Art of Tea (or Why is Soda Pop More Popular than Tea?)

The Mad Hatter… Boston Harbor… A bamboo grove in the mist…
Art of Tea is an exhibition that recalls ideas, images, etiquette, fashion, fantasy and inspiration from the many faces of tea culture.

Media included are sculpture, painting, photography, performance, teapots, cozies, and tea tastings
Participants include Vinney Flores, Hera Lee, Jessica Moreno, Heather Nuanes, Audrey Penven, Piper Snow, Shalene Valenzuela, Lexa Walsh, Corey Weinstein and others.


May 19 - 28 2006
Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland CA
499 Embarcadero Ave #3
Oakland, CA 94606


Opening reception Friday, May 19, 2006 7pm

Gallery Hours:




Fore More Information please contact:


Cricket Engine Collective & Gallery
499 Embarcadero Ave #3
Post 2, Box 7
Oakland, CA 94606
510.835.1920
email: info@cricketengine.org
website: www.cricketengine.org

For those of you in the North Bay . . .

ART WORKS DOWNTOWN is hosting several events in May:

DRAWING IN BLACK + WHITE
juried by Barbara Morris, Contributing Editor for Artweek Magazine
Show runs April 27 - June 16
*RECEPTION: Thursday. May 4, 5pm-7pm*

Marin Jewelers Guild
ART FOR THE CAUSE
1000 Origami Cranes folded for hope and healing from cancer
10% of all sales April 25 through May 14 benefit The Marin Cancer Project
Thursday, May 4 : Opening Reception, 5 to 7:30 pm
View etchings and relief prints by guest artist Barbara Stikker
www.marinjewelersguild.com/

SUMMERLAND
Presented by AlterTheater
April 28 - May 14
AWD hosts San Rafael's storefront theater in a premiere of Brian Thorstenson's new play Summerland.
Fridays + Saturdays, 8p.m.
Sundays, 2:30 + 7pm.
Tickets: $20 available online
www.altertheater.org
or Box Office (415) 454 - 2787

MARIN OPEN STUDIOS
*May 6 + 7*
11am - 5pm
www.marinarts.org/openstudios.htm

*All events will be held at the AWD gallery at 1337 Fourth St (near D St) in San Rafael*
except for Marin Jewelers Guild reception, 2 doors down at 1331 Fourth St, San Rafael

Art Works Downtown is a non-profit art center located in downtown San Rafael that features 40 artist studios, gallery, ceramic center, jewelry collective, classes, and affordable housing for artists.
For more info: www.artworksdowntown.org

"Queen of Polk St."
An eclectic group show featuring local gals and their paintings.

Backstage Salon & Gallery
2134 Polk St. (@ Broadway), San Francisco

Reception on Thursday, May 18
7 pm to 10 pm
Free to the public / All ages welcome!

Tonight, May 5th - Oakland Art Murmur - most participating galleries easily accessible by BART - First Friday art walk from 7 to 10 pm.

www.oaklandartmurmur.com

near 19th St. BART
Front Gallery
RPS
Mama Buzz Cafe
21 Grand
Ego Park
Esteban Sabar Gallery

near MacArthur BART
Rowan Morrison
Boontling
Auto 3321

SF Weekly Best of San Francisco 2006

Thursday, May 18
Ruby Skye, 420 Mason St., SF
Doors at 9PM
$5 Cover

Come celebrate my artwork, along with other winners from the Best of SF 2006, at this show! More details at www.sfweekly.com and www.stephanieschmitt.net

Museum of Craft and Folk Art explores African-American quilt-making

Mothers enjoy free admission on Mother's Day May 14!

The Museum of Craft and Folk Art presents Circles Unbroken: Four Generations of African-American Quiltmakers, an exhibition of quilts by four women of one family whose quiltmaking legacy stretches back two centuries. The exhibition features eighteen quilts drawn from the collection of Eli Leon and chosen jointly with Museum staff. Circles Unbroken is on view at the new Museum of Craft and Folk Art at 51 Yerba Buena Lane in downtown San Francisco from May 4 through July 23, 2006.

Gladys Henry, Laverne Brackens, Sherry Byrd, and Bara Byrd represent four generations of this Texas quiltmaking family, who are carrying on a tradition that dates to the time of slavery in America. Rather than piecing in a conventional, all-corners-meet style, this family creates quilts guided by receptivity to the materials at hand and a sensitivity to visual rhythms and designs that emerge in the making. “I don’t go by patterns. I make it up out of my head,” Laverne Brackens says. “When you pick up the material and start working with it, that’s when you know what [the quilt] will be.” Laverne’s mother, Gladys Henry, who pieced and quilted five days a week, passed away in 1996 at the age of ninety, but Gladys’ granddaughter, Sherry Byrd, and thirty-year-old great-granddaughter, Bara Byrd, are continuing the family heritage.

— For more information, visit www.mocfa.org —

AWAKE! Art Show
Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland

Art by:
Joseph Slusky, Chip Sullivan, Antjuan, Andrew Chapman, Telefecteau, Carolyn Chitty, Kelly Porter, Cecilia Elguero

Performances/Music:
Petracovich, Slow Children, Lisa Mezzacappa's MODEL BAND, The Gowns, DJ Enso, The Vultures, Adam.01

see the flyer for more details:
www.gracchus.net/flyer.html

May 20th 7pm-11pm
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland 94611

$1-$20 sliding scale donation
no one turned away for lack of funds