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Jeffrey Yorke</span></i><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#262626"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><i><u><span style="color:red">ArtsFest2012</span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Art on Wheels,
Singer Temika Moore, Set For ArtsFest2012</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Artists, Authors, Poets, 6 Music Acts Ready for May 6 Big Bash </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">RIVERDALE
PARK, MD., APRIL<span> </span>27, 2012</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d"> – Vanadu is coming. The Wright Brother’s replica biplane wings
are coming. Carol Tisdale and her latest line of hand-crafted glamorous jewelry
(</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#757575"><a href="http://glamourandgraceshop.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1649ba">http://glamourandgraceshop.etsy.com</span></a>) </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">will be there. So too, will 12-year-old author and entrepreneur
Gabrielle Jordan Williams and her line of matching mother-daughter jewelry
“Jewelz of Jordan.” And a half-dozen renowned artists from Hyattsville have
carved out their spots in Riverdale Park’s Town Center for ArtsFest2012 on May
6, 11 am to 6 pm.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#757575"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">The
fifth annual arts and music festival, sponsored by the Riverdale Park Arts
Council, has already attracted a record number of more than four dozen artists
and artisans including Hyattsville auto artist Clark Bedford (see <a href="http://www.clarkebedford.com/artcars.html" target="_blank">http://www.clarkebedford.com/artcars.html</a>)
who produces unusual and delightful moving art temples that brings America’s
gothic metal works, advertising kitch, and Detroit atop one set of rubber tires.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">“It’s
assemblage,” grins the artist, a curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirsh Horn
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.” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">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
ArtsFest2012. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">Also joining the fun is the College
Park Aviation Museum at the world’s oldest continuously operating airport and
the scene of many aviation “firsts.” The Wright Brothers won a $25,000
government contract to teach members of the military to fly and, in 1909, they
opened the College Park Aviation School. There, the first bomb dropping was tested,
the first airborne machine gun was fired, the first woman to fly, and the first
airmail to Philadelphia took off from College Park. During ArtsFest 2012,
aviation experts will be demonstrating how the rib of a Wright Brothers wing
was hand-crafted and then raffle them off.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">Dozens
of other artists – jewelry makers, painters, and textile experts among them –
will jam the </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">Town
Center @ the MARC station for a day of fun and entertainment. A Literary Corner
has been added this year that will feature book signings by authors including
motivational writers </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#262626">Dr. Joey N. Jones,
author of "100 Percent, The Power of Giving Your All-31 Ways to a Better
You", and </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#262626">"Is it Love...Or
Merely a Sick Attachment" by Pamela Reaves. Rockville-based c</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">artoonist and comics book author Yi</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b> </b></font></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">Wang
and business wonder-kid and author Gabrielle Jordan Williams will be available
to chat and sign their books. Former Riverdale Park bookstore owner </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Audrey Bragg will offer signed copies of former Ann Ferguson's
new children’s book, "A Fine New Home for Young James Madison."
Ferguson, a former mayor of Riverdale Park, reminds readers that Madison, as
president, was nearly wounded while attending the Battle of Bladensburg during
the War of 1812. The six authors of “Fourth Sunday,” who call themselves </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#262626">B.W. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Read</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#262626"> (aka “Because We </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Read</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#262626">”) will be on hand to discuss and sign their 2011 tale of seven
women and their journey toward friendship by way of a simple book club</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d">A newly added </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">poetry slam features student winners from Parkdale Senior High,
William Wirt Middle School, and Riverdale Elementary schools, who have created,
recited and competed with original poems focused on the War of 1812. The
winners, selected during recent springtime events, will be on stage to recite
their works and win cash prizes. This will be an exciting family event where
local youngsters show-off their brains.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">ArtsFest2012’s just-added
inspirational soul singer and national recording artist Temika Moore to the
music schedule. She’ll be performing selections from “The End of Me” CD, which
was released April 24.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">The ArtsFest2012 performance
stage again features Riverdale Park’s own R&B/Oldies group, Wayne Brown
& 2<sup>nd</sup> Conspiracy, Jazz-Pop favorite Brulee, and Regional Mexican
Grupo Impacto de Asas. Blues group the Sheryl Sears Trio will perform a live
afternoon set while members of the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation
will be performing from the south stage throughout the day. And, Blues player
One String Willie will be performing and offering demonstrations on instrument
making all day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">WTOP-FM (103.5) All News personality
David Burd will again emcee the arts festival and elected officials will be on
stage to introduce Riverdale Park realism artist Gerald King and to introduce
the winner of the inaugural Gerald King Art Training Apprenticeship Study
Program, a year-long focused teaching program in American realism painting
taught by King in his local studio.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Food and beverages, including
beer and wine, will be available from the just-opened Town Center Market,
Dumm’s Corner Pizza & Subs, S&J Bar and Restaurant, La Sirenita Mexican
Restaurant, Elk Run Winery and Mister Magic soft ice cream.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">ArtsFest2012 is made possible through
the efforts of the all-volunteer Riverdale Park Arts Council, and by generous
grants from the Riverdale Lions Club, Douglas Development Corp., Calvert Tract,
LLC, Peter Spiropoulos and Dumm’s Corner Market, Ev-Air-Tight, and the Town of
Riverdale Park.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1a1a1a">Just a few artist slots remain
available for ArtsFest2012. Go to <a href="http://www.RPArtsCouncil.org" target="_blank">www.RPArtsCouncil.org</a>
to get a Call for Artists application and mail it, along with a $25 check
payable to RPAC, to Town Hall, 5008 Queensbury Rd., Riverdale Park, MD
20737.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1d1d1d"></span></p>
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