Atkinsons Park Ketchum

2nd Annual Fundraiser for Boulder Mountain Clayworks

Thursday July 5 from 5:30-8:30 $50.00/ticket

• Complementary wine cups
• Artesian Pizza from the Red Oven
• Raku Firing: glaze a pot and fire it
• Super Raffle Prize
• Silent Auction- studio potters fantastic creations
• Build and Bid- potter's will build, you bid and select your own glaze

208-726-4484  Email: www.bouldrmtnclay@yahoo.com Website:www.bouldermtnclay.com

417 E 10th St Industrial Center Ketchum

The Sun Valley Center Arts & Crafts Festival ranks among the top 20 in the country for sales of fine art at juried art fairs and festivals. The festival is #19 on the Art Fair SourceBook 2012 Top 100 list based upon reported average net sales of exhibitors in 2011.

“From our perspective, the Festival is a success because of the way it brings the community together with art,” says Festival Director Britt Udesen. “But we are obviously happy that it is financially successful for our artist participants, because that allows us to keep the quality of the work high.”

Now entering its 44th year, the three-day Arts & Crafts Festival is a much-loved annual event that attracts thousands of visitors and features free live music, artist demonstrations and kids activities in addition to 130 booths of fine original arts and crafts.

Applications are now being accepted from artists for the summer 2012 festival, to be held August 10–12 at Atkinson Park in Ketchum. A full list of rules and descriptions of categories is online at www.sunvalleycenter.org and applications are available at www.zapplication.org. Applications are due midnight Wednesday, February 29. Blaine County artists are especially encouraged to apply.

Artists who need help with the application should contact festival@sunvalleycenter.org or call Sarah Kolash, Festival Manager, at 208.726.9491 ex 21.

Bidding for the Knob Hill Inn in Ketchum began at $3.1M at the auction held today. Reportedly there were 6 bidders at the auction. The property was bid up to $4.295M to an Shanghai-based American who intends to operate the property as a hotel.

I enjoy painting in an abstract contemporary style.  The freedom is in expressing whatever is surfacing on that day.  I am affected by weather and environment.  It's amusing to me to think of some passerby seeing me standing at my easel out in nature, and expecting to walk up to my canvas to view a depiction of the landscape.

Instead, they would see nothing that looks like the scene around me.  The environment influences me by the way I feel when I am painting outside or under a metal roof.  Its the sounds of the leaves, or the rain, or the quiet, the roar of an airplane overhead that come into my painting. 

Whimsy, shown here is 36x48.  The day I painted it, children were playing in the yard right outside my studio and it was their games and interaction that made their way into this piece, including reminding me of my own childhood. As the afternoon progressed, one child after another would stick their head in the open door and comment.  Soon I was painting in funny faces and simple pattens just for fun. 

As I was wrapping it up, one 6-year old exclaimed after seeing the finished product, "Mommy, Daddy, come look!  Donna has painted a masterpiece!"

I paint under the name CanZada-which is also my dance name.  I invite you to view my work at Artists Down Under at Giacobbi Square in Ketchum.  Currently I am showing two series called "Drizzle and Splash" and "Kundlalini."   I am in the gallery most Wednesdays and Fridays.  You can also view my Art Gallery and entire body of work at www.donnapsavage.com.  For more information, email donnapsavage@live.com

Registration for our 2011 summer youth recreation program will begin Friday May 6th at 8am at the Atkinson Park recreation center. Refreshments will be served and employees on hand to answer any questions/ concerns about our summer's offerings. Please take a look at our website www.ketchumidaho.org to view our summer activity guide and registartion form.

Let the games begin!

Contact Johhn Kearney at 726-7820 or jkearney@ketchumidaho.org for more info

CanZada aka Donna Savage is presenting two series this month in her installation at Arts DownUnder, located downstairs at Giacobbi Square. 

The Kundalini Series offers the following:  7 Chakras, (7) 9x12" panels, each representing a different chakra of the body.   Hung vertically in a narrow space or horizontally, the work will add height or length to a space.  Open Heart, 24x24 is in mostly green shades of the heart chakra with depth and a calming qualit.  Go with the Flow, 20x24, uses bright primary colors and moves through all chakras.  Transformation 24x36, also hung vertically or horizontally is the artists interpretation of moving through troubling emotion and feeling it transform into a clarity.  Kundalini Awakening, the signature piece of this collection, 30x50 has many layers that include sanskit writing, double helix DNA, and the full color spectrum of the 7 charkras. 

All pieces are in an abstract contemporary style that fit many decors, and make excellent feng shui tools due to the full spectrum of color and the balance they bring to a space.  CanZada uses a drip technique which lends a sense of water falling in each piece, bringing a soothing quality even as the colors are vibrant and alive.   Some comment that looking at a piece is similar to looking out a window awash with rain to a garden. 

CanZada is in the gallery Wednesdays and Fridays from 10-2.  CanZada is known locally as Donna Savage, author of The Man and The Shark (for sale at Chapter One and Iconoclast & Arts DownUnder), feature writer for 11:11 A Magazine Devoted to the Journey of the Soul, and Belly Dance Instructor who will be teaching a movement class at the Sun Valley Wellness Festival.  For more info go to www.donnapsavage.com