Festive Exhibit

New Art Exhibit at Blackhawk Gallery.

The Alamo Danville Artists’ Society opened Blackhawk Gallery’s new Exhibit ‘Festive’ on November 30th. A Gala Reception was held on Saturday December 1st from 5 to 7pm, with wine and hors d’oeuvre. The exhibit will be on view seven days a week from Friday November 30th to Sunday February 10th, 2019. The Exhibit is free and open to the public.

The ‘Festive’ exhibit features a guest artist and 40 member artists. Guest artist Wilma Wyss is exhibiting her mosaic sculptures. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.

The exhibit is curated by Debby Koonce, Kerima Swain and Beverly Turner.

The Blackhawk Gallery is located at 3416 Blackhawk Plaza Circle in Danville, California, in the Blackhawk Plaza. Telephone: (925) 648-8023.

Regular Gallery hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 11am-6pm. Holiday hours: 10am-5pm on Labor Day.

Website: www.adas4art.org/blackhawk_gallery
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlamoDanvilleArtistsSociety

For more information, please contact Blackhawk Gallery Director Kerima Swain at swain.kerima@gmail.com

GUEST ARTIST

Wilma Wyss Mosaic Sculptures

Wilma was born in Washington, D.C. to Swiss parents. When she was 10 to 13 years old, she lived with her family in West Africa. As a young adult, she studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in graphic design from California College of the Arts.

After working as a freelance print designer for two decades, Wilma began creating abstract sculptures in concrete and mosaic in 2007. She developed her methods through a combination of self-teaching, experimentation, and classes. Wilma’s work has been shown in over 50 shows nationally, and won several awards. She has participated in a dozen open studio events. Wilma teaches mosaic art at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, as well as Studio 9 in Oakland.

Wilma’s large-scale mosaic artwork is at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, CA, as well as Esalen Institute. In the summer of 2016 she completed an outdoor sculpture commissioned by the Grinnell Arts Council, in Grinnell, Iowa, which was funded by the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

MEMBER ARTISTS

Dalia Alekna, Akio Aochi, Charles Blanton, Don Cresswell, Barbara Davies, Sachin Deshpande, Yi Ding, Elena Doronkina, Herbert Estes, Kathy Flint, Francine Garcia, Bobbi Garrop, David Gates, Linda Geniesse, Lynn Glenn, Shadi Kiaee, Debby Koonce, Michael Kovler, Roseann Krane, Walter Krane, Irenka Kudliki, Tom Lemmer, Claudette McDermott, Ray McGinnis, Elena Morris, David Nakahara, Leslie Ouyang, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, Nola Pardi Proll, Dan Riley, Michael Rizza, Ellen Schimmel, Glen Schofield, Andrea Schwartz, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Kerima Swain, Beverly C Turner, Jim Vlantis, Norma Webb, Charles White.

IMAGE GALLERY

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