Southern California Plein Air Painters Association (SOCALPAPA) presents an Outdoor Display and Sales Show

Saturday and Sunday,
April 4 and 5, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

In the Central Courtyard

View beautiful artwork by 60 members of the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association. Also on display is the Annual SOCALPAPA members Juried show presented in the Soldiers Barracks Gallery.

The Southern California Plein Air Painters Association, founded in January 2000, was first known as "The Friday Group". The original group of painters met in a landscape-painting course at Irvine Valley College in August of 1999. At the end of the course, they decided to continue to meet weekly and paint the landscape in and around Orange County. By February of 2001, the group had grown to 50 members, and formally became known as the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association (SOCALPAPA), representing the locale of the membership. The current membership is over 250 with members in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado as well as throughout California.

The Mission show is a juried exhibition of sixty plein air landscape paintings by members of SOCALPAPA. Judges will be present during the reception evening on April 4th to announce their decisions for award winning pieces.

All paintings on display are for sale throughout the length of the exhibition, and many of the artists will be present at the Mission on the evening of the reception. In addition, 25% of the proceeds from each piece sold will be donated by that artist towards Mission preservation.

Photographs courtesy of:
Albert Roy Stanchfield, (949) 279-1795