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BETWEEN THE ROWS TOUR

Corn farmers are invited to

join the Corn Marketing

Program of Michigan for

this FREE event. It includes

dinner, annual yield check

results, and marketing

updates by local industry

experts.

RSVP at http://www.micorn.org or

(517) 668-2676. Families

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YOUR LOCAL

MEETING

August 26 - 6:00 p.m.

Landis Farms

16275 S 11th St.

Schoolcraft, MI 49087

Color the Creek keeps artist Garald

Barton busy all week, from painting

murals to leading the chalk art

activity at the youth art fair to joining

tomorrow night’s group art show, Que

Calor at Cafe Rica. (Photo provided)

Garald Barton works on his koi mural at the former Horrocks location on
Fountain Street in Battle Creek Sunday. (Photo provided)

Participants stand to win prizes
after a public vote. Live music with
Hannah Fae starts at 3 p.m.
Also taking place tomorrow is a
Handmap Brewing disc golf tourna-
ment from 5-9 p.m. and a closing
party called Que Calor group art
show from 8-10 p.m. at Cafe Rica
downtown
Eldred, who also paints in
Colorado, previously painted a mural
in downtown Battle Creek last year
near The Griffin and several years
ago, the two-panel piece featuring
a boy and a dragon on Capital Ave.
NE.
In fact, one of his Colorado pieces
was a commission for the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation at the Aspen
Ideas Festival.
“It’s sort of a boy dreaming about
his future,” he said of the piece that
he said is also in display in the lobby
of the downtown foundation. “I try to
stay at it but I have two young kids
and need to pay the bills. I wouldn’t
be a very happy person if I didn’t do
it as much as I can, occasionally.”
His 2024 installment was still tak-

ing shape Friday, Aug. 9 when he

started.

“I guess I just wanted to make

sort of a surreal nature scene,” said

Eldred, “sort of a feeling of the

native area, native animals, white-

tailed deer, birds. It’s going to be

sort of a surreal river scene with

• I’m trying to use some striking
  colors, almost like a dream nature
  scene.”
  His mural manifested over the
  weekend to include the deer touch-
  ing noses with an American Robin,
  while a Canada goose, which are
  prevalent in the neighborhood of the
  mural next to the Kalamazoo River,
  looks on.
  Also looking on is a great blue
  heron and in the background is a
  treelike.
  Two more mural materialized over
  the weekend at the former location
  of Horrocks on Fountain Street, one
  of which was a rendering of two fish
  in the form of a circle painted by
  Garald Barton.
  “Mine is just two paint/graphic
  design geometric koi,” Barton said
  on Monday.
  Another mural on the building

was created by a local artist named

Lanessa.

And, joining the Horrock’s

mural effort were Tom Brothers

Jr., Teaira Gray, Duncan Holmes,

Rose Steinecke, Emma Kukuk and

Kristina Keefer.

Also painting murals for 2024

Color the Creek are JARS at 123

Territorial Road, Jaziel Pugh at a

location not announced before news-

paper deadline Monday and Sintex at

44 W. Michigan Avenue.

Jamari Taylor will paint at Milk

Like Mine at 223 E. Roosevelt on

Aug. 24

Barton was also scheduled to lead

the chalk art activity at Wednesday’s

youth art day, to compete at the

chalk art festival this Friday and to

participate in the group art show at

Cafe Rica Friday night, Aug. 16.

“All participating artists are paint-

ing/designing on a coffee mug,”

Barton noted.

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