Local artist takes second place in competition
Carole Belliveau, a local artist, took second place for two
versions of the landscape
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Old Barn in San Juan Bautista,
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in the small to large show open at the David Henry Gill Gallery
at the Pacific Grove Art Center.
Local artist takes second place in competition
Carole Belliveau, a local artist, took second place for two versions of the landscape “Old Barn in San Juan Bautista,” in the small to large show open at the David Henry Gill Gallery at the Pacific Grove Art Center.
The show features artist members of the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association. The show will be open through Sept. 1. The gallery is located at Lighthouse Ave., in Pacific Grove. Admission is free.
The association’s show illustrates the artists’ process of creating a small plein air study on site and then using that instead of photographs as a color and form reference to create a larger, more sophisticated version of the scene.
Belliveau developed her skills at the Parsons School of Design and as worked as an international award-winning designer. When she moved to the West Coast, “the brilliant and endless variety of high key colors so characteristic of California rekindled her original desire to be a fine art painter,” she wrote in a press release. She returned to school to get a BFA at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
She created a series of paintings for the Federal Courthouse in Salinas, “The Work We Do,” which celebrates the beauty of the world’s most productive agricultural region as well as the daily lives of the people who live and work in Steinbeck country. Her scenes of rural San Benito County have also been featured at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital.
Belliveau is a member of Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, the Portrait Society of America and the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association.
For more information, visit www.CaroleBelliveau.com.
Marcel Neto graduates from infantry training
Army Pvt. Marcel V. Neto has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The training consists of Basic Infantry Training and Advanced Individual Training.
During the nine weeks of basic combat training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons employment, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid skills, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experienced use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.
The Advanced Individual Training course is designed to train infantry soldiers to perform reconnaissance operations; employ, fire and recover anti-personnel and anti-tank mines; locate and neutralize land mines and operate target and sight equipment; operate and maintain communications equipment and radio networks; construct field firing aids for infantry weapons; and perform infantry combat exercises and dismounted battle drills, which includes survival procedures in a nuclear, biological or chemical contaminated area.
Neto is the nephew of Jose and Vickey Vargas, of Tierra Del Sol, in Hollister.
The private graduated in the year 2000 from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley.
Angelo Hudson receives scholarship
Angelo Hudson, a flute, piano and alto sax player who plans to attend Menlo College, in Atherton, received a scholarship from the Thirsty Nine Plus, a German band. The group is more than 40 years old and started with a small group of nine members that has now grown.
The purpose of the group is to play German music at private parties and Oktoberfest events. All the proceeds go to a scholarship fund for students who are about to enter college and plan to continue to play music.
The scholarship committee seeks out music directors of schools throughout Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties to assist in the selection process.
For more information about the scholarship or the Thristy Nine Plus band, call 334-0999.
Gavilan College students earn honors
Computer graphic and design students from Gavilan College, including two San Benito residents, and their instructor won awards for mechanical and architectural drawings. Their projects will be displayed at the California State Fair’s Industrial and Technology Education Exhibit.
Sarah Holmes, of San Juan Bautista, an advanced CGD student, received a First Place Rosette for her 3-D renderings of a nose-activated drinking bowl for horses and breakaway stirrups to prevent injury. Her inventions reflect her passion for design and insights she acquired over the years while caring for her own horses.
Aida Hurtado, of Hollister, is a reentry student who is developing technical skills while transitioning to a new career in landscape architecture. Photorealistic interior and exterior renderings of the environmentally friendly home she designed using Revit Building Information Modeling (BIM) were honored with a second place rosette.
The Gavilan College Computer Graphics & Design students and their instructor, Colette Marie McLaughlin, are being honored by the California State Fair with Golden Bear Rosettes and Ribbons for Industrial & Technology Education; their award-winning projects will be on display until July 31 at the Industrial and Technology Education exhibit. State fair judges selected Gavilan College students and their instructor for six honors including two first and two second place rosettes, as well as two honorable mention ribbons.
Realistic renderings of projects designed by Computer Graphics & Design students are being featured at the State Fair Mechanical Drawing Show for Solid Model-Rendering and Computer Aided Design (CAD)-Assembly Pictorial Drawings and State Fair Architectural Show for 3-D rendering drawings. Their division was open to all career technology education students enrolled in California’s 112 community colleges.
McLaughlin expressed much gratitude for the State Fair’s Industrial Technology Education event.
“This competition allows career technology education students to showcase their skills,” she said, in a press release. “It’s great others may see the way students integrate technology while applying academic knowledge as they prepare for high-paid, high-skilled jobs. While it’s a thrill that Gavilan CGD students will be recognized at the State level, it’s even a greater honor to be part of industrial and technology education programs that are focused upon helping students prepare for rewarding careers.”
