Community Education - A Community Education Class Exhibition - The Art and Music Exhibition

This exhibition was a great success. It almost broke even, the organizers, Janice Giles and myself, carried a modest loss, the musicians all got paid a share of the door to cover expenses and about a dozen works were sold.

But the real success was that a community education life drawing class comprizing about 20 people aged from 14 to 72 and a bunch of musician friends should put on a great exhibition to entertain people and celebrate local talent.

And the Saturday night was fabulous, original art, drawings paintings and sculptures, all drawn from life or imagination and original music played live. Bliss.

And this great exhibition came from one small community education class in one small town and is testament to the value of community education in New Zealand and the short sighted lunacy of the present bunch of right wing, money worshipping, shallow, arrogant, elitist, toadying bean counters in power in this country. Ah.. nothing like a wee self righteous tirade to make me feel better... roll on election day..

Eli Mulvay wows the crowd with his original music and is in his turn impressed as other musos just slip in behind him and start playing lead and slide and percussion along with him.
Awesome talent. I am not a musician but get inspiration from live music, it's the one art form that is completly in the here and now, has immediate emotional impact and flows on like life itself...

Children's art from Waihi Central Primary school. Gorgeous..
We also framed and exhibited 16 year old's art from Waihi College

Art and Music Exhibition: Friday morning

Inside the Memorial hall, Waihi, Friday morning 29 5 09

Exhibition preparation; Framing pictures

Thursday morning, last day for framing and painting, tomorrow will be all day setting up the exhibition in the Waihi Memorial hall and we open to the public Saturday morning.
Looks chaotic don't it? No worries mate, all will be sorted today, am just putting up this blog post while I wait for the sun to warm up the studio on this fresh Winter morning.
Yesterday I framed the art borrowed from Waihi College for exhibition and today I frame the art borrowed from Waihi Central primary school. I do love children's art.
Might even get time to frame some of my own art too!
Exciting time...

Art and Music Exhibition: the banner...

I am working full-time on this exhibition now. The banner is painted and starting tomorrow I will be creating new paintings and framing drawings for myself and others and organizing this, that and the other.
3 weeks to the exhibition date...

Art and Music Exhibition: a celebration..

Yes indeedy! We are gonna have fun!

Art and Music Exhibition: a celebration..

The War Memorial Hall in Waihi's main street has been hired for Queen's birthday weekend, 29 May to 1 June for an exhibition of the artworks that have been developed from the studies of the local life drawing class, some artworks from local primary and secondary schools and local poets and musicians will be performing all through the two and a half days the exhibition is on.
Plenty of work to organize this but all involved are keen and we should have lots of fun.
The musicians shown here I photographed 2 Saturdays ago so Sheryl (that's her above on the Stratocaster) can make line drawings and paintings of the band. This band is called No Boys Allowed and these lovely ladies and many other musician friends and aquaintances will be entertaining the art and music lovers at our exhibition.