Meetings, meetings, meetings. Yesterday and today have been full of art related meetings and planning sessions. In the morning yesterday, it was a meeting of the Wenatchee First Friday planning group at 8:30. It was great to get together with a great bunch of artists and art supporters and community minded folks. There is no budget for anything so all printings and supplies be paper, ink chalk for the streets or just time is all donated by those wanting Wenatchee’s First Friday art walk events to be a success. We were fortunate to have someone from the coast Hotels who has worked with art walks elsewhere – like Portland’s massively successful Pearl District First Thursday art walk. The numbers he quoted as to how many people attend First Thursdays there were just incredible. We would be a great success at just a fraction of those numbers of participants. Having checked out the Portland Oregon First Thursday web site http://www.firstthursdayportland.com/ , I can say that if I’m ever in Portland during one of their First Thursdays, that’s where you will find me.
As to our own planning it was all coming together as to design of the new brochure and maps and there were clearly more venues coming on board all the time. I can see this getting really big. One of the members will be creating stencils that when sprayed with spray chalk on the sidewalks of downtown Wenatchee, will direct folks to the various venues. More individualized chalk art can be done by participating site personnel or clientele. Sounds like a fun and unique way to get the people moving around to the various First Friday sites.
Mc Dee’s Art Center will be doing both printing and supplying the red balloons that each site will fly outside their gallery or storefront. And, Pak-it-Rite offered to sell wine to any of the venues serving wine for First Fridays at wholesale…NICE!
Some time spent discussing how to get people to end at the sites that will provide live music. In the end it was found best not to try too hard to make people think of a particular beginning or ending place –that it’s best to let people be random and determine where and when they end their adventure.
After the meeting I learned that the book I had listed for Two Rivers Gallery on Amazon.com had sold. Of course I had forgotten the password and such and had to spend time between other obligations around town getting that and then getting book off to its destination. Success all the way around on the amazon.com thing. It looks like more books will be listed now that Two Rivers knows that that is a viable way to sell.
Today it was another meeting this time with the planning group for the Two Rivers Gallery subcommittee on the possibility of a Saddle Rock plein-air paint off event. We all had a good time watching the video of the bare- chested potter, Terry Johnson making raku pottery online at http://www.tinynet.com/terrysigns.html . Also, the idea of a Two Rivers Gallery Face Book page was brought up. So; I started working on one http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Two-Rivers-Gallery/202718556425459 , but didn’t have any artwork on a thumb drive with me to finish it up right; so I’ll have to get back to that later. All-in-all a busy couple of days and that’s not all of it but, that is all I’m going to write about for now.
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