Electronics recycling event held today
406 Recycling s monthly electronics recycling will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 28, at the Good Samaritan Thrift Store located at 3067 N. Montana Ave.
A voluntary $10 donation to Good Samaritan is encouraged. Most items including personal electronics, office equipment, and entertainment systems, including accessories, are accepted for free at the event. Charges apply for some older style monitors and TVs, non-working microwaves, televisions larger than 36 inches, and data-destruction receipts.
406 Recycling s food waste collection program, 406 Compost, will also be on-site distributing collection buckets for new customers. 406 Compost collects food waste, including meats and grease, as well as compostable dishware for composting with worms in partnership with YES Compost. Details at 406Compost.com
She decided to help in her own special way.
The Missoula-based artist with an international reputation donated proceeds from the sale of 10 COVID-19-related pieces of artwork to benefit the Montana Nurses Association Foundation and future nurses. The artwork is COVID-themed, depicting young people wearing masks and bumping elbows instead of shaking hands, or spraying surfaces, or practicing social distance.
Lo donated eight COVID-19-related pieces of artwork to benefit the Montana Nurses Association Foundation and future nurses. Courtesy of Beth Lo
And there is more to come as Lo and the MNA are setting up a raffle around Fatherâs Day to sell three more plates.
Lucy Lacoste Gallery opens an exhibition of contemporary Asian American ceramics
Though separated by several decades of age, these two artists share the angst of being perceived as culturally different from most Americans, an effect amplified by their being of Chinese heritage at a time when China is in the news, not always positively.
CONCORD, MASS
.-Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Beth Lo and Jennifer Datchuk: In the Year of Uncertainty, March 20 to April 20, 2021 in Concord MA. Both artists use the lens of their cultural identity as first-generation daughters of Chinese parents magnified by this year of pandemic and political unrest. Though separated by several decades of age, these two artists share the angst of being perceived as culturally different from most Americans, an effect amplified by their being of Chinese heritage at a time when China is in the news, not always positively.
CORY WALSH
MISSOULA This terra cotta pot, some 4 feet, 2 inches tall, bears a time-worn surface that signals that it has some history.
Sitting in a corner of the Radius Gallery, its vintage exterior stands out among the brand-new pieces. Soon it will make its way back to Helena and the grounds of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, where it was produced some 100 years ago.
Since the late 1970s, itâs been in the possession of Molly Galusha, a Missoula resident who owned the Buttercup Cafe near the University of Montana. Her aunt Betty was Archie Brayâs daughter, or, as she put it, âArchie Bray was my fatherâs brotherâs wifeâs father.â