ART WALKERS
TOUR EXPERIENCE
Get ready for a perfect experience, filled with art and culinary delights!
Join us for the exclusive event of the month.
📅 Date: February 16 and 17, 2024
🕕 Event schedule: From 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
📍 Location : Lake Chapala Area
Participating Art Galleries and Art Studios from the Ajijic area.
(see MAP of each location)
🎨 ARTISTS AND STUDIOS 🎨
interactive map click on this link
or detailed information below.
-Brian Sholdt
ART STUDIO
Independencia #33
Casita 14
AJIJIC
MAP:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ux49KDYrkAHJnie2A
Cell phone number: 509-341-4610 US.
e-mail: briansholdt1@gmail.com
Web Site: briansholdt.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/brian.sholdt.7?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/briansholdt?igsh=MTMxZGJvZ2s5NmxoZw==
"After 41 years of bringing his art to the jewelry industry, Brian is following his passion of painting. He always had an appreciation for cultivated things. The encouragement from his parents to draw came from his mother enjoying sketching and his father designing and building homes. He spent his childhood on his dad’s job sites, savoring the smell of freshly sawn wood.
When he turned 13, Brian began working as a delivery boy in his grandfather’s jewelry shop in downtown Seattle. He was immediately immersed in the world of jewelry manufacturing. He drew jewelry designs during lunch and in the evenings. He realized that making things filled a place in his heart like nothing else. After college he decided to use his professional jewelry skills to be a jewelry designer. He won several AGTA Spectrum awards and a Debeers Diamonds Today award. He eventually took over ownership of Sholdt Design. However, in the back of his mind, he still wanted to do 2-D art. Brian realized that jewelry was a technical trade/craft and art is more expressive activity that requires using ones depth of character to enter the stage.
Sholdt Design is now owned by Brian’s daughter Kalee, a 4th generation fine jewelry design firm and manufacturer that sells to boutiques nation wide. The showroom is located in the Old Rainier Brewery in SODO Seattle. His long engagement in the jewelry field was the experience he needed to prepare for being a full time artist. Life experience is a gift that vastly expands an artist’s depth. In his mind, having an end game and creating a new road map to artistic success recharged his drive."
Brian Sholdt
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
- Xill Fessenden
VISION STUDIO
Independencia #27
Ajijic Center.
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/x3GRALTXyf6MMkL39
Email : xxfessenden@yahoo.com
Mobile phone number : 3311405659
Art photography
Xill Fessenden & Rebecca Ford
Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/xill.fessenden ?mibextid=ZbWKwL
"Mexican photographer, social activist, installation artist and event producer has lived in Ajijic 39 years. Her consciousness and perspective of art has evolved as much from her experience in the communities of Mexico as from her roots north of the border. Her unique perspective and creativity has flourished with exhibitions and collections in major galleries and museums in Mexico City, Guadalajara, San Miguel, Tepic, Oaxaca, Michoacan and Colima. She also has exhibited in San Francisco, New Mexico, Colorado, and Massachusetts. Her connection to the local community and the contemporary ecological crisis has emphatically influenced her artistic career towards the integration of art forms that propel a shifting consciousness towards a peaceful, inclusive world of peoples, cultures and nature."
- Pat Apt
RABBIT IN THE MOON
Ocampo street #174 G
Between the Six Corners and Río Bravo (Casa Linda).
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DtEqK8xdk7vfFy6J7
e-mail address: patapt22@hotmail.com
Cell phone number : 33 3181 5685
Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/pat.apt22?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Mia Pratt
MIA PRATT FINE ARTS GALLERY
16 de Septiembre street #53 A
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/d7BcUBZYVAhQLZ3E9
E-mail : miapratt1@gmail.com
Web Site:
https://www.miaprattfineart.com
Facebook :
https:// www.facebook.com/miaprattfineartgallery?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Victor Alcazar
ART GALLERY
Calle 16 de Septiembre # 26 crosses with Nicolás Bravo
Ajijic Jalisco.
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GsS4PatjN2FxsKUh9
Cell phone number : 3319650123
Email: portalacceso@yahoo.com
Art available:
http://victoralcazartforsale.blogspot.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook. com/ajijicartgallery
- Stephen Foreman
ART STUDIO
Calle de las Penas# 313
ChulaVista Golf Course
2 blocks north of the Carretera
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CBRabTmewAeCr1RS6
Cell phone number : 3327983710
Facebook :
https:// www.facebook.com/stephen.foreman3?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Abstract acrylic artist and Reiki healer .
"Learn How Stevieji, an Artist, Reinvented Himself Creatively and Spiritually
Stevieji grew up in a modest home in Toronto. He graduated from Dentistry in his early 20’s, married and had two daughters. He lived a normal suburban life with all the trimmings. However, he always felt there was something missing. He was searching for something more meaningful.
With encouragement from his family, he sought to discover a more spiritual way of life. He became self-empowered with the study of Reiki. Stevieji traveled the world finding likeminded individuals and spent time in spiritual retreats where he found a more fulfilling way of life. At one of the retreats his senses were awakened with a form of art that he never thought he could create.
This form of art, sculpting, became a means to self-healing and personal introspection. With the use of meditation and yoga he was able to relax his mind, reflect and visualize turning a piece of stone into a work of love and beauty."
While attending art studios in Canada, United States and Mexico he discovered yet another form of self-examination through abstract art. Stevieji fell in love with the creative energy that was produced while experimenting with colour, shapes and various unusual tools. His early abstracts were dark and foreboding. However, as the years progressed his paintings took on a new life of lightness, serenity, and pleasure."
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
-Judy Miller
Original Pastel Paintings
Carretera Poniente # 118
Villa Nova
West Ajijic
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KGLpo1piEvmrKsSy8
Cell phone : 3319921601
Website:
judy@judymillerart.com
-Glenda Rogers
GLENDA'S GALLERY
Ocampo #169
West Ajijic
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FSX2CDUCmHcAvryt7
E-mail: gr4trad@gmail.com
Cell phone number +1 720-216-7106
Website:glenda-rogers.pixels.com
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/glenda.s.gallery.2023?mibextid=ZbWKwL
"I have been an artist for decades in various media forms, so when we moved to Mexico almost 5 years ago I saw an opportunity to turn a portion of my house into my studio. Painting is not simply an outlet for creativity, but an extension of who I am and a expression of healing for the many experiences in my life. As a result, my paintings most often reflect love, joy, and peace in the hope that they become transcendent as they bring healing to others."
Glenda Rogers
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
-Larry Boisjolie
ART STUDIO
Privada Francisco I. Madero #260 B
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gNcXHGEdyrX7nk756
Cell phone number: 3329991329
Email: lawrenceboisjolie@yahoo.com
ART GALLERY
Carretera Poniente #11 A-1
https://www.facebook.com/noel.chalez?mibextid=ZbWKwL
"I worked for a long time in all kinds of jobs and I realized that I didn't like working at it and I left it, now I haven't worked for more than 10 years, I only dedicate myself to painting.
I don't call myself an artist, but rather a painter who accidentally discovers art in his paintings."
Noel Chalez
ART WALKERS EVENT
inspiring
-Jesús V. López Vega
AXIXIC ART GALLERY
Ocampo street # 200 &
Rio Zula street #1
Ajijic
Cell phone: 3311038380
e-mail: ajijicje@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jesusvictoriano.lopezvega?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/jesusvictorianolopezvega?igsh=MTUzczRrcmRlazIwbg==
"Jesús Victoriano López Vega was born in Ajijic in 1962, a self-taught painter who began painting at the age of 7, in the Children's Painting Workshop of the Ajijic Public Library, founded in 1954 by benefactor Neill James Campbell.
His experiences with indigenous communities have left him a source of inspiration. He has group and individual exhibitions inside and outside the country. He has collaborated in his community as a volunteer member in the Children's Painting Workshop from 1994 to 2023, in the “Lake Chapala Society”. He co-founded, among other painters and sculptors, the Ajijic Cultural Center."
Jesus Lopez Vega
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
Gabriel Lara
Manos libres Open studio
Carretera Oriente # 7
Ajijic
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/qDDiqRtFaD7TVvWbA
Cell phone: 3317850667
e-mail: gabowin12@gmail.com Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ManosLibresOpenStudioChapalaLake?mibextid=2JQ9oc
"I am 34 years old and my story as an artist began from a very young age.
When I was approximately 7 years old I really liked to see the drawings that my older brother's best friend made, so with the little I could save I bought pencils and notebooks to draw, and that's how I started my artistic career.
Since then I haven't separated a day from arts and crafts!
I was never the smartest child in school, but I always excelled in my art subjects, all my notebooks were full of drawings that I made to be able to pay attention in class, something that none of my teachers could understand.
My attention deficit was controlled and I could focus whether my hands were working or drawing.
I never wanted to study in my art course, I always learned self-taught, going from acrylics to watercolors, then colors, pastels, charcoal, Indian ink, oil, etc.
It was all so new and disturbing to me!
At the age of 19 I entered the Franciscan order and stayed there until I was 25 years old!
There I made what for me has been my masterpiece, a painting in the choir of the Zapopan basilica that measures more than 24 squared meters.
Leaving the seminary, I began my artistic study and my formal teaching as a teacher of plastic arts.
To date I have opened 5 cultural centers, of which Mazamitla, Ajijic and Manzanilla de la Paz are still open.
I consider myself a son of the Sierra del Tigre and I feel a strong commitment to sharing my knowledge with all the people who need it.
I have discovered that service in arts teaching is my true vocation."
Gabriel Sanchez Lara
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
-Paul Osadchuk
Photographer
Home Gallery
Las Malvas 39
Mirasol street
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5KdTrQTdpfV1LUi58
Cell phone number
33 21 71 58 87
e-mail:
plok1317@hotmail.com
Website:
“I was inspired by a dear friend to pursue an art expression after he introduced me to photography. At the time I was studying Education and Geography at York University, Toronto, Canada. I then switched to and Majored in Fine Arts. I studied under two notable professors, Michael Semak and Shin Sugino. During my years at university, I received a number of awards from Ontario Arts Council.
I have been a member of Gallery 44, an artist-run photo gallery in Toronto Canada since 1978. I was one of the founding members of. Resolution Art Gallery in Toronto, Canada.
Since graduating in 1978, I have exhibited my photographs around the world. These include places, like Canada, Europe, Australia, Peru and here in Mexico.
Over the years I have I have concentrated my efforts and passion in doing landscapes, documentary like El Camino Frances in Spain, abstract art and World Heritage Sites.
In recent years, technology has shifted my focus from black-and-white photography to digital colour. My eye continues to capture and seek out images as they dance in front of me.”
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
-Antonio Lopez Vega
La Cochera Cultural
Javier Mina street 49
Ajijic
MAP
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ihu1RYaeMVb5r1Tc8
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/antonio.lopezvega.5?mibextid=2JQ9oc
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/antonio_ajijic?igsh=MXNhdWJkdmJocGJ3bA==
"Antonio was born in Ajijic Jalisco, in the Ribera de Chapala in 1953.
In 1969 he attended the libraries and workshops of Neill James, at the School of Arts and Crafts, Axixic.
He migrated in 1972, and entered the Allende Institute, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
He acquires a degree in Plastic Arts.
In 1980 he participated in the Chichen-Itzá project, Yucatán, at the INAH(National Institute of Anthropology and History). In 1983 he went to Mexico City, where he participated in several exhibitions and in 1985 he was awarded the National Salon prize, painting section. In 1985 he joined the Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante" INBA cultural center as a painting teacher. San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato. In 1986 he taught painting workshops to benefit disabled and low-income children, in the ESTUDIarte program in collaboration with Mrs. Siobhon Bryne. He is the father of three beautiful daughters.
Today the artist resides in La Cochera Cultural, visual arts.
1985~ Violent space (painting collective)
INBA CDMX Modern Art Museum.
1986~ Confrontation 86 (collective) Palace of Fine Arts INBA CDMX.
1986~ Looking for the form (individual) National Auditorium INBA CDMX.
1988~ Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Rufino Tamayo Museum CDMX.
Art and culture forum. Guadalajara Jalisco, México.
Cc González Gallo
Chapala Jalisco, México.
Cca Axixic
Ajijic Jalisco México."
Antonio Lopez Vega
ART WALKERS EVENT
Inspiring
ELEGANTE RESTAURANT
🍷🍽️💃🏻During the event, an open menu will be offered exclusively on food (the promotion does not apply to drinks) with a 15% discount for all art walkers by presenting their ticket/map when paying at the Restaurant cashier, on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th with the hours from 12 noon to 7 pm.
Address: Calle Constitución # 59, Ajijic.
☎️ 376 7661066
WhatsApp:
Ticket/map for the art walkers tour.
🎟️ Tickets/map will be on sale starting Friday, February 16, and Saturday, February 17, 2024 at each artist location at a cost of $ 50 Mexican pesos per person at the entrance on both days of the event.
In exchange, you will receive 1 Ticket/Map
that you must show at the entrance to the galleries and art studios and also to access the special promotion at the Elegant Restaurant.
Important:
It is suggested to pay with the exact amount for the purchase of your ticket/map.
!Congratulations!
YOU ARE NOW AN ART WALKER!
Gather your friends, we'll create memories over art and savor the moment together!
FREQUENT ANSWER QUESTIONS (FAQ)
WHAT IS AN ART WALK?
It is a personal visit to the studios and galleries of local and foreign artists.
WHAT IS AN ART WALKER?
An art walker is a person interested in the artistic experience of the town of Ajijic who will find new opportunities to learn about diverse topics and especially those that nourish an intercultural experience.
IS THE ART WALK AN ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS?
We are not an artists' association, although most artists belong to one or more associations, so it is not necessary to establish a new group of artists.
WHY IS THIS ART WALK ONLY FOR ARTISTS WITH THEIR OWN GALLERY OR STUDIO AND NOT FOR ARTISTS WHO EXHIBIT THEIR WORKS TOGETHER?
The main reason is that they meet the artists in their personal spaces of creation and exhibition; We want the experience of visiting an artist to be so interesting and unique that it generates emotions and sensations in those attending the event, and so art walkers can interact with the artists to have a pleasant experience.
WHAT IS THE PAYMENT OF THE 50 MEXICAN PESOS FOR AND WHO IS THAT MONEY FOR?
To continue supporting artists in immediate or future artistic projects.
DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT?
Call or send a message to Víctor Alcázar
email: portalacceso@yahoo.com
WHAT IS THE LINK TO THIS BLOG?
https://artwalkersexperience.blogspot.com/2024/02/english.html?m=1
Event organized by Victor Alcázar Art Studio for artistic, tourist and cultural purposes. Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. 2024
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ART CONNECTION
Art supplies & Gallery
Centro Laguna Mall
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