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Welcome to the Tahoe Art League
The Tahoe Art League is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting fine art and art education on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe since 1964.
We provide free monthly art demonstrations for the public, art workshops, classes, summer outdoor shows, fine art exhibits, college scholarships and many other activities.
Monthly meeting are held every 2nd Wednesday of the month at:
South Tahoe Senior Center
3050 Lake Tahoe Blvd.
South Lake Tahoe, CA. Map
Behaviour Bespeaks Beliefs by: Yasmin Sayyed
The Tahoe Art League’s February Meeting, on Wednesday – 2/10/10, will feature Jasmin Sayyed – local artist, poet, mother, grandmother and psyco-educational therapist. She was born in New York City, of Cape Verdean and Caribbean ancestry and she studied art, education, and psychology in New York, Rhode Island and California, even earning advanced degrees.
Yasmin has a varied and interesting background and philosophy,. Her art has a freedom of movement, that every artist should be able to appreciate and learn from, by watching her paint. She is a member of the Fusionart Movement – the true purpose of Fusionart is: ” to open to the creative energy already within our hearts that is longing to be expressed in some completely new way. We enter into creation and its natural flow in the world, …”,(www.fusionartinternational.com).
Ms. Sayyed states that: “Art is a language of the heart; it can fuse intellect and sacredness in a single brush stroke, and in a single intention of standing in union with nature and cosmic rhythms. As an artist I feel compelled by an inner calling of spirit and character to examine my realities with a heart set to amplify what heals the struggles and delights of the soul … My paintings speak to the union of like and unalike elements dancing in an awakened, unblinking vision of unity …”