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LAA Calendar

Check back often. The calendar is updated as details are known. 

Interested in entering? See LAA EVENTS section below for entry details. 

LAA Events

Art Space Studio Visits

ArtSpace - Marg Haggin April 30 1-3pm

Marge is scheduled to show her gelli printing technique, April 30 from 1-3pm.  Her address is 4215 Emory Way. For more information, call her at 925 443-2990 or email gmhaggin@gmail.com. 

Call for Artists to Share Your Space

Livermore Art Association is launching a monthly ArtSpace studio visit on the third week of each month (day may vary). Maybe your art space is your dining room table, a room in your apartment, a back porch, or a dedicated art room. Visiting where and how you work is fun and beneficial for other artists to glean your clever ideas. We hope you will volunteer to host an ArtSpace studio visit. 

To schedule your own open house, pick a month, day, and time. Membership will promote your open house through social media, our web page, and Portfolio. We will provide refreshments and signage.
To Schedule Your Open House, contact Georgia Jacobs, Membership, at 925 321-9488 or email membership@livermoreart.org  

Sunday Workshops

April

Join us on alternate Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4pm in the Carnegie Building downstairs, side door facing K Street.  There are two fun workshops designed to get your creative juices flowing.

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The Essential Figure Show

13th Annual Fine Art Show

The Essential Figure show is back again for 2022. 

Online pre-registration is now open until May 19. You can also bring work on Receiving Day, May 21 between 1:00 - 4:00pm. 


This year's judge is Ron Norman.


Click the poster (right) to find out all the details and enter. 

3rd Annual Paint Livermore Plein Air Competition

Date is set for June 3-5

Artists are invited to paint historic Livermore, downtown, vineyards, buildings, or any of the many great subjects within the zip codes of 94550 and 94551. To get on the mailing list, email Diane Rodriguez at dp.rodriguez@icloud.com or call 925 462-1919 or Norma Webb normawebb@comcast.net or call 925 828-9170.


Registration Fees: LAA & PAL Members $25, Non Members $35 

Sales: Commission of 20% on sales will be collected by LAA 

Judge: Nancy Roberts, https://www.nancyrobertsstudio.com/

Awards: Merit Awards $100, First Street Award $100, Honorable Mention $25,  One award per artist.


Registration is now open. Download the form below

2022 Paint Livermore Application (pdf)

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2022 Ideas for where to paint (pdf)

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Calls For Artists

Alameda County Fair, Fine Arts Exhibit,

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

Alameda County Fair, Fine Arts Exhibit,

Alameda County Fair, Fine Arts Exhibit, June 17 to July 10. Registration for the 2022 Alameda County Fair Competitions is open for the all categories. Deadlines vary with most submissions due April 20. 

https://annual. alamedacountyfair.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Complete-Adult-Fine-Arts-Entry-Guide-1.pdf. 

Every exhibitor receives one free General Fair Admission to be used any single day of the 2022 Fair 

Celebrate Women!

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

Alameda County Fair, Fine Arts Exhibit,

Calling Photographers!    

Show the best photographs you have of a woman or women. Up to four photographs are allowed.  The show is at the Livermore Library and will be up the whole month of May. The show will be judged and has cash awards.  

Show dates: May 2-31

Entry Deadline: April 29.

Show Chair: Barbara Reynolds 

Contact: celebratewomen22@gmail.com

Celebrate Women! Details

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

City of Brentwood and the Arts Commission are seeking artwork for the Brentwood Library located at 104 Oak Street. Open to all artists living within 100 miles of Brentwood. 

Application deadline: April 29, 2022.  

Contact: Kris Farro, Recreation Manager, 

(925) 516-5364 or kfarro@brentwoodca.gov.

Find out more

Paint Dublin

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

Open Call for Artwork - Brentwood Library

Dublin has jumped in to create another fun plein air event in our beautiful Tri-Valley. Prospectus information and entry form and map will be available online. Please use the Advance Entry online form on the DAC site. 


Contacts: Lorraine Wells dingbats@comcast.net,  and Alka Vaidya ajvaidya02@yahoo.com 

More on DAC website

California Arts Club Paint Out

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

farm painting

CAC is organizing a plein air painting demo and paint-out at Sycamore Grove! It’ll be Saturday, April 30. The demo will take place from 10:00am to 12:00 noon and the paint-out will take place after the conclusion of the demo.

There is no fee to attend, preregistration appreciated.


If you are not familiar with this Sacramento artist, here’s Terry Miura website: https://www.terrymiura.com/ 

CAC Paint Out Info

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

PAL - John Muir Health Show "Healing Spaces"

The Pleasanton Art League has been invited to showcase Members' Art at the Aspen Center of the John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek from May 23 to July 14. All existing and new PAL Members are encouraged to participate in this Juried and Judged show. In keeping with the intended audience, the title of the show is “Healing Spaces.” The cutoff for entries is May 1st.
Show prospectus and the entry form are available here on PAL website https://www.pal-art.com/exhibits-events/call-artists/ (or click below)

Contact: Show Chair John DeVilliers, 

johndevilliers22@yahoo.com

More on PAL website

Holiday for the Arts 2022

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Olive Hyde Art Guild is now accepting entries for the Holiday for the Arts Gala, Show & Sale, October 21-23, 2022 

Entry deadline: July 7, 2022

Contact: ArtistContact@OliveHydeArtGuild.org

Website: OliveHydeArtGuild.org

More on Olive Hyde Art Guild

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Darla Bostick’s 16th and 17th Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat (September 2022) and adventures in Italy and France in October. https://youtube/beDIiK72fCI. 

Darla Bostick, 940.320.5660 

Email: darlabostick@gmail.com. 

https://www.darlabostick.com. 

Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA)

Ghost Ranch Workshop/Retreat and more Adventures

Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA)

Alliance for the Visual Arts is welcoming every artist of the Tri-Valley to become a member of AVA. Membership is free and gives you several benefits. First, you can add your name and images to the Artist Gallery and be seen amongst all  the other artists of the Tri-Valley in one location, on one website. You can have your own page and full control of how you  wish to represent yourself, free of charge. If you are unfamiliar with developing a website page, I can send you how-to  videos or we have someone who can do it for you extremely cheaply. Also… I wish to place on the website, again for  free, a listing of all art teachers in the Tri-Valley and all folks who have a specialty, like painting murals. We are putting  out a newsletter to inform the public about goings-on in the visual arts and this is sent to all members of AVA. The  website is up-to-date on visual art happenings and loaded with local, regional and national calls for artists. 

Please email  me at dennis@dennisbakerart.net and let me know if you’re interested. The website is Allianceforthevisualarts.org. 

Contra Costa Plein Air

Contra Costa Plein Air

Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA)

We are a friendly group of artists who get together to paint at scenic locations all around the Bay Area and beyond. The schedule is random, with dates inspired by the weather forecast. New artists are always welcome! There is no fee to participate. Find us on Facebook at Contra Costa Plein Air (link below), or to receive paint-out invitations by e-mail contact Nancy Roberts at nrobertsart@sbcglobal.net. 


 Contra Costa Plein Air | Facebook  

LAA Events

Contra Costa Plein Air

LAA Events

Scroll up to see calls for artists for LAA events. 

Around Town

Judy Rice book signing at Hagemann Ranch

Judy Rice will be signing the book she illustrated about Nature’s Wonders on April 24 at Hagemann Ranch.  Come pick up a copy!  

https://www.lhg.org/index.html

LAA Gallery April Showers Bring May Flowers

Easter, Passover and Spring Gifts. April 8 & 9. 

Firehouse Art Center

A Holocaust Memorial Exhibit will be presented at the Harrington Gallery in the Firehouse Art Center, Pleasanton from April 2 through May 2. 

The exhibit consists of artwork done by local area artist Larry Lagin. Lagin, a retired scientist, based his paintings on actual photographs from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. and other Holocaust centers. The exhibit will be open during normal gallery hours (Wed.-Fri. from 10 AM-5 PM, and on Sat. from 11 AM – 3 PM).  

Firehouse is at 4444 Railroad Ave., Pleasanton. Free admission.

For more information about the exhibit or teacher session, contact EBHEC at info@ebhec.org.  

http://www.firehousearts.org/gallery/gallery-upcomingexhibits/.  

Larry Lagin  (925) 997-2271, email: larrylagin@ebhec.org  website https://www.larrysart.net/

PAL Wall Exhibit: Robin Weimer

Robyn Leimer will be showing her paintings on the PAL Wall, upstairs, at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton from April 16 to May 28, 2022.   Artist website: http://www.justpleinfun.com

Tracy Art League

Expressions!2022 is now on at the Grand Theater for the Arts in Tracy, March 26th to May 28th.


The Grand Theater in Tracy has many art activities going on. Check their website for information: https://atthegrand.org 

LAA's Paint Livermore - Judging and Sales

Come see what artists have been painting in Livermore over the weekend. 

Sunday June 5, 3-4pm. Near the Band Stand in Carnegie park, near 4th and K Streets. 

ArtWalk 2022

ArtWalk Livermore is Saturday October 8. Save the date. Hours will be from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Registration opens in May. For more information: gallery@lvpac.org 

Bankhead On-Line Gallery

From paintings and photography, to three-dimensional multimedia, the Bankhead Gallery at 2400 First Street in Livermore showcases local artists in new exhibits all year long. Now in addition to the Gallery's works, other exhibits are available to the public in this online gallery. Most works are available for sale. Contact Anne Giancola for more information at gallery@lvpac.org. or https:// livermorearts.org/online-gallery.

Classes & Workshops

PAL Plein Air Workshop

Nancy Roberts will be doing a one-day Plein Air workshop for PAL and the TriValley artists in late April or early May 2022 at the Alviso Adobe. We have also booked local Photographer Lisa Rigge to do a workshop on hand tinting black and white photos using her special pastel technique. Lisa recently presented background on tinted photos. This will be available on YouTube soon. More information will follow on both of these workshops.

https://www.pal-art.com/workshops/

Figure Drawing Workshop (ongoing)

Friday mornings, 9:30 to 12:30, Bothwell Arts Center, Livermore. No instructor. Open to all artists over 18, under 18 with parental permission in writing. Professional models are from the Bay Area Models Guild and pose mostly nude, but sometimes with costumes or props. We average about 5 female models to 1 male, all different body types and ages. We start off with gestures, then two 10 minutes poses, then 20 minute poses (unless we love it and we have the model do it again). We do gestures and then one long pose on the last Friday of the month. Tables, chairs, drawing boards and table easels are provided. Bring your own standing easel and drawing/painting materials. Only odorless turpenoid please. Soft music is played. Refreshments are served. Contact Barbara Stanton for more information or to be put on the reminder list. microangelo@earthlink.net or 925 373-9638. (Holidays or other closed days are posted on www.barbarastanton.com/classes.) 

Bothwell Arts Center Classes

Bothwell Arts Center Classes, 2466 8th Street, Livermore.   

Visit livermorearts.org for information.

Way Up Art & Frame

Way up has a sign up list for some local classes.   www.WayUpArtandFrame.com or email frameit@wayupartandframe.com or call 925 443-3388.  

Bulletin Board

Have something to communicate?

 Send a note to news@livermoreart.org

Pegboard Art Display Panels, 72”H x 50”W. All panels can be linked together with pin-hinge system. Hooks for hanging included. (For storage purposes, if lined up standing in a row, the panels would take up 8 to 9 feet.) Rules: While the panels are free, the receiver must pick up the panels at storage near Livermore City Hall at mutual convenience. All panels must be picked up at once unless two organizations are willing to share the 61 panels. 

Contact Craig Varden: PUBLICITY@livermoreart.com. 

LAA Online Gallery

The online gallery is open to any active LAA member at the low cost of $15 per year. It is a great way to share your work. See our membership page for details. 


But I only create art 'for myself, I'm not a "professional artist." Note! There is no expectation that you have to be selling work to be on the gallery. It's for sharing!

Art Show Display Rentals

Need display panels (flats) for a show? If so, we can help. LAA rents display panels or a card spinner to LAA members, educational institutions, or organizations affiliated with LAA for art events. Display panels are three by six feet. The card spinner is appropriate for large cards or small prints of up to eight by ten inches.


To rent equipment, follow these steps:

  1. Contact the LAA Property Manager to confirm availability.  Email property@livermoreart.org
  2. Download and fill out the Rental Application (below). 
  3. Write two checks: one for the amount of the rental and the other for $100 damage deposit. The deposit check will be returned if the property is returned undamaged.
  4. Mail both checks and the completed rental application to Livermore Art Association, Attn: Property Manager, P.O. Box 216, Livermore, CA 94551-0216. Checks must be received to complete your reservation. 

Display Rental Application Form (pdf)

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