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Image Courtesy Helen Kate McAllister
November 26, 2020  |  By David Wakefield

Lucid Dreaming: Artist Helen Kate Mcallister

Have you ever had a dream that moved you? Not the one where you end up going to work in your undies. I mean the kind of dream that, even years later, you remember vividly. Artist Helen Kate McAllister (or HK) lives her life in those dreams, creating the art of the subconscious. Her artwork […]
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December 13, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

TAKING FLIGHT: ARTIST EMILY SCHIEBAL

Emily Schiebal’s redbrown hair falls straight against her green floral print blouse. Rain pounds on the single-wide trailer converted into an art studio. We sit at the kitchen table, Emily sipping on some hot chocolate while I take a taste of water. A beekeeper’s suit hangs on a wooden mannequin next to an old upright piano. She’s nervous. “I’m used to hiding behind my husband,” she tells me. “He’s such a prolific artist. It’s easier to hide behind him.”
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November 8, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

LAKE COUNTY’S GENIUS LOCI: ECOARTS SCULPTURE WALK

Karen Turcotte pulls her dark-rimmed glasses away from her face and lets them hang by their purple chain. Her blue eyes glimmer with intensity. “It’s a locus,” she says, leaning forward to emphasize her point.
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November 8, 2019  |  By Matthew Rothstein

ARTFUL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: LISA KAPLAN, MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER, AND ECOARTS

The County of Lake, as part of our #LakeCountyBrilliance initiative, will be sharing powerful lessons learned in conversation with Lisa Kaplan in the coming weeks, lessons that challenge us all to greet obstacles with an eye toward wholeness and restoration, encouraging us to identify not as permanently scarred, but hopefully resilient.
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Tumbleseeds, by Karen Turcotte - photo by Gemini Garcia
October 9, 2019  |  By Michelle Scully

RESILIENCE: EXPERIENCE THE 2019 ECOARTS SCULPTURE WALK – A SENSE OF PLACE

Resilient. It’s pretty much the word du jour lately as fires and devastation have marked not only our community, but our neighbors, our state, and our psyches.  No matter how much “resilience” seems to be the new buzz word before grants and politicians, it speaks to us all because what it says is no matter […]
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July 26, 2019  |  By Trudy Wakefield

THE BEST WAY TO SPEND A FRIDAY NIGHT IN LAKEPORT

It’s the first Friday of July in Lakeport.  My husband David and I settle in at a table on the balcony of Juicy’s Pizza. A giant redwood stretches its large arms over us, dropping a cone on the railing and providing some much-needed shade.  Fellow patrons sit nearest the roofline, escaping the last rays of […]
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June 21, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

EARTH, FIRE, AND SOUL – ARTIST LISA KAPLAN

The Middletown Art Center’s reach stretches beyond the art hanging on its walls. In the past four years of its existence, it has served as a resource, events, and art center.  It’s been a place for those affected by the fires to come, talk with others, work through their stresses and fears and heal. It’s […]
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May 31, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

A STAKE IN THE GROUND: REOPENING ECOARTS SCULPTURE WALK

5.30.19 – 3:30 PM Thunder echoes across Harbin Mountain, rolling down the hills into the Collayomi Valley.  Children spread out around the installed artwork, laughing, stumbling, and posting their “wishes” on manzanita branches.  It’s a group of fourth and fifth graders from Cobb Mountain Elementary who have spent their time learning about bats, building bat […]
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May 31, 2019  |  By Georgina Marie

What Women Do To Grieve – Poetry by Georgina Marie

Wake up, see the day, know it is there. Drink rose tea. Remember the one you love has died. Proceed to crumbling on the bedroom floor. Remember the world is alive. Pick yourself up from the bedroom floor. Drag yourself outside. Stare at the moon. Walk through mud. Remember the last time you found yourself […]
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Singular Piece at Vertical Pathways. Photo by Ruth Stierna.
May 16, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

COLLABORATIVE ART AT WORK: VISITING THE VERTICAL PATHWAYS INSTALLATION AT RABBIT HILL

“How about over there?” a voice calls from further up the hill. “Does that look okay?” I’m on Rabbit Hill to see a new collaborative art installation created by the Middletown Art Center and the Lake County Land Trust. Almost four years ago, the Valley Fire ripped its way down Cobb Mountain, blackening Rabbit Hill […]
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A RESTORE wood class in progress. Photo by Marcus Maria Jung.
February 28, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

LEARNING ART FROM ARTISTS: TAKING A RESTORE CLASS AT THE MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER

Lisa Kaplan stands between the u-shape of the tables, sharing her vision. A diverse group of students sit around her, ranging from youth to elder, locals to internationals.  “The Resilience project was about expressing and reframing personal loss,” she begins.  “But the RESTORE project takes our creative artistic expression and moves it further out into […]
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February 6, 2019  |  By David Wakefield

FIRE, EARTH, AND MUD: LISA KAPLAN AND THE MIDDLETOWN ART CENTER

I met with Lisa Kaplan at her home in the Hidden Valley ranchos. Newly rebuilt, it stood like a piece of her art on the ridgeline. “It’s so beautiful,” I exclaimed as I stepped through the door and took off my shoes in the concrete-floored entryway. She pointed to a small section of the rough […]
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