Axom Gallery was jam packed last night for Judd William’s artist talk, so jammed a woman next to us on the way in said, “I better not go in there or I’ll have a panic attack.” Judd’s talk was pretty straight forward and you probably could have guessed that he has fun while he works. He draws a lot. He always has, he was voted the “The Artist” in high school and he likes doing portraits but he shys away from calling them portraits because often times the people he draws say it doesn’t look like them. It was a treat to hear him talk while surrounded by his recent work.
Our favorite show this First Friday was the performance by the International School of Music & Arts students doing works by Philip Glass. This instrumentation sounded fantastic in this room and I have never heard anything sound good in this space. The oldest kid in this ensemble is a tenth grader. Two of the violinists are in seventh grade.
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