 Want to be a Poet Coach?
Arts Education Program Announces Poetry Out Loud Poet Search
We need your expertise in the schools! Send us your resume! Deadline to apply is this Friday, September 17th!
Poetry Out Loud is a nation-wide recitation contest for
high school students. Each school receives 5 hours of coaching and/or
judging from regional poets. The program pays each poet chosen to be a poet coach. Email your teaching resume and a statement of intent
to:cgreninger@cityofsacramento.org
by Friday September 17th, 2010. Read More> |
 New Exhibit at the Airport Gallery
On the Go: The Traveling Sketchbooks of Artists, Architects and Poets
The exhibit opens at the Sacramento International
Airport Art Gallery on Thursday, September 16, 2010 and runs through January 3,
2011. The exhibition includes sketches in a variety of mediums by artists
Gina Werfel and Hearne Pardee, both University of California, Davis Art
professors, Sacramento artists Gregory Kondos, Stephanie Taylor, and Theo
Samuels, Napa area architect Jay Golik and Julia
Connor, Sacramento Poet Laureate 2005-2009. The exhibition
can be seen in 10 display cases throughout Terminal B (6 of which are
restricted to ticketed passengers). Read More> |
 Beloved Public Artwork Restored
At
South Side Community Park
Commissioned in 2005 by the Sacramento
Metropolitan Arts Commission, "Port of Call: Earth" by Joe Scarpa is located in
South Side Community Park, 2115 6th
Street. The sculpture is a
modified, vintage trailer that is over 20 feet high and 16 feet wide. It
is populated with ceramic "aliens" who have converted
the trailer into their spaceship. The sculpture was
cleaned and repaired in August. See Pictures>
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