MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The public is invited to a celebratory opening reception for EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk, and “Multi Lingual” at the Middletown Art Center Saturday, June 25, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Festivities include musical and spoken word performances by Edgewise and Lake County poets including Poet Laureate Julie Adams, Poet Laureate Emeritus Casey Carney, Sam Flot, Graham Lloyd and Richard Schmidt as well as performance art by Wendy Dalton.

For the past 13 years, local and regional artists have installed artwork “in dialogue with nature” at the Middletown Trailside Park.

Over the years, the Sculpture Walk has featured new work annually, and was open to the public from early June through mid-October. EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk was a popular destination for both local residents and visitors.

The Trailside Park was severely impacted by the Valley fire and is still recovering. Until the park is deemed ready for the public, EcoArts will install artwork at Middletown Art Center’s corner lot, and in the center's more intimate side garden. This year’s exhibit will run through Labor Day weekend.

As in years’ prior, Eco Artists utilize natural and repurposed materials to present a variety of aesthetic and/or ecological-messaging. This 14th year's works are a true “Tribute to our Resiliency.”

While the exhibit is more compact than usual, the artwork installed at the Middletown Art Center once again engages viewers in the longstanding conversation around the relationship between nature, man and art – a conversation that is more poignant now after the fire.
 
“Multi Lingual” is an exploration of open-ended interpretations of language; the works in this exhibition integrate language of all kinds, including text, signifiers and sequenced imagery.

The exhibit will run though Aug. 14. Gallery hours are Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Farmers’ Market outdoors from 9 a.m. to noon); and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

The Middletown Art Center is located at 21456 Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in downtown Middletown. 

To find out more about the exhibits, classes and cultural offerings at the center, visit www.MiddletownArtCenter.org or www.facebook.com/ARTMiddletown , or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .