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Art festival celebrates Bay artists Bayennale brings European tradition to Oakland Posted in the Oakland Tribune on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Written by Hanna Tamrat Oakland — For four years, Colleen Flaherty of Oakland has made wings with snake sheddings and paint to experience a spiritual flight on the days she meditates. On Monday she taped a collection of her "wings" into a sail for a flying boat displayed at the Gladstone Building at 461 Broadway Ave. in downtown Oakland for the Bayennale art festival. "It is a collaborative work," Flaherty, 31, said of the art piece, worked on by four artists. The two-week festival, which started Saturday at Jack London Square, will continue through Aug. 7 at different venues in Oakland and San Francisco. For the first time, local artists joined forces with world artists to celebrate the more than century-old European tradition in the Bay Area. "The idea is for artists to meet with other artists," said Port of Oakland Public Arts Committee coordinator Geoff Dorn. The festival allows Bay Area artists to network and find an opportunity to travel to the European festivals in coming years, he said. The exhibition, which originated in Venice, Italy, in 1895, is called "Biennale" in Europe because it happens every two years. Some of the pieces in the free event are being created just for the festival. Scott Hove, 36, created his "rope tension" sculpture specifically for this exhibition. "I just wanted to make art out of rigs," he said. He put in 18 hours to make a 2,000-pound web of ropes hang from a donated office-space ceiling at the Arlington Building at 461 Ninth St. in Oakland. All venues for the art, even shipping containers in Jack London Square and vacant storefronts, are donated. Other exhibitions in Old Oakland include Joyce Gordon Gallery and Oakland Art Gallery. On Friday, there will be Bayennale exhibitions at the Fruitvale Transit Village near 34th Avenue in East Oakland. The closing events will include a family-day celebration with children activities at the Fruitvale transit village Saturday, Aug. 6, and a reception with celebrity guest appearances Sunday, Aug. 7. The Old Oakland event runs from 4 to 7 p.m. today and Wednesday in downtown Oakland.
For a list of the Bay Area two-week festival event, visit http://www.bayennale.com. Oakland Tribune
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