East West Highway

Here's a new design for the upcoming battle to stop the development of the East west Highway plans here in Maine. Check in here: defending water.net

to learn what it's all about. If you'd like to print out this image, click on the link under "links". Stay tuned as we may yet organize a printathon around this issue.

Intense!

That's the only word I can think of to describe the scene at the Harlow Gallery after spending 10 hours hanging our 2 year retrospective! It was really great to finally organize all of our efforts into one big showing. My conclusion is that many small ideas, sketches and thoughts really do add up to a much bigger force of creativity. Walking through this show is like drinking five cups of coffee and realizing that by gathering together in creativity you can really mobilize hopeful energy towards change.

Art-A-Thon success!

What a great day in a quite busy place: the University of Maine's Student Union. This March Art-A-Thon was organized by Umaine students, Dan White, Caroline Robe and others through their Peace Action Maine chapter. There was a sumptuous spread of nosh-able goodies and a bottomless bowl of hummus, which by the end of the day was near finished. We had a fairly steady stream of students drop in for some between class art-making...many who were quite curious about our silk-screen rig and methodology. Nora Tryon kept things moving along so well we were able to design and cut a two-color stencil in one day! In addition to students we met faculty advisors, Ilze Petersons from the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine and even some interested individuals from the town of Orono proper. They even had a mini concert with two students on acoustic guitars hammering out some originals and favorites. Congrats to the UMaine gang!

Participating artists

Big thanks to these artists, who participated in our January 21 Draw-A-Thon at Harlow Gallery:

Brian Reeves, Cynthia Ahlstrin, Deb Fahy, Edward McCartan, Emily Johnson, Helene Farrar, Ken Gross, Kenny Cole, Lisa Burke, Lisa Davis, Lisa Wheeler, Lynne Harwood, Nancy Barron, Natasha Mayers, Nick D'Alfonso, Nora Tryon, Page Conway, Pat Taub, Peggy Cope Mascher, Priscilla Jenkins, Ramona du Houx, Rob Shetterly, Steve Burke, Suzanna Lasker, Wendy Newbold Patterson Image: Jenny McKendry

We Drew!

It was a great time...I was happy to meet a bunch of new artists and we even got taped for Occupy TV! Our ability to photo silk-screen has not yet been perfected, so we cut up a stencil version of William Hessian's "Sheep No More". Thanks everyone for making this Draw-A-Thon a great success! (Click on "Flickr Images" in the links column)

Tune in tomorrow at 6:35 am! The Pulse Morning Show

I'll be gettin' interviewed by Pat LaMarche about our upcoming Draw-A-Thon. I heard Pat speak a few times and found her to be a true inspiration!...looking forward to this! larger image

Kenny

Come One, Come All!

Well, it's official! We are organizing another Draw-A-Thon...this time around it will be at Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine. Our thematic approach this time around will be to take on the spirit of the OCCUPY! movement. In April the gallery will give us a month long exhibition slot where we will be able to show some of the work created at this Draw-A-Thon. We'll also conduct a Print-A-Thon during the exhibit to show the public how we do things. So what are you waiting for? Drop me or Natasha Mayers a line and let us know if you will be attending! Hope to see you there! Kenny (kenny@kennycole.com) Natasha(mayersnatasha@gmail.com)