Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Second Friday - Jan. 8 from 5-8 p.m. in Downtown Tehachapi
First Friday Fun Fest will be celebrated at Tehachapi Treasure Trove on Friday evening, Jan. 8, from 5 to 8. The Treasure Trove will be exhibiting work done by students from our various selection of classes. Join us to support the students, enjoy food and wine and listen to music by Art Larson on clarinet.
The Treasure Trove offers a variety of classes. Classes include: Polymer clay, earth based clay, drawing, painting in a variety of media, fiber arts, iris paper folding, jewelry making, tie dye, loom beading, candle making and more. Starting in January we will be offering photography and Chinese Brush painting. We welcome new projects and teachers.
Many of our teachers have years of experience in teaching their crafts. Juanita Niemeyer who teaches painting on Wednesday mornings has been teaching art for 50 years. Many of her regular students are accomplished artists looking for new ideas and ways to mix media. Nancy Waldron, who teaches watercolor, has been painting for 30 years. Christi Friesen has written books on polymer clay projects and teaches classes around the world. We sometimes have difficulty scheduling her classes in her home town. Lucinda Thomas, who teaches drawing and other media, has been teaching various types of art for many years. Come meet the teachers and see the wonderful art their students have created.
Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 E Tehachapi Blvd, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Hours are daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Sundays 11 to 4). Be sure to stop by and see our collection of uncommonly eclectic and unusually unique stuff. Remember we carry an extensive line of art and craft supplies and artist services along with books, yarn, music and a jewelry studio. For additional information on any of our activities, classes and events, please call (661) 822-6794 or visit http://www.facebook.com/Tehachapi Treasure Trove.
On Jan. 8, 2016 from 5-8 p.m. Gallery n Gifts will host its first Featured Artist event of the year. They proudly present one of their own resident artists, Tina Dille, exhibiting her paintings “Ravens: Myths and Legends”. An extraordinary exhibition that has just traveled from the museum walls of MOAH in Lancaster, CA. and received great reviews from its art patrons. These large scale watercolors painted on a synthetic paper and mounted on sintra are interpretations of the symbolic and mystical iconographies of ravens throughout history and present times.
Dille, a transplant from Orange County, credits her growth as an artist to her serene lifestyle in the Tehachapi Mountains where she can immerse herself into the work and draw from the unlimited source of wildlife inspirations for her animal based portraits. In fact, Dille’s muse for the raven paintings was a grounded raven that lived on her property for nine months and provided her with that up close and personal observation so essential for this body of work.
Dille, an emerging artist in the Los Angeles art scene has been painting what she loves most “animals and wildlife”. “My passion for contemporary art and animals have merged into my current style that is expressionist of what I feel is beneath the feathers and fur.” she explains. I live to paint and believe each painting has something to convey to the viewer”. “I feel fortunate to have settled in Tehachapi among talented artists and a country gallery that exhibits my work. For me, success is measured by the freedom and opportunity to express my passion for animals in my art and to be able to share it with others.”
Tina Dille earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from California State University Bakersfield in 2008. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries across California and has received numerous awards, most recently “Best of Show” at MOAH 2015 and a solo exhibition “Ravens: Myths and Legends” MOAH 2015.
Please join us from 5 -8 p.m. on this special Second Friday Jan. 8 reception for an evening of wonderful art, delicious food, and live music. Gallery ‘N’ Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd.
