Degenerate Art Club, show pics from last night, new show Jan 26 and Jan 27

pics from last night. Scroll on down, to see December pics from State Theatre art walk with Joe Barretta and John Ady.

its 3:47 am, not finished yet with tonight's show, return coffee urns to Queen Bean after 7 am, return easels to Mistlin at noon, get those pics uploaded, then off to Chris Murphy and ModestoView, perhaps some on modestofamous, note how great Degenerate Art Club show looked, feel we had best show on art walk again, Joelle Maddyson, music guest, also got good reviews from diverse crowd, up from last month numbers, many not at State Theatre before, a few folks up the ramp to see where I stashed my stuff and one of Keena Wells where we show off the theatre, got to meet more than Melanie and Carole tonight, got Clayton's later, seems we'll do that one again as well, so..... will report on this later, have pics to upload into computer, back stiff, see you all later, add comments on shows if you were out and about art walk tonight.  jim

add your comments on art walk to http://www.modestobuzz.com and also to http://www.modestofamous.com where I posted a forum comment spot for reviews of the art walk this month.  I've yet to get back to modestobuzz.com as have remember how to log in again.  Send photos on in to Chris Murphy if you have your own camera.  chrism@modestoview.com we have a deadline of Saturday night. 

Some photos from degenerate art club showing at State Theatre Third Thursday Art Walk night, with Joelle Maddyson the music guest..... I got the coffee from Queen Bean.... Easels from Mistlin as usual.  Special meeting Monday at Mistlin by the way, membership going over stuff....

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Joelle Maddyson, set up beneath that poster of Rhett and Scarlet, remind art walk patrons, Film Society doing Gone with the Wind on Sunday, before you go over to Commonality show at Centre Plaza Arbor Theatre.  

Here's the show info for the one coming up at the actual Degenerate Art Club, Degenerate Art Gallery over on N. Emerald in Modesto.  Check it out, all new show.

the December Art Walk blog I forgot to assemble as so near Christmas.  While we haven't ever been open for Art Walk in December, in many art walks in northern California, December is the big month, so it came as shock to me that Mistlin was closed, and not really for lack of volunteers, as some offered, but the eventful month, with the pulling of the nude photography art that had been juried into the Figuratively Speaking members show, and other things that had more to do with every day life with gallery staff and members, and so close to Christmas, that even Central California Art Association, takes a month off, as did Act of Kindness, Deva in January as new baby in family, and has Off the Air tonight, including some art, so this year around event, does depend on the map, often printed at last minute.  We're working on improving that.

So, here are the pics such as I had them, just a few, that were from the December show, where we got enthusiastic, if bit smaller crowd than we've become accustomed, yet more than some the artists have hung at.  This was month six since we started, January opening number seven for the State Theatre participation on the art walk.

music guests, Joe Barretta and John Ady, doing acoustic, jazz, blues sets.  Joe will be back in June.

Tried our first art demo in the lobby of State Theatre last month.  Artist Keena Wells and Sandy Lynn watching from the back as Penny Meyer paints.  We'll likely do some more demos, at the State and other art walk stops.  December, there was a demo at Simplicita there last night open, and Ken at Chartreuse Muse did one people commented on, Pottery Wheel in a Tux....

Believe this is from the set Elizabeth Ingebretzen left up for us.

Keena Wells next to figure paintings by Penny Meyer, I think, as my camera was having issues with me in photography, and not sure I got the Adrian Mendoza tweaked photo digital art in this set.

My art stuff is on the right, showed at Clayton's this time out in January, was drawn primarily at the October 5th Symphony Association gala after American in Paris at Gallo Center, but the Bean Painting to the left, a walk in from lady from Cuba i can't recall name just now, but all natural mosaic and wish the camera caught this better.  Starting at our second show, Nathan Anderson brought in his portfolio and we posted it on the easels, we've had friends bring in their stuff, and if we have room, we show it.... consider that if you're an artist, coming to art walk at State Theatre, we've been known to do walk ons.

well, Keena Wells did Marilyn and I cut off part of the recent one, and more of mine in back and afraid those of Adrian Mendoza ( he is a photographer, and bill harris drops in every month, should get them to photograph our own shows) didn't turn out, be some of Jason Van Housen's below, he moved to Hawaii this month, with original music guest Rachel Renae who will be returning to sing in March, with our poster assist, Crissie Harris and band members, doing the break set that month.  February, we'll have Jon Valenti our music guest.