By Terri Bryce Reeves, Times Correspondent
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sunset Triptych, a canvas giclee by Scott Menaul of Clearwater, was created digitally. Menaul will bring dozens of works to this weekend’s art show.
CLEARWATER
Art and jazz will make beautiful music together this weekend as the third annual Clearwater Jazz 'N Art Walk gilds the 500 and 600 block of Cleveland Street with the works of 35 professional artists, most from Florida but some from as far away as California.
The fine art show is a companion event to the four-day Clearwater Jazz Holiday at Coachman Park, which attracts tens of thousands each year.
Like the jazz festival, the art show is free; it runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Artwork of different mediums will be on display and for sale. The top three artists will share a $5,000 purse.
Scott Menaul of Clearwater will showcase photography and digital contemporary art. His digital designs are created on the computer, but not by the computer, he stressed.
"Some people think you just go to a software program, push a few buttons and out comes art," said Menaul, 53, who spent 20 years in the advertising field as a photographer and graphic designer, "but that's not how it happens."
Menaul said he works on a composition "until it communicates with me. Until it sings."
His pieces tend to be vibrant, abstract and geometric. "I try to look at life in a different way and open up new dimensions," he said.
He plans to bring several dozen pieces, priced from $95 to $1,200.
Browsers will find many different art forms to dress up their homes, businesses or selves. The art walk includes paintings, glasswork, sculptures, stoneware, jewelry, wood engravings, metal, assemblages and more.
Lorraine Potocki, whose pastel painting Fusion was chosen for the 2010 Clearwater Jazz Holiday publicity poster, will sign T-shirts and the highly collectible Jazz Holiday posters.
And, as part of the Jazz Holiday's commitment to education, student art will be displayed on Cleveland Street. A Kids Educational Zone, held in cooperation with the Dunedin Fine Art Center, will offer chalk art and hands-on activities.
Live music is provided by the New York Guitar Cats, Night Train, the Ruth Eckerd Hall Jazz Lab Band, Honkabilly Blues, Ray Olan and the Jazz O'le Band, and the Hy Notes.