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DESCRIPTION:MICKEY SPENCER RETROSPECTIVE\nAlameda, CA, September 21, 2012:  Artist and 
 activist Spencer’s paintings, mosaics and sculptures will be featured in 
 a posthumous retrospective exhibit at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 
 1601 Paru St, Alameda, October 5 -31, 2012. The Opening is on October 5th, 
 7-9 PM. A Special Reception sponsored by the Medical Clown Project will be 
 held on October 28th, 3-6PM.  Spencer was a painter, sculptor, writer and 
 interior designer for most of her 84 years, working in clay, oils, 
 watercolors, acrylics and, in the last decades of her life, paper paintings 
 using a hot wax technique she developed after becoming allergic to paint. 
 \n\nThroughout her life, Spencer was active in civil rights, anti-war and 
 feminist organizations and used her creativity and artistic abilities in 
 her work for peace and human rights. In the 1980s, Spencer founded and 
 published, with Polly Taylor, Broomstick, a radical magazine by and for 
 older women. The subject matter of Spencer’s work, whether portraits, 
 objects, landscapes or expressive abstracts, is represented by intricate 
 piecing of colored paper.  Spencer’s innovative use of materials 
 resonates with the contemporary ‘mixed media’ art movement.    The 
 Retrospective will feature highlights of her career, including “paper 
 painting”, mosaic and sculpture. Spencer’s work sold during the October 
 exhibit will benefit both the Medical Clown Project and the Frank Bette 
 Center for the Arts.\n\nThe Medical Clown Project, founded by Jeff Raz, 
 veteran of Cirque du Soleil and the Pickle Family Circus and Sherry 
 Sherman, clinical psychologist, is a nonprofit that provides therapeutic 
 medical clowning to patients, their families and the medical team and staff 
 at Bay Area hospitals and health care facilities. The Frank Bette Center 
 for the Arts is located in a Grand Old Victorian, bequeathed by Mr. Bette - 
 an Artist and Poet, to be "a place for Meetings, Readings, Showings and 
 other Creative Doings". The Center is an all-volunteer run, community based 
 organization with art exhibits, poetry readings, music, art classes and 
 more. Spencer was an avid supporter of the Medical Clown Project and the 
 arts. \n\nFor more information on the Medical Clown Project and the Frank 
 Bette Center for the\nArts, please visit the websites: 
 www.medicalclownproject.org; www.frankbettecenter.org \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/21/18722159.php
SUMMARY:The Art of Mickey Spencer: A Retrospective
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA 94501
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/21/18722159.php
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