YOSEMITE – Yosemite National Park and Ansel Adams Gallery announce the fifth annual Gateway Expressions Student Art and Poetry Contest. The Gateway Expressions Student Art and Poetry Contest celebrates the creativity of youth in Yosemite’s gateway communities, and is open to all students, grades K-12, who attend school or youth programs within the gateway community school districts of Yosemite National ...

William Neill Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #74 William Neill, an American photographer and resident of the Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a renowned nature and landscape photographer. Neill’s award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of ...

Vicki Thomas Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #7 I love this journey of being an artist! How did I get so lucky? My art interest started when I was quite young. On long, cold wintery nights, I would draw and color with my mother, who also loved art. My father encouraged my art career, although with some reluctance at first. ...

OAKHURST – Get ready to rev your engines as members of the Sierra Oakhurst Kiwanis Club welcome one and all to the 13th annual Run for the Gold classic car show preview at the Oakhurst Community Center this Friday night, followed by the main event car show on Saturday at Oakhurst Community Park. The cost for registration of vehicles is ...

Betty Berk Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #68 Betty Berk is an Expressionist painter.  She uses bold color combinations to express her inner world on the landscapes of her canvasses. Her passion of playing her piano has deeply impacted her art. She wants the viewer to experience each painting like she experiences the classical music she plays. This has developed ...

Penny Otwell Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #95 Penny Otwell will host four other artists at her Mariposa Studio close to the Historic District downtown. Close to shops and restaurants, you can visit her working studio and see a painting demo each day at 1 p.m. during “the trail.” Otwell will have large to small paintings available for purchase, ink ...

Vivian Helena Aumond- Capone Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #28 I love to create something new every time I walk in to my studio. Too many projects litter the tables, and sometimes the floor. I work with fabric, decorate gourds, enjoy making earrings and necklaces. I show a variety of art, which make great gifts for yourself or friends. I ...

Linda Zupcic Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #65 There is so much constant chatter in our world, verbal and non-verbal, and we spend so much time responding to this chatter, that we have come to equate silence with loneliness, emptiness. But it is only in silence that we learn to hear ourselves, each other, and the earth we live on. ...

Gay Abarbanell Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #71 Nature is full of magical abstracts; capturing that essential magic excites me and keeps me walking through the world, camera in hand. Line, color, and shape expand the fun as I try to find new ways to express that excitement. I particularly enjoy “abstracting” the vision. Sometimes I do it subtly, as ...

Wendy Denton Sierra Art Trails 2015 Catalog #60 I learned photography in Germany in my early 20s. At first I was self-taught through books and a makeshift darkroom in my kitchen. I then used the darkroom in the Karlsruhe U.S. Army base. My love was black and white imagery, and my photographic activity was more or less my therapy. When ...