Brookings Art Walk of 5/13 as reported by Horst
This was the biggest Art Walk ever, with nine venues participating, too many to write about in the space allotted here. So I will concentrate on the Art Walk "Events."

At Manley Art Center Carl Rovainen and his crew of seven entertained the crowded gallery with a selection of Gilbert and Sullivan. In my opinion it was the best crew Carl has put together so far. You could see they all loved to ham it up and the audience loved it. I can only hope the town's Pelican Players take Carl's lead and come out to perform a skit or two for the Art Walkers in future months.

Next stop the brand new Signatures Gallery. Sandy Bonney and Joe Tonini (JTo) have done an outstanding job in transforming the former "Home by the Sea" into a first class art gallery - lots of space and breathing room for the art. The giclee prints of JTo are of incredible quality as evidenced by many examples which show the print next to the original. Especially with watercolors it is almost impossible to tell the difference without opening up the frame. Of special interest were the oversize prints of watercolors on canvas - more impressive than the real thing. At 5:03, on the dot as advertised, the Limericists produced their stick. The theme was the advent of the new gallery. JTo and Sandy were mercilessly fried. The judge, Brian Scott, reading his hi-tech applause meter carefully after every limerick, declared Elmo Williams the winner. The price: a signal horn in temporary custody. Afterwards Tom Tanzi entertained the crowd on his new Roland keyboard, a hell of a machine.

A short stop at Brian Scott to pay my $2 entry fee for the fund raiser for the Brookings-Harbor High school (BHHS) fund raiser and take a photo of the jazz trio. It seem the art auction outside and the poetry reading upstairs went well.

At COLOURS a 2 minute stop to say hello to Karen and Mark, the newest members on our team of Art Walk musicians. Unfortunately they just took a short break. Then I had to run over to Words and Pictures, where Shirley Hyatt read at 5:30 from her latest novel "Side Effects." Art Walkers know Shirley as a violinist/vocalist, but few know of her literary talent. Amazing! A great delivery.

Last stop library, where pianist Jerry Moffit had brought along one of his vocal students in the first half. A good performance; so I was told by "ear witnesses." When I came at 5:45, Tom Broderick was playing the keyboard and the room was practically empty. A dozen or so people showed up for "Artists Talk" at 6 P.M. Jim Coffee (Gold Beach) told us how he "stitches" together his high resolution panoramic photos; Rick Bennet (Gasquet, CA) talked about his watercolor techniques. The other artists, Jim Davenport (Coos Bay) and Doug Kinney (Port Orford) didn't make it. I assume the high price of gas had something to do with it. I tried my best to talk about those artists and their work and the audience seemed to be satisfied. Then I ran home where we had a party for the Art Walk musicians, that was even better than the Art Walk.

Visit this site again about the beginning of June and you will find the program for the June 10 Art Walk.

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Horst

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