[Press Release] : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: City s Annual Commemorative Poster Unveiled

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Connie Kacprowicz, Interim Manager, 573-874-7512
Sarah Skaggs, Program Specialist, 573-874-6387

City’s Annual Commemorative Poster Unveiled

COLUMBIA, MO (August 8, 2011) - Edgar I. Ailor, III created the photography work titled Booches - Since 1884 that has been unveiled as the 2011 Commemorative Poster for the City of Columbia. The work was selected from 171 images submitted by 27 Missouri artists through a jury process.

 

Ailor, born in Cape Girardeau, Mo., moved to Columbia in 1968. Most of his 43 years spent in town were spent pursing a career in medicine. However, after retirement, his life-long love for photography became a second career. In 2005 he and his son, Edgar IV, formed Ailor Fine Art Photography (AFAP). Their work has been exhibited both locally and nationally and can be found in many Columbia homes and businesses. AFAP images have been published in Outdoor Magazine, CNN Online and used on book jacket covers. For most of the last five years, the duo has been retracing and photographing William Least Heat-Moon's nearly 14,000-mile journey through back-roads America. The photos will be used in Blue Highways Revisited - A Photographic Journey Down William Least Heat-Moons Blue Highways, set for publication in the spring of 2012, the thirtieth anniversary of the first publication of Blue Highways.

 

This year's Commemorative Poster image was inspired by the work done in producing Blue Highways Revisited. Ailor says, "When I think of landmarks in and around Columbia one of the many that come to mind is Booches. Should Heat-Moon have written about a tavern in Columbia -- the starting and ending point of his twenty-eight-state journey -- I'm convinced Booches would have been his first stop."

 

The Commemorative Poster was unveiled Saturday at the home of Jeff Viles, host of this year's Poster Party. The event is held annually as a fundraiser to support the arts programming of the city's Office of Cultural Affairs. This year, around $9,000 was raised.

 

The 2011 Columbia Commemorative Poster, Booches - Since 1884, can be purchased at Deck the Walls in the Columbia Mall and at 1305 Grindstone Parkway, or at the city's Office of Cultural Affairs, 1 S. 7th Street.

 

The city's Commemorative Poster is a program of the City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia Home & Lifestyle Magazine and Deck the Walls, and with financial assistance from the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.


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