Two new shows open Friday, September 12, 7 - 9 pm

Yes We Can!
(The HOPE Factor)
A group exhibition by gallery and invited artists

Family Vignette: Nancy Whorf and Julia Whorf Kelly
Julia Whorf Kelly, daughter of Nancy Whorf, granddaughter of John Whorf has completed "Feast or Famine: Growing Up Bohemian in Provincetown". A small exhibition of Julia Whorf watercolors and Nancy Whorf paintings will be on view and Julia will be available to autograph her book during the reception.
Yes We Can! (The HOPE Factor) will include paintings, sculpture, photography and drawings, visualizing positive change. Early in President-electObamas campaign the mantra Yes We Can! revitalized hope that indeed, we CAN change. The Yes We Can! Paradigm speaks to the hope of a greater more peaceful world one person, one government at a time. Various subjects explored by artists in this exhibition include: positive change in ecologicalconcerns, equality (empowered youth, homelessness, equal rights freedom of choice) love, peace, hope and universal spirituality.
We CAN rejuvenate our Nation, transform our spirits and habits, and encourage genuine freedom worldwide without causing harm to others through war and neglect. Our HOPE comes now, today, just as the three phases of the butterflys life lead to beauty and freedom: humanity has emerged from our cocooned youthful try anything innocence, to our caterpillar teens, seeking immediate satisfaction throughthe candy of oil and gold, no matter the consequences; now we face our greatest challenge: to use our potential to transform into butterflies of beauty and spirituality, becoming again, in America, symbols of compassion, willingness, and HOPE.
The intent of this exhibition is to add the artist's voice to the HOPE factor that so many of us are feeling as the election for a new President approaches. Berta Walker will donate 10% of the commissions made by the Berta Walker Gallery in this exhibition to the Obama for President Campaign. Says Walker, Barack Obama is the person who has stepped forward to remind us all that YES Together, in HOPE, WE CAN make positive change, in ourNation, and in the world,

Description of some of the art pieces to be included
The visualization of ecological concerns is seen through healthy forests, dunes and seas in paintings by Donald Beal, Salvatore Del Deo, Sky Power, Harriet Heron, Paul Resika, Arthur Cohen, Brenda Horowitz, Peter Watts. Varujan Boghosian's surrealist construction Overview, encourages that we each watch over and preserve our land;Robert Henry's important ,1997, Listening to the Earth series of paintings remind us to slow down, observe, listen, care.

Love, Hope, and Peace are celebrated by Martha Dunigan's sculpture "Soul Mate"; Robert Henrys Love is in the Air; Jim Manning's HOPE is carved out of an old railroad tie and Breon Dunigan's Peace Pipe makes use of recycled materials.

Tabitha Vevers painting Fish Keep Secrets lends wisdom to Conscious Concern for thehomeless, the disenfranchised, the hungry. Sensitivity to the homeless is seen through the eyes of Lee Musselman and Mischa Richter; photos by John Romualdi and Genevieve Martin record empowered youth. Janice Redman and Iren Handschuhs spoons of plenty recycle old spoons, pebbles, household items indicating perhaps the hope of ending starvation and Richard Pepitone's found ancient wood oars, carved as an "Homage to the Fishermen", offer hope to renewed fishing opportunities andnew jobs! The use of recycled materials continues with a life-sized zebra made from old bumpers by John Kearney, while Elspeth Halvorsen, Mike Wright, and Paul Bowen make constructions from recycled materials.

Change is parodied by Varujan Boghosian's sculpture of an elephant with a lock on it's trunk, reminding us we can make change by locking the trunk of greed and war; and, in his collage where we see an empty Capitol building, with the American Flag entangled above. Nancy Craigs painting of Apollo -- the God of Healing & Reason -- rising from the flames of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, symbolizes, says Craig the hope that reason and healing can, ultimately, result from this terrible tragedy."

Universalspirituality will be represented by such pieces as Romolo Del Deo's angelic beings; Rev. Howard Finsters folk angels; John Thomas' photos of Tibetan scrolls and prayer candles, African Benin bronzes of healers and musicians; channeled mandalas by Jo Mooy,and an ancient Tibetan scroll.

Equality can be seen and felt in Selina Trieff's deeply moving painting entitled "Connected,a goat and dog curled up in peace and harmony, and Robert Henrys Doubly Touching, indicating love between two.
(Oh yes, Selina Trieff's "Two Clowns" will also be included, underscoring the change to take place that will in fact, make immediate change and hope possible!)