Associated Artists of the Inland Empire

General Meeting: Arthur Vale Acrylic Animal Portraits
2024-02-14 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
We are so pleased to have the talented Arthur Vale as our February Demonstrator. His acrylic animal portraits speak volumes. Arthur was born in Hanford Ca., and began his creative journey in art with water-color. After experiencing with oils, he found his medium in acrylic and fine-tuned his painting skills for many years. Military life in the army also availed him the art opportunity to work on battle field books, load plans,and anything else the captain threw at him. Arthur graduated ‘best over-student’ with a Graphics Art degree from Platt College, Ontario. He has shared his skills by teaching art classes and is now a member of AAIE, here he has won many wards for his work. Supported by Rancho Cucamonga & Community and Art Foundation Grant and Chaffey Community Museum of Art.

General Meeting March 2024: Sonya Arletta Acrylic on Canvas
2024-03-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Sonya’s art favors the African American figure. Her objective is to create images that reflect diversity, Strength and beauty of people of color. Her developed style transcends the boundaries of color as well. Through her art, she strives to Uplift the black face to become a recognizable face with a vocabulary that speaks a language everyone understands and enhances a rich conversation with the viewer.
In addition, she creates clothing that incorporates her art and voice for pieces that empower, encourage and inspire.
Sonuy’s educational background includes a BFA from MSU and an AA from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles.

General Meeting April 10, 2024
2024-04-10 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Join us for a Golden Art Demonstration with Kathryn Duncan. This is always a favorite program and you will not want to miss this one. Come see all the exciting new art products with a focus on watercolor.
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General Meeting May 8, 2024: Chris Bozar
2024-05-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Plan to attend to learn more about Neurographic art with Chris Bozar. Neurographics is a way of drawing that recreates the outer from the inner.
Neurography was discovered and developed by Pavel Piskarev, a Russian psychologist and creativity entrepreneur. Here is a descriptive quote, translated from Russian to English, from his website:
Neurographic drawing can take you from the belief in a specific problem, to the realization that problem-making is all mental and emotional. It is a way of rewiring and refining that tendency, toward the general capacity to see that all problems are constructed in the same way. There isn’t one particular problem, there is only a mental and emotional, reflexive, process that seems to present as a specific, time-dependent, conflict” out there”.

General Meeting June 2024: Jim Gilliam
2024-06-12 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Join us for a watercolor and pen and ink session with Jim Gilliam.

General Meeting July 10, 2024: Sue Linn
2024-07-10 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Popular speaker, Sue Linn, returns to speak again on Art History. This lecture will be on the early and High Renaissance art with an emphasis on painting, sculpture and architecture. Always a favorite meeting.

General Meeting August 14 Annie Tolliver
2024-08-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Join us at 9:30 at CCMA for an excellent presentation on Mixed Media, For more information, take a look at our excellent newsletter for August.

General Meeting September, 11 2024: CAT day. Creating Art Together
2024-09-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Bring your art supplies and join us as AAIE artists create together. Always a popular meeting and such a great way to get to know your artists friends.

General Meeting October 2024: Cindy Canarazzi
2024-10-09 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
Join us with Cindy as she shares the skills and techniques for fused glass.

General Meeting November 14, 2024: Wendy Slatkin
2024-11-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art
Join us for a delightful lecture on Art History.

General Meeting Holiday December 12, 2024. Gathering at Pechez' home
2024-12-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Pechez’s Home, 5018 Crestview Place, Alta Loma, CA, 91701, United States
Join us to celebrate the holidays with friends. Bring a wrapped art give you made to participate in a gift exchange and a brunch dish to share. This is a special way to end the year and visit with our artists friends.

General Meeting. Wed. January 8, 2025. Joe Oakes Acrylic Artist
2025-01-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art
Artist, Instructor, Colorist and Nature Lover. Each painting is an emotional response to color… real or imagined but always felt. I choose to express those feelings through the use of bold, vibrant highlights and shadows of violet hues. My work is about the joy that color can bring into our lives. My aim is to promote an awareness of nature, especially its infinite use of colorr.

Feb & March General Meetings at Upland Public Library.
2025-02-12 08:00 - 17:00
thank you to the Upland Public Library to offer their Brody Room Downstairs for our General Meetings Use entrance on side stairs outside the building.on corner of D Street. and N. Second Ave.

February General Meeting with Karen Werner
2025-02-12 09:30 - 12:00 | Upland Public Library, 217 N. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761, United States
It is such a treat to have Karen Werner, award winning artist, share her painting talents with us. Karen paints in both watercolor and oil and often uses still life and urban landscapes to reveal these common objects using the impact of color, light and brushwork. To know more please visit her website https://www.karenwernerart.com/

General Meeting March 12, 2025 Fariad Ali
2025-03-12 09:30 - 11:30 | Villa Pacifica II Apartments 7418 Archibald Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, Villa Pacifica Apartments 7418 Archibald Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91730, United States
NEW VENUE.
VILLA PACIFICA APARTMENTS. COMMUNITY ROOM
7418 ARCHIBALD RANCHO CUCAMONGA. (Just below Archibald Public Library and 16th Street. You can park in the church parking space, too)

Welcome Fariad. We are in for a treat with this talented artist. Fariad considers himself an interpretive impressionist artist using a variety of mediums of oil, charcoal, and watercolor to capture life and its passion. He states he has been documenting and expressing the poetry of life using deliberate and rhythmic brushwork. Don’t miss this exciting demonstration.

April General Meeting Mark Rush Abstract Painting Demonstration
2025-04-09 09:30 - 12:00 | Villa Pacifica II Apartments 7418 Archibald Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, Villa Pacifica Apartments 7418 Archibald Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91730, United States
Please note this is a temporary venue using a local Community Room and we ask you park in the far south part of the church Parking lot. Please click the heading for directions.
We are in for a wonderful treat to have Mark Rush return to demonstrate for us his techniques and unique tips on how to paint abstracts. His Abstract Expressionism and Geometric Art is truly eye-catching.

May General Meeting with Aleta Jacobson: Collage
2025-05-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S Lemon Ave, Ontario,, CA, 91784, United States
ScreenshotAleta is a working artist, teacher, and designer in the Inland Empire who specializes in creating powerful collage, mixed media, sketches and watercolor paintings using a variety of tools and materials. Aleta aims to find the beauty and creativity in the everyday.
Aleta is inspired by nature and the environment and focuses her art on botanical illustrations and landscapes. Her work is abstract in nature, but she still seeks to allow the viewer’s imagination to find familiar images and themes. She creates her work using the same basic design principles and structure that artists have traditionally used. Each piece typically evolves from a thought, a vision, a memory, or a photograph of nature that moves her.

June General Meeting : Su Cheatum Printmaking
2025-06-11 09:30 - 11:45
Su Cheatham is a Mixed Media and Printmaking artist. Following the completion of each of her original limited edition woodblock prints, she uniquely repurposes her prints into her collage work. Retired from a 30 year career as a classroom art teacher she has taken her art to new heights. Her award winning work is currently represented by The Gallery SOHO in Claremont, California. She continues to teach art from her private studio in Jurupa Valley, CA. She is an exhibiting artist member with the Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Riverside Art Museum, Padua Hills Art Fiesta, Ontario Festival of Art, Ontario Art Walk at HoltxPalm. Her work can also be seen on her Su Cheatham Artist @Instagram, Facebook, She can be reached at: printmaker5088@yahoo.com.

"Summer Love" Art Show June 12- july 12 2025
2025-06-12 - 2025-07-12 | Rancho Cucamonga Community Center @ Central Park, 11200 Baseline Rd, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91701, United States
Early Registration June 1-June 10 with on site registration the day of take in June 12 2025 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Rancho Cucamonga Community Center at Central Park 1200 Base Line Rd, Rancho Cucamonga
• Register your entry at aaieshows25@gmail.com
• In the Email list the following:Art Piece Name (Title): Artist Name: Phone #: Email:Medium:Art Size: Jpeg photo Optional:Art Sale Price:
PLEASE PAY ON LINE AT https://associatedartistsinlandempire.org/product-category/art-show-payment/
Call for Early Entries. June 1 to June 10.
AAIE members 1st Entry $8.00, 2nd Entry $5.00
Non Members 1st Entry $15.00. 2nd Entry $10.00
or bring you art work on the Day of TAKE IN June 12
AAIE members 1st Entry $10.00, 2nd Entry $8.00
Non Members 1st Entry $20.00. 2nd Entry $10.00
TAKE IN: Thursday, JUNE 12 1 PM TO 5 PM
PICK UP: Saturday, JULY 12 1 PM TO 5 PM
Art work must be framed and wired for display hanging.
Artwork must be labeled on the back with: artist’s name, contact information, art title, and sale price.
Each participant must sign a loan agreement with the city of Rancho Cucamonga: Forms will be provided the day of ART DROP off on JUNE 12 1 pm to 5 pm

July General Meeting Jeni Bates
2025-07-09 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art
You are in for a treat with this multi-talented artist. Jeni, draws, creates, writes poetry with her style she calls “Refracturing” technique. The refracturing collage technique, particularly as described by artist Jeni Bate, involves creating a new artwork by first creating a scene or image (often by painting it multiple times with variations), then cutting it up, and finally reassembling the fragments into a collage.
Key aspects of this technique:

Fragmentation and Reassembly: The core of the technique involves breaking down a cohesive image into pieces (like cutting or tearing), and then reassembling those pieces to create a new composition.
Creating a “Different Version”: The goal is not just to recreate the original image, but to transform it into something new and different through the process of fracturing and reassembly.
Abstraction and Energy: This technique can abstract the original image, giving it a more dynamic and energetic quality.
Application: While Bate’s definition focuses on the wholesale reworking of a single image, the technique can also be applied to individual elements within a larger collage.

August General Meeting with Christine White using Oils
2025-08-13 09:30 - 12:00
Christine White is a painter and naturalist. She holds a Masters in Geography from University of South Carolina, and moved to Redlands, California to work for a mapping software company. In 2019, she left the tech industry to pursue art full time, with a personal mission to use her paintings to build kinder bonds with the people, creatures,
and places we encounter. Lately she has been creating art using items we normally discard: plastic; fabric; scraps; old wiring. The challenge is to incorporate these materials mindfully so the result is a beautiful piece that just happens to be made from trash. In addition to creating her art, Christine also juries art shows, models for life drawing classes, teaches painting workshops, and is on the art teaching staff at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge. She is an artist in residence at The Los Angeles Makery.

September General Meeting CAT DAY with Ketih Klingonsmith
2025-09-10 09:30 - 12:00
Our September Meeting is C A T DAY is CREATING ART TOGETHER This event was Inspired by past president Steve Loya.
So, bring your watercolor paints, pencils or pens, or any supplies you need and plan on creating with your fellow members. This event always is a popular one which gives us time to chat and create art and get to know one another better. Even if you don’t want to do your art, come anyway as it is always fun to just chat with your art friends. Keith will give us a brief overview of his art career and then walk among us for tips and pointers and create on his own.

October General Meeting Ray Tucker
2025-10-09 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art
Join us this HALLOWEEN MONTH, with artist, Ray Tucker as he paints and talks about being ‘true to
yourcreative self’. Ray has vast experience, an AAIE Honorary Member former AAIE President, and
art instructor and studio owner. After teaching at Mt. San Antonio College for over 40 years,
it was time for Ray to discover who he really was as an artist. An accumulated art supply was perfect for
mixed creativity. Ray will be discussing why we create art, how to discover your style, being mindful of
your process and how your art is a reflection of your life experiences. Bring a clip board & soft graphite
Pencil. Ray has a fun exercise for our members to participate in….for a PRIZE!

Holiday Expressions Art Show
2025-11-06 - 2025-12-04 | Rancho Cucamonga Community Center @ Central Park, 11200 Baseline Rd, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91701, United States
Holiday Expressions Show Flyer pdf
Join in this wonderful holiday ,Open Theme, any size, AAIE art show at Central Park Rancho Cucamonga
Take in Nov 6 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Take Down Dec 4 11:00am to 4:00 pm
TO PARTICIPATE : Please email or text Hollie with your Name, Title of Art Piece/s , sales price of NFS and your daytime phone contact to Hollie at : htwin4@hotmail.com or Cell 909 772-7006.

November General Meeting with Sherif Hakeem using White Chalk on Black
2025-11-12 09:30 - 12:00
Charcoal Portraits that bring awareness to endangered wildlife.
Hyper-realism at its best

Holiday Party Pot Luck
2025-12-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Pechez’s Home, 5018 Crestview Place, Alta Loma, CA, 91701, United States
You can download our Dec 2025 Newsletter for more information
10:00 to ? 3:00 ish if you wish
Come join us at Pechez’s beautiful home at 5018 Crestview Alta Loma, CA 91701. Map below
Bring:

A favorite brunch dish or treat for Pot Luck
One art gift for exchanging. Often this is something you made but need not be.
Your best holiday spirit to share food and have fun with your AAIE friends

January General Meeting, Elizabeth Tucker: Plallette Color Mixing
2026-01-07 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S Lemon Ave, Ontario,, CA, 91784, United States
Want more control over your painting palette? Tired of only getting mud or colors with less vibrance? Elizabeth will discuss the color wheel to help us develop a more thorough understanding of color, how to choose our colors, and how to mix them to give us the broadest range of color and value.

February General Meeting with Karen Clark Watercolorist
2026-02-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S Lemon Ave, Ontario,, CA, 91784, United States
We are in for a treat. Don’t miss this session with Karen Clark as she shares her tips and techniques using watercolor. Karen is a watercolorist but also has a master’s degree in Fiber from UCLA and does beautiful weaving. She teaches two watercolor classes a week at Central Park Rancho Cucamonga and loves sharing her knowledge with her students. Her beautiful watercolor art can be seen both in local and internationally galleries. Today’s demonstration will focus on watercolor techniques that help an artist achieve realistic images in a much easier, faster and clearest way.

March 2026 General Meeting with JoAnn Formia
2026-03-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art
This month Associated Artists of the Inland Empire proudly presents fine art artist JoAnn Formia, watercolorist. Her artistic journey is a testament to passion, perseverance, and a lifelong love for painting. Joann has won numerous awards from art organizations in the Inland Valley and southland. She serves on the Watercolor West Board of Directors and holds Signature Membership in the following Organizations: American Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, San Diego Watercolor Society, Watercolor West (Master). Joann attributes her in growth and inspiration with art through her fabulous opportunity over the years to travel and work with many iconic painters. What a treat to hear about her journey in art and the valuable gathered tidbits of knowledge and techniques gleaned along the way.

April 2026 General Meeting: Sketching from Live Models
2026-04-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S Lemon Ave, Ontario,, CA, 91784, United States
Something Different this month. Come join your artist friends sketch from live models. Sketch paper, pencil and clipboards will be provided to allow you to sketch, too. Come be inspired by sketching on your own with the opportunity to observe two of our own artist members create along with you.
