Eye Level Pasadena

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

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Art of Blizzard benefit show at Nucleus in Alhambra

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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 [...]

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Mural on the wall in the South Pasadena post office

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The South Pasadena post office

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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