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A Gallery For Fine Photography : Josephine Sacabo : Gravity and Grace : The Years 2020-2023 – The Eye of Photography Magazine

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A Gallery For Fine Photography : Josephine Sacabo : Gravity and Grace : The Years 2020-2023 – The Eye of Photography Magazine

A Gallery For Fine Photography presents a new exhibition by Josephine Sacabo, Gravity and Grace: The Years 2020-2023.

The exhibition is comprised of 25 beautiful, hand pulled photogravures printed on silk and hand sewn.

Josephine Sacabo divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal, and romantic as the places that she calls home.

Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, she was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to coming to New Orleans, Sacabo lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalistic tradition and influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspective style, using poetry as the genesis for her work.

Sacabo’s many portfolios are visual manifestations of the written word, and she lists poets as her most important influences, including Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vicente Huidobro, Juan Rulfo, Mallarmé, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Her images transfer the viewer into a world of constructed beauty.

During her 36-year career her work has been featured in over 40 gallery and museum exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and is included in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, New Orleans Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and la Bibliothéque Nationale.

“De este cuerpo eres el alma, y eres cuerpo de esta sombra.”
You are the soul of this body and the body of this shade.

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Horseshoe crab wins gold

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Horseshoe crab wins gold
A tri-spine horseshoe crab and a trio of golden trevalliesLaurent Ballesta/WPY
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent

A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab has earned Laurent Ballesta the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) 2023.

The golden marine arthropod is seen hugging the bottom muds in waters off Pangatalan Island, in the Philippines.

It is tracked by three small fish, hoping the crab’s movements will expose an opportunistic meal in the sediment.

Ballesta becomes only the second photographer in WPY’s 59-year history to win the competition twice.

In 2021, he was awarded the grand prize for capturing a trio of groupers in the act of spawning.

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The photographer and marine biologist was crowned during a gala dinner at London’s Natural History Museum.

Kathy Moran, who chaired the judging panel, said a winning image required four characteristics: “aesthetics”, “moment”, “narrative”, and increasingly “something that has a conservation edge to it”. And Ballesta’s work had that “secret sauce”.

“There’s a luminosity to Laurent’s picture,” Ms Moran told BBC News.

“It really does feel like an alien floating across the seafloor – but when you step back and realise just how important these creatures are to ocean health and human health, we just felt the image brought it all together and we couldn’t pass it up.”

Barn owls in a derelict building

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The tri-spine horseshoe crab has survived for more than 100 million years but now faces habitat destruction and overfishing for food and for its blood, used in the development of vaccines. But in a young marine reserve around Pangatalan Island, it is getting the protection it needs.

“The photo’s technical challenge was to find the right speed and aperture because my wish was to freeze the calm horseshoe crab but let the little fish not be frozen, to show how excited they are,” Ballesta said.

“I wanted to show this contrast between them – one that was powerful and slow, and the others speedy and fragile.”

Category winners

Carmel Bechler, 17, from Israel, won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year title.

His picture, of two barn owls perched in the window of a graffiti-scrawled derelict building, was shot through the window of his father’s car.

The streaks of light from a moving vehicle in the foreground contrast with the birds’ rock-steady gaze.

“It took a few tries,” Bechler said. “The lights were the most difficult thing in the image to get right, because you want them to go across the entire scene but you also don’t want them to be too bright and burnt out. I used a timer to not get any blur and then I took photo after photo until I got that moment.”

Here are some of the other category winners in this year’s WPY competition.

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The tadpole banquet, by Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada, Spain

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Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada watched toad tadpoles feasting on a dead fledgling sparrow. His photograph won the Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles category.

Common toad tadpoles have varied diets of algae, vegetation, and tiny swimming invertebrates. As they grow larger, they become more carnivorous – so when a banquet such as this arrives, they take full advantage.

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Whales making waves, by Bertie Gregory, UK

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Bertie Gregory filmed orcas “wave washing” Weddell seals in the Antarctic, to dislodge them from the safety of sea-ice, for BBC One series Frozen Planet II. A still image from his later work won the Behaviour: Mammals category.

“The behaviour is choreographed – and every single seal they find, they’ll use a different set of tactics to make a particular type of wave. It’s spine-tingling to watch,” Gregory told BBC News.

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Life on the edge, by Amit Eshel, Israel

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Amit Eshel witnessed this tussle between two male Nubian ibexes in Israel’s Zin Desert. The battle lasted about 15 minutes before one surrendered and the pair parted without serious injury. Eshel’s photograph won the Animals in their Environment category.

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Last gasp, by Lennart Verheuvel, Netherlands

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Lennart Verheuvel won the Oceans: The Bigger Picture category. The distressing picture shows a beached orca at Cadzan, on the Dutch-Belgian border. A necropsy revealed the animal was not only severely malnourished but also extremely sick.

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Lights fantastic, by Sriram Murali, India

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This remarkable image was produced in the forests of India’s Anamalai Tiger Reserve. Sriram Murali stacked 50 19-second exposures, to show the firefly flashes produced over 16 minutes. It won the Behaviour: Invertebrates category.

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Alpine exposure, by Luca Melcarne, France

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Luca Melcarne, a mountain guide in France’s Vercors Regional Natural Park, photographed this ibex after spending a bitterly cold night in a temporary shelter. He first had to thaw the camera with his breath. His effort and skill earned him the Rising Star Portfolio Award.

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The annual exhibition dedicated to the WPY competition opens at the Natural History Museum on Friday. As in past years, it will also tour the UK. Entries for the 60th WPY will be accepted from Monday.

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‘Hauntingly beautiful’ image of horseshoe crab wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

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‘Hauntingly beautiful’ image of horseshoe crab wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.



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A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a clifftop are among the winning images of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 competition.

This year’s grand title was awarded to French underwater photographer and marine biologist Laurent Ballesta, for a luminescent image of a horseshoe crab on the seafloor, with three golden trevally fish swimming above its back. It’s the second time Ballesta has won the honor: in 2021, his shot of camouflage groupers in a milky cloud of eggs and sperm took home the top prize.

“To see a horseshoe crab so vibrantly alive in its natural habitat, in such a hauntingly beautiful way, was astonishing,” said chair of the jury and editor Kathy Moran in a statement.

The species is older than dinosaurs, with the earliest fossil forms dating back 475 million years, but it is now threatened by habitat destruction and overfishing. In many parts of the world, horseshoe crabs continue to be harvested for their blue blood, which is used in the development of vaccines.

Other winning photographs depict threats to wildlife from human activity, such as a strip of deforested land in Mexico making way for a new tourist railway line, and an aerial view of the heavily polluted Ciliwung river winding through Indonesia’s capital Jakarta.

Young photographer Carmel Bechler discovered several barn owls in an abandoned concrete building near a busy road.

In some cases, wildlife is adapting to a human environment, as shown in a photograph of two barn owls looking out from a window of an abandoned roadside building. Carmel Bechler, a 17-year-old Israeli photographer, was crowned Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for the image, receiving praise for his use of natural light and long exposure times to capture the passing traffic.

“I hope to share with my photography that the beauty of the natural world is all around us, even in places where we least expect it to be, we just need to open our eyes and our minds,” said Bechler.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year, in its 59th year, is produced by the Natural History Museum of London. Winners were selected from nearly 50,000 entries from 95 countries and announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday. By showcasing the diversity of life on Earth, the competition hopes to inspire people to care and advocate for the natural world.

The images will be exhibited from Friday at the museum, before touring internationally. This year, the exhibition will also feature videos showing the impact of wildlife photography and promoting actions visitors can take to protect the planet.

“Whilst inspiring absolute awe and wonder, this year’s winning images present compelling evidence of our impact on nature – both positive and negative,” said Doug Gurr, director of the Natural History Museum, in a statement.

“Global promises must shift to action to turn the tide on nature’s decline,” he added.

An Old Town Scottsdale art gallery is hosting a women’s art expo featuring live painting

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An Old Town Scottsdale art gallery is hosting a women’s art expo featuring live painting

Jessica Garrett

Jessica Garrett is one of the featured artists at AWAE: A Women’s Art Expo in Old Town Scottsdale Oct. 12-13, 2023.

The Marshall Gallery in Old Town Scottsdale is hosting a two-day event featuring 10 acclaimed female painters. It’s called, “AWAE: A Women’s Art Exposition.”

Gallery co-owner DeeAn Gillespie Strub said attendees will be able to see past works by the artists and also witness them in action.

“Not all of them are regularly represented by the gallery,” she said. “It’s an invitational, and they will be there in person, painting. It’s a lovely experience to be able to come and see art being created.”

Strub also believes the event encourages a rediscovery of perspective.

“In resplendent Italy, the darkness of the Middle Ages reluctantly gave way to the beauties of the Renaissance – largely due to the discovery, or rediscovery, of perspective. AWAE offers our own rediscovery of perspective: the kindly, gentle, discerning women’s perspective,” she said in a separate release.

The free shows run Thursday, October 12, from 5-9 p.m. and Friday, October 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Featured artists

Carol Estes – Carol’s art reflects her inner buoyancy and progressive optimism. She developed her style in the avant-garde, Deep Ellum bohemian music and arts district in Dallas, Texas.

Jessica Garrett – Jessica Garrett is inspired by her life in the Southwest to showcase a fresh approach to color and an illusion of light that does justice to nature. She has learned how vital color is in recreating the feeling of light and explores color as her ultimate inspiration.

Elena Golberg – After moving to the United States in 2004 from Barnaul, an industrial city in the Siberian part of Russia, Elena Golberg became fascinated with Native American culture and has found Saguaro cacti to be the primary subject of her portraits.

Harper Henry – Harper Henry is an award-winning artist who creates unique, abstract-realistic paintings focused mainly on horses, animals, and the American West. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration and had a successful 30-year career as a Designer and Art Director until 2016 when she decided to pursue painting full-time.

Shari Lyon – Shari Lyon is skilled in the ancient encaustic process of painting with a hot melted mixture of beeswax and damar resin. The labor-intensive process yields dreamy, ethereal images with texture and appeal unlike any other art form.

Krystii Melaine – Wildlife, horses, cowboys, and Native Americans have been the focus of Australian-born Krystii Melaine’s realistic oil paintings for 23 years. Krystii began to explore abstract art, which opened her imagination to modern concepts and a wider range of expressive ideas. Now, the abstracts have begun to work their way into her realism paintings as backgrounds, sometimes weaving through and over the animals and people too.

Becky Pashia – Becky Pashia “suggests” a subject in her art and focuses on light and color to evoke feelings and trigger memories. Her oil technique includes slipping and spreading paint across a surface with large spatulas and brushes, trying to keep the paint loose and raw in order to resemble watercolors.

Daniela Pasqualini – By breaking down elements of flora and fauna, Daniela Pasqualini, an innovative Italian painter, transforms her observations of nature onto the canvas, bringing rhythm to splashes of vibrant color and creating texture through form.

Leah Rei – Leah Rei weaves transparent layers together to create abstract representations of our natural surroundings. Her main goal is to create scenes of nature that can evoke a deep sense of calm and wonder.

Danene Taysom – Danene Taysom creates colorful landscape and still-life oil paintings.  The love of light and color is what ultimately drove her to become a professional artist. She also enjoys teaching art classes in her studio and providing painting workshops throughout the year.

Out-of-this-world crab photo wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Out-of-this-world crab photo wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year

“The beauty of the natural world is all around us” says the competition’s young Israeli winner and these photos make it plain to see.

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A “hauntingly beautiful” photo of a horseshoe crab has snapped up the top prize in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

It was taken by French marine biologist Laurent Ballesta, who won the award for the second time yesterday – beating almost 50,000 other entries from 95 countries.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. From Friday (13 October) visitors will be able to see 100 of these stunning wildlife photos at the museum’s dedicated exhibition.

Below is the winning image in all its otherworldly glory, and a handful of our favourite winners from across the competition’s 19 categories.

Who is the winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023?

It looks almost too alien to parse, initially. But a trio of fish above it confirm that this hovering golden orb is indeed something on our planet.

Underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta captured the tri-spine horseshoe crab accompanied by three golden trevallies in the protected waters of Pangatalan Island in the Philippines.

Protection is key for the survival of this unique species. The tri-spine horseshoe crab has existed for more than 100 million years but now faces habitat destruction and overfishing for food and for its blue blood, used in the development of vaccines.

“To see a horseshoe crab so vibrantly alive in its natural habitat, in such a hauntingly beautiful way, was astonishing,” says chair of the jury and editor, Kathy Moran. “We are looking at an ancient species, highly endangered, and also critical to human health. This photo is luminescent.”

Laurent is only the second photographer in the competition’s 59-year history to be awarded the Grand Title award twice, having first won in 2021 with a photo of camouflage grouper fish in Fakarava, French Polynesia.

A marine biologist who has dedicated his life to exploring the oceans, Laurent encounters more opportunities than most; he has led a series of major expeditions involving scientific mysteries and diving challenges.

Who won Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023?

17-year-old Carmel Bechler from Israel bagged the main youth prize this year, for a dynamic shot entitled ‘Owls’ road house’.

After discovering several barn owls in an abandoned concrete building near a busy road in Hof HaSharon, Carmel and his father used the family car as a hide to take this winning shot.

Israel has the densest barn-owl population in the world. A national project has provided nesting boxes near agricultural fields, encouraging owls to nest near farmland. Because the owls hunt rodents that eat seeds and crops, this arrangement has reduced the use of pesticides on farms.

“This photograph has so many layers in terms of content and composition. It simultaneously screams “habitat destruction” and “adaptation”, begging the question: ‘If wildlife can adapt to our environment, why can’t we respect theirs?,’” says Moran.

Carmel, who first picked up a camera aged 11, says he hopes to show “that the beauty of the natural world is all around us, even in places where we least expect it to be, we just need to open our eyes and our minds.”

Intriguing animal behaviours captured in three winning images

The Natural History Museum (NHM) also prizes photos that reveal the inner lives of animals, in a way we’d never normally be privy to.

This drone photo of a pod of orcas preparing to ‘wave wash’ a Weddell seal in Antarctica is packed with drama. It earned British photographer Bertie Gregory the top prize in the ‘mammals behaviour’ category.

“We spent every waking minute on the roof of the boat, scanning,” Bertie recalls of his two-month long expedition searching for orcas, spent battling high winds in freezing conditions.

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These orcas belong to a group that specialises in hunting seals by charging towards the ice, creating a wave that washes the seal into the water. With rising temperatures melting ice floes, seals are spending more time on land, and the behaviour of ‘wave washing’ may disappear.

In the ‘birds behaviour’ category, French photographer Hadrien Lalagüe entered with a showstopper.

In perfect alignment, a row of grey-winged trumpeters watching a boa slither past in the rainforest surrounding Guiana Space Center. It took a camera trap and six months worth of patience to achieve this image, maintaining the equipment against high humidity, plastic-munching ants and damage by poachers.

Trumpeters – named for their loud calls – spend most of their time foraging on the forest floor, eating ripe fruits, insects and the occasional small snake. At more than three metres long, the boa constrictor could have made a meal of them.

This spectacular image of the forest aglow in India’s Anamalai Tiger Reserve takes us into the world of a very special invertebrate: the firefly.

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Sriram Murali combined fifty 19-second exposures to show the firefly flashes produced over 16 minutes in the forests near his hometown in Tamil Nadu.

Fireflies, which are in fact beetles, are famous for attracting mates using bioluminescence. The performance starts at twilight, with just a few, before the frequency increases and they pulse in unison like a wave across the forest.

Darkness is a necessary ingredient in the success of this process. But light pollution is affecting many nocturnal creatures, and fireflies are especially susceptible.

From little to large: Other extraordinary portraits from the natural world

This magical image of a fungus releasing its spores in the forest could only be achieved with some unusual techniques.

Long fascinated by fungi, Greek photographer Agorastos Papatsanis used a silver photographic umbrella to stop his camera getting wet and covered his flash with a plastic bag.

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Parasol mushrooms release spores from the gills under their cap. Billions of tiny spores travel – usually unseen – in the air currents. Some will land where there is moisture and food, enabling them to grow networks under the forest floor.

A single eye emerges out of the ferny darkness, set in a cautious face with big ears and a long trunk twisted away from the camera.

It’s a lowland tapir, portrayed masterfully by Indian photographer Vishnu Gopal as it steps out of the swampy Brazilian rainforest in Tapiraí, São Paulo.

Lowland tapirs rely on the forest for their diet of fruit and other vegetation and in turn the tapirs act as seed dispersers. This important relationship is threatened by habitat loss, illegal hunting and traffic collisions.

Dutch photographer Lennart Verheuvel shows the final moments of a beached orca.

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Lying on its side in the surf, this orca had only a short time left to live. Initially rescued, it soon became stranded again on the beach and died.

A study later revealed that not only was it severely malnourished, it was also extremely sick.

Research shows that orcas in European waters have the world’s highest concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls. These banned chemicals can persist for many years in marine food webs, weakening immune systems and reducing breeding success in whales, porpoises and dolphins.

Like other winning photos – from Jakarta’s polluted Ciliwung river to the bulldozed path of a new tourist railway through the forest in Quintana Roo, Mexico – Verheuvel’s shot shows the deadly impact of humans on other animals and ecosystems.

“Whilst inspiring absolute awe and wonder, this year’s winning images present compelling evidence of our impact on nature – both positive and negative,” comments Dr Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum.

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“Global promises must shift to action to turn the tide on nature’s decline.”

The flagship Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition featuring the awarded images will open on Friday at the Natural History Museum in London, and run until 30 June 2024.

If you’re feeling inspired to get behind the camera yourself, the 60th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is open for entries from 16 October until 7 December 2023.

Exhibit featuring paintings and pottery to open at the Parkersburg Art Center

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Exhibit featuring paintings and pottery to open at the Parkersburg Art Center

“Stringing Breens” by Newman Jackson. (Photo Provided)

PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Art Center will host two special events this weekend.

On Friday, from 5-7 p.m., the PAC will be hosting an exhibit opening reception for artists Newman Jackson and Randy Selbe.

Jackson’s paintings vary from large, portrait-style paintings to smaller canvases with imagery revealing the more psychological aspects of humanity.

Selbe is a formally trained graphic designer and illustrator, but decided later in life that clay was a great medium for her artistic endeavors.

“Charleston artists Randy Selbe and Newman Jackson both work in bold colors and shapes. Even though these are two separate exhibits, we believe viewers will enjoy seeing how well the pieces complement each other,” said Abby Hayhurst, Parkersburg Art Center Artists Director.

The Last Samurai by Randy Selbe (Photo Provided)

“My father showed me how to draw a human leg (comparing it to a baseball bat) when I was 8. Later, my high school art teacher led me to famous black artists I could relate to, like Henry O. Tanner and Charles White. Years later, I earned extra cash while in the Navy by drawing my buddies and their girlfriends,” said Jackson. “All of my canvases represent tidbits from my personal Appalachian experiences–an episode of my youth, a wandering thought, or an event in the present.”

Selbe also grew up in West Virginia.

“I have great love of the outdoors, travel and art. The look and texture of my pottery expresses my life: visions of home, travel, and many other indelible imprints and influences. My goal is to create pottery that balances uniqueness and appeal with true functionality and usefulness,” she said.

The Exhibit Opening Reception on Friday cost $10 to attend but is free to Art Center members and children 12 and under. Hor d’oeuvres and refreshments will be available.

The exhibit will remain on display through Nov. 11 and can be viewed Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Regular admission is waived for all of 2023 thanks to the Admission Sponsorship of WVU Medicine Camden Clark.

The Parkersburg Art Center will hold its annual ArtOberfest event from 5-9 p.m. Saturday. (Photo Provided)

The Parkersburg Art Center is located at 725 Market St. in downtown Parkersburg at the corner of Market and Eighth streets with parking in the lots along Eighth Street between Market and Juliana. Find out more about the Art Center on Facebook, Instagram or their website www.parkersburgartcenter.org.

In the other weekend event, ArtOberfest and Chalk the Block will be Saturday on Market Street in the 700 and 800 blocks in front of the art center.

The Chalk the Block chalk art competition will be 1-5 p.m. and ArtOberfest will be 5-9 p.m.

For the seventh annual ArtOberfest, artists will fill the block in front of the art center with unique and hand-crafted items for sale. Vendors include jewelry makers, potters, fused glass design, pen and ink artists, painters, authors, crochet and knitwear crafters, sign makers and more. J.D. Williamson will be back this year drawing caricatures.

Musical entertainment for the evening includes performances by Evie Schaffer, Evan Cunningham, Moonking and Division Street. Food and drink will provided by WineDown on Market, Sips Coffee Truck, Parkersburg Brewing Company, DJs Sweet Creations and Royally Baked WV with gourmet pepperoni rolls.

The art center and the PAC713 Market will also be open all evening so guests can shop at the gift shop and enjoy the gallery exhibits by Jackson and Selbe. The mezzanine level will be set up as a Lego Building station for kids of all ages inside the Art Center.

During Chalk the Block on the 800 block of Market Street, teen and adult artists will create temporary works of art directly on the sidewalk. Music will be provided by DJ Casey Powell and additional artful entertainment by the crew from ArtBeat Studio. The public is invited to join the fun, watch the creativity flow and vote for favorites. Cash prizes will be awarded thanks to Chalk the Block sponsor, Artsbridge. Artists are to pre-register if they want to be eligible for the prizes at www.parkersburgartcenter.org/upcomingcurrent-events

Attending either of these events is free, but donations will be accepted at the entrance and funds go to purport PAC arts outreach programs and help the PAC grow the senior arts studio. There are no tickets to buy and plenty of parking in the lots along Eighth Street.

If it rains, the ArtOberfest party will move inside the art center. Chalk the Block will be rescheduled in the event of rain.

ArtOberfest is free due to the title sponsor Bill Bailey Insurance, and other sponsors West Virginia University at Parkersburg, United Bank, Artsbridge, Joe Munoz, Downtown PKB and Discount Pool Supply with extra help from Wine Down on Market and Parkersburg Brewing Company.

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