Painting by Jerrold Turner

Flyway Festival Art Exhibition and Paintout

Bay Area Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibit: Artists of all ages, professional or student, are invited to exhibit their original art work at the 2011 San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. Photographers and painters of all ages and skills are invited to exhibit original work that depicts and celebrates local wildlife, San Francisco Bay native habitats, and landscapes from Mount Tamalpias to the west, to Mount Diablo in the east, Baylands to the south, and wine country to the north. Special emphasis will be on migratory birds of the Pacific Flyway and their habitats, the wetlands and tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay Estuary, Carquinez Strait, San Pablo Bay, and the historic sights of the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve and Mare Island. Please note: Works depicting Pacific Coastal landscape are outside the parameters of this exhibit and will not be accepted. Fees: $20 for up to 3 entries. Entry Forms postmarked or submitted via email by February 5, 2011. Click here for an entry form. For information call 707-552-7351(let ring 6-7 times) or 707-249-9633. or send an email.

Also! North Bay Wetlands and Wildlands Plein Air Paintout and Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout

The North Bay Regional and Wetlands Plein Air Paintout and the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout is separate from the Bay Area Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibit. Entry fee is $20 for up to 3 entries in one or both categories of North Bay Regional and Wetlands and/or Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve. Payable when works are delivered February 6th or 7th 12noon-4pm. Use the same entry form as provided for the Wetlands to Ridgetops Exhibition. For information call 707-552-7351(let ring 6-7 times) or 707-249-9633. or send an email or download this application (PDF format; Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Subject and Media:

Original artwork in any media–– representational and abstract, two and three dimensional–– will be accepted that depicts and celebrates local wildlife, San Francisco Bay native habitats, and landscapes from Mount Tamalpias on the west, to Mount Diablo on the east, Baylands to the south, and wine country to the north. Special emphasis will be on migratory birds of the Pacific Flyway and their habitats, the wetlands and tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay Estuary, Carquinez Strait, San Pablo Bay, and the historic sights of the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve. Please note: Works depicting Pacific Coastal landscape are outside the parameters of this exhibit and will not be accepted.

Your purchase of fine bay nature and history art helps our artists and the Flyway Festival
The bottom line for our artists and our Festival is our invitation to you to seriously consider purchasing the art you find in our Exhibition. It is here for 3 days only. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to view some of the finest nature and local historic art in the region. The artists are surely willing to discuss prices with you. They would be happy to show you some of the rest of their portfolios. Make that investment in art today and in the process, you will be helping the Festival, too. Artists have generously given back to the Festival through their art sales.

History and Organizers of the Wetlands to Ridgetops Art Exhibit and North Bay Wetlands and Wildlands and Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Paintout:

The Wetlands to Ridgetops Art Exhibit was founded at the second Flyway Festival in January 1998. From that moment on it has grown and flourished and become a keystone to the annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. Curated for many years by Susan Schneider (www.susanschneider.com) the show was refined and expanded under her guidance. Her introduction of the Plein Air Paintout featuring themes as broad as North Bay Wetlands and as specific as Mare Island Landmarks and beginning 3 years ago with an addition of Mare Island Shoreline Preserve, have lent an air of advocacy to the Exhibition for special and even threatened features of our "north shore" landscapes. We wish to sincerely thank Susan for her long-time commitment to the Flyway Festival Art Exhibitions. We note the role Susan's dad Howard and her husband Brian have played in ensuring the success of past shows.

We want to acknowledge others who have had significant roles in ensuring the quality and success of the Flyway Festival Art Show over this long time period. A committee of artists worked diligently together for a number of years to produce the exhibit. Barbara Wankum and her grand daughter Andrea Petty, along with Barbara's husband John, made a lasting improvement to the quality of our display resources and the space itself. Barbara handled registrations and cataloging of entries and artist interfaces for many years. All three spent countless hours on the upgrades to our show and it shows!

With the leadership of Jerrold Turner and unbelievable dedication Sue Wilson and many other members of the Benicia Plein Air Group, the Exhibition has flourished for the last two years. We sincerely thank the entire team and wish them well in their new venture at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery on the lower end of First Street in Benicia.

We hope you will welcome and offer to help Sarah Evans as the new coordinator of our show this year. She has been the steady behind the scenes volunteer support staffer every step of the way for our Art Exhibition. Volunteers beyond listing have made the space shine and our hearts burst with pride with their contributions to painting, washing windows, scrubbing the floor and preparing food and serving guests during our opening reception each year.

We will miss with all our hearts, our beautiful gallery at our former location with its fabulous plate glass windows on Mt. Tamalpais and the wetlands of Mare Island and San Pablo Bay beyond. However, we welcome the Art Show into our main expo hall where they will be integrated into our Flyway Festival Wildlife Expo home instead of far away down the long hallway.

Volunteer for the Flyway Festival Art Exhibit and Paintout Auction: As the Exhibition grows, the need for volunteers to help ensure the quality and continued success of the show has become critical. We urge you to consider volunteering for the many different aspects of pulling this show together and...taking it apart! It is totally dependent on volunteers and you are needed now! Call 707-552-7351 (let ring 6-7 times) or 707-249-9633 or email us your availability beginning Wed. February 2 through Sun. February 13th. We really appreciate your involvement, especially since Sallie recently broke her wrist. She will need you to take a shift!

2009 Art Show Youtube Movie: posted by Sue Wilson http://www.youtube.com/user/doersdoit#p/u/25/VETyf1DTznk

Opening Reception and Festival Host

 

Friday February 11th

Wildlife Expo Building 223, 500 Connolly St. Mare Island

5:30-7pm Festival and Art Exhibit Opening Reception
Enjoy good company at the opening of the Flyway Festival and its Fine Art Exhibit with our Opening Reception and Festival Host, Weston Solutions. Gather to preview fine art, sample wines of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, the Carneros region, Solano County and beyond, have a bite to eat and listen to live music after a day of birdwatching on guided outings throughout the region or a day of work. This is your first chance to consider which art you will purchase.

7pm-9pm Place Bids on Art in our Silent Auction

Photograph by John Klycinski

Place bids in our Silent Auction till Sunday 3:45pm, Wildlife Expo, Building 223.

 

 

 

7pm-9pm Shop and Bid Early

Photograph by John Klycinski

Start your bidding on the on the silent auction and shop early with art and birding supply vendors in the Wildlife Expo Hall, Building 223 .