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Studios on the Park celebrated Art After Dark Saturday night with a new show, "Common Ground 2019."

Fight or flight. It's a choice artist Missy Reitner-Cameron knows well, particularly since the 2016 presidential election went down two years ago.

Jesus Cruz and David Stenslein Turn to Local Artists to Make Their House a Home

Up Front Gift Shop: Buy great gifts and support art programming for local youth

A European flair

The last thing her late husband ever gave her was a brand new Nikon Coolpix camera. Nily Harel didn't consider herself much of a photographer, aside from snapping a few pictures on vacations, but learning to take photos quickly became a way for Harel to cope when her life partner died more than six years ago.

Studios on the Park in downtown Paso Robles is opening a new show Saturday night entitled "The Short Story Collection: Narrative Gowns and Feminine Histories."

When she saw it, she knew. That little black dress hanging on the rack at the thrift store was absolutely meant to go home with San Luis Obispo artist Julie Frankel.

Collaboration with Studios on the Park will explore life in West Hollywood

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She had never painted-not really-and her hands were slowly getting weaker each and every day. Melodie Jordan had some leftover paint from finishing her Atascadero home. Within five months both her mom and niece had died, and she didn't know what do with all her grief and sadness. So she picked up the can of paint, a brush, and an old painting bought from Goodwill, and got to work. The end result was a tempestuous sea landscape filled with calming shades of teal and blue alongside stormy blacks and grays. Several years later, Jordan is now a full-time professional artist who has never taken a lesson.

It all started with a bunch of old, broken-down cars. Paso Robles photographer Dean Crawford was telling a friend at a local photo guild meeting that he was looking to shoot some gorgeous, vintage, rusty vehicles. Fellow photographer, and at this point virtual stranger, Deb Hofstetter, overheard, leaned in, and said, "I know a place ... ."