Art Walk B-I-N-G-O

First Friday Art Night has EVOLVED into an interesting event.
 
Once it was an art focused affair.  

Now the popularity of the event has become a detriment to the original intent, the experience of the ART! 

The Story unfolds:
A couple of 1st Fridays ago I was touring with a bud and we bumped into some folks, I asked them how their art walk was going they said great! When inquired further about the art they saw... a blank stare comes back at me, no a stare full of questions??????   They couldn't remember any of the art they saw,  realizing this I asked what do you remember? The gent reply was "the Pe-pole" , yes lots and lots of art crazed & many non art crazed people.(not all a bad thing because the people watching can be quite entertaining).
 
To combat that I have created a new game you can play that incorporates the Art, the Art Galleries & the People.   It's called Art walk Bingo!     Play it on 1st Friday or anytime you come down to the Port City.
Here's how it rolls,   It just like regular bingo but instead of someone calling out numbers and you marking them off until you or someone gets B-I-N-G-O, the card contains the name of Art Galleries, Artists, Art terminology & a middle square that you check off if you buy or support the arts in anyway.
Here are the simple instructions:

1. Download an Artwalk Bingo Card for each member of your group.(see copies at bottom of blog)
2. Make a bet with your group the first one to get B-I-N-G-O , wins a beer or an order of fries (the group pays)  Play it as a solo or form teams. 
3. Next go to the Port City and start your walk/tour
4. If you visit a Art Gallery and it is listed on your card,  check it off.
5. If you talk with an artist pick a square, any square and check it off
6. If you have a square on your card that says an art term like "wood cut print" and you see one in a gallery then check that art term off. 
7. Check off the middle Square if you buy art or support the arts in any way 
8. First one to get five squares in a row, column or diagonal SHOUTS OUT ART WALK B-I-N-G-O and collects the rewards of the wager from the group!  

 Who knows perhaps you've always enjoyed the paintings with a hazy-smokey landscape and never knew the term for that art technique was SFUMATO!   You'll be surprised at what you'll learn and how much fun you'll have becoming the 1st winner in your group!

WHY PLAY ART WALK BINGO on Portland's 1st Friday Art walk?

Go because it's a gas and your good mind & your friends good minds need good art! 

 For a feel of what 1st Friday is all about Click Here for a Video Clip 

that WMPG DJ  & VJ Chris Darling took a few firsts ago. 


Download & print this beta version of the Bingo Art Card 

Download Art Terms Glossary (recommended download with Bingo card 

The Gallery Talk is made possible by the generosity of the WMPG Radio listening community.  The blog is the text version of the art rant heard every Thursday at 7am, 5 & 9:30pm on WMPG college and community radio Broadcasting from the University of Southern Maine
90.9 , 104.1 and streaming on the web at http://www.wmpg.org/  

Note: WMPG 90.9 fm will be increasing it's FM signal strength from 1100 kilowatts to  4500 kilowatts in a few weeks, for radio listeners in southern Maine that's a good thing.  It means that you'll be able to hear MPG on your car radio from Augusta to Kittery .  The station management, the University of Southern Maine & DJ's are totally pumped and excited about the ability to bring you fresh diverse live radio with a clean crisp sound!