BRIEFLY IN ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Belland suspended over New York

Missy Belland, who won Yahoo!’s Ultimate Connection Contest, has traveled to New York to meet with contest creator Ivanka Trump and several marketing gurus.

Belland sells fairies and assorted gifts at the Sawdust Art Festival.

The trip included a “power lunch” suspended over New York Harbor, and thousands of dollars of prize money to be used in marketing her new Website.

Photographer follows Van Gogh

Last spring, photographer Emanuel Dale traveled through France, visiting the places where Vincent Van Gogh painted, lived and died.

The result of his artistic journey is a new photographic fine art exhibition through Sept. 10, “In Van Gogh’s Steps,” at Emanuel Dale Photographic Art, 1276 S. Coast Highway.

In the exhibition, Dale displays creative interpretations of Van Gogh’s paintings as well as photographic images of Van Gogh’s actual environments.

Poetry slam to be hosted Aug. 2

HelpBlueWater.com will host the 2nd Annual Orange County Poetry Blast at Club “M,” 680 S. Coast Highway, from 7 to 11 p.m. following First Thursdays Art Walk. There is no admission charge.

Preliminary rounds early in the evening will allow emerging poets the opportunity to qualify to share the stage with professional Orange County poets during the environmentally themed show.

Those who show proof of attending three or more Art Walk galleries before the event will receive a free T-shirt.

For more information, call (949) 281-6850, ext. 51, or e-mail [email protected].

Three artists in group show

Laguna artists Rik Lawrence, Mike Tauber and Helena Mercouri will be part of a group show, “Perpetual Indulgence: Warped, Wicked and Wonderful,” at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 N. Sycamore, Santa Ana.

The opening reception will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 4.

For more information, call (949) 667-1517 or visit www.occca.org.

Playhouse displays script-based art

The Screenplay Series by WHO: artist Cathy Bartels will be showing in the Broderick Gallery at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, through Sept. 3.

The series is a body of visual art related to a speculative movie script, “Let the Music Start (Soundscape in Blue).”

Bartels’s mixed media works include canvas, paper, acrylics, machine image transfers, shredded currency, spray paint, nonconflict-diamond dust, India ink, CDs, urethane and caulk.

The 18 pieces vary in size from 10 inches by 10 inches to 5 feet by 5 ½ feet.