The Davis Jazz Artists Festival: Beyond the Beat Generation will offer a wealth of sparkling musical gems and a selection of exciting performance painters for families and fans of all ages. Whether you’re looking for the haunting tones of a jazz chanteuse, the sounds of cutting edge, or hard-driving big bands, or classical jazz combos—or just a great cultural experience, surrounded by music and art The Davis Jazz Artists Festival: Beyond the Beat Generation will deliver it all. Mounted as an event to provide a collaboration between music and the visual arts, the festival will serve as an educational event for younger artists and musicians and will benefit the Davis High School Band Program.
The Davis Jazz Artists Festival: Beyond the Beat Generation celebrates the spirit of collaboration and creativity that flourished in California during the 1950s and early 1960s. Once a year, musicians and filmmakers, scholars and historians, painters and poets converge on Davis for this premier creative arts conference hosted by the John Natsoulas Gallery. On October 4th, 2008, artists of all genres and generations will meet again to exchange ideas and share their talents through presentations and performance. Part education, part festival, the conference seeks to recreate the stimulating and exhilarating atmosphere of a culturally and historically significant era.
CCACA 2008 brings the ultimate ceramic sculpture event to Davis, California. UC Davis, home to the late sculptor Robert Arneson, was instrumental in defining a new direction for ceramic art. In an intimate setting, you can interact with top artists in a way not possible at other venues. Enjoy delightful downtown Davis and be inspired by nationally recognized ceramic art talents. Demonstrations, lectures, shows—no other event delivers more inspired knowledge of ceramic sculpture for a better price.
Those who have never been to the Sacramento Valley may feel that these painters tend to romanticize the light. The light has become an identifiable part of Sacramento Valley art; Luxuriously rich, palpably colored, and yet possessing a remarkable clarity, it should be experienced to be understood—and here is your chance. It's there, and it's real, and the insistence upon light-as-subject is the unifying motif behind the Sacramento Valley School of Landscape Painting. In almost all landscape painting the subject is light & the ways in which it plays across familiar forms, and the ways in which it can become symbolic of other levels of experience. This has always been so. But for Sacramento Valley landscape painters, particularly in this century, the qualities of light have become an obsession, and this richness and variety of resources from which they work have produced a body of art that recalls other great ages of landscape painting.
The theme of this first exhibition is the human figure: its political and philosophical associations, and its interaction with the environment. As a result of the current political status of the United States, this focus on the human figure and condition is a conscious effort to create an exchange of ideas through art.
