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| January 9, 2009, Saturday Last night was the First Friday Art Trail and the opening for the exhibit at Hard Tops Gallery with Wilhelm Künstler, Joe Miller, and Eddie Jo Miller. The temperature had been below freezing since Tuesday afternoon when it was 67 degrees F. There were not huge crowds at the opening, but a steady stream of people. It was nice to see a lot of friends I hadn't seen in a while. There was quite a bit of interest Künstler and numerous questions about his scuptural installations. Joe and Eddie Jo's photography was quite popular as well. The staff at Hard Tops did an excellent job and we appreciate all of their hard work. |
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| January 3, 2010, Sunday We are hanging our exhibit at the Hard Tops Gallery tomorrow. I will be exhibiting with Wilhelm Künstler, Joe Miller, and Eddie Jo Miller. The exhibit will open for the First Friday Art Trail on Friday, January 8, 2010. My photography will include some old work that the late Mark Ruzicka, founder of Hard Tops, liked and some new images to go with them. Künstler is showing some artwork that inspired Mark to call him from New Orleans. As a tribute to Mark and to Randy Cooper, the artist who inspired Mark, Künstler adapted the look of the artwork to his own interpretation. To the right is one of Künstler's usual sculptural works and bottom right is one of the tribute sculptural fabrications. The somewhat inclimate weather over the holidays allowed us time to do some final touches on some artwork and get some new artwork started. I should have gotten out and shot some images of the "White Christmas", but I was too busy working on other things. Hopefully, I will be finishing up classes this spring and will have more time to create art. I have ideas for several new projects and want to expand and finish some of my existing projects. I took Jimmy Buffett's advice from one of his songs. For this trip around the sun, I made no New Year's resolutions. As always, I wish this next trip around the sun will be the best ever for you. Brave the cold weather and we will see you at Hard Tops on Friday. |
 by Bill Mueller
 by Wilhelm Künstler
 by Wilhelm Künstler
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| December 29, 2009, Tuesday Finishing up preparations for the exhibit at Hard Tops Gallery with Wilhelm Künstler, Joe Miller, and Eddie Jo Miller. The exhibit will open for the First Friday Art Trail on Friday, January 8, 2010. |
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