During this last month, the Mendocino Art Center has had visitors from all over the world. These are visitors to the website, approximately 3500 last month and they came from Europe, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, South and Central America, Canada, and all but two US states.

We had visitors from Florence, Athens, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, London, Dublin, Zurich and Amsterdam; from Delhi, Bangkok, Pretoria, Montreal, Sydney, Seoul, Shanghai, and Santiago. From the UK, from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany; from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal; from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Croatia. We had visitors from Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, and Israel; from Nigeria, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, South Africa, and the island of Mauritius. We had visitors from India and Nepal, from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Mongolia. We had visitors from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, and Mexico.

Of course most of our visitors are from the United States, and most of those are from California. But we also have a large contingency from Texas. We’re getting respectable numbers from Washington, Oregon, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia and Georgia. And we’re getting a smattering of visitors from every other state in the country, with the exceptions of North and South Dakota.

We had visitors from Fairbanks and Anchorage, from Honolulu and the Big Island of Hawaii. We seem to have a following in New York City, in Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, and Portland. We had nearly as many visitors from the Bay Area as we did from the Mendocino area, and Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego is well represented. In fact, the whole California coast seems to know about the Mendocino Art Center.

So, if you're wondering who cares about art these days, and who’s checking in to see what's happening at the Mendocino Art Center, know that we're attracting a growing, international community of artists and art appreciators. And, if you’re reading this, know you’re part of that community and we’d love to hear from you! Leave a comment. Say hello; tell us where you’re from and what brought you to the website. We’d like to start a two-way conversation. That’s why we built this blog! We hope The Mendo Voice will become a gathering place, and that means we're hoping to hear from you. (Yes you!)

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molly

Hello Everyone,

We've added something new to the Mendocino Art Center website: a blog. And just what is a blog, you may wonder. Well, blog is short for "web log." A blog is an online publishing tool made up of posts or diaries that are archived for later reference. Blogs can display pictures, written content, and links to interesting references. Blogs are interactive; they allow visitors to leave comments about the posts.

We hope the Mendo Voice will provide a format for our growing Mendocino Art Center community to interact, discuss ideas, share art and information, and just have a good time together. We're hoping many of you out there will become "trusted readers" and "trusted bloggers"—that is, people who use this blog and help make it a community, either by reading and commenting or by contributing diaries yourself.

If you're interested in becoming one of our "trusted bloggers," please contact me (Molly, the web mistress—can I call myself that without blushing?) I can be reached at ariadne@well.com. It's not hard to learn the technicalities of registering and writing, and I'll be happy to assist everyone in getting started.