Halloween Party

It's time for GBSS' Halloween Party! This costume party will be held on Friday, October 30, starting at 8 pm and going all night. Dust off your sewing machine and shake the spiders out of your masks, since we have some pretty awesome costumes lined up, and some great ideas to boot, so the challenge is on. There will haunting music, classic horrific movies, as well as other terrifying things too horrible to mention. Dress in sinister fashion or suffer the consequences. And how about a prize for the best and weirdest costumes? We're not advertising this year, but instead inviting all of our friends, and yours. Pass it on to anyone you would like to have there!

Don't miss our second annual Halloween party. We hope to see you there, if you dare!

Also check out Jenn's pumpkin carvings on the latest issue of the Second Supper!

Artists brighten downtown window with mural

La Crosse Tribune By GERI PARLIN gparlin@lacrossetribune.com

Local artists Matt Duckett and Jennifer Bushman recently finished an eye-popping mural, which will be displayed in Wittenberg, Wis., as part of Walls of Wittenberg, a program started in 2005 to revitalize the village through development of the arts. In four years, the central Wisconsin village has commissioned and installed 15 murals and opened an art gallery.

This mission struck a chord with the La Crosse artists, who run the Green Bay Street Studio. So Duckett and Bushman created a design that incorporated the nature of the building on which their mural would hang - an eye clinic. Duckett and Bushman's final design mimics the appearance of color-blindness tests and measures an imposing 8 feet by 30 feet. It is made up of more than 2,600 circles in 65 colors.

The artwork is painted on Dibond, an aluminum composite that is two thin sheets of aluminum sandwiching a layer of resin and is most often used in signmaking. Duckett and Bushman created 18 sizes of stencils to create the circles. Then they varnished the completed mural to weatherproof it.

The mural will be installed in Wittenberg late this week but until then is on display in the newly renovated building at 333 Main St. in downtown La Crosse. Duckett said this is a taste of what is about to happen in La Crosse. As a member of the City Arts Board, Duckett is working on a program to install artwork in vacant storefronts in La Crosse.