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WYOMING ARTINI FESTIVAL IN CODY

The Terrace Restaurant & Bar and the Park County Arts Council are collaborating once again to host their Wyoming Artini Festival.  This artful challenge for martini enthusiasts and artistic competitors will once again tantalize the senses of our “artini” supporters. There will be a “whole lotta shakin'” going on as attendees wander among bartenders competing for the title of Master Martini Mixologist and peruse the silent auction artwork by area and regional artists. This gala event attracts martini and art enthusiasts from the entire Big Horn Basin dressed in cowboy to cocktail attire.

Throughout the evening, The Terrace Restaurant & Bar will provide sumptuous hors d’ oeuvres to tantalize your taste buds and compliment your martini palate. Cash prizes and prestigious awards are available to daring martini mixologists and inspired artini artists. All media is being accepted to guarantee a wide variety of interpretations of the martini and the martini culture from the past and its new resurgence. To reserve your bartender table, advance notice is required. Artwork must be delivered prior to the event. Contact The Terrace for more information — click on this link to be connected with their Facebook page or call The Terrace at 307.587.5868.

The $25 ticket price when purchased in advance — $30 at the door) provides a lively evening on Saturday, April 14 at Geyser on The Terrace, 525 West Yellowstone Avenue in Cody starting at 6:00 pm. Tickets are available in advance at The Terrace (contact them for more locations for ticket pre-sales,) and of course at the door on the day of the festival – tickets are limited. All proceeds from this event benefit the Park County Arts Council. For further information, please call The Terrace at 307.587.5868 or the Park County Arts Council at 307.899.6693.

Shake out your favorite cocktail attire and head to Cody for a stirring night of Martinis and Art!

LARAMIE MAIN STREET ALLIANCE CELEBRATES ECONOMIC SUCCESS

The Laramie Main Street Alliance celebrated several successes in 2011 in downtown Laramie including the opening of 12 new businesses and, among Main Street communities in Wyoming, led the state in job growth including 28 net full time jobs and 16 net part time positions. As a way to educate and thank their partners, they have developed a short, two-minute promotional video — follow the link:

Historic Downtown Laramie 2011

“Baby Fox”, LuDel Deal Walter

CORRIDOR GALLERY IN CASPER WELCOME LuDEL DEAL WALTER 

Refuse – Original Art by LuDel Deal Walter

The Refuse of life remains.  We Refuse to look at it.  This work Re-fuses the discarded object with meaning. My work communicates the boundaries of where time passes into memory and life passes into death.  How does memory hold the past captive?  How does place tie into time and memory?  This body of work refuses the passage of time by freezing the process of decay — a stop-action of a very slow natural process.  Memory seems to work in a similar fashion; as we recall people and events from our memories, they are frozen at a particular time like stop-action movie stills or loops of a single scene.

I incorporate objects that are often ignored or overlooked to create meaning.  The carcasses and the refuse of our lives are more than simple objects; they connect to the time when life and purpose was contained there.  I am using recycled and found objects (hand-made paper, junk, bones, etc.) to represent the passage of time and the space between life and death.  I find that by using images of actual carcasses and garbage in combination with textured papers and found objects, I have a stronger connection to the work because I’m forced to consider the feelings of disgust, shame and ambivalence surrounding the objects.  This body of work refuses the inevitability of  loss of meaning and purpose. We no longer revere life enough to consider the process of dying; because we can’t embrace death, we can’t fully embrace life.  Every living thing has a quality that leaves the body at the time of death.  Every object has a quality of memory.  What is that liminal quality?  Where is it?  These pieces are intended to ask the viewer to consider the life and purpose that once inhabited these images. – LuDel Deal Walter

The Corridor Gallery proudly presents “Refuse”, a solo exhibit of Wyoming artist LuDel Deal Walter. LuDel is an accomplished artist that is following through with her first Corridor solo exhibit after winning “Best In Show” during a past Corridor call-for-entries show based upon the subject of religion. The public and press are invited to attend the opening reception of “Refuse” on Friday, March 30th at 7pm. The exhibit will show only through Sunday, April 1st. The Corridor Gallery appreciates your continued support for local and regional artwork.

Event Details

Event: “Refuse” Original Artwork by Wyoming artist LuDel Deal Walter

Specifics: Located at The Corridor Gallery: 120 E. 2nd St. Casper, WY 82601 Tickets Cost/Avail: Free Admission Opening Reception: Friday, March 30th at 7:00pm Open Showing: Saturday, March 31st 10:00am to 5:00pm Sunday, April 1st noon to 4pm

Information: For more information, please contact The Corridor Gallery at 307.333-7035, Reed at 307. 259.8001 or visit www.thecorridorgallery.com LuDel Deal Walter email: pretendunbutton@hotmail.com

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