The first Art Walk of the 2008 season is Friday, June 27 from 5:30 to 8:30. With over 14 galleries, Livingston’s Art Walk is always a festive and interesting evening. Here are some of the galleries participating, in alphabetical order:

  b civilized 113 West Park Street 222-5996

Chatham Fine Art 120 North Main Street 222-1566

Crazy Mountain Digital Photography 124 South 2nd 222-2355

Danforth Gallery 106 North Main 222-6510

The Drawing Room 117 E. Callender Street

Garre Fine Art 112 North Main 222-7847

The Frame Garden 110 East Callender 222-5122

Livingston Center for Art and Culture 119 South Main 222-5222

Mordam Art 109 South Main 222-0321

Parks Reece Gallery 119 South Main, Suite A3 222-572

Reed Lehman Pottery 112 W. Callendar 222-7618

Tierra Montana 116 North Main 222-3000

Visions West Gallery 108 South Main 222-0337

Livingston’s shops, cafes and restaurants will also be open for the evening.

Gallery map.

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This Sunday only, the Blue Slipper Theatre is offering a Reader’s Theatre production of “A Body of Water: A Play in Three Days,” written by  Lee Blessing.  Actors will read without a set in a perfromance directed by  Douglas Sebern and featuring actors Cara Wilder, Greg Owens, and Emily Jones. The show is on Sunday, June 29 at 3:15 PM and admission is free (with an optional suggested donation of $5). Seating is open and first come, first served so arrive early. Doors open at 3:00 PM. The Blue Slipper is at 113 East Callender Street (between Main and B Streets). 222-7720.

The Blue’s first Reader’s Theatre of the season was a huge success. Reader’s Theatre offers an interesting way to see a play, and you can’t beat the price.

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The Tacoma Art Museum is accepting works from Montana (and other Northwest) artists for its 9th Annual Biennial Exhibition.

HOW TO ENTER:
Entry Deadline: Saturday, July 26, 2008, midnight
Applications only accepted online at www.callforentry.org
Only work created since January 2007 will be considered.
Read the complete press release: Rich Text Format | PDF

ABOUT THE BIENNIAL [excerpted from the TAM Web site]:

Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial considers recent developments and accomplishments by Northwest artists. The 9th Northwest Biennial will focus on the current aesthetic and conceptual concerns addressed by regional artists. Through an increasingly complex matrix of influences, Northwest artists adapt and shed ideas, media, and imagery to define themselves as artists while re-inventing or restating the core notion of a Northwest artist. Because the concept of “regional art” continually collapses and rebuilds, the subtle shifts in the imagery, stylistic impulses, and conceptual foundations reveal how the region’s artist community participates in the broad dialogue of contemporary art. Artists working in a wide variety of media including traditional forms, craft-based work, and digital projects are encouraged to apply. Artists exploring alternative visual forms such as conceptual, performance, and installation are also encouraged to submit applications.

Applications will be juried by Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at Tacoma Art Museum. Invited artists will be notified by August 4, 2008. Artwork for the exhibition will be selected during studio visits with invited artists in August 2008.

Above: 9th Annual Biennial Logo, © Tacoma Art Museum

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“Honour” opens tonight at The Blue Slipper Theatre” with a pre-show benefit for the Community Closet. The Blue Slipper did a sit-down reading of the play this winter to audience acclaim. Tonight begins a three-week run of the play about a 32-year marriage shattered when the journalist Gus leaves his wife Honour, a poet, wife and mother, for Claudia, a bright young journalist not much older than daughter Sophie. Honor must come to grips with the career she has willingly sacrificed for her husband and child,while Gus must face the consequences of betraying his own long held principles.

The subject is not pretty, although familiar, but it is treated with “theatrical language that is darkly comic, highly poetic and uncompromisingly savage.” It is this treatment that makes for an arresting, moving, and fine night of theater.

Directed by Gillian Swanson, the production features Nate Robinson as Gus, Jennie Lynn Stanley as Claudia, Sarah Swanson as Sphie, and Gillian Swanson as Honour. “Honour”, by playright Joanna Murray Smith runs from June 6 to June 22 with performances at 8:15 PM each Friday and Saturday in June, and Sunday matinees on June 8, 15 and 22 at 3:15p PM. For more information or reservations, please call 222 7720. Read more about “Honor” and our fine local theater at blueslipper.com.

Tickets are $10 for all performances except tonight’s opening which is $15 and features a reception at 7:00 to benefit The Community Closet, a non-profit thrift-store providing low-cost, pre-owned, clothing and household items. The Community Closet Board of Directors distributes profits to charitable activities in Park County and distributed $35,000 in 2007. The opening of “Honour” follows the reception at 8:15.

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