Thank You to Our 2020 Partners & Exhibit Sponsors

By Erik Davison

All members of the community are invited to participate! No entry fee!

We invite you to design a poster that tells us your COVID-19 story. Draw, paint, photograph, or collage your story. You can submit up to three poster designs.

Over the past year, we have all learned to live with COVID-19. For most of us this has meant wearing a mask as a method of protecting ourselves and others. We wear masks because we value our family members, doctors, nurses, essential workers and many others in our community.

Images of your poster will be placed in our online gallery. Two $50 gift certificates to Kelly’s Books in Watsonville will be awarded, one each in the youth and adult categories. You might also consider working as a team!

Your poster may tell a story that illustrates:

• How COVID-19 has impacted your family

• What you most look forward to returning to after the health crisis is over

• Places you may want to visit

• Activities that you want to resume

• A call to action to wear a mask and/or portraits of people wearing masks.

Check out the Details: In English

Check out a slideshow of the wonderful PVA members' artwork in our Online Gallery

We invite you to join Guillermo “Yermo” Aranda, Peter Thomas, and Daniella Woolf, for a presentation and discussion of their art work and processes. Join Zoom Meeting

Check out recordings of past salons on our website.

PVA invites you to join this talented group of artists to hear their perspectives of People, Community and Life!

Victoria Bañales holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). A Chicanx writer, teacher, and activist, she teaches English at Cabrillo College and is founder and editor of Journal X.

Ekua Omosupe is an award-winning poet who teaches English at Cabrillo College. Her collection of poems, Legacy was published in 1997. Dr. Omosupe holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UCSC.

Peggy Morrison is a California poet who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her book Mom Says was published in 2020.

Shirley Flores-Muñoz received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UCSC. She currently teaches in the Women’s Studies and History Department at Cabrillo College.

Guillermo “Yermo” Aranda, muralist, named 2020 Artist of the year by the Santa Cruz Art Commission will talk about his life work that includes over 80 murals in Watsonville and Santa Cruz.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Please help spread the word that we are searching for a dynamic and experienced leader to serve as our new Executive Director. The E.D. will advance PVA's mission, lead fundraising efforts, work closely with staff and volunteers to meet PVA goals, and represent PVA in the Gallery and community.