[RP TownTalk] ArtsFest2014 Artists, Authors, Music, Food & Wine in Town Center, May 4

[RP Arts Council]

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*The Riverdale Park Arts Council educates and works for the understanding
and appreciation of the arts for the Riverdale Park community and its
residents.*

*Contact: Jeffrey Yorke*

*301-502-1243** or **Yorkedial at gmail.com* <Yorkedial at gmail.com>

*ArtsFest2014*

*Artists, Authors, Music, Food & Wine in Town Center, May 4*



*RIVERDALE PARK, MD., April 17, 2014* -- Bonsai, stained glass, oil
paintings, jewelry, vintage and art vehicles; throw in Sherlock Holmes for
a lot rarely uttered in the same breath. Until now when this unique blend
of creativity, talent and history are brought together May 4 at
ArtsFest2014, next to the MARC Train station in Riverdale Park’s Town
Center.



Once again, the Riverdale Park Arts Council’s seventh annual arts and music
festival expects more than 1,000, rain or shine, to enjoy dozens of local
artists, authors, food vendors and a free, day-long concert featuring among
others The Smokin Polecats with Dave Sherman and featuring Riverdale Park
chanteuse Marianna Previti.



All News WTOP-FM reporter-anchor David Burd will return for his fourth year
as emcee of ArtsFest. Joining The Smokin Polecats is an exciting lineup
including - from Nigeria via Hyattsville - drummer Tosin Aribisala,
Fernando Hermoza’s Hermoza Latin Quartet, the US Army Field Jazz Combo, and
members of the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation.



The winner of the third annual Gerald King Fine Arts Award will be
announced at the event. The award is given by RPAC to an art student who
shows great promise in realism and is named in honor of the late Gerald
King, a longtime resident of Riverdale Park. The award will be presented by
previous King Award winners Malika Bryant and Susanna Fields-Kuehl.



ArtsFest has earned its reputation for depth and diversity; a showcase for
both emerging and vintage, local and regional artists who delight
show-goers with details about their art and its creation. Add to that
authors happy to discuss their plots and characters and owners of vintage
vehicles reeling off details and insights about their rides created long
ago, restored with loving care, and kept in tip-top condition.



Riverdale Park’s Ken Laureys will display and sell Bonsai trees lovingly
grown and shaped from the tiniest little thing to the cutest little thing.
Glass artist Mary Verchery of Brentwood, and Landover’s renowned oil
painter Joseph Sheppard Rogers are among the dozens of artists
participating.



Add to that a Writer’s Row, featuring local authors such as Carrolyn
Prichet, author of *My Lovely Golden Rose*, and Samuel Williams, who moved
to Riverdale Park after publication of his 2012 historical novel, *Anomalous:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*. Joining the fabled sleuth are boxer
Jack Johnson and gangster Alphonse Capone.



Winners of the William Wirt Middle School art competition will offer their
works for sale while the Children’s Pavilion, staffed by Marita Novicky,
will be bustling with craft-making and face painting.







Be it preservation, restoration, or re-creation, ArtsFest embraces the art
that is the automobile. Hyattsville auto artist Clark Bedford will be
coming to ArtsFest 2014; producer of unusual and delightful moving art
temples that brings America’s gothic metal works, advertising kitch, and
Detroit atop a set of tires. (see http://www.clarkebedford.com/artcars.html)



“It’s assemblage,” grins the artist, a curator at the Smithsonian’s
Hirshorn Museum, as his hand runs down the side of metal Elk, part of The
Hartford Insurance Co. logo welded to the side of a vehicle. “I got this in
Maine,” Bedford recalls. Then, moving his hand left to the next welded-on
artifact, “The moose came from Massachusetts.”



Each odd piece of art is a memory and has a story that the
artist/storyteller spills out with delight. Double-side doors open to the
interior of a rustic cabin in the woods, making it difficult for the
average person to remember that all of this wonderment is affixed to a 1988
Ford van Bedford has named Vanadu. The artist gathers unique ornaments from
travels along America’s blue highways, from flea markets, and occasionally
from Community Forklift. It’s a sight to behold, not to mention the tales
from the artist, and it can all be enjoyed at ArtsFest2014.



Riverdale Park’s Brian Boettger, an architect who also consults the Town’s
MUTC committee on development issues, collects and refurbishes vintage
cars. He expects to bring his maroon with black trim 1930 DeSoto CF8 sedan
with its original interior. And folks are looking forward to seeing their
neighbor, Tony Fotos, who’s has agreed to bring up to three entries from
his expansive collection of classics rides from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Perhaps
he’ll park one of them next to Jim Rogers of Ravenswood Road who’s warming
up his 1949 Chevy pick up. When Jim plopped down $2,000 for the rusting
truck seven years ago, “animals were living in it,” he remembers. “Whatever
you can do to a truck, you name it, I’ve done it!” Now, hundreds of hours
of love later, people are going ape over the sight of it. Now that’s a
national park!



And, a panel of expert judges will again go over each entry and pick
winners in a handful of roadster categories. Vehicle entries are accepted
through May 1. Get application: www.rpartscouncil.org.



There are still a few select slots available to artists, authors and food
vendors. More information can be found at http://www.rpartscouncil.org/

























*Contributions for RPAC maybe tax deductible through the group's
relationship with the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation, a
501(c)3 non-profit organization. ArtsFest2014 is made possible by the
generous support of the Town of Riverdale Park, the Riverdale Lions Club,
Yorke Partners, Michael D. Herman, Esq. & Associates, Geppetto Catering
Inc., Washington’s choice for corporate catering, Town Center Market and by
Dumm’s Pizza & Subs, now featuring unique Greek-style specialties.*
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