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People entering Napa County through American Canyon might see a large tourist-orientated sign saying “Where Your Napa Valley Experience Begins” — with a Pacific, Gas & Electric substation as a backdrop.

The sign depicts a vineyard and farmland, with mountains in the distance. Behind the sign and its bucolic depiction, though, is the tangle of metal structures and wires that make up the substation.

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The American Canyon Planning Commission wants a more welcoming environment for the city’s welcome sign. On Thursday, it approved PG&E’s landscaping plan for this northwest corner of Highway 29 and American Canyon Road.

PG&E will add 12,087 square feet of landscaping at the substation. Thirteen trees — six Deodar Cedar trees, three California pepper trees, four crape myrtles — are to help shield the substation view from the highway. Shrubs include ceanothus.

The cedar trees when grown are to be about 60 feet tall.

“It’s going to be a very nice enhancement,” Commissioner Tyrone Navarro said.

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Commissioners looked at the placement of the trees. Some wanted more trees in different areas to better shield the view of the substation from the highway, such as an additional tree between sign and substation.

“The sign is the entry to the city,” Commissioner Eric Altman said.

PG&E officials were open to commission requests. But one for more trees on the southern edge of the property is unworkable, given underground electrical equipment in this spot, they said.

Metal towers carrying PG&E lines pass by the substation. Resident Beth Marcus posed a question during public comments on that front.

“In light of all the recent fires caused by PG&E lines, is there any concern about these trees being so close to the power lines?” she asked.

Landscaping plans were made working with PG&E transmission officials and appropriate guidelines were followed, said Boris Letuchy of the utility.

The landscaping will be irrigated with an estimated 114,551 gallons annually of recycled water. Recycled water is a key in American Canyon, where water supplies are a concern even when the state isn’t faced with a deep drought.

PG&E didn’t simply decide to add more landscaping around its substation. Rather, the move is tied to landscaping requirements for a different project.

The Planning Commission on Sept. 30, 2021 approved a PG&E regional service center three miles away in the city’s industrial area. City policies called for a certain amount of landscaping there.

But constraints at the industrial park site posed a challenge. The solution: transfer some of those landscaping requirements across town to the substation.

“It’s a better use of the landscaping if we can bring it to the middle of the city,” city Associate Planner William He said at the time.

The Planning Commission agreed. It also decided it wanted to see the substation landscaping plan before the city issued a certificate of occupancy for the regional service center.

It’s uncertain how soon the substation landscaping will come. PG&E officials said planting could happen this spring, though that depends on city permits.

American Canyon has two identical welcome signs. The other is amid landscaping at the corner of American Canyon Road and Flosden Road, near a residential neighborhood.

The signs originally said “Gateway to the Napa Valley.” The city changed the motto to “Where Your Napa Valley Experience Begins” in 2010, reasoning that this better reflects the city as a destination and not simply a place to pass through.

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A step toward a ‘beautiful life’: What’s next for two artists from the Coconut Grove Arts Festival

Almost 100,000 persons frequented the Coconut Grove Arts Festival very last month. More than the training course of 3 times, attendees received to acquire in the work of 278 featured artists. For two of those people artists, the pageant was an thrilling glimpse into their future.

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Nick Ringelstetter is a blended-media artist from Wisconsin. He attended the festival hoping to get his foot in the doorway with someone in the city’s artwork scene. He reported he’s been wanting to relocate to Florida, and just one of the neighborhoods he’s eyeing is Wynwood.

“What’s wonderful about there is it is rather a lot the artwork I create now. It can be incredibly brilliant, I obtained a great deal of figures in it, so I acquired the graffiti vibe to it,” Ringelstetter reported.

“I figured if I was likely to move wherever in the region proper now it would have to be Miami if I preferred to go on doing the perform I am executing, that I am the most very pleased of and content developing.”

Ringelstetter stated he has not shown at an artwork demonstrate in two decades mainly because of the pandemic, and has more originals than at any time prior to.

“I’m seeking to figure out what pieces are popular and what course I must go with,” Ringelstetter reported. “So If I’m heading to make the go to Miami, I previously have parts with a wonderful direction to them and I can have regular gross sales.”

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Ringelstetter stated incorporating metallic flakes and colour-switching pigments can make his pieces stand out, as they adjust all over the working day with unique lights.

Ringelstetter is at this time embracing van lifestyle, and the Coconut Grove Arts Competition played a part in his adjust in lifestyle.

“In 2016 I was freezing in Wisconsin, and I experienced seen on Facebook that a person of my fantastic traveling artist friends was at the pageant … and that very day I advised myself I would in no way do a Wisconsin winter again,” he reported. “If that intended promoting every little thing I experienced, leaving the materialistic way of living, to acquire a van and a trailer as a cellular studio, that is what I was going to do.”

Ringelstetter additional that the flexibility and mobility of residing on the highway allows him to go after creative alternatives about the country. He mentioned he’s labored out agreements exactly where he’d exchange an artwork for a put to continue to be.

“I’m nonetheless making an attempt to figure out exactly where I belong in this place … but I’ve got it narrowed down to Florida in which I would like to set up a second studio,” Ringelsetter mentioned. “There’s a whole lot of revenue right here in the arts. I just was not completely ready until now.”

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Nick Ringelstetter (left) at his stand conversing to a competition goer at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.

Diana Contreras is a nearby artist that was invited by the festival’s curators to paint a mural on a delivery container by the festival’s primary stage.

“I’ve been coming listed here considering that I was a child. It’s these types of an iconic section of Miami,” Contreras mentioned. “So that was a enormous honor. I required to paint as a lot of faces that I could in the container … and just celebrate the variety and how wonderful Miami is multicultural-intelligent.”

Contreras’ artwork is centered around women of all ages. She said which is often been a widespread concept for her — from drawing princesses as a little child to painting her close friends and sketching fashion pieces in significant university.

“I obtain natural beauty in everyone, so I adore to incorporate that in my operate.”

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Diana Contreras painting eyelashes on 1 of the faces in her mural at the competition.

Contreras examined artwork training at Florida International University, as perfectly as art record whilst studying overseas in Italy. About 10 years back, she commenced experimenting with murals, touring throughout the nation developing pieces.

Her vivid murals can be noticed during Miami — including this thirty day period at the Miami Open. She is being featured as a person of six neighborhood artists at the sporting party, exactly where she’ll build a mural impressed by tennis style.

Contreras gets lots of inspiration from Miami and its “beautiful persons.” Her artwork matches the vibrant shades that you would affiliate with the Magic Metropolis.

“My art studio is in Very little Havana, so I’m affected by the Latin culture … (the community) is incredibly lively, so strolling down the avenue, operating into people today or seeing road performers — all of that inspires me,” Contreras reported.

Some of her area initiatives involve a mural and matching poster for the 2015 Miami Reserve Fair and a Suicide Squad-motivated mural in Wynwood as promotion for the 2016 movie. She’s labored with a range of regional eateries, coming up with custom pieces like a cafetera for Spanglish and Air Power 1 sneakers for Grails Miami. Contreras claimed she enjoys individuals types of collaborations mainly because it’s entertaining for her to figure out how to blend her design with other items.

“The art, my gift, has opened doorways to function with the best of the finest innovative people. It is just been a definitely fun trip.”

Contreras explained she’s also been exploring other strategies of making revenue in the artwork entire world, such as advertising non-fungible tokens. She just lately sold her 1st NFT for $1,000.

“It arrived with a physical painting, which the collector that acquired it didn’t know,” she mentioned. “He was just satisfied to have the NFT, so he was even more psyched when he obtained the real portray.”

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Diana’s initial NFT, “Smoke Demonstrate,” depicts a female cigarette smoking a cigar. It offered this calendar year for $1,000.

Contreras has an art present celebrating women in crypto on March 10 at G Artwork Sushi Caffe in Coconut Grove. She will be creating a dwell piece at the event, which will later on be transformed into an NFT.

The similar week as the Coconut Grove Arts Pageant, Contreras give up her position as a public school artwork trainer to concentration on her very own art complete time.

“I was a minor little bit anxious, for the reason that educating is such a continuous revenue … but also getting a mom, I just could not do all the things that I was performing,” she explained. “I experience like my legitimate self is coming (out) … It’s this really beautiful lifetime that I in no way thought was possible.”

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    Tony Walton, Award-Winning Stage and Screen Designer, Dies at 87

    Tony Walton, a generation designer who brought a wide visible creativity to the generation of unique onstage seems to be for Broadway shows about a 50 {6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48}-century, earning him a few Tony Awards, died on Wednesday at his dwelling in Manhattan. He was 87.

    His daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, whose mom is Julie Andrews, reported the result in was problems of a stroke.

    In extra than 50 Broadway productions, Mr. Walton collaborated on coming up with the sets (and sometimes, the costumes) with directors like Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse and Jerry Zaks, successful Tonys for “Pippin,” “The House of Blue Leaves” and “Guys and Dolls.”

    He also worked in movie, wherever he shared the Oscar for the artwork and set decoration of Mr. Fosse’s “All That Jazz” (1979) years previously, Mr. Walton intended the inside sets and the costumes for “Mary Poppins” (1964), starring Ms. Andrews, to whom he was then married.

    Mr. Walton’s television function integrated “Death of Salesman” (1985), which starred Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid and John Malkovich, for which he won an Emmy.

    Prior to the opening of his closing Broadway show, “A Tale of Two Cities,” in 2008, Mr. Walton explained his approach of conceiving a production’s design and style.

    “These times, I try to study the script or pay attention to the rating as if it had been a radio demonstrate and not enable myself to have a hurry of imagery,” he explained to Playbill. “Then, right after assembly with the director — and, if I’m lucky, the author — and whichever input they may possibly want to give, I try out to envision what I see as if it ended up gradually being revealed by a pool of gentle.”

    Donald Albrecht, the curator of an exhibition of Mr. Walton’s theater and film function at the Museum of the Going Impression in 1989, informed The New York Instances in 1992: “He never ever places a Walton style on best of the material. He arrives from inside of the operate out.”

    Mr. Walton labored with Mr. Zaks on a lot of Broadway exhibits, including “Guys and Dolls,” a revival of “A Humorous Detail Took place on the Way to the Forum” and “Anything Goes.”

    “I started off directing mainly because I liked performing with actors,” Mr. Zaks stated in a telephone interview. “I had no appreciation for what a established could for a creation. Tony pushed me to visualize the different options that could possibly be used to develop a set.”

    For the 1986 revival of John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves,” about a spouse and children in Sunnyside, Queens, on the working day Pope Paul VI visited New York Town in 1965, Mr. Zaks recalled what Mr. Guare wrote in the actor’s edition of the play.

    “He referred to Manhattan as Oz to the individuals who lived in Queens,” Mr. Zaks said, “and out of that he arrived up with a established that constantly had Manhattan in the distance.”

    In his evaluate in The New York Occasions, Frank Rich described the affect of Mr. Walton’s set as a “Stuart Davis-like collage in which the Shaughnessys’ vulgar domestic squalor is hemmed in by the urbanscape’s oppressive model-title symptoms.”

    Four years later on, Mr. Zaks extra: “I stated, ‘Tony, we could do ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ with two sofas and a Kandinsky.’ He stated, ‘Trust that, believe that,’ and he produced me a superior director.”

    The double-sided Kandinsky hung around the two pink sofas on the phase in the play by Mr. Guare, about a mysterious younger Black con man.

    Anthony John Walton was born on Oct, 24, 1934, in Walton-on-Thames, England. His father, Lancelot, was an orthopedic surgeon. His mother, Hilda (Drew) Walton was a homemaker.

    He traced his like of theater to a night for the duration of Earth War II when he was 5 or 6. His mothers and fathers had just seen the musical “Me and My Woman,” he reported in the Playbill interview, and “they experienced paper hats and little hooters — and experienced definitely experienced a couple of bubbles to cheer them along the way — and they woke my sister and me up and taught us ‘The Lambeth Stroll.’”

    His interest in the theater blossomed at Radley University, which is close to Oxfordshire, wherever he acted, directed and set on marionette exhibits. After serving in the Royal Air Power in Canada, he analyzed artwork and design and style at the Slade Faculty of High-quality Artwork in London. Although there, he was a portion-time actor and stagehand at the Wimbledon Theater.

    Soon after graduating in 1955, he moved to Manhattan where he received a job sketching caricatures for Playbill. His very first major theater venture in the United States was an Off Broadway revival of the Noël Coward musical, “Conversation Piece” in 1957.

    4 several years later on, immediately after commuting to London where by he intended productions for a variety of shows, he was hired for his to start with Broadway perform, “Once There Was a Russian,” established in 18th-century Crimea it shut on opening night time.

    His following demonstrate, the first production of “A Amusing Detail,” ran for much more than two yrs, and used his notion to challenge several sky photographs on to a curved screen throughout the stage.

    For the following 47 many years, he toggled in between musicals, comedies and dramas like a 1973 Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” For a single of its stars, Lillian Gish, he had intended an eggplant-coloured gown that she turned down, telling him that “Russian peasants only wore wonderful pastel colors,” according to Ms. Walton Hamilton. “He said, ‘Of course, Miss Gish,’” she said, then he experienced it dyed 1 shade darker with just about every subsequent cleaning.

    In the 1990s, he began directing at the Irish Repertory Theater in Manhattan, the Previous Globe Theater in San Diego, the Goodspeed Opera Property in East Haddam, Conn., and the Bay Avenue Theater in Sag Harbor in New York, which his daughter aided observed. At Bay Avenue, he was also the production designer of a 2003 revival of “The Boy Mate,” which was Ms. Andrews’s directorial debut.

    Mr. Walton also illustrated the 12 children’s guides about Dumpy the Dump Truck, and “The Wonderful American Mousical,” that had been composed by Ms. Andrews and Ms. Walton Hamilton.

    “Tony was my dearest and oldest buddy,” Ms. Andrews, who satisfied Mr. Walton when she was 12 and he was 13, claimed in a assertion. “He taught me to see the environment with refreshing eyes, and his talent was simply monumental.”

    In addition to his daughter, he is survived by his spouse, Genevieve LeRoy-Walton his stepdaughter, Bridget LeRoy five grandchildren his sisters, Jennifer Gosney and Carol Corridor and his brother, Richard.

    In 1989, Mr. Zaks recalled becoming uncertain about the type of hotel for the environment for the farce “Lend Me a Tenor.” Mr. Walton sketched just one that experienced a Victorian type, then an additional, more persuasive just one, with an Artwork Deco design.

    “The beauty of the Artwork Deco sketch just blew me away,” he stated, “and I understood right absent that when matters received amok onstage, when persons commenced slamming doors in just a lovely piece of Art Deco architecture, it would be considerably funnier.”

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    New art exhibits, arts reporter and arts funding in Miami, FL

    Eddie Arroyo’s “Uhuru Konsyan honoring Arthur McDuffie,” 2020, is part of the show “Talking to Real Americans” at Spinello Projects through March 19, 2022.

    Eddie Arroyo’s “Uhuru Konsyan honoring Arthur McDuffie,” 2020, is part of the show “Talking to Real Americans” at Spinello Projects through March 19, 2022.

    Miami’s home-honed artists are often associated with contemporary formats like street art, installations, photography and multimedia. A trio of recent exhibits showcase the strength of Miami-based painters in very different ways.

    For the past 50 years, Cuban-born Arturo Rodriguez has lived and worked in Miami, creating a body of fantastical oil paintings that appear in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among many others. His current show, at LnS Gallery near Coconut Grove, comprises a series of large-scale paintings based on three seminal literary works: Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” and Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s “Journey to the End of the Night.”

    The vibrant, emotional works were painted in response to the pandemic. While the overall images sometimes seem impressionistic, a closer look reveals a precise plan of careful strokes, historical references and humor. Many portray his own domestic life (wife and partner DEMI is also an artist) in a wry and whirling sea of upheaval that still feels all-to-familiar.

    Through April 9 at LnS Gallery, 2610 SW 28th Lane, Miami; lnsgallery.com.

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    “Heart of Darkness,) 2020-2021, by Arturto Rodriguez, was painted during the pandemic. It is part of his solo exhibition at LnS Gallery through April 9, 2022.

    Eddie Arroyo was Little Havana born-and-raised during the Mariel era. His Colombian mother and Peruvian father tried to avoid the highly politicized actions of that time; though his father painted fervently, his practical parents discouraged him from pursuing art as a career.

    Still, Arroyo pursued art studies at FIU. While he has followed his parents in practicality — he’s long had a day-job as an administrator — his painting prowess earned him a place in the 2019 Whitney Biennial for work that focuses on protest.

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    “October 18, 2021, 1:40 p.m.” by Eddie Arroyo depicts a moment of protest. It is part of the show “Talking to Real Americans” at Spinello Projects through March 19, 2022.

    His current show “Talking to Real Americans” at Spinello Projects in Allapattah, grew out of his participation in anti-gentrification protests in Little Haiti. An activist-led tour of Chinatown during his New York trip to the Whitney opening heightened his awareness. He and other artists subsequently withdrew from the show in protest over a board member’s business interests.

    Today that exploration has expanded to land use, environmental issues, wage inequity and white supremacy, he says, and a broad examination of empire and fascism. Each of the striking canvases — executed in acrylic — captures a moment of Miami protest, with its context explained on the back.

    “I know images can be recontextualized,” he said. “History constantly gets revised.”

    Through March 19 at Spinello Projects, 2930 NW 7th Ave, Miami; spinelloprojects. com.

    At first glance, the ethereal works of Cuban-born Julio Larraz, one of Latin America’s best known artists, is an homage to beauty. The polished paintings seem effortless, a Cuban following the road trod by Edward Hopper and Rene Magritte.

    Some Larraz works portray a dreamlike world of possibilities and improbabilities, such as the underwater image of a scuba diver carrying a briefcase. Others depict a tranquil world as we’d like to remember it, of a sunny spring day on an island when white linen suits were de rigeur and always pristine, never crumpled or soiled.

    “I’m not a storyteller,” Larraz says in a video accompanying his first retrospective, “The Kingdom We Carry Inside,” at the Coral Gables Museum.

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    “Piety,” 2018, is part of the retrospective of work by Julio Larraz at the Coral Gables Museum through April 30, 2022.

    “In my view, 200 years from now, if my paintings last, nobody is going to care where it was, or what it is. The only thing I care about is how beautiful the painting will be,” he says in another text.

    But like his paintings, the words may stretch truth. Many of his images depict politically powerful figures and historical moments. While interpretation may be left to the viewer, the choice of subjects speaks for itself. As he himself has said, “Painters, by nature, are protesters; they are fighters who rebel.”

    Through April 30 at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; coralgablesmuseum.org.

    ARTS WRITER JOINS HERALD

    Amanda Rosa has joined the Miami Herald / el Nuevo Herald as multimedia arts journalist covering both visual and performing arts. In this role, she will focus on bi-lingual content geared to social media platforms as well as traditional narrative storytelling in English and Spanish.

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    Amanda Rosa is the Miami Herald’s new arts reporter.

    In adding this position, the Miami Herald / el Nuevo Herald become one of the few regional newspapers nationwide with a dedicated arts journalist. It was made possible by a grant from the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation. The Miami Herald / el Nuevo Herald maintains full editorial control of the work.

    Rosa can be reached at arosa@miamiherald.com, on Twitter at @amandanicrosa.

    KNIGHT HONORS

    The John S. and James L. Knight has announced its latest awardees in the Knight Arts + Tech Fellowships, exploring the intersection between arts and technology. They are Complex Movements (Detroit, MI), Mother Cyborg (Detroit, MI), Mary Maggic (Los Angeles, CA), Ryan Kuo (Brooklyn, NY), and James Allister Sprang (Philadelphia, PA).

    This story was originally published March 4, 2022 1:18 PM.

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    Jane Wooldridge, an award-winning journalist and Miami Herald veteran, works with coverage of real estate, economy, urban development, tourism, cruises, visual arts and Art Basel. She is a past president of the Society of American Travel Writers. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @JaneWooldridge.