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| Double-fired raku pot by Barry Bernstein Raku |
Last Friday, Terri and I attended the
Oklahoma Festival of the Arts in downtown Oklahoma City. This is an
outdoor festival in a beautiful setting at the city's Festival Plaza
and in the Myriad Gardens.
It is fun to visit an art show in another community because you see different art than you do at the shows in your hometown. The 144 visual artists were selected from more than 540 applicants and the level of creativity and craftsmanship was extremely high.
There were twelve photographic artists exhibiting and I was able to talk with most of them. In addition to beautiful landscapes, many of the photographers focused on a a specialized type of subject which made each booth unique. Beyond the content, the printing quality was outstanding including film images hand enlarged to silver halide photo paper, canvas gallery wraps and prints on aluminum. Some of the metal prints on aluminum had been printed by Black River Imaging.
Our only acquisition at the show was a beautiful double-fired Raku pot with a dragon's tail cutout from Barry Bernstein Raku. Barry showed us a fascinating video on his phone on how he achieves such intense color saturation on his pieces.
Are you planning to visit an art festival this Spring?
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