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Online Gallery
Create in Place     
Clockwise: Barbara Brundage (3), Louise West, Dax Notari, Katherine Stowell (2) John Hylton

Pajaro Valley Arts is excited to announce the opening of our new online gallery Create-In-Place! You are invited to share the artwork, poetry and writings that you have created during shelter-in-place. Your artworks may be inspired by the "shelter-in-place" experience, or it may be unrelated to the corona virus experience.

Create-In-Place! is hosted on the PVA website and is a community exhibit and gathering place where we can acknowledge the challenges of these difficult times; recognize the suffering and stress many are experiencing; and encourage and celebrate the creativity and resiliency within our communities. Please join us!
To share your art, whatever form it takes, email a photograph (jpeg file), audio file or video file to [email protected].  Be sure to include your name and the title of your piece in your email. We will post images as they arrive, so send us something today. All ages are welcome to participate! Please share this invitation with family and friends. 
 
To see the artwork currently on display please visit Create-In-Place!
 on the PVA website.
 
Thank you and stay safe.


 
Thank You!   

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You might be wondering how we are weathering the current shelter-in-place orders. Our staff and volunteers are hard at work to bring you virtual programming, public projects, and future gallery exhibits. We have the ability to pay staff right now because of the generosity of  Arts Council Santa Cruz in the form of an emergency grant and the fine work of Santa Cruz County Bank, in the form of a Payroll Protection Program loan. A huge THANK YOU for their support of and belief in our mission to bring the community together through the arts!
 
Campesinos: Workers of the Land    
TBD - August 2, 2020    
Work by Arleene Correa Valencia

Currently The PVA Gallery is closed. We plan to reopen as soon as our shelter-in-place order and Covid-19 business restrictions are lifted.
 
We invite you to take the Campesinos: Workers of the Land   virtual tour or any of the virtual tours we have posted to our website for the last three years.  If you would like a more detailed look at the individual pieces, check them out in our online galleries. 
 
For those of you with kids, viewing artwork is part of the state and national arts core curriculum as it can help students respond to artwork by perceiving and analyzing content while interpreting intent and meaning; and connect artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historic context to deepen understanding. After taking the tour, ask your kids what they saw, felt, and learned. Perhaps they would like to create their own piece of artwork inspired by one of the pieces they have seen. Email a photo of their artwork to us to us, and we will post it in our new online gallery. Perhaps an image will inspire your kids to sing, dance, or write a poem.   


Virtual Viewings
Watsonville Film Festival   
 
 
 
 
 
In just the few weeks that the Campesinos: Workers of the Land virtual tour was published, 950 people have toured the space.  Two of our artists, Arleene Correa Valencia and Craig Sherod were featured in the  virtual Watsonville Film Festival. You can see Represent and Best of Me as well as the fabulous film festival line-up by visiting  Virtual Watsonville Film Festival. 
 

Calls For Artists
 
 
Time to Create! Click on the links below for more information: 
 
 
Apply By June 26, 2020 
 
Apply By: May 22, 2020  
 
This is a new opportunity to design and install a walkway mural at 500 Struve Slough Road, in Watsonville. $4500 award! 
    

2020 Exhibits 
 
Vote! Your Vote is Your Voice/¡Vote! Su Voto es Su Voz
January 27 - November 6, 2020
At 701 Ocean Street, 3rd Floor
Santa Cruz
 
Campesinos: Workers of the Land
TBD - August 2, 2020

Annual PVUSD Student Art Show
AT THE WATSONVILLE CIVIC PLAZA
  Year-round: Exhibit Change (TBD)

Sculpture Is: In th e Garden 2020
July 1 - October 31, 2020
At Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens

Movable Murals  
250 Main Street, Downtown Watsonville  
Year-round
 
Members' Exhibit: People, Places & Poetry
August 26 - October 4


Mi Casa es Tu Casa
October 28 - December 13, 2020


Past Exhibits: Virtual Tours
W ould you like to revisit one of our fabulous exhibits, or did you miss one altogether? Please take a few minutes to explore the 360 degree tours of our gallery by clicking on the links below:    
 
 
 
 

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