April 15, 2013, Suisun City, CA - Catt Sundell grew up in San Rafael where she worked for close to 20 years at the Swedish bakery owned and operated by her father. She picked up her father's talent for drawing and was soon offering custom hand painted murals on the cakes in food coloring on marzipan. She has created cakes for the Golden Gate Bridge Transit District, The Grateful Dead, George Lucas and Mick Jagger.
Catt became part of the Fairfield Visual Arts Association (FVAA) five years ago and has had entries in the last three FVAA juried art shows. Her acrylic on canvas painting "Eyes From The Darkness" won the People's Choice Award (see image attached).
Catt has volunteered her talents for the largest artistic endeavor she has ever been involved with: guiding the creation of one of the six pieces of unique "garbage art", created from the trash collected throughout Suisun City on Earth Day Solano, Saturday, April 20th from 10 am
– 2 pm. The piece Catt has taken leadership over portrays the sinking Titanic. Catt and her son Taylor sketched out the canvas on April 13th on a typically windy Suisun City morning.
An Academy Of Art University, San Francisco alum, Catt moved to Suisun City 19 years ago when she was expecting her twin sons, Taylor and Tyler. She looks forward to working with the public in creating the Titanic piece of art on Saturday, April 20th.
"Creating works of art, especially on such a grand scale, and only using refuse collected on Saturday
– wow, that can really be an eye opening experience. I'm looking forward to seeing how our pieces will evolve and how other people engage in the artistic process," Catt commented.
This year’s Earth Day Solano art project
– six pieces of original art created on the spot on Earth Day April 20th using trash collected from Suisun City targeted cleanup zones
– glows as a tangible expression of the Mission SOLANO vision for recycling people. Inspired by the documentary Waste Land by artist Vik Muniz, artists came together under the leadership of artist, Aria Zuloaga to plan the art project.
"After watching the movie Waste Land, a group of us from Lawler House Gallery and the Fairfield Visual Arts Association collaborated to create the concept and images for six temporary live art installations on April 20th," Zuloaga reflects. "We believed in this project from the beginning and after weeks of preparation we’re anxious to see the images and the art unfold. It is a labor of love for our community and for our planet."
Art became a central part of Earth Day Solano in 2012, when Gilbert Rangel, local esteemed recycled materials artist, created a piece of recycled metals art now on permanent display in the city chambers of Suisun City (see inserted image of Gilbert’s Earth Day Solano work).
For additional details on the Earth Day Solano April 20th event, including trash cleanup, Kayaks 4 Kare sprint races, tree planting, Earth Day oratorical competition, 30 participating vendor booths and more, visit
www.earthdaysolano.org
To learn more about Mission SOLANO programs, please visit
www.missionsolano.org or call 707-425-FOOD (3663). Lawler House Gallery information can be found at
http://www.lawlerhousegallery.org/.
