The Words of Bob Dylan as Visual Art

Artist “Skye” has silkscreened Bob Dylan’s lyrics into huge fabric panels in an art installation entitled “Shakespeare’s in the Alley.” This body of work will frame the stage at the Woodwalk Concert “Buckets Of Rain: The Songs of Bob Dylan,” which will be performed September 1 – 3 and 8 – 9 at 7 pm. The display will also be hung during normal Woodwalk Gallery hours for that week.

“I decided to immerse myself in [Dylan’s] body of work (over 600 songs),” said Skye. “I have found his work to be courageous and honest; full of wit and rage, beauty and pain.”

“This is a work in progress and a labor of love,” she continued. “Choosing the songs was difficult at best. I chose fabric to stencil the songs onto because I wanted them to roll like scrolls, yet be pliable and not fragile, as paper could be.”

Skye began as a mixed-media sculptor who had an extensive career as a stone sculptor, executing well over 100 works from 1989 – 1999. She loved the medium but became frustrated with its limitations. In 1997 she began experimenting with fiber, culminating in a body of work, the “Raw Linen Series,” combining fiber, wood and bead embroidery. Skye along with Peter Ciesla also create one of a kind jewelry in their Baileys Harbor Studio.

“Buckets of Rain: The Songs of Bob Dylan” will be performed by Tommy Burroughs, Katie Dahl, Rich Higdon, Jeanne Kuhns, Eric Lewis and Patrick Palmer. Tickets are $15 at the door. Reservations are recommended. For more information call 920.868.2912.