Navickas
Godard
Posted on 01/05/2009 6:02:53 PM PST by redstates4ever
Marjorie Mather leaned her 91-year-old frame back, clutched the shoe with all her strength and then let it fly, hitting "President Bush" smack in the cheek and splattering paint across his visage.
"Wow, I didn't know that was going to be so much fun!" she said, throwing up her hands in victory.(snip)
The Shoe Bush installation invited locals to slingshot shoes at an eight foot square painting of the president's face. City Councilor Eric Navickas — who opened the gallery with his partner Amy Godard — used a paint roller to slather a thick layer of red on the soles of the sneakers, boots and Birkenstocks before people fired them at the image of Bush.
"Nothing feels better," Navickas said after making a solid shot. "I can't even believe how exhilarating this is."
Navickas and Godard, who are both mixed-media artists, decided to open the art space after the avant-guard Nuwandart Gallery closed last summer, Navickas said.
"We felt that too much of the art in Ashland had just became an embellishment for a wealthy class. We're trying to bring art into the dialogue for political and social interaction."(snip)
The exhibit was "statement of solidarity" for Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who hurled two shoes at the president last month, [Godard] said.
"He was tortured for it and he's still in prison. We're calling for his release," she said.(snip)
Mather may have been the oldest to "Shoe Bush" at the First Friday event, but 13-year-old Luke VanCampen was among the youngest.
He primed himself for the shot, leaning on his back foot and flexing his arm muscles — before he smacked the presidential portrait in the chin.
"I think it's a funny idea and I guess it's a good way to collect extra money for the gallery," he said. "Everybody wants to shoe Bush — well, almost everybody."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytidings.com ...
Navickas
Godard
Three faces of evil.
Eric, Amy, Marj and Luke: You can ALL kiss my a$$, Baath apologist scum.
They’ll do worse to Hussein after about 12 months....
Sick demented ass***** with no lives.
And besides, that "thing" Godard, is guilty as hell.
Their lives are pretty empty today. In 2 weeks they will be totally empty and useless.
Once they discover that their Messiah is a false idol they are going to be equally, if not more angry. But they will still blame Bush for the Messiah's failings.
Navickas, Goddard and Mather — F**k the three of you, traitorous a**holes.
Godard's: siskiyouschool@ashlandhome.net (Spanish teacher)
Maybe someone should set up a watermelon shoot at an Obama poster.
Where’s this liberal shithole at?It looks like it’s full of smelly hippies and ugly old hags.Good place for a meteor to fall.
Ashland is in the People’s Republic of Oregon.
How undignified and lacking in decorum. Worse than juvenile, tho’ it is certainly that, too. It says some very ugly things about the participants.
http://www.siskiyouschool.org/index.html
Yeah, it's that kind of school.
But that would be ray-sist. Better to just shoe him. That's what his supporters understand. Give it a couple of months.
Lets make sissies out of the boys.Instead of playing smear the queer at recess,they got them crocheting.The adults don’t have anything better to do than throw shoes in effigy at a painting of the President.They named the state[Oregon] right.They need to drop the “E”and spell it “Organ.”
Hey, that’s insulting to organs.
I think the ring-neck pheasant, an import from China in the 19th Century, has been a more worthy resident of the state, or former territory, than these loons.
They have the boys knitting?! I would be furious. Thankfully, my son only touched his sister’s dolls long enough to pull Skipper’s head off.
...let me guess, taxpayer funded right?
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”
-NBC spokesman about Coulter being disinvited
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