August 11 – September 8, 2018
Our Fringe of the Fringe Festival is our chance to showcase some of the diverse and vibrant creative practices that are happening within and around our community. All events are open to the public and most, if not all, are free!!
The exhibition will open on August 11th, for Pomona’s Second Saturday Artwalk, with a new show of visual art*, an installation by the Healing Project, and painting of the Mural of Empowerment, where participants–anyone who wishes, including You–can paint or draw, adding their own marks of visual communication and expression to a large piece that will hang in the front of the gallery. Miss Art World will be performing a piece called “Armor” on beauty, society’s expectations, and liberation at 8PM. The evening will have an eclectic set of musical accompaniment played by DJ Murkyglow, and more. Plus downstairs in Gallery 57 Underground the multimedia exhibition “Harmony + Art = People,” featuring works created by the Art Lab students from the dA Center for the Arts, working with mentor Oscar Leal, has been extended to be on display through September 1st!
*The Fringe of the Fringe visual art show is a group exhibition featuring local artists from Pomona and surrounding areas. The works on view explore the themes of Identity, Gender, and Politics, through the various media of painting, photography, sculpture, and clothing, and by the artist’s personal orientation to these themes interpreted through their own experience of time and place. The pieces, which move between the identifiable, conceptual, and abstract, allow viewers to catch new insights into these topics. These works may present sensitive or even provocative visual disclosures in the hopes of promoting healthy discussion, and ultimately healing, at both the individual and community levels.
The art exhibition will run throughout the festival, from August 11th to September 8th.
On Sunday, August 12th we will be hosting a musical evening with Tomorrow’s Tessellations, and special guests Will Thorne of the Rainstoppers, and Finn Pacheco. Admission is Free! Show starts at 6:30.
On Saturday, August 18th our circus extravaganza–the dA Carnival–will be back for another night of vendors, aerial performances, music, and more! In the evening, from approximately 6:00 to 9:00.
On Saturday, August 25th catch another evening of readings by the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival, in their first appearance since spending summer time in the majestic nature of Sequoia National Park.
For the evening of Thursday, August 30th there will be a Beat Battle event–By The Key Battle. Listen to select hip hop instrumental pieces composed my local musicians and enjoy a competition where the audience decides who moves onto the next round.
For Saturday, September 1st come and join in the all day Free Music-Noise Jam Improv Session. Bring your own instruments or use one of ours to make music (or noise) with others. An opportunity to get creative with an instrument, and participate with others in spontaneous sound-making! Let’s play music together!
On Saturday, September 8th, another Second Saturday Artwalk and closing of the show, and we will have a special edition piece of artwork, plus a really great band–Wait.Think.Fast.–will be performing, and some other surprises as well.
And that’s not all! There will be other performances, videos, and more art.
And we are still open to showcasing more creative art, acts, and performances. If you are participating or would like to participate please use the form at bottom of page to submit your information and proposal. Enrich the quality of life for the community and individually through art!
The Fringe of the Fringe Festival aims for a partnership with other art-related venues in the surrounding area. The following is a listing of events happening at other venues that you are encouraged to seek out and explore:
AMOCA The American Museum of Ceramic Art
399 North Garey Ave, Pomona, CA 91767
Instagram: @amocamuseum Facebook: @AmericanMuseumofCeramicArt twitter: @AMOCAmuseum
www.amoca.org
The Incongruous Body
Exhibition Dates: August 11, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 11th, 7pm-9pm
The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is proud to present
The Incongruous Body, curated by Tim Berg who brings together fourteen artists who represent, stylize, hybridize, and deconstruct the human body to starkly different comic effect. Their work is politically poignant and socially engaging; it uses observational humor and storytelling; it challenges the status quo; it defies logic; it misdirects; it exploits cultural iconography and historical references, and most of all it lays bare the inner workings of their wit. In this exposure, it invites the viewer to revel in the awkward, to embrace the weird and to scrutinize a little bit too closely themselves and the world of which we are all a part.
Featured Artists:Robert Arneson, Molly Anne Bishop, Jeremy Brooks, Pattie Chalmers, Viola Frey, Future Retrieval, Alessandro Gallo, Taehoon Kim, Beth Lo, Elana Mann, Kristen Morgin, Kim Tucker, Matt Wedel, and Yoshitomo Nara
Chaffey Community Museum of Art
217 S. Lemon Ave, Ontario, CA 91761-1623
Facebook: @CCAAMoA
www.chaffeymuseum.org
Main Gallery:
Scene and Unseen
Multiple Artists
July 26 – September 8, 2018
At times we look at things but really don’t see them. This exhibit highlights the Seen and Unseen artworks created in a variety of media. Through September 8, 2018
Spotlight Gallery:
Multiple Personalities
Carolyn Cunningham
July 12- August 25, 2018
Stick with one style and one medium? I don’t think so!!! Carolyn’s experience as an Art Education major exposed her to a variety of media and styles, and the art in this exhibit gives us a taste of some of the media she has chosen to explore over the years. She hopes this inspires some of the rest of you to get out of your ‘comfort zone’ and try something new. You may find a whole new artistic personality emerge.
Through August 25, 2018
Line Gallery
Pigs to Pig Iron
Selections from CCMA’s Collections
July 19 – October 28, 2018
In 1942, with the growing need for steel to build ships to fight in World War II, Henry J. Kaiser secured a tract of land in Fontana that had been a pig farm. There he built the first steel mill in the Pacific Coast states. One of the civil engineers on the project was Carl Hooper Gilman, whose wife Esther Bruton Gilman was an artist and muralist. Through Carl, Esther gained access to the Kaiser Steel construction site and painted a series of eight paintings to depict the transformation.
Through October 28, 2018
Circle M Studio
548 W. 1st Street, Claremont Ca 91711
Instagram: @thecircusstudio | Facebook thecircusstudio
www.thecircusstudio.com
August 18 – Art in The Air @ dA Carnival 6 pm – 9 pm
Performance Art – Silk flying colors and aerial artists will strike creative poses to ambient music.
All ages welcome.
September 1st @ Studio M 7 pm and 8 pm
Intrepid aerial adventurers delight the imagination with a magnificent human forms suspended in a collage of abstract synchronicity.
Claremont Heritage
840 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
Instagram: @claremontheritage Facebook: @claremontheritage twitter: @heritage91711
www.claremontheritage.org
Paul Kittlaus- New Paintings for Summer 2018
Opening reception Saturday, August 4, 6 to 8 PM. Exhibition will be open Monday – Friday from
10 am – 1 pm Closing reception Sunday, August 26,, 4 to 5 PM.
Demonstration of abstract painting, conversation on how to approach viewing and understanding abstract art 2 to 4 PM Saturday August 11 and Sunday August 26.
Claremont Museum of Art
200 W 1st St, Claremont, CA 91711
Instagram: @claremont_mofa Facebook: @claremontmuseumofart twitter: @Claremont_MofA
www.claremontmuseum.org
Intersecting at the Edge: Karl Benjamin, Heather Gwen Martin and Eric Zammitt
July 13 – September 16, 2018
The Claremont Museum of Art presents Intersecting at the Edge, an exhibition that juxtaposes
recent works by Los Angeles artists Heather Gwen Martin and Eric Zammitt with paintings and
sculptures by seminal Claremont artist, Karl Benjamin. Using bold colors and clean edges each
artist expresses a distinct sensibility that may allude to the refinement of architectural
structure, the mesmerizing dazzle of echoing shapes, or the vastness of atmospheric
luminosity. The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based artist Dion Johnson and sponsored
by Louis Stern Fine Arts.
IronBark Ciderworks
1420 N. Claremont Blvd. Suite 107B, Claremont, CA 91711
Facebook: @ironbarkcider
Live Music Performances start @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 11: Darlene Luna
Saturday, August 18: Gina Roode
Friday, August 24: Lawrence and Claire
Sunday, August 26: Sandii
Maloof Foundation
5131 Carnelian St, Alta Loma, CA 91701
Facebook: @Malooffoundation twitter: @Sam_Maloof
www.malooffoundation.org
Exhibitions:
Explorations in Wood: Selections from The Center for Art in Wood Jacobs Education
Center Gallery
March 3, 2019 – August 11, 2019
The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts is a member of the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program (HAHS) of the National Trust for Preservation. HAHS is a coalition of 30 museums that were homes and working studios of American artists. Come, witness creativity!
Ophelia’s Jump
2009 Porterfield Way, Suite H. Upland, California 91786
Facebook: @opheliasJump
THE SATURDAY SMORGASBORD
August 18 • 8 PM • $15
*Content is improvised, so we don’t know what’ll happen! We recommend this show for adults.*
The Saturday Smorgasbord is an event like no other! Each Smorgasbord features different improv teams and forms from around SoCal. You can stuff yourself with an un-ending sampler platter of all the most delicious styles of improvisation!*
TALES TOLD BY IDIOTS
Theme: “Firsts”
August 24 • 8 pm • $15
Tales Told By Idiots is so much more than your average open mic night – it’s a space to connect with new ideas, art, and terrible anecdotes. Anyone can sign up to share a story, perform a scripted work, sing a song, or play something original. The only catch is, you’ve got a different theme to riff on every night!
This month’s theme is “Firsts”. The first time you rode a bike, the first time you got married, the first time you threw up on a cop – tell us about a “first” in your life that influenced you!
Performers/storytellers signing up in advance receive free admission to the event. Any music must be played live (keyboard is provided), or sent via e-mail in digital form to Ophelia’s Jump. Performers may sign up for a limit of two pieces a night. However, OJP reserves the right to limit to one or cancel a piece based on the needs of the show. Each piece receives a 7 minute time limit. If time is reached, a signal will be given to alert you, but you will not otherwise be stopped. Please be kind, share the time.
To sign up in advance, e-mail caitlin@opheliasjump.org with the title of your piece!
A LIFETIME OF REGRET presents “CYBER SEDUCTION: HIS SECRET LIFE”
August 25 • 8 PM • $15
A Lifetime of Regret is a drinking game/trivia challenge/staged reading of some of the best of the worst to ever grace your television screen: Lifetime Channel movies. Each performance is a completely different script brought to life by a talented team of improvisors who have already started one drink ahead of their audience. Yes, it’s technically scripted – but the experience is nothing that anyone can truly prepare for.
“Cyber Seduction” is an overwrought cautionary drama that could be described as “Reefer Madness” for the PC generation. It’s 2005 and healthy, clean-cut 16 year old Justin Peterson all but destroys himself and his family via his hopeless addiction to Internet porn. Justin’s obsession even ruins his athletic prowess (he was a champion swimmer before his descent into hell began). And of course, whereas he previously adopted a “hands off” attitude towards his virginal girlfriend Amy, poor Jeremy has been twisted and warped into a junior sex maniac–all because of those lustful images dancing across his monitor.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to drink to have fun and watch a funny show.
Outside beverages not allowed in the theatre. No one under 18 admitted.
Petterson Museum of ART
Pilgrim Place 625 Mayflower Road Claremont
www.pilgrimplace.org/museum_upcoming.php
August 17 – “Between the Pages” Museum Exhibit – Reading and Writing in World Cultures
Prison Library Project
586 West First Street Claremont, CA 91711
Instagram: @theclaremontforum | Facebook: @claremontforum
www.claremontforum.org
continuing Exhibition:
Artist: Jim Manley. Title: Closer Looks
Description: “The macro lens on my Nikon camera is a perfect tool for up close work for “Closer Looks.” It not only takes close-ups, it also gives me a socially acceptable “prop” for my newfound fascination with seemingly insignificant subjects. I feel that this topic will give voice to the opportunities for finding sanctuary in the smallest places.”
Jim’s artistic talents include acrylic, oil, and watercolor paintings, pen and ink drawings and cartoons.
Live; experience art; enjoy!
