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City Beat Article May ‘08

Sundays are more super now

Last Sunday, June 15, marked the first More Super Sundays, a new event put on by “Super Jill” Johnson and her “Super Team.” Jill and her crew organized artists, designers, restaurateurs and fashionistas to participate in Hillcrest’s new monthly meet-up. With more than 300 people in attendance, mostly passersby who stumbled upon the three blocks of interactive displays on University Avenue, the event provided an ideal environment for the Uptown crowd to mingle with fellow art folk, schmooze with local curators and knock back discounted drinks from staple watering holes like Baja Betty’s, Bamboo Lounge and Wine Steals.Among the artists in attendance were Brittni Cute with her unique liquid photography works, Alex Sample with his swirling plexiglas and paint designs and the exotic sounds of Shayna Wiseman, who plays the hang, an instrument she learned to play while living in London.

Aside from the endless supply of discounted margaritas, one of the other highlights from the afternoon art walk were the brown paper bag creations by local artist Billy Dalla$$, aka Don Taylor. Selling his prints for $1 per three pieces, Dalla$$’s spray-painted stencil lunch bags were a hot commodity. While he displayed his work as mere “coveralls” for 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor, many in the crowd recognized the prints as specimens of urban art nouveau, or, to paraphrase Dalla$$, “prototypes of hip-hop roadie art.”
—Justin Roberts

More Super Sundays happens next on July 13 at University Avenue and Richmond Street in Hillcrest.
www.moresuper.com.