Happy New Art Year!!

Special thanks to local artist Ceres Madoo, who put together the Holiday Sale-a-bration Art Party on December 5 at the Courtyard. It was a great evening to meet neighbors, eat, drink, and do holiday gift shopping. You go, Ceres!

Thanks to our publicist, Lon Haber, the word is getting out widely that the Los Feliz Art Walk is back! We appreciate recent coverage also in the Los Feliz Ledger (Alison Cohen, Publisher) and the Los Feliz & Silver Lake Community Guide (Steve Meek, Publisher).

We love the interest and support of the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council, and friends with the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, Hollywood Arts Council, Barnsdall Municipal Gallery and many others. As Los Feliz Art Walk grows, expect to see more supporters and patrons signing on to keep the energy level up!

And thanks again to neighbor Dove Pressnall, for sharing both video and still photography of Chris Herwig from her project "Survivors Truths," under the sponsorship of Hope Media Productions. (Thanks to Ray Huff for quickly converting the video to DVD for the November 7 exhibit.)

We especially appreciate the support, space and sponsorship of Hollywood Remembers, Inc., a new entity in our community which produced an amazing event for World AIDS Day on November 30. Under the guidance of Paulette Hunnewell and the generous support of her firm Hunnewell Pressman & Associates of Pasadena, the Los Feliz Art Walk was able to also feature four huge panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt on December 5, which hung in the sanctuary of Hollywood Lutheran Church. This exhibit brought to the Los Feliz public nearly 600 sq. ft. of the what has been called the largest folk art work in the world. Several hundred people viewed the Quilt panels between November 26 and December 8, and signed the guest book of the Names Foundation which preserves, protects and promotes this enormous memorial work of art.

And of course, congratulations to Skylight Books (Kerry Slattery, General Manager) on the opening of the 1814 annex - room to feature plenty of works on the arts and architecture, etc. Skylight Books is a local treasure, standing proudly against the corporate mega-mentality found elsewhere. We hope the Los Feliz Art Walk becomes another example of local creativity and pride.

Our range of artistic endeavor has been expanding monthly. Paintings, graphics, prints, sculpture, art photography, crafts, and documentary work have been included. In the coming months, look for a wider variety of media.

We are becoming more aware every week of dedicated artists working in the Los Feliz area and nearby. Their creative energy truly enriches the human spirit all around us, and contributes enormously to the joy of living and being in Los Feliz.

In the coming months of this brand-new 2009, we hope to feature at least six new artists, hold a spring "plein aire" painting day (or two) and set the premier for "Film al Fresco" when the Courtyard itself becomes available for evening open-air screenings.

Two other endeavors are being worked on (but not yet "suitable for framing"):

We are looking into either advertising or joining with participating galleries and studios to provide more direct information on our web site, www.losfelizartwalk.org. there would be some nominal cost involved, but artists and gallery owners could benefit greatly from wider exposure, especially for those who are devoted to their art but not to becoming a web master!

And we are seriously studying the possibility of forming a non-profit corporation for spirituality and the arts in the Los Feliz Area, which could serve as the guiding light for Los Feliz Art Walk, Film al Fresco, Hollywood Callback, and other pet projects that Dan and Roberta are working on.