Making Muffins Juried Art Show A Part of Catsbury Park Cat Convention In Asbury Park
Feline support event runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in & around Convention Hall
Loch Arbor artist Vilja Virks-Lee is on a mission – a mission that is $806 away from coming to fruition [at the time of this posting].
“I want to put my magenta pussyhats up in the sky to encourage everyone to keep fighting everyday for our democracy,” she wrote in the You Caring source-funding post. “The money will be spent for a digital billboard on the New Jersey Turnpike; $2,000 will pay for one month of viewing.”
Virks-Lee will be among the artists participating in this weekend’s Making Muffins art competition during the Catsbury Park Cat Convention.
Her original vote_pussy_hat image [shown in feature photo] is a 33″ x 23″ silkscreen that will be among the 25 finalists displayed at the Catsbury Park and Parlor Gallery sponsored popup event.
“It is intended to be a shoutout to all the kids around the country who said Enough,” Virks-Lee said.
The artist said the print was inspired from her attendance at the Women’s March in Washington DC on Jan 21, 2017. After attending the March For Our Lives event in Asbury Park on March 24 she launched the billboard campaign.
“Again [I] felt the energy of the thousands of people marching and I want to encourage everyone to remember the power we have when we stand together,” she wrote.
The inaugural Catsbury Park Cat Convention runs from 11 a.m to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in The Asbury, Convention Hall and the Paramount Theatre on the AP Boardwalk.
Celebrity cats, speakers, a multitude of meet and greets, events, workshops, presentations and a host of vendors will be assembled over the course of the weekend.
For example, while the 11:30 a.m. VIP Meet & Greet with celebrity feline Lil’ Bub has sold out, $100 tickets to the 11:30 a.m. Sunday slot at The Asbury [210 Fifth Ave] are still available.
Participants will have the chance to meet and pet Bub, get a photo with feline, as well as a signed print, and admission to The Story of Lil BUB: A Multimedia Experience, taking place at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theatre, 1300 Ocean Ave. If you are opting out of the VIP event, tickets to the screening are $15.
Cat Yoga
There are also VIP Meet & Greets with Nala, Pudge, Hobbikats, and Klaus, who will be stepping in for Oskar, who died unexpectedly in February. The Story of Oskar will run 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Paramount.
Also on the bill are the 10 a.m. Yoga With Cats at The Asbury and 3 p.m. Paint it Forward inside Convention Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
There are Cuts For Cats thank to Larry Cadillac, tarot card readings, cat trivia & bingo, a cat costume competition, face painting, and Cat Chats with the experts.
Making Muffins is jurors are Parlor Gallery owner Jenn Hampton who curated the Wooden Walls Project along the AP Boardwalk, local artist Porkchop, Transformer Gallery founder Victoria Reis, Lil Brian – Catsbury Parks very own celebrity cat, and Catsbury Park founder DJ Bornschein.
For tickets and more about the event, click here. For more about Virks-Lee visit here website.
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