Greg Stewart is an emerging sculptural artist from Virginia whose work focuses on food, sustainability and community involvement. For his residency, Greg will recreate some of his mobile sculpture gardens for the Acquired Taste exhibition as well as create programming and interactive free workshops with the arts community of downtown Santa Ana.

Stewart will live and work at Grand Central Art Center from October 14-30.

Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption
CSUF Begovich Gallery
October 29 - December 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 5:00-8:00p.m.

CSUF Begovich Gallery
800 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA. 92831
657-278-7750

The Grand Central Art Center is proud to host Lebanese artist Choucrallah Fattouh as the next artist-in-residence. Fattouh was born in the coastal town of Monsef near Byblos, and established himself as a painter at age 13 when he sold his first artworks-four portraits of his mother to a French passerby. From then Fattouh went on to join the National Institute of the Lebanese University's Faculty of Fine Arts and received a degree in Fine Arts in 1983. From 1985 to date Fattouh has participated in over 150 collective and solo exhibitions throughout Lebanon, Paris, Cyprus, Dubai, Moscow, Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cannes, and most recently London. In addition, his work is part of the art collection of David Rockefeller. He is also a member of the Syndicate of Lebanese Painters and Sculptors.

For his residency Fattouh will reside at GCAC from August 3-September 7. He is producing new paintings and metal sculptures in the artist-in-residence studio on the first floor of the art center. These new works will be exhibited in the Project Room.

Byblos: Return To My Inspiration
GCAC Project Room
September 3-October 16
Opening Reception: September 3, 7:00 - 10:00 P.M.

Día de los Muertos Art Exhibit this Saturday at Calacas!
* Take your picture with La Catrina!
* Get your face painted!
* Viewing Premiere of Noche de Altares Documentary!

The Grand Central Art Center is proud to host Lebanese artist Choucrallah Fattouh as the next artist-in-residence. Fattouh was born in the coastal town of Monsef near Byblos, and established himself as a painter at age 13 when he sold his first artworks-four portraits of his mother to a French passerby. From then Fattouh went on to join the National Institute of the Lebanese University's Faculty of Fine Arts and received a degree in Fine Arts in 1983. From 1985 to date Fattouh has participated in over 150 collective and solo exhibitions throughout Lebanon, Paris, Cyprus, Dubai, Moscow, Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cannes, and most recently London. In addition, his work is part of the art collection of David Rockefeller. He is also a member of the Syndicate of Lebanese Painters and Sculptors.

For his residency Fattouh will reside at GCAC from August 3-September 7. He is producing new paintings and metal sculptures in the artist-in-residence studio on the first floor of the art center. These new works will be exhibited in the Project Room.

Byblos: Return To My Inspiration
GCAC Project Room
September 3-October 16
Opening Reception: September 3, 7:00 - 10:00 P.M.

Enter the great tombs and temples of the powerful, and the cunning men and women who ruled imperial China. "Warriors, Tombs and Temples: China's Enduring Legacy" is a landmark exhibition drawn from China's most important archaeological excavations assembled in cooperation with seven leading Chinese institutions.

Follow this exhibition through the underworld empires of three of the most formative dynasties in Chinese history: the Qin, the Han and the Tang, each a high point of culture and technology, looked back to with pride by Chinese people and admired by others today. The treasures that accompanied China's rulers and elites in the afterlife, and the spectacular gold and silver offerings placed in their temples, speak to the incredible accomplishments of an ancient culture whose descendants still live on today.

The exhibition features the famous life-size terra cotta warriors, protector of China's first emperor Qin Shihuangdi, whose mausoleum complex is considered the eighth wonder of the world. Newly excavated, the painted garments and armor are clearly visible thanks to new conservation techniques. Smaller in scale but equally impressive are some of the more than 40,000 smiling terra cotta warriors from the imperial tomb compounds of Han emperors Gaozu and Jingdi. They are presented in combination with concubines, animals and a multitude of objects that insured a lavish and comfortable afterlife.

The royal and elite tombs from the Tang Dynasty were stocked with riches clearly tied to the trade of exotic goods along the Silk Road. Dazzling gold ornaments, tomb guardians, a mural depicting a game of polo and many other luxuries illustrate the taste of Tang elites and the era's connection with the West. And, for the first time in the United States, come gold, silver and gemstone treasures deposited into the treasure-crypt of the Famen Monastery by six Tang Dynasty emperors and China's only female emperor Wu Zhao. This important Buddhist site, sealed in 874 of the Tang Dynasty and rediscovered in 1987, was founded with the fragment of the historical Buddha's finger bone. The reliquaries associated with the sacred relic are part of this exhibition.

This Fall ArtCar Fest hits the road to visit their Southern California friends. Their unique, mobile artworks will be on public display at the Santa Ana Art Walk on Saturday, October 1, 2011.

ArtCars are street-legal vehicles that artists have permanently modified into a work of art. They bring creativity and individual expression into people's lives 365 days per year.

Location:
2nd Street Promenade
from Broadway Ave to Spurgeon St
7:00 pm - 10:00pm

Art Car Films playing through out the night:
Automorphosis & Wild Wheels

For more info check out:
http://artcarfest.com/
http://www.automorphosis.com/

About ArtCarFest:
ArtCar Fest is an all-volunteer, artist-run event. Founded by Philo Northrup & Harrod Blank 14 years ago, and is directed by Emily Duffy - all of whom are ArtCar artists. Harrod & Philo started their first ArtCars in the early 1980s, but did not meet until 1992. Philo and Harrod collaborated on several ArtCar caravans across the country, and in 1997 decided that California needed its own festival to exhibit ArtCars. Emily joined in 1997 with her now famous Mondrian Mobile. Harrod has published three books and directed three documentary films on the subject. His publications are considered standard references on the medium, and he has founded a museum dedicated to ArtCars in Arizona called Art Car World.

Clinton Mackenzie is an abstract painter living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to painting Mackenzie has a background in papermaking, textile design, and weaving. He is a founding faculty and professor emeritus of California State University Fullerton. His work can be found in the collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Delaware Art Museum,The London Craft Museum, The National Gallery of Australia, The Wiseman Foundation, and Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy.

Mackenzie will live and work at Grand Central Art Center from September 9-30.

A Multimedia presentation
by Gregorio Luke, an expert on Mexican and Latin American art and culture. Accompanied by a live Mariachi Band.

Location: Birch Park
(3rd & Birch Street)

Free Admission