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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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