I attended Tom Wolff's portrait demo Sunday 24-Oct-10 at the 39th Street Galleries in Hyattsville, Md.  Tom Wolff talked about the people in his show "Census", which portrays people from around Hyattsville.  He had an interesting tidbit about each person and the taking of their pictures.  The show portrays people from all walks of life, business owners, artists, residents, the mayor etc.  The show is kind of a slice in time view of people as they are in everyday life around the town.

Afterwards a small group of us went to lunch at Rhode Island Red's Cafe right up the road at 4700 Rhode Island Ave.  Kelly Perl (photographer), Alexa Meade (painter) and I munched down on lunch.  Alexa, Kelly and Tom had a Red's pizza, while I got a gluten free apple and a fair trade chocolate bar, with a Boylan's creme soda to wash it down.

You might remember seeing Alexa's paintings in the Washington Post a while back, of the man in the metro car painted to look like a painting.  Alexa's technique turns real people into art.

http://www.alexameade.com/portfolio.html

Kelly Perl makes industrial scenes into art records.  Her photo's capture the business strcutures that pervade our economy and form it's skeleton.
 
http://www.kellyperlphotography.com/
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A nice surprise, while we were having lunch a jazz quartet set up and played a few tunes for us.  Then a poetry reading took stage and Lauren and I think Alex read some fine poems.  I didn't get the full names of the poets or the group they are with, and am sure I left one out or mangled some names. Seems it was the first poetry reading Sunday event at Rhode Island Red's.  All in all a nice afternoon in  the Hyattsvile Arts District.