by Noella Noelophile®
(Graphic courtesy of San Pedro Art Association, and used with permission.)
Want to see some gifted artists smile?
You’ll get that opportunity, this Sunday, June 7th, as San Pedro Art Association celebrates the creative gifts of local students.As you can see, SPAA will be hosting a free awards reception, from 2 to 5 pm at CRAFTED, for participants in their All Grades Student Art Competition. You’re invited to come down and join them, applaud enthusiastically, ooh and ahh at the talents of the participating creatives, and throw roses and Belgian chocolates to the winners. (OK, OK, so I did just throw that last part in to see if you were paying attention!)
What the poster doesn’t tell you, though, is just how far SPAA goes to support these young artists.
When we talked during a previous All Grades Student Art Competition exhibit, SPAA Vice-President Steve Magee had framed each entrant’s work. Steve happens to be an artist who specializes in framing (his small business is called Get Framed By Steve). So, the results were–well, pretty spectacular.
In the past, SPAA has hung the students’ work on exhibit in CRAFTED for the weeks following the awards ceremony. And while there are several categories in which competitors can win, including People’s Choice, no one really “loses”. Each participant receives a drawing set and SPAA membership for one year.
If you’d like to support San Pedro Art Association (which has been supporting artists and the arts for the past seventy-nine years, and counting!), they’d love to have you attend Sunday’s reception at CRAFTED. And while you’re there, check out SPAA’s regular booth at CRAFTED and ask them about their upcoming events–especially their art classes and their next First Thursday Art Walk!
San Pedro Art Association hosts their artists reception for their 2015 Harbor-Wide All Grades Student Art Competition this Sunday, June 7th, from 2 to 5 pm at CRAFTED at the Port of Los Angeles, 112 East 22nd Street at Miner, Warehouse 10 in San Pedro. Admission is free.