You know this is the Museums annual fund raiser and the food will be great and everyone who is anyone will be there and this is your big chance to get out and be seen and besides the Long Sufferin won’t claim you are sneaking off to the flesh pits cause they will be hardly worth the trouble so you can just get out and go and…the art on display is fantastic!
Now Stephen does a fantastic job of selecting what should go up and when and with George to artfully hanging it and the discriminating eye of Liv and Del almost everything in our museum is pretty above average but this time, with just the art donated to the museum to sell and keep the lights on and no gimlet-eyed jury lurking in the wings and no fevered, harried and exhausted director fretting over the process the art is wonderful.
Now as you might imagine if you were the imaginative type which of course you must because your are a highly skilled and incredibly innovative artist type person with a wildly creative and eclectic mind art without any sort of criteria can be a mixed bag and the art donated to the museum is just that sort of mix, but it is also wildly creative and marvelously done. I took a walk-through Wednesday and within the first fifty feet saw no less than ten I would have gladly tucked under my arm and run from the museum before anyone could catch me and that is very likely because the Ole Trawler is old and slow and has been sickly and would never pose a problem for Steve Prefontaine and just about anyone not laid up with the gout could grab me before I could get up enough momentum to make a clean get-a-way so I didn’t but I sure wanted to and so will you…
But you won’t be able to see how fantastic the art is if you don’t go. This year the museum has decided to make all of the donations a raffle premium and so there won’t be anything left because the art and the patrons who would have wanted the art couldn’t be in the same place at the same time but this time the if you aren’t there the art will go home with someone else cause they were lucky and held the right raffle ticket and you’ll be left out in the cold cause you didn’t even get to see the art before the lucky patron got to take it home!
So now that you know just what you are going to miss aren’t you planning to put down that remote control, actually put on something other than sweats and get in the car and go to the Fall Fling for the Arts?
There is no Fairy Artmother, if you don’t cough up the funds to keep the doors open and the lights on it will be your responsibility when the museum has to shut down because you would rather watch re-runs of Glee than to get out, get with it, get moving.
Now do I have your complete attention? Good, the community of Coos Bay offers so many advantages for its residents and with the cooperative weather and the wonderful people not to mention great food on every corner, it would be a terrible loss if the one and only art museum on the whole South Coast had to close because the people of Coos Bay wouldn’t come out and support it.
You don’t want folks to say the people of Coos Bay are just like Congress fighting and feuding and fuming and never getting any real work done?
No, that’s right you are not a Congressman! You deal with problems, support the community and enjoy the privileges that come with commitment.
And when you get there take a look just to the left as you enter the big gallery, there’s one of the Ole Trawler’s photographs right there and that should be enough to get you dressed and out the door if nothing else will do it!
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