We will also have a FEST 8 ART/PHOTO SHOW that will be displayed at two locations the entire FEST 8 weekend with an opening Thursday October 30th.
The FEST 8 ART/PHOTO SHOW brings together art from all around the country, and from Gainesville's own back yard. Plus a photo gallery of FESTs past.
Artist showing so far will be: Cristy Road, Lauren Denitzio (Red & Black Eye/ The Measure [SA], Joshua Mikel (Shark Guts Design/ Look Mexico), Laura Predny, and Lindsay Beaumont.
More artists to be announced in the weeks to come. The show will be curated by Ted Lincoln. Openings Thursday Oct 29th 7 pm till??? And will be held at:
Volta Cafe
48 sw 2nd st
Fest hours: thurs - fri 7am-11pm, sat 9am-11pm, sun 9am-7pm http://www.voltacoffee.com
Alcove
110 S Main St
Fest hours: thrus - sat 3pm-2am, sun 3pm-11pm http://alcovebar.com
Cristy Road
Cristy C. Road is a 26-year-old Cuban-American illustrator and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice- she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began in 1996, when publishing GREEN'ZINE- a fanzine entirely devoted to Green Day. Eventually she began including blurbs on other punk rock bands, gender identity, masturbation, sexuality, aimless travel, and anarchist organizing. GREEN’ZINE ran for ten years. Today, Road has published two illustrated novels- INDESTRUCTIBLE and BAD HABITS; and a postcard collection, DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW SICK. Aside from publishing, Road has been contributing art to punk rock, literature, radical organizing, and much more for the last ten years. Road currently is working on paintings, short stories, and her punk rock band The Homewreckers. She lives in Brooklyn with a short attention span and a killer gas problem.
Laura Predny
Laura Predny is a self-taught artist who paints black & white oil portraits & figurative paintings and does occasional pencil drawings. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, she moved to Gainesville back in 1990 and came of age at the Hardback & house shows in the heyday of Radon, Clairmel, Fay Wray, King friday, Panthro UK, Hot Water Music... In addition to being an established patron of the Gville music, esp punk scene, she is one of the founders of Wayward Council, was once published in Heartattack magazine, wrote intermittently for Satellite magazine, and has been actively involved in secondary education for the past 15 years. She has been painting seriously for the past decade and her work has been featured on a Whiskey & Co record, a Grabass Charlestons 7", in Razorcake (the cover of Frankie Stubbs & a Ninja Gun illo), postcard portraits for the Revival Tour, and artwork on an upcoming Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves/ Ninja Gun 7". Tshirts of her work are available at No Idea records and through her website, www.laurapredny.com
Joshua Mikel
Joshua Mikel plays drums for Look Mexico. He was featured in last year's Paper + Plastick art show, and has done designs for The Fest bands such as Fake Problems, Landmines, Assassinate the Scientist, O' Pioneers!!!, The Menzingers, Broadway Calls, Let Me Run, and Look Mexico. He also designed this year's "Party Animal" shirt and last year's "Tourists" shirt. If you're interested in designs for your band, contact him at or www.myspace.com/sharkguts
