Newsletter:MesArt Artist:Open Studio Artists

A Call for Art - SF/SPCA's Animal Assisted Therapy Program

Submission deadline: May 8, 2009

A silent auction will start on May 14 and will be operating until the live auction starts. It is anticipated that will be a highly trafficked and lively event. Please consider supporting this great program by supporting a piece of your art. For submission form please email jemmert@sfspca.org or marti@mesart.com
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MesArt Offer to All Open Studios Artists

Dear Bay Area Artist,
MesArt offers all Open Studios artists an opportunity to promote and sell your art through our website. MesArt is rated the No. 1 art hosting service by Google.
This offer is free of charge during the period of your San Francisco and other Bay Area Open Studio. You get four free months of online exposure to coincide with your Open Studio events. At the end of the 4-month period you may extend and upgrade your account for a very reasonable fee, or it will be automatically closed.

This offer comes with Web pages to exhibit up to nine of your artworks, each page including artwork information and prices, online sales capability, a biographical statement, a personalized URL, guest book, slideshow and more.

Please visit us at http://www.mesart.com/packages if you would like to take advantage of this offer. If you have any questions please contact us at service@mesart.com.

Sincerely, MesArt staff

The DVD,
Xavier Viramontes -
'A Life in Print' is now available.

This one hour documentary which has been shown on PBS, profiles the life and work of San Francisco Bay Area printmaker Xavier Viramontes. The video covers Xavier's early years growing up in a large Hispanic family in the Richmond / San Pablo, area and his involvement with the Galeria de la Raza of San Francisco. Also covered is the history of the making of the 'Boycott Grapes' poster for the United Farmworkers Union which now hangs in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Amerian Art in Washington, D.C. and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DVD also contains EXTRAS: 30 minute detailed demo on the multiple plate etching process from concept to completion, and a Gallery section which showcases Xavier's work. >> More info