BOMB SHELTER ART/MUSIC SHOW - FINAL FRIDAY

I know it's short notice but I'm having a few of my prints put on display (and for sale) at Anna Murdoc's for Final Friday this week. I'm doing this event in coordination with Tornado Alley Press, the Printmaking Guild at Wichita State, which I'm a member of. We're also doing some live shirt screen printing too which I'll have a few designs for as well.

Come on out and support the local art and music scene!

WHERE:
209 E Williams
The entrance is off of MARKET, leading DOWNSTAIRS into the exhibition space.


ARTWORK ON DISPLAY AS WELL AS SEVERAL INSTALLATIONS

TIMELINE OF EVENTS/SPACE:
1) BOMBSHELTER (downstairs)
2) ANNA MURDOCS
3) PARK NEXT TO KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (down the street on Williams)


POETRY at the BOMB SHELTER 7:30-9:30 pm

THE RADIATION ROOM - POETRY from the Prose Collective's best. David C. Warren is hosting the poetry event. There will be a Tea bar as well! enjoy some poetry and tea!

OPEN MIC "SALT AND PEPPER SERIES" 9:15pm - tilll the MIC drops INSPIRED by the RADIATION ROOM?

UPSTAIRS Anna Murdoc's Cafe This is an open space for EXPRESSION hosted by Joshua J. Gwinn

DOWNSTAIRS AT THE BOMB SHELTER MUSIC 9:30 Domestic Drone 10:30 $badger

NEW MUSIC/ELECTRONIC HOUR at the BOMBSHELTER 11:30 - 2AM 11:30 dreamcrusher MIDNIGHT We Have The Technology 12:30 Golden Living Room 1AM-2AM TBA

THE PARK 6PM - 9:00PM LIVE ART/GRAFF & COLLABORATIVE PAINTING

DRUM CIRCLE 7PM

THANK YOU to everyone participating this year especially those of you who have been helping with the planning and set up for this show, we couldn't do this without your active engagement and hard work. ALSO BRING CANNED GOODS FOR OUR FOOD DRIVE!

GRUSS VOM KRAMPUS

I finally took some photos of my first attempt at screen printing,  a tribute to the Yule time myth of Krampus. You might be wondering who in the hell I am referring to but you're not alone as he's almost unheard of in America. The short and skinny is that originally St. Nick came to reward children on Christmas with presents if they were good. But in turn, if they were naughty little monsters then Krampus came a knockin' equipped with birch branches and chains to whip them with. If these miniature miscreants were particularly terrible, they would be tossed into a sack or basket and carried off to be... well, I bet you can imagine some of the horrors a demon might have in store for his prey. I hear the flesh of children is quite a delicacy to the underworld.

*shudder*

A lump of coal sure seems mighty nice in comparison to demon torture doesn't it? So our touchy-feely wuss-puss culture decided to drop ole Krampus from our X-mas celebrations. I don't know about you but I might not have been such a little turd growing up had there been a possibility that a horned and cloven fiend might come for a visit.

I wanted to subtlety work in little bits of his myth into this mini poster print that you might write off as purely decorative unless you knew the story. Some of which are the little kids hands reaching out for forgiveness at the top, the sad children silhouettes on the sides, the chains at the bottom and the two birch branches that the banner wraps around. The banner stating Gruss vom Krampus, translates to Greetings from Krampus. My first run was in black and white and the rest varied in color and inking techniques. I was attempting to produce a somewhat 3-D look with the use of white under the red in the last pic below. There are about 10 one of a kind color prints that will be for sale once I get my Etsy store opened back up in the next month if anyone is interested in purchasing an edition. It might just help keep the spirit of Krampus alive and keep your kids in line!

So when the Christmas season rolls around again just remember that if the chestnuts are roasting, so might be naughty little kids at the hands of Mr. Krampus.