About this Event
Join us for The Grand Valley Arts Advocacy Award Celebration in honor of Gary Hauschulz for his dedication to Mentoring, Imagining and Inspiring Community
Doors Open at 1:00.
Presentations begins at 2.
Emcee: Jim van Pelt
Invocation: Wendy Videlock
Special Guest Speakers: Cullen Purser, Sarah Dishong, Lee Borden, and many more
Plus Live Music, an assortment of finger foods and beverages and Beer provided by: TBA
A donation of your own choosing is required to register for this special event.
We appreciate every dollar as it helps pay for this event and goes toward the making of a gorgeous personalized bench created by Pavia Justinian and Cullen Purser as a gift for Gary.
The bench will be on display at the Art Center and will be donated to the town of Palisade.
With special thanks to The Grand Valley Creative Alliance, The Art Center, Lithic Bookstore & Gallery and Trickster Ridge Presentations
An Ode to the Makers
Someone somewhere long ago
with a pair of hands, a bit of earth
and plenty of heart
and soul
crafted a small, beautiful bowl.
Just as someone
not so long ago made a buffalo
of chrome, a staircase made
of stone, a cracked egg, a dinosaur
and a pendant made of bone.
Just as someone long ago
with a fire in her belly told
the story of Kokapelli
and someone somewhere else
inspired somebody else
to marry cathedral glass to the light,
the dragon to the kite,
the crooked sun
flower vase to the starry starry night.
And someone somewhere else scratched
the image of his lover
at the entrance
of a cave, and someone built a labyrinth
and a maze
and elsewhere someone else
made of sweet grass, a slender braid.
All this because
as we all come to know,
nothing
stays the same. All this because
all the world’s
a stage. All this because to make
is to praise. Here in this place,
a toast then,
to the movers and the shakers,
the dancers and the dreamers
the dabblers
and the makers and the universal ways
not in spite of it all
but because of it all --
we rise, we make, we praise.
-- wendy videlock
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Art Center, 1803 North 7th Street, Grand Junction, United States
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