We are deeply saddened to share the news of the death of Maggie Lucas-Hill following a month long illness. Maggie championed the whole Lamorinda art scene for decades. She was on the board for years and was past Secretary and LAA's current Treasurer and one of the founding members of the Lamorinda Arts Alliance. We are indebted in many ways to her tireless, decades-long commitment to the arts.

There is a special exhibition of her work at the Moraga Art Gallery, 432 Center St., Rheem Shopping Center, Moraga. 

LAA's Calls for Art

2024 LAA MEMBER SHOW at The John Muir Health Auxiliary Gallery at the Aspen Center

The Lamorinda Arts Alliance is please to invite members to submit their entry for the “Wellness & Wellbeing” show at the Auxiliary Gallery at Aspen Center. The John Muir Health Auxiliary Gallery at Aspen Center recognizes artwork’s effect on patient wellbeing, and its integral role in the healing environment. Since 1983, the JMH Auxiliary Gallery at Aspen Center engage artists to create uplifting “Wellness” or “Wellbeing” artworks for patients, their families, friends, volunteers, staff as well as the general community. Responses to this theme can be open-ended and include uplifting themes such as life, nature or healing, or can be more abstract and ponder what “wellness” means to you and how you contemplate it.

The Exhibit Dates: Monday April 6th to Friday May 10th, 2024
The Entry Period: Monday March 4th to Monday March 18th, 2024 - on the members home page.

The deadline to enter has been extended to Friday the 22nd with acceptances mailed out by Monday the 25th.

Reception: A reception will not be scheduled due to the Aspen Center Exhibit is not a commercial gallery, but a community service facility. All are welcomed to visit the exhibit during business hours.
Registration Fee is $20.00 for LAA members
Prospectus 

LAA's Current and Upcoming Exhibits

“Ekphrasis 2024” opens April 29 at the Art Gallery at the Orinda Library.

Ekphrasis is a Greek word meaning a written description of visual art produced as a literary exercise or device used with any prose or poetry. It is a dramatic, vivid, expressed description of a work of art and can be real or imagined.

For the Ekphrasis Exhibit, authors of the California Writers Club – Mt. Diablo and Lamorinda Arts Council (LAC) will author a piece of writing in response to LAA Artist’s artwork.

Please join us at the artist/writer program and reception on Saturday May 4,  from 1:00 – 5:00 pm. All are welcome.

Prospectus


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Examples of our Artists Work

Are U There? - Judith  Rohrer
Peacock - Donna Arganbright
My Corner - Margie Caldwell-Gill
Water Lilies in the Clouds - Anne Morrison Rabe
Dancing In The Streets - Valerie Corvin
Morning at Half Moon - Ebba Navas
All Alone - Arlynn Bloom Bloom
Poppies - Elizabeth Kennen
"East Bay Hills" - Jennifer Granat
Snow Day Mt. Diablo 2 - Adrienne Rogers
Imp - Pamela McCauley
Pedernal - Terry Blair
Mesmerized - Shahla Ash Sepehri
Vivid Scarlet Cascade - Suzun Almquist
Fire and Ice - Cynthia Whitchurch
Rabbit - H. Newbury
Breakfast at the Hotel - Lorna Strotz
Just a word - Svetlana Lapina
Delta Blue - Lori Larks
Glacial Blues #2 - Karen Baden Thapa
Daisy dishes - Nicole Collins
Toadstool - Melchia Kutches
Hercules  - Maria SantoStefano
Oak & Cloud - Robert Anke
When Down is Up & Up is Down - Mira M White
Firestorm II - Kath Balamuth
October - Dave Kwinter
 - Sarah Gopher
Samples of Kerima's Artwork - Kerima Swain
Proud - Linda Curtis
Heavenly Lace - Mark Coffey
Mt. Diablo from Waterbird Park - Marian Sims Harris
Collision - Jane Russell
Utah Aspen - Leslie Golden
Open to the unkown - Philae Carver
Craggy Mountain - Catherine Duggan
Captivated - Ruth Stanton
Never Gets Old - Jessica De Jesus
Ninth Street Fog - Annette Laurel Batchelor
Reflections of Fire - Dinah McFarlane
Winter Orchard - Craig Moline
Nevermore - Helen Chu-Hirschberg
Earth 1 - Samia Ilham Kazi
Feline Intrigue - Rachel Fite
 - Suellen Cox
Vir Aureum - Ruth McMillin
Gingko Playground - Karen Mason
Have We Destroyed Ourselves Yet? #1 - Maryly Snow
Portrait of...? - Dave Manousos
Up Around the Bend - Samantha McNally
Wine Boy - Joe Bologna

About Lamorinda Arts Alliance

Founded in 1994, Lamorinda Arts Alliance is an organization of local artists and friends who reside or work in the San Francisco – East Bay area. Its purpose is to provide coordination, education and service in order to promote and increase knowledge, appreciation and practice of the arts, and to enhance the cultural development of Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda and the surrounding East Bay communities. The group seeks to foster a better appreciation and understanding of art within the community and encourage the exchange of ideas for the mutual benefit of all members through its programs, exhibits and other activities within the community. Among the benefits of membership in LAA is the opportunity to exhibit at LAA member shows. Members also have the opportunity to post their own gallery on the LAA website. Members are kept current of events and opportunities through direct email as well as through the newsletter that is distributed six times a year richly detailing all LAA events as well as member events.

Oil painting by Judith Feins

 

Become A Member

Becoming a member of Lamorinda Arts Alliance is easy and inexpensive. For artists, it provides many benefits, including the eligibility to participate in our shows and exhibits, discounts on events, seminars and workshops and camaraderie among artists. For friends and lovers of the arts, it offers an opportunity to support the arts and provides information of upcoming events, shows and seminars.

We welcome you!

There are a number of membership categories. Click here for more information.
Support your local art community by becoming a member!

Hand built pottery by Donna Arganbright

 

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