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March 30, 2010 – San Diego, Calif. San Diego Fine Art Society (SDFAS) is proud to present ArtPulse.TV (www.artpulse.tv), a new web TV outlet committed to exposing San Diego’s rich arts and culture with in-depth interviews and fresh content every week. Hosted by award-winning journalist Phoebe Chongchua, ArtPulse.TV will feature news, profiles of top and emerging artists, stories about collectors and collecting, gallery round ups, market trends and analysis, and coverage of art fairs and exhibitions.

San Diego, Calif. (March 9, 2010) The San Diego Fine Art Society announces an addition to the Hollywood Glamour Ball. Launch Pad, a special gallery exhibition to honor artist mentee graduate Ansley Pye in celebration of her transition from one phase of her career as an artist to the next step of  starting her journey to seek representation at national galleries. Ansley is a local artist known for her oil paintings on canvas that portray the perfect imperfections in organic objects – the extraordinary in the ordinary.  

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San Diego Fine Art Society (SDFAS) is proud to announce that artist mentee Dani Dodge has been selected as a featured artist for the 2010 Mission Federal ArtWalk. ArtWalk, San Diego’s largest and best-known art festival, is celebrating its 25th anniversary on April 24 and 25, 2010, in Little Italy.

Dodge, a former reporter and editor with The San Diego Union-Tribune, began telling her stories in paint in 2004 after covering the war in Iraq.

Three months ago, she was invited to be part of the SDFAS mentorship program for midcareer artists. SDFAS is a nonprofit organization founded by April Game to strengthen the pulse of the art community through education and collaboration. The Society has retained Yoram Gil as the mentor to help artists like Dodge move forward in their careers.

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Dear Friends and Fans of the San Diego Fine Art Society,

2009 is over - we got a lot done. Below is our 2009 Year in Review. Please scroll down, take a walk through last year and feel proud of what you accomplished! Thank you for your vision and commitment. I look forward to what we can accomplish in 2010. 

Yours,

April Game 

Art is life, it is beauty, it is emotion, it is you, it is me, it is everything. Art defines all that we are, and all that we could become. Art is of the past and of the future, of the influences of our daily lives, of our pasts combined with who we are today. Art is an indescribable joy, an expansion of the mind, body and soul. We are art, every last individual of the human race. Art comes in the form of music, dance, theater, painting, drawing, blowing, throwing, and even in the math equations or scientific experiments of the right brained population. Art is feeling, seeing, smelling, tasting and hearing. Art is here to titillate our senses, to create emotional and physical reactions to the viewer. Art is healing. Art is loving. Art is… everything. 

Art is life. Art is visual sensual spatial. It is motion and stillness in
harmony with negative space full of sound and light. It is beauty, which
as Rilke said, is only the beginning of terror. it is an abyss and the
thing that catches us when we fall. It is god and it is good. Art is the
thing you view hear feel sense that makes you wish to go on living. It is
tenderness mercy grace and wrenching pain. It is severing, emotional,
visceral, ethereal, implacable and honorable. Art is everywhere in
everything like air invisible essential apparent ever present never
absent. It is paint poetry dance song swim flow motion locomotion and
standing still silhouetted against a red sky. It is shadow and dream and
the way the light falls and pattern and inexplicable. It is natural and

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Artist and SDFAS Mentor Program participant Rae Barney has announced
the opening of Fire and Mud Studios in Escondido, where she is teaching
clay workshops starting December 1, 2009. SDFAS applauds her hard work
and bravery as she finds and shares her bliss.

She studied raku, saggar, and pit fire techniques under Rico Piper,
renowned potter and raku master. She studied sculpture and three
dimensional design under sculptor Dick Marcusen.

"Sculpture is my passion. As I strive for the most effective way to
express my vision, I am continually pushin the limits of my media. As a
result, I am continually broadening the realm of possibility. Life is
art. Dare to sculpt your dreams." 

Looking for an innovative and fun way to support the Mentor Program?
Take a class or a workshop from Ms. Barney and let her help you release
your own creative spirit through working with clay.

Techniques you can explore: