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

Beauty Ranch - Ruth Stanton
Where's My Balloon - Melchia Kutches
Craggy Mountain - Catherine Duggan
Breakfast at the Hotel - Lorna Strotz
Passage - Shahla Ash Sepehri
Floral Platters - Donna Arganbright
Handcrafted Glass Vase - Cynthia Whitchurch
Cool Morning - Lori Larks
Dive Into the Sky - Anne Morrison Rabe
Vicki McAllister - Mark Coffey
Killdeer - Elizabeth Kennen
Fall 1 - Samia Ilham Kazi
Title Card - H. Newbury
"East Bay Hills" - Jennifer Granat
Bodega Bay - Arlynn Bloom Bloom
Hercules  - Maria SantoStefano
Open to the unkown - Philae Carver
Hold 'Em - Dave Manousos
The Redhead - Pamela McCauley
Ostrich - Rachel Fite
Wine Boy - Joe Bologna
Nevermore - Helen Chu-Hirschberg
Samples of Kerima's Artwork - Kerima Swain
Quail serving dish - Nicole Collins
Knife - Dave Kwinter
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Samantha McNally
Morning at Half Moon - Ebba Navas
Hide & Seek - Kath Balamuth
Oak & Cloud - Robert Anke
My Corner - Margie Caldwell-Gill
See - Dinah McFarlane
Vir Aureum - Ruth McMillin
Big Break Delta View - Marian Sims Harris
Are U There? - Judith  Rohrer
Proud - Linda Curtis
Terry portrait - Terry Blair
Complicit Triptych - Suellen Cox
Sand Bar Capitola - Adrienne Rogers
Birch Forest Sonnet - Karen Mason
Have We Dstroyed Ourselves Yet? #5 Thurgood Was Right in 1991 - Maryly Snow
Vivid Scarlet Cascade - Suzun Almquist
Sliver of light - Svetlana Lapina
On the Bayou - Jessica De Jesus
California Oaks - Leslie Golden
Iceberg Mirror - Karen Baden Thapa
Dream - Jane Russell
African Leopard - Craig Moline
Travelers - Mira M White
Daily Rituals - Annette Laurel Batchelor
Altneuland #1 - Sarah Gopher
Dancing In The Streets - Valerie Corvin

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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