Fun times on a Saturday night to kick off the holiday season! Thank you to all of the friends who stopped in, and a giant thank you to musician Greg Smith for playing all evening! Here are a few photos in case you missed the fun.
As thanks to our loyal customers who continue to bring in great stock for the store AND take books home, we offer the chance to use 100% store credit on used, non-consignment items throughout the store (not including sales tax). If your store credit has been piling up, this is your chance to Christmas shop or restock your To Be Read pile. If you have any questions, please give us a call. 760-873-6882
We had a great time and a great turnout at our annual Ghost Story Open House! Darling little folks in costume and superior medium aged helpers made it an excellent event. Thank you to staff Courtney, Jackie, Susan, and Lindsey and helpers Naya, Ella, Madison, Erin, Mini, and Elan the Jawa for making it happen and getting into the Hogwarts spirit! I’m sorry I did not have better photography for this event, but it looks spookier this way….
Our annual Halloween Open House will be October 27, from 5:30 to 8:00. Of course the focus is on reading seasonal spooky stories (I save the spookiest for later), but we have lots of other fun too!
This year the store is transfiguring into the Hogwarts Library… with a Potions class, the Owlery, The Leaky Cauldron, Fortune telling, Miniature Quidditch, and more! Plenty of magic for witches, wizards and muggles of all ages. Some special Leaky Cauldron drinks will be a very small price, everything else is free! Please come listen to some stories and have some fun for the season.
So much fun to celebrate our Leprechauns and magical little people ON St. Patrick’s Day this year! It was a green day in every direction. Here are some of our favorites.
Bob Miller’s family has generously set up a Memorial Scholarship for a Bishop High senior pursuing an education in the arts. The application will be available through the BUHS Guidance Office with the local scholarships, and due on April 15. The award will be $1,000. Seniors, if you haven’t already done so, please contact the Guidance Office for an application.
I always admire individuals who are disciplined independent students, learning languages, skills, or philosophy through their own research and organized reading. Bob was certainly my ultimate role model, from his own high school days challenging his English teachers who hadn’t read the classics as he had, to organizing the architect licensing school, to his last days ordering books from me on metallurgy so he could understand silver plating. Honoring Bob’s phenomenal dedication to self education as well as his joy in mentoring young artists, the application states:
Bob did not have a college degree but he was extremely well educated through his lifelong, self education on many topics. Consequently, our ideal recipient would be a more independent pursuer of their education…one who steps out of the box, who may or may not have the highest grades, but is strongly self motivated.
I know that the recipient will be blessed by this legacy from Bob and his family, and I am grateful for their effort. Remember that proceeds from the sale of his art will continue to help this scholarship fund.
If you have been in the store at all, or followed our social media, you know how Robert Miller’s art fills our life here at the store. We have been showing his artwork since about 2010, and enjoying his company even longer than that. Bob makes a daily circuit from one end of town to the other, probably five miles round trip, and we are glad to be one of his daily stops for a chat and an art update.
While he recently has been feeling his age, he says, the rest of us sure don’t think he shows it! I am always impressed at his willingness and interest in learning new things and studying new topics. Art of course is high on the list, and he studies techniques of the old masters but also Degas, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle, and anyone else that shows a technique of interest. Color and color values fascinate him and I am frequently sent on book research errands on that topic. Besides art though, topics include psychology (Maslow is a hero since he designed a mental hospital in the 60’s), geography of the Sierra, botany, music, brain functions, the Welsh in Patagonia, and this month, German. If you need an example of keeping your brain sharp by learning and keeping your body mobile by staying active, Bob is your man. The breadth of his reading and the things he remembers, his self discipline and ability to focus, astound me regularly.
I know he touches many lives around Bishop, so please feel free to share this invitation with others who may want to drop in and wish him well.
Happy Birthday Bob!
If you missed the 2015 Chocolate Art Walk last weekend, you did miss out. BUT, we are excited to say that we will be keeping Judyth Greenburgh’s photography and sculptural display up for awhile longer, so come on in! We have prints and candlesticks available for sale, and more are available to order.
Judyth Greenburgh lives part of the year in Darwin, and is very active in the Southern Inyo community, including working on the board of the Owens Valley Growers’ Cooperative (http://www.owensvalleygrowerscooperative.com). Her background is in graphic design and The art in our exhibit takes, as she says, the ordinary views in Darwin and the surrounding desert, and shows the extraordinary. Greenburgh is an award-winning photographer, creative director and artist who has influenced elections, changed opinions, made us think, and delighted our hearts. She has over 30 years experience in premium brand development and design for a grand array of projects in different parts of the world.
I love having them up in the store and I am growing constantly more attached to them, and, well honestly, it makes me smile that we are exhibiting a photo also on display at the
Louvre, as recently featured in the Inyo Register! She also has exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
You can find out more about her work here: http://www.copperattractions.com/ and here: http://www.jgreenburgh.com
Here’s some comments she provided about her work and the inspiration.
Darwin is like a blank canvas. There is no clutter to cloud the skies or pollute your mind, no stores, no paved roads or cops. You are exposed to the elements and yourself. Here, there is nowhere to hide and nothing to distract you.
Darwin is the perfect place to invent, re-invent and live in the now.
Things get dumped in the desert, Cars, trains, Boeing 747’s , eccentric people, condensed milk cans, bombs and radio active waste. It’s a place where the past has been left behind, yet to be covered by changing times
This show is a selection of different perspectives.
Photography: When I have a camera in my hand, I notice more.
I slow down enough to see the details and the beauty there.
What looks ordinary can be pretty extraordinary on closer inspection.
There’s beauty in everything. It’s my meditation practice – the art of being here
Notes from the Edge: shows a few pages from a calendar I made about Darwin.
Sandwiches: reflects my appreciation of the Eureka sand dunes.
Darwin Details shows just how extraordinary the ordinary can be.
12 Frames is my showcasing system . I show in series of 12’s and print a limited edition of 12 numbered giclees. Only 12 of the prints get numbered. This is validated with a certificate of authenticity. These are normally on acid free archival cotton rag paper. ‘So this is art is it?’ Anything hand made or printed by me, I also emboss or stamp with a seal.
D.U.M.P: Discovering Unwanted Metal Pieces
Imagine a Post Apocalypse world. A place where trash becomes treasure.
Darwin was a mining town. There are fields of ‘can dumps’. Where the miners threw away their canned goods.
Over time they have become dented and rusted. I was intrigued by the oxidation of time. How metal rusts, copper patinas.
The juxtaposition of shine with rust/ patina. How this layer transforms common trash into something worth considering,
The Can Panels: reclaims what has been abandoned.
Inspired by the scalability of the repetitive form I made short movie and re created the sea of abandoned tin cans as panels that can be hung individually or together.
What’s with the shiny can? The shiny can comes from the short film I made. In the film – a can of Natural Ice is crushed and tossed onto a pile of rusty old cans … the new kid on the block. This has become the signature of each piece. A dvd of the film is available & given with every art piece bought
Yes you can. What if you could bottle a positive permission and sprinkle it to activate? Each bottle contains the dust from a whole lot of cans and is labeled with a positive ‘CAN’ intention
COPPER ATTRACTIONS are candlesticks with a magnetic twist. Exploring the shine and oxidation of pure copper, plumbing fittings adding magnetic ends, enabling them to defy gravity and balance in places not normally possible.
More copper, magnetic art can be seen on my website. www.copperattractions.com
This Book Signing has it all – get ready for a list! We are celebrating the release of Eastern Sierra and Death Valley Camping with Privacy by the Gardnerville, Nevada team of Kimberly and Patrick Wilkes. If, like most of us, your camping opportunities are too few to waste on a lousy experience, this book is the research tool you need! Kimberly and Patrick thoroughly researched hundreds of campgrounds in our region, rating the privacy, listing fun things to do nearby, passing on warnings, and describing how to get there and how to get your spot. All campers will want this book, and signed would make it the perfect gift! Call to reserve a copy.
And here is the “plus”:
Join us Saturday, October 17 from 3:00 to 5:00 for this event!
