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Welcome to the Peninsula Arts Council's SMart Newsletter!
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About Peninsula Arts Council
-Promotes and cultivates the arts through marketing, outreach and education initiatives.
-Honors artistic achievement in San Mateo County through an annual Diamond Awards event.
-Provides resources to support and increase county arts in education activities.
-Maintains a monthly event calendar.
-Hosts an artist's registry to help promote local artists.
-Serves as a community partner, fiscal sponsor and resource.
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Peninsula Arts Council In Conversation with Brooke Knight, Artistic  Director, Broadway by the Bay
"WHO NEEDS BROADWAY IN NEW YORK WHEN WE HAVE BROADWAY BY THE BAY" - San Mateo County Times.
Broadway By the Bay provides full scale professional musical theatre in San Mateo County. BBB is celebrating its 45th Anniversary Season with hits Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Annie, La Cage aux Folles (Sept. 16-Oct 3) and Broadway by the Year (Nov 12-21, 2010). BBB has performed at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center (SMPAC) since 1967. Next Spring, BBB will move to the historic Fox Theater in Downtown Redwood City, a 1928 art deco theater on the National Register of Historic Places. READ MORE >>>
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 Peninsula Arts Council Partners with HCN Peninsula Arts Council has once again partnered with the Homeless Cat Network to provide artistically painted rocks for its silent auction at the Cool Cats in the Pines event held on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at the Twin Pines Community Center. READ MORE>>>
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| PAC Artist Registry - GET NOTICED!
The PAC ARTIST REGISTRY is a comprehensive go-to source for local art. It is a collective, user-friendly portfolio that everyone can access whenever they wish. Artists receive an artist page featuring their contact info, links to their website and social media sites, artist statement/bio, plus a photo of themselves (optional) and three photos of their work. The cost is $40/artist or $65 for an Artist Group*.
See the Featured Artist of the Month profile page for the new look!
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Featured Artist of the Month, Beate Amler
Beate Amler was born in Heidelberg, Germany. Her primary medium is acrylic. She has a distinctive style of painting; at a glance precise and clear, however looking deeper, her paintings are filled with emotion and passion. Each viewer connects to the painting in a personal way by discovering different images.
Beate graduated with a master's degree in graphic design from the College for Graphic Design in Mannheim, Germany and worked for an advertising firm for ten years. After moving to the US with her husband almost 15 years ago, Beate began developing her skills in painting. Her paintings have since appeared in juried art shows in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California and private collectors in the US, Germany, Canada and New Zealand own her paintings. Beate served as the curator for the Community Gallery in Redwood City on behalf of the Peninsula Arts Council for two years. She is currently showing her artwork in a group show at the Milton Marks Conference Center Gallery in SF until January 2011 and in the Coastal Arts League Museum & Gallery in Half Moon Bay until October 3, 2010.
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October is National Arts and Humanities Month
Held every October, National Arts and Humanities Month is a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture in America. Coordinated by the organization, Americans for the Arts, it is the largest annual celebration of the arts and humanities in the nation.
The California Arts Council collaborates in this effort and offers an annual California  Arts Day Celebration held on Friday, October 1. The theme this year is pARTicipate.
2010 marks the sixth year that the Peninsula Arts Council has participated in this visibility campaign. This year PAC is requesting mayoral proclamations from City Councils in San Mateo County declaring October Arts and Humanities Month on a local level.
Through these combined national, state and local visibility efforts, the campaign hopes to demonstrate the intrinsic and economic value, strength, and beauty of the arts and generate media coverage regarding the vital role the arts play in our lives.
Arts Organizations! Post your October performances, events, gallery openings, etc on the Americans for the Arts Site and to the California Arts Council Site. Together we can put San Mateo County Arts on the map!
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NEW Venue! Center for Performing Arts in Menlo Park
Driving by the new Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School, my first impression was that L.A. architects Hodgetts + Fung were pulling us into the future with its geometrically angled glass reminiscent of crinkled-up cellophane. I was immediately drawn to the imposing, modern facade of the building and wanted to find out more.
 
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