Meet Emeryville’s Artists. View their Art. It’s the 2020 Art Exhibition‘s Opening Night Zoom Party!

Keeping in step with current SIP protocol and the challenges of social distancing, the 34th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition will be presented online, featuring 169 pieces of artwork by 85 Emeryville artists from October 2 – November 1, 2020. 2020 means it’s a virtual exhibition allowing visitors to be socially distanced, yet culturally connected. Online artist interviews, videos, art shop, down-loadable art map, poetry workshop, and more make it easy and fun for you to attend the exhibit and enjoy the live-streamed Opening Night event on Friday, October 2 at 6pm.

“This year has definitely posed some strange and new challenges for all of us, but with so much creativity in our community we couldn’t let this year slip by,” says Sharon Wilchar, Art Exhibition Producer.” The Opening Night Zoom Party will reveal the 2020 contributing artists and their works. We will also announce the recipient of the City’s annual Purchase Award and there may even be a special guest musical performance. We’re hoping the community will join us virtually this year to raise a glass and celebrate the artists thriving in Emeryville.”

Celebrate the City of Emeryville’s vibrant collective creativity and experience a sampling of artwork created by Emeryville artists. Each year a panel of Bay Area art professionals uncover emerging talent, along with new work by established artists and selects the pieces for the exhibition though a jury process. And each year a carefully curated group show features the works of artists and craftspeople who live or work in Emeryville, representing all media, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, ceramics, textiles, video, glass works, and literary arts.

Gary Llamido-Babel Triptich-Mixed Media -48 x 72 x 4

Artists

Contributing artists this year include painters M. Louise Stanley, Frank Cole, Gail Tarantino, Foad Satterfield, Yuzo Nakano, and John W Wood; choreographer Nancy Karp; clay artists Cuong Ta, Jeff Margolin, James Morris, and Bill Schwob; photographers Susan Scott, Troy Ziel, Addie Jenkins, Xan Walker, and Jeannie O’Connor; printmakers Kazuko Watanabe, Julitette Choné, and Erin Fong; Ann Holsberry working in mixed media; sculptors Ken Kalman, Kim Thoman, Cheryl Coon, and Mark Galt; and a special tribute to artist Joseph DiStefano.

Sponsor & Jurors

The Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition is sponsored by Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Inc. Independent curator and exhibition designer Kathleen Hanna is curator and juror. The other 2020 jurors are Christine Koppes, Curator and Director of Public Programs at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (SJICA), and Kathryn Funk, independent exhibits organizer and curator, formerly with SJICA, Montalvo Arts Center, and Fresno Art Museum.

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