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GAGA Girls Ginny Piech Street
and Anita Prentice will hold an art exhibit to celebrate the
blues at the city of Clarksdale’s Greyhound Bus Station
in partnership with the Delta Blues Museum, at the corner of
3rd and Issaquena in Clarksdale on Friday, September 29, from
5 to 7 p.m. Lite fare and live music from Big T will be provided.
The public is invited. The exhibit will feature blues-related
art by both artists. Ginny Piech Street's brightly colored paper
collages are filled with humor and quirky imagery. Anita Prentice
uses smashed stained glass and painted grout to create her impressionistic,
frescoed mosaics. Both artists will also feature sculpture in
their own unique style.
The GAGA Girls, whose name derives from the first letters of
their names, have a close connection with the area. Ginny has
family ties to Memphis and Anita has family roots around Tupelo
with one aunt who actually owned a juke joint in Tutwiler. The
contemporary exhibit of sculpture, mosaics and collage will be
displayed against the backdrop of the Clarksdale’s historic
Greyhound Bus Station. The name of the show was inspired not
only by the fact that the artists are traveling to Clarksdale
from Florida's Treasure Coast specifically to show their work,
but “Art on the Tracks" also embraces in part the
historic background of the blues. Art will be for sale at the
opening reception and throughout the show, with some of the proceeds
going to the museum. The exhibit will run through November.
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