Santa Cruz starts each month with the First Friday Art Tour. The tour is a fun comfortable way to enjoy Santa Cruz County' most talented Artists.
The Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Arts
1040 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 - info@scica.org
www.scica.org
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The Santa Cruz Education Foundation is seeking artists to exhibit their high quality fine art and craftwork for the upcoming River Arts Festival, an exciting annual festival celebrating the Monterey Bay's rich cultural and natural resources. It will take place on Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th, 2008 in the heart of Santa Cruz in the San Lorenzo Park.
River Arts Festival - call to artists
In conjunction with The Santa Cruz Education Foundation the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Arts is launching the first Santa Cruz Kinetic Sculpture Race at this years River Arts Festival. Foer more details click to see instrucations for call to entries.
The first Santa Cruz Kinetic Sculpture Race
"Faster" by Art Ganson. Created for the first sculpture race in Cambridge, MA 1982.
SANTA CRUZ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The North Pacific Gyre, also known as the Eastern Garbage Patch, the Asian Trash Trail and the Trash Vortex, is at least twice the size of Texas and hovers midway between Hawaii and San Francisco, and is filled with trash. Mountains of trash that has not and wil not biodegrade and is trapped in an area roughly 10 million square miles in size. The North Pacific Gyre is an area of swirling currents moving in a clockwise direction that all major Ocean currents lead into. Over time plastics and trash that have been intentionally and accidentally dumped into our oceans has found its way to the to the North Pacific Gyre and remains there. Accumulating at an alarming rate, it is literally forming a continent made of trash.
"X-PLOCEAN, Our Plastic Ocean" is a four month installation project by the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Arts designed to educate people about the scale of this problem as well as educate people about what they can do right now to slow down this ever increasing problem. The project will consist of a 25' Globe made from recycled plastic that will illuminate from the inside high-lighting the approximate size of the Garbage Patch. This project will be executed on the site of the Tannery Arts Center through July 2008, helping to address the issue of recycling and heighten awareness about the fragility of our Oceans.
We are half way there.
"Clay @ the Cow"
May 2nd through June 1st
@ the Dead Cow Gallery
"Art for Art"
June 5th through June 30th
@ the Mill Gallery
