Annual Chalk Festival raises funds and awareness for school art programs
Most kids know that a bucket of chalk and a blank sidewalk can make for an afternoon well spent, so it makes sense that the Orcutt Children’s Art Foundation (OCAF), a local nonprofit that seeks to supplement local art education in schools, is inviting parents and kids to do their finest chalk-work on the streets […]
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Clark Center calls for artists
The Clark Center Foundation for the Performing Arts is accepting applications from artists interested in exhibiting their work in the Clark Center during 2015. Art shows in the Clark Center’s lobby and salon hallway, which includes space for large bodies of work. The foundation encourages artists who work in mixed media, oil, watercolor, pastels, […]
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Enjoy art, support art
The Ian M. Hassett Foundation is gearing up for its second annual fundraiser event Form Over Function on Oct. 11 from 3 to 6 p.m. in Orcutt. The Hassett Foundation is a local nonprofit organization that was formed in memory of Ian Hassett, who passed away after battling Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2012. Hassett was an […]