GALLERY EVENT
Wow! The first ever Mosaic Visual Arts Gallery Event was a huge success!! The evening couldn’t have been more beautiful! Thanks to Kristin Gallagher and Michelle Seow and the loads of volunteers who helped- guests were greeted by smiling faces, tree lights, free coffee and cookies and a clear process for bidding on the paintings. We had over 200 people pack the room- many of which were guests, co-workers and locals from the neighborhood. DJ Mytar did a set of spinning and Joel Catalan Jr.’s Jazz band lit up the evening as well putting smiles on everyone’s faces. It was fun seeing the competitive nature of people as it came down to the wire for bidding for the 70 plus paintings. Ultimately we sold 95 percent of the paintings and raised around $3,300 dollars for charity. If you went to the event and didn’t see your painting we ran into two issues, space to allow only so many paintings- of which we picked our oldest paintings and our more successful recent paintings. Also as we went through the paintings—there were many that were unfinished. We did not sell any of the paintings from Life’s Toughest Questions.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this an incredible night!
On another note—the ZINE we have been working hard to accomplish is finally done and we passed them out at the gallery event. Stephen Fitzgerald worked hard to bring all of your art and visual testimonies into a cohesive story. He did an incredible job as jaws dropped when they received them and flipped through them. We’re praying that the art speaks into hearts that words can’t.
If you created art for the zine I will be in touch soon to get you a few copies. No worries.
WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY MURAL
Alright! Let’s shed some light on this mural project shall we?
We need a mural for the front of William Carey. (Sorry Mr. Mott- but we’re covering your scary face. No matter where you stand—he looks at you.)
It is a contest. The best mural design – picked by the lead team- gets painted.
Everyone will be invited to paint the winning mural over Mr. Motts scary face.
The mural must have the mosaic logo as the central icon, covering Mr. Motts scary face.
The mural can cover the doors if you want but needs to cover Mr. Motts scary face.
All submissions must be delivered by Christmas!!
We will be PAINTING in January!
DESIGNERS--THINK: Mosaic, Los Angeles, Multi Cultural, color, shape, urban, city, John Denver etc.
(O.k. maybe nothing with John Denver)
Go ahead and email me and I will send you a photo of the front that you can print out and trace your design over. OR you can go and take your own photos and do what you need to present the best Mosaic Mural ever!!
Any other questions—go ahead and email me. joby@mosaic.org
CHRISTMAS SET
Mosaic is doing a Christmas play! So William Carey needs a cool set. We will be putting a team together to help build this sucker—and we’re talking Charles Dickens kind of Christmas set. Old shops and storefronts and snow. So we will need a good team for building and painting. If you are into being contacted to help build and paint and snow--- let me know-
Joby@mosaic.org
SMALL GROUPS
We have a Visual Arts Small Group!!! They meet on the West Side! If you live on the West side and want to get together with a group of amazing artists to hang, eat, talk, and create together contact either Kirsten Presher kpresher@hotmail.com or Lisa Soltis at lisasoltis@yahoo.com
We are in the process of starting roughly 5 more groups in the Los Angeles area! These groups are being created to help build community among the artists and accelerate connecting new people. Otherwise the world waits for me to get my act together and people and projects fall through the cracks.
We will let you know of all the groups and locations asap.
THANKSGIVING
I hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving! If you are here in Los Angeles alone---you need to be somewhere for Thanksgiving---don’t be weird—let me know if you have nowhere to go—we’ll get you hooked up with some loving people and good food!
Many people think Thanksgiving was started by a bunch of Pilgrims and Indians eating turkey around a bunch of wig-wams. But it was actually set in place as a day of gratitude to God by President Abe Lincoln. Yes, good old Abe. What’s beautiful about this day is that it was created as a day to be grateful amidst chaos, stress and pain. The civil war was at it’s worst. In fact it was very common to live in a home affected with loss of a loved one, financial burdens or just plain stress about what the future held for America. America was completely divided. But Abe was optimistic and said even though life is hell right now and we are all suffering loss and oppression, lets set this day aside to thank God for what we do have, for who we have and for the healing we will be receiving. Lets have a little optimism this year huh? Instead of looking ahead and worrying about what you don’t have or what could happen, look around you now at what and who you have been blessed with right now. Allow that to fuel your movement into the future. Gosh-thanks Abe!! Why’d you have to go to the theatre that night Abe!? Why?!.
I don’t think I need to go through what Christmas is about…
Thanks everyone!! God bless and please let me know if anything is confusing.
Joby Harris
joby@mosaic.org
Fall Fest Photos
If you missed Mosaic's annual Fall Fest, boy did you miss out on feeling like a kid again! Visual Arts had a "paint a pumpkin" wall which kids- young and old- flocked to. There was also painting with vegetables and crazy-hat-making. The In-N-Out truck was there to make our stomachs happy, as were free sno cones and popcorn! The dance ministry put on a moving piece during the celebration, which can be seen at www.awakenhumanity.org/dancevideos under "Religiosity." Be sure to make it next year, and thank you to our volunteers! We really couldn't have done it without you, esp. Andy Q., who stood in the InNOut line so we could eat. =)
