Live art and dance performance at LA Arts Gallery during July 26 Art Walk LA

            Lewiston, Maine, July 16, 2019 - LA Arts, in collaboration with the Bates Dance Festival, presents Do you know what’s worrying me? This major visual art and dance performance by New York-based artist Jonathan Allen and dancer-choreographer Joanna Kotze with music by Ryan Seaton will take place during Art Walk LA on July 26, 2019 at 6 pm in the LA Arts Gallery, 221 Lisbon Street, Lewiston. Admission is free.

Allen is currently an artist in residence at LA Arts, producing a series of new mixed-media works using inspiration and found materials from the Lewiston and Auburn streetscape and surrounding Maine landscape. The work will reflect on and respond to the social and political connections/tensions between the urban and rural, public and personal, static and kinetic, and other relevant dichotomies. Passersby are welcome to stop in and see works in progress during gallery open hours and to share their worries with the artist. Community worries will be shared during the July 26 performance. The public is also invited to a free reception for the artist during the July 26 Art Walk LA from 5-8 pm. 

Also don’t miss these other exciting features of the July 26 Art Walk LA:

•  Kafari (rhythm bones) and Jake Hoffman (banjo, guitar, voice) in Dufresne Plaza, Lewiston
•  New England Jazz Band in Festival Plaza, Auburn
•  Helen Marriage Ted Talk on mass public art events at Lewiston Public Library
•  Artists and artisans at more than 20 venues along the art walk route!

Art Walk LA happens on the final Friday of each month from May through October from 5-8 pm. For a map and full list of venues and artists visit www.laarts.org/artwalk/

LA Arts presents Art Walk LA with gratitude for its numerous community partners including Platinum sponsors City of Lewiston, Berman & Simmons,  Grand Rounds, the Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships, and Sun Journal; Gold sponsors Baxter Brewing Co. and Liberty Mutual Insurance; Silver sponsors Austin Associates, Community Credit Union; Hardy, Wolf & Downing; Leary & Detroy; Linnell, Choate & Webber LLP; Statefarm; Rainbow Bicycles; Bronze sponsors Champoux Insurance Agency, City of Auburn, Law Offices of Joe Bornstein, Mechanics Savings Bank, Norway Savings Bank, Optometric Associates, Sonder & Dram, Twin City Financial Group; and In-Kind sponsors Marquis Signs and Panera Bread. Artists, artisans, and performers and volunteers are encouraged to participate by registering at http://www.laarts.org/artwalk/register/.

Since 1973, LA Arts, the arts agency for the cities of Lewiston and Auburn Maine, has pursued a mission to engage and inspire a vibrant community through arts and culture. The agency works with governments, businesses, schools and local arts and cultural organizations to create opportunities for community members across the generations to experience, learn, and participate in the arts. L/A Arts organizes arts programs and initiatives, supports the work of local artists and arts organizations, and highlights the essential role the arts play in shaping an economically vital, socially integrated, and forward-looking future for its community. Learn more at www.laarts.org.