A Busy Month
The State Fair begins on August 21st. One of my pieces for the Homeless in Sacramento series was selected for the Fine Arts Show in Building 7. Drop in! The pavilion outside always features lots of fun acts.
UniversityArt on J Street will host a preview of the ArtBra Charity Show, which is now an annual show and auction to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. The link is here: www.albieaware.org
The show and auction move to the 20th Street Gallery in September. I did a fun piece featuring our two pets called “An Imperfect Pair”…you can draw your own conclusion. So come out both months…Second Saturday is always a blast.
I was selected by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission to do a mural along Franklin Boulevard in south Sacramento. The mural will be on a wall of a building along Franklin Boulevard starting in September (of course I’ll be working on it before then if you want to come cheer me on!)
Franklin Boulevard is one of the most unique streets in Sacramento. I used to ride my bike on it when I was a kid, all the way up to one of the most sacred spots of all time: Tower Records at 16th and Broadway. El Novillero is still one of our favorite restaurants. Great food!
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Happy Independence Day
My most memorable Independence Day went like this: My dad (who is almost radically averse to buying fireworks) was outvoted by the family and forced to buy the gigantic “Battle of Yorktown” display at the Red Devil stand near us. When night fell we gathered on the sidewalk where the magical box of “safe and sane” fireworks sat. Several futile attempts were made to light the “punk”, which was a weird lighting device invented by the fireworks companies to frustrate kids and parents alike. They never worked and my dad was forced to resort to matches. It was a windy night, but dad charged head on and finally lit “The Niagara Falls”, a medium-sized cone that shot off a “waterfall” of blue sparks. No one paid attention where the remainder of “The Battle of Yorktown” was placed in relation to the cone and (you guessed it) Niagara Falls became “Entire Box”. The wind bent the stream of sparks onto the box which, as advertised, ignited in one gigantic burst of flame. It was as if a magnesium comet streaked across our neighborhood! All of us watched in awe as the Battle of Yorktown went up in a swirling, spinning, sparkling ball of colored flame. Amazing! Just as suddenly it was over and what had been the most exciting thing in the world quickly became a black heap of crappy, smoking char. It took several seconds before someone asked: “Is that all there is?” My dad shit a brick.
State Fair
For the third time, judges have accepted my work for the Fine Arts competition at the California State Fair. One of my “homeless” pieces will be on display this year. Details next time, but you can see the series at the Folsom Borders Store.
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