Arts Devo
Best CN&R arts photos of 2018
For a summer photo essay on the busy local music scene, photographer Michelle Camy captured Ron Willadsen and Joy Galbraith cutting it up during a Friday Night Concert as local cover band Esplanade cranked out the hits of the ’80s on the City Plaza stage.
PHOTO BY MICHELLE CAMY
“I’m Viking Tom!” During his journey to the Renaissance Faire at Feather Falls Casino, writer/photographer Ken Smith was greeted by this friendly Viking, “a bearded guy dressed in a loincloth and little else,” who’d outfitted his homemade Viking longboat with toy guns, swords and costumes.
PHOTO BY KEN SMITH
Bugs, drugs and a paranoid motel party of two starring Hilary Tellesen and Louis Fuentes in Tracy Letts’ Bug, presented by the Blue Room Theatre in February.
PHOTO BY JOE HILSEE
Local theater dude Joe Hilsee happened upon the destruction of the old Salvation Army church while walking to work and captured this striking black-and-white of its demise.
PHOTO BY JOE HILSEE
The first project for Chico’s Crucial Times Photography collective was a slick photo zine featuring the live-music shots of seven of its members, including this shot of grindcore crew Escuela tearing up the now-defunct Raw Haus in Chico.
Best art pics 2018 As is tradition for this second-to-last column of the year, Arts DEVO shuts up for a minute and shares his favorite photographs that have appeared alongside the arts stories in the CN&R over the past year. As always, thank you, photographers, for making us writers look good.
