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Live Oak Art Center member artists gathered to paint pumpkin decorations, Tuesday, Sept. 2, for the center’s upcoming annual Day of the Dead Brunson Night Fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 18.
The Live Oak Art Center puts out monthly artist calls for members to socialize and engage in an artistic activity. This month, the center called artists to paint, decorate and style fake pumpkin table decorations to be raffled as fundraisers during Brunson Night. This year’s Brunson Night theme highlights Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead.
“We realized that there were really no adult-themed-type Halloween parties, and we didn’t want to go full on Halloween. It’s just a theme,” Live Oak Art Center President Renee Long said. “...We are just trying to do something fun because for the longest time it was Denim and Diamonds, and it felt [like] that was starting to get old and tedious...We just wanted to go in a little bit of a different direction and have something that was more fun with bright colors.”
