Dancing Martha, Peace Art and Art Gigs Galore

 

 

 

 

 

Well, it’s been quite the week for the art and art projects of me and Martha Flores.

 

First off, no sooner had I put the finishing touches on the art in the Valley and Beyond blog covering the opening reception out in Moses Lake the previous Friday, than I received a call from Freya Liggett the Museum Manager out at the Moses Lake Museum and Cultural Center that Martha’s application to be a featured artist there was accepted and we finalized dates for June and July of 2014… yes they schedule that far out at the MAC in Moses Lake.

As the week progressed the calls just coming through for more art gigs and opportunities. One of those was from Libby Gerber with Artist Trust in Seattle.  She had a great idea for Martha to do some artist presentations on our side of the mountains for them. Another, also from Seattle, was from Oleana Perry with the Nature Consortium who was in need of an artist for the Second Thursday Art Walk at their office in West Seattle. We have wanted to do something in West Seattle for some time so, we made plans to meet with Libby and attend the art walk on Thursday where we could meet with Oleana . Thursday turned out great and readers can enjoy a description of the day and view the art on my Art in Valley and Beyond Blog. The upshot is that Martha will be doing the Artist Trust presentations and will be the featured artist at the Nature Consortium for the Art Walk in West Seattle on April 11, 2013. Yeah!

For Martha the hits just kept on coming this week as calls came and meetings happened laying out plans for art classes closer to home. Here in town at the Lewis and Clark Elementary School on April 9^th, she will teach the ‘Fruits and Flowers art class. Then this summer she’ll be at the Wenatchee Valley Museumand Cultural Center, where she’ll be teaching a ‘Confidence in Art’ class in July and a ‘Fantasy Island’ creativity class in August. Hot times summer in the city with Martha Flores.

On April 23, Martha will be Dancing and Painting Live’ at the Icicle Brewery in Leavenworth and then on May 19^th, she will be ‘Dancing and Painting Live’ again for the Leavenworth Birdfest at Icicle Arts in the Sunroom. Wow! Well, at least she’ll have a month between to let her feet rest.

At my end, I finished another in my series of Peace Art works and placed an order for two of these to be printed up. One of these ‘Free Tibet’ is a very metallic digital painting and the other is a simpler but very powerful digital painting also on the theme of plight of the people of Tibet. This one of a monk self-immolating with a crying dove of peace in the foreground. I’m also working on an acrylic painting of same and a new piece on the theme of non-violent protest around the world with special emphasis on Budrus.

 Earlier in the week I received the call from Alicia McKee that my ‘Time is on Myside’ acrylic on paper painting of Mick Jagger was accepted for the ‘Expressions of Time’ show at the Icicle ArtsGallery in Leavenworth. So; come Saturday I stopped in at Simply Unique in town to pick up my ‘Kingfisher’ photo to replace the Jagger piece which was at at the Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee.

Having switched out the art at the PAC I headed on out to Leavenworth with Mick in hand and checked it in. There I got a first glimpse at the some of the other art for the show and took some pics for my Wenatchee World Online blog. It looks to be a good show and I’m looking forward to attending the opening this Friday.

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