Artist Support Group Holds First Meeting

The first meeting of the Artist Support Group will be this Sunday, April 3^rd , shortly after 12 noon in the Guild Room of St. Paul's Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Ave., San Diego, CA 92103. Bring your own lunch.

This meeting will be a guided discussion of benefits which the group could offer such as tips for the business side of your art, income generating through your art and aids to productivity.

Many artists have expressed interest in this group on various levels of need. Some are concerned about a lack of inspiration and being "blocked". Others feel the need for an accountability group to aid their productivity. Still others want to know how to make a living without curtailing their art.

All of these needs are related: without inspiration your productivity is lowered which, in turn, limits the art that people will invest in, or base various kinds of financial support upon. Without financial support the artist has to do something else and the world is the poorer for it.

Under the sponsorship of St. Paul's Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, we hope this group will help artists work out solutions to these challenges and that more art will flow as a result. It is based on the model of mutual help, networking and occasional guest speakers.

All interested artists and arts supporters in all artistic disciplines (including writing and filmmaking) are invited to come. For more information call Donna's cell 760-445-9470, or e-mail Mark markarturner@gmail.com .

We Search with Imaginative Faith for Home

A little ways down the hill from the main house, these offices and studios have seen many scripts, recordings and film edits. The surrounding grounds and wild life have given much inspiration to all who have worked with us and attended our events.

In case you have not heard, the Turners and Horizon Gate are moving! A little background on this is found at our blog post Move Makes Mission Lean and Focused

So far we feel like Abraham and Sarah going out not knowing where they were going. We are their spiritual descendants in faith and, despite uncomfortable moments, we too walk not by appearances, but with hope.

We are looking and praying not for just rooms, but for a place which will better support our mission. Some of the key aspects we need are:

• a quiet place to write, compose, record and edit audio-visuals
• a production area for visual arts
• a location with quicker access to people and business than Julian
• property management which supports our mission by flexibility and low lease price
• facilities which accommodate both home and office/production area

We imagine these points could be found in a two, or three bedroom house with space around it and a garage. This requires the right situation with the right people.

Please employ your imagination to help us find the best situation so that we can get on with the exciting plans for Horizon Gate.

"Diggers" Production Explores Drawing Techniques

Mark's colored pencil drawing of toddlers watching their world being washed away by a flood illustrates references in the poem to natural disasters.

Our current short art film production, "To the Diggers", is a hybrid of poetic spoken word, music, sound effects, visual arts and motion graphics.

We have commenced production of the visuals for the fourth of five stanzas in the poem. In this stanza Mark is creating visuals depicting humanity's age-old efforts to re-shape the universe for its own purposes: giant earth movers, skyscraper construction, space vehicle launches.

Mark drew this road grader digitally using a computer mouse and Photoshop techniques. It will be integrated into the section of the film referring to earth moving.

As in most of Mark's projects, he is stretching himself to learn new techniques. This project is expanding his knowledge of combining traditional drawing on paper with digital drawing on the computer screen. He is pushing himself to complete as much of the film as possible before we move to new quarters which could be as soon as in two months.
This colored pencil drawing by Mark is in the section of the film referring to leaders avoiding responsibility for people's needs.

Now you can follow our filmmaking on one blog devoted completely to our progress building the art film collection. The blog is called "Film Gallery Colxn" and you are invited to subscribe. Click on this link to go see our design unfold:

http://filmgallerycolxn.blogspot.com.