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Victoria Dalkey: 'Brilliant Earth' rocks eyes, ears at Roseville's Blue Line Gallery

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Published May 21, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Judi Stickney's "Sentinel," a sculpture of sandstone, bronze and steel. It's in the "Brilliant Earth" exhibit at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... Deanna Marsh and Judi Stickney have taken a rocky road to art ... Marsh and Stickney, both rockhounds, are the featured artists in "Brilliant Earth," a show on the beauty of nature at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... They use natural materials, ranging from geodes and petrified bamboo to semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and amethyst

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Event: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda -- the best & worst of moms & dads--PopUp Gallery at Pop-Up Gallery@R25, Thu, May 13 4:00p

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Published April 28, 2010 at 8:53 a.m.

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda -- featuring more than 600 ties for sale, collected by Keith Burns, and aprons for mom painted by regional artists plus paintingcollage, mixed media, and photography, by Lawrence Fox, and jewelry by local artists Daphne Burgess, Erika Foley, Sister Sheba, and Tamara Short. Also featured Hilda Tonarely, and other MatrixArts members plus estate jewelry and collectible books by Books on Main ...

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Event: I Heart Art at Cesar Chavez Plaza, Thu, May 13 11:00a

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Published April 16, 2010 at 10:09 a.m.

Join us for I Heart Art Craft Market in Cesar Chavez Plaza at 10th & J streets. Every Thursday May 6 through October 28, come and shop handmade items directly from the artists from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. www.downtownsac.org/iheartart ...

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An 1885 festival marked the birth of the Crocker Art Museum

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Published May 2, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Courtesy of Crocker Art MuseumAbout 20,000 people filled the Agricultural Pavilion during festivities surrounding Margaret Crocker's gift of the Crocker Art Museum ... All of Sacramento took a holiday on May 6, 1885. Shops, schools and banks closed, and even trains stopped running, so that everyone could attend "the grandest floral exhibition ever witnessed." ... The city paused that day to honor wealthy widow Margaret Crocker who, surrounded by fragrant blooms and a grateful citizenry, gave

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Sacramento airport art not yet cleared for takeoff

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Published May 5, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Oops ... Artist Lawrence Argent bit his lip as he surveyed the girders rising at Sacramento airport's new terminal ... "Where are we gonna bring him in?" he said ... Argent is working on a 56-foot-long leaping red rabbit sculpture to suspend above the terminal's main atrium. It will be the signature art piece for the new building ... Except it's too big to get in the door ... Can you leave a hole in the wall? Argent asked construction crews during a recent site visit. Sorry, they said. Back

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Map: Second Saturday - 05/08/10

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Published May 6, 2010 at 5:14 p.m.

Second Saturday is a phenomenon in Sacramento -- a combination of art galleries, music, dining and street life that has the whole city talking. Here is a guide to this month's Second Saturday art walk ... *Don't miss out on free parking at The Sacramento Bee on the corner of 21st & Q ... BEES AT THE BEE ... WHAT: Works by more than 60 artists will be on display – and for sale – at a special art show and benefit for the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of

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Reticent artist draws spotlight

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Published March 16, 2010 at 10:45 a.m.
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Linda Laaksonen has become the informal resident artist at the Walnut Whitney care home in Carmichael. "I never thought anyone would be interested in what I was doing," says Laaksonen, 56, who uses a wheelchair because of nerve damage in her legs ... At first, Linda Laaksonen kept her art to herself ... Alone in her room at the Walnut Whitney care home in Carmichael, she created pencil sketches and drawings to pass the time and stave off sadness ... "I never thought anyone would be interested in

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Review: Berkeley Art Museum offers insightful retrospective of William T. Wiley

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Published April 4, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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"Sketch for the Tower of Babloid and the Monitor" is a charcoal, graphite and acrylic work by William T. Wiley ... Quixotic, perplexing, brilliant and maddening are just a few of the words that can be used to describe the idiosynscratic works of William T. Wiley. One of the most prominent artists to come out of Northern California, Wiley at 73 has earned an international reputation for his uncompromisingly provocative work ... "What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect" offers a survey

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Art review: Maija Peeples-Bright at Solomon Dubnick Gallery

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Published March 7, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.
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"Martha Woofington" shows Maija Peeples-Bright's sense of fun ... You couldn't ask for a clearer illustration of the gulf between West Coast and East Coast art than the current shows of paintings and ceramics by Maija Peeples-Bright at Solomon Dubnick and an assortment of works, mostly by New York artists, at Verge ... The difference is partly generational. Peeples-Bright is a veteran of the 1960s Funk Art movement while the New Yorkers are of a post-postmodern generation. But temperament and

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Folsom joins Second Saturday art walk

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Published April 9, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Historic Folsom will join the Second Saturday art celebration this week, with an art walk, live music, street performers and special tastings 4-9 p.m. Events will be held the second Saturday of each month throughout the year. The event is free ... Here are exhibit locations for Saturday's art walk ... • 1. Sutter Street Steakhouse Lobby, ... 604 Sutter St. – art by eight artists from ... Folsom Arts Association ... • 2. Clouds Pottery, 608 1/2 Sutter St. – ... unique pottery ... • 3.

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