New Public Art Piece Debuts in Dana Point

Artist Mia Tavonatti with her mosaic public art piece, "Stairwave."

Dana Point officials and residents celebrated a unique piece of public art by Mia Tavonatti with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, August 16. Tavonatti’s work, “Stairwave,” is a mosaic made from thousands of high-fired, handcrafted ceramic pieces and fused glass tiles that uses the 118-step staircase rising up a steep hillside in Lantern Bay Park as a canvas. The location and artist were selected by the Dana Point Arts and Culture Commission.

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Anaheim Artist William Camargo Featured

in New Yorker Magazine

Photographer William Camargo, who was born and raised in Anaheim, was featured in the August 17 issue of New Yorker Magazine. The piece looks at how Camargo’s work explores not only the city’s Indigenous and Mexican past, but its present by documenting the places and people that exist just beyond the walls of Disneyland. 

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 The Art Space OC Gallery Providing Resources to Local Artists

Casa Bloom Studios and Community Engagement have partnered to create The Art Space OC Gallery in downtown Santa Ana to highlight local artists of color. Believing that narratives told by artists of color in U.S museums are few, they are dedicated to curating at the grassroots level. 

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Opportunities

The Association of Arts Administration Educators with the support of the California Arts Council (CAC) is implementing a program aimed at identifying approximately eleven emerging arts administrators for support. These selected individuals will be paired with an equal number of arts and culture organizations dedicated to equity and community engagement for a 12-month fellowship that includes a stipend of $50,000.

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In partnership with the California Arts Council, the Center for Cultural Power is accepting applications for the California x Culture Bearers & Artist Disruptors Awards. This program will award $15,000 each to 30 Culture Bearers and 30 Artist Disruptors. Culture Bearers and Artists Disruptors must live and/or work within the bottom 25th quartile based on the California Healthy Places Index. 

For more information on the specific zip codes targeted by the program, as well as guidelines, read more here.

Tickets Still Available for the

Annual OC Arts Awards on October 17

This benefit evening recognizes and celebrates the arts organizations, artists and arts patrons in the OC community whose significant contributions during the past year, or over the course of a lifetime, have notably impacted the arts in Orange County. For tickets and more information, visit https://artsoc.org/events-and-programs/orange-county-arts-awards/

Requesting Submissions for “In Memoriam” at Arts Awards

ArtsOC customarily devotes a portion of its annual Arts Awards event to remembering those who passed during the prior year. This year's event is on October 17, and we invite you to submit for our consideration individuals who contributed to our OC arts community as artists, arts leaders, arts educators, and arts patrons. Please share with us a sentence or two about them and their affiliations and, if possible, an image. Send to rstein@artsoc.org.

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