About Us
Each month the membership meets to socialize and receive information about
activities, art shows and art gallery news. Well known guest artists demonstrate
their unique painting styles in a variety of media. Many other arts related
activities are scheduled throughout the year. For specifics about upcoming
demonstrators, check our Calendar page.
hree qualified judges jury each show. All entries are shown in
the gallery and Historical Old Grapevine Park Plaza during the shows.
All award winning entries are displayed in the Gallery for a month after
the art shows. Many other special art shows are featured throughout the
year.
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Featured artist exhibitions are displayed in the gallery eight months out of the year with “Meet the Artist” receptions. If you wish to make arrangements to rent the gallery for your own show or to hang a painting or two, come in and talk to a gallery director. |
Published monthly, it includes art happenings, member news, special events
and biographical data about the featured artist and the demonstration
artist for the monthly general meeting. Current and past newsletters may
be downloaded on our news page.
A youth category is featured during our Spring Art Show to encourage art
students under eighteen to enter. Awards are given.
Classes are available to members and the public and are held in the art
gallery studio by professional instructors for nominal fees. If you are
interested in attending an art class contact the gallery director and
ask for a list of classes with phone numbers.
A master artist-teacher gives a critique of your artwork on the last Sunday
of each month at 1:00 p.m.
This manual is open to members who want their résumés available
for reference.
The San Gabriel Fine Arts Association was founded in 1965 and incorporated in 1966 to foster the education and appreciation of traditional fine art, to encourage its artist members to exhibit their works and to further their artistic abilities, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association maintains a non-profit gallery near the historic Mission San Gabriel District with its famous old grapevine court, community playhouse and Mission San Gabriel complex.
The Art Guild, which was the predecessor to the present Association,
opened the doors of a vacated bank building on February 17, 1935 with
1000 cheering community members and famous artists. World War II led to
the demise of the Art Guild, but a group of artists continued meeting
and painting together while dreaming of reopening a gallery. The gallery-bank
building returned to an Art Center Gallery in 1966 by the members of San
Gabriel Fine Arts Association.
Among the first exhibitors at the gallery were such notables as Norman
Rockwell, Frank Tenney Johnson and the US Navy chroniclers Arthur Beaumont
and Sam Hyde Harris, Los Angeles Times sketch artists Charles Owens, Clyde
Forsythe and Jack Wilkinson Smith, Karl Albert, Don Toigo, Constance Marlow,
Lester Bonar, Rosita Tseu, Lloyd Mitchell and Darwin Duncan.
The San Gabriel Fine Arts Association has, with over 150 members, both the scope and size that enables it to provide many benefits to member artists and the San Gabriel Valley community.