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a collection of art from district 2
March 16, 2007 - May 7, 2004
In celebration of Earth Day 2004, AC5 presented:
ATMOSPHERES: The Lamorinda Arts Alliance
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PLEIN INSPIRATION: Scene On The Strait and throughout Contra Costa County
ATMOSPHERES: The Lamorinda Arts Alliance
The art featured in the exhibit was representative of 16 artists from
the Lamorinda Arts Alliance (LAA). The LAA is an organization of
artists and friends who reside or work in the communities of Lafayette,
Moraga and Orinda. LAA's purpose is to nurture art appreciation in the
community through education and involvement in the arts; to create a
network of artists in Contra Costa County in order to pursue artistic
excellence, provide mutual support and share technical information; to
educate and showcase the visual arts to Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda
and the larger community through art demonstrations, hands on art
experiences, open studios, art festivals and galleries open to the
public; to collaborate with other arts organizations in order to
integrate the visual arts into the fabric of the community; to support
charitable causes in the community and to create venues for artists to
exhibit their work. For more information about the LAA, please take a
card or brochure, or call the LAA's Moraga Art Gallery, (925) 376-5407.
PLEIN INSPIRATION: Scene On The Strait and throughout Contra Costa County
Looking at the Carquinez strait today, you see a hard-working waterway:
container ships take advantage of the strait's depths, high-traffic
bridges span the water, and its banks support train tracks and
highways. Not long ago, clouds of monarch butterflies filled the skies.
Coast live oaks flourished on the south banks, providing a haven for
more than two hundred species of mammals, birds and insects. The five
artists exhibiting their work here are, or have been, part of Scene On The Strait,
an annual art and environmental festival held each summer at the
Martinez Regional Park as a benefit for CREEC-the Carquinez Regional
Environmental Education Center. The event features an art show and sale
of Plein Air
painters' artwork. AC5, in partnership with Supervisor Gayle Uilkema, highlighted the work of CREEC in order to draw attention to this
year's event on August 14th & 15th, and in celebration of Earth Day
2004. CREEC is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that works with
students and disadvantaged youth in the communities that line the
Carquinez Strait. CREEC's mission is to help restore the native plants
and animals that lived there, while gaining real life skills and a new
sense of community ownership. For more information about CREEC, or to
volunteer for this year's Scene On The Strait event, please contact CREEC at (510) 787-9772 or contact Judy Barone at
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The Commissioners of AC5 wish to extend a special thanks for their assistance with this exhibition to:
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Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
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County Administrator's Office
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Sheriff Warren E. Rupf, his Staff and the Sheriff's Posse of Contra Costa
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General Services Department
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The Lamorinda Arts Alliance
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Carquinez Regional Environmental Education Center
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B.A. Simmons, Private Collector
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