THE ART WALK OF APRIL 12
Report by Horst, with photos by Leslie Wolf

It was a sunny afternoon in downtown Brookings, when Pete Chasar, local artist, gave the first guided tour of the year. The weather couldn’t have been better. The first stop was the parking lot of the Central Gallery, where local car enthusiasts had parked vintage and high-performance cars, to go along with the art exhibit in the main gallery inside: Watercolors of vintage cars by Janeen Vick and Dale Wells, with some of Christina Olsen’s whimsical car paintings in the front gallery. The artists were present to answer questions and mingle with the crowd. The Limericists, dressed as grease monkeys under the “Queen Mechanic” Lynne Guild, made fun of cars and car owners. Horst (keyboard) and friends Marshall Thompson (guitar/vocals) and Scott Graves (Latin percussion) entertained the Art Walkers, some of whom even did a little dancing.

The focus of the April Art Walk was a Liz James retrospective exhibit in the Library Gallery. This tribute was organized by Nancy Tuttle, local wood sculptor. Starting at 6 PM a group of Liz’s old-time friends reminisced about the artistic life in old-time Brookings and reported how Liz was instrumental in early days of the Pelican Bay Art Association, in starting a local gallery, and paint-outs. Some of her recent students presented little snippets of what it’s like to attend her classes and critique sessions. The gamut of the presentations reached from serious prose about Liz’s merits reaching beyond Brookings into the neighboring communities of Crescent City and Gold Beach, to hilariously bad limericks by friends and would-be poets making fun of her habits in the classroom. A good time was had by all, and Liz enjoyed the evening tremendously.

That’s it for today. Lots more stuff was going on, which you may find in the upcoming Art Walk report by Nola Range:

www.wildriverscoastart.typepad.com

or in a future Curry Coastal Pilot. Tune in again toward the end of April for the May Art Walk program.

Horst

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