Just won the award from Pawtucket Arts Collaborative yesterday. That’s a big step to, hopefully, more works to come.

After a year of no update, I finally got a chance to get into a juried exhibit held by the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative (PAC). Here is the publicity release:

Third Annual Multi-Cultural Juried Exhibit – “Art Unites”

Opening Reception and First Ever Online Viewers Choice Voting

PAWTUCKET, RI -  The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative (PAC), in conjunction with The Pawtucket Foundation, invites the public to the opening reception for the Third Annual Multi-Cultural Juried Exhibit – Art Unites on Thursday, May 21, 2009, 5:30 p.m., at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center in Pawtucket, RI. 
The opening reception will also feature a variety of other art forms.  The Providence Latin American Film Festival director, Jose Torrealba, will present a special screening of the Venezuelan film TOCAR & LUCHAR (to play and to fight).  The Providence-based youth dance troupe “JUMP!” will also perform an original dance piece.  Music will be provided by Pawtucket-based steel pan soloist Jason Roseman.  Roseman is a Master Steel Pan builder and was the 2006 Winner of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Fellowship.

The winner of the $2,000 Pawtucket Foundation Prize will be announced as well as the winner of the online viewers choice voting contest.  There is still time to vote!  The virtual gallery can be accessed at www.flickr.com/photos/pawtucketarts.  Other supporters of this exhibit include: Jerry’s Artarama, Utrecht Art Supplies  and M. Graham & Co., makers of professional artists colors and paint.

The exhibit was juried by a distinguished panel of jurors – including Winifred Lambrecht and Anthony Johnson of the Rhode Island School of Design, and Nancy Peel Gladwell of the Lyme Academy of Art in Connecticut.  Exhibiting artists include:  Mimo Gordon Riley, Yevegeniya Kishkovich, Ryan E. Venghaus, Maria del Carmen Mercado, Daniel Koterbay, Irene Allen, Kenn Speiser, Maryjean Viano Crowe, Angel Dean, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Jillian Barber, Hiroko Shikashio, Aaron Usher, Pablo Alvarez, Joan Hausrath, Paul Hitchen, Ruth Emers, Suzanne Lewis, Dan Butterworth, Eileen McCarney Muldoon, Jiyoung Chung, James Montford, Holly Gaboriault, Dusan Petran, Santos P. Martinez “Pascal”, Wendyll Brown, Saberah Malik, Astra Wijaya, Evans Molina Fernandez, George Garcia, and Nancy Gaucher-Thomas.
The Gallery is open Monday - Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday 1 pm – 5 pm.  It is located at in the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI, 401-724-2200.  Free parking is available at the Visitor Center.  http://www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org.

Founded in October 2000, the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is a non-profit corporation organization dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing the arts through creating awareness, education and community outreach.  

My show is finally over and it was not exactly a blast. But I had a few guests who actually came and some who couldn’t make it.

I have updated a couple of new photos and some photos of the installation in the gallery. It is pretty small space. You can find them in the gallery, as usual.

In a few more days I will be putting up my show. It will be both exciting and scary to hear what people think during my critique. I am not even done with the photographs yet because I still have 5 more to take. Susan is not even included in my show but I will make sure she’s in my series. 10 out of 15 of my intended number of photographs are already up in the gallery section.

I will post my gallery photos once I have taken it. Yeah!

Both galleries have photos now. At last I can consider the website to be fully running! Now I only need to tweak here and there.

After scrolling through the seemingly endless list of plugins for page maintenance and gallery, I was finally able to achieve what I wanted. I have added 2 pages of gallery and one of them actually HAS photos! Though somehow, the quality of the photos seem kind of poor.

Hello visitors,

I have just updated the ‘about’, ‘links’ and ‘contact’ pages. Should you want me to link your web page in my ‘links’ section, drop me an email or if you know my MSN, just send me a message.

Astra

Hello visitors,

This is my portfolio site, it is currently under development.

Astra