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4A Daily News – Thursday, October 11, 2012 Pastimes Shipley, a well-known professional, is Red Bluff Art Association's artist of the month for October. "With her incredible, unlimited imagination Libby is a well of fun and creativity which she freely shares," Association President Connie Maxey. Libby was born and raised in Kenosha, Wis- consin. Her mother intro- duced her to making visu- al expressions. But it has been the unwavering sup- port and love of both her sister, Sara Reiter, and her life partner and husband, Bill Bridgehouse, who continued to encourage her art process. affirms Arts & entertainment Shipley named Artist of the Month Quasquicentennial Concert Elizabeth (Libby) She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she majored in painting, drawing and printmaking. It was an enriching pro- gram as each semester, by train, the entire art depart- ment went to Chicago to see the major art exhibi- tions at the world-class Chicago Art Institute. Besides the permanent collections, some of the traveling shows featured Edward Hopper, Claude Monet, George Seurat, and Georgia O'Keefe, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh. Libby has always had a desire to explore and experiment. During this period she took the canvas off the stretchers, adding dimension and exhibiting them on the floor. Libby states , "I had an inclusive art education involving other disciplines: music, dance and theater. The elements of art and com- position supporting con- Red Bluff Garden Club Is Brewing Up "A Bewitching Affair" Program & Luncheon Featuring Floral Design House of Design Sat., Oct. 27, 2012 Carlino's Event Ctr., Rolling Hills Casino Kate Gleim Reserved Tickets $25.00 Last date to purchase is October 16, 2012 SOLD OUT! Tickets: Kathy 527-9403 Diane 824-5661 House of Design 909 Jefferson St. Red Bluff tent and concept were paramount in my educa- tion--a premise that is, in my opinion, the core of art making." and was selected to attend the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, in sculp- ture. Here she earned both a MA and a MFA. She studied with Peter Voulkos, Jim Melchert, Joan Brown and Marilyn Levine. At Cal, her con- ceptual art thrived. She articulated her concepts into performance pieces and site-specific installa- tions. Her medium was herself, newspapers and other recyclable or found materials. Libby says that this is still the work that gives her the greatest joy. Presently, she has com- pleted or is in the process of completing several col- laborative works, such as "The Lasso Trail," "The Blue Haired Old Ladies Intensified," and "Redac- tive Spreading the Word." In 1974, she applied Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, in partner- ship with the city of Red- ding Community Services Downtown Red Bluff Business Association & Many Business Community Co-Sponsors bring to you Appreciation Breakfast Veteran's 8am to Noon Nov. 11th Veteran's Memorial Hall Oak & Jackson St. in RB Plus a Peppy Patriotic Program with live entertainment Complementary to Veterans, Non-Veteran tickets $5.00 each Tickets are available at the Gold Exchange, Sugar Shack Café, Tremont Café, Crystal Art & Apparel, and at the door. Call 528-8000 for more information Professional Nail Services Grand Opening 492 Antelope Blvd. 20% off walk-ins welcome with this ad 530•527•2786 Mon.-Sat. 9am-7pm In addition, she enjoys drawing on her iPad, using it to combine draw- ing and photographs with special effects. Libby's other great love is travel. Her jour- neys have taken her throughout Mexico and Europe to see the origi- nals from cave paintings to the latest on-site exhi- bitions. Her feeling is that everyone's contribution to making art is valuable. In 1989 Libby relocat- ed her art studio, shop and home to Tehama County. (She recently found out that her great-great grand- father, George Washing- ton Wright, was regis- tered to vote here in Red Bluff, in 1888.) taught mixed media and portraiture at Shasta Community College, Red Bluff Campus. Libby is currently artist-in-resi- dence at Chico's Has Beans Creekside. Her art is collected throughout the USA, Mexico and She Department, will host a free public presentation about California landscape painters by Jay Daar at 6 Europe. She also enjoys collecting regional art of the tri-counties. Libby's works will be displayed during the Tehama Coun- ty Art Council Art Walk in downtown Red bluff, Friday, November 2nd and Saturday, Nov. 3. Libby states, "I am proud to be an artist. Through art, I continue to create my own path and help others illuminate theirs. I can be contacted at esbp2012@gmail.com for commissions, sales, art consultation, and individual or group art experiences." RBAA, bringing art opportunities, education and enrichment to the North Valley, meets 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays at the Snug Harbor Mobile Home Park Recre- ation Room, 600 Rio Vista Ave. in Red Bluff. For information call 527- 4810 or write RBAA, P.O. Box 944, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Also, see the web- site redbluffartists.com. Whiskeytown artist presents landscapes p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10 in the Community Room at Redding City Hall. Daar's presentation, "California Landscapes" will highlight the history and diversity of landscape painting, and feature her own work completed during the 2012 Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Artist in Residence pro- gram. City Hall is at 777 Cypress Ave. in Redding. From Interstate 5, exit on Cypress Avenue west and travel about 1 mile to City Hall. The Community Room is across the breeze- way on the left side of the main entrance. For more information, call Sean Denniston at 242- 3445. CSU, Chico continues its year-long 125th anniversary celebration with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble's fall semester concert, aptly titled "Quasquicentennial," Sat- urday, Nov. 3 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Harlen Adams Theatre. For Quasquicentennial, Chico State's premier band ensemble will perform music from the past 125 years, noted Director/Conductor Royce Tevis, Department of Music and Theatre faculty member. "We thought it would be fun to perform music that coincid- ed with Chico State's quasqui- centennial, or its 125th anniversary," said Tevis. The Wind Ensemble is the elite performance group of the Chico State band program. Members of the Wind Ensemble are highly select and multitalented musicians who are challenged to create music at the highest of artistic levels. The 48-member group is made up of musicians who play wind and per- cussion instruments, specifically trumpet, clarinet, saxo- phone, low-brass instruments — French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, etc. — flute, snare drum, bass drum, cymbal, and timpani. Joining in the Quasquicentennial celebration will be special guest artists Rocky Winslow, trumpet, and Danielle Silviera, voice. Winslow, a Department of Music and Theatre faculty member, is described by Tevis as "our trumpeter extraor- dinaire." He will be featured in Jean-Baptiste Arban's Italian folk tune, "Carnival of Venice." "Most people know Rocky as the director of the Jazz X-Press, our jazz band," said Tevis. "They don't know that before he got into jazz he was a classically trained trumpet player. The piece he will be performing is very challenging — it has a lot of articulation and fast parts with lots of extreme variations. You know you have made it as a trumpet player when you can play this kind of work." Silviera, a Chico State voice student, will be featured (without microphone) in two opera arias. "She definitely has the 'pipes' for these works," noted Tevis. "The audience will love her warm, rich voice." Also on tap will be Richard Wagner's "Huldigungs- marsch," a composition for band the composer did while he was in a self-imposed exile in Vienna to escape debts and a relationship gone sour. "Wagner wrote this in homage to King Ludwig II, the 19-year old King of Bavaria before he went mad," said Tevis. "He wanted Wagner to come back to live in Prus- sia so he got rid of all his debts and set him up in living quarters. He told him he would, 'Lift life's menial bur- dens from your shoulders so that you will be able to unfurl the mighty pinions of your genius.'" In homage to Halloween, which occurs the Wednes- day before the "Quasquicentennial" concert, the Sym- phonic Wind Ensemble will perform "Incantation and Dance" by John Barnes Chance, a composition about incantations being uttered and spirits being released. "When the music gets to the part where the spirits arrive, the band lets go with a little craziness — espe- cially the percussion section led by Michael Taylor play- ing various percussion instruments," noted Tevis. "They are playing written music but it still sounds pretty chaot- ic." Another interesting work that will be performed is "Scenes from Louvre," a work specifically written for an NBC IV special produced in 1964. The composer received an Emmy for the score, which features themes from the Renaissance-era . "Musically it is an interesting dichotomy between music from the Renaissance period created with a mod- ern sound," noted Tevis. "Each section of the band is fea- tured independently as well as together." Tevis said he and the musicians in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble are looking forward to presenting Quasquicentennial. "It really represents the music from the different peri- ods of time since our University started — a representa- tion of 125 years of music that would have been played by bands." Advance tickets, at $15 adults, $13 senior citizens, and $6 students/children, are available at the University Box Office, 898-6333; add $2 for tickets purchased at the door. For disability-related seating, call 898-4325.