Mainsail Art Festival 2016

Longtime readers will recall past posts regarding the Mainsail Art Festival. It's an annual event at Vinoy Park in St. Pete that happens in April. We missed last year for some reason so this year was a priority. The Mainsail is an invitational art exhibition and art sale. There is always cool stuff and in the past I have spent much more than I should for art works. This year I purchased a landscape from a Cheryl Ritter whose work "Yellow" appealed to me.

It is usually a pretty warm day during Mainsail and this year was no exception. Two years ago we saw an elderly lady having some kind of a heat medical emergency. But if you can keep hydrated then it is a pretty fun event. It is a competition first and foremost prior to the public entering, then these guys sell their stuff and there are all kinds of pieces - art, pottery, glass, metal. Just about anything you can think of. Speaking of pottery, one of my usual favorites, The Hairy Potter was absent this year.

Cheryl Ritter was more than happy to pose in front of her just-sold artwork. There was a price next to it that was out of my budget but she saw I took a liking to it. She then popped her head over, whispered a cut in price by almost half, and I took the bait. This was my 6th painting bought at Mainsail. Me and Guggenheim.

This being the Vinoy, other things were going on, of course. I saw this as I was heading out. I'm not sure what it is called but perhaps No-Foul Soccer. Looks like fun, might just get some of these bubbles and take over to BFE and have a spirited kick-the-beer-can competition.

Comments

Flashback Friday

Class, Or Lack Thereof The Dwight Vice gravestone in Oquawka, Illinois. I bring this old chestnut out every so often just to remind me that class is classless. Dwight Vice was killed in his home near Oquawka in 2001. It was one of those things that can generate crime: two guys thought Dwight had a lot of money stashed at home because of his pot-selling sideline to supplement his fishing job. Not really one of those big drug deals gone-bad things. Marijuana was, according to the trial, about the only stuff Dwight sold. But these two guys barge into the house and killed Dwight and attempted to kill his 11 year old kid, Darryl, before they took off with what money they could find. His son, now 23, was stabbed in the back and left for dead. He survived and is wheelchair bound and has undergone several surgeries to repair his wounds. He will be paralyzed for life. None of this is pleasant. Reading the f...

Florida Air Museum - Part 3

Welcome back to a pretty neat tour of the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland Florida. There's a lot to see and a couple of the old Geezer Gold Wing guys are already sitting down instead of walking around looking at the exhibits. That's John who is wore out and making a call to his wife. In all honesty, John was pretty well bushed before the ride. He told me his daughter's family was down from one of the Carolina's with the grand kids and he must have played with them too much. He's about to take off on his own and head for home, but he's going to miss a couple of neat things out on Hangar A. But, before we walk over there, we have lots yet to see here. If you saw The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes, you'll remember that he went up in a plane during the filming of one of his movies to prove a point about flying. He crashed trying to execute a roll and this is a picture of the plane he crashed. No...

The Mary Davis Home - Part 2

None of these pictures were taken by me, they came right from the MDH website. I am posting these so that friends who have never seen inside where I worked can gain access. After 27 years I have many stories, tales and acquaintances. But, I wouldn't know how to express them appropriately in a few paragraphs. I enjoyed 98% of my stay there and hope I made a difference in the lives of a fraction of the kids who entered. The original MDH at this site was just the front part. The large red-roofed area in back was added on in the 90's. This is the Jerry Carlton library. It was unofficially named after one of the counselors who truly loved the place. He passed away around 2002, I think. Mr. Farber looks like he is explaining a few things to a client. The classroom. Activity area with the gym behind the windows. Another shot of the classroom. It was a little different area to teach since we had 2 classes and 2 teachers i...

Existing In BFE

Search This Blog