The 12 May, 2007 Art Walk - as reported by Horst

We lucked out again: No rain. Although the tourist season hasn't started yet, we had lots of local fans coming out. Artist Pete Chasar conducted the Art Walk Tour starting at the Manley Art Center, where oil painter Jim McCarten showed how to prepare a masonite board for painting. Even an achieved artists like Jim looks for ways to cut costs, but without giving up quality.

Next stop Central Gallery, where Christina Olsen showed her latest works and where three young fiddlers, Emerson Goode and brothers Nels and Ryan Johnson with their teacher Shirley Hyatt played for he crowd. It's heart warming to see kids like those picking up from their elders and carry on the tradition.

I don't have the space here to report on all ten venues; our Art Walk is getting bigger all the time, but the space on my website remains the same. So I will concentrate on the special events. At Words and Pictures the sensation was the exhibit of Sara Broderick's mermaids, about a dozen-and-a-half full size watercolor sheets plus the sculpture that started it all. The place was jammed most of the time. As a special, one of Sara's students, Judith Payne, and Gold Beach's celebrated Wizard of Odd, Earl Mohr, recited poetry about mermaids, most of it hilariously comical. Two art forms came together with humorous contributions, hurray!

The concentration of special events was in the library, to celebrate a show my buddy Dale Wells had put together, featuring works by himself and four other artists of the Manley Art Center: "Cars, Nothing but Cars." The hostess, Margareth Cowley, had contributed one of her own watercolors, a rusty old truck, to make the exhibit complete. Dale wore a car mechanic's outfit for the occasion. He looked amazingly good in it - considering his age.

Entertainment was by Horst Wolf and Friends. Horst was lucky to get jazz guitarist Phil Mack to sit in for the first two hours. Phil kept Horst on keyboard and Jan Marney and Steve Matson (Crescent City) on percussion gasping for air. The crowd loved it. At 6 pm Art Walkers had a surprise. Laurie Johnson, one of the teachers of the Brookings Tai Chi Club, gave a talk and demonstration (the first chapter of Tai Chi). She explained that Martial Arts are not just for self defense, but for finding the inner self, for relaxation and for reaching a healthy and content old age. Looking at Laurie you can tell it works.

The last chapter of the Walk was contributed by the Limericists at 6:30 pm. They were introduced by the newly elected Limerick Queen, Lynne Guild of our beloved PILOT. Lynne had them show up in togas with laurel wreaths on their head and bells ringing and horns blaring. Despite of the new look, those guys' poetry stank to heaven as usual ................... of course the crowd loved it as usual. As measured by the judge's (Brian Scott) decibell meter, this was the high point of the evening.

Tune in again to this station around the end of May to find the program for the June Art Walk.

PS: In June our 2nd Saturday Art Walk will celebrate its 3rd anniversary!

Horst

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