Welcome all friends, artists, musicians, dancers, performers, writers and poets, craftsmen, gardeners, vagabonds, crazy saints and rascals...

A BOHEMIAN BANAQUET
Art, Music, Drama, Dancing & Dining
May 9th, 2009 4pm-11:30pm
at Heather Marsh's Indoor Riding Rink
268 Fletchers Mill Rd.
Woodville, Virginia 22749

DINNER WILL BE BY RESERVATION ONLY
So please RSVP by April 10th with a check made payable to RZC
c/o Wellemeyers, 120 Mill Run Lane, Castleton, VA 22716

ADMISSION INFO

$15.00 From 4-7 pm
includes art exhibit
A 1000 Faces Performance
THE UNIVERSE IS A GREEN DRAGON
With The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra

$50.00 From 4pm till finish'
includes all of the day and nights' events plus the
Bohemian style sit down dining, a catered event
When you arrive you will see several tables set with flowers and candles,
Please bring your own plate, goblet, napkin, and silverware
Place your things wherever you like. Your seat has been reserved.
We are considering the table a group multi-media art installation.
Besides the necessities , bring anything you think will make the table
amazing, outrageous, beautiful, funny, funky.
A one of a kind piece of art!

$15.00 for the dinner for ages 6-13
* The days events are free for all children under 13 years
Dinner for ages 5 and under is free

$15.00 from 9:30-11:30 music from
Those Darlins


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

4p-5pm Multi-media art exhibit and music from
The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra

5p-6pm 1000 Faces Presentation of
A N A K A N T A V A D A
or
The Universe is a Green Dragon

6p-7pm More music from
Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra
with more time to enjoy the art

7p-9pm Dinner and music under the moon
Don't forget your Place settings!

9:30 p-11:30pm Music from
Those Darlins

DIRECTIONS
From 211-Take 622/Rock Mills Road for 1.9 miles
Take a right onto Rudasill Road/621 for 1.4 miles
Take right onto Fletchers Mill Road/620
Event on the left in .8 miles

From Sperryville-Take 522 South
Take left on Fletchers Mill Road
Event on right

Random Light and Sound Parade

Sean Ferguson Pyrophilia

Artist Statement: I have been an avid fire-arts practitioner for over 9 years now. I started when I was fifteen and have found nothing but serenity in the practice. I have worked in a variety of mediums, including: raw wood, prepared wood, fuel on wick (both dual torches and great staff variation), electric light, fire spitting, and I am currently branching out into various fire-craft styles (poi, whips, fingers, etc.). I have maintained a flawless track record of never having damaged an audience member, venue or myself during active performance or rehearsal. The only thing that gets me more invigorated than dancing with fire is the excited cheers of an entertained audience.

The Influenced Experience Objective by David Disbrow

T.I.E.O T-shirts based out of Sperryville, Virginia was started by David Disbrow in 2007 as a kind merchandise vendor selling original t-shirts, hemp jewelry, plant hangers and other random miscellaneous items. Bohemian Wear exclusives will be available for purchase at the upcoming Banquet Event.

You Spin Me Right Round, Jessica Salo

Jess'ka' Joy Hoop Art Performances...Jessica Salo is a hoop dancer from ol Sperryville town that will delight and entertain us at the Bohemian Banquet. She has performed before many a live audience while spinning for local musicians and at music festivals. Jess will be bringing her team of dancers who are working on a performance especially designed for our event.

Laura Schadler: Teenage Auteur.

Laura Schadler studied Film at Bard College in the 90's. She also made a million videos as a teenager, along with the gracious collaboration of many willing and unwilling people, most notably Elliott Coon and Tessa Adams, along with all of the boys she ever dated or had crushes on.

Laura is now a writer and lives in San Francisco. She still loves movies, but doesn't make them anymore. She is writing a novel though and sometimes records music videos with her sister on her cell phone.

The above image is from 'Band of Outsiders' from the best scene when they all run through the Louvre. Laura did not make this movie. Jean-Luc Godard did.

Michael Doyle; Sculpture and Iron Works

Biography

Mike Doyle has been doing custom metal work since 1989.

He graduated with a BFA from Mass. College of Art. Michael apprenticed with Sculptor David Strohmeyer after college and then moved to Rappahannock County, Virginia.

Sam Cliffton

Artist Statement

I was born in Tucson, AZ in 1950 and spent my formative years in London, where I enjoyed photography, drawing and painting and had a great art teacher. I received a degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1972 and have lived and worked in Rappahannock County since 1973.

Most of this time I have designed and built custom homes and other structures. My art is about creating stored energy primarily with tensile constructions and I really enjoy working with lights, fabric, wire, etc. to create structural tensions. Basically I like imagining things and then figuring out how to make them.

I guess that, so far, building houses is the only way I’ve been able to do that and make a living in Rappahannock County.
scliffton@wildblue.net

Gaelan Finney-Day

Artist Statement

I graduated from the sculpture department at VCU in 2007. Until then, I made works of art that reflected a deep hope in the trans-formative power of boredom and lethargy.

This May, it will be two years since making any sculpture.

I've been thinking about going into advertising.

Beth Wellemeyer

Lost and Found...

Because we have lost…
Because we are hoping to find…

Because we have found beauty in an oftentimes despairing world
Because...
Everything has its beauty, yet not everyone sees it

This piece will be a shared installation with a place to put something you have lost, hope to find, or have found – whether it be photos, words, your marbles, your religion, peace, joy, a way to carry on…

The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra Comes to Rappahannock!!

Dressed in custom made costumes and headgear, they give gardening tips,
delve into gourd lore, brag about their vast, if questionable, ethnomusicological knowledge, and generally try to explain themselves. But mostly they play "gourdeous " music. "I planted a seed and grew an orchestra!" proclaims Arthur " Professor of Gourdology" Stephens.
The Orchestra performs at schools, galleries, museums, garden clubs, weddings, parties and festivals. Recently they created, for a film festival, an original score that is performed live with the 1922 silent documentary " Nanook of the North ". In schools they teach workshops and give lecture demonstrations. Once a year they take a pilgrimage to the worlds biggest gourd show, in Mt. Giliad Ohio, where they perform for the crowning of the Gourd Queen.
"We're out standing in our field " says Arthur. And that's probably where you'll find them.
Please check out their wonderful web site at www.gourdorchestra.com to learn more and hear their music.

Janet Kerig, Fiber Artist

Biography

Janet Kerig holds a BA from the University of Maryland. As an artist her many talents include being an acclaimed fiber artist specializing in earth basketry, wheat weaving, and paper making utilizing Eco-friendly materials such as natural fibers, botanicals and natural dyes. Janet brings magic to all her events and honors Mother Nature by co-creating art with natural fibers, keeping alive the ancient Wise Woman traditions which honor the harvest and fertility. In addition to her artistic craft, Janet is also a celebrated percussionist and drum circle leader, an active teacher in the arts and crafts

field and an organic gardener.

Palmer Smith, En Plein Air Artist

Biography


Palmer Smith paints "en plein air"... a French expression which means " in the open air." The phrase is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

His works in oils on canvas are executed almost exclusively from life.

Palmer has a Bachelor of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and displays his works at Studio frame shop and Cresendo restaurant in Warrenton , Virginia. Palmer lives and works in the Virginia Piedmont. His wife Michele is also an artist, and daughter Aliyah will turn 8 on April 1st.

Elliott Coon migrating towards sculpture

Recent projects have been exhibited in New Orleans, New York and Virginia as public installation - a small mirror clad creole cottage, a river of fire, a free-standing sidewalk fireplace of old brick and smaller sculptural houses.

Jules Coon, Photographer

I love taking photos! Here I am on the left with my good friend Judi Hunt in Nola for halloween dressed as the democracy repair people. We were well received.I have been jokingly referred to as the paparazzi of Rappahannock because I take my camera with me everywhere I go.

Rappahannock is so beautiful its hard not to get a good photo



I'm also a gardener here in the county so I have LOTS of pictures of
flowers and little bug guys that hang out with the flowers.
You can check out more of my photos on myspace......
www.myspace.com/twilazone



Look forward to seeing all of you on May 9
Love,
Jules Coon

William Martin, Life without Walls

Biography

William Martin, artist/creator

Born to cause a stir, one cannot help but take notice of anything William has put his creative energy into. Whether it be a painting, a restoration and design project, graffiti inspired mimicry or some other form of creative outlet, the idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

In his paintings, there is a certain neo-impressionism. Bright, vivid color, attention to detail, and the use of simplistic subject matter celebrate the subtle beauty and intensity of ordinary scenes in a way that is both intense and dramatic.

When asked to describe the intention behind his work, he gave me these words...
*Self Gratification
*Humor
*Amusement
*Visual Stimulization

THOSE DARLINS

Peggy and Laura Schadler are up to Slide Show Shenanigans

Jules Coon has collected several old slide projectors. She is going to have four going simultaneously in one of the barn stalls. I wanted to add some slides to the mix. Laura and I have been taking photos all over San Francisco to make a slide show story entitled, "In a Dream"

Louise Riley Embroidery Artist

Biography

born: Detroit, may 1981
bred: London

I got into embroidery when my teacher, on my birthday took me to see an Alice Kettle talk at the V&A. I was utterly in awe, I had just turned 17.
It was a complete turning point for me.
Embroidery, to me, is my medium, I am a literal artist, I don't play with irony, I fell in love with it because of it's texture, I pursued it because of it's meditation and it's creation of time and now it has been a decade and it's simply how I think.
Moving back into sculpture has been a great turning point as my other love was way working with clay. Now I feel I am getting the full fix. It is beginning to add new materials into my work, this is technically and conceptually a very exciting time, I feel like I am in the middle of an explosion of ideas, opportunity and possibility.
I never made it in art school, I tried a few times but, although I had an incredible thirst to create, I felt quite imprisoned by collage. I am happy to keep evolving in my own way. I am always moving forward, even if it is by making mistakes. Having a daughter has defiantly made me challenge myself more.

Artist Statement
I am interested in life's quest. The force that draws us through our thorny path's. I find it fascinating how predictable and startling humans are at the same time. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by how amazing people are, how beautifully designed, something I thought a lot about while breast feeding my daughter, who so neatly fit into the curve of my body- inside and out. These thoughts give me virtigo and I have to convince myself it is all ordinary to get my balance again.
At the moment my work is exploring relationships. It started from a piece I made called "Joined at the Hip and Bent Over Backwards". It was inspired through my conversations (my main inspiration) with some friends, a couple. Through this regular communication fine details and structures are revealed, their dynamic. I imagined them being connected by strings, some connections causing joy and others causing pain and struggle as they seemed to be so balanced. From this I have moved on to an interest not only in couples, but families and from families to communities and from communities to society. Exploring unity, disconnection and their effects.
I have been using the mattress as a part of my work for the obvious reason of its textile, therefore tactileness. The tradition of embroidery on household furnishings cannot be ignored, neither the 3 dimensional presence, they give my figures body, substance, they have a skin as well as insides, it has added an exciting sculptural element to my ideas. The main reason is its universal presence in our lives. Filtered thorough its padding is a history of ourselves much like a tree on mattresses, we spend more than a third of our lives on them and they support us in our death. They have our DNA, they have our blood, sweat and tears. They are a literal infinite memory. A raw portrait.