Music Academy's Treasure House
Now Featuring Local Painters
Works by Susan Belloni Currently on View
For Immediate Release February 19, 2010
Contact:
Tim Dougherty
805.695.7908
Santa Barbara, CA – Lyrical works by plein air landscape artist Susan Belloni are currently on view at the Treasure House, the Music Academy of the West's on-campus home furnishings consignment shop, as part of a new program showcasing art by a featured local painter every three months. The shop inaugurated the initiative with a series of Parisian-themed pieces by watercolorist Mary Peeters late last year.
Ms. Belloni's exhibition, "Landscape Paintings of Santa Barbara County," includes 13 original paintings in acrylics and oils of area beaches, ranches, and the wine country. They are available as limited edition, archival prints on canvas. Also known as giclées – for the relatively new ink-jet print-making process – each is personally signed and numbered. Plein air works are painted in the open air on location. An art studio graduate from UC Santa Barbara, Ms. Belloni also counts local and national artists Marcia Burtt, Michael Drury, John Budicin, and Randall Sexton among her instructors.
A member of the Santa Barbara Art Association as well as the advocacy organization Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment, Ms. Belloni opens her studio to the public each year during the annual Mesa Artists Studio Tour. Her work can also be seen locally at the Corridan, Palm Loft, and Weldon Ranch galleries and at Five Points' Fresco Café until February 26, as well as on her website, www.susanbelloni.com. Her patrons have included actor John Cleese.
Ms. Belloni will host an open house at the Treasure House from noon to 3 pm on Saturday, March 20. Ample free parking is available on the Music Academy grounds.
The Treasure House offers an abundant trove of distinctive antiques, china, silver, linens, furniture, and accessories for the home. Along with The Rack, the Academy's on-campus resale apparel shop, the Treasure House is open from noon to 3 pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. Proceeds from sales at The Rack and Treasure House benefit the Music Academy.
For more information, call 805.969.1744 or visit the Treasure House.
Founded in 1947, the Music Academy of the West is among the nation's preeminent summer schools and festivals for gifted young classical musicians. The Academy provides these promising musicians with the opportunity for advanced study and frequent performance under the guidance of internationally renowned faculty artists, guest conductors, and soloists. Admission to the Academy is strictly merit based, and Fellows receive full scholarships (tuition, room, and board). Academy alumni are members of major symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, ensembles, opera companies, and university and conservatory faculties throughout the world. Many enjoy careers as prominent solo artists. Based in Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West presents more than 200 public events annually, including performances by faculty, visiting artists, and Fellows; masterclasses; orchestra and chamber music concerts; and fully staged opera. The Music Academy began screening live performances by the world-renowned Metropolitan Opera at Hahn Hall in October 2008. For more information, visit www.musicacademy.org.
