January 2011
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Melting glass, bending metal, carving wood,...
Jon Drier
The first two weeks of January proved to be a tightly-wound springboard for a year of creative work for some 24 students, three artist-teachers and two studio volunteers at Cabrillo College Adult Education winter break Warm Glass/Lighting Workshop. In an otherwise nearly empty campus, the bustling 3-D Studios of the Visual and Performing Arts campus seemed ready to take up the slack...
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Help the Mural Detective Reclaim Lost Murals for...
Unlike paintings that hang in frames on walls and are treated with care as precious artworks, murals painted on walls outdoors or even inside public spaces often deteriorate because of weather or graffit or are “painted over” or abused because buildings change hands and walls take on new uses. Since I began to look for these lost murals I have discovered how much meaning some of these...
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Scrooge 2010 Cheers Cabrillo Stage Audiences—a New...
The face of a gigantic clock marks the place as well as the time of the action and plays an important role in a marvelous production of the updated Dickens’ classic, Scrooge, at Cabrillo Stage. From the first rousing greeting by a stage full of caroling Victorian Londoners to the exhilarating full-throated conclusion, there is not a lagging moment. Even the “Bah Humbug! Tired of Christmas”...
