October Song

Greetings

As ACF's spring and summer seasons wind down, it's a great time to look ahead and consider NEW DIRECTIONS. Our 2012 Season will be publicized soon, but in the meantime, we are thrilled to announce Intersection, an exhibition and round-table on art as force for healing. Curated by Claudia Chapline and Jacqueline Mallegni, this invitational show will be viewable at the Commonweal Gallery on Mesa Road in Bolinas, July through September 2012.

ACF is working on finding new, exciting, accessible spaces for site-specific, innovative exhibitions throughout Marin County and the Greater Bay Area. We are also interested in creating opportunities for emerging curators.

Please read on and find information about more ACF news, including our new Autumn Online Benefit Auction with two pieces donated by Ruby Newman. New Art for you = funds for ACF. Here's that link for our 32 Auctions page.

We are always happy to hear from you with your ideas and suggestions.

I hope to see you soon.

Sincerely,

Claudia Chapline,

ACF Board President

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THE ACF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ACF has limited spaces available on our working board for committed, forward-thinking member/directors. We are in the market for curators, fundraisers, event-planners and administrators.

BACK to THE RANCH

ACF OFFERING 2nd TOUR OF FABLED

OLIVER RANCH

Located in the heart of Sonoma County, 70 miles north of San Francisco, and known internationally for its wineries and scenic pleasures, the Oliver Ranch is home to 18 remarkable site-specific installations; the most recent of which is Ann Hamilton's The tower where commissioned dance, poetry, theatre, and music performances take place. The picturesque 100-acre property is host to world-renowned sculpture, and the tours are a once-in-a-lifetime event. Stay tuned for information about reserving your spot.

AFC's Fall Online Benefit Auction Featuring 2 Works by Ruby Newman

High quality giclee prints (on heavy weight archival artist's paper) 17" x 22"

Ruby Newman is a well established Bay Area artist working in a variety of mediums on canvas, paper and prepared panels. Her work is refreshingly vibrant, free spirited and spontaneous in both her use of color, brush stroke and response to subject matter. It is executed with a sense of immediacy and vitality.

www.rubynewman.com | Phone: 707 765 6824 |

ALL IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT PROTECTED RUBY NEWMAN 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

All proceeds after expenses benefit ACF. New art for your walls = operating funds for this arts organization.

How to Participate in the Auction?

1) Click here to Go to The ACF Page for 32 Auctions

2) Auction Login Name: ACFOnlineArt

3) Ends: October 31, 2011 04:00 PM CDT

Bid! Bid! Bid! Thank you for your support!

THe 2011 Season: Water, Water Everywhere

ART AT THE CHEESE FACTORY PRESENTS

SEASON OF WATER
Outreach Exhibitions on the Theme of WATER Featuring 47 Bay Area Artists
Curated by Claudia Chapline and Etta Deikman


Reflections on Water: ACF at Gallery Route One

March 18-20 Artists reflect on contemporary issues of global warming, acid rain,
and water consumption. This exhibition is produced in conjunction with the
Geography of Hope Literary Conference

Gallery Route One Project Space 11101 Hwy One, Point Reyes

Reception in honor of the Geography of Hope Conference March 19th, 5-6pm Join Us!



with works by: Sculptures by Reenie Charriere, Felicity Crush & Heidi Sandvoll, Carol Newborg, Priscilla Otani, Patti Trimble and paintings by Hagit Cohen, Beatrice Pediconi, Kay Russell, and Kathleen Youngquist

Of Water

Contemporary Art Works by Bay Area artists. The second outreach exhibition in

A Season of Water in memory of Jim Boyce

Curators: Claudia Chapline & Etta Deikman

Bay Model, Sausalito

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA

March 29 – April 30, 2011

Reception: Saturday, April 2, 1:30-3:30 pm

Patti Trimble, Poetry Performance with Music at 3pm

Artists: Fariba Bogzaran, John Bucklin, Tim Burns, Mary Eubank, Joe Fox, Louise Finn Gould, Michael Knowlton, Jackie Lee Mary Ann Leff, Kate Leffler, Lin Max, Bonnie Neumann, Ruby Newman, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Elizabeth Sher, Terry Sauve, Donna Solin, Nancy Stein, Anne Subercaseaux, Kathleen Youngquist

Looking at Water

August 14-September 4, 2011

Representational Views of Water from the Windows of 19 Bay Area Artists

Marin Art & Garden Center San Anselmo, CA

Reception: August 14, 2-4 pm

With works by: Kanna Aoki, Valerie Corvin, William Dreskin, Frank Field, Louise Finn Gould, Jane Kiskadden, Laura Kradjan-Cronin, Jackie Lee, Catherine Moreno, Terry Sauve', Shizue Seigel, Nancy Mayhew Weirum, and Mira M. White.



Art at the Cheese Factory was founded in 2007 at the Marin French Cheese Company in collaboration with owner, Jim Boyce, who graciously offered an historic warehouse for showing art. Due to his untimely passing in 2010, ACF is presenting outreach exhibitions this year. The mutability of water is an appropriate theme for this series of exhibitions, produced in his memory.

CALL TO ARTISTS & CURATORS: Season of Water

CALL TO ARTISTS & CURATORS for art and proposals

SEASON OF WATER - 2011-12 POP UP EXHIBITIONS. The theme is water in any of its manifestations

ACF is on the move. Our first 2011 Exhibition will be at the Project Space, Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One, Point Reyes Station, February 25-April 3. This exhibition is in conjunction with the literary conference, Geography of Hope: Reflections on Water.

CURATORS: Claudia Chapline & Etta Deikman

DEADLINE: October 15, 2010. EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 1.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists living and working in any of the following Bay Area Counties: Marin, Sonoma, San Francisco, Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo

Indoor art in all 2D and 3D media including events and installations will be considered for the Project Space and other venues such as Art Works Downtown, Bay Model and more TBA. Outdoor work may also be proposed for future venues.

MAIL TO: ACF, P.O. Box 1117, Stinson Beach, CA 94970

1. Entry Form (download online HERE)
2. Jpeg files on CD Three images of available work or previous work representative of a proposed installation or event with drawings & details. Send copies only. No work will be returned. Notifications will be by email.
3. Image List with title, date, dimensions, media
4. 1 page resume
5. Statement
6. $20 check made out to Art at the Cheese Factory for viewing


QUESTIONS; Call 415.868.2308 www.artatthecheesefactory.org

ACF Summer 2010 Update

Art at the Cheese Factory (ACF) is proud of the four spectacular exhibitions it presented in its first two years of programming at the Marin French Cheese Company including Terroir: A Sense of Place, Shaping Matter, and Journeys; and at the Marin Arts Gallery, Adding On: Repetition with Variation. With generous donations of space, a start up grant from the Marin Arts Council, private donations and volunteer energy, ACF presented new contemporary art by 75 Bay area artists to 100,000 members of the general public free of charge. These exhibitions and events have created a large following and stimulated the local art community.

ACF specializes in presenting new art of the highest quality and artwork designed for specific sites. As we enter a new phase of presenting art in a variety of public spaces, we are inviting venues, curators and artists to participate in our 2011-2012 outreach program of exhibitions & events.

In March-April 2011, ACF will present an exhibition with an environmental theme in the Project Space at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station. Other 2011-2012 exhibitions and artistic events will be in a number of alternative spaces: galleries, parks, public buildings, businesses, storefronts, etc.

If you want to participate as a sponsor, curator, coordinator, or artist please contact Claudia Chapline. info@cchapline.com.415.868.2308.

ADDING ON: Repetition with Variation l June 5-July 24, 2010

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Art at the Cheese Factory and Marin Arts Council present

ACF’s First Off-Site / Site-Specific Exhibition

Adding On: Repetition with Variation is an exhibition of six artists: Carole Beadle, Jane Brucker, Nancy Macko, Carol Newborg, Kevin Nierman, and Anne Wolf

Chosen from throughout California, each artist creates large-scale installations or artworks from an accumulation of elements. All of the artists employ multiples that can be installed in diverse ways, allowing for flexibility and response to the installation environment. Some works are created using a process that is cumulative and incremental and is then completed by its relationship to a larger pattern or form. Other works feature subtle modulations and changes to elicit variety. Adding On: Repetition with Variation encourages the viewer to explore these curious differences, much as one might examine found seashells for their infinite variety.

Unorchestrated Saturday 5/22 fron 3-4pm

Monty Monty and Eileen Cormack and YOU in Unorchestrated: a spontaneous, improvised, interactive musical event with reformed vintage and original instruments.

Journeys pics

2nd Annual Juried Exhibition Journey's opens March 12th

Judy Johnson-Williams – Trees of Life

Art at the Cheese Factory

announces its 2nd annual Bay Area Juried Exhibition

Journeys

March 12th - May 31st, 2010

Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 14, 2-4 pm
Featuring End-Game, a Performance by Diana Marto

Curators’ Tour Sunday, April 11, 2-4 pm
With Claudia Chapline & Etta Deikman & Artists’ Talks with Cynthia Handel & others

Closing Event Saturday, May 22, 2-4 pm
Featuring Orchestration, an interactive musical performance with recycled instruments by Aileen McCormack and Monty Monty

The exhibition, Journeys is an exciting look at diverse images and media in Bay area art by 36 artists from 21 Cities, Towns, and Villages. The art was selected by curators Claudia Chapline and Etta Deikman, and reflects the physical and spiritual manifestations of life: of humans and other species in interaction with the planet. The movement of the earth and its inhabitants is a dominate theme in this expansive exhibition.

Journeys is sponsored by Jim Boyce, Kris Otis, the Marin French Cheese Company, the William and Claire Isaacs Wahrhaftig Fund and the board of Art at the Cheese Factory (a private non-profit organization supported by volunteers, donations and grants).

Jacqueline Mallegni's "Sky Barge"

The list of artists are posted below and links to their websites are located on the left hand side bar.

For further information Contact:

Adrienne Pfeiffer: ampfeiffer868@gmail.com 415.302.8121
Claudia Chapline: info@cchapline.com 415/868-2308

Journey's exhibition artists selected

Selected artists: Carol Andrews, Barbara Andino-Stevenson, Gretchen Blaise, Maeve Croghan, Renee Eaton, Rosie Echelmeier, Jaleh Etemad, Wendy Goldberg, Yong Han, Brooke Holve, Gerald Huth, Cynthia Handel, Maru Hoeber, Judy Johnson-Williams, Rebecca Kerlin, Flavia Krasilchik (FIFA), April Lelia, Jacqueline Mallegni, Diana Marto, Michael Mellon, Libby Mills, Monty Monty, Judy Molyneux, Martin Munson, Sarah Myers, Dorothy Nissen, Emily Payne, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Judy Shintani, Mary Shisler, Patricia Sonnino, Anne Subercaseaux, Phyllis Thelen, Rosa Turner, Stuart L. Wagner, Nancy Worthington.

Opens March 12th!

Holiday Fundraising Campaign and other updates

The closing party for Shaping Matter on November 21 included a performance by El Radio Fantastique and an art raffle. Lagunitas Brewery contributed beer and a good time was had by all. The gallery is now closed for preparations for 2010 exhibitions. See Call for Art for the spring show, Journeys. Our holiday fundraising campaign is underway. Even the smallest donation is helpful in presenting next year’s exhibitions. The ACF space and exhibitions are a gift to the community. Your tax deductible gifts may be mailed to Art at the Cheese Factory, P.O. Box 1117, Stinson Beach, CA 94970. You will receive back love and invitations to 2010 exhibitions and future call for art.

Closing reception November 21st

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Featuring excerpts from a reprise performance of "Nocturne" by El Radio Fantastique, docent tours, beer and award winning cheese pairings, and an award winning Art Raffle!

CALL FOR ART

JOURNEYS
EXHIBITION - INDOOR & OUTDOOR ARTWORKS/ EVENTS/ INSTALLATIONS
MARCH 12 - MAY 31, 2010

Postmark Deadline: January 4, 2010
Notification: by January 15, 2010
Entry Fee: $20 for processing
ELIGIBILITY: Artists living and working in any of the following Bay Area Counties:
San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, and San Mateo and not enrolled in a school program at this time

Curators: Claudia Chapline, artist, gallery owner and Etta Deikman, painter

Exhibition Dates: March 12 - May 31, 2010
Deliver Work: February 27, 11-4 pm to gallery at 7500 Red Hill Road (Pt. Reyes Petaluma Rd)
Artists Reception: March 14, 2-4 pm
Curator Tour & Artists Talk: April 11, 2-4 pm
Closing Event: May 22, 2-4 pm
Pick Up Work: June 1, 10 am-Noon

Art at the Cheese Factory is a new, large, contemporary art venue in West Marin located at the Marin French Cheese Company’s large gallery and extensive outdoor space. Artists are invited to submit work on any aspect of travel internal or external, including physical or spiritual movement in time and/or space, on roads or trails, with guides, vehicles, in process, etc. Indoor & outdoor artworks in all 2D & 3D art media, including events and installations will be considered.

SUBMIT: DIGITAL IMAGES ONLY. JPEG files (1 MB) on CD. Images must be accompanied by an image list with title, date, size, and media of 3 examples of available work or of previous work representative of a proposal for an installation or event with drawings/details. Outdoor sculpture must be self-supported and able to endure 3-month outdoor exhibition on uneven ground with no maintenance requirements. Indoor artwork will be hung in the rustic 3000 square foot warehouse gallery with 9-foot high cement walls, florescent lights and wood beams overhead. Artists are responsible for delivery and pick up of selected work. No substitutions permitted. Art at the Cheese Factory does not provide insurance coverage for artworks. Sales inquiries will be referred to the artist. In the event of a sale resulting from the exhibition a donation of 30% to Art at the Cheese Factory, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, will be appreciated and used to help fund the next exhibition.

For entry form send SASE with request to Art at the Cheese Factory, POB 1117, Stinson Beach, CA 94970 or go HERE to print form online.

Donor's Circle Luncheon

Lia Lund serves tomato pie to Vickisa and Laure Reichek
Jim Boyce shows plans for future gallery
Mary Eubank hosts gallery tour of Shaping Matter

Art at the Cheese Factory had its first Donor’s Circle luncheon on October 23 lakeside at the Marin French Cheese Company. Jim Boyce and Kris Otis welcomed 22 supporters of the organization with wine and prize winning cheese. Mary Eubank, curator of Shaping Matter conducted a tour of the exhibition ending with a talk by artist Joe Fox about the sculptures that he created for the exhibition. Six picnic tables were set up by the pond for a delicious lunch prepared by Lia Lund and Kris Otis. It was a beautiful day in thanks for the people who are making Art at the Cheese Factory happen.

Reception for Shaping Matter 8/16

Approximately 200 people attended the opening of Shaping Matter on August 16th. This exhibition of new sculpture presents work by seven local artists whose alterations of everyday objects and materials open our eyes to beauty in the commonplace. Several pieces were constructed especially for this show. The artists took advantage of the long horizontal space of the old warehouse at Marin French Cheese Company.

Inverness artist, Peter De Swart’s 60-foot long line of blue carpenter’s chalk, loose in a suspended wood ledge, is accompanied by wall pieces, also of wood containing blue or white chalk. His box constructions are shaped containers with compartments for the loose powdered chalk that colors the bottom of the box as it is moved for installation. The small compartments are reminiscent of old type cases or ancient containers for sacred writings. The shaped white boxes have interior steps leading to closed portals. In these the white chalk falls down the steps. De Swart makes sculpture with “its back against the wall. Matter without form. Powder, heaped, thrown, settling…the play of form against formlessness.” Yet these quiet forms evoke places such as Egypt or New York tenements. Also change, chalk is soft as ash.

Joe Fox, Fairfax artist, also works with suspended and extended lines. He creates drawings in space by wrapping and coloring undulating hose like materials. His studies of the nature of vision and his interest in contradictory forces inform his work. Balance Organ is a black rubber horizontally undulating circular line the diameter of a python that is suspended on steel pipes anchored to the floor. Neurotic Gesture is a wrapped garden hose colored with iron oxide pigment that powders the floor. This piece is suspended so that the undulation is in the vertical dimension. The line is a representation of the color of hemoglobin and refers to the iron our blood.

Madeline Nieto Hope from Inverness, uses the trussed ceiling as well for two suspended multi-element pieces, one closed and one open in form. Wide white cotton strips form an opaque square. Lines of rubber castings from paint lids form an open screen. The round castings have subtle colors from the mix of pigments in the lids used for the casting. The square comes up again in the framed boxed garments of Arianne Dar, Bolinas artist, that somehow echo the pallets of boxes in the rear of the warehouse. Outside Dar shows a white painted steel construction of an open box form that sits on the grass like a big lawn couch. Other works in and about the pond are the floating buoy gatherings by Madeline Hope and the wind sculptures by Rebecca Hazeltine from San Francisco. Fishing poles fly cast bird bones from her Estuary Series, honoring migratory birds.

On the path to the gallery there is a tower of altered books by Tim Graveson. This Inverness artist uses library discards. He takes stacks of sized, color, or thematically ordered books to his favorite places in Marin where he photographs them in the landscape. Inside the gallery there is a display of stacks and photographs and a short video explaining the artist’s process. Single words from each book’s title are printed on the ends of the book covers. Reading down a black stack, some of the words are: talk, story, act, poison, purple, enigma, underworld, timeline, and highways. On the sides the artist has stamped REUSE. A more traditional human element is provided by the carved driftwood sculptures of Cloverdale artist Carol Setterlund. Lazarus, on a wheeled platform at the gallery’s entrance, invites you to see new sculptures. Setterlund’s oversized heads and faces top circular and block columns with extensions of railroad spikes, wire, or giant hands. They are a perfect fit to the rustic character of the old warehouse gallery.

The Inverness curators of Shaping Matter, Mary Mountcastle Eubank and Zea Morvitz have organized a rare opportunity for viewing a group of large, inventive works by coastal artists. Fri-Sun, 11-4 through November 29

Excerpt from article by Claudia Chapline published September 3, 2009 issue of West Marin Citizen

Rebecca Haseltine's site-work for Shaping Matter

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Shaping Matter

August 16 - November 29, 2009

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 16th - 2 to 4pm

Curators Tour: Sunday, Sept. 20th - 2 pm

Arianne Z Dar
Peter De Swart
Joe Fox
Tim Graveson
Rebecca Haseltine
Madeline Nieto Hope
Carol Setterlund

Curated by Mary Mountcastle Eubank and Zea Morvitz

NEW Gallery Hours: 11 to 4 Friday, Sat. and Sun.


This exhibition is funded by the William and Claire Isaacs Warhaftig Fund

The artists in Shaping Matter engage the viewer in a whole body way, partly by their use of material and partly by the way the work moves or lives in the space. They shape materials ranging from found beach wood to recycled fabric and bike tires to cast off books. The work exists in this particular space in a way that ignites not only a visual conversation among the pieces themselves but would also create a subtle, physically engaging response from the viewer.

Women Invented Cheese an installation by Sharon Siskin

Women Invented Cheese, a site-specific project by Bay Area artist Sharon Siskin, was conceived for the exhibition Terroir: A Sense of Place. Since it related specifically to the Marin French Cheese Company, we decided to post more about this work that was removed from the gallery in June.

excerpted from Artist Statement:

For this work I have focused on the Marin French Cheese Company, the history and culture of hand-making cheese, and also the role of women in this practice. My inspiration comes from a wonderful poster hanging in my kitchen, made by my friend Deborah Green in 1977. It celebrates the role of women as creative inventors of a variety of cheeses, such as Mrs. Poulet in England who invented Stilton, Marie Harel in France who invented Camenbert, and Hanne Nielson in Denmark who began Danish cheese making. In Northern California Clara Steele from Two Rock (later called Point Reyes) introduced the first Marin cheese in 1857 and began a century-and-a-half of tradition that has created some of the finest cheeses produced in the United States.

Women Invented Cheese re-examines the 144-year history of women’s role in cheese making at the Marin French Cheese Company. Adelia Lichau, who worked there for 62 years, graciously offered her deep knowledge of its social and labor history, bringing stories to life for this project.