Plan your Art Palm Springs experience! FEB 13 -17, 2020 PALM SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER
2020 Talk & Events
THURSDAY, February 13
Opening Night Preview
5 – 9 pm
A benefit for the Old Town Artisan Studios(VIP Card or VIP ticket holders only)
Limited number of tickets available
Honoring Art Palm Springs 2020 Patron of the Year: Jordan Schnitzer
6 pm | Collectors Lounge
Art Palm Spring’s Fair Director, Leah Steinhardt, will open up the ceremony with a few words about the 2020 Patron of the year, Jordan Schnitzer. Following this, Charlotte Jackson from Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Artist Hung Liu with Turner Carroll Gallery, and Tom Burns from Old Town Artisan Studios (Opening Night Beneficiary) will all make a toast and share a few words about Jordan.
FRIDAY, February 14
Hung Liu & Tonya Turner Carroll: Life, Work, and Legacy
12 – 1 pm | Theatre
Art and Social Impact: The Schnitzer collection of Hung Liu works (the largest collection of Hung Liu works in the world), accompanying exhibition, and their legacy of impact created with the Hung Liu/Trillium Endowment Award at the University of Oregon. Following, Hung Liu will give an in-depth talk about her life and work.
International Land-Sensitive Art Foundation/Desert Design
1 – 2 pm | Theatre
Artist Tony Abeyta (Navajo) and Creative Director of the Peach Tree Project will give a 30 minute discussion about the project’s mission, and the 2020 planting of one hundred peach trees in a remote canyon in Canyon de Chelly. The canyon was subject to the location of the Navajo War with the United States in 1860. Burning of thousands of peach trees and other food sources caused displacement of the people. Tony Abeyta will discuss the importance of bringing back peach trees into the canyon.
Process and painting – a conversation with Kylie Manning
2 – 3 pm | Booth 109
Artist talk with painter Kylie Manning (One Mile Gallery)
The Future of Graduate Arts Education’ Margo Cash, Center for Business & Management of the Arts
2 – 2:30pm | Theatre
Join Margo Cash and learn about how CGU’s Center for Business & Management of the Arts (CBMArts) places students at the heart of Los Angeles’s arts and cultural offerings, as well as what our incredible alumni are doing.
Building an Art Collection’ CBMArts alumnus Ryan English, Ryan English & Associates
2:30 – 3 pm | Theatre
Fine art appraiser, Ryan English shares his advanced knowledge on how to begin collecting art. Focusing on the steps to intelligent decision making, English shares strategies and explores marketplaces and the hidden aspects of having a collection like appraisals, insurance and preservation. Ryan invites an open dialogue for current and future collectors to bring their questions.
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
4 – 5 pm | Theatre
American Modernist painter, Agnes Lawrence Pelton, moved to the Coachella Valley In 1932 and built her now historic home in the Cathedral City Cove, the neighboring hills of Palm Springs. For three decades it was the center of a small colony of established artists including writers, composers, dancers and painters, who came to create, teach, and exhibit their works. After the 60’s, that history was virtually forgotten. Artists Peter Palladino & Simeon Den, purchased her property ten years ago and have made it their life mission to support & celebrate her legacy. This March 13-June 28, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City will be hosting exhibition with Pelton’s work. This presentation at Art Palm Springs will serve to introduce Pelton and her work in broad strokes and open a dialogue with with a Q&A.
SATURDAY, February 15
Honoring Art Palm Springs 2020 Icon of the Year: Chuck Arnoldi
1 – 2 pm | Theatre
Ceremony, followed by Charlotte Jackson Fine Art presenting a documentary about Arnoldi’s work and Q&A.
Collectors Edition Signed Books: Chuck Arnoldi
2 – 3 pm | Booth 203
Signed collectors edition books offered by artist Chuck Arnoldi (Charlotte Jackson Fine Art)
An Artist’s Memoir… Captain Squid and the Tentacle Room
3 – 4 pm | Theatre
Artist Michael McCall will present his memoir, published by Fabrik Press, entitled Captain Squid and the Tentacle Room, Adventures in Life, Love and Art.
Hung Liu Q&A
3 – 4 pm | Booth 201
Turner Carroll Gallery Director, Shastyn Blomquist, will contextualize Artist Hung Liu’s work with her personal story and inspirations while in view of her works on display at the fair, followed by a Q&A session.
Meet and Greet With the Artists of karyn mannix contemporary
3 – 5 pm | Booth 509
Meet the Artists of karyn mannix contemporary, with a focus on Maria Eugenia Casuso (Palm Springs Life: Out of the Crate -Maria Eugenia Casuso). Additional artists that will be in attendance include: Jody Levinson, Jim Mannix, Olympio, James Koskinas, Julie Schumer and Sona Mirzaei.
Meet and Greet with the Kick Ass Girls
4 – 5 pm | Booth 406
Meet the owners of Gallery K.A.G., Cynthia Frings and Cynthia Shinn, as they bring you through the original works in their booth: art on paper, canvas, sculpture, and dimensional compositions by recognized and professional artists.
Artist Talk and Q&A with Tom Liguori on his Art and Philanthropy
5 – 6 pm | Booth 500
Tom grew up in The Bronx, New York and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering before relocating to the west coast to earn an MBA from San Diego State University. He and his father founded a mail order manufacturing business that grew to over 2,000 employees during his 32-year tenure of leadership. His dual responsibilities of research and development and marketing catalyzed an interest in developing new art techniques as a creative outlet.
Liguori began selling his large-format holographic art in March 2017. As a seasoned and successful businessman, Liguori developed his own process for cellular art, after six years of research and development.
*Prosecco will be served
SUNDAY, February 16
How Much of Me Goes into Making…?
12 – 1 pm | Theatre
A discussion with Enrique Alivez‘ (Silo118) about his experience working on the male torso for the first time.
Artist Talk and Q&A with internationally acclaimed video artist Katja Loher
12 – 1 pm | Booth 500
A graduate of the Fine Art Academy in Basel, Switzerland, Katja Loher (b. 1979 in Zurich) is an internationally recognized artist based in New York since 2004.
“Art as artifice, art as practice, art as experience. Through my work I want to stimulate dreams, experimentation, imagination and humor and reveal perspectives that we all too often lack in everyday life.”
“With my Video-sculptures, I try to free video from technology, because I see art as a language, and technology is only something elementary.”
“Beauty is omnipresent in my works, as the essence of life are sustaining processes supporting our planet.”
*Prosecco will be served
A Documentary About Chuck Arnoldi and his Work
1 – 2 pm | Theatre
Video documentary on Art Palm Springs 2020 Icon of the Year, Chuck Arnoldi (Charlotte Jackson Fine Art)
Honoring Art Palm Springs 2020 Trailblazer of the Year: Anthony James
2 – 4 pm | Theatre/Booth 100
Art Palm Spring’s Fair Director, Leah Steinhardt will honor Anthony James(Melissa Morgan Fine Art) as the 2020 Trailblazer of the Year, talk with Anthony and Alec Longmuir, Gallery Director, followed by an artist meet and greet at Melissa Morgan Fine Artin Booth 100 .
Developing an Arts Center… in the Mojave Desert
4 – 5 pm | Theatre
Michael McCall will speak about the Arts Center in the hi-desert where he curates exhibitions, the Yucca Valley Visual & Performing Arts Center
Emerging Russian artists: EVA – Q&A With EVA Gallery and Talk About Works
4 – 5 pm | Booth 507
Join EVA Gallery as they introduce the artist they work closely with, EVA. Working exclusively with EVA, the gallery has collected from her interesting facts about the works, processes, and hidden meaning behind the exhibited works. EVA Gallery is happy to reveal this to collectors and introduce their artist and gallery to American collectors.
MONDAY, February 17
A Documentary About Chuck Arnoldi and his Work
2 – 3 pm | Theatre
Video documentary on Art Palm Springs 2020 Icon of the Year, Chuck Arnoldi (Charlotte Jackson Fine Art)
Official Designer of
Art Palm Springs
Dates and Times
Opening Night Preview
Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 5 – 9 pm
General Admission
Friday, February 14, 2020 | 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, February 15, 2020 | 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday, February 16, 2020 | 11 am – 6 pm
Monday, February 17, 2020 | 12 – 5 pm
Location
Palm Springs Convention Center
277 N Avenida Caballeros
Palm Springs CA 92262
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