2019 SEEDS Events Report

As always, our weekly meetings each Thursday opening with devotions and prayers

1/31 - Started 2019 by attending our first gallery openings at the Golden West College opening “Neurotic the New Avant-Garde” group exhibit with Olga Lah

Jan-Apr - The year began with Denise’s artworks in a solo exhibit at The Orange City Main Library exhibit of “Portraits of Faith”

2/2 - The Hilbert Museum “Artworks of Mary Blair” 

2/7 - Researching venues in Orange    

Visited Coastline College “Kitsch In Sync” group exhibit with Kent Twitchell

2/9 - Opening of Brea Arts Center Group Exhibit with Olga Lah 

2/16 - “House Show #1” with Melissa Beck & Kari Dunham at CURA

Feb 2019 Traveling and visiting: Julie went to San Francisco, museums & galleries

2/28 - Researching LA Gallery Day and Ed Cella Gallery, Carl Berg’s Denk gallery

3/1 - Artists gathering dinner at Weyhrich's

3/2 - Opening Wayne Forte art opening in Hollywood

3/6 - 3/10 - Research trip & retreat in Berkeley, meeting arts leaders of the 

Bay area with Marda Stothers

3/14 - Lecture by Bill Catling at American Museum or Ceramic Arts in Pomona - 

Duncan Simcoe’s exhibit at Progress Gallery

3/17 - St. Patrick’s Day annual SEEDS administrative gathering

3/24 - 4/9 - Denise and Mike traveling Italy in Rome, Orvieto, Florence, museums and galleries 

4/13 - Night of Hope Symposium assisting Silvana Tei Kenney with the event exhibit in Glendale 

4/18 - Researching OCCCA and CSUF Santa Ana Arts District 

4/24 - BIOLA BA graduate exhibit 

5/4 - 1888 Center, opening group photo exhibit 

Met Jason Leith from Saddleback Church offering to provide SEEDS with Venue for Epitaphs 

5/17 - Oceanside Museum of Arts exhibits - Valya: She Exhibit, Roland Reiss

5/18 - LACMA Charles White Exhibit 

5/30 - Visiting on Saddleback campus with Jason Leith 

6/1 - WON GRANT FOR EPITAPHS! The Grove Center for the Arts artistic grant

6/5 - 6/7 - Laguna Arts District and Old Town with Marda Stothers

6/10 - 6/16 - CIVA conference in Minneapolis, Bethel College 

Conducted 12 portfolio reviews for CIVA 

Researched all the art museums in Minneapolis

met Kylee Pastore, met Paul Wu for Epitaphs

Painted with Tim Lowly and Steve Prince

Printmaking workshop: Met many artists including Teri Shagoury from Saddleback 

Met in person Ned Buster, Luwan Glasscock CIVA director, Kim Miller

Visited with Board members: Cam, Sandra, Roger, Stephan, Marianne

June - Julie went to Atlanta/ South Carolina, barn for her quilt project

June - Cindi went to North Carolina and South Carolina - Gibbes Museum of Art

6/30 -  Visit Summerlin, NV civic galleries 

7/3 - Laguna Festival of Arts opening, and additional trips

met Ron Azevedo, Peggy Chang, Dennis Carrie

7/12 - Cambria trip for Weyhrichs - 

Mission Gallery Boykin Sellers & Piper and artists Riccardo Spizzamiglio for Epitaphs

7/22  - Denise began chemo treatment 

8/20 - Huntington Gardens and Library, Norton Simon Art Museum, Fuller Seminary, with studio visit. Maria Fee’s exhibition at the Mission - Gathering Christian Mike Hernandez artist in residence

9/3 - Barry Krammes’ opening APU Theater of the Struggle

9/10 - Cambria Rhodes trip - Mission Gallery Boyton & Piper and artist Riccardo Spizzamiglio

9/11 - St. Seraphim’s Icons with Father Lawrence

September 2019 Julie went to Texas

9/20 - weekly meeting - worked all day on between the lines 

9/26 - Day of galleries research! APU for Barry Krammes’s exhibit and faculty exhibit. 

Pacific Life Gallery of Kent Anderson Butler, Kari Dunham and Kristen Van Mourick

Sasse Gallery w/Gene Desert BIOLA faculty exhibit

9/27 - Barry and Beth’s Krammes moving party

10/1 - BIOLA opening Uneven Paving Stones w/Fullerton Seminary Art Students - Maria Fee,   Eric Tai and Dea Jenkins - selected their artwork for Epitaphs

10/12 - Bridge Project met Liberty Worth

10/13 - Honoring the Krammes SEEDs gathering saying good-bye!

10/17 - Leslie Caldera’s assemblage exhibit at The Coffee Cup in Fullerton.

10/24 - Epitaphs planning meeting with Jason from Saddleback

11/1 - All Saints’ Day - “All Saint’s Epitaphs” installation gathering with Denise Weyhrich for St. John’s Lutheran Church - through November

11/24 - Sunday before Thanksgiving gave away all the “All Saints Epitaphs” installation tablets 

12/5 - End of the year fundraiser sent

12/12 - Published slideshow to website for SEEDS ministry highlights of 2019

12/19 - Long Beach Museum of Art and downtown annex Dan Callis exhibit

Finished the year Finalizing the exhibit for Crean Lutheran High School for Epitaphs with 

Kari Dunham installing