There Is Always Something Happening At The Mendocino Art Center

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Photo by Marge Stewart Experience Inspiration At The Mendocino Art Center Monthly Gallery Exhibits • Paintings • Ceramics • Photography • Sculpture • Jewelry • Wearable Art Retreat Style Workshops Ceramics • Fiber Arts • Fine Arts • Jewelry • Sculpture Mendocino Art Center 45200 Little Lake Street at Kasten Street, Mendocino 707 937-5818 • 800 653-3328 • www.MendocinoArtCenter.org Photo by Marge Stewart 19
20 MAC’S 20-MONTH CALENDAR By Peggy Templer Mermaid, Jessica Jade Norris You might not expect that the Mendocino Art Center would come up with something way out of the ordinary for a fundraiser, but, with the help and artistry of photographer Larry Wagner, that’s just what they’ve done. The 20-month MAC calendar (January 2010 – August 2011) is unlike any other nude calendar you’ve ever seen or heard about. It’s fun, titillating, beautiful, unique, erotic, exotic, provocative, artistic, naughty (but nice), and very high quality. This is not just a calendar – it’s a keepsake! Larry Wagner, the author of Artists of the Mendocino Coast, Volumes I and II, was able to convince nearly two dozen artists and friends of MAC – men and women – to bare it all for this enterprise. There was a deliberate decision made to have no particular theme for the calendar. The artists/models collaborated and brainstormed with Larry to come up with the motifs for their own pages. The result is a highly imaginative and eclectic mix of mermaids, Turkish harems, tableaux vivant of famous paintings, classical poses, wood nymphs, call girls – in other words, expect to utter a gasp of surprise and delight at each turn of the page. Each month’s image is so strikingly rendered (a tribute to the enormous time put into the project by Larry, as well as to his skills as a photographer and with Photoshop) that you will not want the month to end because you will not want to change the picture! The cliché “every picture tells a story” is certainly appropriate for the MAC calendar. Most of the models had a vision or even a personal statement in mind, but bringing that vision into focus required many, many hours of collaboration between Larry and the model. Each image presented its own challenges – finding the right background, locating the right props, dealing with the elements for the many outdoor shots, capturing the right mood, overcoming numerous technical difficulties, and even coaxing
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