Birds, Bistro, Dancing and Painting, Classes and Vedeos of Art on the Avenues

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, it seems like forever since I last published a blog on the art exploits of Rod and Martha and indeed it has been too too long and much has been done in the past several weeks.

Since last I wrote I made a video of Martha presenting a lecture of an Artist Trust presentation that we then submitted to the Artist Trust for their review as sort of a video audition if you will for a contract to do such presentations to artist across Central Washington. Just yesterday Martha had her phone consult and review with the folks at A.T. They were very happy with the video and only had a couple of instructive comments. Looks like we will be doing another video with an audience next and then further training for Martha and then she’ll likely start making presentations from Wenatchee to Yakima, Ephrata, Moses Lake and elsewhere.

This past Saturday on June 15^th, Martha did her clay modeling class at Two Rivers Gallery. It was a great success.  Jan Theriault, the Director and President of the Board related to me that it was the best turn out for any class they have offered so far.  Yeah! Martha.  I only turned up at the tail end of the event, at the end of a 25mile bike ride, just in time to see all the happy faces of the participants and the finished products and most importantly in time to clean up and put away all the materials.

At my end, this past week, I received the call from Terrie Henson the owner of the Black Bird Gallery in Leavenworth, WA firming up plans to have a show of my abstract photos there in the month of July. So; on July 1^st, I’ll be taking a collection of my ‘Reflection and Refraction’ photo works to the Bistro. This is good timing as we need to get up to Leavenworth right about then to pick up the rest of our art from Icicle Arts Gallery and the Icicle Brewery that were part of the Bird Fest / Birds and Their Habitat shows.

And, lest I forget, I produced a video of Martha Painting and Dancing live at the Icicle Arts which at my last writing had not successfully uploaded to YouTube. Since then I have reproduced the video and submitted it successfully to both YouTube and to GoWedia our local video sharing site.

Earlier this week I attended a meeting, in Martha’s stead, for ‘Art on the Avenues’. This is the organization responsible for the phenomenal collection of public art in downtown Wenatchee. Some of the works revolve and some are part of their permanent collection. As it turned out they were very interested in my videos and blogs and the fact that I have already published a video showcasing the Art on the Avenues sculptures. That being the case I was asked if I would like to be part of a working group involving technology and communication and of course they want Martha to come to the next meeting to be in one of the other work groups.

As I write Martha is now preparing to head up to Leavenworth for a meeting with Alicia McKee the Director of Icicle Arts Gallery at the Barn Beach Reserve regarding multiple classes she will be teaching up there during the month of July. Busy, busy, busy!!!

The other cool thing coming up in July is that Martha will make a presentation at the Third Wednesday event in Soap Lake and the Art Guild there has expressed an interest in having Martha teach some art classes up there as well.

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