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    OUTSIDE INSIDE The Juneau Plein Rein Painters have been creating art outdoors for 20 years. Using all art media and in all weather, we meet on Saturday mornings to paint together, inspired by our differing styles, and by the beauty of Juneau and the activities and people who live here. An annual spring retreat kickstarts our creativity for our most productive seasons, spring and summer. This year, as artists in covid19 isolation, we painted around the Borough when the weather cooperated, traveling in separate cars and staying six feet apart. But we also painted from inside our homes. We worked from “challenges” thought up by our members, explored new art media or finished previous work.  Outside Inside, sponsored by the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, is a group exhibit featuring the work of ten Plein Rein Painters: Teri Gardner Robus, Pua Maunu, Jane Lindsey, Patrick Ripp, Jay Crondahl, Timi Johnson, Crystal Cudworth, Arnie Weimer, Barbara Craver, and Patti Hutchins J
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 Register NOW to join the "After Hours at the Lobby Shop" Thursday evening, 7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. AK standard time. The 2021 Plein Rein Calendar will be revealed! Here's the link to register for the live show. Laura will talk with Pua Maunu and Cristine Crooks about this perennial favorite calendar, featuring paintings by local plein air painters.  https://my.demio.com/ref/Ip3igajuPha8cTN5
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 Plein Rein Painters will venture into new territory in November 2020. Ten of our artists will be exhibiting their work in a virtual gallery, through the JAHC. Stay tuned for more information.

Jay's Earth Day Challenge

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You are the owner of many tee shirts , if not use something else . Make an earth day tee shirt . Here is my design.   Smjjlle poops, I mean oops ! , smile .   anyway  , Jay  Earth Day, April 22, 2020 This will be the 50th Earth Day, begun in 1970 in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at  https://www.earthday.org/history/ Jay Crondahl Kerry Kirkpatrick Cristine Crooks (Jay, I didn't have a spare tee shirt so I made an apron) Crystal Cudworth

STELLATION

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April 1, 2020 "Wow , automatic art got such a nice response I'm  looking forward to seeing more art on  pleinrein2020.blogspot.com .   That's  too much Pollicking , it's not to soon to stretch  in a much  more interesting direction.   New York Times style magazine  [ mar 22 ] has a very nice piece  on Frank Stella . So , does anybody want to do a Stellation . That is , do a painting that looks like a Stella ? Not mindless art ! " The Jay Challenge #2 accepted: Crystal Cudworth Jay Crondahl Pua Maunu

Jay's Challenge-- Automatic Art

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AUTOMATIC ART  March 30, 2020  by Jay Crondahl "First , first thing in the morning hop out of bed like a cork out of a Champaign bottle!  Next , dress as fast as you can , except a nice big shirt which you are going to wave about for five minutes  just like a matador  waves his big red Cape. Yaaaa, let your shirt settle gently over your shoulders now , ignore  the bull , saunter  into the studio and mindlessly  paint your version  of  a  Jackson Pollock .   Here is my version " And responding to Jay's challenge Cristine Crooks Jane Lindsey Timi Johnson Crystal Cudworth Beth Potter  Kerry Kirkpatrick The Squirrel of Judgment Teri Robus Pua Maunu