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eNewsletter, March 2022, Oakmont Art Association

With the relaxation of county rules on Covid we are returning to meeting in person at the Berger Center for our monthly meetings.

However, you can also attend this meeting by Zoom, or watch a recording of it later on the OVA website. We have had several requests to record our meetings, and because of this we have made this and following meetings hybrid zoom meetings which you can attend in person or by Zoom, or watch a recording of them later. The link for the Zoom meeting is below and we will send it out next Thursday 10th March as well.

This month, on Friday March 11 at 10 am for socializing and 10:30 am for the presentation, local artist Kristen Throop will present a unique talk on The Princesse, a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See below for more details.

The Princesse

During this visually opulent talk, local artist Kristen Throop, will weave a narrative web around J.A.D. Ingres’s 1853 masterpiece, his portrait of Pauline de Broglie, which hangs at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Illustrated with numerous original artworks by Throop, this discussion uses Ingres’s masterpiece as a lens to rethink art history.

About the Speaker

Kristen Throop is a Sonoma County artist and part of the SOFA art neighborhood in Santa Rosa. Originally from the East coast, she walks the halls of the Metropolitan Museum in her dreams.

Throop was hired by the County of Sonoma to create 65 unique signs for the shelters at Los Guilicos Village in 2019.
As an artist, Throop works in series, first selecting a subject, such as cows, bears, T-Rex, Technicolor or a portrait by Ingres. She then deeply researches the subject and creates a unique body of work that tranforms the viewer’s understanding.

Throop has been working on this series focusing on Ingres’ portrait of Pauline de Broglie for the past five years and has created hundreds of works relating to it. An exhibit of this work will be at the Hammerfriar Gallery in Healdsburg this July and August.
More information is available at kristenthroop.com

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie, oil on canvas, 1851–53 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

OVA Executive Zoom Account is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Time: Mar 11, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Annual OAA Art Show

The annual OAA Art Show is scheduled for Friday and Saturday April 8th and 9th, from 11 am to 5 pm each day in the Berger Center. Drop off of entries will be at the Berger Center from 1 pm to 2 pm on Thursday 7th April.

You can download and print the entry form below. Artists and vendors can enter using the form, and an OAA membership form is enclosed for any Oakmont resident who is not an OAA member but would like to enter the show. You can also obtain entry forms from the OAA office, 6637 Oakmont Drive.

Deadline for entries is Monday March 21st.

We have many donations already for the raffle at the art show. All the proceeds of the raffle are donated to a local Art Scholarship, and we have given Art Quest $2,500 from last year's raffle. Art Quest is a local High School organization helping art students with their art careers.

Download the Entry Forms

Membership Renewal for 2022

It's time to renew your membership in the OAA. We skipped over membership fees for last year, since Covid drastically reduced our activities, but with vaccines and pills our board decided that we would resume as much as we can of our activities, and that it is time to charge membership fees again.

The annual membership fee is $20 per person, which will make you a member in good standing until December 31st, 2022. You can either pick up a renewal form from the OAA folder in the OVA office, or download a form from the button below, then send the completed form with your check to "OAA, ℅ OVA Office, 6637 Oakmont Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95409. Please do not send cash.

Download Membership Form