Performers get creative to overcome COVID obstacles
Erica von Kleist at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake FILE)
Artist Mark Ogle works on a plein air painting of the Porter/Blasdel Barn along North Somers Road on Thursday, June 18. Ogle, the owner of Mark Ogle Studio in Kalispell, is one of 52 artists creating works for the Hockaday Museum of Art's Plein Air Glacier 2020: Paint Out. The resulting artwork will be sold during an online auction from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27. A selection of works will be on view at the museum and a preview is available on the Hockaday's website at hockadaymuseum.org. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Artists are hardly considered essential workers, and their repercussions from the COVID-19 outbreak aren’t as obvious as the impacts on health-care workers or grocery store employees. But the closure of bars and restaurants, along with the cancellation of concerts and other large gatherings, has stopped the music for a lot of local entertainers. The situation has forced singers, actors and instrumentalists to do what they do best: get creative...
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