Berkeley's Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, celebrating its 40th anniversary, presents “Seeing Music,” a free art exhibit inspired by folk musicians who've played at the venue.
The art exhibit, culled from the Freight’s archives and on loan from local and regional visual artists, will feature work by Berkeley graphic artists David Lance Goines, Ryan Kerrigan, and Christopher Peterson; photographer Anne Hamersky; painter and musician Robert Armstrong; instrument maker JC Tourbillion (aka Jim Carter); painter Matthew Zivich, and artist Earl Crabb,among others.
Goines is creating a special, limited edition commemorative Freight & Salvage 40th anniversary poster that will be on view, in addition to several examples of his other work. Tourbillion created the unique instruments used by Freight & Salvage capital committee co-chairs Danny Carnahan and Warren Hellman to break ground on the Freight’s new building—a “sho-jo,” or combination shovel and banjo, and a “sho-tar,” a combination shovel and guitar. Tourbillion’s “sho-tar” will be on display in the gallery’s windows.
The designs of the three winning artists in the Freight & Salvage 40th Anniversary commemorative t-shirt contest, Claire B. Cotts, Bruce Kaplan, and Mark Meneghetti, will also be on view.
Some of the exhibit’s artists will greet the public and discuss their work at a sidewalk reception in front of the gallery on Thursday, June 5 between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
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