Yo Friends,

This next coming weekend (Oct. 4-5) is the Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour 2008.  daniel Baltzer (dB) will be participating as his own personal home studio will be a stop on the tour.  daniel is a very talented painter, a good friend, and part of our church plant.  As a group, we have been praying for daniel to experience more freedom in his painting and for favor in the art world.  This Tour is one of a few invitations daniel has recieved lately to display (and hopefully sell) more of his art.  If you are in the neighborhood that weekend, jump into the tour and check out his and other Harlem artists’ works.  If you want a preview of daniel’s work you can go to http://dbaltzer.com/pages/thumb_pages/broadcast.html.  And for more information on the Tour go to http://www.hoast.org/.

Andy

A few words about ‘broadcast’ the series from dB…

Begun in May 2006, broadcast is a series of paintings that explore the use of communication technology to create and maintain social networks around the world. This technology has the potential to weave people, ideas and culture into a single dynamic fabric. To participate in this process involves taking risks, as children do when they play. Children use play earnestly as an opportunity to explore and connect, creating the framework by which they learn and make more complex decisions, while staying adaptive. Communication through play is a basic element to understanding the world and the link we have to society through the networks we have formed.