FOLIO March-April 2007 - Pasadena Arts Council

March/April 2007 Volume 2 Issue 2
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HOW SWEET IT IS
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Sweet Relief Provides Assistance to
Music’s Most Precious Resource—The Artist
T
he office is definitely on
the casual side, with music posters taped to the
walls and a big orange couch
in the middle of the room; it
could be the headquarters
of a software startup or hip
design group. Instead, however, the staff of Pasadenabased Sweet Relief Musicians
Fund deals on a daily basis
with serious issues faced by
musicians all over the country.
Established in 1994, Sweet Relief
helps musicians of all kinds with
financial assistance when illness, disability or age-related problems affect their ability to work or perform.
“Musician” covers a wide spectrum
in the music industry, explains Man-
aging Director JoAnne Klabin, but
the organization has specific criteria
which qualify an artist for aid. “Musicians can be performers or songwriters from any genre—classical,
rock, jazz, blues, the whole range—
but they must have performed publicly, or had their music performed,
on a regular basis for a period of at
least three years. It’s about whether
someone has made a contribution
to music,” she notes. “We also help
elderly musicians, regardless of
medical condition, who are having
trouble making ends meet.”
Sweet Relief’s grant committee is
composed solely of musicians, who
understand the health and financial
sacrifices artists have to make
in order to survive as artists. The
Above: Beck performs at a Sweet
Relief fundraiser, courtesy Berliner
Photography LLC; Below: Sweet
Relief staff from left: Julie Klabin,
Eric Layer, JoAnne Klabin
committee carefully reviews
each request and makes
decisions based on the
applicant’s contribution
to the field, the factors
that have contributed to
financial need, the seriousness of the musician’s
medical condition, and other resources the musician
might have.
How Sweet It Is
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
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Historic Herkimer
Arms
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ArtNight Pasadena
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Source Notes:
Life During Wartime
The organization was founded by singer/songwriter Victoria
Williams, and is guided by a
board of directors comprised of
members of the music industry. It
is funded primarily by the music
community through benefit concerts, auctions and albums.
continued on page 4
The Pasadena Arts Council is grateful to these
Artists and Arts Advocates for their generous support.
Thank you!
Sustaining ($1,000+)
Contributing (continued)
Member (Under $100)
Avery Dennison Foundation
Maureen Carlson
Margaret Adams and Joel Edstrom
Patron ($500-$999)
Bill & Claire Bogaard
Ken Carmichael and
Charles Lewis
Janice Carr
James Aguiar and Randi
Burke-Aguiar
Walter Askin
Walter and Suzanne Cochran-Bond
Bill and Rosemary Barbus
Francine Tolkin Cooper
John and Kathy Berchild
Lynn and Carl Cooper
Alice and Joe Coulombe
Roman Andrew Borek
Paul August Bruins-Slot
Kitty Dillavou
Janice Carr
Louise Dougherty
David and Rebecca Ebershoff
Joanne Eccleston
Vibiana A. Chamberlin
Sandy Chestnutt
John Clayton
Evelyn English
Esmeralda Gibson
Jean and Donald Freshwater
Cornelia Fuller
Kimberly and Julio Gonzalez
Betty Ho
Donna Gale
Raymond Girvigian
Stan Kong
Jane and Robert Leese
Nancy Guth
Annie Haggstrom
Roger Lockie
Ed Low
Diane and Craig Martin
Jim and Ginny Heringer
Seta Injeyan
Cynthia Martel
Judy and Steve McDonald
France Hughes Meindl
Bob and Arlene Oltman
Sarah Smith Orr
Billy Mitchell
Mei Lee Ney
Marianna B. Plott
Clifford Present
Gregory Norton
Inez Chapman Pickering
Estelle Schlueter
William Schubert
John D. F. Tarr, M.D.
Deborah and D Paul Thomas
Charles S. Tilghman
John and Andrea Van de Kamp
Carlton and Charlotte Varner
Barton and Pamela Wald
Scott and Julie Ward
Bill and Janet Wells
Ian and Barbara White-Thomson
Robert Winter
Maureen and Sherman Railsback
Deborah Reed
Wendy Roach
Norm Schmidt
William F. Schubert, M.D.
Linda Ledeen Schwartz
Mervyn Seldon
Mary Ann Shemdin
Barbara Simpson
Kathy Soulek
Gretel Stephens
Tom & Laney Techentin
Deborah and D. Paul Thomas
Barbara L. Harvey
Terri and Jerry Kohl
Steve Madison
Dianne M. Magee
John Moran
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Arts Advocates
Peggy Phelps
Alexandra B. Reeves
Barbara Steinwedell
Sid and Betsey Tyler
Lyla White
Sponsoring ($250-$499)
David and Nadine Alon
Debbie Babcock
Olin and Ann Barrett
Jane Caughey
Sheldon Epps
Jetty & Miller Fong
Charles and Kathryn
Hofgaarden
Steven Kanter, M.D.
Lena L. Kennedy
Richard and Dolores Kroop
Joyce and Tom Leddy
Annamarie Mitchell
David Spiro
Sally Warner and
Christopher Davis
Contributing ($100-$249)
Gillian Bagwell
Rocky Behr
Rosey Bell
Elayne Bernstein-Landy
Judith B. Brandt
John and Louise Brinsley
David and Judith Brown
Thomas R. Cantwell
Additional generous support from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Gifts received through February 1, 2007
From the
editor
but the system has truly energized
and enlivened my reading program.
Having just devoured Suite
Française by Irene Némirovsky
and Ian McEwan’s Saturday, I’m
now deep into The Ghost Map by
Steven Johnson, a fascinating
study of the 1854 cholera outbreak
in London.
ONE CITY, MANY BOOKS
I grew up finding refuge and wonder
at the Pasadena Public Library.
Those cork floors, the blond wood
tables and chairs, the delicious
scent of row after row of books,
books, books. I remember being a
4th grader and eagerly awaiting
the start of the Linda Vista branch
summer reading program; that
year’s theme was trains. You started off with a little paper locomotive
with your name on it, which was
placed on a model railroad set up
on a big table in the middle of the
room. For every book you read,
you got a railroad car to add to
your train. All that heavenly reading, all summer long, and you got
to show off your efforts to boot.
As a way-too-busy adult, though,
my visits to the Library had tailed
off. There was a blissful period
when my son Alex was small and
we were weekly regulars at the
San Rafael branch; I could be seen
pushing the stroller home with half
a dozen books tucked under and
around my 3-year-old. But trips to
the library just for
myself—with time for browsing
and dreaming—were becoming
precious few.
Happily, technology came to the
rescue, and now I’m completely
addicted to ordering books via the
Library’s excellent array of online
services. Check it out: if you have
a library card, you already have
an online account (enter the number on the back of your card; your
PIN is the last four digits of your
home phone number). Browsing
on my own, I keep a list of titles
from book reviews and recommendations from friends, order them up
on the website and then they magically appear at the branch I’ve
designated. A cheerful green postcard arrives in my mailbox, telling
me that a title is waiting and that
I’ll have a week to pick it up.
When I do, it’s an
amazing gift—a free
book! OK, you do
have to give it back,
Here’s a great way to jump in: This
month the Library kicks off One
City, One Story (Pasadena’s
community-wide read-the-book
campaign), presenting The Distant
Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
(see below). Order it up
on the library website,
and learn more about the
book, related discussion
topics, reading groups
and special events at
www.onecityonestory.
From the Editor
com.
You can meet
Bo Caldwell on Friday,
March 16th, at 7:00 pm,
at All Saints Church (free)
to hear her discuss her book and
her writing.
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And don’t forget to support the
Pasadena Public Library on March
6th by voting yes on Measure C.
The measure will cost a Pasadena
resident only about the price of a
store-bought novel per year, and
in return you get access to...all
those books!
-Terry LeMoncheck
Anna, the narrator of this riveting first novel, lives in a storybook
world: exotic pre-World War II Shanghai, with handsome young parents, wealth, and comfort. Her father, the son of missionaries, leads a
charmed and secretive life, though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee
Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California, he stays behind,
believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe.
Through Anna’s memories and her father’s journals we learn of his fall
from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner, in a story of betrayal
and reconciliation that spans two continents. The Distant Land of My
Father, a breathtaking and richly lyrical debut, unfolds to reveal an
enduring family love through tragic circumstances.
continued from page 1
When Victoria was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1992, she, like most
musicians, had no health insurance to
help defray the mounting cost of her
illness. Consequently, she faced the possibility of not getting adequate treatment
to maintain her health. Her predicament
did not go unnoticed however, and as
word of her condition spread, the music
community responded with an unprecedented flow of support. An impressive
array of Victoria’s friends and fans volunteered their talents and performed at
benefit concerts in New York and Los
Angeles. The concerts raised over $20,000
and inspired Williams’ admirers to
assemble the Sweet Relief album, which
features
fourteen
versions of Victoria’s
compositions.
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As Klabin puts it,
“Victoria being who
she is, she said ‘I
How Sweet It Is
don’t need all this
(continued)
money. Why don’t
we start a fund for
other musicians who might have health
problems?’” The fund was established as
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and its
first grants were paid out in late 1994.
Medical expenses, alternative therapies,
prescriptions and living expenses are
considered when applications are evaluated by the Sweet Relief team, and
dental and mental health costs may also
qualify. Applications are carefully evaluated and Klabin, a lawyer by training,
also works with applicants on other
financial strategies to help stabilize and
improve the artist’s situation. “Our help
is temporary,” she says. “When someone qualifies for help, we decide what
we can do for them, but I might also
refer that person to three or four other
charities that can either continue what
we do or do something else that we
don’t do. We focus on what is really
important for survival.”
All musical genres are represented in
Sweet Relief’s roster of grantees but,
Klabin observes, “the people who have
it most together [for the application
process] not surprisingly are classical
musicians, and the people who have a
more difficult time are blues musicians.
For a lot of blues musicians especially, this
is more than just a profession; some are
subliterate and there aren’t other jobs that
they’re trained for or are able to do.”
Funding for the grant program has
changed over the years since the first
and second Sweet Relief albums began
generating a cash flow. Initially it was
relatively easy for the organization to
solicit contributions from the
recording industry, before it
became more centralized and
“closed ranks,” according
to Klabin, when solicitations
began to increase dramatically. However, thanks to the
legendary loyalty of rock and
pop music fans, Sweet Relief
benefits from an auction program which currently provides
nearly all of its funding.
Here’s how it works: The
organization contacts the
management of a performing
artist for a concert package
donation, which may consist of a pair of prime seats
and two backstage “meet &
greet” passes; the package is
then auctioned on eBay. Musicians as diverse as Dwight
Yoakam, Barbra Streisand,
Patti Smith, Aerosmith, Billy
Joel, Beck, Pearl Jam, Melissa Etheridge
are among the hundreds of artists and
bands who have donated concert packages or otherwise supported Sweet
Relief over the years. Keith Urban is “of
course, the king,” Klabin states with conviction. During a recent concert tour,
Urban chose Sweet Relief and a children’s hospital in Nashville as special
beneficiaries, and provided tickets and
meet & greet passes for every show on
the tour—packages which were auctioned
for as much as $15,000 each. Lucky
fans were admitted to a VIP acoustic
set before the show, conversation with
Keith, a photo op and excellent seats
for the concert.
While the 100 or so auctions per year
bring in funds for grantmaking and operating costs, Klabin and her staff have
begun to consider an individual donor
campaign. The challenge, as she sees
it, is “how to approach a huge population of people whose common denominator is simply that they love music, and
how to channel compassion into that.”
In the meantime, Sweet Relief provides
a way for fellow artists and fans to acknowledge the importance of music in
all of our lives by giving back to the
musicians who make it happen.
HISTORIC HERKIMER ARMS
APARTMENTS THREATENED
By Merry Ovnick
President, Society of Architectural Historians, Southern California Chapter
Pasadenans and architectural historians in general are astir about Pasadena City
Council’s unanimous decision to grant a demolition permit to Fuller Theological
Seminary for the Herkimer Arms (1912), the only apartment house designed
by Greene & Greene. The religious school wants to replace it with a modern
chapel. Neutra scholar Barbara Lamprecht, in an open letter to the seminary,
has pointed out that this commission saw the Greene brothers experimenting
successfully with the new technology and aesthetic of sprayed Gunite,
employing built-in trundle beds and kitchen cabinetry with a modernist’s eye
to functional efficiency, and integrating an apartment house into the scale of
a residential neighborhood. Architect and former SAH/SCC President Ted
Historic Herkimer
Wells emphasizes the significance of Herkimer Arms to understanding
Arms
Charles and Henry Greene’s body of work. This structure illustrates
their post-Arts & Crafts period of innovation. Fuller Theological
Seminary could well use a nearby underutilized church as its chapel and
save Herkimer Arms within the context of its original neighborhood. Another
possibility is to move Herkimer Arms, also known as the Parker A. Earle
Apartments, to a new location—an empty or potentially vacant lot elsewhere
in Pasadena. Wells notes Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard’s interest in funding
adaptation to affordable housing. And Pasadena Heritage director Sue
Mossman observes that city financial support for adaptive reuse—along with
the $200,000 offered by the seminary for a relocation project—will be
necessary, considering the high cost of land and house-moving, unless a
funding angel comes to the rescue. The search is on for a prospective new
location in a compatible neighborhood setting before the clock runs out. The
city granted a 12-month stay on the demolition permit, until November 2007.
If anyone knows of a Pasadena lot or of a way to persuade Fuller Theological
Seminary to revise its plans, please speak up. Or go take a last look at this
interesting Greene & Greene work at 527 E. Union Street in Pasadena.
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About The Society of Architectural Historians, Southern California Chapter
(SAH/SCC) is a non-profit organization of volunteer enthusiasts. Although its
parent organization, the Society of Architectural Historians, is a professional
organization for academics, SAH/SCC draws its members primarily from the
community at large. The organization is dedicated to promoting the appreciation and understanding of Southern California’s rich architectural history,
and offers on-site tours, lectures, discussions, and other events in support of
its mission. Learn more at www.sahscc.org.
This page, clockwise from right: Metro Gallery: Ray Kampf, Political Spin, ink jet digital illustration, 17 x 24 inches; Pasadena
Museum of History, Sam Hyde Harris, Altadena, California, oil on
canvas, 12 x 16 inches, collection of Harris Estate; The Pasadena
Symphony: Jorge Mester, Music Director of the Pasadena Symphony, conducts a recent performance of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, featuring Russian violinist Ilya Kaler; Armory Northwest:
In Darkness & Light, Craig Havens, Starball (detail), Los Angeles,
California, 2005, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 inches.
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ArtNight Pasadena
A free event, Friday, March 9, 2007, 6 to 10 pm
Come join this biannual Cultural Pasadena event! Experience the wide variety of art offered by
museums and cultural institutions in Pasadena. Free shuttles will loop throughout the evening with
stops at each venue. Park at any one venue and ride to the others. For more information on
ArtNight Pasadena please call the ArtNight Pasadena Hotline 626-744-7887.
ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Off the Wall/Silent Art Auction 2007
Over 90 works of art by Southern California contemporary artists are included in
this exhibition. Visitors can bid on artworks
at any time; final bidding for this silent auction will be at the Armory’s Off the Wall
benefit Saturday, March 10, 7-11 p.m.
The exhibition NewTown: Medical/Arts
will also be on view.
ARMORY NORTHWEST
Darkness & Light This juried exhibition
includes art by twelve Southern California
artists in art installation, video, sculpture,
painting and photography. The exhibition
focuses on change in value (colors from
black to white) as well as the psychological
or emotive qualities light and darkness
give to works of art.
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
WILLIAMSON/STUDENT GALLERIES
reGeneration: 50 Photographers of
Tomorrow In the Williamson Gallery,
reGeneration looks at photography in
the twenty-first century, and probes its
changing relationship to the pictorial
traditions and photographic technologies
of the past. Also, experience the future
of art and design innovation in the college’s
Student Gallery. The Pasadena Summer
Youth Chamber Orchestra performs from
7 to 9pm.
BOSTON COURT PERFORMING ARTS COMPLEX
Zebulon Projects An evening of live
entertainment with an olio of jazz, blues,
folk, classical guitar, a cappella doo wop,
spoken word presentations, song, true life
tales, fairy tales and tall tales—classical
to modern day music and theatre, interactive and traditional entertainment.
LIGHT BRINGER PROJECT
Mentors at Metro A special exhibition
in a unique space featuring artwork from
faculty and students of the Art Department
at Cal Poly Pomona University. Enjoy
refreshments and view this collaborative
show of sculpture, painting, mixed media
and digital work by 32 faculty and students.
NORTON SIMON MUSEUM OF ART
A Centennial Celebration: The Life
of Norton Simon Pairing informative
text with rarely seen photographs from
the Museum’s archive, A Centennial
Celebration explores Simon’s many accomplishments in the business and art
world. Also, last chance to view the exhibition The Collectible Moment: Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum,
closing March 12!
ONE COLORADO IN OLD PAS
Armory Public View: Daniel Buren
One of the world’s most famous installation artists, Buren has created a monumental artwork, titled Pergola—a long
walkway covered with colored pieces of
Plexiglas. Videos by four contemporary
artists, including Brian Bress and Silvia
Gruner, are on view as part of Armory
DigitalForum.
PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM & PASADENA SYMPHONY
Jade, Silk and Porcelain: the Materials of Asian Art Enjoy exquisite
natural beauty in the debut of this exhibition; also, go beyond the clichéd image
of Shangri-la and reincarnated lamas in
Daily Rituals: Himalayan Art in Practice;
and explore an all-new Korean Gallery.
The Pasadena Symphony is going
‘on tour’... to Pacific Asia Museum!
An ensemble of musicians will perform
a medley of Asian-inspired works by
classical and contemporary composers
selected to enhance your museum experience, including Brahms’ Hungarian
Dances, chamber pieces by Haydn,
and, in between sets, information about
the works and composers.
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
Peter Alexander The College Art Gallery features paintings and sculptures
by Alexander, known for his beautifully
painted skies, water vistas and fetish
finish surfaces. Also, live music, a 32video projection site-specific installation
exploring movement, action and the
struggle for power, as well as international sculpture in the George Boone
Sculpture Garden.
PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Spontaneous Fantasia - 6:30 7:30
8:30 Experience classic music works in
an exciting new way as musicians play
music by Chopin, Saint-Saens, Bach
and others while artist J. Walt Adamczyk draws with computer interfaces,
creating gestural shapes and sequences
that move and flow with the music.
PASADENA JAZZ INSTITUTE
Hot House Features the music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie with two
world class ensembles playing opposite
each other for continuous swinging
sounds from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Enjoy the jazz gallery, blue room and
ArtNight After Party from 10:00 pm to
midnight featuring the Paul Lines Trio.
PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART
Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman’s
Social Surrealism Irving Norman is
a Surrealist painter whose murals seek
to “tell the truth of our time.” Also, view
a new installation by JPL’s artist-in-residence, Dan Goods: The Hidden Light,
experience Collector’s Choice; Hanson
Puthuff, and a performance by Lineage
Dance. Visit the terrace for a DJ set by
Soup Kitchen Collective and cash bar.
PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Who Was Sam? The Art of Sam
Hyde Harris (1889-1977) At the
Pasadena Museum of History, view
250+ works by the celebrated Southern
California painter and commercial artist. Also, art demonstrations, workshop
and slideshow by Pasadena Society of
Artists, and a living history experience
with actors portraying Sam Hyde Harris,
Eva Fenyes and Benjamin Brown.
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ArtNight Pasadena
PASADENA PUBLIC LIBRARY
CENTRAL LIBRARY
Onochie Chukwurah Celebrate with
Onochie Chukwurah’s African storytelling, singing and drumming, 6-7:00
p.m.; Flights of Fantasy folktale story
theatre, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.; learn to
salsa, cha-cha and meringue, 7-9:00
p.m. and listen to musical performances
by the Crown City Chamber Players.
The Coffee Bar is open.
This page, clockwise from left: Boston Court: Zebulon
Projects’ production of Canta Luna, Danny Bolero as
Federico Garcia Lorca; One Colorado:Daniel Buren,
Pergola, work in situ for Pasadena, 2007, Courtesy
Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France; One of the
arrtworks for sale in the Armory’s Off the Wall:
Gregory Michael Hernandez, Hole in the Wall #21
(Angelus), 2006 oil on photos stapled to linen 15 x
24 inches; Pacific Asia Museum: Irving Norman, To
Have and Have Not, 1980, oil on canvas.
Source Notes
LIFE DURING WARTIME
WWW.POSTSECRET.BLOGSPOT.COM
WWW.FINSTER.COM
LEV MOROSS GALLERY
BLUE – JONI MITCHELL, 1971
By SUSAN TURNER-LOWE
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Source Notes
I am sure I’m the last person on the planet to come
across this, but I was really taken with Frank Warren’s
Jan. 14 piece in the LA Times about his “PostSecret
Project.” Warren is the guy who a few years ago
started handing out postcards to people, inviting
them to mail him their secrets. This month, he received his 100,000th. Lots of people out there with
lots of secrets, it seems. The postcards themselves
are cleverly designed . . . and often ruthlessly candid.
There’s one on the Web site that reads: “Through
various means many of which were highly unethical
I’ve managed to acquire nude photographs of
many of my friends’ wives.” And the postcard, of
course, is a (eyes blanked out) photo of one of
them. Wild. Not very nice. But wild.
But wait. What really struck me about Frank Warren
was something he said.
“I consider myself an accidental artist. I have no
artistic training or education. I live in a suburb with
my family and have run a small business for more
than 15 years. When people, including my wife,
asked me why I was soliciting secrets from strangers,
I could not even come up with a satisfactory answer
for myself.”
For me, this is the essence of art—that it defies
explanation. Where does it come from? The late
Howard Finster said he saw a vision of his dead
sister in a drop of paint and heard the voice of
God, and with that, he simply started painting—
mostly religious pictures—because he felt as though
the experience must have signaled a calling—to go
forward and spread the word.
Finster’s work arguably did more to spread the
word about the intrigue of visionary art than
perhaps it did about religion. By the late 1980s, I
was hooked.
I had a colleague way back when who taught English
at Clemson University in South Carolina. She said,
“Everybody’s a writer.” I responded: “How can you
say that?” To which she replied, “Everybody’s got
a story to tell.”
Indeed.
Especially these days, with body counts mounting,
the polar ice caps melting, rates of obesity up, math
scores down . . . maybe people are desperate to
unleash some creative voice that provides for a bit
of grounding. Maybe life’s overwhelming drama
is causing them to interpret, analyze, transpose,
quantify, qualify, deconstruct, reconstruct, fabricate
. . . and then, share. Think YouTube. I love this notion
of the accidental artist. Art as capriciousness.
A few weeks ago, I trotted down to see Joni Mitchell’s
exhibition, “Green Flag Song,” at the Lev Moross
Gallery on La Brea. I had read about the show not
in an art review, but in Megan Daum’s 12/6/06
op-ed column in the Times. Talk about accidental. I
never get time anymore to read the op-ed page.
And talk about accidental art. Mitchell’s
big-screen plasma TV
went on the fritz, and
so all she could see
were hazy forms moving about in a green
syrupy motion. She
grabbed a disposable camera, started
shooting the screen,
and, well, art was
born. Her show consisted of 100 or so
very large canvases
composed of three
panels each—many
from what appeared to be screen shots from Iraq,
Vietnam perhaps, and even World War II. This
was not an easy show to visit, and in fact, so dark
that on a sunny January day in Los Angeles, it was
hard to step back out onto the pavement without
feeling a bit traumatized. But if Mitchell’s point was
to take an accidental moment in time and transform it into a punch-in-the-chest political statement,
she certainly succeeded. A van parked across the
street as walked back to our car, was emblazoned
with, “We restore murals!” —and it was covered
in a fabulous montage of very spontaneous-looking
stencil and street art. And then a little voice started
spinning inside my head: Oh it gets so lonely When you’re walking - And the streets are full of
strangers - All the news of home you read - More
about the war - And the bloody changes - Oh will
you take me as l am? Will you take me as l am?
Will you?
I sang Joni Mitchell tunes (who didn’t?) all over Spain
in the mid 1970s, a student at the University of
Valencia. And then I fell madly in love with Goya
and spent hours at the Prado Museum, slack-jawed
in front of his firing-squad masterpiece The Third of
May 1808.
There is this accidental function of war, I now realize:
it produces art. And artists, and writers. Even when
the news headlines push us away, these are the
guerrillas among us who call us back, and force us
to look, and deeply. Into the mirror.
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Source Notes
Call it kismet, call it an accident, Susan Turner-Lowe
is vice president for communications at The Huntington
Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Now
on view: Constable’s Great Landscapes – This Six Foot
Paintings, through April 29. www.huntington.org
Image from Green Flag Song,
Joni Mitchell, courtesy Lev
Moross Gallery
LEV MOROSS GALLERY
962 N. LA BREA AVENUE
LOS ANGELES 323-512-0151
WWW.LEVMOROSSGALLERY.COM
The following cultural organizations and businesses are
current members of the Pasadena Arts Council
Thanks for your support!
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Members
Angels School Supply
Anglican Chorale
Armory Center for the Arts
Arroyo Singers
Art Center College of Design
Baldwin Park Unified School District
Blair IB Magnet High School
Brehm Center for Worship, Theology
& the Arts
Brenart Café Gallery
Caltech Jazz & Concert Bands
Caltech-Occidental Symphony
Caltech Public Events
Chick Russell Communications
Collenette School of Dancing
Conservatory of Puppetry Arts
Crown City Chamber Players
Danielak Art
Fine Art Digitography
Fine Artists Factory
Folk Tree
Foothill Academy of Dance
Foothill Creative Arts Group
Fremont Centre Theatre
Friends of Music at
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
Huntington Advertising
Huntington Library, Art Collections and
Botanical Gardens
Intimate Opera Company
John Moran Auctioneers
John Muir High School
Lanterman Historical Museum
Le Studio
Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts
Marshall Fundamental School
Metropolitan Associates
Monrovia Arts Festival Association
John Moran Auctioneers
Nancy Hytone Leb Arts Management Consulting
Norton Simon Museum
Old Mill Foundation
Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Serenades
Parsons Nose Family Theater
Pasadena Art Alliance
Pasadena Arts League
Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association
Pasadena Center Operating Company
Pasadena City College
Pasadena Community Orchestra
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Heritage
Pasadena Junior Theatre
Pasadena Living Magazine
Pasadena Museum of History
Pasadena Opera Guild
Pasadena POPS Orchestra
Pasadena Presbyterian Church/Friends of Music
Pasadena Pro Musica
Pasadena Public Library
Pasadena Senior Center
Pasadena Shakespeare Company
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Pasadena Society of Artists
Pasadena Suzuki Music Program
Pasadena Symphony
Playhouse District Association
Restoration Concerts-Friends of South
Pasadena Public Library
Sacatar Foundation
San Gabriel Fine Arts Association
San Marino League
SAPPA
Shakespeare League
Shumei Arts Council of America
Side Street Projects
Sierra Madre School
Shumei Arts Council
Southwest Chamber Music
Sue B Dance Company
The Bunny Museum
The Music Circle
The Next Step
Tuesday Musicale
Waverly School
Westridge School
Xiem Clay Center
Board of Trustees
Dianne Magee, President
Gillian Bagwell
Kimberly Gonzalez
Suzanna Guzmán
Barbara Harvey
Lena L. Kennedy
Stephen Nowlin
Steve Roden
Kathy Soulek
David Spiro
Leisa B. Vander Velde
Advisory Board
Elizabeth Loucks Samson,
President
Rosemary Barbus
Richard L. Barr
Roman Andrew Borek
JoAnne Brosi
John C. Crowley
Evelyn English
Peg Palmer
Brett Perkins
C. Anthony Phillips
Edith Roberts
John D. F. Tarr
Mildred Menefee Wardlow
Lyla L. White
Robert W.Winter
Executive Director
Terry LeMoncheck
Pasadena Arts Council
Non-profit Org.
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65 So. Grand Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105
phone: 626.793.8171 • fax: 626.793.5521
web: www.pasadenaartscouncil.org
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Pasadena Arts Council shall
be achieved by:
• Encouraging the appreciation of and participation in the arts among community members
and organizations.
• Facilitating and coordinating communication
among arts organizations and the community
at large.
• Recognizing community members who show
outstanding promise or make significant
contributions to the arts.
• Advocating for financial support for the arts
from public and private funding sources.
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Editor: Terry LeMoncheck
Editorial Assistant: Megan MacDonald
Designer: Jenny K. Somerville
Pasadena Arts Council
Facilitating, Empowering and
Advocating for the Arts
Vroman’s Gives Back
Vroman’s Bookstore generously supports many agencies
in Pasadena, including the Pasadena Arts Council.
Next time you’re in Vroman’s, fill out a Vroman’s Gives
Back card and circle #21—the Pasadena Arts Council.
Then, everytime you make a purchase at Vroman’s,
one percent of the total will help support the Council’s
programs and activities.
Remember to visit us online
and check out the
Arts & Culture Calendar at
www.pasadenaartscouncil.org
click on “arts and culture calendar” on the left-side navigation bar