From page 8: Scenes from Art-A-Whirl, May 20-22. At Stone Arch Glass Studios, 316 Buchanan St. NE, Ty Leeman demonstrates glass blowing on a lathe which spins the tube of glass while heating with a torch. Douglas Lissick, California Building, grows succulents in shoes painted the colors of Ukraine, one of many tributes or fundraisers found over the weekend. Kate Singer of Studio Pintura at Northrup King Building demonstrates adding texture to cold wax and oil paint encaustic. Hattie Larson, closest to foreground, won a kids’ Color Match Challenge Saturday, May 21 as Catherine Tong had participants mix red, yellow, and blue to match their chosen portion of a flower. MJ Kinman, textile artist from Kentucky, was the guest artist in Julie Burkart-Haid’s studio at Solar Arts. Kinman bases her quilts on the flow of light and color in gemstones. (Photos by Margo Ashmore) Jennifer Bemer of Nokomis Knitting Company displayed her solar garden lanterns and hanging lanterns created on an Erlbacher Knitting Machine. (Photo by Carol Jensen) Michael Heimendinger planed down the side of a work-in-progress at Hewn Guitars in the Holland Arts West Building. The relatively newly-opened Holland Arts East building was also hopping. (Both are near Washington and 22nd) Martzia Thometz helped create a new mural for the side of the Eastside Food Co-op building on 26th and Central. (Photos by Alex Schlee)
From page 10: 17th Ave. NE during Art-A-Whirl® on Sunday, May 22, viewed from one trolley to another. Hanah Jesz, a marriage and family therapist, bought a leather-bound edition of Joseph Gergen’s book “Theo & Sprout: A Journey of Growth.” We witnessed a lot of Venmo transactions. Jim Maki demonstrated how to draw trees and nature with perspective, outlines, shadow, and detail at Pierre Bottineau Library on Saturday. (Photos by Margo Ashmore) JRD & The Big Mistake, on Sunday at the 331 Club, L-R: Marty LeStock, Joseph Downing, Paul Collier, Daniel Burchette, Colin Wymore. (Photo by Patti Hoffmann)
