Artist Application & Information for 2024 Exhibits
Information, guidelines & application for 2024 shows are now available.
Application Guidelines Presentation
https://maturango.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2024-Gallery-Exhibit-Application-1.pdf
Andrea Pelch – Gallery Coordinator
Open Studio Tour 2017
Tour weekend is October 21 and 22.
The Open Studio Tour is a major fundraiser for the Maturango Museum.
Questions? Contact Andrea Pelch (760-793-2857) at the Maturango Museum (760-375-6900) or mailto:matmus5@maturango.org.
Open Studio Tour 2016
Opening Reception for Artists’ Exhibit on Friday, September 9, 7pm
Artists open their studios for the 2-day event so ticket holders can visit and purchase artwork. The tour will be Saturday and Sunday, October 15 & 16, 10 am – 5 pm each day. Each artist will also have their artwork displayed in the Open Studio Tour Exhibit at the Museum and be a part of the opening reception on Friday, September 9, 7pm. We have 29 artists participating in this year’s tour. Art and crafts include ceramic sculpture, pottery, glass, paintings, woodworking, jewelry, and metalwork. The $10 tickets will be available September 1st in the museum gift shop.
Questions? Contact Andrea Pelch (760-793-2857) at the Maturango Museum (760-375-6900) or mailto:matmus5@maturango.org.
The Open Studio Tour Artists’ Exhibit and tour weekend was once again a great success. We had 28 artists in 25 studios participating. The new artists all sold artwork and were pleased to be recognized. Everyone has agreed that they’d like to do it again next year. Tentatively the weekend will be 22 and 23 October 2016.
Total sales in the studios were $13,500 and total sales in the gallery were about $3500.
Enjoy the photos from the weekend courtesy of Linda Saholt.
Maturango Museum’s Open Studio Tour Artists’ Exhibition
Artists’ Work Reception: Friday, October 02, 2015
Exhibit: through November 08, 2015 in the Coso Room
28 artists in 20 studios participated in this year’s Open Studio Tour. This 2-day event, Saturday Oct 17 and Sunday Oct 18, 10 am – 5 pm each day, allowed ticket holders to visit the open studios at their leisure and purchase artwork. Artwork includes wood, copper and Corian bowls and sculptures, decorative and functional pottery, jewelry, wood-burning, steel sculptures, torch-worked glass, oil and watercolor paintings, ceramic sculptures, photography, found object wind-chimes, and printmaking.
Artists participating include Beth Allen, Betty Spindler, Birgit Gagliardi, Cheryl McDonald, Art of Autumn and Dave, Debbie Benson, Dick Benson, DeeDee Reese, Donnie Woods, Helen Baker, Janice Allen, Jerry Bradley, Joan Welsh, Jodi Ostrom, Julie VonSchlemmer, Kathy Fields, Kim Winchester, Larry Sawyer, Laura Arns, Lois Hinman, Maria Coit, Mike Mumford, Mike Riley, Nancy Crawford, Patricia McCain, Sally Adams, and Skip Gorman. Paula Caudill’s studio will be hosted by her son. The tour was a wonderful way for artists to share their talents, studios, and creativity. Some artists shared space at the various studios.
Exhibit Sponsors
Judy Fair-Spaulding, Cynthia and Anthony Damiano, Johanboeke Family, Heritage Inn, Gerry & Dick Wisdom & Bev & Ron Atkins
Enjoy the photos from past Open Studio Tour weekends courtesy of Linda Saholt.
Art Opportunities: this art opportunities list is published monthly for artists and photographers. Art contests, grants, juried art competitions, fellowships, residencies, public art commissions, art awards, scholarships, teaching assistantships, calls for art, art deadlines, scholarships, art shows, photography contests, RFPs, RFQs, sculpture commissions, percent-for-art, slide registries, university art galleries, non-profit art galleries, or other artist opportunities and venues normally outside the commercial gallery system.
http://www.artopportunitiesmonthly.com/comments.html
Coso Room Art Gallery Exhibits for 2016
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The mission of the Maturango Museum is to preserve, interpret, and develop an appreciation for the natural and cultural history of the Northern Mojave Desert through research and education in the natural and physical sciences, and to promote the arts.
100 East Las Flores Ave
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