ANNOUNCEMENT-Linda Pall's art opening

[Bill London <london@moscow.com>]

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> The photographs of donkeys and elephants from Washington D.C. by Linda Pall
> will be on display at the Moscow Food Co-op's Art Gallery from Oct. 18-
> Nov.21, 2002.
> An opening reception will be from 5:30pm-7pm on Friday, Oct.18.
> What better subject for a political junkie than Washington D.C.'s Party
> Animals Public Art Exhibit!And what better subject to have at the Moscow
> Food Co-Op Gallery on the occasion of the 2002 general election that the
> symbols of the two major political parties, donkeys and elephants!
> Linda Pall, long-time local political activist, 14 year Moscow city council
> veteran, and candidate for U.S. Congress in 2000, was in Washington,D.C.,
> this past summer for business and took a few hours out of her schedule with
> her 35 mm single lens reflex camera to chronicle some of the donkeys and
> elephants that graced Washington street corners and other public spaces.
> Predictably, her Democratic political commitment made the donkeys more
> attractive subjects for her but her bi-partisan eyes were drawn to a number
> of pachyderms as well.
>   "This was the absolute best diversion I had this summer! Imagine: all over
> Washington, 100 elephants and 100 donkeys, painted and sculpted and
> generally tarted up with political, historical or artistic themes and a new
> view of the animal as well as its surroundings. "Some of the animals were
> just plain humorous, like "Chad," the donkey covered with colored left-overs
> from the 2000 Florida presidential election results or Blue Sky, the
> elephant accompanying the donkey, Baby Blue,outside the Washington Post,
> both ostensibly reading the front page of the Washington Post. But some were
> really inspiring like the Profiles in Courage donkey that showed the faces
> of nurses and teachers and cops and fire fighters or the donkey that had the
> Democratic presidents and Eleanor Roosevelt on it."
> Pall's eye caught the spirit of the exhibit as well as the city around it,
> from hot dog stands to traffic to a sleeping homeless person. Twelve samples
> of the much larger exhibit will be at the Co-Op art gallery.
> You can learn more about this creative public art exhibit by visiting
> their website, www.partyanimalsdc.org.
> The Moscow Food Coop is located at 211 East 3rd St. Moscow. Their hours are
> from 8am to 8pm.