| Provost wife opens gallery of watercolor landscapes
What's the secret to making art that stands out? For Alix Travis, the answer to this question lies in simply looking around.
The artist and wife of interim provost Frederick Travis is featured in "Luminosity," a new exhibition at the River Winds Gallery in Beacon, N.Y.
"Luminosity" collects 42 of Travis' watercolor landscape paintings, featuring traditional landscapes at home and abroad. Travis said she uses watercolors due to the way the light interacts with the image – the luminosity for which the exhibition is named.
"The reason why there's that glow (in the painting) is because you're painting on white watercolor paper, and the paper shines through that color," she said. "So you can get very luminous paintings, and that's what mine are known for."
Painting, Travis said, was the logical "second career" she decided to take after spending 30 years working as a librarian and raising a family.
Opening: Pool, Price, Penhall Landscape & Dragon
OPENING TUESDAY, 3 April 2007, The Pool - City of Culture? - an award-winning contemporary verse drama set in Liverpool - receives a three-week London season at the Arts Theatre to 21 April (See News, 27 Feb 2007). Devised and performed by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, Pool is written in rhyme and prose that follows a day in the life of cockney chancer David and scouser Tina, who meet by accident after a robbery leaves David stranded in Liverpool. The play won the Fringe First award for new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe, where it premiered in 2006, before going on to have a five-day tryout at the Arts in November last year, and a sell-out season at Liverpools Unity Theatre. ** DONT MISS the chance to dive into THE POOL for only 8 valid until 21 April 2007 only - click here for more details! ** .
KC Power Equipment Sponsors Racing This Saturday Night At I-70 ...
With beautiful weather in the forecast, Saturday night racing will resume at the Asphalt Track, at I-70 Speedway. Five classes will be in action at "Americas Fastest Weekly Race Track". ASA Late Models, Super Trucks, Dash Cars, Super Stocks and the Enduros will all be on the bill for this Saturday nights event. On Saturday, Pit Gates will open at 4:00 pm, General Admission Gates will open at 5:00 pm, and Hot Laps begin at 6:00 pm with racing at 7:30 pm. Adult admission is $12.00 – Child admission is $5.00 - Children 5 and under are admitted for free. Sponsor for this Saturday's event is K C Power Equipment, located in Blue Springs. K C Power Equipment provides Blue Springs and the surrounding areas with sales and service of lawn and garden and other engine equipment.
Modern Balinese designs
Although elite travellers to Bali may not have heard of Karl Princic, most would be familiar with his beautiful gardens and landscapes. Princic was the master plan consultant for the 100-hectare Bali Golf and Country Club project in Nusa Dua, which opened in 1991. He was responsible for the hardscape and softscape design and coordination of all the landscape areas associated with the golf course, clubhouse and common development area. The project won the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Design Excellence Award in 1993. .
Woman takes long walk in grandmother's memory
Michelle Philan is inviting you virtually to walk a mile in her shoes. Actually, make that 26.2 miles. Philan, 26, is training for the June 3 Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San Diego to honor the memory of her grandmother, Jean Philan, who died at age 85 last December. Michelle, the youngest of Jean's four grandchildren, is working with Team In Training toward her physically challenging goal and is raising money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in the process.A dog lover, Spanish speaker and customer service representative for Office Products Northwest, Michelle set out to raise $3,500 for the Society. Seventy-five percent of all donations to the voluntary health organization go directly into research to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma and to improve the quality of patients' and their families' lives, according to the Society's Web site.
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