EXHIBITIONS  •  Current Exhibitions
August 8– October 3, 2010
Call For Entries 2010: Graham Bury, Alejandro Casazi, Madelaine Frezza, Laura Krifka, Christine Morla, and Shane Tolbert
The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum is pleased to announce Call For Entries 2010 featuring new work by local area artists. Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the tri-counties to present newly commissioned work. Applicants were selected in Fall 2009 by a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals currently working in the visual arts field. More information on how to apply this coming Fall for next year's CFE will be available soon via: http://www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/opportun.html
Special thanks to: Municipal Winemakers, Santa Barbara, CA; Myopia Design + Photography, Santa Barbara, CA; Specialty Color Services, Santa Barbara, CA; and Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA.

Bloom Projects: Keith Puccinelli, the foul stain of we
Santa Barbara-based Keith Puccinelli uses an irreverent quick wit, modest materials, and tableaux to broach the conflict between the preciousness of life and man’s disregard for life during times of war, to create a kind of carnival of sorrow. The strong juxtaposition of materials and a passion for wordplay often brings a sense of humor to glaze or emphasize the serious or tragic presented in the work.
Special thanks to Brush & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA; and Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA.


NEW AT CAF Exhibition Tours: 1 PM & 3 PM every TUES. WED. FRI. & SAT.

THUR. AUG. 5, 7 PM
Forum Lounge: The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
Forum Lounge continues its popular screenings of award-winning animated short films with selections from the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films presented in the Official Competition. The 2009 program includes such exceptional films as: David OReilly’s award-winning sci-fi drama “Please Say Something”; the innovative and mesmerizing “The Bellow’s March”, directed by Eric Dyer; Diego Maclean’s haunting student film entitled “The Art of Drowning”; and the crowd-favourite travelogue “Madagascar, A Journey Diary”, by Bastien Dubois.
Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, NEA, KCSB, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.
FREE

THURS. SEPT. 2, 4 - 8 PM
Forum Lounge: James Gilbert: Privacy is Dead Because We Said So
Artist James Gilbert will set up a temporary sewing shop in the CAF gallery and sew several hundred real size pairs of unique clear industrial plastic see-through underpants, which will accumulate in huge sculptural piles around him. The accumulative sculptures (representing media information) become more present throughout the performance. This accumulative performance project addresses ideas of privacy, anonymity, and identity in relationship to the huge amounts of intimate personal information posted daily on Facebook, youtube, Google and other mass media.
Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, Santa Barbara Winery, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.
FREE

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