Venice Art Crawl celebrates their 3rd year anniversary at the Cadillac Hotel and Dudley 9 Gallery in style!

About the Venice Art Crawl: Our goal is to share, inspire and promote collaboration within the Venice community through mixers and art events. Join us by attending, sharing your vision and what inspires you. Our goal is to foster and reinvigorate the creativity that has historically and currently makes Venice such a vibrant and dynamic community. The Venice Art Crawl is a Venice Chamber of Commerce sponsored event. View 08.16.13 VAC anniversary photo highlights below!

A message from the Venice Art Crawl President Michael Mullen:

“The Venice Art Crawl brings Venetians closer. By pairing up artists with local restaurants and galleries we are able to achieve a great deal of awareness in the community. Artists now have a voice with the Venice Art Crawl.”

A message from Venice Art Crawl Co-founder Daniel Samakow

Was it 3 years ago local artists brought a petition to the Venice Task Force complaining about the loss of the boardwalk to commercial vendors and having no place to exhibit anymore? That need sparked the art crawl and now we have pop-up galleries during the art crawls having gained so much notoriety that they have followings and galleries like Cave on AK thriving. 3 years ago the first meeting ( at Canal Club ) was a room full of artists who did not know each other or that each other existed! Now there is no doubt that there is an art community in Venice, here to stay and growing. 3 years ago we did not know if we could keep the art crawl going. Now the quarterly art crawls are the biggest, best received events we’ve ever had with a new group of young artists and supporters leading the way. The VAC is now part of the Venice Chamber and one of the official art conduits for Venice, also bringing art to numerous other events like its presence at the Venice Sign holiday lighting or the monthly mixers. As one of the founders I could not be prouder of Venice for recognizing the importance of art to the soul of our community and for continually supporting the Venice Art Crawl. I’m excited to see the next 3 years.

A message from Venice Art Crawl Co-founder Edizen Stowell

3 years ago the VAC was just an idea, a conversation between Daniel Samakow, Mike Newhouse and myself. Now 36 months later with the help of so many volunteers such as Sunny Bak, Lisa Ramsay, Isabelle Lago, Michael Mullen, Nicole Muyingo, Mark Rojas, David Stine, and many many more…. we have over 30 VAC events under our belt, 7,500 facebook fans, 100’s of artists have showcased their work, people bought art, the Venice artist community has become a family, and more. All the volunteers that continue to put their hearts into this great community event are looking forward to the next chapter for the art crawl.

Get involved with the venice art community! Save the dates for upcoming VAC events Sept. 19 & Dec. 19, 2013. Showcase your art, curate a group show, be a pop up gallery venue, volunteer or be a sponsor. For more info visit www.VeniceArtCrawl.com

Click here to read our anniversary article in the Argonaut Newspaper. By Michael Aushenker

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VENICE ART CRAWL 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:

VAC anniversary organizers Sunny Bak, Edizen Stowell, Nicole Muyingo, David Stine, Lisa Ramsey, Isabelle Alford-Lago, and Michael Mullen

Thank you to the Cadillac Hotel and Dudley 9 Gallery for hosting the Venice Art Crawl’s 3rd year anniversary.

About the Cadillac Hotel: The Cadillac Hotel, a Venice Beach California hotel, NOW HAS ALL RENOVATED ROOMS! We are on the border of Venice and Santa Monica giving you access to the beach, Venice’s cafes, bars and restaurants. www.thecadillachotel.com/

About the 9 Dudley Project: The 9 Dudley project is a collaborative effort between the Ross Akard Gallery and the Cadillac Hotel. The idea is to embrace the history of art and culture in Venice and build on that tradition both in content and production, through high quality exhibition. Join them on facebook!

Thank you to Whole Foods Market Venice for providing the VAC 3rd year birthday cake.

Red carpet and event photography by:
Venice Paparazzi. www.HireVP.com

Featured artists in the cadillac lounge are:
Kelcey Fisher www.kfishla.com/
Jeff Weins www.jeffweins.com/
Matthew Lapenta www.thelapenta.com
James Thompson www./jzlstyle.com/

Live Artists:
Painting named Dunkees. www.dunkees.com
Painting by Jordan Nice. www.thehappeninggallery.com/Jordan_Nice
Silent auction. Portion of the proceeds go to the VAC

Also crate installation by Davis Crates
www.davisvintagecrates.tumblr.com/

Band:
Mojo Stone. www.facebook.com/mojostone

Projections by:
Grant Buckerfield and Mark X Farina. “Series of Venice based time lapse pieces”
www.about.me/grantbuckerfield and www.mxfarina.com

DJ’s:
DJ Dough Boy. www.doughboythedj.com
Petey Pete. www.facebook.com/djoneofus?fref=ts

Food sponsors:
Danny’s Venice. www.dannysvenice.com
Santino’s Venice. www. santinosrestaurants.com
The Terrace Cafe www.theterracecafe.com
La Cellier. www.le-cellier-winebar.com/

Drink sponsors
JustChill. www.drinkjustchill.com

Raffles by:
Skateboard by Arbor Skateboard. www.arborcollective.com
Gift card to Terrace Cafe. www.theterracecafe.com
Gift certificates to Cairo Cowboy www.cairocowboy.com
Venice Beach Bike Tours.
Dinner for 5 with Longevity Cooking Classes

Event coordinated by Sunny Bak, Nicole Muyingo, Lisa Crow and Edizen Stowell.

All posters and branding by VAC board member David Stine.

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EVENT PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS:

Pre party go team hurdle with Vac event organizers Nicole Muyingo, Edizen Stowell, Sunny Bak, Lisa Ramsay and VAC volunteers. Join the Venice Art Crawl volunteer team at [email protected]

Red carpet by Venice Paparazzi. Hire Venice Paparazzi for your next event! www.HireVP.com

Sandra Jeanice Canchola and friend

Right: Jason Smith and friend. Far right – mural by Isabelle Alford-Lago

Cadillac Hotel’s Jordan, Isabelle Alford Lago and Brian of The 9 Dudley Gallery

Ruben of Other Venice Film Festival. Save the date! Oct. 11-13

Beth Allyn

The Terrace Cafe‘s Margarite and Vladamir

The Poem guy!

Art by Isabelle Alford Lago

DJ Petey Pete crate installation by Davis Crates

Thank you for feeding our guests Danny’s Venice, La Cellier, The Terrace Cafe and Santino’s! Play, shop, eat, drink and sleep in Venice!

Thanks you David of Davis Crates

Mojo Stone. www.facebook.com/mojostone

Venice Art Crawl 3rd year anniversary cake provided by Whole Foods Market Venice. The cake was delicious!

Venice Art Crawl board members Lisa Ramsay, Daniel Samakow, Edizen Stowell, David Stein and Sunny Bak. Missing from this photo is Venice Art Crawl President Michael Mullen. Inserting photo of Michael below.

Nicole Muyingo wight Venice Art Crawl president Michael Mullen. You were missed at the party!

Nicole Muyingo, Cadillac Hotel‘s Sris Sinnathamby, Venice Alehouse and Bank of Venice’s Tom Elliot and daughter, and Venice Breeze Suites’ Carl Lambert