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Shoes by Joel Wolfson is an example of the traveling photographer’s images, found at the 4th of July Art in the Park.
pieces that will be at Art in the Park. “My art is temporary and whimsical, a flare of Picasso. I see in pictures, in three dimensions. As a child I wanted to be an inventor. I feel with my art I am inventing new ideas with clay. I shape and throw each piece individually and use the clay as a canvas.
“I’m a very lucky woman to be able to do what I love! Art has been a way of life for all my life. My kids were raised traveling from art show to art show, living like gypsies, but loving and appreciating art. I now live in Apache Junction at the base of the Super- stition Mountains. A beautiful place to call home, and a great place to be creative.”
“My number one passion and love is my 11-month old daughter, Lia,” photographer Joel Wolfson tells me. “I photograph her
more than any other subject and spend all the time I can with her. I love teaching pho- tography and I combine that with another favorite endeavor, which is travel. I conduct photography workshops both here and over- seas. I want my participants to learn and be inspired, so my number one goal and great- est reward is when they really have fun. If they enjoy themselves they will also create great images. There is a wonderful synergy that happens when you get a bunch of photo enthusiasts together to create and share their work.”
“The art I produce keeps changing and evolving,” Mr. Wolfson tells me about his art. “I would be too bored doing the same type of
images or subjects all the time. Because I’m not just a landscape, street or abstract artist. The best way I can describe my art is that my images tell a story or conveys an emotion. I often try to communicate what I felt at the time. If my subject is a person then I’ll convey something about them.”
The photography Mr. Wolfson will be showing has a variety of subjects. “I will have landscapes, slices of life from around the world, and I will bring some new releases to the show. I recently did a street shooting project in New York and hope to have at least one new release from that, I will have some natural abstracts, although I can be a sucker for a traditional landscape I will often see and capture more abstract images that nature of- fers.”
Held in Wheeler Park in Downtown Flag- staff, Art in the Park hosts a variety of local and visiting artists. On July 4 and 5, from 9AM to 6PM, and July 6, from 9AM to 4PM Wheeler Park will be transformed into an art market full of color with live music filling the air. FlagstaffArtinthePark.com
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Painter Sky Black is featured at Mountain Oasis International Restaurant this July. He tells me about his continuing theme. “The Mountain Oasis show will feature paintings that will continue the theme, ‘Hurry My Dear, The Storm is Near,’ as well as a never-seen- before piece titled, Gracefully Ever After. The storm always feels near, especially in Flagstaff where the wonderful, fast-paced weather al- ways teases my mind as well as the dry land below. It’s hard not to naturally continue this theme.”
Mr. Black will be releasing new limited edi- tion prints of his paintings. “I plan to show my prints on one wall and the originals on the other to create a well-rounded price range and experience for the viewers that will show nearly two years of work,” he says.
Only July 5 a new painting of Mr. Blacks titled, When the Curtains Fall, will be installed at the Orpheum Theater. SkyBlackArt.com