Smashing Success! The Dellview Concert!

Smashing Success! The Dellview Concert!
On September 21st 2012 Dellview was in celebration of our neighborhood's rich history. Bett Butler and Joel Dilley created a wonderful evening with song, music, stories and a engaging video that was a collaboration between Bett and I in gathering images and stories from the residents.
It took place at St.Marks United Methodist Church and the Art Beat Committee of the Dellview Area Neighborhood Association really worked hard to bring this to its glory!
We filled the house! As you can see from the pictures, many were the elderly neighbors that bought their home in Dellview in the 50's. There were many of Bett and Joel's fans too.
        As artists working together, Bett and I really do well when we set down to do a project. I admire her professionalism and dedication to her craft. It was a lot of work coordinating everything for this big production but the fruits it bore are everlasting. Bett blew the audience away when she honored the first residents that lived through WWII by singing Brother Can You Spare A Dime? Every song they performed they did with their hearts and everyone was captivated. I was the "mistress of the ceremony" and ran the video and slide presentations. I also played a video I did for this event called
Dellview Drive and Joel's music was the soundtrack.
       Maybe this will be the start of honoring other old but not ancient neighborhoods in San Antonio but I really wanted to bring attention to what we have here in Dellview. Obtaining a CAAP Grant from the city of San Antonio Cultural Affairs was not easy but it help defer some of the big expenses of this free concert celebration.  It indeed created a stir and we are continuing the call for more stories and photographs from the past to add to the history documentation of Dellview, a neighborhood consisting of mid century homes and warm hearts.
        The big publicity we received was due to Jim Beal's article in the San Antonio Express News that got everyone's attention....I knew it would having Bett and Joel along!
The concert and the videos will be available on a DVD for members of DANA- Dellview Area Neighborhood Association. Everyone is invited to be a "neighbor" of Dellview. It costs only 12 dollars a year and you will receive our bi-monthly newsletter (which I design btw) in addition to the DVD when it comes out.
As artists, we never sleep and this was one project we all are happy to have accomplished successfully.
The concert was dedicated to the memory of Janice Petmecky, a dear friend and former Board Member of DANA.

SA Express article is located at http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/article/Working-in-concert-for-Dellview-3874882.php

Art Exhibit and Benefit for Peace at The Jackson Ranch.

Art Exhibit and Benefit for Peace at The Jackson Ranch.

                               Peace Dove Activity (copyrighted 2012) Acrylic on wood
http://skinnyllamaproductions.com/blog/ai1ec_event/peace-doves-for-the-world-exhibit-2

"When I created this work I was thinking about the atoms and protons that make up our universe but we cannot see. If this harmony is disturbed peace and progress can not take place. So, using my love of color, form and humor, I created a world that is full of activity, representing the cosmic order. I like to think of the Australian Aboriginals that make those colorful and detailed paintings based on their dreams of their ancestors. We only seem to use part of our brains so the other part maybe full of that inner knowledge." Joan Fabian

Several artists have created a Peace Dove, in their own chosen style and medium, to be exhibited both indoors at The Historic Jackson Ranch and outdoors in the ranch Chakra Garden. You can still purchase the the one I did shown above at the benefit sale and proceeds benefit the Roots and Shoots environmental rescue program created by Dr. Jane Goodall http://www.rootsandshoots.org/. This event was created and curated by Patrice Villastrigo, an artist, musician and healer. Please call her for an appointment to view the artwork at the wonderful Jackson Ranch!

The artworks are up until the first week of December!	The Jackson Ranch 8910 Callaghan Rd San Antonio,TX 78230 USA	Report a map error
Contact:	Patrice Villastrigo - Event Creator and Curator 210-344-8910 Patrice@SkinnyLlamaProductions.com

Bismarck Studios Opening SA Express News Photo

San Antonio Express News Captures Artist with Patrons at
Bismarck Studios opening July 12th!
by Leland A. Outz / Special to the Express-News

 

Art to the Power of Ten at the McNay Art Museum

This September 7th I was one of the artists that where featured in
the annual
San Antonio's McNay Art Museum's
Art to the Power of Ten which consists of 10 artists chosen to display their work during a fundraising event for the museum. The artists get to sell there works and donate a work of art to the Museum for the event.  It is a good chance to get people to started on the idea of an personal art collection of their own. I must say that I sound quite a few paintings and made some new collector friends!
Everyone was so nice and encouraging...which is very very stimulating for an artist. It's not too often one gets a chance like this in San Antonio to sell one's artwork to collectors.

All of the artists that were part of this event have given a talk at the McNay in the past and the McNay's Rene Barilleaux, a fantastic person and wonderful curator will choose the work to be donated. You can come to this event! See info below!

2012 Participating Artists

Ricky Armendariz

Estevan Arredondo

Seth Camm

Danville Chadbourne

Margaret Craig

John Dyer

Joan Fabian

Victoria Suescum

Gary Sweeney

Kathleen Trenchard

Summer in the Studio

A Beetle's Beat  18 x 24

 So far this summer of 2012 has been hot but that is nothing new for us folks in San Antonio. It has been, however a bit more rainy than usual. My garden is very lush and only small bits of grass seems to show signs of being burnt by the sun.

In July I had a visitor to my studio-  New Yorker Barbara MacAdam, Deputy Editor of Art NEWS. She liked the work below called Dwell Cluster.  I had decided to arrange these works together, like a fitted puzzle block and it has the feel of a circuit board. Diane Barber,  Houston based curator that tagged along said that I should do a whole wall of them. I would like too someday but need somewhere with space to do it-kinda like a mural. I don't know if it is a common thing for curators to gang together when visiting studios but I think it's kinda like tricker treaters during Halloween....give me something good to see.....Well they see now that I am a serious painter and my work is very much about color. Diane really liked my cat Tinka and took some photos of her. I guess she is due to have a show sometime soon.
Regardless, it was fun and nice to get feedback from these ladies and I hope they had a good time drinking the wine I served. The wine by the way is the best selling table wine in France!

Dwell Cluster   approx. 5' x 3'

I have been very productive in the studio this summer...well most summers I am as all year round. 

Hadrian's Lamp  18 x 24 (inspired by a trip to Rome)

Ear Noise 18 x 24

Fabian organizing Dellview Event!

The Dellview Concert:A Journey through Time explores the mid century neighborhood of Dellview in San Antonio Texas. The concert will be performed by Bett Butler and Joel Dilley and feature images and artwork along with story telling to create a fabric of experience that Dellview has produced to honor this area in the heart of San Antonio.

Bett Butler and Joel Dilley are fantastic jazz performers and songwriters (Bett plays the piano and does vocals; Joel is plays acoustic bass). They recently received an Artist Foundation Grant and are always in their studio producing theirs or others music for all to enjoy. (see below for info on them)

I am honored to know them and when DANA (Dellview Area Neighborhood Association) needed to jump start their efforts for arts in the community we applied for a CAAP Grant from the City of San Antonio to match our funds-I knew Bett Butler and Joel Dilley were the ticket! I love working with them and they are a professional and generous artistic team, making everyone feel part of the big picture with their music and song. My artwork will also be featured in the display of images during the concert because I am a Dellview resident, living there since 1998, five years after I moved to San Antonio from Chicago.

The concert will be performed at the St.Mark's United Methodist Church, 1902 Vance Jackson,  San Antonio TX 78213 at 7pm. If you need further information please contact me at dellviewdelly@hotmail.com.  If you have any Dellview memories or photos send them my way too.
Thanks to all you generous folks that have already sent me your images from the past and/or present. Our visuals are looking very good! Best of all, the concert will be free and open to the public to experience!!!!

More info at:
http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/bett-butler--jol-dilley/blogs/the-dellview-concert-a-journey-through-time/134747/


Dellview area is inside 410 Vance Jackson from I-10 to West Avenue.

About Bett Butler & Joël Dilley

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*WINNER, 1ST PLACE, JAZZ CATEGORY, 2006 INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION

*WINNER, PERFORMING ARTS CATEGORY, 2006 ARTIST FOUNDATION GRANT

*ORIGINAL SONGS LICENSED BY HBO, FOOD NETWORK, TRAVEL CHANNEL, 2008-2010

Their backgrounds couldn't have been more different. Bett Butler grew up in relative ease, her early musical experiences confined to church, school, and talent shows; while by age fourteen, Joël Dilley had endured great loss and was already touring to support his family as a professional musician. They met in San Antonio, when the fledgling jazz singer finally got up the courage to contact the first-call bassist for a gig. Their shared passion for music spilled over into the personal realm, and they married and built a recording studio and indie co-op record label, Dragon Lady Records. Along the way, Dilley toured internationally and played with Willie Nelson, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Arturo Sandoval, Richie Cole, Russian classical/jazz pianist Valery Grokhovsky, and regional symphony orchestras. He was a featured guest bassist on Public Radio International's "Whad'Ya Know," a featured composer on Texas Public Radio's "Classical Spotlight," and a featured soloist on Gemini Ink's "Writers Respond to Art" series at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Compositions from his three critically-acclaimed CDs have been licensed for broadcast and commercial use worldwide, including tracks on HBO, the Food Network, and the Travel Channel. He produced Butler's first album of original music, which won a "recommended" rating from All Music Guide; and her second, which won a performance grant from the San Antonio Artist Foundation and included “When Love Has Left the Room," first place winner in the Jazz category of the 2006 International Songwriting Competition out of over 10,000 entries worldwide. Butler has also been included in the San Antonio Business Journal's annual list of "Women of Influence in the Arts," chosen by the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs for artist development training by the Creative Capital Foundation, and featured as the OCA's artist of the month. Earlier this year, she was the inaugural recipient of the Texas Music Coalition's Fred Weiss Memorial Grant for professional development.

Bett Butler and Joël Dilley are the core of a variety of successful shows and ensembles:

THE ART OF THE DUET, with Butler on piano/vocals and Dilley on acoustic bass, performs rhythmic original world music and standards in intimate settings, often with surprising bass/vocal duets.

THE CHAMBER JAZZ TRIO adds another contrapuntal voice with flugelhorn player Cecil R. Carter or violinist Jonathan Raveneau.

TRIO AZUL pairs the duo with opera-trained Mexico City-born vocalist Azul Barrientos, giving fresh voice to traditional Latin, folk, and gypsy music.

THE NEW WORLD ENSEMBLE ranges from four to eight players and features original world fusion with vocalist Azul on guitar and jarana, violinist Raveneau, drums, horns, and percussion.

GENIUSES OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE features Butler in a series of hour-long performance/lectures with author Dr. Herb Keyser on the lives and music of the composers and lyricists who authored the Great American Songbook.

Side Arts

Side Arts did a nice little review on two of my older works that are currently showing at the Philadelphia Foundation Community Art Gallery in the Art Ability Exhibition.
See link: http://joanfabian.blogspot.com/2012/05/joan-fabian-in-austin-for-west-austin.html