Hello and Welcome!
Colfax Hangs It Up 2010
Reception for the Banner winners will be held in the Fellowship Hall of the Baptist Church on
Mill Street at 7 pm March 4
Competition is comlete for 2010, but look over the entry form, and be thinking about your banner for 2011!
Meet the Artist
on hold
thru winter of 2009/10
but check back for updates
coming soon:
- Resources
- Artist Directory
Meeting Info:
You don't have to be an artist, just be interested in getting together with people from the Colfax, WA area. Young or old, everyone is welcome!! The Arts Council meets the third Tuesday of each month, unless moved due to a holiday. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm and are held at the Whitman County Library, Colfax Branch, 120 S. Main Street in Colfax, Washington.
Colfax Arts Commission Mission:
• To increase awareness and enjoyment of the arts in Colfax.
• To promote the visual, performing, and literary arts of Colfax.
• To create venues for local artists and arts groups.
• To coordinate opportunities for the community to experience a variety
of artistic media and hone artistic skills.
CAC — Connecting Artists and Community — in Colfax, Washington
Mural Project :: 2006
One of the many project ideas of the Colfax Arts Council has been to paint murals where appropriate, on the open walls of the old buildings in the historic district of downtown Colfax, Washington. The finished design for this mural (pictured below) was the brainchild of Dick Gebhardt, a member of the Colfax Arts Council.
The finished image is of the very early days of Colfax as a tiny river settlement on the western frontier. Many people took part in painting this mural,
but as you will see from the
slide show, most of the work was accomplished by MaryAnn Taylor, Debi Anderson, Bill Reynolds and of course Dick. The slide show captures only the first 3 days of painting, but there was a good full day of measuring and marking the wall before the painting began. It is amazing that they got so much done in just those 4 days! The mural is completed now and is a fabulous feature on Main Street. Stop and take a look sometime, on your way through town.
Click here for the Colfax Arts Council Mural Project 2006 Slide Show
Please note: the slide show will appear in a remote pop-up window. When you roll over the large slide image, you will see a caption for that image. When you roll over a slide thumbnail, you will see a caption for that thumbnail. Click on a thumbnail and it will appear as the larger image. Also, this entire site displays best with a monitor resolution setting of at least 1024 x 768.
If you have thoughts and ideas for future murals, come to an Arts Council meeting. You don't have to be an artist, just be interested in getting together with people from the Colfax, WA area. Young or old, everyone is welcome!! The Arts Council meets the third Tuesday of each month, unless moved due to a holiday. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm and are held at the Whitman County Library, Colfax Branch, 120 S. Main Street in Colfax, Washington. We would love to hear from you and would be glad to have you as a member!
