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Events, Painting Exhibitions & Santa Barbara Open Studio

Please email or call (805) 452-7717 if you'd like to be on my invitation list or if you'd like a private art studio tour while visiting Santa Barbara.

Kathleen Elsey, Santa Barbara Studio Artist

Opening Reception of Kathleen Elsey's Solo Exhibition with fifty of her paintings.

Art Collectors sit with "Man in Blue" for a happy moment at the reception.

Kathleen Elsey with Divine Inspiration Gallery owners, Sonia Adams and Sherry Spear.

Santa Barbara Open Studio
Saturday & Sunday, July 24 & 25, 2010
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
2 East Pueblo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
I am not participating in the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Tour later this year. However, you are invited to tour my studio and see my paintings on July 24 & 25. You will see a retrospective showing of my work, with paintings (many of which are not for sale) dating from 1998 through 2010. If you can't make it in July, call or email and make an appointment for a studio tour that fits your schedule. Hope to see you.

New Fauves Paint in New Mexico
September 6 through September 11, 2010
I'll be painting in Taos for the week with a few fellow Fauves. You'll see the paintings we make very soon on this website and also at NewFauves.com.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico
"The Spirit of Place"
Plein Air Painters of New Mexico Juried Show
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
Saturday, October 9, 2010 5pm - 7pm
Exhibition runs through November 14, 2010
I will have two paintings in this exhibition. Please visit the museum if you are in the area.

Solo Exhibition "Brush with Life"
July 1 through August 28, 2009
Artist Reception Saturday, July 18
Divine Inspiration Gallery
(805) 962-6444
1528 State Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101

National Association of Women Artists
120th Annual Exhibition
Salmagundi Art Club, New York, NY
Kathleen Elsey's painting "The Writers' Garden" is on it's way to the National Association of Women Artists' 120th Annual Exhibition. The exhibition runs May 11th through May 29 with a reception and awards presentation May 17th from 1pm - 4pm. The Salmagundi Art Club is located at 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Elsey has been an award-winning signature member of NAWA since 2001. Earlier exhibitions of the National Association of Women Artists included works by the notable artists Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon, and Cecelia Beaux, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Louise Nevelson, and Dorothy Dehner.