Eye Level Pasadena

One of Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees at One Colorado Plaza in Old Town Pasadena

Art of Blizzard benefit show at Nucleus in Alhambra

Pasadena artist (and my dear friend) Alyssa Sherwood is selling these lovely little Horace pillows. They are perfect for sensitive, creative children (and adults). Every part of Horace, from the thread he is sewn with to his packing materials, is friendly to the environment, and when you hold him up to your nose and smell him, you smell nothing — no traces of funny chemical or ink smells. He’s clean and lovely and well constructed and perfect for imaginative little people.

Mural on the wall in the South Pasadena post office

Detail

The South Pasadena post office

Marine life and faces in the windows of the PCC administrative building

Model and artists at Castle Green

Pasadena Museum of California Art covered in vinyl

Art Center gallery

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Check out Karen Winters’s painting of Pasadena City Hall.

My friend Alyssa Sherwood is a Pasadena artist who blogs at Movingarden. She’s been painting She Cows lately, and posting them on her blog and on Flickr. I especially love the animation she posted yesterday looping through the cows she’s painted so far.

Terri Lloyd‘s show, Form and Disfunction, opened tonight at The Majestical Roof. Gavin and I stopped by and met Terri Lloyd herself.

Terri Lloyd at The Majestical Roof

Chris Burgan (sound) played in the courtyard.

Terri Lloyd video installation, 1

Terri Lloyd video installation, 2

Art wall

(We especially liked Pook.)

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Terri Lloyd: Hairy Carrion Arts
Local singer and songwriter Chris Burgan (sound)

The Majestical Roof
88 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Ste 102
Pasadena, CA 91103
(Between Holly and Union St.)
626-844-8886
www.themajesticalroof.com

Pasadena has quite a few museums, and this week Gavin and I were introduced to yet another one: The Busby Ward Museum of Art.

“The BWMA is a private gallery opened in 2003 on Roosevelt Ave in Pasadena, CA. Its small collection features works by young American artists. The museum is different from other museums as its curators live on its campus. The BWMA is a proud host to special galas, including the ECMCS and Friends of the BWMA parties. The spirit of the museum is best embodied by S. B. Cenko’s proclaimed piece, “I Can Do That!” This stunning reproduction of a Mark Rothko piece is on loan from the Dan Busby Museum of Art. Rumor has it that this colored pencil on paper piece was completed in a single sitting before a gawking crowd of onlookers….” (link)

Last night we visited Pasadena Jazz Institute and The Armory Center for the Arts.

Walking into the Pasadena Jazz Institute

Paul Lines greeted us at the door and showed us around

There was a large performance space with lots of cozy little tables, and there were separate bar, pool and patio areas where you could hear the music and watch it on screen, but where you could also move around and socialize more or enjoy a little more privacy.

Saxophonist at the Pasadena Jazz Institute

Main performance space

Out on the patio

Pool in the back room at Pasadena Jazz Institute

Pasadena Jazz Institute
260 East Colorado Blvd.
Suite 206
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-398-3344
www.pasjazz.org

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Then we rode the free Art Night shuttle over to the Armory.

Art Night at the Armory

Local community ensemble Kan Zaman was there playing classical Arabic music.

Kan Zaman, 1

Kan Zaman, 2

You can hear samples of their music here: http://www.kanzaman.org/cds.htm

Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-792-5101
www.armoryarts.org