Love Blocks Hate Art Fundraiser

Most of the blocks have been submitted for the LOVE Blocks Out Hate fundraiser on Friday, May 2, 6:30-9:30pm at the Fullerton Museum Center. See you there.

Free Eggs?

Yes, just in time, Tim & Co. launched their annual Easter Egg Hunt via the Fullerton Loves Food Facebook page, where you can access the info if you are a member of the group. If you are not, sign up if you like, which is also free of course. Winners who find the eggs win a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant, so head to the page now.

Attn: FC and FCJ Alum

It may be in the same part of town, but it won’t be the same place. Not when the new Performing Arts Center opens in a few years. Twenty-six students attended in 1913 when Fullerton College opened classes on the High School campus as a two-year postgraduate school. It expanded to the 14-acre campus in 1936 and became known as Fullerton Junior College, or “The JC” as we knew it until it was known as Fullerton Community College, and now, full circle, it’s known as Fullerton College.

Junior has grown up, and the community remains.  In 2014, a bond measure passed, and the North Orange County Community College District was awarded $574 million in funding. The mystery of what was going on at Commonwealth and Lemon was solved in a past issue. The new Performing Arts Center is in the early stages of taking shape. So, take a good look at the new building that will mean Fullerton College is certainly not the same place, propelling the arts forward for all who choose to attend in the near future.

ART

Some changes are good, and some maybe not so good, but our neighbor to the north, Brea, certainly hit on a great idea, and that is public art. We recently noticed this one, which livens up an otherwise fairly common modern-style development. Whether you think it is art or not, is up to you of course. It seems perhaps there has been a puzzling artistic judgment there recently. More on that in a minute.

Here in Fullerton, we have always honored artists, AKA those who create a visual object or experience through an expression of skill or imagination. We hold performance art, as in acting, dance, music and theater, and our share of talented painters, sculptors, photographers and others in pretty high regard. For some examples of local art, we stepped inside Premier Bank on Commonwealth and Malden and revisited the many Tony Trasport paintings that line the walls.

Steve Metzger, Desert Center Cafe

Tony Trasport, Orange Trees

So what just happened in Brea, where three local artists’ works were rejected from the “Made in California” show there? Art is all about rejection, just ask Garfunkel. No problem, Fullerton loves ‘em all, so from April 26 through May 31, you can see what Brea does not want you to see at Pilgrims Coffeehouse, 124 W Wilshire, with an even cooler title, “Salon des Refuses.”

The opening will be on April 26 from 3 to 6pm, and you can gaze at the art, dig a specialty grilled cheese sandwich, and meet and greet Denise, Paul, and Steve. In the end, they are not bothered, just translate the title and you will understand.

Photo Quiz

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Last time: Some of you told us you missed this one, but not Carol, who went online and was the first to recognize the vantage point as the Wilshire Parking structure, with the Museum Center dome lined up in front of the Fullerton High School Auditorium dome.  Wanna help keep this paper going? Subscribe to the print edition, and advertise your business. Many still really dig the paper version of the paper.

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