A Dog's Life

Lil Wayne Review to come..I promise..

Friday I attended "A Dog's Life" exhibit at the Memphis College of Art in the main gallery of Rust Hall. Artist Beth Edwards organized the event as a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County. I sent the press release to RSVP's blog and got an email back from the editor asking if I would do a write up and take pictures at the event for their magazine. Me, a photographer!? Well of course I didn't mind helping get some exposure for my favorite charity! The exhibit runs through April 10th and is a must see. All styles of art including painting, and sketching of dogs are displayed from small dogs with their toys on a couch, to dogs marching off the war with soldiers, and dogs rescued from Hurricane Katrina. What is nice about this exhibit is varied painting styles are used by the 35 artists. A silent auction was held of Beth Edward's "Brown Dog" and $950 was raised for the Humane Society. Those who attended received a poster print of Tina Newberry's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" in exchange for a donation to the Humane Society. It was a really nice event that I'm glad I attended. Go check it out when you have time. 

Beth Edwards, artist Jed Jackson and Butch Lulloff of the Humane Society

Artist Beth Edwards and myself with "Brown Dog"

Botero at the Brooks

Kelly, Chris and I attended the finale of Botero at the Brooks Museum. Tony and I are members and we aren't doing a very good job of using our membership. This is only the third time I've used it since buying the membership, and Tony hasn't even made it yet! Oh well, we have 9 more months to see if we remain members for the years to come. I really like the Botero exhibit. Botero's style was a little comical if you ask me. Fernando Botero grew up in poverty in Medellin, Columbia. He was born in 1932. There was no art museum in Medillin, so Botero learned about art through the church and whatever books or magazines he could find.  One of his major influences was Pablo Picasso. He financed his trips to Europe by local art exhibits. He the studied art in Europe that he only saw in books and magazines in Columbia. His style is to change the size of the human figure. This is why his people are so large but have small features. He thought this made them more important. 

We also got to participate in an exhibit by Colombian artist and activist Edwin Gil.  He had Colombian people paint their hands and put a print to make a Colombian flag. He had non-Colombians (us) paint their hands yellow and put a print and sign for around the flag. The project is called Home Sweet Home. He did the project once with the American flag and this is a representation for the Colombian flag. It is to promote peace to the land.