Chaffey Community Museum of Art

Today starts a five part series presenting the previous and the current winner of the City of Ontario’s holiday card competition. This started six years ago with the collaboration between the City of Ontario and CCMA. The first artist to be showcased, is the 2014 winner, Andrea Benitz. About the Artist: Graphic designer Andrea Benitez has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Fullerton.... She has worked on many design projects for screen printing, international conferences and for nonprofit associations, and has exhibited at the Museum of History and Art, Ontario. In her free time she enjoys drawing and painting, participating in fine art exhibitions, finding inspiration, and traveling. Andrea is a resident of Ontario and a graduate of Ontario High School. Her work can be viewed at http://www.andreabenitezart.com. See more

CCMA recently installed art sculptures by Betty Cavanaugh at the Ontario International Airport. Betty Gaglio Cavanaugh Fabric sculpture... Upland, California Artist Statement: I am the proud daughter of a Sicilian seamstress, one among many in my large and loving immigrant family. But I cannot sew, no matter how hard I try so much time is spent ripping out uneven seams. I have always marveled at the engineering process of transforming flat fabric into a wearable three-dimensional adornment. My intent is to honor the traditional skills of my family by creating goddess figures who represent powerful female attributes. Artist Biography: Betty Gaglio Cavanaugh is a visual arts educator, teaching at the elementary to university levels. During her 38 years with the Pomona Unified School District, her students won national and international recognition. She authored a book on multicultural art and has been recognized as an outstanding educator by Binney & Smith/Crayola. Ms. Cavanaugh has made presentations at California Art Education conferences and was highlighted in a book on creativity published by the Lincoln Center in New York. As an artist, Ms. Cavanaugh creates embellished fabric goddess figures which have been displayed in several Los Angeles area exhibitions. playful detour.com See more

Featured Artist, Elisa Arancibia Art at the Airport installation Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California

Chaffey Community Museum of Art recently installed Karen Ruth Karlsson’s works at the Ontario International Airport. Her works will remain on display until April 2021. Karen Ruth Karlsson Artist Statement: The works in this series of original prints are all inspired by places to which I have traveled many times starting my journey at ONT. Each work in this ongoing series was created at Piramidal Grafica studio in Gunajuato, Mexico. I hope to create many more prints in th...is series as I continue to explore the world. Artist Biography: I am a painter and printmaker living and working on the desert fringes of Los Angeles. My work aims to bring structure and order to a chaotic world. My encaustic paintings, monotypes, etchings, collagraphs, and mixed media works have been curated into group and solo exhibits across the country, most prominently at the Chaffey Community Museum of Art. My monotype, Sacred Grounds, was selected as album cover art by award-winning Native American flutist Steven Rushingwind. www.karlssonarts.com Facebook: Karlsson Arts Instagram: karlssonarts

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Chaffey Community Museum of Art continues to enrich travelers’ experience by installing works of art at the Ontario International Airport. Most recently CCMA installed works by local artists, Cathy Garcia and Karen Karlsson. Their works will be on display for the next six months. We’ll present Cathy’s work first and then Karen’s. Cathy Garcia Artist Statement: I love color and combining textures and shape to bring vibrant movement and life to my pieces. The key component i...s to reinvent the old and unused into a thing of beauty. A treasure hunt for my supplies takes me to yard sales, thrift shops and friend’s garages. The mosaic process is similar to building a jigsaw puzzle, but without a map. The pieces unfold themselves. My current passion is creating human busts and animal figures which seem to have personalities of their own. Artist Biography: Cathy, a self-taught mosaic artist from Claremont, California, is a psychotherapist by training. After retiring in 2007 from private practice, she began creating mosaics. Her art has been extensively exhibited in the Southern California regional area and featured in magazines, and she was a demonstrating artist at the Millard Sheets Gallery during the Los Angeles County Fair. Her work is primarily three-dimensional, though she has done murals and tiled a 10-foot pizza oven in Nuno’s Portuguese restaurant. Her newest project is a public art piece installed in the Holt Family Apartments, a mental health housing project in Pomona. See more

Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at CCMA

How to Read a Work of Art, Part 4 The Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to offer the final part in our four-part series, How to Read a Work of Art. At this point you have noted your first response to a piece, have examined the medium used, objects or images (if present), and the elements of art which were used to create the piece. You have also drawn relationships between those aspects, analyzed more closely how they were brought together to create the work. The fi...nal steps, then, are: Interpretation What do you perceive as the meaning or message of the piece? What do you think was the artist’s intention? What brings you to this conclusionthe various aspects of the work that indicate this for you? And have you found contradictory or illogical features in the work. Does it make sense to you? And finally, Afterthoughts - Has your first impression, your emotional reaction, changed at all? Have your observations, analysis, and interpretation left you with a feeling you would name differently at this point? Do you have a greater appreciation for the art work now, and the artist’s skill in creating it?

Janet P. Wright is the next featured artist in CCMA’s autumn color series. Sentinels III Watercolor and Acrylic 37.5 x 29... Jan Wright is a water media artist who uses color to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Although she primarily paints landscapes, her portraits of people and animals, her abstracts, and records of her imaginary journeys to enchanted lands are displayed in local, regional and national shows. She has studied with Milford Zornes, Tom Fong, Chris Van Winkle and numerous other nationally known artists. Her work has appeared at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles as well as venues in Rhode Island, Washington State, Houston, Vernon and San Antonio, Texas, and Missouri. She was also invited to participate in the Taiwan Watercolor Society International Festival, 2008. Jan was CCMA’s 2015 Artist of the Year. Jan has received numerous awards including Best of Show at the 2014 Mid-Valley Arts League Annual Exhibition and an Art Council of San Bernardino County show in 2005. The Texas Watercolor Society awarded her signature membership as well as the Oppenheimer Foundation Award in 2007. She received her signature membership in the Missouri Watercolor Society in 2010. She has been juried into Watercolor West in 2002 and 2005, receiving awards both times as well as exhibiting work in the National Watercolor Society Member Show in 2004 and 2010. Her work has appeared and received awards in many juried shows throughout Southern California in addition to the Manzanar Interpretive Center and Museum in Lone Pine and the Placerville Art Association. She is a juried member of Women Painters West and has served as an officer on the boards of National Watercolor Society, Mid-Valley Arts League and the Pomona Valley Art Association. Her exhibits include five solo shows, four two-artist shows and six shows with three or four artists. Her work is on display in CMCC’s gift store and appears in A Walk Into Abstracts, Vol. 4 which was published as an e-book in 2012 by North Light Books and is now being converted to hard copy. Jan’s demonstrations at art associations, classes and the Millard Sheets Gallery at the LA County Fair include the use of traditional watercolor; triplex, a three-layer procedure using watercolor and matte medium; and a combination of watercolor and pastel on Wallis sandpaper.

How to Read a Work of Art Part 3 The Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to offer part 3 in our four-part series, How to Read a Work of Art. After your first encounter and having noted your first impression, as well as the medium used, the objects represented and/or the elements of art used for the piece,... the next step would be to draw relationships between these components. Analysis How do the various aspect of the work connect? How has the artist combined the Medium/Media, the recognizable objects or images (if present), and the elements of art (line, shape, texture, form/mass, color, space, and value) to create the final work? Is one element dominant? Is there a particular focal area or center of interest? Do you think that the images or the color or some other feature was foremost in creating your first impression, your emotional response? Photo credit: Tomas Robe

How to Read a Work of Art, Part 2 The Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to offer this 2nd in a four series on How to Read a Work of Art. Description After registering your initial emotional reaction to a work of art, take note of the components of the piece:... - Medium/Media What material did the artist use? For example, a painting could be in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel If the piece is a sculpture or three-dimensional art work what is the material used? - Subject If the work is representational, name the objects represented. Is there a particular time period represented? Are symbols or icons apparent? Does the work situate itself within a historical context or does it seem apart from any particular time period? - Elements of Art Identify the basic elements of art used by the artist. The most common are line, shape, texture, form/mass, color, space, and value. An abstract art piece may distinguish itself by use of these elements and not include recognizable forms.

How to Read a Work of Art, Part 1 The Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to offer this four-part series on How to Read a Work of Art. If you enjoy looking at art in a museum or elsewhere, you may find this series of interest. PART 1 Initial/Basic Observation... First Encounter If you have not already chosen a work of art to examine, let something catch your attention. Then, be aware of your immediate response, your subjective reaction--which may not relate to what you have learned about the components of a good art piece. Allow the first thing you register to be how the art made me feel. Was a quick look enough, or would you like to spend more time with it?

James Behrman’s art works were installed at the Ontario International Airport in May 2020. They’ll be on display until November. His creative assemblages caught the eye of these travelers. James Behrman Artist Statement: My robots are an assemblage of parts that fit together but don’t belong together, forming something that springs from my imagination. A major joy for me is watching the expressions of people as they figure out the parts I have used to complete my robots.... Often I hear them say, My grandma had one of those. Artist Biography: Greetings, Earthlings. I am Jim Behrman, and I build robot art. I began building robots about ten years ago, prior to retirement. I have loved science fiction since elementary school and like to use that look in my art. https://www.jimbehrmanrobotart.com/ See more

CCMA's first Annual Virtual Art Exhibit! For your viewing pleasure, the Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to present this video, What I Did While Sequestered. We’re especially grateful to the participating artists who helped make this project such a success. https://youtu.be/Jl_32AQ9KYI

Chaffey Community Museum of Art recently installed Candy for the Eye at the Ontario International airport. These works of art by Dennis Cabral, Jr. will be on display until January 2021. Artist Statement: My artwork is produced with candy and food colorful M&Ms, shiny Skittles, multicolored Kool-Aid and Jello powder. I sort flashy Froot Loops, crush them, and sprinkle the crush onto melted root beer barrels to serve as glue. For trees, mountains and animals, I often us...e freeze-dried coffee, and toothpaste with tooth picks as coral reefs. Drops of water remove the color from M&Ms or Skittles. The result is what I call edible art but don’t eat it. Artist Biography: Born in New Jersey and raised in Southern California, Dennis Cabral, Jr. showed his creativity early. In high school he turned to photography, then later to acrylic painting. His vision to create art using food began serendipitously in the kitchen when green Jello powder fell upon a small spill of coffee. Instinctively, Dennis added more colors from berry Kool-Aid, lemonade and coffee powder, then used his finger to draw sky, mountains, a river, rocks, trees and embankments. Pleased with the result, he formulated his own paint medium using food and has been creating art this way ever since. www.edibleartbutdonteatit.com

Last week Chaffey Community Museum of Art installed works by two accomplished, local artists: Dennis Cabral, Jr. and Steven Lawrence at the Ontario International Airport. Both of their works will be remain at the airport until next February. Hope you’ll have an opportunity to see their works in person. Over the next week, we’ll feature both of these artists. Steven Lawrence Chino Hills, California Artist Statement: In art, I have a vehicle for my curiosity, obsession and ...fascination with form, color, line the fundamental elements that comprise the visual experience. I love color. I take what I see from the world around me and start a conversation with shape and form, creating a relationship. I observe things that most people probably do not: the relationship between two signs, or a shadow cast from an object or a wash cloth left in a tub. These observations of form leave an imprint on me. I am a natural observer and the world is filled with interesting things. My art is less about making pictures or painting and more about how abstraction can be translated for the viewer. My work is non-objective. I aim for anonymity so I can guide the viewer to a thoughtful and interesting visual experience. See more

Chaffey Community Museum of Art is hosting their 1st Annual Virtual Art Exhibit! Stay tuned for details!

Part 2 of Art at the Ontario Airport. Recently CCMA installed works by two accomplished local artists: Genessi Torres and Ellen Schultz. Both of their works will be remain at the airport until next January. Hope you’ll have an opportunity to see the works in person. Any artist is eligible to participate in this (no cost) program. Go to https://www.chaffeymuseum.org//exhibi/art_at_airport_forms for more information and an application. Ellen Schultz... Acrylic artist Claremont, California Artist Statement: Painting brings me great joy and lets me capture what I see, inviting the viewer to come along for that specific moment and join the picture I’ve created. Art encourages me to infuse details of a photograph, still life scene, or my own imagination and day dream briefly. Artist Biography: Claremont resident Ellen Schultz has been painting for nine years. Considering herself primarily a self-taught artist, she expresses her work as stylistic realism using acrylics on canvas. Her subjects are landscapes, water scenes and still life to convey calmness, peacefulness and renewal. In 2017 City of Hope commissioned Ellen to create ten original paintings. She was a featured artist at the 2nd Story Gallery in San Dimas, California and has participated in The Taste of Claremont. Ellen is an exhibitor/member in SOHO Gallery, Pomona Valley Art Association, Montclair Place and a member of Associated Artists of the Inland Empire.

Chaffey Community Museum of Art continues to manage Art at the Ontario Airport. Recently CCMA installed works by two accomplished local artists: Genessi Torres and Ellen Schultz. Both of their works will be remain at the airport until next January. Hope you’ll have an opportunity to see the works in person. Over the next week, we’ll feature both of these artists. Anyone artist is eligible to participate in this (no cost) program. Go to https://www.chaffeymuseum.org//exh...ibi/art_at_airport_forms for more information and an application. Genessi Torres Photography Pomona, California Artist Statement: My passion for photography started when I was a mail carrier. While delivering mail, I enjoyed children splashing in a pool, beautiful sunshines, orange sunflowers beaming, and birds singing. The heavy seasonal rains of 2019 produced a natural phenomenon. Magical displays of poppies were scattered all over Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon in Southern California. Artist Biography: Genessi Torres has lived in North Pomona for over 20 years. She is married and retired from the US Postal Service after 25 years. A professional, self-taught and compassionate photographer, her camera is her best friend. She loves capturing the moment and creating memories that last forever.

The Chaffey Community Museum of Art is pleased to give you this sneak peek of Margaret Goodward’s works. Margaret does beautiful multilayered paper base reliefs. We can’t wait until we open so you can see for yourself how intricate her work is.