FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK OCEANSIDE CA
THIS COMING FRIDAY CELEBRATES OUR 6TH YEAR FOR
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK. COME ! JOIN US WITH SUMMER
VIBES IN OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY BY THE OCEAN. THE
OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART WILL HAVE
ENTERTAINMENT
AND REFRESHMENTS FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT.
View population projections for all years (up to 2100)
| Year (July 1) | Population | Yearly % Change | Yearly Change | Median Age | Fertility Rate | Density (P/Km²) | Urban Pop % | Urban Population |
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| 2020 | 7,794,798,739 | 1.10 % | 83,000,320 | 31 | 2.47 | 52 | 56.2 % | 4,378,993,944 |
| 2025 | 8,184,437,460 | 0.98 % | 77,927,744 | 32 | 2.54 | 55 | 58.3 % | 4,774,646,303 |
| 2030 | 8,548,487,400 | 0.87 % | 72,809,988 | 33 | 2.62 | 57 | 60.4 % | 5,167,257,546 |
| 2035 | 8,887,524,213 | 0.78 % | 67,807,363 | 34 | 2.70 | 60 | 62.5 % | 5,555,833,477 |
| 2040 | 9,198,847,240 | 0.69 % | 62,264,605 | 35 | 2.77 | 62 | 64.6 % | 5,938,249,026 |
| 2045 | 9,481,803,274 | 0.61 % | 56,591,207 | 35 | 2.85 | 64 | 66.6 % | 6,312,544,819 |
| 2050 | 9,735,033,990 | 0.53 % | 50,646,143 | 36 | 2.95 | 65 | 68.6 % | 6,679,756,162 |
THE NEW GALLERIES FOR OUR ART WORLD
Our planet Earth is changing, and if we don't change our habits, our Earth will not support human life. Yesterday, I watched a documentary by David Attenborough// in which he narrated his life story as a story of change in his lifetime. He is 93, and I, 86, and much of his story is my story on our journey on this planet. I too, remember the mountain streams so pure, you could drink from them. The air was crystal clear and smog was an unknown phenomenon.
End Game?
Our modern life style revolves around going places and doing things that make our carbon footprint larger than we can sustain with 7.9 billion people. We have about 10 years to change our wants into sustainable ways to save the human race from becoming extent.
One way is to shop and sell on line. We did this during the height of the Corona 19 virus pandemic. It is easy, and fast. We can shop and upload with our finger tips, and the cars we drive to many of our needs can be eliminated if we change our methods of going places. Especially in our Art World, this method of seeing the incredible offerings in the visual arts are not possible to drive to in faraway galleries.
Galleries around the world are available to us. Patrons from many lands will see our art, and with the expeditious ways to pay for their treasures and our offerings, we will thrive and be able to seek out and find the Galleries in different cites and countries that will share our Art.
Please watch this incredible documentary by David Attenborough. It will change your outlook for our personal responsibility to our wondrous, life giving Planet Earth.
Ruth J Jameson
Oceanside CA August, 2021
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK
DOWNTOWN OCEANSIDE CA
From the Oceanside Museum of Art
"Join us during Oceanside’s First Friday Art Walk for the opening of OMA West At The Seabird. The inaugural exhibition at our new annex gallery located inside The Seabird Resort highlights works from the permanent collection of Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) that celebrate the natural and built environments found in the open air along the Pacific coast. Exploring the trajectory of Southern California painting from the plein air tradition to contemporary pop-surreal, this exhibition features artwork by Gibson Byrd, William Glen Crooks, Jean de Paul, Jeanne Dunn, Charles Arthur Fries, Raul Guerrero, Ruth Jameson, Vereara Maeva-Taripo, Lee Peterson, Scott W. Prior, Ernest Silva, and Jen Trute."
First Friday Art Walk
Friday, June 4, 5:00–8:00pm
AT OMA WEST AT THE SEABIRD
101 Mission Avenue
free admission
As Americans joyfully look forward to getting back to normal, I find myself feeling very sad as the rest of the world is not in a normal state at all. India, millions of people literally dying in the streets, South American countries in a state unacceptable health conditions which will lead to northward immigration to our Country. I call this state of our collective mindset Oblivion. These thoughts have led to a new series of images, The one above is O no. 3
Oblivion
Noun: the act or process of dying out; complete annihilation or extinction: If we don't preserve their habitat, the entire species will pass into oblivion. A state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness.
For Me, the state of the human species is one of Oblivion. Our Planet Earth is a living entity. Looking at images of our human rampantly overpopulated cities, I see that our human species is like a virus eating away the resources of planet Earth. I am not a scientist, only an old artist who has seen the difference between what was and what is not in our Environment.
Born in 1935, I as a child was used to self reliance and subsisting on a need basis. We were happy with our lives being able to see the clear blue sky, the water so pure you could drink from any spring or creek, using our bodily energy to walk and bike when we could and a car when only necessary. Reading was the most basic form of entertainment. The Library was our place for brain adventures and it was the only place which was free for everyone to better ourselves in achieving our aspirations.
Our once pristine world is now a garbage dump from our human wants and as a collective life form, we are in a state of Oblivion. Human rights, needs are conflated with our human wants and this will be the end of our existence as a species...
Can we innovate our way out of our present state of wants driving human consumption of resources ? I'm not too optimistic. If our greatest achievement of the 20th Century was the creation of the Atom Bomb, it does not bode well for something to be invented to change the mindset of 7.9 billion humans that believe we have the right to do whatever we wish when ever we want just because we can. Going to Mars is such a waste of treasure and time when we have the perfect planet right under our feet, but are oblivious to what we should be doing to give our Earth the care and replenishment that is needed for all living species to survive. In reading Kim Stanley Robinson's book 'Aurora', he came to pretty much the same conclusion.
The inventions of medical cures for disease will not save our species as new and more virulent viruses will continue to emerge form the garbage soup we have saturated our planet with and will give the new virus life forms the diet that they need to emerge from, and the only thing we can do is rely on hope when we see our human lives die in the streets from lack of new medicines. The distribution of vaccines to 7.9 billion people in time for saving a life is not attainable.
In America, we disassociate ourselves from the 3rd world countries and continue our lives in a daily wants state of being. Meanwhile, the elements in the organic soup of our garbage will continue to thrive and beget new and uncontrollable disease and destruction of our Planets life forms ( forests, fishes, insects) which we need to survive into the Future. Thus, we, here, in America are in a complete state of Oblivion.
the song Oblivion is the muse for new images in my world of art.
R J
Music, Art and Great Tasty Eats...
Springtime is upon us with promises of renewal. Now that I have had my first vaccination of the Covid 19 virus, I feel more in tune with nature and the arrival of new opportunities to be my artist self and congregate with my peers in the many venues of art endeavors in Oceanside. Many venues exist in Downtown Oceanside and in East Oceanside. Art Walls O'Side born at the O'Side Bakery, is my next stop. Please join us in our celebration of the Arts and the Springtime vibrations on the 20th at the O'Side Bakery in East Oceanside.
OPEN YEAR 2021
OMA is our joy, our passion, and our soul for the creatives who live, plan, and work here in this wondrous place of Art. It is with great hope and joy that we look forward to this new year of opportunity to reconnect with our artist friends and colleagues...
With the art world on hiatus for the past year, we have had the chance to work in our most prized place, The Studio. With our isolation, no interruptions, no time frames, just days and days of time for us to be in our scared place of creativity. Now with the reopening of the many art organizations, we can share once again with our friends and colleagues to make new connections and intertwine our collective creeds about what we know, how we create, and explore new horizons...
OMA Here we Come !
Ruth Jameson
March 24, 2021
Today is the first day of a new Administration of our Nation. We have hope that the tried and true way of communication of truth to our People will give us a way to come together once more and be proud of our National ethos...
Last week the tried way of creating my art works are evolving to the digital more than ever. With my hands of 85 years becoming shaky and having a life of their own, the Wacom Pad and stylus give me back my control of the images in my minds eye to come to realization. The Canvas and the gleaming Oils, will always be my hearts desire, but time marches on and the hands need the comfort of the digital help. Of course, the creative process is the same. Computers don't make the image, but rather give me the ability to bring the images to life.
In this new day of beginnings, for our Country and the Artists who give us inspiration and hope, I will use whatever way I can to bring the new and the hope to fruition. May our American People do the same to give us all the inspiration and hope for a new future with grace and dignity...
What has this year given to the Arts? Theaters are closed as are the Museums, Galleries, and Outdoor venues such as our Internationally Famous Artists Alley. This year has made it more intensive, and innovative in our approach to create, and participate in the Arts. The Challenge has been for me as an artist to wonder if it is all for naught. For the isolation from my usual gatherings and art groups has been daunting and depressing.
Alone in the Studio, I work on, realizing that I'm one of the lucky ones that really has my own thing which no Pandemic can take from me. The time is spent, and I have a product, one which does not need a store, or venue to make it happen. Therefore, why the depression? Throughout history, the creative in the arts has had a need however intermittent, to interact with other creatives. The deprivation of this essential interaction, is one that cannot be underestimated. Enter a new and wondrous technological tool.
Zoom to the rescue. A “Prince on a white horse”, a new way to interact and have personal contact with the many groups and venues and is a the path for artists to connect. The personal connection of face to face with another artist is there again, albeit, a much different way. Still, it is magical, real, and instant communication with another being that you can devour the day's need, and of future offerings that you have in common. Intense is this need for communication with our peers, and with this new Zoom Prince, we are once more connected to our art world and beyond.
As this Year 2020 comes to a close, I have come to the realization that this year has given to me personally, resilience, self reliance, and overcoming the challenge of isolation. However the most gratifying gift of all is one, of taking into my world of art, a new and universal way to communicate with my art groups, colleagues, art institutions, and the essential peer interaction. So now on with it...Zoom forever...
ROBERT PARKER
Robert Parker is one of the most beloved artist in the Arts in Oceanside and beyond. His music is both haunting and full of life's forces in all genres. This song is for his Love who passed this month. She is remembered by all who remembers her smile...
https://www.robertparkerpiano.com/
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| Photo by RJJ, with art works created by other artists are added for visions of the future. |
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| patio studio, work in progress...RJJ |
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| Mural installed at the Marriott Hotel Oceanside CA
Michael Rosenblatt was one of the
original Artists of Artist Alley back in the 90”s. He was the
energy of many late nights in the Alley, and he is now a celebrated
Artist of many collectors and City installations.
His video on NBC news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVJXhGXAN0&feature=youtu.be |
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| O'side Bakery Art Walls program. Hanna Russell and Ruth Jameson with painting by Hanna. |
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| Example of Stippling |
It is about imagination and experimentation. Intentional camera movement technique (ICM) while shooting creates light paintings that are captured as I move the camera while taking the shot. Abstracts have also been shot inside of a mylar shopping bag or created from reflections in a puddle after the rain. A curling piece of bark becomes an ocean wave calling local surfers. Agave Cacti become seascapes when turned on their sides.
