Arts Week...

Jesse's original sketches for the pen guy.

On night at the museum these Mexican Dancers came and performed in our theater to a packed house might I add. I snuck these pictures from the crowded entry way to the theater.

Mexican Dancers performing @ the Children's Museum on Night @ the Museum.

Jesse and I out on the town for 1st Fridays. Every 1st Friday of the month the art galleries in Denver stay open late for free. We've gone out and poked around at them before, but this Friday one of Jesse's friends had some paintings in a gallery in our neighborhood. We stopped by to check it out and then went for dinner and drinks with a few friends.

This Friday was the kick off to Denver Arts Week. This year they changed the Night @ the Museum event to Saturday night, bummer for me. I took Saturday day off and went into work around 4:30pm. For the Night at the Museum Event all Museum's all over Denver stayed open from 5-10pm for free to the public. They have a free shuttle service that drives you around to all the museums, so you can get the full Denver cultural experience. It's pretty cool. If you remember last year I helped plan the crafts for all the programs and got clay donated for our clay room. This year I did pretty much the same thing only we have more programs to plan for and I got over 600lbs of clay donated (double what we got last year). I'll have to post some pictures of the clay room as soon as I get some. I believe we served over 1,000 visitors on Saturday night, but I don't have the official numbers yet. I did have to play bouncer for a while since we had lots of adults coming to the museum wanting to play sans the kiddos. Yeah, that's not aloud. No Adults in the museum with out kids. We did give them tours if they were interested, but then we promptly sent them packing.

Jesse's work has commissioned him, so to speak, to draw up a character they can use as sort of brand recognition. They seem to be obsessed with Blue (the K-mart light bulb), but they want a pen. I'm not sure I understand why, because the company is called Red Book Solutions but who am I to judge. They are going to pay him $30 an hour for his time, plus the rights to the character. He's been pretty excited about this. He works on the drawings every night. He's got tons of sketches, but the ones above are the only ones I could get to upload right. When he finishes it and they buy it from him I'll make sure to pass on the finished rendering. He's doing a really great job when you compare his product to Blue, especially when you hear that Blue was developed @ PIXAR.