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| New Artist: Paulette Palmer | New Artist: Marc Palmer | New Artist: Huey Peters | New Artist: Carolyn Cushing |
September
18, 19 & 20, 2009
Mountain View, Arkansas
Mountain View, Arkansas
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The 8th Annual
Off the Beaten Path
Studio Tour will be held on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18th, 19th
& 20th, 2009. Studios
will be open from 9 am to 6 pm on Friday and Saturday and from 10 am to
4 pm on Sunday. Please join us on Friday evening, September 18, from 7 to 9 pm for an Artists Reception and Show at the Citizens Bank 411 Sylamore Ave. Mountain View We
are proud to announce that in March, 2009, the Off the Beaten Path
Studio Tour won the prestigious Henry Award for Community Tourism which
is awarded annually at the Governor's Conference on Tourism in
recognition of "an
individual or
organization which has achieved substantial success in
the enhancement of its local resources through imaginative and innovative development efforts." Three new studios have been selected for the 2009 studio tour. Carolyn Cushing is a longtime resident of the Mountain View area, well known for painting the competition grade decoys her husband Jim carved for over two decades. Now she is painting on canvas and panel not only wild fowl but also landscapes inspired by the gorgeous view from her Riverview Studio on the banks of the White River in Sylamore. Portrait and outdoor photographer Huey Peters is a relatively recent transplant to Mountain View, but he spent decades in the California Sierra honing his artistic vision of the American West, from ghost towns to Route 66. 'Our Friends Photography', on the west end of town, is a complete professional and art photography studio. Also fairly new to Mountain View but with a long history in art, Marc and Paulette Palmer are energetically exploring the aesthetic universe at their 'Whispers from the Woods Studio'. Marc crafts detailed and luminous watercolors, some illustrating his own poems, and also makes fine linoleum block prints. Paulette works in colorful mixed media, both in two-dimensional canvases and in full figure sculptures, the latter often worked primarily in Japanese paperclay, a fine grade modelling papier-mache. In addition to these new studios, woodturner Leon Creasey will be returning to the tour this year, working in his studio in Cool Water Retreat on the White River. This will make a total of 23 studios to visit on this 8th Annual Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour. Mark your calendars for the 2009 tour and contact our Lodging Sponsors to make your reservations now!! The tour is a grass roots effort funded by artists' fees, a lot of volunteer labor and by the generous financial support from all our Sponsors. Be sure to listen to KFFB 106.1 FM, the radio sponsor of the Studio Tour. KFFB has generously donated free advertising for the tour.
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