The North Village Artwalk was an evening event following the annual Fall Columbia Festival of the Arts. Although given almost no media coverage, other than a little blurb in the Columbia Tribune insert about the Festival of the Arts, we had about 50 or so people come by our exhibit in the parking lot of the Auto Radio business on N. 10th Street. Click on this sentence to see the participant list and a link to to Artwalk map/poster. The event was scheduled to start at 4 in the afternoon but we got there about 45 minutes early to set up. We were all set up at 4 and a few minutes later a strong wind came up and blew one of my easels, with art attached, over into my other easel, breaking the easel apart and scattering my stuff all over. Certainly a tramatic sight on my part, but some bystanders and Artwalk officials seemed far more upset than I with the crash.... I chalked it all up as 'poop happens' and went ahead.... most later observers didn't even notice the broken easel and none of my pieces showed any real damage...
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| My friend, Elaine, helping set up before the wind-caused crash.. | |
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Elaine helping recover and set back up after the crash.. Notice the top portion of the easel has broken off. |
| The top and bottom of the ill-fated easel... note the duct-tape holding the bottom together....great stuff that duct-tape!!!! |  |
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Just me with some of my stuff. |
| Looking back toward the truck. |  |
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Elaine speaking with an interested couple. The photographer is from one of the local papers(I believe). 3 reporters from 3 local papers came by our spot and asked questions and took pictures.. The piece being photographed is my Bather piece and is the yellow sculpure in the above picture. For closeup of The Bather click on this sentence. |
