Act of Kindness

Act of Kindness will not be open this month on the Art Walk, but is featuring Collage on Canvas by artists Suzanne Friedman, and Marilyn Zinner, featured on Art Walk last month at Etouffee, which is open for Art Walk, along with Crow Trading, Anderson's Gallery and Frame Shop, Gypsy, Photographers Gallery, DEVA, Mistlin, Chartreuse Muse and other venues on the art walk map

email note from Act of Kindness,
Thursday, Aug. 21st is the 3rd Thursday Modesto Art Walk. We hope you will join us and meet Reverend Erin King who has created the mandala art in our gallery. Erin will explain all about mandalas for you who are interested in this fascinating work. Of course we will have goodies and art walk maps too. It's a fun thing to do, from 5-9pm. Oh the best thing. . . ITS FREE! Hope to see you. No Sales Tax night.

Riverbank Art Walk and Chalk drawing contest comes up August 28, but first its specials for Third Thursday Art Walk. Eric Benson and friends play music for Art Walk, at State Theatre Funky Tim, and 25 venues open for art walk in downtown Modesto.

From Sofie, and the dinner and art auction is this evening, but donations accepted. I have a couple in for this, along with a number other modesto area artists, this is a good cause.

The Note is from Sofie Pettygrove of Act of Kindness, on the art walk next week.

Community Housing and Shelter Services, benefits people seeking emergency housing and Act of Kindness owner Sofie Pettygrove is helping organize this event, and I'm one of the artists in with a donated art work for auction, benefits the CHSS program. Here is copy from the email, there is a donor letter available if interested. She's looking for artists, also attendees to the dinner, to view the art, bid on it. Jim Christiansen, jdc104

Karen Cox will be demonstrating printmaking in monoprints at Act of Kindness at 619 14th Street. David Bienkowski will be doing an oil painting demonstration at Anderson's Gallery and Frame Shop for Art Walk. I may be doing some sketching and watercolors over at Clayton's.

THIRD THURSDAY ART WALK IS THIS THURSDAY, JULY 17.

MAPS are out, look for specials on ad page at DEVA, CLAYTON's, TRESETTI good night of the Art walk.

Its the Downtown Modesto Third Thursday Art Walk work week, and over at

My watercolors are coming down at Act of Kindness gallery area, to make way for featured July artist, Karen Cox. Her show opens on Wednesday. She is also known for www.justtomatoes.com an interesting site from the west side of the county. I'll still have some of my greeting cards at Act of Kindness, and hope you drop in on the new show at