Inside, in Manley's class room, sculptor Greg Barnes hammered away on a block of wood, demonstrating to Art Walkers his own technique of releasing form from a shapeless piece of material. In the front gallery the mixed media works of Bette Sherborn and Brenda Stafford were on display. To Top

Next stop: Signature Gallery. Kate Swan and gallery owner/artist Sandy Bonney (on the right) gave an Art Talk under the theme "Different way of viewing Art." As always, Sandy's presentation was highly educational and yet entertaining, the perfect "mental food" for Art Walkers, who found "real food" and liquids to munch on in all participating venues.

Next door, at "Eye for Art," the highly popular "Rogue River Jam" showed off the angel voices of Sharon Quinn and Jan Burris, who came all the way from Gold Beach to assist their southern fellow artists. The featured artists were award winning Dusanka Kralj and Destiny Schwartz.
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To gain access to Art Walk Alley, Art Walkers walked through Brian Scott's "Gallery Restaurant," a meeting place for south coast poets as well as musical performances by local musicians. The Ramblers were entertaining. From left to right Ron Johnson, Shirley Hyatt and Gil Kirk.

After the descending the stairs inside the Gallery Reaturant, Dale Wells lead his troops down Art Walk Alley into the PILOT's conference room, where the motley crew of Carl Rovainen's sing-along band was stationed. They were interrupted by the Limericists under Lynn Guild (the one with the hand in front of her mouth) reading their raunchy
poetry about "Brew and Boo." The photography of Scott Graves and Jef Hatch was mounted along the walls. Next door was the "Cave," a temporary (?) exhibit place for local artists. A group of hand drummers filled the room with the sounds of Latin rhythm patterns accompanied by the sound of a melodic flute. Our Art Walk photographer Steve Combs took no photos there: it was too dark.
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Next Dale lead his troops to Words and Pictures, where they found long time Brookings resident and artist Buzz Stewart showing his work. Not only is Buzz a great watercolorist, he is also an achieved bird watcher and art demonstrator.

The traditional 5:30 poetry reading at W&P was delivered by Marge Woodfin, an ardent supporter of all the arts in Brookings, a tireless supporter of women's causes, a much admired staff writer for the PILOT, and the motor driving the Toast Masters of Brookings. I also have a hunch that she runs the PILOT, also I see Charlie's name mentioned as the publisher's.
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Last stop: Chetco Community Library, our largest exhibit hall for art. Here we see two of the featured artists, John Helgeson from Crescent City and Billie Ruth Furuichi of Brookings, in front of their colorful digital images. John looks surprised! For those who don't know him: he always looks that way.

In the library Art Walkers were greeted by guitarist/vocalist Marshall Thomson from Chico, CA. Believe it or not, he comes all the way from Chico on Art Walk weekends to help us entertain our Art Walkers with his smoothly delivered pop rock. On his left the Art Walk Sirens (artist Christina Olsen and actor Sirci Kiter), taking the stage for a few songs.
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Here we see Mombo Fernandez of Crescent City, renowned percussionist,with a portion of his extensive Latin percussion gear. He accompanied Marshall and did several numbers all on his own. Not only a great drummer, but also a marvelous entertainer, never cracking a smile even at the most hilarious joke.

The Art Walk was brought to an end by Hayley McElle of "Muse Theatrix, who showed Art Walkers an example of their recent show "Cabaret." We have seen Hayley as an actor, a singer, and a dancer on many occasions in Brookings before. Too bad she didn't bring along her singing/dancing partners from "Cabaret." If you want to see Hayley in person, go to Bella Italia's wine bar on Wednesday evenings. She serves samples of not widely known wines to connoisseurs of the grape with the smooth chamber jazz of yours truly floating in the background.That's all for today. My apology to those venues, artists, and musicians I didn't mention. Either Steve didn't take pictures or I ran out of space. Go to Nola Range's website <wildriverscoastart.com> . Nola might have caught you.Tune in again towards the end of October when you will find the program for the November Art Walk on this page.
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