Scroll Down!
Subscribe to the ADSC Announcement Service:
Join Our Mailing List
For Email Marketing you can trust
Become an ADSC member: Sign up Here
| Join Our Mailing List |
Cedric Gibbons
Designer of Dreams
May 23rd, San Francisco
Cedric Gibbons's design for Grand Hotel
Please join us as we present speaker John Thomas with his fascinating lecture: Cedric Gibbons, Designer of Dreams. Visionary Art Deco MGM Art Director, Cedric Gibbons is considered one of the most influential art production directors in the history of American film.
He led the MGM art department from 1924 to 1956, but his most creative years were 1928-1939, when his movie settings invoked the Art Deco and streamline moderne styles. The elegant production design of a Gibbons film offered a welcome distraction to Depression-era moviegoers. Gibbons created a new template from which interior designers would create "moderne" spaces for wealthy clients. John Thomas, President of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and co-author of Long Beach Art Deco, will explore the designs and themes of Cedric Gibbons.
Hotel Rex
562 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(park at the Sutter Stockton Garage for only $3.00 between 6:00 p.m. to midnight)
No-host cocktails 6:30 - 7:30
Lecture 7:30 - 8:30.
Admission is $10 for ADSC members; $15 for non-members.
Become a member now
Have you let your membership lapse?
The
Benefits of Membership:
|
Golden Gate 75th Anniversary Poster
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge!
By Local Artist John Mattos
Still Available!
The Art Deco Society of California (ADSC) is pleased to offer this poster designed by local artist John Mattos, whose heroic style does justice to the most recognized Art Deco structure on planet Earth, the Golden Gate Bridge.
“Using John Mattos was the perfect choice,” says Karen Geer, ADSC Print Director. “He’s worked with the Parks Conservancy before and has illustrated other Art Deco buildings including the Fox Theatre in Oakland. His style has a real joy in it that plays out here beautifully.”
The ADSC will be selling this poster as a fundraiser for the organization for $75.00 for non-members. The poster, measuring 16 inches by 32 inches, is printed by one of the Bay Area’s greenest printers, Solstice Press, on 30% recycled archival quality paper.
Have your poster framed and sent to you on our poster page from the good people at The Framers Workshop in Berkeley.
Art Deco Walks
Presented by the Art Deco Society of California
Art Deco Walks Director: Marc Kagan
Downtown Berkeley
Tours are $10 general, free to ADSC members or those who join the Art Deco Society of California on the spot.
Tours are canceled in inclement weather. Call 415-982-DECO day of tour for latest advisory. For more information or questions, email ADSC or call 415.982.DECO (415.982.3326).
Next Walk!
Downtown Berkeley
Sunday, May 19th
Meet at 11 a.m. at the United Artist Theatre, 2274 Shattuck Ave (map)
Berkeley (90 minutes, flat terrain)
See entire 2013 walks schedule here.
What: |
Art Deco Walks |
Sponsor: |
Art Deco Society of California |
When: |
varies |
Where: |
varies |
Cost: |
FREE members | $10.00 non-members |
Become a member now
Have you let your membership lapse?
The
Benefits of Membership:
|
Help Wanted!
Make the ADSC better and better
Web Director
This is a Board of Director position. Work with great people as you, yes YOU, maintain the Art Deco Society of California's website. The Web Director has a team of people to assist in the maintenance of the site and online community.
Tech Requirements: HTML, JAVA, and CSS, Google calendar
Time Commitment: One Board meeting per month, and 10-15 hours a month for web updates
Pluses: Photoshop, content writing, working well with others.
Contact: Karen Geer
General Volunteer
As a volunteer-run, non-profit organization, we're regularly looking for Deco-lovers to assist with mailings, information booths, promotional events and day-of event volunteer positions. Besides the Gatsby Summer Afternoon and the Art Deco Preservation Ball, there are lots of other ADSC programs, as well as history, vintage fashion and antiques expos throughout the year, all which are staffed by volunteers.
Tech Requirements: Access to email and cell phone preferred.
Time Commitment: Typically 2 hour shifts, as needed.
Pluses: If you enjoy making friends and have a passion for history, costume, music, antique cars or architecture, there are lots of opportunities to volunteer with the ADSC!
Contact: the Volunteer Director
Calendar Contributor
Are you on every mailing list? Perhaps you have a particular passion for: silent film, cars, dancing, or music? Help make the ADSC web site the center of the retroverse and point people to vintage happenings all over California. Using Google technology Calendar Contributors enter data on various events. Contributors should also be willing to search for vintage events to post. There are no limits to how many people can contribute.
Tech Requirements: Internet access, Google Account (free) - if you can use any kind of Calendar program you can manage Google's Calendar.
Time Commitment: 1-5 hours per month
Pluses: Attention to detail.
Contact: Karen Geer
Content Writers
We are looking for content on all aspects of vintage life help make our web site robust and exciting. Either write your own pieces or encourage and assist writers to submit their work.
Tech Requirements: Internet access. Basic writing program like Word.
Time Commitment: 1-5 hours per month
Pluses: Attention to detail. Superior writing skills. Graphic design skills.
Contact: Karen Geer
Information Officers
Our web site is getting bigger and we need people to comb through the pages and make sure our content is accurate. So if you, for example, have a passion for vintage shopping you would track our shopping lists and make sure the businesses are represented accurately and add new information and delete incorrect data.
Tech Requirements: Internet access. Email.
Time Commitment: 1-5 hours per month or less.
Pluses: Attention to detail.
Contact: Karen Geer
The following events are not produced by the ADSC but are included to promote our
vital vintage community.
Groveland Vintage Day!
Groveland (near Yosemite)
Saturday, Jun 1, 2013
Vintage Day is a celebration of everything great about the Art Deco era, from the 1920s to the 1940s. Inspired by the Heritage Holidays event that used to be held at The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley, the Groveland's Vintage Day offerings include FREE dance lessons, an authentic 1930s dinner menu, a costume contest, an on-site photographer, and headliner act at 8:00 PM, Ginger and the Hoosier Daddys.
Vintage Day is held in conjunction with the “Where The Hell Is Groveland? Car Show” in Mary Laveroni park the following day, Sunday June 2.
10% discount for ADSC members! Email info@groveland.com / phone 209-962-4000.
More at http://www.groveland.com/events/vintage-day-with-ginger-and-the-hoosier-daddys
Groveland Hotel (near Yosemite), 18767 Main Street, PO Box 289, Groveland, CA 95321 (map)
Questions or Problems? Contact our webmaster.
Updated: 5/12/13