LW Art League
The Leisure World Art League will meet Tuesday, Oct. 8, in Clubhouse 4 at 7 p.m. The guest artist for this meeting is the husband and wife duo John and Troy Palmer.
The Palmers, who are LW residents, are known to their neighbors because of the life-size white horse display in their patio. They are also regulars on LW dance floors.
The Palmers will speak about the 40-plus years they spent in the entertainment industry, building items for movies such as “Apollo 13,” “Armageddon,” “Deep Impact” and “Space Cowboys,” as well as many television shows and commercials. They also produced several independent features.
Over the course of their careers, the two also supplied items to Disney World, Universal Studios and other themed entertainment venues, and built displays for museums such as the California Science Center in Exposition Park, the Smithsonian, as well as designing and building the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. Now semi-retired, John lectures at the Griffith Observatory, while Troy continues to work as a commercial designer and book illustrator, as well as showing her artwork.
The popular vote theme for this meeting is still life. People are encouraged to arrive early, especially if they have entries for the art competition. Judging will begin at 6:30 p.m. People who do not want to enter the competition can also bring paintings for display only. The Palmers are donating a 4 billion year old meteorite mounted on a pin backing (in keeping with the space theme of many of their projects) plus a copy of one of Troy’s illustrated children’s books.
The meeting/demo is open to everyone, but the competition is for Art League active members only. There is no fee to enter in the art competition. For more information about the club or about the competition categories, email Marion Higgins at mthiggins24@ gmail.com. —Larry Sioson
John (l) and Troy Palmer pose in front of one of 12 Mercury space capsule replicas built by the two for different organizations. The replicas were built from molds of the actual space capsule.
