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also relief carve many of my designs. The fin- ishes are created using liquid bronzing/patina technique. I have always been fascinated with gourds and their potential use as a canvas. I will have a variety of pieces at the Sedona show this year including geometrics and many Asian inspired. I will have some of my new relic pieces, as well. They have developed as a result of a fascination with the Chinese ritual Bronzes from hundreds of years BC.”
A different type of art is made by Cody and Mark Carter. The husband and wife team cre- ate colorful and comfortable shoes.
“Our shoes are entirely handmade!” Ms. Cart- er tells me. “We are not embellishing a preex- isting product. Mark learned to make shoes in London, and cobbles the shoes by himself in our home studio. I do the hand-painted toe designs on each and every pair. Our art is functional, durable, funky, unique, comfort- able and colorful. We cut and sew colorful cowhides dyed at the tannery, and hand paint toe designs for our shoes. We are constantly on the hunt for unique leathers, and even have a handful of them custom printed just for us.”
I ask how they began creating their shoes. “Mark was an apprentice to South African san-
dal makers in London, where he was working for them as an artist,” Ms. Carter says. “They eventually taught him all they knew and more about shoemaking. Mark purchased the Clark’s lasts from a factory going out of busi- ness, and set out on his own.”
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The Cemetery Club will premiere Friday, September 27, 7:30 PM at the Doris Harper- White Playhouse. This play by Ivan Menchell was originally performed in 1987 and features three Jewish widows who meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband’s graves. The story takes place in Queens, NY in the autumn. The widow Lucille is carefree and just wants to have fun with the rest of her days while Doris can be judgmental and prude. Ida is more willing to move on and begin a new life without continuing to dwell on her husband’s death. Sam the butcher is also introduced into the scene and takes an interest to Ida. The play takes a turn when Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida.
“These women have been friends for over 20 years and they fight but they love each other as well,” said Alisa Davis, the director of the play. “I think one of the biggest misconcep- tions is that because of the name Cemetery Club, people think it’s a play about death. Death is a part of this show but it is not the focus. We’re not focusing on the death, we are focusing on the relationships of the women who are deal- ing with the loss of their loved ones and how each of them chooses to move on. ”
The Cemetery Club is a dramatic comedy that can appeal to a variety of theatre goers, especially those who may have lost someone they are close to. From Ida showing her giddi- ness around Sam to Doris expressing her grief over her husband’s tombstone, the actors did a wonderful job at portraying a wide range of
Bill Colligen’s hard-shelled gourd artistry is among the artist
s at the 23rd Annual Sedona Arts Festival October 12 & 13.
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