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A heartfelt THANK YOU to Cannon Beach Gallery and to the collector from Virginia who will be taking home "Weekend" and "Just In Time Fran" from the Figures & Faces show!
Follow this link to more images from the show:

https://www.cannonbeacharts.org/current-exhibit-1

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Musings - Mixed Media Works By Janelle Schneider

If you will be in the Portland OR area, please join me for the opening reception of my (fast approaching) upcoming solo show Friday May 1st from 5pm - 8pm at Nectar Cafe - 1925 Northeast 42nd Avenue Ste. East, Portland, OR 97213 (971) 302-6359. Featuring mixed media paintings from "The 7 Contemporary Sins" series, and other works. “Musings” is a collection of mixed media works that give visual space to observations and ideas which question the status quo of corporate industrial centralization of agriculture, energy, finance, and media. You can read the artist statement here: http://www.paintbetty.com/artist-statement.html

The acrylic painting “Balance” has been submitted to the Saatchi latest Showdown! Check it out: http://www.saatchiart.com/showdown/add/showdown/19

It's happening: Science Tarot is going into its second printing!

We are thrilled to announce that Science Tarot is now printed right here in California, where the deck was created. We are especially proud that working with a local printer allowed us to create printed colors more vibrant and more true to the original artworks. The cardbacks' chalkboard green is more real, the reds of stars looks nearly radioactive, and the faces throughout are more lively.

The new printing also offers excellent cardstock, a new gloss with a better grip for shuffling ease, and the same well-loved, nearly bullet-proof box. All content is identical to the first printing, including the booklet of 100 pages still included within. Only the colors are adjusted to better reveal the artwork!

This 2nd Edition of Science Tarot should be available in July.

Thank you so much for all your support and interest!
Stay connected by liking us on Facebook for details as they develop, and visit our website at http://www.sciencetarot.com

In the spirit of our patio/moving sale, enjoy 20% any print in my Fine Art America sbop. Use code LAVNTZ from now until 7/24!!

Beginning this Spring I will again be offering my workshop,
"Symbolism and the Subconscious in Art Making "
***There are only 4 spaces available*** if you are interested contact me via message or email. Once we have 4 people we will set the dates, making sure they work for all enrolled.
Here are a few more details:


Art Workshop - Symbolism and the Subconscious in Art making

Learn how to tap in to your own inner mythology to create art using meditation, visualization, and dream journaling. You will be learning about the power of symbolism and the subconscious in image making and expression, with a focus on the mandala, using acrylics, collage, and Prismacolor pencils. Some discussion and examples of combining the use of digital with traditional mediums as another element of mixed media also presented. We will be spending a portion of our time in instruction/discussion and the rest in hands on creating each class.

Instructor:
Janelle Schneider
4 session class
dates: Saturdays, TBA
time: 11:00 - 1:30
where: Art Works Downtown, studio 20 in San Rafael
Cost for the 4 sessions is $220 -
SUPPLIES:
please bring your tabletop easel, a drawing board, and a blank journal book for recording your dreams
PAINT, PENCILS, PAPER, CANVAS, AND BRUSHES WILL BE PROVIDED
Some hand crafted journals are available for sale in my studio
About the artist:
Janelle Schneider is a mixed media artist as well as a digital artist for feature films. Janelle has had a life fascination with mythology, symbolism, and the role of the subconscious in art and art making and is currently studying both Shamanic and Druidic art/spiritual traditions. She is influenced by the writings and drawings of Carl Jung and the writings of Joseph Campbell, as well as the works of artists Frida Kahlo, Rothko, and Georgia O'Keefe. She's inspired by visions and dreams, indigenous wisdom, and the natural world and its forms. Her use of dreamlike colors, symbolism, sacred geometry, mandalas, and depictions of the divine feminine acknowledges the relationship between light, sound, and matter, and honors the inter-connectedness of All of Life.

Her work with the Mandala is a love affair of the heart. A circle filled with possibility, symbolism, stories, and healing, the Mandala is a reflection of the Outer within the Inner. Focused intention, invoked in the sacred space of the Circle, through the use of symbol and color, a mandala is a meditation manifest in form. Her mandalas can be used as concentration points for meditation practice, or to bring that vibration into a specific space, and to just be enjoyed as art.

Please email jschneider@ paintbetty.com for more information.

Learn how to tap in to your own inner mythology using meditation, visualization, and dream journaling. You will be learning about the power of symbolism and the subcon

scious in image making and expression, with a focus on the mandala, using acrylics, collage, and Prismacolor pencils. Some discussion and examples of combining the use of digital with traditional mediums as another element of mixed media also presented. We will be spending about 45 minutes of instruction/discussion and 2 hours of hands on creating per class.

Instructor: Janelle Schneider
4 session class
dates: 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, & 10/28
time: 11:00 - 2:00
where: Art Works Downtown, studio 20 in San Rafael
Cost for the 4 sessions is $200 - all materials are included (except for your blank journal book for recording your dreams, as this should be a personal selection.)

Ages 16 and up are welcome.

About the artist:
Janelle Schneider is a mixed media fine artist as well as a digital painter or Surfacing Artist for animated feature films. Janelle has had a life long love of mythology, symbolism, and the role of the subconscious in art and art making. She is influenced by the writings and drawings of Carl Jung and the writings of Joseph Campbell, as well as the works of artists Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe. She's inspired by visions and dreams, indigenous wisdom, and the natural world and its forms. Her use of dreamlike colors, symbolism, sacred geometry, mandalas, and depictions of the divine feminine acknowledges the relationship between light, sound, and matter, and honors the inter-connectedness of All of Life.

Her work with the Mandala is a love affair of the heart. A circle filled with possibility, symbolism, stories,
and healing, the Mandala is a reflection of the Outer within the Inner. Focused intention, invoked in the
sacred space of the Circle, through the use of symbol and color, a mandala is a meditation manifest in
form. Her mandalas can be used as concentration points for meditation practice, or
to bring that vibration into a specific space, and to just be enjoyed as art.


Please email jschneider (at) paintbetty (dot) com to register!

Under The Big Top Art Works Downtown Artists Open Studios 2012

Opens Friday • Nov 9 • 5pm to 8pm
during 2nd Fridays Art Walk
and continues through the weekend...
Sat + Sun • Nov 10 + 11 • 11am to 5pm

Come see me in my labyrinth studio 20!

AWD Studio Artists will celebrate the holiday season with a brand new circus theme “UNDER THE BIG TOP.” Come one, come all! Step right up and visit over 30 exciting artist\'s studios. This new event will feature colorful art in all media, live music and performances, clowns, face painting, circus movies, jugglers, magicians and other surprises.

"Drum Making Gathering for Healing, Love, Life, and Peace"

I'm currently in the process of arranging a drum making weekend workshop with Elizabeth Theriault, and would REALLY LOVE IT if some of you might be interested in taking this workshop as well.
Elizabeth's drums are exquisite, and this workshop truly promises to be a transformational experience.

http://www.drumspeak.org/index.php?p=1_5_Drum-Making
http://www.blessingways.net/Mended-Heart-Drums/Mended-Heart-Drums.html

Here is a description from her flyer:

"As we gather to make our drums, we will also explore using drums for healing, balance, and connection within a ceremony setting. The workshop addresses the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of Drum making. Drum practices woven within the structure of the workshop are 4-fold and will include usage as a medicine song tool, as a shamanic tool for journey work, as a meditation tool, and for mental focus with I Ching drumming. We will also weave our time together with storytelling, songs, and sharings from the heart. Each participant will take home his or her own beautiful wood frame and leather drum with drumstick."

Elizabeth will be flying in from Hawaii, and as soon as at least 8 people express an interest a date can be set in either Aug, Sept, or Oct. The class will be held in Northern California, near San Rafael/Larkspur area. The location and date will be set as soon as at least 8 people (the class minimum) contact me to let me know they are interested.
Let me know if you think you'd like to attend, and/or find out more information.

Mahalo

Janelle

WORKS DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIOS
kicks off this coming Friday with San Rafael's 2nd Fridays Art Walk! Please stop by and see me in labyrinth studio 20, as well as partake of the many exciting events happening.
Also check out my new Circular Meditation series gallery prints. Available in a variety of sizes to suit any budget!

www.janelle-schneider.artistwebsites.com/art/all/circular+meditations/all
http://www.awdartists.com/

Namaste

Art Works Downtown is happy to announce a new program designed for AWD resident, studio, and associate aritst to curate rotating exhibits in the Founders Lounge. New shows will provide a warm background for the AWD community to gather for lunch, meetings, small receptions, private parties and special events via the soon-to-open Odalisque Café

Current Show through November 30

"Art from the Labyrith" featuring lower level AWD artists: Fiammeta Castaldi, Deborah Darling Gray, Eric Hoffman, Wendy Lilienthal, Susan McCormick, Susan Searway, Phyllis Thelen, Susan Ticken, Janelle Schneider and Sweet Spirit Ceramics Center artists, Barbara Andino Stevenson, Pamela Aparicio, Richard L. Wooster

http://www.artworksdowntown.org/founders-lounge-current-exhibit/blog

A great time was had by all at this month's 2nd fridays Art Walk at Art Works Downtown!
You should seriously consider coming out next month! I'll be in studio #20 :)

Here is a crop of Earth Gaia Dream, which is nearly done. It would be done already if I had more time lately to spend in my painting studio :)

My studio will be open and participating in MarinArts 2011 Open Studios, May 7, 8 & 14.
In studio 20, at Art Works Downtown 1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901

10% of sales of paintings and fine art prints will be donated to The Pachamama Alliance, an organization committed to:
' bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.'

http://vimeo.com/2217073

Come see me in Studio #20 - I'll be there around 6!

Three of my paintings - Enshrine - Outward Heart, Enshrine - Inward Heart, and Enshrine - Mindfulness will be on exhibit in the Marin Jeweler's Guild.


Friday, February 11 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location downtown San Rafael
Fourth St + beyond
San Rafael, CA

2nd Fridays Art Walk | San Rafael
More Info
During San Rafael’s next 2nd Fridays Art Walk, participating merchants will be celebrating Valentines Day!

RED food, RED drinks, RED art! COME DRESSED IN RED!

SPECIAL FEATURE! experience a preview of HOMEGROWN MARIN MARKET vendors at Art Works Downtown, ROOM Gallery and Marin Arts Council
...http://www.facebook.com/pages/Homegrown-Marin-Market/129283717099193

HIGHLIGHTS:

1611 Fourth St:
Rebound Bookstore: works by Lorna Stevens, red wine, sparkling cranberry juice, XOX Truffles of North Beach

1337 Fourth St:
Art Works Downtown will feature art by Edythe Bresnahan in the main gallery and Susan Ticken in the Underground Gallery.

1331 Fourth St:
reception in the Marin Jewelers Guild featuring RED art by AWD artists.

1016 B St:
"Africa" photography exhibit by Jennifer Lesback, regional food, red delicacies and wine at Avalon

1138 Fourth St:
Rileystreet Art Supply: "France, Nepal + Marin" paintings by Harry Simpson, live music by Wishbone

906 Fourth St:
reading + booksigning by Elizabeth Rosner at Marin Arts Council
($5, $7 at the door)

905 Fourth St:
reception for Steve Emery at Crome Architecture

851 Fourth St:
Donna Seager Gallery presents Michael Cutlip (reception on Feb 5), live music by Foxtail Brigade

827 Fourth St:
MFA Art Space at Marin Fencing Academy, featuring paintings by Laura Kiskaddon, Laura Lengyel, Richard Weinberger


See: http://artworksdowntown.org/2ndFridays.html for full REDception! listings and map

Science Tarot Wands Artist Janelle Schneider will be at Wonderfest at the UC Berkeley Campus Sun, Nov 7th, along with the rest of the Science Tarot artists. Prints of original artwork will be available for sale, as well as opportunities to request commissioned work. Also to hear from all the Science Tarot artists about their collaborative experiences.

The launch was a great success! Thank you everyone who came to see us at The California Academy of Sciences Thursday NightLife event. You can purchase your very own Science Tarot deck from www.sciencetarot.com.

Martins photos on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fonziecalypso/sets/72157625031297330/

Science Tarot's photos on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sciencetarot/pool/with/5023593208/

some of my own:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paintbetty/5020702816/in/set-72157618578258104/

The Science Tarot Decks Are Here!


Pre-order your Science Tarot deck at the Science Tarot Website! The decks are printed, and they are beautiful! We'll start shipping in October, following the Science Tarot Launch Party. If you can't join us in person on September 23, and would like a deck of your own, order your deck to be part of the first delivery shipment. At the Launch Party or online (for a limited time) the decks are $20, discounted from the $25 retail.










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For those of you in the S.F. Bay Area

- Tickets are now on sale for the Science Tarot Launch Party with
Velocity Circus! Join us at the CA Academy of Sciences NightLife
'Carnival' on Thursday Sept 23.

- Enjoy the masquerades of Gregangelo's Velocity Circus

- Receive a professional Science Tarot reading

- Purchase your own Science Tarot deck from the its creators ($20,
cash only)

- View the original artwork from the deck and chat with the Artists

- Visuals of animated science stories projected onto the exterior of
the planetarium dome

- Explore astronomy from the deck by telescope on the Living Roof with
Paul Salazar

- Swoon to live performance by Geographer and Kill Moi

- Move to sounds of DJs Mad Science

- Sample "The Science of Absinthe" presentation as part of SF Cocktail
Week

Hope to see you there!


-janelle

moving along on these, never enough time it seems. Working in acrylic and matte gel medium transparent layers takes some time. More to come, will post further progress :)

For a long time now and increasingly in the last two years I have felt a growing awareness of the interconnectedness of all things, a steady and strong unease at the state of the planet, and a growing urgency to find a way to help bring things back into balance. As a visual artist I have tried to honor these feelings through my paintings, exploring dreams, symbolism and intuitive insights, making art that tries to help other people feel the importance of being and living in harmony with the planet.

Now it seems that with each day there are more and more seemingly disparate threads converging. Here's an example; after reading a book by Sandra Ingerman, which I found after discovering the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, found through a Bioneers weblink, I saw the film For the Next 7 Generations, I came to the film through a web search for like minded people and organizations, on the advice of a wise older woman in my life to whom I had been sharing my thoughts and feelings on these things. In my mind I have followed that winding thread again and again, and am amazed each time. Most of the people in my life do not share or understand this part of me, and for most of my life this sense of awareness and connectedness to the Earth had been dismissed as childish imagination, but now I seek to nurture and develop this further.

I am excited and amazed at how many learning resources are out there, it feels as if I am being guided and shown what I need to know.

Today I am mind walking and exploring the Mysteries through drawing, canvas, and paint.

made a sketch for a mandala painting Sunday, inspired by the new moon/eclipse in Cancer and Grand Cross. More to come as the painting progresses.

I've got mine, now you can get yours too.

Mens', Womens' and childrens' sizes. Both Mens' and Womens' shirts available in either black or green.

http://sciencetarot.spreadshirt.com/

Logan, one of the Creators of the Science Tarot sent out a little news to the rest of our group today about a very nice write up on Geek O System site:

http://www.geekosystem.com/science-tarot-cards/


and also "Tarot Today" a twitter feed for all things tarot, tweeted about this article.
http://twitter.com/TarotNewsToday


whee! :)

I'm the artist responsible for painting the suit of Wands, and have been working with these amazing folks for a year and a half now. I heard a few days ago that we just confirmed the date for our official launch party! (official text follows)

"Join us for a drink a dance and a science chat!
View the original artwork on display in the gallery and chat with the artists!
Receive your own personal Science Tarot reading from experienced readers!
Enjoy the masquerades of Velocity Circus!"

come celebrate the release of the deck into the world with us!

:)

For the second time I'm honored to be invited to participate in the Florence Bienale in Florence, Italy!

www.florencebiennale.org

The 8th Edition of the event will be held Dec of 2011. I really appreciate the much advanced notice, as the entry fee alone for this event is nearly $5000, not including airfare and accommodations.

Due to the steep fee I was not able to attend in Dec 2009, but I am hoping to be able to attend in 2011. From now until the June of 2011 entry deadline, 50% of the proceeds from the sale of my prints or original paintings will go toward the entry fee.

Want to help a struggling artist step out of Marin and onto the world stage? Show your support by purchasing either prints or original artwork from my FineArt America gallery:

www.janelle-schneider.artistwebsites.com