Many thanks to all who participated- it was a great day!

Tuolumne Meadows (with Latitude artists and John Lackey)

will be performed prior to Lexington's Gallery Hop on
Friday, September 16, 10am- 2pm
at LexPark metered parking space #1301, corner of Short St. and North Limestone St.
with a special performance from 12:30- 1:00pm
Info: Bruce Burris, Latitude Artist Community latitudearts@yahoo.com (859) 806-0195
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Special Performance: 12:30- 1pm Join us for a performance of literature and music which (mostly) reflects environmental themes. Performers include Whitney Baker, Hap Houlihan, Warren Byrom and Eric Reese.
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Latitude's Tuolumne Meadows is an unoffical partner of Park(ing) Day an international event in which public parking spaces are converted into public parks for a day. This is Latitude's 3rd Park(ing) Day installation.

Tuolumne Meadows is a performance/installation in LexPark parking space (#1301) created by Latitude artists in collaboration with Lexington artist John Lackey and coalition of of local writers and performing artists. In this piece John plays the (fictional) rambling 19th century painter/naturalist Krystal McKusick.

In this performance you will witness Krystal (John) painting a scene of Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows (a Diorama in our case) in the guise of a 19th century naturalist/painter/adventurer. The Diorama Krystal is to paint is based on the perspective common to those who have painted and photographed this vista for many generations and it was constructed by Latitude artists.

From John Muir and Ansel Adams to Jack Kerouak, Yosemite and Tuloumne Meadows in particular has served as a cultural marker and local point of departure for a variety of artists, writers and naturalists/adventurers who often indulged in Romantic Era inspired literary and visual dalliances. This is just as true today as the meadow continues to host swarms of "Plein Air" painters, writers, climbers and unruly bears.  

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Performance 12:30- 1pm

Local literary and music luminaries will be reading and playing music (mostly) related to ecological themes, they include:

Erik Reese

                                                                                                            

Whitney Baker

                                                                           

Warren Byrom

Hap Houlihan (right)

John Lackey

More on John Lackey , Eric Reece , Hap Houlihan , Whitney Baker , Warren Byrom

In preparation for Tuolumne Meadows Latitude artists...

created a Tuolumne Meadows diorama which artist John Lackey will paint during the performance...

read William Blake at the "Poetry Tree"...

Laughing Song

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;

When the meadows laugh with lively green
and the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet rounds mouths sing "Ha, Ha, He!" ....

tried our hand at landscapes and sill life's...

and worked on some outdoor "Plein Air" painting...