Foothills Advocate

Foothills Guardians

Tanya Slesnick and Ted Mitchell

Lyn Wyman and Dennis Dow

Foothills Defenders

Jobst Brandt
Allan and Marilyn Brown
Robert V. and Patricia M. Brown
Elizabeth Chamberlain
Robin Clark and Mary Mackiernan
Julie Dickerson and Andy Byrne
Linda and Jerome Elkind
Carl Feldman
Larry and Penny Hassett
Suzanne Keith
Ambassador Bill and Mrs. Jean Lane
Sue and Peter LaTourrette
Tor and Nancy Lund
Holly Mitten
Pacific Gas and Electric
Michael and Lennie Roberts
Santa Clara Valley Water District

Foothills Activists

Alan Bagley
Lois Crozier-Hogle
Paul and Maureen Draper
Herbert and Norma Grench
Chuck and Christy Holloway
Elena Pernas-Giz
Chris Powell and Bern Smith
Jeff Segall
Sandy Sloan and Eric Richert
Mariquita West
Ciddy and Bob Wordell

Nature's Inspirations
Event Committee

Chairs: Cindy Rubin, Ciddy Wordell

Jessica Rose Agramonte
Dorothy Bender
Sue Chaput
Tom Cronin
Gael Erickson
Velma Gentzsch
Hertha Harrington
Carol Jacobs
Tom Jordan
Suzanne Keith
Zoe Kersteen-Tucker
Karen Kidwell
Sue LaTourrette
Peter LaTourrette
Mary McCann
Holly Mitten
Elena Pernas-Giz
David Perrone
Dave Pine
Chris Powell
Lennie Roberts
Annemarie Rosengreen
Jeff Segall
Jeffrey R. Stein
Janet Swanson
K. Christie Vogel

Honorary Host Committee

Chair: Michelle Gallagher

Supervisor Blanca Alvarado
Joan Baez
Senator Barbara Boxer
Robert Buelteman
Joseph and Victoria Cotchett
Lois Crozier-Hogle
Mary Davey
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson
Supervisor Richard Gordon
Supervisor Jerry Hill
Supervisor Liz Kniss
Congressman Tom Lantos
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
Supervisor Pete McHugh
Assemblymember Gene Mullin
Senator Byron Sher
Assemblymember Joe Simitian
State Senator John Vasconcellos
Assemblymember Leland Yee

Nature’s Inspirations: Celebrating the Arts will honor the many artists whose work interprets and conveys the beauty of the natural world and inspires people to protect scenic landscapes and natural resources.

A juried exhibition of works by invited local environmental artists.
Exhibition jurors     Selected artists     Art gallery

The presentation of the Jane Gallagher Award to an artist whose work inspires environmental protection.
The award     The winner

A display of Jane Gallagher's original artwork.

Opportunities to purchase art, with the proceeds supporting local open space protection.

A fun live auction led by Assemblymember Joe Simitian.
Auction items

Don't miss out!

Tickets are $75, and are sold only in advance.

We do expect the event to sell out;
tickets will not be sold after Wednesday, October 20.
Sponsorships start at $500.

For more information about sponsorship opportunities,
download our sponsorship information packet, or contact
Velma Gentzsch at (650)968-7243 or by email.

The Jane Gallagher Award

As a celebrated painter and passionate defender of open space on the Peninsula, artist Jane Gallagher inspired environmental protection through her art and actions. In her book, California in Solitude and Silence, she wrote:

"I purposely omit all signs of civilization in my painting. This is not a one-woman crusade to obliterate the inexorable encroachment of man. It is just that the quiet untouched lands are what appeal to me and what I want to capture and share. I hope it will make people aware of how fast these spaces are disappearing, act as a wakeup call, and make them realize that now is the time to save these lands for future generations."

Committee for Green Foothills proudly presents the Jane Gallagher Award in memory of Jane, our former board member, and in recognition of an artist whose work honors the places, people and organizations that inspire the protection of open space.

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The 2004 Jane Gallagher Award will be presented to
Woodside artist Jim Caldwell.

Jim Caldwell was born in New York in 1942 and moved to the Bay Area in 1950. After winning his high school art prize in 1960, he went on to major in art at Williams College. He spent the year following graduation in the engraving studio of Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and traveled extensively, creating watercolors, drawings and paintings. He returned to the United States for graduate school at Yale University, where he received his Master of Architecture degree.

Caldwell has had 24 one-man shows and participated in 18 group shows. He has paintings in more than 250 collections worldwide from Paris to Japan. He divides his time between painting and a practice in residential architecture at his studio in Woodside, California.

Artists' statements for all the invited artists

Nature's Inspirations art gallery

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Page last updated July 6, 2005.