Anne Grannis, Featured Ceramic Artist, June 2025

Featured Craft Artist
10:30 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: JUNE 2025 Featured Artists: Exhibition Dates: June 1 – June 30, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 3:00 – 5:00 PM Location: Gallery at Marina Square 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10 Morro Bay, CA 93442 Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Daily Contact: 805-772-1068 Craft Atelier Space Featured Artist: ANNE GRANNIS, Sculptures & Small Works Artist Statement: A transplant from New England to California; I grew up in an artistic family. This was a privilege I relished as art materials abounded and I was never allowed to be bored. The master sculptors Michelangelo, Rodin and Bernini are my heroes. Because of my fascination with other places, people and animals, it is no accident that Scuba diving is my second favorite thing to do. I draw inspiration from these surreal worlds where science fiction and mythology merge. It is no coincidence that I love to sculpt, as I find living things endlessly fascinating. I try to stretch my imagination and skills to create a beautiful sculpture integrating the human and animal forms that look as if they “could be” real by making it anatomically correct. I often use water based clay, as it is an amazingly pliable medium with […]

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Jari de Ham, Featured Sculpture Artist, May 2025

Featured Craft Artist
12:47 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

Craft Atelier Space: Jari de Ham – Sculptures & Small Works Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 5 PM dailyContact: 805-772-1068 Jarien de Ham is a sculptor and painter who began Chinese brush painting in 2002 with a class offered at Cuesta College. Bird and Flower painting, one of the four genres of Chinese painting, initially drew her in. This was followed by Calligraphy and classes in China that covered Landscape and Figure painting. While the Central Coast is far from China, many elements revered in Chinese art can be found here — cypress trees with their irregular balance, foggy atmosphere, fish, and birds. These subjects appear throughout Jari’s paintings, sculptures, and various craft forms.

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Alan Cohen, Craft Atelier Artist, April 2025

Featured Craft Artist
6:29 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

Craft Atelier Space: Alan Cohen, Assemblage Sculpture Exhibit Dates: April 1 – April 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12th, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM – 5 PM daily Artist Statement:Alan B. Cohen, a Sonoma County-based architect and builder for over 40 years, is drawn to contrasts: new and old, created and found, weathered and highly finished. His sculptural art fabrications start with items he finds washed up on West Coast beaches. Alan transforms these materials in his Sea Ranch or Healdsburg shop, adding old fishing tackle, rusted wire, tools, brushes, and other recycled objects to create birds, underwater creatures, masks, and abstract pieces. His work is a blend of simplicity, elegance, whimsy, and fantasy.

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George Asdel, Featured Craft Artist, February 2025

Featured Craft Artist
2:40 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  FEBRUARY 2025 3 FEATURED ARTISTS:   📍Upper Gallery:  LAURA MURPHY, Mixed Media  📍Lower Gallery:   “THE COLOR OF LIGHT” Group Painting Show with artists Spanky Anderson, Joan Brown, Ron Dieb, Virginia Mack, Pat Newton, Atul Pande, Sandra Sanders, Jose Silva, and Hema Sukumar 📍Craft Atelier Space:  GEORGE ASDEL, Small Works and Poetry 3 Exhibits Beginning:  FEBRUARY 1, 2025 Exhibits Ending: FEBRUARY 27, 2025 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Craft Featured Artist: GEORGE ASDEL, Small Works & Poetry Artist Statement: George Asdel lives in Atascadero and is an accomplished painter, poet, and craftsman. Over his long career as an artist, he has won awards for his acrylic paintings, pen and ink drawings, illustrated books, greeting cards, and poetry.  He and his wife Kathie taught art in the Hibbs’ Cove Art Centre in Newfoundland, Canada and many other venues in California.  They also opened an art gallery where he sold scenes of fishing village life to collectors from around the world, and the Provincial Government.  George has a delightful sense of humor which comes through in his paintings, drawings and poetry, and brings laughter and joy to […]

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Christmas Crafts, a 2024 Holiday Craft Show

Featured Craft Artist
2:00 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2024 4 FEATURED ARTISTS:  LINDA BENCH, Drawing; DON DOUBLEDEE, Pen & Inks;  “LIGHT & SHADOWS” Group Painting Show with Jose Silva, Virginia Mack, Jamie Tobey, Atul Pande, Sandra Sanders, Patricia Newton, Joan Brown; HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW, Small Works 3 Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2024 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Holiday Craft Show:  Small Works, Sculptures, Jewelry and Crafts Lovely small gifts, crafts and sculptures fill this Holiday Show with affordable choices for the holiday gift-giving season.  

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Ardella Swanberg, Featured Craft Artist, August 2024

Featured Craft Artist
2:18 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: AUGUST 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Gay McNeal, Textiles; Virginia Mack, Watercolor; Ardella Swanberg, Small Works and books 3 Exhibits Beginning: AUGUST 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, AUGUST 10th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily Ardella was raised in Garden Grove, California, lived in many locations, and relocated to the Central Coast 25 years ago. Ardella’s painting inspirations have been the subjects found in the many places she has lived—from living on a cattle ranch north of Cayucos to the beautiful harbor of Morro Bay, California.  In addition, Ardella has given painting classes in many locations throughout the Central Coast for many years.  She has recently moved to Seattle, WA and continuing her painting and crafts.

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