Starting Our 20th Year

We are beginning our 20th year in business as a cooperative art gallery! We thought it would be good to do something we have never done before, so this month we are starting our People's Choice Awards.

During August and September, come into Gold Country Artists Gallery and get a ballot. Go around the Gallery and look at all of our wonderful artists and vote for your favorites. We will tally the results in early October and present the awards in the Gallery during the Art & Wine Festival on October 15. Come by and vote for your favorite artists!

Featured Artists

Our Featured Artists for August are Joyce Burr and Dianna Schwierzke.

Joyce Burr

Joyce Burr's fused glass work is colorful and unique. She makes fused glass pieces for the jewelry, home and garden.

The fusing of glass pieces is an exacting process where the glass is carefully heated to 1300-1600 degrees (depending on the desired effect), then cooled using a specific time table appropriate for the type and thickness of the glass.

Joyce's work is whimsical and you will enjoy perusing her pieces at the Gallery! You can also see Joyce's work on her Gold Country Artists Gallery web page.

Dianna Schwierzke

Dianna grew up having fun creating and observing the light and color of nature and being tutored by her grandmother to paint.

Dianna enjoys watercolors, oils and casein. In addition, she has recently begun painting on metal with inks and enjoys the way the pigment moves on the slick surface, the vivid colors and the resulting luminescence.

She loves all mediums and paints mostly every day. Come and see her latest creations at the Gallery. See more of Dianna's work on her Gold Country Artists Gallery web page.

Gold Country Now On Facebook

You can now follow us on Facebook. Check out our page at facebook.com/goldcountryartistsgallery and click our "Like" button!

Banners on Parade Donations & Order Forms

Gold Country Artists Gallery is one of the sponsors of this year's Banners on Parade. This is the fifth year for Banners on Parade, which is a community art project with the overall title of Placerville Art on Parade. The banners are hanging on the light poles lining Historic Main Street in downtown Placerville.

This project is mostly self-supporting (with the help of a few sponsors such as Gold Country) and we would like to see this project expanded. To do that, we need your help. You can help in a couple ways. Go to the Placerville Downtown Association website's Banners on Parade donations page and donate money and download the order form from that page to order 2011 Banners on Parade items (through August of 2011) such as posters, notecards, etc.

Any amount you can give will help the effort!

Come into Gold Country, pick up one of the 2011 Banners on Parade walking tour brochures and see for yourself what a great community art project this really is!

PAA Mother Lode Art Exhibition

We have many members of the Gallery who are also members of the Placerville Arts Association (PAA). Every August, PAA hosts the Mother Lode Art Exhibition, a show that accepts entries from all over the country.

This year's 45th Annual Mother Lode Art Exhibition will be shown at the Placerville Shakespeare Club from August 14-August 28. If you are an art-lover, make sure you see this great show!

Go to the PAA website for more information.

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