Around & About – Happenings around the Peninsula June 2022
+ Pastel Society’s 2022 Top Award Honorees
The 13th annual juried show and exhibition of the Pastel Society of Southern California took place on April 27 at the Promenade on the Peninsula. A total of 75 original pastel masterpieces were submitted to the show, including landscapes, seascapes, portraits, figures, abstracts and still-life’s. While the majority of the artists were local, the juried show also drew national and international submissions. During the show, a live “Quick Draw” was held. Artists created pastels on canvas in front of an audience. Those pieces were donated for an “opportunity drawing.”
“Callie on a Hill,” by Lupe Backe.
Sally Strand won The Carole Kearns Memorial Award for Best of Show for her pastel piece titled “Journey.” It’s a dreamy piece of a man on the beach at sunset, laying on his back, with sunlit scalloped and white opaque clouds above him, and a serene relaxed expression on his face. Other winners included Lupe Backe, who won Gold for her, “Callie on a Hill;” and Kathleen Weil, who earned Gold for moody piece of a group of ladies congregated at what appears to be a coffee house, called KaffeeKlatsch. Visit www.psscwebsite.org to view all the winning art pieces and their respective artists. They are shown on their Blog.
“Journey,” by Sally Strand, earned The Carole Kearns Memorial Award for Best of Show.
+ Help for Ukraine
Nasos Angouras, a junior at Palos Verdes High School, is president of Luna Peak Links. The local youth organization’s mission is to improve the lives of others at home and abroad. He recently met with Post Angeles, a group assembling first aid kits, and shipping them to Ukraine for the frontline soldiers. Angouras reached out to the Greek school at St. Katherine’s Greek Orthodox Church in Redondo Beach, and raised $15,000 for first aid supplies.
To contribute to Luna Peak Links efforts, contact Angouras at nasos28@hotmail.com
+ Tang wins trash can art contest
Montemalaga Elementary School third grade student Dagny Tang won the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches & Harbors 2022 “Can The Trash” Clean Beach art contest. Her drawing, which was selected by the LA County Board of Supervisors, will be published this summer on beach trash cans from Long Beach to Malibu, including cans on RAT and RPV beaches. PVE mayor, Victoria Lozzi, recognized Dagny at the June 14 City Council meeting. — Photo by Tim Tang
+ Maemoto awarded Kinecta scholarship
Palos Verdes High student David Maemoto is the recipient of a Kinecta Federal Credit Union. Maemoto was starting point guard, maintained a 4.88 GPA, and advocated for the homeless. Next fall, he will attend Stanford University’s School of Mechanical Engineering.
+ TMMC/Cedar Sinai contribution
Recently celebrating a $15 million allocation from the Torrance Memorial Foundation to the Torrance Medical Center were (top of staircase to bottom, left to right) are Sam Sheth, Song Klein, Ann Zimmerman, Nadine Bobit, Jack Baker, Mark Lurie, MD, Laurie McCarthy, Joseph Holm, David McKinnie, Alan Goldstein, Eric Nakkim, MD, Phil Pavesi, Christy Abraham, Heidi Hoffman, MD, Connie Lai, Greg Geiger, Harv Daniels, Steven Spierer, Richard Lucy, Richard Rounsavelle, Paul Giuliano, and Rick Higgins. The funds were made possible by the many donors who contributed generously throughout the year.