Members of San Luis Outdoor Painters for the Environment, SLOPE, were invited to exhibit original paintings and fine art prints during the Celebration at the Goodwin Education Center at Carrizo Plain National Monument, celebrating Nature’s abundant wildflower display, and they are excited to participate!

This year’s bloom was early and wonderful and a super treat. It doesn’t occur every year, and when it does SLOPE artists get invigorated to go there and capture it on canvas and paper and preserve those special moments and color for posterity.

Acclaimed San Luis Outdoor Painters for the Environment, SLOPE, features some of our region’s top landscape artists, who use their art to raise awareness, funding and education for the Central Coast’s treasured open space, ranches, farmland and wildlife. A portion of the proceeds from sales at this event will benefit Friends of the Carrizo Plain. They will be showing and selling Carrizo Plain artworks.

Participating Artists:  Jan French, Dotty Hawthorne, Sandi Heller, Joe McFadden, Laurel Sherrie and Gisele Thompson.

Carrizo Plain National Monument is one of the best kept secrets in California.  Only 1-2 hours from San Luis Obispo, the Carrizo Plain offers visitors a rare chance to be alone with nature.  Some visitors say you can "hear the silence."  The plain is home to diverse communities of wildlife and plant species including several listed as threatened or endangered and is an area culturally important to Native Americans.

Please save this date and help to celebrate the 25 years of our very own Carrizo Plain National Monument.