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August is here...or it will be tomorrow. August, AKA International Canned Beer Month!!!  Back Alley Gallery's annual canned beer art show opens on Friday. This year we've switched it up a bit. Were totally gnoming crazy with this one. Get ready for it...wait for it.....aaaaaaaaand....BANG!!!

Sword and Gnome Show!!! in your face.
Q. What do swords and gnomes have to do with each other, and more importantly, what do they have to do with canned beer?

A. Your mom.

Q. Seriously though, what the hell are you talking about?

A. International Canned Beer Month Kick-off Party.

Sword and Gnome Show
Back Alley Gallery
262 East 4th Street
Lowertown St. Paul, MN

Opening reception (and canned beer drinking party)-Friday night, August 1st. 7-10pm (or later)

show runs through August 17th.
Gallery hours are Sat & Sun 12-5pm

Make it happen gnomads. Its going to be phegnomenal.

Home sweet gnome. Styrognome cooler. ET phone gnome. Indiana Gnomes.

(poster by DWITT.)

Please join us this weekend

St. Paul Art Crawl
Friday, April 25th 6-10pm
Saturday, April 26th 2-10pm
Sunday, April 27th 12-5pm

Back Alley Gallery
242 East 4th Street~Studio LL2
Lowertown~St.Paul, MN

Ceramics, handmade bags, jewelry, paintings, prints, collage, drawings, assemblages and so on. We will also provide complementary food and beverages-alcoholic and otherwise-to soothe the soul.

Artists:
Peter Jadoonath
Nathan O'Brien
DWITT
Amy Conwell
Jack Elkin
Matt Hartmann
Tim Shindler
Christopher Bowman
Molly Chandler
Kate Nelson

It's cold as a mother.  That never used to stop us up in the north country.  Feelin' nostalgic.  I'm gonna call some homies.  No words will be spoken.  Hold the phone up to the speakers.  Remind 'em that it is Friday night.

Jase- Face to Face-Disconnected

Lora- Pennywise-Bro Hymn

Pat & Paul- Bad Religion-Stranger Than Fiction

Rafe Balls & Amy- NOFX-the Brews

Scrubs- Rancid-Timebomb

Russ- House of Pain-Shamrocks & Shenanigans

Matt- Del the Funkee Homosapien-Mistabobalina

Gilbert- the Cult- Wild Flower

Muscles- Motley Crue-Wildside

That ought to do it.  Now I'm gonna go to the bar.  By the time I get back, I assume I'll have a few songs in my voicemail.  It is Friday night.  I am 34.

…Well, not really.  It's actually pottery and it's totally legal…all the time.  But the pottery I speak of is exceptional, as is the creator of said pottery.  The name is Peter Jadoonath.  He is amazing.  Not just as a potter, but as a human being.  He is always very supportive and continually shows genuine interest in the direction (or lack thereof) I take with my own art.  Anyway, in 2007 Peter was awarded a prestigious Jerome Artist Grant to further assist in creation of his ceramics.  He is showing off some of those creations at the Northern Clay Center in Gallery M, through February 24^th.  The opening is tonight (January 11^th) from 6-8pm.  Come check it out!

Here are the details.  Here is Peter.  Do it! 

going out when others are going to bed

stringent refusal

getting up when others are getting up

i heart lone ranger

i heart han solo

null tanto

void chewbacca

we'll get him when he comes back in

he's not coming back

smash apathy

"True love and friendship is scarier than death.  I'm so old; I wish I'd been more reckless when I was younger." -Oscar (Bill Cobbs)

...Minimalism kicked my ass.

Craploads of pics from the show up here.