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combinations of color and form, simultaneously simple and complex, soft and strong.
Lois Moore Manookian’s small, fine images of the outdoors are full of rich colors and textures, conveying the cool, lush feeling and fragrance of the forest.
Two pencil drawings by Rex Morgan Slack reflect a totally different type of beauty—a lighted window in a darkened wall, a man standing just outside a pool of light as a train passes, a rumpled bed still warm.
Also by Rex Morgan Slack is an intricately detailed three-dimensional miniature of an art studio. The mural covering one wall spills out into the room, which is spackled with paint and contains a worktable, brushes, a vinyl chair, works-in-progress, a smock hanging on a door, a naked lightbulb overhead and a minute and overflowing ashtray.
In addition to the miniature threedimensional work was provided by Maggie Morris, who added four new soapstone sculptures to her bronzecasting walrus already on display—a lumbering sea turtle and a parrot, both vivid and full of movement, and life; a mermaid draped over a rock, with a stormy gaze; and two miniature warriors’ masks, whose expressions share with the mermaid a mixture of the human and the unearthly.
Independence Day
The arts were a vital part of Washington’s July Fourth festivities, as musicians, artists, craftspersons, bakers and pyrotechnicians all shared their talents to make the day a celebration of independence in the truest sense of the word.
Classical music on recorders was played alongside oldtime fiddle and dulcimer tunes and more contemporary “country music.” Photographers, seamstresses, potters, weavers and glassworkers all contributed their
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