Studios at Hunters Point are open

The Hunters Point Shipyard Artists (HPSA) opened studio doors to the public as part of the organization's 20th annual Spring Open Studios on April 30th and May 1st.  The event took place in two studio locations in Bayview Hunters Point. Over 150 artists of all kinds had work for sale, including sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, metal and stonework.

The director of this year’s HPSA Spring Open Studios, Wendy Robushi said that this event sometimes draws over a thousand people. “HPSA Spring Open Studio was really the original Spring Open Studios–now everyone has events like this, but ours was one of the first,” Robushi said.

Each year the artists who wish to exhibit at the event pay a fee and somebody in the group comes forward to coordinate the event. It’s a big job, according to Robushi, and a paid contract position, but there is never enough money to make it a full-time job. She had the help of several volunteers, without whom, she says she couldn’t have done it. In years past the HPSA has depended on press releases, but this year they changed their tactics and sprang for a new website and paid advertisements.

The heyday of the event was during the dot com boom of the late nineties and early aughts, when so many people had money to throw around, Robushi said.

“I am optimistic that despite the economy, the ads and website will bring people to this event.”

HPSA is a grassroots collective of artists who rent studio space at the shipyard and at Islais Creek Studios nearby. The Spring Open Studio event is the collective’s main focus. This enables artists to show and sell their work. At one time, several galleries represented Robushi’s work, but the economic downturn has resulted in their closure. This is the case for many San Francisco artists, Robushi says, and that makes the Spring Open Studios even more important to the survival of art and artists.

The main location of the Shipyard artists is called The Point. Jacques Terizan, the first artist to lease space at the location, saw the potential to use the abandoned shipyard buildings as an artist colony. With help from his children and a coalition of community leaders and environmentalists, Terizan achieved his vision, and by the late ‘70’s, The Point was home to over 300 artists. Many of these artists were evicted and relocated to Islais Creek Studios, but bringing them back to the shipyard area is part of a master redevelopment plan.

Arts in Bayview 2008 and beyond

NEW BAYVIEW MURAL DEDICATED ON MLK DAY

By Heidi Hardin
Think Round, Inc.

If you are in Bayview and standing on the hills along the Bay, look west to see something new near the familiar spire of All Hallows Church: strokes of bright colors that are part of Bayview’s newest piece of public art.

Acting on a generous grant from the Zellerbach Foundation, the Quesada Gardens Initiative solicited community artists Malik Seneferu and Heidi Hardin to create a “Bayview Is…” Community Mural on a gray retaining wall located on Newhall Avenue, just below the showpiece Bridgeview Garden.

Seneferu created a design that depicts the sun radiating across the 120’ x 14’ wall, dividing it into six areas of solid hot colors. Several large white birds fly across the expanse toward the sun.

The bold design was brought to life at the end of 2008 by the artists, and teams of volunteers from the community and San Francisco General Hospital.

The design is planned to evolve in a future phase of the project. The large, solid blocks of color within the sun’s rays create areas for community artists, youth, faith-based groups and others to express in words and images what “Bayview Is…” to them. These community-generated, community-inspired visions will be facilitated by Hardin and Seneferu who welcome your ideas.

The “Bayview Is…” Campaign is a community-generated and resident-led arts and communications campaign that has been developing a balanced story about the strengths of our neighborhood over time, like resident-contributed patches in an ever-expanding quilt. It is a project of the Bayview Footprints network and the Quesada Gardens Initiative.

Hardin and Seneferu are artists and educators with deep roots in Bayview Hunters Point. The groups they lead, Think Round, Inc. and the Safe Haven Program are both Bayview Footprints member groups.

SHIPYARD TRUST FOR THE ARTS REACHING OUT

By Marc Ellen Hamel
STAR Board Member & Shipyard Artist

2008 was a busy year for the nonprofit organization Shipyard Trust for the Arts (STAR). In addition to joining Footprints last year, STAR continued its tracking of the Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment process, and built important new relationships within the Bayview Hunters Point community.

In 2009, the organization is focusing on building infrastructure, a process it is kicking-off with a full-day Board of Directors retreat this month.

Veronica Orozco, a native San Franciscan of Nicaraguan heritage, was the 2008 Artist-in-Residence. Orozco now joins the list of former artists-in-residence, which includes Rhonel Roberts, Dolores Gray, Juan Fuentes, Mary Booker, and Santie Huckaby.

STAR members and many Shipyard Artists have been active in the exciting new Bayview community arts organization, Art 94124, and were enthusiastic participants in a number of Footprints events.

ARTS CENTER VISION DEVELOPS

By Rebecca Haseltine
Shipyard Artist & ACWG Group Member

The Art Center Working Group, in 2008, continued manifesting the dream of a multidisciplinary Community Art Center on the Hunters Point Shipyard that emphasizes arts education. 2009 will bring more detailed development of our plan for the Center.

This past year, we met with individuals and groups in the Bayview Hunters Point community to build a broader coalition for the work, and to find out the scope of the community’s needs. We continue to work with the SF City Redevelopment Agency and the Citizen’s Advisory Committee to expand our base of support and to participate in the existing planning process for the Shipyard.

We also met with several experts who have created art centers in other locations to help us develop our ideas, expanded the core group of participants, created a brochure to present our mission and vision, and began investigating funding opportunities.

This year, look for us to continue this project intensively. We welcome participation on many levels. If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact me at 415.641.5301 or haseltine@earthlink.net.

ART 94124 SHOW

ART 94124 will celebrated its first show of 2009 last Friday at the unique gallery behind Javalencia Café at 3900 Third Street. A group exhibit of artists working in multiple media that salutes jazz and African-American heritage features original artwork, photography, and limited-edition prints.

Footprints member group ART 94124 represents an innovative mix of art, business and community, and is fueled by residents and other community-minded leaders who recognize the power of grassroots strategies to bring people together and create change.

Bayview Is... mural dedicated

Annette Smith, one of the first to plant flowers on the Quesada Avenue median strip in 2002, beginning a new phase of community involvement in a challenged neighborhood, offered an opening prayer at the post-work gathering near the new “Bayview Is…” mural on Newhall at Bridgeview. Smith offered thanks for the effort underway in the neighborhood, and asked for wisdom and guidance as more and more people get involved in the work.

Dolores Williams, a longtime Newhall Avenue resident, spoke about the importance of community involvement. She can see the “Bayview Is…” mural from her kitchen window, she said, the same window from which she has seen crime and violence. She thanked Joel McClure for quickly covering over the graffiti that all too often would appear on the wall when it was a patchwork of gray paint. She said the mural is a big improvement.

Williams told stories about things she has seen from her window over the years, and about how neighbors have looked after one another. “Watch out your windows,” she advised, “and you might be surprised at what you see.”

Now, Williams has a view from her window of vibrant colors in a radiating sun pattern spanning over one hundred feet in length, and about fifteen feet in height. A series of birds, rendered in white silhouette, rise across the mural, suggesting rebirth and hopefulness. The design is by Malik Seneferu, an artist with deep and ongoing ties to the community.

Mary McClure who, along with husband Joel, is the project manager for the Bridgeview Garden project, helped roll paint onto the Newhall wall under the watchful eyes of the artists. Yesterday, she presented bouquets of flowers to those same artists, and introduced them to the audience as catalysts for change on Newhall.

Heidi Hardin, a Shipyard artist and longtime arts educator with a commitment to youth, the arts and environment, was the first to receive a bouquet. She thanked all those who worked on the project, and pointed out that she and her fellow muralist, Seneferu, were fine artists in addition to the collaborative, community-based work they have become known for. She expressed her personal commitment to advancing the health of families from all different faiths by using her arts in a project she calls the Human Family Tree project.

Malik Seneferu, after thanking Mary for his bouquet, encouraged support for all the arts work happening in the neighborhood, from the Arts Center at the Shipyard to the community-based Gallery 94124. He was moved by the dedication, he said, as he was by MLK Day and the inauguration to follow. In that spirit, he asked for feedback on an image of Obama, his newest artistic accomplishment, which he had brought with him.

Hardin and Seneferu both have a long history of working with at-risk youth, Hardin with her Children’s Mural Program and Think Round, Inc., and Seneferu with the Safe Haven Program of Hunters Point Family. They also possess the rare ability to foster their unique artistic visions while, at the same time, working in collaboration on projects intended to facilitate the expression of diverse voices.

The mural, Bayview’s newest piece of public art, is part of the “Bayview Is…” Campaign and the Bayview Footprints Network of Community-Building Groups. The Campaign is a resident-led effort to provide those with deep roots in Bayview the means to express their own experience of their neighborhood. It involves public art, like the new mural, photographs of residents holding signs with their own descriptions of their experience, and public events.

New art show in Bayview

ART 94124 will celebrate its first show of 2009 on Friday January 16th from 6pm to 10pm at the unique gallery behind Javalencia Cafe at 3900 Third Street in Bayview. A group exhibit of artists working in multiple media that salutes jazz and African-American heritage will feature original artwork, photography, and limited-edition prints.

ART 94124 represents an innovative mix of art, business, and community, and is fueled by residents and other community-minded leaders who recognize the power of grassroots strategies to bring people together and create change.

Visit ART 94124 Presents: JAZZ! and see artwork from Bayview Hunters Point and beyond, including pieces by Kajahl Benes, Tad Bridenthal, Marsha Ercegovic, Juan Fuentes, James Gayles, Santie Huckaby, Natalie Kaufman, Malik Seneferu, Brian Stannard, Jon Tomlinson, and Charles Unge.

MLK Day events combine service, art and community

Bayview's newest piece of community-generated public art is ready to be celebrated. Bayview neighbors and friends will be gathering for a "Day of Service" in honor of MLK Day, and then dedicating the "Bayview Is..." mural all on Monday, January 19th.

From 10am to 2pm, volunteers are welcome for light gardening and other community service in honor of Dr King. (Meet Quesada mural site on 1700 block of Quesada just west of Third.)

From 2pm to 3pm, the “Bayview Is…” mural (less than a block away at Newhall and Bridgeview) will be “unveiled." Meet Malik Seneferu and Heidi Hardin (the artists), share refreshments with neighbors and friends, and celebrate the legacy of Dr. King.

If you are in Bayview and standing on the hills along the Bay, look west to see something new near the familiar spire of All Hallows Church: strokes of bright colors that are part of Bayview’s newest piece of public art.

Hardin and Seneferu are artists and educators with deep roots in Bayview Hunters Point. Their organizations, Think Round, Inc. and the Safe Haven Program, are Bayview Footprints members.

The “Bayview Is…” Campaign is a community-generated and resident-led arts and communications campaign that has been developing a balanced story about the strengths of our neighborhood over time…like resident-contributed patches in an ever-expanding quilt. It is a project of the Bayview Footprints network and the Quesada Gardens Initiative.

We are grateful to the Zellerbach Family Foundation for funding for the "Bayview Is..." mural.

New mural emerging in Bayview

The charming Bridgeview Garden, at the corner of Bridgeview and Newhall Streets in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, is getting dressed up. A mural is already emerging, and is the next phase of a resident generated plan to create a community-defined destination point in what was once a tough stretch of a challenged neighborhood.

The mural is part of the Bayview Is... Campaign, a multimedia campaign designed to give residents the chance to express their own diverse perspectives of this amazing neighborhood.

Two artists with Bayview Hunters Point roots have created a basic mural design which has been approved by the Arts Commission. That basic design is the mural’s “first layer,” and creates a colorful canvas of “areas” that will be used by local artists and cultural affinity groups to express several unique perspectives about our neighborhood.

It’s like a community quilt where groups have a patch of their own…except this Bayview Is... quilt is pretty big and on a wall!

Last Saturday, November 8th, neighbors and volunteers from SF General Hospital put the first coat of primer, tinted with a golden color, on the wall. Tomorrow, a second coat goes on. The "first layer" of the mural will be complete by year's end.

The Quesada Gardens Initiative is tremendously grateful to the Zellerbach Foundation for leadership funding for this mural, and for Bayview Footprints Bayview Is... Campaign.

Neighbors not already involved in the Bridgeview Garden project or the Quesada Garden around the corner, are plugging into the community-building work, perhaps attracted by the stunning color that appeared in a few hours where an ugly wall of patchwork gray had been such a familiar site for decades.

The “first layer” of the mural soon will take the shape of the rendering above: a sunrise motif with birds in flight moving toward the future.

The facilitating artists are well-known to many Bayview Hunters Point residents. Malik Seneferu, a Black / African American painter, draughtsman, muralist, and book illustrator, employs self-taught technique and style. The "first layer" design is his.

Seneferu has lived, worked, mentored, and curated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Seneferu's work has traveled to Durban South Afrika (“War against Racism” in 2001), Haiti and Kenya. His art contains intense hues, is reminiscent of the ancient African Diaspora, and communicates confident and eloquent messages of empowerment.

Seneferu has a long history of service to the Bayview Hunters Point community. He currently works with at-risk youth through arts and education at Hunters Point Family’s Bayview Safe Haven program, a holistic after-school program that provides educational, recreational, health, and social services to youth ages 12-21.

Heidi Hardin recently founded Think Round, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to connecting art to community and individual transformation that emphasizes matters of the spirit, family, and the environment. She was the Visual Arts Programming Director for the Bayview Opera House for 15 years, and a Museum Artist at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco where she supervised the Doing and Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids arts programs for four years.

Her most recent exhibit, The Human Family Tree/A Walk Through Paradise, premiered at the Bayview Opera House in 2000 to acclaim by the U.S. Senate and Congress, California State Assembly and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as a monumental work of beauty for all. Hardin has been involved in the Bayview Hunters Point community as an artist, artist-instructor, and artist-administrator since 1984.

Together, these artists and the Quesada Gardens Initiative and Bayview Footprints groups are bringing a new major piece of San Francisco public art to life. The mural wall sits midway up a hill between the beautiful Quesada Garden, and an existing mural there, and the new Bridgeview Garden above.

The artwork, visually, will connect two vibrant projects, and dramatically expand the Bayview neighborhood’s arts scene. The mural is on the theme of Bayview Is… suggesting that every community and individual in this diverse neighborhood has a unique experience of place and vision for the future.

The professional artists, educators and community process facilitators are working together to identify individual artists and/or groups of artists (youth, professional artists and emerging talent, and others) who represent the range of diversity in Bayview.

The Quesada Gardens Initiative and the Bridgeview Garden are part of a 100% resident-led community-building initiative, homegrown in the heart of Bayview. Strategies include public art and events, community and backyard gardens, and organizing.

The Bayview Footprints Collaboration of Community-Building Groups is a network of grassroots groups, many of them arts groups, focused on telling a more balanced story of the neighborhoods historic, current and future strength. The Quesada Gardens Initiative is a Co-Founder of the network, and is leading the Bayview Is... Campaign.

Anyone interested is welcome to comment on the project here, or call 415.822.0800, email info@quesadagardens.org, or stop by most any day when volunteers and neighbors can be found working together. Saturday's from 10am to 2pm are usually group volunteer days. Your group would be really welcome!

Bayview mural on the drawing board for Bridgeview

The Quesada Gardens Initiative, with lead funding from Zellerbach Foundation, is working with artists Malik Seneferu and Heidi Hardin to create Bayview newest piece of public art.

The mural is along the theme of the "Bayview Is..." campaign which allows individual residents and affinity groups to represent their own experience of their neighborhood through words, images, videos, and other media. The consensus process for the design, as well as the implementation of the project will engage neighborhood children and youth, and involve the full spectrum of QGI members and volunteers.

Malik describes himself as a "Black / African American painter, draughtsman, muralist, and book illustrator" who employs self-taught technique and style. He has lived, worked, mentored, and curated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Malik says, “Over the years, ancient African artifacts have influenced my artistry in which I deliver confident and eloquent messages of empowerment.” He has been part of The Art Of Living Black for 6 years.

Heidi Hardin recently founded Think Round, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to connecting art to community and individual transformation that emphasizes matters of the spirit, family, and the environment. She has been the Visual Arts Programming Director for the Bayview Opera House for 15 years, and a Museum Artist at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco where she supervised the Doing and Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids arts programs for four years.

Together, Malik and Heidi will design the overall architecture of the "Bayview Is..." mural for the community's feedback. Neighborhood children and youth, along with other involved residents and volunteers, will make the wall ready for the artwork and translate the design to colorful reality.

Who is Lindy and why is he hopping?!

Are your feet itching to move? Well let them dance on over to the Bayview Koshland Fellows' free dance lessons on Monday, August 4th. It's "old skool," sure, but that skool knew how to twirl and spin like no other.

The Koshland Fellows are a group of community leaders who, together, experienced a fellowship program through the San Francisco Foundation, and are now putting their fellowship to work (and play) in Bayview. These amazing movers and shakers want nothing less than to revive the "old skool dance hall nights."

Get your groove on every Monday night beginning August 4th from 6pm to 7:30pm at the Bayview Opera House on Third and Newcomb.

Hot tip: The Koshland folks aren't telling, but word is that Friday nights are going to be big in Bayview once again, too.

So, Who is Lindy? Some say the Lindy Hop was named after Charles Lindbergh who flew the Atlantic in 1926 earning the nickname "Lucky Lindy." However, the dance itself was born in Harlem in about 1927 during the "Harlem Renaissance," just one of a loooooong list of cultural-shaping contributions African-Americans made back in the day...and are making still.

Not a Lindy Hopper? Well, queue up the Salsa! Dance, don't walk, to your Monday night festivities.

Dewey Crumpler helps rededicate his Bayview mural

Young Quesada Gardens Initiative member, Sabrina, poses in front of the Joseph P. Lee Recreation Center during the reopening celebration.

When the Joseph P. Lee Recreation Center reopened in October of last year, Quesada Gardens Initiative members went to see the transformed building and playground, and were thrilled by what they saw. The comments from other visitors where uniformly positive...with one exception.

An older African-American man was disappointed to discover that part of the mural on the side of the building was gone. He said that he knew some of the people who had been pictured. And he talked about how, like the missing part of the mural, "his" community was getting lost in all the changes happening.

It didn't make a difference to this man that the missing part of the mural had been photographed for representation inside the building. His heart was connected to the real thing.

The Fire Next Time II, the massive mural on the west side of the community center, was created by Dewey Crumpler in 1984. At that time, Crumpler painted murals focusing on African American social and political issues, and drew from the compositions of artists he studied in Mexico City: Pablo O'Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Crumpler is now a Professor of Art and Art History at San Francisco Art Institute where he has taught since 1990.

On Thursday, August 14th from 11:30am to 3pm at the Joseph P. Lee Recreation Center (1395 Mendell Street between Newcomb and Oakdale), Dewey Crumpler will rededicate his mural, and talk about "Reframing the Context of Mural Art for the 21st Century."

Panelists include Timothy Drescher, Art historian/Author; Katy Untch, Senior Conservator - ARG Conservation Services/Fellow of AIC; Malik Seneferu, Artist/Art Educator

Those interested in attending should RSVP by Monday, August 11th to Ave Montague at 415.346.0199.

Film Fest Fotos

Carlos Galan took pictures on Wednesday as half the block tested the inflatable movie screen. The other images are from Saturday night as James introduces Shane before the feature film, and as new participants come down the stairs to join in.

Footprints Fotos

Photos by Rhonda Winter, James Ross and Daniel Homsey (NEN) Thank you!

Arts Fest is the BEST!

On a blazing hot San Francisco afternoon, the corner of Fairfax and Third Streets is the last place you'd look for a crowd. And yet a couple hundred visitors met there on just such a day last weekend to celebrate the opening of Bayview's only community-driven gallery space: Gallery 94124.

Mith Mayra Mizrachi behind the Javalencia Cafe counter, along with most of the Gomez family (independent owners), the cafe and the tasteful gallery behind it bloomed with smiling faces.

There was a lot to smile about. A new organization called Arts 94124 had been working for months to create the art space, and worked equally hard to bring the community together to celebrate it this Saturday.

The arts, too, were blooming. A quality and eclectic collection of visual art swept around the gallery space itself.

Outside, Marc Ellen Hamel and other Shipyard artists watched children and paint mix it up. Juan Fuentes (pictured) screen printed stunning T shirts until the heat made the ink complain. And bands, one after the other, took to the stage to keep music aloft.

The many individuals behind this major accomplishment are true community heroes. Bayview Footprints Collaboration of Community-Building Groups is honored the organization is a member group!

If you couldn't be at Arts Fest this past weekend, you can still stop by the gallery and see artwork (primarily by Bayview and Mission District artists) that will make you feel proud to live in a community alongside such talented neighbors!

Bayview fashion walks the runway

Traci Peace (on right) celebrated the 4th birthday of Visions of LaModa, the fashion program she founded in Bayview, by partnering with the San Francisco State University's Fashion Merchandising & Design Program on a student fashion show held May 14th

See a slideshow of the event here.

Visions of LaModa holds classes in the lower level multi-purpose room at Faith Temple Church, 1758 Oakdale Ave. It is a free, hands-on program for urban youth ages 16 to 22.

Quesada Gardens Initiative applauds Ms. Peace's tremendous contribution to our community and to the future of the fashion and apparel industry in San Francisco. Happy birthday, Visions of LaModa!

New Bayview arts group asks for support

Designer/artist Sam Lewis, one of the founders of Art 94124, reviews a poster for a multi-disciplinary arts festival the group is organizing for June 21st.

Sam was one of the first to arrive at a fundraiser Friday evening that the community-based arts group held at the recently created art gallery space behind Javalencia Cafe on Third and Fairfax.

Don't miss the upcoming festival. And check out the gallery space just behind the cafe. The commitment to community is evident at every turn.

Congratulations on your accomplishments, Art 94124.

Stop by Javalencia this evening - Just for US!

The community-minded business people behind one of Bayview's anchor businesses, Javalencia Cafe, are hosting a social gathering this evening as part of "Just for Us...and YOU TOO!"

Servio and Mayra, Javalencia owner/operators, are driving forces behind "Art 94124" (a group of artists and others who have created an art gallery and are planning the first of what will be many fabulous events). We'll actually be doing some art this evening as Marc Ellen Hamel shares brushes and color so we can all have some fun on a canvas!!!

"Just for Us" is a traveling monthly social gathering, and it looks different every month depending on the place. A gathering at Javelencia means that we'll be celebrating community business and art. Please stop by to have a bite, play with art, and show neighbors what a strong community looks like.

Willie Brown on Bayview Stage!

"Da Mayor" takes to the stage on Tuesday, June 3rd at 6pm at the Opera House (4705 Third) to be part of a play, based on his life, created and performed by community youth.

The Life and Times of Willie Brown & US is a theatrical production of Willie L. Brown, Jr. Academy in collaboration with the Bayview Opera House's and Pathlight Productions' "Junior Drama Academy," and Think Round's TEEN Theater Arts Program. The fun begins with a bite to eat at 4:30.

Don't miss it. It's sure to be an evening fit for a king...or a mayor...or assembly leader...

art credit: Lamar Turner, age 11, Detail, "Basic Brown," March 2008, Tempera on paper, 12'x18"

Power tool drag races this weekend

What's going on here?

Charlie Gadeken, founder of the most unique drag race anywhere, is pictured holding a combination power tool/punk-driven drag racer which would take to the track the following weekend during the two-day 8th annual Power Tool Drag Race event right here in Bayview.

Seriously?

Seriously fun.

Charlie, Jim Mason and cohorts at Ace International Speedway (where the event was held) and Cyclecide (host group for Chicken John's Las Vegas event and similar whackiness), told us they hosted several hundred participants. From motorheads to Burning Man folks, robot gamers, Mouse Trap officianados, party animals...and families.

Think Mad Max on holiday. But when it all began, Max was perhaps a little less mad.

Charlie began with an interest in kinetic art, but eventually found himself wanting more "fluff and jingle," as he put it. From creative mind to reality...poof!...it's a whole new past-time...er...sport.

Seriously?

Yup! You might even have seen the races at the Maker Faire. Combine a 75 foot track with a big-block belt sander (leave your wimpy tools at home, please), throw in rockin' bands and some beer...and you can take the idea global. Seriously. Ask Charlie.

"I license the rights to hold these events for a 12 pack of beer," he said. At those steep prices, you might wonder if licensees ever pay up. "I'm still looking for a lawyer who will sue for 3 beers." That would leave him ahead of the game...er...business.

Seriously. Check it out. It's a great way to see some of the industrial space that helps make the neighborhood so unique, meet a cool group of people, and have the kind of fun you're not likely to find any where else. Find all the details online.

PS, Thanks to Jim Ansbro, who seems to know everything worth knowing about Bayview, for the tip!

Images from Arts94124

Matt emerges from the gallery-to-be

The group paints on a Saturday, and enjoys the results on Monday

New "Bayview Is..." Contributions

With a shout out to Heidi Hardin for her wonderful photography, here's the latest passel of pics...part of the campaign dedicated to allowing each of us to express our own experience of this wonderful place. These photographs were taken at Thursday's "Just for Us...and YOU TOO" event.