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

Bluebird w/buttons - Terry Blair
Captivated - Ruth Stanton
Capital Hill  - Svetlana Lapina
Wine Boy - Joe Bologna
Killdeer - Elizabeth Kennen
My Corner - Margie Caldwell-Gill
Pop Poppy - Anne Morrison Rabe
Proud - Linda Curtis
Have We Dstroyed Ourselves Yet? #5 Thurgood Was Right in 1991 - Maryly Snow
Mezmerized - Cynthia Whitchurch
Evening Light - Ebba Navas
Chinese Villagers - Ruth McMillin
Peaceful mind by the sea - Philae Carver
Pink in Red - Annette Laurel Batchelor
Mt. Diablo from Waterbird Park - Marian Sims Harris
Sunflower19 - Adrienne Rogers
Composition - Samia Ilham Kazi
African Leopard - Craig Moline
Celebration Green! - Lori Larks
Daisy dishes - Nicole Collins
Green Ridges - Robert Anke
Breakfast at the Hotel - Lorna Strotz
Wildflowers - Jane Russell
Whisper – Walking Among and to the Far Hill - Karen Mason
Vivid Scarlet Cascade - Suzun Almquist
Up Valley - Jessica De Jesus
All Alone - Arlynn Bloom Bloom
Golden Gate - Mark Coffey
MelFrida - Melchia Kutches
Dancing In The Streets - Valerie Corvin
When Down is Up & Up is Down - Mira M White
811.54 - Suellen Cox
Craggy Mountain - Catherine Duggan
Fire Flower - Shahla Ash Sepehri
Ostrich - Rachel Fite
Salt Flat in Blue - Karen Baden Thapa
The Redhead - Pamela McCauley
Roses - Helen Chu-Hirschberg
Utah Aspens - Leslie Golden
Alameda Community Garden - Maria SantoStefano
Two Canes - Dave Kwinter
Wetland Landscape - Dinah McFarlane
 - Sarah Gopher
Aloha Sunrise - Judith  Rohrer
Hide & Seek - Kath Balamuth
The Painter - Dave Manousos
Samples of Kerima's Artwork - Kerima Swain
Candle - H. Newbury
Attitude Multi-color - Donna Arganbright
"Nocturne" - Jennifer Granat
Sunflowers - Samantha McNally

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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