Celebrate!
September 5 - 25, 2025
Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center Gallery
1100 West Clark Avenue,
Burbank, CA 91506
Burbank, CA 91506
Happy 50th anniversary to SCWCA and all the members who have contributed to the organization over the years! SCWCA is dedicated to creating community through art, education, and social activism – a mission that grows more important, and more challenging, to execute in our current times.
The structures of contemporary life make creating art and community one of the most joyous, and simultaneously one of the hardest, endeavors to achieve. The personal fulfillment and network of like-minded folks that artmaking builds can be transformative. They require lots of energy and dedication—and deserve to be nurtured. Yet so many aspects and stresses of daily living don’t support those efforts, requiring that people spend immense time just trying to meet their and their loved ones basic needs. Organizations like SCWCA offer artists support and connection, reminding us that art and community are basis needs essential to people’s emotional and physical health. SCWCA’s consistent work over the last 50 years is no small feat, and this exhibition does indeed CELEBRATE the breadth and depth of the artists who have been touched
by this important organization.
The exhibition artists have interpreted the theme of celebration widely. Works range from representational tributes to loved ones, homages to California, and abstract expressions of energy and ideas. What unified the selected works in my mind was bold use of color and texture. These works exemplify how effectively color can communicate feelings and symbolism. The works’ many textures not only deepen our experience of those colors – they also serve as evidence of the artist’s hand, captured in layers of paint or the way materials are cut and combined. In these details, the exhibition artists share their own lived experiences and invite us to come together and celebrate those moments with them.
Holly Jerger
Exhibition Juror
The structures of contemporary life make creating art and community one of the most joyous, and simultaneously one of the hardest, endeavors to achieve. The personal fulfillment and network of like-minded folks that artmaking builds can be transformative. They require lots of energy and dedication—and deserve to be nurtured. Yet so many aspects and stresses of daily living don’t support those efforts, requiring that people spend immense time just trying to meet their and their loved ones basic needs. Organizations like SCWCA offer artists support and connection, reminding us that art and community are basis needs essential to people’s emotional and physical health. SCWCA’s consistent work over the last 50 years is no small feat, and this exhibition does indeed CELEBRATE the breadth and depth of the artists who have been touched
by this important organization.
The exhibition artists have interpreted the theme of celebration widely. Works range from representational tributes to loved ones, homages to California, and abstract expressions of energy and ideas. What unified the selected works in my mind was bold use of color and texture. These works exemplify how effectively color can communicate feelings and symbolism. The works’ many textures not only deepen our experience of those colors – they also serve as evidence of the artist’s hand, captured in layers of paint or the way materials are cut and combined. In these details, the exhibition artists share their own lived experiences and invite us to come together and celebrate those moments with them.
Holly Jerger
Exhibition Juror
