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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
at Snake Alley art Fair


This year it's the 41st annual Snake Alley Art Fair, on Sunday, June 15, on Snake Alley and nearby streets in the Heritage Hill district. This all-day event is celebration of creativity and community and, by the way, a fundraiser for the Art Guild of Burlington. More than 100 artists and craftspeople will be selling their wares, and visitors will get to talk to them and see many of them demonstrating how they create their works. There'll also be strolling musicians throughout the day and, at mid-day, art activities for children.


 
 

But it takes a lot of people-power to make it all happen! From early in the morning when set-up starts -- at about 6 a.m. -- until everyone's cleared out -- by about 6 p.m. -- we'll need volunteers. In two- or three-hour shifts, "fair wranglers" will help artists set up their booths and spell them for breaks throughout the day. They'll also staff the kids' art activity area and the information and registration tables. No artistic talent is required -- but you might need to carry boxes, arrange things on a shelf, make change for t-shirt sales, deal with enthusiastic children, and stay cheerful in whatever weather June 15 dishes out.


For more information or to volunteer, phone the Art Guild at 319.754.8069 or email arts4living@aol.com

 

Visit these other area
cultural organizations:

Southeast Iowa
Symphony


Visit Burlington Iowa


Burlington Civic Music


Burlington Fine Arts
League


Iowa Cultural Corridor


Iowa Arts Council


Iowa Museums

 

 

 

 
James Petran
IN THE GALLERY
April 8–26, 2008

The Art Guild of Burlington is pleased to announce an exhibition and sale of watercolor paintings by James Petran during the month of April.

Petran, whose work has been shown in solo, juried, and group exhibitions throughout the United States, is a resident of Iowa City. He received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1980.
 
The fourteen recent still lifes in this exhibition are evidence of Petran’s amazing mastery of watercolor – a famously unforgiving medium. His paintings depict familiar, contemporary objects arranged in classical compositions — pencils in a clear glass, a clock, a couple of American coins, a white tablecloth — yet with a fascinating, almost disquieting sense of hyper reality.



 

Copyrighted image of Arts for Living Center used by permission of artist, David Garrison