A Brief Video Tour of the 33rd Annual Spring Art Show

Here’s a quick video visit to the art reception for the 33rd annual Spring Art Show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center. Much thanks to Michel Kotski for putting this together,

Homer RIP 2008-2023

Our dog “Homer'

It’s National Cartoonists Day!

 As we have for the last several years, today we salute hard working ink-slingers from present to days gone by.

Magazine cartoonist Eric Peters and comic book great Lily Renee

“Corka” aka Jon Cornin and Zena Kavin

Gag cartoonist and original “Flash’ artist, Harry Lampert

Henry Boltinoff

Edwina Dumm creator of Cap Stubbs and Tippie

Leo Salkin

Mary Gibson

Bob Barnes

Jeffery Monahan

Ed Wheelan

The multi talented Fred G.Cooper

Editorial cartoonist Edmund Gale

A. John Kaunus

Chas. Strauss

Barney Tobey

Comic book great, Matt Baker

Gag cartoonist Merrylen Townsend

Disney artist and gagster Roy Williams

Ed Nofziger magazine cartoonist and animator

The great humorous illustrator, Arnold Roth

Tom ‘Zib’ Zibelli

Walter Berndt, creator of “Smitty’

Reamer Keller

Ted Brown

Old time cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News and N.Y. Herald Tribune

Fontaine Fox, creator of the Toonerville Trolly

Jimmy “They’ll Do It Every Time’ Hatlo

Comic strip artist and pulp illustrator, Rex Maxon

Fine gag cartoonist Anthony Vincent LaMendola who later changed his name to George Dole

Hilda Terry, creator of “Teena”

Bill O’Malley

Pulitzer Prize winner Ding Darling

Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, Jim Borgman (and co-creator of “Zits)

Humorous illustrator, Michael C. Witte

Cartoonist and animator, Bill Plympton

Master caricaturist Al Hirschfeld as drawn by master caricaturist David Levine

Master caricaturist David Levine as drawn by master caricaturist Al Hirschfeld

Editorial cartoonist Charles Sykes

Cartoonist harry J. Westerman’s tribute to the passing of cartoonist Billy Ireland

H.T.Webster

Happy national cartoonist Day. it’s also Cinco de Mayo and, in San Francisco --Ron Turner Day (Publisher of Last Gasp).

Here are past National Cartoonist Day posts:

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2018/05/today-is-national-cartoonists-day.html

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2021/05/yes-its-national-cartoonists-day.html

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2019/05/yes-once-again-its-national-cartoonist.html

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/search?q=national+cartoonist+day

Elephant in the Room: A Community Climate Crisis Art Show

Elephant in the Room

The monthly exhibits just keep rolling on at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.

In April (in conjunction with NextGen Greenstitch Climate Action) we hosted  “The Elephant in the Room: A Community Climate Crisis Art Show” featuring local artists sharing perspectives on climate crisis. 

 

The Greenstitch artists made a wire mesh elephant and filled it with trash from Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

Greenstitch is a committed group of teens who work together to educate and empower themselves and the community about the climate crisis.

Along with the NextGen Greenstitch artists, contributors to the show included Richard Lang, Judith Shelby Lang, Kathleen Edwards, Laura Kradjan-Cronin, Anne McClain, Laurel Marenelli, Peg Hunter, Rea, Larry Rippee, Reid Marple, Deliah Cohen, Poppy Henderson, Larkin Sylvester, Paolo & Eddy Scafani, Janey Hughes, Corey vanGelder and climate art posters by Christi Belcourt, Jan Burger, Jackie Fawn, Killjoy Mall and David Solnit as well). The Climate Fest was held on April 22nd, the exhibit concluded at the end of April.

 

Here’s a few (too few) shots from the show:

 

Molly Rea and Laura Kradjan-Cronin

Molly Rea, Laura Kradjan-Cronin and Janet Hughes

Anne McClain, Laura Kradjan-Cronin and Corey vanGelder

'Hungry Ghosts' by Laurel Marinelli

“Sea-Span” Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang

 

SEA-SPAN Where's the remote? is the question, as we invite people to sit and enjoy the 24/7 programming on our TV set. Although we are ready-set for super-HD, 4K-resolution viewing pleasure, it seems that there is nothing but junk on the tube, just a live feed from SEA-SPAN. 

When our ages-old Samsung TV went kablooey, we bought one of the new HD big flat screens. We wondered what to do with the old one. Throw it away? But, where is away? Instead of hauling it to dump we decided to fill the screen with brightly colored bits of plastic collected from Kehoe Beach. We took out the inner workings; then laid in the pieces, pouring resin as we built layers from the front of the screen to the back. 

 

Gouach by Kathleen Edwards:

“The Weaving ‘by Kathleen Edwards

Molly and I joined in as well:

“Fracking Fairy Tales” by Molly Rea

“Canary in a Cold Mind” by Molly Rea

“Banjo at Armageddon” by Larry Rippee

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang’s “Trash Castle” (originally created and exhibited on Huntington Beach) closer to home, on the corner of Sir Francis Drake and Lagunitas School Road, as part of the Greenstitch Climate Action's Climate Fest. 

 

Each pole of the castle has a distinctive theme representing categories of items they have collected from Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore: water bottles, straws, caps, drink cups, food wrappers, cutlery, balloons, toothbrushes, and foam.

 

 It is estimated that 15 million metric tons of plastic flood into the world’s oceans every year. That’s the equivalent of two garbage trucks filled with plastic entering the water every minute. The Lang’s hope that visitors to their “Trash Castle” will marvel at the variety and amount of plastic on their castle towers and will be moved to take action to help stem the tide of plastic pollution.