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Military Salute - July
10, 2008 ACTIVITIES AND ENTERTAINMENT Enjoy
a performance by the Abilene Community Band in Everman park at 6:30 PM. Stop
by the Center for Contemporary Arts to hear the HSU chamber string ensemble,
to see the new exhibit, El Amor es Peligroso by Anthony and Mary K. Kiel
Huff, and to see the Acholi Crossroads photography exhibit by Michael Friberg
on the second floor. Americans have been fascinated by
the tropical islands of the Philippines for more than a hundred years, and you'll
be fascinated by Shirley Bryant's collection of warm water Philippine sea shells
on display this month at the Abilene Public Library. While you're in, take
a peek at the library's mural devoted to all the wonders that spring from the
imagination and the pages of children's literature. The
NCCIL is joining forces with Hendrick Health System, the Abilene Right
Weigh Project and the Community Foundation of Abilene to present UNCLE SAM
WANTS YOU TO BE HEALTHY! Join us at the NCCIL for a fun and educational evening
highlighting the benefits of healthy living. Bring your family, young and old,
and enjoy a summer evening filled with activities for "kids" of all
ages, including a family scavenger hunt, story time throughout the evening with
talking vegetables, art activities in the NCCIL Art Studio and the Right Weigh
Get Fit Boot Camp on the parking lot. There will be free giveaways and a chance
to win a Nintendo Wii system! At the Grace Museum,
create a patriotic bracelet in Make It and Take It, a free hands-on art activity
for kids of all ages. Make It and Take It is available from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. Eternal
Threads and the Sanctuary Home for Children will have a table set up in Minter
Park to display and sell some of their wonderful new raffia items from Madagascar,
and Henna artist Amanda Petit will provide body art for a small fee. Stop
in at Monks Coffee Shop for an iced tuxedo mocha and to see artwork by
Lisa Beacleay and Mary Fink. Cockerell Galleries
invites you to participate in Creative Camouflage art projects with Bonni Littleton,
to see beautiful calligraphy by Anita Lane and Suzanne Starr and to experience
henna body art with artist Diana Burk. For small hands the cost will be $5, and
for bigger hands, $10! The Abilene Swing Dance Society
(ASDS) will be held from 8:00 - 11:00 PM in the Windsor Hotel Ballroom (401
Pine Street). There will be a dance lesson for the first hour. The price is $5. GALLERIES
AND MUSEUMS The Center for Contemporary Arts, 220
Cypress St.
Jane Adams Breed Gallery: El Amor es
Peligroso by Anthony and Mary K. Kiel Huff
You better pay attention. The
road can get bumpy. Love is dangerous.
Gallery 2:
The Mortal Part by Philip Van Keuren - Philip Van Keuren is an Art Professor
at SMU who exhibits photograph diptychs featuring complementary images of nature
and architecture.
Gallery 3: Pie R Square -
Center Artist Member Group Exhibit - The Center's Artist Members are at it again!
Come see their witty interpretation of the formula pir2.
Gallery
4: The Secrets of Nature by Larry Millar - This installation by Larry Millar
reveals the hidden potential of natural materials.
Conference Room: Acholi
Crossroads by Michael Friberg
The Grace Museum,
102 Cypress St.
Main Gallery: Zero to 60: Art of
the Automobile. The Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) is composed of a small
group of painters and sculptors who are automotive enthusiasts and portray various
aspects of the automobile in their fine art. AFAS was established in 1982 by six
individuals who aspired to organize the world's most prolific group of automotive
fine artists. AFAS currently has 30 members living around the globe who are dedicated
to making automotive fine art a genre that appeals to a wide range of fine art
connoisseurs.
Second Floor: Galleries A and B - Nosotras:
Portraits of Latinas
Nosotras features 50 photographs,
both black-and-white and color, from eight emerging photographers documenting
the lives and culture of Latinas. These striking images convey dignity and strength
in the faces, families, and traditions of multiple generations.
Second
Floor: Gallery C - Lilian Garcia-Roig: Into the Woods. Garcia-Roig is known
for lush landscape paintings that create the illusion of recognizable dense forest
settings that dissolve in to a colorful network of thick gestural paint. Painting
directly from life in the Texas Hill Country, the Washington foothills, or a Florida
ravine, Garcia-Roig creates landscape portraits of a specific place recording
her experience.
Come Play and Learn in The Grace's
Children's Museum, featuring many new exhibits that are certain to educate and
entertain!
Third Floor: History Museum - Mallouf Boot
Shop and Historic Rooms
NCCIL (National Center for
Children's Illustrated Literature)
102 Cedar St.
The
Way We Work by David Macaulay - This exhibit will be open through July 26,
2008.
Frontier Texas!, 625 N. 1st St.
Frontier
Texas! will be open from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Receive $1 off admission all day when
you ask for the ArtWalk discount.
ACU*Cockerell Gallery
& Studios, 1133 N. 2nd St.
ACU*Gallery: Knocking
At the Door: an Interactive Exhibition of Design and Function, by ACU Students
and Faculty. You are welcome to attend an opening reception beginning at 5:00
PM.
Cockerell Galleries "Upstairs" proudly
presents July's featured artist, T.M. Gand. Her show in #207 will display an array
of vividly-colored, textured paintings! NEW to Cockerell Galleries is guest artist
Natasha Hart with the never before displayed exhibit A Prompting Heart: A Series
of Self Portraits. Enjoy a visit with Ash Almonte in her "painted" studio;
enjoy the larger-than-life pieces by Brittany Bennett and Stacy Horton of Studio
Brista, #210. Take in the beauty of Nancy Capra's oils, and pieces by her daughter,
Hannah Capra in their new studio, #213. NEW to our 'family' is one of our own
family, Kay Cockerell & her friend, Patty Bowdoin, in the Last Studio Left,
#206. Heather Turner and Joanna Fortson of #212 welcome all to peruse their pottery,
photography, and art. Samantha Manski loves to share her "world of photography";
and photographer, Tammy Marcelain of #203 would love to visit with those interested
in wedding packages, school pictures, etc. Jessica Natalee Templeton warmly welcomes
everyone to come for a visit and to enjoy her brightly-colored joyful pieces!
Have questions about hypnotherapy? Christy Kahl has answers, so come for a little
visit in her beautifully relaxing studio. 12th Armored
Division Memorial Museum, 1289 N. 2nd St.
Enjoy
free admission to this wonderful collection of WWII Memorabilia.
SPECIALTY
SHOPS
Cassandra's and Company, 173 Pine
St. Open until 7:00 PM during ArtWalk.
The Leaf, 202 Cypress St. The Leaf features
an espresso bar with hot and iced espresso beverages, including Italian sodas,
iced tea, and sodas; tobacco, cigars, and pipes, teas and gifts.
The
Honeycomb Tree, 1166 N. 2nd St. Texas Star Trading
Company, 174 Cypress St. will be open until 8:00 PM for shopping. Be sure
to drop by! RESTAURANTS, COFFEE SHOPS, and COCKTAILS
The
Beehive, 442 Cedar St. Enjoy live music, free hors d'oeuvres and a happy hour
drink special from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Cypress
Street Station, 158 Cypress St.
Monks
Coffee Shop, 233 Cypress St. Stop in to enjoy a great cup of coffee and enjoy
art by Lisa Beacleay and Mary Fink. Open until Midnight, Thursday-Saturday.
McKay's
Bakery, 226 Cypress St. Satisfy your sweet tooth with a tasty treat, or stop
by for a sandwich and soup.
The Iron Horse Coffeehouse,
421 Pine
The Warehouse in the T&P,
N. 1st & Pine St. Continue the fun into the night with live music & drink
specials. Open 5:00 - 7:00 PM for Happy Hour. Open until midnight. 21 & up.
The Civic Plaza Hotel, 505 Pine
St. The lobby and restaurant will be open from 5:00 - 9:00 PM.
PARK
AND STREET VENDORS
Dream On!
will offer free dream interpretations in front of Busch Jewelers. In Minter Park,
Jenna Jones will be giving free five minute massage demos, David Wendland
and Gina Pierce will sell painted knick knacks, and Eternal Threads and
the Sanctuary Home for Children will have goods for sale. Stacey Henrion
will be selling handmade jewelry. In Everman Park, the Abilene Community Band
will be performing. Keep Abilene Beautiful will have brochures on Xeriscaping
and info on Friends of Keep Abilene Beautiful available in front of Cockerell
Galleries.
SUPPORT
AND FUNDING ArtWalk, a major program of the
Center for Contemporary Arts, is supported by: Abilene Cultural Affairs Council:
the City of Abilene, Taylor County, and the Downtown Revitalization Program of
the Tax Increment Finance District, Campbell Foundation, GAP Radio, Abilene Reporter-News,
the Dodge Jones Foundation and the Texas Commission on the Arts. ARTWALK
MONTHLY SPONSORS Minuteman Press, The Arrangement/T&P
Event Center/The Warehouse Depot Company, First Texas Title - Bradshaw & McCall
LLP, Mike Dunnahoo's Star Dodge-Hyundai, N-Tune Music & Sound, CBS
Insurance, Philpott Florists/Greenhouses, Bogie's Specialty Deli, Lads & Lassies,
Abilene Regional Airport, MCM Elegante Suites, Abilene Ballet Theatre
To find out how you can participate in ArtWalk, contact
Jamie Shelburne at 325-677-8389 or jamie@center-arts.com.
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