Submit your artwork by January 6th, 2018 to be included in our next group show at The Downey Theatre, on January 20, 2018. The theme is “The Masters,” for art pieces that take inspiration from past artists, composers, authors, poets and scientists known to be masters in their field. Email your work to andrewh@www.downeyarts.org for consideration.
Downey Arts Coalition is once again sponsoring a group art show with the Downey Symphony Orchestra for their fall concert on October 21. The theme is “Music: The Art of Sound.” We are seeking submissions for all medias and mixed medias, self-contained, all sizes.
Selected artists will be featured in the Symphony concert program, with your contact information, and announced from the stage. The concert is a ticketed event, but participants may purchase discounted tickets to the performance.
For consideration, submit your work to Andrew Hernandez at andrewh@www.downeyarts.org.
Submission deadline is October 7th, 2017.
Art, Culture & Tradition
The Annual Downey Dia de Los Muertos Art Festival is back for its 5th year on Sunday, Oct 29th, 2017, downtown Downey, in and around the Downey Theatre, 8435 Firestone Blvd. The event is free, and so is the parking.
The festival opens at 11:00 am with introductions from the Mayor and City Council, and continues until 8:00 pm. During the opening, Tonatiuh Danza Azteca will perform a ceremonial Aztec dance, and the festivities commence.
This event recognizes the cultural significance of Dia de Los Muertos–Day of the Dead-an annual Mexican and Central American custom rooted in both Aztec and Catholic world views, that goes back hundreds of years. Dia de Los Muertos is when the spirits of the deceased return to earth, for one day, to hang out with the living.
The Downey Dia de Los Muertos Art Festival is an ever expanding footprint packed with attractions that cover three stages with continuous film, music and ballet folklorico entertainment. “Urban Art Alley” features “Found Art” (aka “Urban Art”), fine art, sculpture, altar displays, “make n’ take” arts and crafts, sugar-skull decorating, face painting and displays of both traditional altars and more unconventional “car altars.”
The Downey Arts Coalition has partnered with the festival for each of the past five years, to bring a wide variety of fine art celebrating the Day of the Dead to the lobby of the Downey Theatre. Curated by Carolina Del Toro, artists are featured both from the local community as well as Southern California and beyond.
The Downey Dia de Los Muertos Art Festival is generally recognized as one of the Southland’s most outstanding Dia de Los Muertos celebrations due, in part, to the indoor/outdoor setting and the quality and variety of entertainment, and also due to the overall presentation that includes color-coordinated booths and decorations, indoor restrooms, and folklorico dances in the 738 seat theatre.
The Downey Dia de Los Muertos Art Festival is produced by the City of Downey and the Downey Theatre. Festival sponsors include La Amapola Market, AppleCare Medical Group, Avenue Press, Downey Federal Credit Union, Downey Nissan, Modelo, and Rose Hills Memorial Park.
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Friends of the Downey Symphony—
We’ll be presenting a very special concert on Saturday, January 28, in the Downey Theatre. Concert-goers have asked for piano and vocal music and to hear again some of the great young musicians who have performed in recent years. In response, instead of an orchestral concert, we’re presenting three dazzling musicians. They’ll be performing a range of pieces by Debussy, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, and work by Spanish and Latin composers, including Ravel, Piazzolla, Granada, and Ginestra. Please join us for a great evening!
Downey Arts Coalition presents “Dreamscapes,” a group art show of local and established Southern California artists, in the lobby of the Downey Theatre. Come early to experience this exploration of our mind’s eye as we translate our dreams to the visual arts. Curated by Eloise Ball.
Read more about the show at The Downey Patriot.
Ticket Pricing
GOLD – Orchestra Rows C through L – Balcony Rows BB through DD – $35.00
SILVER – Orchestra Rows A, B, M, N, O – Balcony Rows AA, EE, FF – $30.00
STUDENT – Silver section seats with current student I.D. – $10.00
Click here to purchase individual tickets for any of our concerts, or call (562) 861-8211.
For more information, please visit us at www.downeysymphony.org or call at (562) 403-2944.
Roy Anthony Shabla – Downey artist, poet, and filmmaker – is the first ever Artist-in-Residence at Stay Gallery from December 5th to January 28th, 2017. Shabla is a recognized painter and Stay Gallery, near the corner of Downey Avenue and Firestone Boulevard, will be his studio and exhibition space for the next two months.
Shabla is a late Abstract Expressionist and will be painting eighteen foot canvases – the largest the gallery has shown – as well as assembling junk sculptures and hosting evenings of films on art. The public is encouraged to visit.
Roy Anthony Shabla is Director of Collections for Downey Museum of Art and sits on the Advisory Board of Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts. His films are represented by Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He will be the featured artist at LACDA in January.
Shabla will perform Travels with my Rant, a poetry-and-improvised-music event comparing life in Downey to life in Paris, for Poetry Matters – a Downey Arts Coalition monthly poetry gathering at Stay Gallery – on January 19th. Local Downey musicians Josue Quiquivix, Andrew Ariza, and Gabriel Armenta will back him.
Shabla hosts a monthly cultural event, the green salon – a gathering of artists, poets, musicians, and other creative people – which will happen in January at Stay Gallery on Saturday the 28th. The gathering will also serve as an after-party for Downey Symphony which is performing that night.
Abstract Expressionism is the important American movement in art which shifted cultural focus from Paris to New York. It was supported by the CIA during the Cold War as a contrast to the Soviet Union’s Social Realism, demonstrating the artistic freedom of the West to the world. The most recognizable Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Shabla will show films about these artists during his residency. Follow Stay Gallery on facebook or Instagram for more information.
Local educators are encouraged to schedule field trips to the gallery to visit and workshop with Shabla. See staygallery.org to start the process.
A Community Day when the public is invited to collaborate on a painting with Shabla is planned for Saturday, December 17th, beginning at 11am. Plan to get your hands dirty!
As the first Artist-in-Residence at Stay Gallery, Roy Anthony Shabla intends to create large abstract paintings to enthrall the cultural enthusiast and also expose the community to an important American art form. Come participate in this historic event.
DREAMSCAPES
“You journeyed in joy and despair
Before you encountered lies and old age
Love made you suffer at twenty at thirty
I’ve lived like a fool and wasted my time
You no longer dare to look at your hands and now I feel like crying
Over you over the one I love over everything that has scared you.”
― Guillaume Appollinaire, Zone
(Translated by David Lehman)
Sponsor: Downey Arts Coalition and Downey Symphony
Where: Downey Civic Theater, 8435 Firestone Blvd., Downey, CA 90241
When: Saturday, January 28, 2017 – 6:30 p.m.
Duration: Thru Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Theme: Dreamscapes
Parameters: All Medias, Mixed Medias, All Sizes, Self- Contained. Artwork must be regarding theme.
Fee: $5 per selected art piece
Submission Deadline: Sunday, January 15, 2017, Midnight
Dreamscapes: Take us into a surreal world, where your imagination is set free and reality is tweaked. A place free from conscious rational control, which may lead you to whimsical places, or to your darkest fears.
Selected artists will be featured in the Symphony concert program, with your contact information, will be publicly recognized from the stage, and will have the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets to the evening’s performance.
For consideration, please submit images, with a one sentence description, of your artwork via email to Eloisa Ball at ej@www.downeyarts.org.
Those chosen will be sent an artist’s information packet explaining details about delivery and retrieval.
This Sunday, DAC’s own Carolina Del Toro has curated a new show of work around “the Day of the Dead” for the Dia De Los Metros festival at the Downey Theatre. Come upstairs and enjoy the art exhibit in the lobby of the theatre.
Full press release follows:
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Join the Downey Symphony Orchestra for “The Stars Align” on October 22, 2016 at 8:00pm. This will be a thrilling program featuring the powerful and expressive work by Gustav Holst, The Planets. In keeping with the symphony’s tradition of commissioning new pieces, the concert also includes the world premiere of a composition by long-time Downey resident and well-established composer, Lars Clutterham.
Read about the concert, the composer, and Downey Arts Coalition’s Cosmic art show at the links below:
Downey Symphony concert pays tribute to Downey’s role in space exploration
For Lars Clutterham, music is life
Downey Symphony performance tied to Downey’s 60th anniversary
