Last Art Walk of the season is this Friday: 9/26 5:30 to 8:30 PM
It looks like both photography and spaghetti will be the highlights of our last Art Walk of the season this Friday from 5:30 PM to to 8:30 PM.
You can start off the night at 5:00 with the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force “Spayghetti and No Balls” fund raising dinner at Chadz, 104 North Main, next to the Danforth Gallery. Every year the Task Force offers this play on words event to raise money to help citizens in Park County who otherwise cannot afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. The food is great, and yes there is meat sauce as the flyer reminds us. Veggie and meat sauces, salad, and bread are provided by Adagio, Chico Hot Springs Resort, On The Rise Bakery, and Pinky’s Cafe. Suggested donation is $10. Additional money is raised with a silent auction and raffle tickets, and the offerings this year are phenomenal.
Both the Danforth Gallery and the Frame Garden are offering photography exhibits. At the Danforth, The Park County Friends of the Arts will present “Fall Exposure,” the gallery’s first ever large group photography exhibition. Curated by Livingston painter Brad Bunkers, who is also the creator of Hobo Eye, an online arts journal, the show will feature well-known area photographers such as Lynn Donaldson, Larry Stanley and Dusan Smetana as well as several emerging photographers new to the scene. Other local photographers include: Nathaniel Browning, Sarah Burns, Tom Ferris, Thomas Lee, Bayard Lewis, Bob Osbourne, Warren Mabie, Thom Nezbeda, Robert Park and Nikki Romero. Nashville photographer Jim McGuire will be displaying some of his well-known portraits of country music legends. The Danforth is at 106 N. Main, phone 406-222-6510.
At the Frame Garden, the work of Robert Osborn opens with an Art Walk reception and continues through October 28. Osborn, whose life has taken him down an interesting path, started shooting pictures with a Kodak Brownie when he was 10. Osborn has served in the U.S. Navy, worked as a telephone lineman, refinery operator, fireman, and freelance travel photographer and writer. A onetime motocross racer, Osborn has also been a BMX photographer and writer, which led him to publishing BMX ACTION and FREESTYLIN’ magazines.
The success of the magazines freed Osborn to do large-format fine art photography until 1993, when he took a break from shooting to build Harley-Davidson choppers. Things changed again in 1997 when Osborn bought a digital SLR, the fabled Nikon D3. He has been doing small-format fine art photography ever since. The show at the Frame Garden shows Osborn’s range of interests, from old vehicles and nostalgic settings like the Old Shoes and Chair photo at right to nearly-abstract forms like the pipe organ in our Featured Images. The photos are stunning, and in a size that makes them very affordable for fine art photography. The Frame Garden is at 110 East Callender Street, phone 406-222-5122.
(Above right: Old Shoes and Chair, Garnet, Montana. © 2007 Robert Osborn. Click image for larger view.)