CHICO, Calif. \u2014 The Snow Goose Festival wraps up its four-day run on Sunday, but bird lovers will still have plenty to see indoors.<\/p>\n
The exhibit features 100 selected works drawn from a pool of roughly 300 submissions. Limited gallery space inside MONCA\u2019s three-wing building meant many pieces had to be left out, according to museum officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an exhibition committee of six people, and we all vote on it,\u201d said Pat Macias, MONCA\u2019s director.<\/p>\n
While many of the artists hail from Northern California communities such as Chico and Corning, the show attracted submissions from across the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, they come from Berkeley, they come from San Jose, they come from all of the areas in between,\u201d Macias said.<\/p>\n
Macias said birds continue to inspire artists because of their vivid colors, intricate feather patterns and symbolism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re beautiful. They do such interesting things,\u201d she said. \u201cThey feed each other, they fly over, and an artist can interpret that any way they want.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visitors were already stopping by the exhibit even before its official public opening. Regina, one of the early viewers, said art appreciation is fundamental.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think people should appreciate art,\u201d she said. \u201cI think they do appreciate art. It\u2019s a part of being human.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another visitor, George, said one owl painting stood out to him because of how it extended beyond the frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of cool that it leaves the page and goes onto the wall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The exhibition \u201cPerch, Flutter, Soar\u201d will remain on display at MONCA through March 15. The museum is open Thursdays through Sundays, and admission is $5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICO, Calif. \u2014 The Snow Goose Festival wraps up its four-day run on Sunday, but bird lovers will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19786,7,9,8,41284,972,100,10285,6981,136],"class_list":["post-149794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-butte-county","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-glenn-county","tag-local","tag-news","tag-shasta-county","tag-tehama-county","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}