September 24, 2009
Media Contact:
Rochelle Branch
(626) 744-7062
Baseball cards, mobiles, tools and desserts all become artwork during the next ArtNight Pasadena.
The 22nd semi-annual event, free to the public, will be held on Friday, Oct. 9, from 6 to 10 p.m. with complimentary shuttles providing transportation among all venues.
The 13 cultural institutions that will open their doors for free include Alliance Francaise de Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design, Norton Simon Museum of Art, One Colorado, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena City College, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena Symphony and Side Street Projects. Kidspace Children’s Museum will be participating for the first time and offers plenty of free parking.
Participants can begin their journeys at any one of the venues and are encouraged to go green by carpooling or taking a bus or the Metro Gold Line, joining a bicycle tour, or walking between nearby venues. Information on transit options can be found at artnightpasadena.org and on bike tours at cicle.org
ArtNight is an ongoing partnership between the city’s Cultural Affairs Division and the many cultural institutions that open their doors on this night to offer the public a rich sampling of art, music and live performances at no cost. The event is sponsored by the Arts & Culture Commission.
For more information call (626) 744-7887 or go to artnightpasadena.org. For information on accessibility or to request written materials in alternative formats call (626) 744-7249.
ArtNight will be followed by ArtWalk at Pasadena Playhouse District on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (playhousedistrict.org/artwalk).
ArtNight’s featured exhibitions and performances include:
Alliance Francaise de Pasadena
34 E. Union, Kendall Alley
"de Kansky"
An exhibition by a French artist, one of the Who's Who of American artists, creator of the 25-foot-long Wood-Carving at Claremont McKenna College and paintings with a mystical interpretation of scientific concepts.
Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue
View the Armory’s 20th anniversary exhibition featuring 20 artists, including Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Edgar Arceneaux and Betye Saar. Also, 3-D films and photographs by L.A. 3-D Club. Music by Kan Zaman.
Art Center College of Design
Williamson/Student Galleries
1700 Lida St.
TOOLS
An art exhibition that explores how humans extend the limits of their biology, including art and artifacts from natural history and science, e.g., from ancient stone tools to Mars rovers.
Kidspace Children’s Museum
480 N. Arroyo Blvd.
Alexander Calder’s Circus in the central courtyard; visitors can create circus sculptures inspired by Calder and other artists, watch a performance by Lineage Dance and view a children’s art exhibition.
Norton Simon Museum of Art
411 W. Colorado Blvd.
“Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum” and “Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities in Buddhist Art” as well as the renowned collection of European and Asian Art.
One Colorado
Colorado Boulevard between Fair Oaks and DeLacey avenues
Internationally acclaimed artist Daniel Buren’s installation A Rainbow in the Sky flutters over the Courtyard. And, visit Resident Artist Jennifer Vanderpool’s magical studio A Pocketful of Posies in Smith Alley.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Ave.
The exhibition “Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art” explores the intersections of painting and writing and of legibility and illegibility.
Pasadena Central Library
285 E. Walnut St.
Touching All Bases: A Baseball Celebration
Explore the unparalleled creative possibilities of America’s national pastime through visual art, music, performance, film and literature. Co-sponsored by Baseball Reliquary.
Pasadena City College Art Gallery
1570 E. Colorado Blvd.
Mantong and Protong: Richard Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski
The exhibition illuminates two of the 20th Century’s most unusual theories of human origins, and the artists who originated them, using material that has never been exhibited.
Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 E. Union St.
In the Main Gallery, “Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting;” in the Back Gallery, “Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart”
Pasadena Museum of History
470 W. Walnut St.
“Family Stories: Sharing a Community’s Legacy” explores Pasadena’s African-American, Armenian-American, Chinese-American, Euro-American, Japanese-American, and Latino communities through the personal, multi-generational stories of six local families.
Pasadena Symphony Association
300 E. Green St.
Experience Your Imagination!
A music sampler of Pasadena Symphony’s upcoming 2009/2010 Classics Series. Special ticket offers will be available.
Side Street Projects
730 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Green & Greens
Art and food will be celebrated with a lettuce-planting party on The Armadillo, a vertical garden on a transformed FEMA trailer. Sponsored by Whole Foods Arroyo.
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