Tonight: Sketch lives up to its name with an art show opening

Sketch Wine Bar, 11 West First Avenue, lives up to its name when it hosts an art-show opening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight. The artist? Sam Morreale, father of Sketch owner Jesse Morreale, who took up painting again after a ten-year break -- and a diagnosis of Myelofibrosis, a...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Sketch Wine Bar, 11 West First Avenue, lives up to its name when it hosts an art-show opening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight.

The artist? Sam Morreale, father of Sketch owner Jesse Morreale, who took up painting again after a ten-year break — and a diagnosis of Myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disorder. Despite his health issues, over the past three months Sam Morreale has created twenty new, abstract expressionist paintings, many of which will go on display at Sketch today.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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