Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Biography – The Fathomless Tides of the Heart by Peter Thabit Jones

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Biography – The Fathomless Tides of the Heart by Peter Thabit Jones

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Biography – The Fathomless Tides of the Heart by Peter Thabit Jones

Last Sunday, May 7 was the celebratory launch of Carolyn’s new biography, The Fathomless Tides of the Heart at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. The event was a chance to meet with Carolyn and the book’s author, Peter Thabit Jones, the internationally-published Welsh poet, playwright, and librettist. His book is co-published by Cross-Cultural Communications and The Seventh Quarry Press. The launch was a grand success, with the combination of Peter’s introduction and his readings from the Bio, and Carolyn’s spontaneous, original, and inspiring responses to Magnus’ questioning. The audience was captivated, and a joyful time under the sunny skies was had by all.

Arthur Williamson, Ph.D., author, retired professor, and historian wrote 〝It is no small matter to write the development of a poet, artist, and thinker of Carolyn Kleefeld’s stature, yet Peter Thabit Jones’ biography rises to the challenge, offering insight not only into her voice and vision but into the dynamics of creativity itself – its tensions, complexities, mysteries.

Publisher Stanley Barkan further writes, 〝 … [a) detailed, fascinating, and page-turner biography… The Fathomless Tides of the Heart takes readers on a saga of [Kleefeld’s] amazing life.. many notable acquaintances, romantic loves, philosophical exploration, and creativity in image and word, that has touched so many worldwide…

The book includes iconic figures of the literary world, Hollywood, and the 60s counterculture, including Anaïs Nin, Allen Ginsberg, Jacques Cousteau, Ted Turner, Rod Steiger, Laura Huxley, Dr. Timothy Leary, and Leonard Cohen.

Both Carolyn and Peter were present at the launch for an introduction by Peter, readings from the book, a discussion with Magnus, the director of the Library, Carolyn, and Peter, as well as a book signing.

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld – CAJA Ukrainian Support Fund
Left to Right: Carolyn and Peter Thabit Jones; The Fathomless Tides of the Heart on display; Attendees at the Henry Miller Library
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum – On Top of a Mountain Exhibition

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum – On Top of a Mountain Exhibition

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum – On Top of a Mountain Exhibition

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum presents Carolyn’s newest exhibition, On Top of a Mountain, which opened on February 7 and will run through December 2023. The exhibition showcases her works from her Northern California home where she has welcomed friends, creatives, and thought leaders for decades.

In her journals, she describes her studio as situated “on top of a mountain”, and has inspired this selection of works. Her way of living is organized around sustained engagement with nature, love, solitude, writing and visual art making, and a rejection of market values and consumerism. Always inspired by life, the art on view is part of the artist’s large gift to the Museum.

Some of Carolyn’s paintings and drawings in the exhibition.
Left to Right: Cosmic Energy Beams, Cosmic Stage Over the Rocks, Circus Icon, I Receive Planetary Guidance, and World Catastrophes.

Philanthropist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld Initiates the CAJA Ukrainian Support Fund

Philanthropist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld Initiates the CAJA Ukrainian Support Fund

The photo (above) shows a large group and not sure how they came across an American flag, but this symbolizes the joint effort of the Fund. Emelia and Jarek are in the center, back row.

In the past few weeks, Carolyn’s treasured friend Jack Robinson and Carolyn created the CAJA Ukrainian Support Fund, which will provide monthly vouchers for food and needed supplies to 78 Ukrainian individuals and families in Poland. Jack traveled to Poland 3 months ago and has been valiantly volunteering to help distribute food to the refugees, making friends with many, and meeting other heroes helping with the refugees. Through these efforts, he realized how much help such a voucher program would be and identified, along with his Polish colleagues, Emelia and Jarek, the recipients who could most benefit. Together Carolyn and Jack established this Fund, and Jack last week distributed the first vouchers.

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld – CAJA Ukrainian Support Fund

Left: Emelia (white shirt and sunglasses), with each person holding one of the vouchers. Right: A group of women recipients, including Inna (blue shirt), only 20 years old and in Poland alone from Kiev, continuing her pre-law studies online, while cleaning houses and volunteering during this time.

Carolyn is humbled and honored to be able to make a difference for people in need during this time of humanitarian crisis.

Stanley Barkan, messages Carolyn about her “Immortal Seeds”

Stanley Barkan, messages Carolyn about her “Immortal Seeds”

Stanley H. Barkan is the publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications and the editor of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, that has, to date, produced some 400 titles in 57 different languages. His own poetry has been translated into 25 different languages, and he is the author of 18 original poetry collections, several of which are bilingual. He has assisted with the publication of many of Carolyn’s books in a variety of languages.

Stanley, Carolyn’s publisher, left her a message on her answering machine, which she loved and wanted to share with her friends and public. “My beloved friend and publisher Stanley Barkan left me this most sacred and meaningful message after reading my latest book, Immortal Seeds, said Carolyn.

Dear Carolyn, this is Stanley. I just reread, very carefully, page by page, five pages at a time, Immortal Seeds. I’m sitting here thinking of you and David on a skiff sailing in the clouds of the seventh heaven where the ancient gods still drink their nectar, eat their ambrosia and offer you, waiting for you to come where Orpheus will play his lyre and you will sing your poetry and David will lie there listening with joy. So, Carolyn, you have touched me deeply in my deep heart’s core, to quote Yeats, and I am very proud and humble to be your publisher. Love you. Bye.

This photo of Stanley was taken by Bebe Barkan, his wife, as he is reading during a Walking Tour of Dylan Thomas event.

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum Opens its Doors with New Look, New Exhibits

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum Opens its Doors with New Look, New Exhibits

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

California State University, Long Beach

A project to more than double the exhibition space and add state-of-the-art supporting functions at the Kleefeld, as some at Cal State Long Beach call it, is nearly complete after 18 months of construction. The work is part of a $24 million renovation that includes upgrades to the Steve and Nini Horn Center and landscaping around the building that includes multiple sculpture installations.

“We’ve suffered from some supply-chain issues, like everyone,” museum spokeswoman Amanda Fruta said, “but we’re opening essentially on time. Some of the smaller things aren’t done yet, but we’re ready for the public.”

The Museum opens with temporary limited hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays in addition to second Saturdays and reservation-based visitation on Fridays.

Tours of the Public Art Park, including campus sculpture gardens, murals and a new mosaic are available at noon each second Saturday of the month starting with opening day on February 12. The Museum is closed Sundays and Mondays.

The transformation is intended to better serve visitors with accessible facilities, inclusive policies and multi-use spaces that will make the only free museum in Long Beach welcoming for everyone. Renovations also offer opportunities for groups to host small receptions outside on Patron’s Plaza and in the north gardens.

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Original Article from Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum by By Janis Carr
Cal State Long Beach’s Expanded Art Museum

Cal State Long Beach’s Expanded Art Museum

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

California State University, Long Beach

A project to more than double the exhibition space and add state-of-the-art supporting functions at the Kleefeld, as some at Cal State Long Beach call it, is nearly complete after 18 months of construction.

Art pieces are being hung in one last gallery as the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum prepares for a soft opening later this week.

A project to more than double the exhibition space and add state-of-the-art supporting functions at the Kleefeld, as some at California State University, Long Beach call it, is nearly complete after 18 months of construction. The work is part of a $24 million renovation that includes upgrades to the Steve and Nini Horn Center and landscaping around the building that includes multiple sculpture installations.

“We’ve suffered from some supply-chain issues, like everyone,” museum spokeswoman Amanda Fruta said, “but we’re opening essentially on time. Some of the smaller things aren’t done yet, but we’re ready for the public.”

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Original Article from Grunion Gazette and printed in Press-Telegram
By By Harry Saltzgaver

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