Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The use of computer apps and the availability of self-publishing has been a gift to the reading community. Instead of meeting rejection at every step in the publishing world, new authors can have the satisfaction of seeing their characters come to life, page by page, when publishing their manuscripts themselves. The opportunity is also available to create book covers, ones that truly reflect the author's stories in ways that intrigue the casual browser. With the ease of new technology, art is...
After an absence from the art community for more than a decade, the Arts Center is happy to welcome back artist Kathleen Wolf. She will be the instructor for our July Paint night held on Saturday, June 15. She's fun friendly and we're looking forward to having here. Our artist of the month Anya Lathrop's display of embroidered art is like nothing you've ever seen before. What appear to be small paintings, are incredibly detailed and artfully composed embroidered works of art. With some of the...
Lions and tigers and bears, plus magnificent elephants, giraffes, monkeys and the wonders of the sea are within range of day trips to most Californians. In San Diego you find both the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wildlife Park ... plus SeaWorld. The Los Angeles Zoo provides good views of your favorite wild animals, reptiles and birds. Fresno has the Chaffee Zoo and is worth the trip as it even has a few dinosaurs in the mix. The Santa Barbara Zoo cannot be beat for its location. One can see a...
Paint class with Ed New for Sundays, Ed Vasqkedi will be teaching his intensive art class, painting in Acrylics, from 2 to 4 p.m. All ages welcome. Jam Night Dust off that old guitar, bass, keyboard, ukulele or whatever you have and come on out for a fun night of music and socializing. We are mostly a group of intermediate musicians so don't think you have to be great to join us. Bring a few copies of songs you want us to play. We always meet on Tuesdays. Come on out on May 30. Get on Mark's...
The second weekend in May brought 49 nationally recognized plein air painters to Tehachapi for a paint-out, and a chance to begin works of art that will be completed back in their studios where they can bring the works to life. The finished paintings will be juried into the Art 2023 Tehachapi show that will take place on the weekend of July 21-23 at Aspen Builders Community Center, located at 410 W. D St. in Tehachapi. The show will be the third nationally recognized art show sponsored by the...
In the time before hand held tech games and easy computer access, children used their long summer days indulging in simple games. Bare feet running through the warm grass, they would form opposing teams, winding their arms around each other in a human rope, then call "Red Rover, Red Rover, let Timmy come over!" Timmy would run as hard as he could toward the human wall and try to hit the arms loose to make a break in the line. If he succeeded, he went back to his own team. If unsuccessful, he wou...
Susan Bishop grew up in the foothill town of Springville, California. She lived on the family cattle ranch and roamed the golden hills, shaded by the Oaks trees and rested by the cool Tule River. In the summer, her family operated the Balch Park Pack Station for generations. These formative years greatly affected her subject matter, expressed in acrylic paintings of the land she loves. Susan loves to paint, especially for her clients, depicting a favorite duck hunting scene, serene pastor...
Fine arts painter Donald Towns has been a Tehachapi resident for more than 20 years and still finds that nature and our local surroundings inspire his work. "Beauty is all around when you're willing to explore," says Towns. Many of us, without knowing, have seen the results of his creative influence over the years. Towns worked for many years as a background artist for Disney Studios, working on many notable films such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin," as well as...
On blistering hot summer days my mother would call out to me and my friends languishing and complaining on our front porch, to come in and sit around our kitchen table. She would have her coffee cup filled and give us each a mug of Kool-Aid. Then she would begin telling us stories of her childhood. They were filled with country roads and a Model T Ford, her grandfather's rural mail route, asking a stranger for a drink of cold water from an old fashioned hand pump, opening a gated road with a wil...
For the third consecutive year, the Tehachapi Arts Commission will kick off their nationally recognized art show in mid-May when 49 artists from across the country will visit and explore Tehachapi to begin paintings that will be completed at their studio and then juried into the Art 2023 Tehachapi show. The show will be held at the Aspen Builders Community Center on the weekend of July 21-23. Many of the artists will be returning for the third time; however, every year the May paint-out...
TVAA Gallery 'N' Gifts presents its May guest artist Coral Degagne. Coral has been a Tehachapi resident for 46 years. Her interest in art took off once she started cutting glass, and she hasn't slowed down since. With 18 years of experience "braking glass and putting it back together," her work has become more intricate and amazing with every piece she finishes. Her sensibility for colors, shapes and contrast is translated into all of her work. Coral has worked with stained, fused and etched...
5 X 5 First Friday Fundraiser Our First Friday event is special this month. We will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a fundraiser. Tehachapi Arts Center is proud to be the sponsor for Raising Star and their 5 X 5 fundraiser. Local artist will create works of art on 5x5 canvases, which will then be sold Friday, May 5 for $55. We will be closed from 5 p.m. until 5:55 p.m. in order to set up for this special event. Raising Star is an equine based therapy provider that works with children and adults...
Joan Baez first thought of herself as an artist, drawing and selling pictures of cute animals to her schoolmates for three cents a piece. Only after bluffing her way through awkward teen moments in high school, playing a ukulele and mimicking others in song, did she find her own voice. And then did she sing! With the ability to reach three octaves, the highest being in the realm of angels, she has shared her voice around the world for over 60 years to both royalty and commoners. For the poor...
The Tehachapi Youth Art Contest is on display this month at Gallery 'N' Gifts. This annual event has been showcasing art by local students for over 30 years. First Friday was quite the event with students, family, friends and community visitors coming to see what this year's artists had to offer. This event is so popular it requires a second special showing on Saturday morning with a cookie and punch reception from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., which is always a hit with the young artists. "This is the...
Raising Star Fundraiser Tehachapi Arts Center is proud to be the sponsor for Raising Star and their 5x5 fundraiser. Local artists will create works of art on 5x5 canvases. These will be sold on 5-5-23 for $55. Any artist wishing to participate can come to the Art Center to pick up a canvas (there are only a few left) or use their own 5 inch by 5 inch canvas. All work needs to be turned in by April 29. Raising Star is an equine based therapy provider that works with children and adults with...
Among the 49 plein air artists returning to Tehachapi in May for the Art 2023 paint out will be Peter Adams. The Pasadena resident has long been associated with the California Art Club and now serves as President Emeritus of that organization. The paintings completed by Adams and the other artists in May will be juried into the Art 2023 Tehachapi public show, to take place at the Aspen Builders Community Center on the weekend of July 22-23, following an special opening event on Friday, July 21....
In 2007 I was gifted the book "Hugo Cabret" written and illustrated by Brian Selznick. With extraordinary imagination, Selznick was able to fold us into his creation, weaving the story about a French train station, an orphaned boy and a mechanical automan holding the key to several mysteries. Selznick's words drew us in, but it was his simple drawings that captured us. Who would not like the adventure of living within the walls of a great train station? Or making a friend like Isabelle who...
Portrait's now available Our resident artist and instructor Edward Vasqkedi is now offering his services as a portrait artist. He will create an original work of art in several media including oils, acrylics and sketching. Art supplies The Art Center has increased its inventory of art supplies. We have more paints and for the first-time alcohol ink is available. We also have polymer clay. April Events Fabric Arts Workshop New to the Art Center is our Fabric Arts Workshop. Scheduled for...
A definition of time from Wikipedia states, "Time is the continual sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irrevocable succession." Time can creep when waiting in anticipation and fly when having fun, but you cannot stop time. It is continual, just keeps marching on. Or, so it seems. People have had a fascination about time travel, moving back in time or forward, depending on need and desire. Some people would like to go back to fix something they deem broken. Others want...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission will kick off their third nationally recognized art show in mid-May when 50 artists from across the country will visit Tehachapi to begin paintings that will be juried into Art 2023 Tehachapi. The show will be held at the Aspen Builders Community Center on the weekend of July 21-23. Many of the exhibiting artists will be returning for the third time, including landscape artist Annette Hammer of Springfield, Missouri. Hammer has been painting landscapes for over 50...
I sometimes ponder on how to say enough about a book I review without giving away too much. It's always a precarious balance, enticing the reader into the story while leaving enough yet to be found. This week I am in a conundrum because the topic of my main book is fairies, or faeries in the author's choice of spelling. Do you believe in faeries? I chose the new publication "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries," a novel by Heather Fawlett, because it is March and I like to reference the...
Tehachapi Valley Arts Association and Gallery 'N' Gifts is at it again. When the Stallion Springs Community Center sent out a request for help with supplies for their upcoming youth craft days and summer camp art projects, TVAA rallied once again to be sure Tehachapi youth could get their creativity flowing. TVAA holds several artistic fundraising events each year. A photo contest in February and August, Makers Markets in June and August, the Tehachapi All Youth Art Contest in April, and Chalk...
When does a house become a home? When you sign the papers? When you are handed the keys? When you carry your bride over the threshold? Or maybe not until your furniture arrives, hand me downs or new from the furniture store, or belongings hauled hundreds of miles by a trailer or moving truck. People today are on the move constantly, and each time they land somewhere, they put down some kind of roots. They buy a house, or perhaps rent one, or rent an apartment or just one room. They move in...
Native Californian, Laura Wambsgans, will be returning to Tehachapi for Art 2023 after being part of the first two shows. Wambsgans began landscape oil painting 19 years ago, after working as the managing director of a major recording studio and then as a sculptor for two decades. Her last sculpture, "Serenity," was purchased by a Tehachapi mortgage broker and ultimately donated to Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley where it can be can be viewed today in the cafeteria garden. When Wambsgans...
Artist of the Month Mikey Russell is our artist of the month. A resident of Tehachapi for the last 5 years, Mikey is a student at Christian Leaders Institute and is studying for the Ministry. He started his interest in art at a very young age and hopes to incorporate his love for art in some aspect of his future career. Possibly as an art therapist. Realism Painting Class On Thursday, March 9 Oleander will present her Realism Class. This month's subject is a curious cat peeking out of its...
