The Glendale Art Association (GAA) launched its Creative Visions art show at the Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center in Burbank on the same date as the scheduled launch of NASA’s Artemus 2 rocket, which will swing around the moon and back. 

Guests of the Burbank art show can meet the 30 artists who are part of the show on Feb. 6 between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Awards will be presented to various dynamic artists who work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography, alcohol ink and mixed media.

Artist Rebecca Mate will be showing her latest acrylic painting called “Rocket Gallery,” unusual from its purposeful tilt (to enhance the weightlessness) to its subject matter of sending art into space via a rocket. 

Last year, Mate saw her husband taking a photo of a woman with hair of a gorgeous color of blue who was standing in front of a Ronald Reagan statue holding a smaller face statue of Nelson Mandela. The blue-haired lady is known as Lady Rocket – Eva Blaisdell.

Mate said, “Her eyes lit up when she found out I was an artist and my eyes lit up when I found out she wanted to take art into space. She’s a real visionary.”

Blaisdell is a pioneer in the world of empowering stakeholders in the new space economy. She wants to bring notoriety to the arts and artists by sending NFTs of art into space – just one of many space assets for collectors.   

Mate’s painting includes a nod to Lady Rocket with its blue-haired astronaut and her caring passion for Earth and the environment, a nod to Mate’s 26-year-long promotion of a World Art Day (now falling on DaVinci’s birthday, April 15, as proclaimed by the United Nations) and a nod to Mate’s original technique of putting multiples of the word “art” to give texture to backgrounds. 

“Obviously I couldn’t paint an NFT, so I just plastered the walls of the rocket with paintings,” she said. “Art is an integral part of our culture so don’t leave the planet without it!”

“Rebecca Mate has an invitation for her art to go into space,” said Lady Rocket, ”with adequate collectors and sponsors.”

The upcoming GAA show has attracted such artists as award-winning Marina Rehrmann, who heads the GAA and teaches art in Glendale at the Beyond Paint Art Studio and who has shown work at the LA Art Show; Diane M. Carter, whose love of the environment and nature has resulted in her art being featured in The Neutra Institute Gallery in the exhibition “Breathe;” and Dick Heimbold, who has shown and sold work in Mexico and in Southern California. Guests will also see abstract work by Narine Isajanyan who coordinates shows in Armenia every summer. There will be over 65 artworks to view and the variety in GAA shows never disappoint attendees and art collectors.

For more information about the GAA go to www.GlendaleArtAssociation.com. Contact and follow artist Rebecca Mate at www.SoftBeautybyRMate.com. 

More about the emerging subject of space assets can be found at www.CopernicSpace.com.

Submitted by Rebecca MATE