Arts Walk 2009
This year ARTS WALK sponsored by Main Street Morgantown, Monongalia Art Center (MAC) and Arts Monongahela will take place on Friday, October 2nd in downtown Morgantown. Arts Mon and MAC are information points for the Arts Walk, you can get the inside scoop on where the artists are and what’s happening downtown. Arts Mon is located next to Huntington Bank on the corner of High Street and Pleasant Street. Monongalia Arts Center is easy to find, on the corner of High Street and Kirk Street. Participating businesses and places with artists are marked by lit tiki torches.
Plan the perfect Friday night. From 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. you can stroll through over forty downtown businesses and see artwork from local artists’. As you stroll through downtown collect four fantastic bookmarks featuring Morgantown Area Artists. These artists are culture-makers who challenge the status quo and advance our region’s Arts… plus they are your neighbors. You can find them at Arts Monongahela, MAC, the Main Street Offices and pretty much every other business downtown! Featured Artists for 2009 are John Skeen, Mike Green, Ann Payne and Penelyn Peterson.
Enjoy music at numerous locations and a variety of unique dining choices.
Musicians
Soup Camel in the entrance of the old Wesbanco at Wall St. and High St.
Stackwell will be performing at the Court House Square
Shea Thompson will be performing in front of the Boston Beanery. Shea Thompson is a singer songwriter who regularly performs at Monongalia Arts Center and is an actor with M.T. Pockets Theatre
Jim Savarino will be performing next to Tuttos Gelato
Jenny Wilson Trio will be performing at the Vintage Room on Chestnut Street
Daniel and Susan Musick will be performing at Arrow Gifts
Vandalia Wind Quintet will be performing in the Tanner Theatre at Monongalia Arts Center (MAC) This brand new group is making thier debut at MAC on the night of Art Walk.
Paul Becker will be playing accordion in front of Huntington Bank
Arts Walk Shoe Hunt
Some people are happy to go with the flow while others need a little direction or more excitement than just watching the world. Arts Walk has a new little game with some potentially great rewards.
- In the Main Street window (next to Arts Mon) on High Street you will see eight oddly decorated shoes.
- On the night of the event (Friday, Oct. 2, 6-9PM) the mates to these shoes will be distributed to undisclosed participating businesses around town.
- Printed in the event brochure, (available at every participating business Friday Oct.2) there is a perforated tab with 8 stamp areas.
- Your goal is to get at least six of the eight areas stamped. Attached to each oddly-decorated-shoe display, there is a unique stamp and drop box.
- After you have at least six unique stamps, fill out the contact information on the perforated tab and drop it in any of the eight drop-boxes located with the shoe displays.
At the end of the event, we will collect the fruits of your labor and draw a name to win a fabulous WVU gift basket, courtesy of the WVU Mountaineer Parents Club. The odds are high that you could win. If nothing else, this is great activity to keep your evening fun and find places you never knew existed.
PARKING INFORMATION
PARKING GARAGES ARE GREAT… PLEASE USE THEM and have a wonderful worry-free evening!
Find out where the garages are here: http://www.morgantown.com/parking-facilities.htm
Traffic gets rough around 3:30PM to 4:30PM. Come downtown around 5:00P.M, have a bite to eat, then visit MAC and Arts Mon to start your walk; these are the information centers for the event.
