Artwalk directors are getting excited to celebrate our 20th anniversary on the weekend of November 22nd & 23rd. Mark your calendar and tell all your friends! It’s going to be a “larger than life” commemoration of Big Bend art, art in education, and a salute to veterans .
The gorgeous public art mural at 5th Street and Holland Ave in downtown Alpine is the main feature for this year’s festivity.
As you may already know, the mural was created in July as a tribute to our beautiful community, for all of the Big Bend residents and visitors to enjoy. Featured artists during the past twenty years will be honored with a showing of their work at TransPecos Bank and a special place in the ArtWalk parade—Saturday noon, November 23rd.
The parade is one of the most popular parts of the weekend, and this year’s parade will prove to be the most elaborate and grandest of all. You will be able to see all kinds of extravagantly-designed desert critters from your favorite seat along the downtown Holland Ave parade route.
Alpine school kids are already busy using their imagination and artistic energy to create Big Bend dessert critters—fanciful or realistic—using various repurposed/recycled materials to wow us during the ArtWalk parade. We’ll see fluorescent reptiles, paper maché masks, native clay whistles and costumes, metal formed birds, and other whimsical desert critters being pedaled, worn, or carried.
The ArtWalk Parade will also be filled with local musicians, as well as members of many Alpine business and civic organizations, and clubs from Sul Ross State University. The Gallery Night, Inc. Board of Directors is inviting interested groups and individuals to participate in the ArtWalk 2013 Parade. Come join in the fun.
Plus, Austin Bike Zoo is returning to be part of our community celebration. Jeremy Rosen and Sandi Turvan were here in September “showing off” some of their own desert critter masks to students in art classes and grade assemblies. They are always excited to motivate and inspire students to use a lot of imagination with design skills and to believe that almost anything is possible to create. Austin Bike Zoo will be back the week before ArtWalk for a “show and tell” with Alpine students’ completed projects, as well as to demonstrate their one-of-a-kind flying horse carousel and many other exotic creatures to excite and thrill us.
For more information on participating in the parade or about Artwalk in general, contact Keri Blackman or Jennifer Jordan: kiowagallery[at]sbcglobal.net or jjordan1724[at]gmail.com.
We’ll also have more details to share with you live on radio airwaves on Friday, November 8, on Marfa Public Radio KRTS’ Talk At Ten.
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