[FAC] ART EVENT - ** Opening Reception – Fresno Art Museum***

[Starr Lopez]

Event: Opening Reception - Fresno Art Museum

When: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:00-7:00pm

Where: Fresno Art Museum, 2233 N. First Street, Fresno, CA 93703

Admission:

FAM members – Free (w/ invitation or membership card)

Non-members - $6.00

Event Details:

1. Eleven Ways of Working: The Fresno Journal Project

Lobby and Concourse Galleries

Panel Discussion Thurs., Sept. 18, 7:00p


2. Fresno Art Museum’s Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2008

June Schwarcz: Expressionism’s Fire and The Resonant Form

Enamel Vessels from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection

Fig Garden Village Gallery

Council of 100 Luncheon: Sat., Sept. 13, 11:30 am (Advanced reservations 
only)

Conversation with the Artist: Sat., Sept. 13, 2:00 pm (Open to the Public)


3. Digital Improvisations: The Geometric Shibori Textile Designs of Ana 
Lisa Hedstrom

Duncan Gallery

Conversation with the Artist: Fri., Sept. 12, 4:00 pm


4. Introspective Accretions: The Collages of Maritta Tapanainen

Hallowell Gallery

Conversation with the Artist: Fri., Sept. 12, 3:00 pm


5. Sedge, Redbud, and Fern – The Indigenous Baskets of the Yokuts, Mono 
and Miwok Peoples from the Museum’s Caroline E. Harris Collection of 
California Indian Baskets

Hallowell Gallery


6. In Honor of Virginia Farquhar – Founding Member of Council of 100

Twelve Distinguished Women Artists: 1988-2006

Diverse Selections of Work from the Museum’s Permanent Collection

Entrance Lobby/Moradian Gallery/West Concourse/Administrative Lobby


7. Joy Johnson: Guardian of the Wilderness

Jacquelin Pilar Contemporary Trends Gallery

Conversation with the Artist: Fri., Sept. 26, 7:30 pm


8. Contemporary-Contemporaneo: A Bi-National Artist Experience

Oaxaca’s Arian Dylan and Fresno’s Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg

Jacquelin Pilar Contemporary Trends Gallery

Conversation with the Artists: Fri., Oct. 10, 4:00 pm

Opening Reception: Fri. Oct. 10, 5:00-7:00pm


For more info. call (559) 441-4221