Larry's Retirement Part 3

With encouragement from fellow staff members my retirement party from the San Geronimo Valley Community Center also became my solo art reception. One of my primary duties at the Center was the role of Visual Arts Coordinator. I put on hundreds of art shows but always felt with all the artists waiting their turn it would be inappropriate to take a slot for myself.  It would be my last art hanging at the Center and it was suggested the title should be "Larry Hangs it Up".

What evolved was a sort of broad retrospective that included my youthful cartooning days and my relatively more recent printmaking.

The retirement party was a wonderful gratifying event.

And I really enjoyed. seeing my decades old comic art 

    

Here's my attempt at a video tour of the exhibit:

All art copyright 2024 R L Rippee

Thanks to my son Sam for assistance

Larry’s Retirement Part 2

 Retiring is harder than I thought. But then again, I never did it before. It has it’s own learning curve.

Here’s a nice article from the San Geronimo Valley Community Center’s quarterly paper Stone Soup.

   

Larry Rippee as illustrated by Molly Rea

Hanging It Up

 As of last week I’ve retired from the San Geronimo Valley Community Center where I worked in Arts and Events. I’ve already said it all in my recent column in the Center’s quarterly newspaper Stone Soup. So, rather than rehashing here it is:

Art by Laura Kradjan-Cronin

Laura Kradjan-Cronin (Photo by Donn deAngelo)

I’ve worked with Laura Kradjan-Cronin many times over the years exhibiting her work as a solo artist and in numerous group shows in the Maurice Del Mue galleries ay the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.

In fact, we just had her in a pop-up show in early October. 

But Laura also has a solo show in the Marin Valley Gallery at the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club in Novato.                        

                                                                      

                                                                      

                                Here are a few pieces from both of those shows.

 

This one’s not in the show (It’s still in her studio) but I like it and want to show it anyway.

The exhibit runs from October until December at the Marin Valley Gallery

                           100 Marin Valley Drive • Novato,  Marin County, Ca.

Larry’s Cartoon Vault: Things Don’t Change Much

Here’s another cartoon clip of days gone by. This one by the legendary Herblock from 1949. You know, back in the olden days when various groups found it politically useful to scapegoat school teachers.

Larry's Cartoon Vault: Things Don't Change Much

Every so often I post an old cartoon clip here under the heading "Things Don't Change Much" (aka Cartoon Deja Vu).

This one is a little different.

In this instance, the cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker (date unknown, but certainly a few decades old), the topic (persecuted people) is familiar but what is absent is the divisiveness that seems almost mandatory today.  

Just as interesting is the fact that Shoemaker was a political conservative and founder of the Christian Artists Fellowship Club  He said he began each cartooning work day with a prayer. Today, more often than not, the 'persecuted' are demonized by conservative media.

(You can see more "Things Don't Change Much" cartoon clips by going to the search box in the upper left corner)

Guy Colwell's Historical Graphic Novel of Hieronymus Bosch

 Guy Colwell has a new historic graphic novel out titled Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch published by Fantagrpahics.