Second Saturday in historic downtown McKinney is a great reason to enjoy some of the local flavor of the town. This particular Second Saturday, December 8th, will mark the last show of the art galleries in the historic old Collin County Prison, and I will am both pleased and honored to be able to show selected black and white prints of my own on the second floor in Studio Duende...please join us if you can, anytime after 4PM, to give these galleries a great sendoff and wish them well in their new endevours. Since moving into the old prison Carrie Cameron's Galleria d'Arte, and more recently Studio Duende and Aristeia Gallery have become one of the main focal points of the Second Saturday events in downtown McKinney - and the loss of these great venues will be deeply felt in the months to come here. Unfortunately the only constant in life is change, and the new owner of the old prison has different plans for the building...so all these galleries have to find a new home. Some of the galleries will move on, and some will close permanently, or at least for the foreseeable future, creating a huge vacuum in McKinney's bid to continue to be "the place for art" in Collin County. As a consequence, the best thing that those of us who have enjoyed this great venue can do for these artists is to show up and show our support for their efforts, drink some good booze in their honor, and maybe even buy some art.

Second Saturday in 2008 will just not be the same without them!