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I will be exhibiting in the Art of the Park Show in the Marston House and Gardens on August 16 and September 20.

I attach a note from Save Our Heritage Organization, San Diego regarding this prestigious event:

“We continue to celebrate the centennial with the fifth of six outdoor plein air painting shows exhibited on the Marston House's sweeping, shaded grounds on Sunday, August 16 from 10am to 4pm at the Marston House Museum & Gardens.

The free event is accompanied by live classical music by various performers throughout the day, and light refreshments are all a part of the festivities.

The Art of the Park show & sale features Balboa Park as their sole subject and includes paintings for sale by different monthly groups of award-winning artists.

Showing, painting, and selling their work on August 16 are accomplished painters Andrea Gaye, Catherine Grawin, Krentz Johnson, Margaret Larlham, Rita Pacheco, Dot Renshaw, and Grace Schlesier. All of our artists are by invitation only and chosen for the special affinity they have expressed for painting Balboa Park and its historic buildings and gardens. These centennial works will be highly sought after to enjoy today, but also as a future collector pieces, much like the original art shown at the 1915 exposition.

Inside the Marston House Museum, a major centennial exhibition Art of the Park: 100 Years of Art in the Park (1915-2015) traces portraits of the park with 70 works of seldom-seen plein air paintings by well-known and nearly "lost" San Diego artists over many decades. Interspersed with these captivating paintings on loan from private and public collections, are sparkling contemporary works done en plein air by some of today's best regional painters. The accompanying catalog includes brief artists' biographies, color reproductions of all the artworks and contributes insights into the distinguished lineage of San Diego plein air painters. Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $7 for children ages 6-12, and free to children 5 years and under. SOHO members are always free.”

These exhibitions are part of SOHO's year-long celebration of the Centennial of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. For more information and a complete calendar of events, visit www.SOHOsandiego.org.