b. civilized will host an Artist Reception this Friday (9/28) during Art Walk for a show featuring the works of Dan Beresford, Robert Royhl, and Michael Stone. The paintings include very contemporary and bold and colorful landcsapes, and figures on canvas, paper and board. High quality, dreamlike, and surreal are some of the words that come to mind. Paintings of Butte go beyond the traditional cityscape with bright paint over photographic images.

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Enjoy the last Art Walk of the summer season this Friday from 5:30 to 8:30. All of the usual galleries will be open, and the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force is holding its annual spaghetti dinner to raise money for Park County residents who cannot afford to spay or neuter their pets. The dinner is at Chadz from 5 to 8:30 and the suggested donation is $5. Be sure to drop by The Drawing Room at 117 E. Callender (just past The Blue Slipper Theatre). Word has it that Patricia Buckley has been working on an interesting installation in her gallery space behind the shop.

There will be an art walk during the Holiday Stroll in December, but this Friday’s event rounds out a lively summer season of art. Stroll Main, Park, Callender, 2nd, and B Streets to enjoy the full range of Livingston Art Walk venues. Many shops, cafes and restaurants will be open during Art Walk. A number of them will have Silent Auction items for the Montana Spay/Neuter fundraiser.

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“A Different Light” includes works by Storrs Bishop, Lynn Carlson, Doris Davis Gallagher, Rita Halvorson, Ben Jones, Shelly Liddell, John Matthews, Judy Nahill, Phoebe Placek, Laura Poinsette, Travis Sarisky, Suzanne Schneider, Nancy Seidler, Rachel Siegel, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Brenda Wilhite, and Grey Wilson. The show opened on September 17 and runs through October 13, with an artists’ reception during this Friday’s Art Walk.

Bishop has been focusing on his portrait-taking events at the Frame Garden Gallery and the Emerson and, with this show, he is back to creating fine art images with photographs, “three dimensional photo constructions.”

I peeked in the window on my morning errands in town and I think it will be an interesting show. The Livingston Center for Art and Culture is at 119 South Main. 222-5222. Art Walk is this Friday, September 28, 5:30 – 8:30 PM.

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During this Friday’s Art Walk, the Danforth Gallery will host a reception for “Fall Back,” a show curated by Bruce Rinnert and featuring the work of Nathan Anderson (paintings), Doug Campbell (handcrafted bows, arrows, knapped stone points), Angela Salmon, Matt Smith (sculpture), and Cherlyn Wilcox (abstract paintings), and Rinnert himself (sculpture, jewlery, paintings).

Angela Salmon is a student artist at Park High School and will be showing paintings, drawings, and watercolors in the Danforth’s Pocket Gallery.

“Fall back means so many things to me,” said Rinnert. “It’s literally the season of fall, finally safe for the locals to come back out. It’s also a strategic move in the military sense, a redeployment to plan the next advancement. A wartime version of reinventing oneself.”

The last art walk of the season takes place in historic Livingston on September 28th, from 5:30 – 8:30 PM.

(There will be a holiday art walk during the Livingston Christmas stroll.)

(At right, a papier mache sculpture by Bruce Rinnert.)

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Sparkling Dawg Design’s Web site is now a blog and invites local folks who are thinking about using the Web for their business, as well as current clients, to use this forum for questions or comments on design and Web work. The site will answer some frequently asked questions, as well as questions left in comments. Current topics include “To blog or not to blog” and “search engine optimization.” Some topics for the future: the basics of image processing, creating Web slide shows, Web site options for artists, and how to use a Web site as part of a larger marketing strategy.

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