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Chuck Jones Center for Creativity Newsletter
Greetings!
Welcome to the third issue of the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity's weekly newsletter, "Now Hare This!", published every Friday.
We'd love to know what you're thinking about creativity (you are thinking about it, aren't you?) and how it affects your daily life. With the goal of "reinvigorating the creative spirit" the Center relies upon people just like you to help us understand how we can serve you better. So, don't be shy, we'd like to hear from you.
- What does creativity mean to you?
- Do you have an idea for a program we could develop?
- How about a group that's being underserved in the arts? Tell us about them.
- Compliments or complaints?
- Do you have a favorite anecdote about the time you met Chuck Jones? We'd love to share it with our readers.
We will need volunteers for our upcoming fall fund-raiser, "Creativity Season" to help us with aspects of the evening's entertainment that are still so hush-hush that I risk everything just writing this. If you'd like to volunteer for that event (late September/early October) please write to Info@ChuckJonesCenter.org!
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The Chuck Jones Essential Reading List
 | | Photograph of Chuck Jones reading was taken by his wife, Marian Jones, at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens, circa early 1980's. |
"We always had books in the house we lived in. We not only had books, we had books (old or new) that were fresh to us. The way it worked was this: a house in those days of the early twenties had books. Incredible as it seems, that's what people did: they read. They read books and they talked to each other about what they'd read. We didn't have a phonograph until I was twelve, a radio until I was seventeen, or television until I was forty-six.
"So that left books. When you rented a furnished house, it was equipped with furniture and books. So when we were ready to move, Father would scout around for a furnished house. "Furnished" in his lexicon meant furnished with books, hundreds being mandatory, thousands being preferable. Colonel Terhune's big house on the Speedway in Ocean Park had thousands of books...so the six or seven or eight of our family stayed in each house for over five years, until we had exhausted the supply, a sort of omnivorous plague of indiscriminate readers." --Chuck Jones writing in "Chuck Amuck, the Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist"
You can find the "Chuck Jones Essential Reading List" on the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity's website. Click on the photograph above or here to see how many of the listed books you have read (and how many you have yet to read.) |
Image of the Week
 | | Original watercolor with pen & ink on Arches paper by Chuck Jones, circa late 1950s. |
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| How to Draw Bugs Bunny
Every Saturday morning from 9:30 AM until 12:30 PM, you and your children can, literally, Drop In & Draw at the Center. Led by the Center's resident teaching artist, Christopher Scardino, you'll soon find yourself making decisions about which end of a carrot you hook a rabbit onto (more on that later.)
One thing "Now Hare This" learned at a recent Drop In & Draw, was to remember that it's okay if your Bugs Bunny doesn't look like Chuck Jones's Bugs Bunny. You're drawing your Bugs Bunny and he may just look a little bit different than the one Chuck so easily commits to paper -- and has inhabited for so many years.
Here we have Chuck Jones showing us how to draw Bugs Bunny:
 | | Chuck Jones: How to Draw Bugs Bunny |
Who knew that to draw Bugs Bunny all you had to do was draw a carrot first? To expand your creative genius and let it blossom, join us Saturday mornings for Drop In & Draw. A nominal donation for materials is suggested. See you tomorrow!
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Quote of the Week
 "The author, O. Henry, taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote of the noise of flowers and the smell of birds--the birds were chickens and the flowers, dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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The Center's New Home
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There's plenty of things to do and see when you visit the Center!
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You can devote an entire morning or afternoon to visiting the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity (we affectionately call it the " CJCC") at its new 8000 square foot home in Costa Mesa. Conveniently located just north of the 405 at Harbor Blvd. in the delightful and beautiful South Coast Collection (SoCo). Our new address is: 3321 Hyland Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Drop by and say hello.
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About Us
The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was founded in 1999 by the four-time Academy Award-recipient, legendary director and creator Chuck Jones. The Center is located in Orange County, California at South Coast Collection, just north of the 405 at Harbor Boulevard.
The Center's vision is to inspire the innate creative genius within each person that leads to a more joyous, passionate, and harmonious life and world.
In today's world, when arts education is practically non-existent, this is an important goal; we are dedicated to reinvigorating the creative spirit and we are doing it through art classes, exhibitions, lectures, and film festivals, all of which spring from the material in the Chuck Jones archive. Jones was a determined saver and his writings, art, and other ephemera from a nine-decade life along with his philosophy of guiding and nurturing instruction form the basis of our programs.
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
3321 Hyland Avenue, Suite A
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
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