2014 Feb-Mar Press Release

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Media Contact: Tony Natsoulas tony@bluelinearts.org (916) 783-4117

The Pastel Society of the West Coast Membership Exhibit

ROSEVILLE, CA—Blue Line Arts in partnership with The Pastel Society of the West Coast are presenting  their annual membership exhibit on display throughout the Coker Family Gallery. A group of pastel artists from Sacramento California founded The Pastel Society of the West Coast to promote the medium of pastels, educate, and inspire others to try this beautiful art form. They are a large society open to all who apply across the nation and are able to submit work to their exhibits. A good deal of the members are professional artists and teachers, highly sought after for their workshops. This year's exhibit will be juried by PSWCDistinguished Pastellist, Kim Lordier.  

WHAT: The Pastel Society of the West Coast Membership Exhibit
WHEN:Thu February 27 – Sat, April 12, 2014 Tue & Thurs: 11am-5pm Wed, Fri, & Sat: 11am-3pm, or by appointment.  Reception 3rd Saturday, Reception: March 15th 7pm – 9pm Open to the Public, 6-7pm Members Only

WHERE: Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville, CA, 95678

Remastered

ROSEVILLE, CA-- Blue Line Arts in Roseville, California will be displaying a group of local and regional artists in "Remastered", on display in the WestPark Workshop Gallery. Though we can all appreciate masterpieces from times past, a fresh perspective on those beloved paintings never hurt. In “Remastered,” artists reinterpret world famous masterworks to make them all their own. The collection of artworks in “Remastered,” from 30 local artists, will join the ranks of Salvador Dali (“Self-Portrait as Mona Lisa”) and Andy Warhol (“Birth of Venus”), as they put their own unique mark on classic pieces.

“Remastered” includes work from the following artists: Chris Allan, Samuel Bassett, Calvin Bohner, Danny Cardenas, Kathryn Cirincione, Tonia Colleen, Gretchen Davis, Marilyn Dizikes, Kellen Dyer, Kevin Flory, Matthew Goldberg, Suzanne Goodwin, Ron Hall, Don Hall, Benjamin Hersh, Skaadi Ho, Bob Hubbell, Elma Jella, Doric Jemison-Ball, Jean-Louis Lassez, Jack Mix, Zoran Peshich, Colin Poole, Inger Price, Max Redpath-Kennedy, Lincoln Rogala, Robyn Slakey, Ronnie Stelling, Jennifer Woods.

WHAT:        Remastered

WHEN:        Thu February 27 – Sat, April 12, 2014 Tue & Thurs: 11am-5pm Wed, Fri, & Sat: 11am-3pm, or by appointment
                    Reception 3rd Saturday, Reception: March 15th 7pm – 9pm Open to the Public, 6-7pm Members Only

WHERE:       Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville, CA, 95678

About Blue Line Arts

Blue Line is a non-profit community center for the arts.  Further information may be obtained on the website: www.bluelinearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. Hours of operation: Tue & Thurs: 11am-5pm Wed, Fri, & Sat: 11AM-3PM, or by appointment.

Sierra College Creative Writing Showcase

SIERRA COLLEGE CREATIVE WRITING SHOWCASES 
AT THE BLUE LINE GALLERY

Students to Read Their Original Verse

ROSEVILLE, CA, November 4, 2010— Sierra College creative writing students will read their original writings during a public reading at the Blue Line Gallery on Tuesday evening, December 1, from 6:00 until 9:00 pm.

The public is invited to come hear Sierra College’s latest, up-and-coming literary artists before they become FAMOUS. Students from creative writing classes taught by Professors Michelle Johnson, Kent Fortin, Jason Roberts, Andrea Neptune and Barbara Nelson-Burns will get the real experience of sharing their writing beyond the four walls of the college. Often this is the turning point for many to continue forward composing for future listeners of the spoken word. As many as 30 different readers, styles, perspectives will be shared.

WHO: Sierra College Creative Writing Students
WHAT: Creative Writing Reading - Sierra College Students Present Their Original Works
WHEN: December 1, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville
WHY: To provide college students a public forum for their creative writing
COST: $5 students and Roseville Arts members; $15 non-members

ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY
2010 VOTED BEST OF THE BEST, PRESS TRIBUNE
2010 VOTED READERS' CHOICE BEST GALLERY, ROSEVILLE STYLE MAGAZINE
Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery is a non-profit community center for the arts. Further information may be obtained on the website: www.rosevillearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. To set up an interview or to request high resolution photography, please contact Veronika Nagy at roseart@surewest.net .

Poets Kathleen Lynch, Roger Groghan and Moira Magneson Featured at the Blue Line Gallery

POETRY READINGS IN “OUTTA THE BLUE” SERIES

Poets Kathleen Lynch, Roger Groghan & Moira Magneson Featured at the Blue Line Gallery

ROSEVILLE, CA, October 11, 2010—Three published poets will complete the fourth and final evening of “Outta the Blue Poetry Series” at Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery on Thursday, October 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The evening will feature Kathleen Lynch, an award-winning poet who has taught poetry through writers’ workshops and the schools. Roger Groghan’s early influences include biology and beatniks. Moira Magneson is active in poetry circles in Northern California and teaches English and Composition at Sacramento City College.

WHO: Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery
WHAT: Final readings in “Outta the Blue Poetry Series”: Kathleen Lynch, Roger Groghan & Moira Magneson
WHEN: October 21, 2010, 7–9 p.m.
WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville
WHY: To cultivate poetry as an important part of Roseville’s culture.
COST: $5 members, students /$15 non-members (seniors 10% discount)

MORE ABOUT KATHLEEN LYNCH
Kathleen Lynch’s collection Hinge (2006) won the Black Zinnias Press National Poetry Book Competition (California Institute of Arts and Letters). Her chapbooks include How to Build an Owl (Select Poet Series Award, Small Poetry Press, 1995), No Spring Chicken (White Eagle Coffee Store Press Award, 2001), Alterations of Rising (Small Poetry Press Select Poet Series, 2001) and Kathleen Lynch - Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2002). She worked as Coordinator of “Writers in Performance” and “Writers’ Workshops” for San Jose Center for Poetry and Fiction, served as board member for the San Jose Center for Literature and Arts, taught through “Poets in the Schools” (all grade levels), mentors individual poets, and conducts teachers’ in-service training programs for elementary and high school teachers. Lynch also publishes fiction, essays, reviews, and does free-lance editing.

ABOUT MOIRA MAGNESON
Born and bred in northern California, Moira Magneson has worked as a truck driver, television writer, substitute teacher, artist’s model, and river guide. She now teaches English composition at Sacramento City College and lives in Placerville, where she is a member of Red Fox Underground, a Sierra foothills poetry collective. Her work has appeared in Margie, Verse Daily, Runes, Rattlesnake Review, Hanging Loose, and elsewhere. He Drank Because is her first published collection of poems.

ABOUT ROGER GROGHAN
Roger Groghan was a science major studying biology and anthropology. As a teenager the Beatniks were his cultural heroes. Lawrence Ferlingetti’s “Underwear” opened the possibility of poetry to him. Roger says the poets he is most familiar with are Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth and R S Thomas. Roger has been published in the Confluence, a quarterly of the environmental group Protect American River Canyons (PARC), the Nevada County Poetry Anthology, and on the Internet.

ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY
VOTED 2010 BEST OF THE BEST ROSEVILLE/GRANITE BAY PRESS TRIBUNE; 2009 #1 ART GALLERY IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION—KCRA A-LIST and ROSEVILLE, GRANITE BAY, ROCKLIN STYLE MAGAZINE
Roseville Arts is a 501c3 non-profit community center for the arts that has served Roseville and surrounding communities for more than 45 years. Further information may be obtained on the website: www.rosevilearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117.

ROSEVILLE ARTS HOSTS POETS

Media Contacts:

Beth Rohlfes

brohlfes@rosevillearts.org

(916) 783-4117

Featuring Tim Kahl and Kate Asche at the Blue Line Gallery

ROSEVILLE, CA, August 3, 2010—Roseville Arts will host the third of four poetry readings in the “Outta the Blue Poetry Series” at the Blue Line Gallery on Thursday, August 26, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The August 26 reading will feature poets Tim Kahl and Kate Asche.  Kahl is a nationally published poet and poetry translator who reads and hosts readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center.  Asche is an awarding-winning Sacramento poet and essayist and associate director of Arts and Humanities at UC Davis Extension.

The fourth and final reading in the series is scheduled for October 21, 7:00-9:00p.m., featuring  Kathleen Lynch of Sacramento, published poet, essayist and gifted reader of poetry; Roger Groghan, Meadow Vista poet who has read his work at numerous area events; and Moira Magneson of Placerville, who teaches at Sacramento City College.

WHO:                    Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery

WHAT:                  Third of four readings in “Outta the Blue Poetry Series”:  Tim Kahl and Kate Asche

WHEN:                 August 26, 2010, 7–9 p.m.

WHERE:                Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville

WHY:                    To cultivate poetry as an important part of Roseville’s culture. 

COST:                    $5 members & students; $15 non-members. Sign up for Roseville Arts membership & get in free!         

 U.S. He has translated German poet Rolf Haufs, Austrian Friederike Mayröcker; Brazilian poets, Lêdo Ivo and Marly de Oliveira; and the poems of the Portuguese language’s only Nobel Laureate, José Saramago. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup (http://greatamericanpinup.wordpress.com/) and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also the editor for Bald Trickster Press, which is dedicated to works of poetry in translation into English, and he is the vice president and events coordinator of the Sacramento Poetry Center.

ABOUT KATE ASCHE

Kate Asche is a poet and essayist. A graduate of the UC Davis Creative Writing Program, she received the Elliot Gilbert Prize in Poetry in 2005 and 2006, was a finalist for University of California Poet Laureate and was nominated for Best New Poets (Meridian Magazine).  She has won several Academy of American Poets Awards.  She is Associate Director of Arts and Humanities at UC Davis Extension, where she coordinates the Tomales Bay Writing Workshops. She is on the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center and also facilitates an online writing group.

ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY

VOTED 2010 BEST OF THE BEST ROSEVILLE/GRANITE BAY PRESS TRIBUNE; 2009 #1 ART GALLERY IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION—KCRA  A-LIST and ROSEVILLE, GRANITE BAY, ROCKLIN STYLE MAGAZINE

Roseville Arts is a 501c3 non-profit community center for the arts that has served Roseville and surrounding communities for more than 45 years.  Further information may be obtained on the website:  www.rosevilearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117.

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SIERRA COLLEGE POETRY AT THE BLUE LINE GALLERY

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                                                                                                               

Media Contacts:

Beth Rohlfes   

rosecurator@surewest.net     

(916) 783-4117

SIERRA COLLEGE POETRY AT THE BLUE LINE GALLERY

Students to Read Their Favorites

ROSEVILLE, CA, April 26, 2010—A group of Sierra College poetry students will read their verse at the Blue Line Gallery on Tuesday evening, May 4, from 6:30 to 7:50 pm.

The students are from the English 20--Poetry class and English 19—Creative Writing Class taught by Michelle Johnson and Kent Fortin, Sierra College English professors and poets.  Approximately 30 students will read their original work to fulfill a class requirement.  “Reading gives students the real-world experience of sharing their work in a beautiful venue with audiences larger than Mom and Dad,” explained Professor. “Too, the opportunity is enough to turn them on to being lifetime poets.”

The public is invited and admission is free. Donations to Roseville Arts are welcome.

The reading will come on the first Downtown Tuesday Night of the 2010 season.

WHO:          Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery

WHAT:        Sierra College students from Michelle Johnson’s poetry class; reading poetry in public as part of

                      their final grade.

WHEN:        May 4, 2010, from 6:30 to 7:50 pm

WHERE:      Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville

WHY:           To provide college students a public forum for their poetry. 

COST:          Admission is free. Donations will help defray costs of poetry readings at the Blue Line Gallery.

ABOUT MICHELLE JOHNSON:

Michelle is a full-time English Professor at Sierra College, where she has been teaching for 11 years.  Michelle says, “Before I taught, I did a little of everything from waitressing, bartending, fire safety educator, Native American education liaison, front desk clerk. I am a former military brat and wife.  I have lived in Wheatland for 20 years with my daughter Chelsea, my son, Gabriel, my six cats, and four fish. Writing has been something that I always return to, when there is nothing else around. Oh yes, and I love Dave Matthews.” Michelle read her poetry at the second in the Outta the Blue Poetry Series at the Blue Line Gallery in April.

ABOUT KENT FORTIN:

Kent Fortin can be summed up by a description of his poetry:  suburban blue-collar sensibility, tends to veer into sentimentality, and lacks formal structure.  While the world of poetry is impractical and frustrating, he is grateful to his wife, kids, students and colleagues for understanding that he’s going to go ahead and live in it anyway.  Kent teaches and learns at Sierra College.

ABOUT THIS READING:

Thirty students from Michelle’s English 20 Course will read their work as part of the requirements for completing the class. Area residents are invited to come and cheer on these students who will be presenting (some for the first time) their original work.

 ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY

2009 VOTED #1 ART GALLERY IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION—KCRA A-LIST and ROSEVILLE, GRANITE BAY, ROCKLIN STYLE MAGAZINE

Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery is a non-profit community center for the arts.  Further information may be obtained on the website:  www.rosevillearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. To set up an interview or to request high resolution photography, please contact Veronika Nagy at roseart@surewest.net .

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POETRY AT THE BLUE LINE GALLERY

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                                                                                                               

Media Contacts:

Beth Rohlfes or Barbara Dolder

rosecurator@surewest.net, roseart@surewest.net   

(916) 783-4117

POETRY AT THE BLUE LINE GALLERY

Bill Gainer and Michelle Johnson

ROSEVILLE, Calif., March 17, 2010—Nationally published and sought after poet, Bill Gainer, will join Michelle Johnson, Sierra College professor of English, in the second of four evenings of the “Outta the Blue Poetry Series” at the Blue Line Gallery on April 8, 2010.

“Outta the Blue Poetry Series” was first introduced in February with readings by Sacramento Poet Laureate Bob Stanley and award-winning Grass Valley poet Molly Fisk.  Poet and former Press Tribune editor, John Bowman, organized the series, which promises two more scheduled readings later in the year:  

·         August 26, 7:00-9:00p.m. –  Kate Asche, Sacramento poet and essayist and associate director of Arts and Humanities at UC Davis Extension;  and Tim Kahl, who reads and hosts readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center.

·          October 21, 7:00-9:00p.m. –  Kathleen Lynch of Sacramento, published poet, essayist and gifted reader of poetry; & Roger Groghan, Meadow Vista poet who has read his work at numerous area events and Moira Magneson of Placerville, who teaches at Sacramento City College.

WHO:                    Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery

WHAT:                  Second of four readings in “Outta the Blue Poetry Series”:  Michelle Johnson and Bill Gainer

WHEN:                 April 8, 2010, 7–9 p.m.

WHERE:                Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville

WHY:                    To cultivate poetry as an important part of Roseville’s culture. 

COST:                    $5 members & students; $15 non-members. Sign up for Roseville Arts membership & get in free!    

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ABOUT MICHELLE JOHNSON
Michelle Johnson is a full-time English Professor at Sierra College in Rocklin, where she has been teaching for 11 years.  Michelle says, “Before I taught, I did a little of everything from waitressing, bartending, fire safety educator, Native American education liaison, to front desk clerk. I am a former military brat and wife. I have lived in Wheatland for 20 years with my daughter Chelsea, my son, Gabriel, my six cats, and four fish. Writing has been something that I always return to, when there is nothing else around. Oh yes, I love Dave Matthews.”

ABOUT BILL GAINER

Bill Gainer, Grass Valley, is nationally published and remains a sought after reader. He is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours Poetry." He has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist, publisher and poet. Gainer considers himself forever influenced by an odd mix of outsiders. Early on he was swept away by the boldness, courage and brevity of the work of Richard Brautigan and Michael McClure. Later he found himself enthralled with the story telling talents of the likes of Tom Waits, William Kennedy, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Freddy Fender and a legion of "Meat Poets." Gainer has a long standing love of the short poem, but is often more recognized for his longer pieces. He continues to read and work with a wide range of poets and writers, including readings on KUSF radio with Punk-Rocker Patti Smith and performances with California Poet Laureate, Al Young. He is also the editor/publisher of the “Pen Award” winning press, R.L. Crow Publications, which was recently recognized by the Sacramento News and Review as a “The Best of Sacramento 2009,” for its "Gorilla Poetry Project." Gainer can be previewed at billgainer.com.

 
ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY

2009 VOTED #1 ART GALLERY IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION—KCRA  A-LIST and ROSEVILLE, GRANITE BAY, ROCKLIN STYLE MAGAZINE

Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery is a non-profit community center for the arts.  Further information may be obtained on the website:  www.rosevillearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. To set up an interview or to request high resolution photography, please contact Veronika Nagy at roseart@surewest.net .

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