Radical Beauty Part 6

Radical Beauty Part 6

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Rhythmix Cultural Works Presents

Love Our Island Art Walk

Radical Beauty, Part 6

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Featuring Art Installations by
Malcolm Kenter, Ginny Parsons and Alameda Education Foundation’s Art Across the Island

Music by:
Bay Area Music Project (Choir and Orchestra from Maya Lin Elementary), Bay Station Duo (West Coast Americana), Crying Uncle (Bluegrass Band), Evil Diane (Southern Appalachian), Gari Hegedus and Faisal Zedan (Middle Eastern) and Key Elements (Latin/Brazilian Jazz)

Friday, November 2 | 6 pm-9 pm
On Upper Park Street

Miniature Building by Malcolm Kenter

By Malcolm Kenter. Image courtesy of the artist.

On Friday, November 2nd from 6-9pm, Park Street will come alive with Radical Beauty Part 6 featuring art and music from all corners of the world…and the East Bay. Rhythmix Cultural Works, the California Arts Council, the City of Alameda and the Downtown Alameda Business Association partner to present the sixth Love Our Island Art Walk. Swirling planets, a miniature Victorian building and looming charcoal figures will occupy vacant storefront windows while sounds of the Bay Area Music Project’s youth orchestra and choir fill the night air. Intentionally scheduled in tandem with Downtown Alameda’s Spirits Stroll, attendees wandering along upper Park Street to Lincoln Avenue will be enchanted by music from Appalachia to the Middle East, with Bluegrass, West Coast Americana plus Latin and Brazilian jazz.

Luncheon on the Grass by Ginny Parsons

Luncheon on the Grass by Ginny Parsons. Image courtesy of the artist.

About the Artists

Malcolm Kenter

1629 Park St

Living in the epicenter of the technology movement, Kenter believes it is important to create artwork that occupies physical space and engages people to step away from screens and electronic media. By fighting against the ideas of capitalism and technology, his work focuses the viewer on something concrete that existed in the past, celebrating a Bay Area that many of grew up in and see rapidly slipping away.

Kenter’s architectural miniature sculptures are based on oft-overlooked, obscure buildings with a gritty aesthetic. His miniature sculptures are completely handmade and depict a fantastical, yet hyper-realistic and highly detailed replica, fully equipped with lights, miniature power lines, vents, fire escapes, pavement etc. Challenging themes of gentrification and urban development, Kenter’s work features places that are passed by daily without notice, contributing more to one’s daily experience than is realized.

Ginny Parsons

1629 Park St

Ginny Parsons is an Alameda painter using charcoal briquettes found in Lincoln Park, scrawled on paper left on the porch by friends and neighbors. “Luncheon on the Grass” was inspired by Monet’s pastoral picnic glimpsed through the anxious lens of the Trump-#MeToo era. Following in the footsteps of 19th century artists, who sought the out-of-doors for leisure, renewal and expression, Parsons looks for beauty in nature and uses discarded materials as a way to help the planet.

Alameda Education Foundation’s Art Across the Island

1900 Park Street (Corner of Clement and Park St)

The Alameda Education Foundation’s “Art Across the Island” project is an ongoing, revolving showcase of student artwork at venues across Alameda. For Radical Beauty Part Six, AEF has selected third graders from Henry Haight Elementary School to present paper marbled planets based on astronomical drawings by E.L. Trouvelot (1827-1895). After studying planet and satellite names based on information from NASA, the students will name their planets. Art Across the Island began in 2016 and is a partnership between Alameda public school teachers, school art docents, Alameda Free Library, Rhythmix Cultural Works, and local businesses across the island to showcase visual and literary arts.

Musician Bios

AEF Student Art

By Alameda Education Foundation’s Art Students. Image courtesy of the artist.