Artist Spotlight: Wendy Jann & Jennifer Sutman
Wendy Jann - left, Jennifer Sutman - right
After long time friends and tennis partners, Wendy Jann and Jennifer Sutman learned of the Conejo Cottontails project, they quickly decided to work together. They pooled their talents with Jen's keen eye for color and Wendy's skill in plaster. The two determined to decorate their cottontail in lime plaster in the Fresco style of the Old Masters while capturing the colors and beauty found in the sunsets and terrain of the Conejo Valley.
The next time you see a cottontail nibbling at your flowers with the glow of the sunset on his back, they hope you think of their sculpture, "Coniglio al Tramonto" (Rabbit in the Sunset).
Extracurricular Art Exhibition
Conejo's on KCLU!
We had a special guest at the Art Trek studio last week! KCLU news director, Lance Orozco stopped by to interview our director, Nan Young about the Conejo Public Art Project - Conejo Cottontails! One of our featured artists and maker of the original cottontail maquette, Cate Hartenstein, was also at the studio working on her groovy Cottontail Sculpture!
Tune in tomorrow morning to listen to the interview on KCLU!
7:45am & 8:45am
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102.3 FM Santa Barbara
Listen Online at KCLU.ORG
photos by Steve Teeple
Artist Notification
Thank you to everyone who entered to participate in the Conejo Cottontails Conejo Pubic Art Project. All the artists from the first round have been notified. Be on the look-out for Cottontails invading the valley in 2016.
Artist Spotlight : Hessam Abrishami
Hessam brought his artistic interpretive view to the cottontail project. Hessam’s Conejo Cottontail was inspired by the evolving nature of animals.
- Modern sensibilities have made animals more human like. Pets and animals world-wide are trained to perform and humor us with tricks like circus animals. We expect them to evolve with us like fast paced machines and technology. As we anthropomorphize them, dress them, train them for our convenience we pull them with us in a more human direction that is less humane - pulling them away from their true animal nature.
