927-THE UNCONVENTIONAL

FIRST PLACE

WADING FOR EQUALITY

    I'm surprised but pleased to tell you my paper mache sculpture won first place in our annual 927 ART SHOW.

    927 dates to the early 1970's when the local arts community created an annual event for wacky, ironic, zany and satirical art, often with a political edge. It is unconventional and unexpected art but is always a lot of fun.  The 927 derives from what was then the only pre fix in our local phone number. Today the entries come from all over California's central coast.

    WADING FOR EQUALITY features a woman created from faces of other women, family, friends, equal rights pioneers and powerful women. She is wearing boots and wading on a stand that is covered with a variety of topics-discrimination,  sexual harassment, equal pay, rape, reproductive rights, pregnancy leave, body image, glass ceiling and under representation.

   Here's a look at other pieces that placed or won honorable mention.

 Best of Show

What Me Worry by William Barnhill

 The Candidate by Art Van Rhyn

 A Bad Week in the USA by Penny Fitzgerald

 Mosaic Mermaid by Sara Blair Field

 Mr Pothead by Richard Morris

 Do You Know the Way to Morro Bay

by Tish Rogers

 And You Wonder Why I Hate Garden Work

by Franz Affentranger

   In the past the 927 show has been up for only a weekend. This year in the Cambria Center for the Arts the exhibition will hang all month.

     Art Van Rhyn, one of our favorite people and an accomplished artist as well as the cartoonist for The Cambrian, our weekly paper, was one of the founders of the 927 Show. Art's sense of humor is on of the joys of our village and art colony. In the last few years he has added glass blowing to painting, sculpting and drawing. 

    If you are near the California Central Coast I hope you'll visit the gallery at the Cambria Center for the Arts and enjoy our artistic humor and observations.

    Thanks to this year's Judge, Sam Peck, an acclaimed artistic photographer.

    Thanks to my husband Tom for his continued support and encouragement. He also helps me with the title of my work.