Started at the new Idea Odyssey Gallery, at the lovely address of 666 S. Jackson St. It’s one of the beneficiaries of the city’s Storefronts program, placing arts and culture related activities in vacant retail spaces. You can see this large painting by Laura Castellanos better at this link.

This “Ice Queen” was one of several (actual) ladies in extreme hoop skirts surrounding the Tashiro Kaplan Building, promoting an art auction at the 110 Gallery within.

A little bit of found art. What, I wondered, was this dog doing strapped to a mobile hand truck at a bus stop? I turned around and realized it was a doll, which did not answer my question but rather rendered it moot.

The Occidental Park art bazaar was decorated by some truly lovely yarn “tree muffs” (I’m sure there’s an actual term for them).

This gallery/boutique has some of Charles Krafft’s chinaware weaponry on display with the theme “Peace Is Fragile,” a slogan which may or may not reflect Krafft’s actual mindset behind his works.