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Pamela Jablonski at Joey Bistro in Sedona
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Pamela Jablonski: an evening filled with an eccentric artist, exciting dining
"To create images that not only talk, but sing; that not only walk, but dance"
Sedona, AZ, Los Abrigados Resort & Spa - Joey Bistro, Sedona's home for Southern Italian cuisine, is partnering with artists throughout Northern Arizona to create evenings where the palate meets the palette called Joey's Artist Spotlight. Thursday evenings, between 5 and 9 p.m. select local artists will take turns working in their medium among restaurant patrons. In a one-of-a-kind atmosphere themed after every "Joe" imaginable, Joey Bistro becomes Joey Studio.
Thursday, September 25, from 5 - 9 p.m., meet artist Pamela Jablonski, a new resident to Sedona and the Verde Valley. For the past two decades Jablonski has shown, worked, taught and lived an artist's life in Florida and up and down the eastern seaboard. Since graduating with a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, she has honed her skills with experience thus developing an impressive repertoire and resume within pencil drawings, chalks, chalk pastels, oils and a new medium from which developed a concept she calls "Alphabet Tarot."
"My concept Alphabet Tarot began in late 2003 with a desire to create a series of numbers from the Fibonacci sequence and letters from the alphabet. With eight inch by eight inch by one inch wood boards and some beeswax I began the alphabet," she says. "By December 2004, all 26 letters were complete. Some meanings of the letters were not discovered completely until 2005 and I believe that the definitions of each letter seem to continually evolve."
Jablonski has been called an eccentric, but it is within this mystique she is able to attract viewers to her work. She maintains that her body of work supports a theory that all mankind has the ability to connect with a higher consciousness and that all answers are available to each and everyone.
During the Thursday dinners not only are the artists' work be displayed, brief biographies outlining their art careers are included in the menus. Though the artists work throughout dinner service, customers are urged to approach the artist if they have any questions or would like to see their work up-close.
Jablonski admits she never knows what the end product of a drawing will look like, and sometimes doesn't even completely understand the images she is creating as it is put on canvas. "I simply envision the shapes as the subject and significances unfold moving towards completion," she adds. Ironically, it is the exact opposite of what a patron can expect at Joey Bistro; good food, great fun, culinary craftsmanship, and a bit of culture.
"I've been really impressed with the work of people who live locally," Nate Hansen, ILX Resorts Public Relations Director says. "Talking to artists who are anxious to make reservations at Joey Bistro not only to work, but support fellow artists for these events makes me understand why Sedona is considered an 'art community.' At the same time, each week I think we need to push the envelope. After watching an artist work it's clear how a person can benefit from it's beauty, it's time we found more ways to reciprocate the intention."
Joey Bistro, where the palate meets the palette.
For more information or dinner reservations, call Joey Bistro at 204-JOEY or if interested in becoming an "artist in spotlight," contact Nate Hansen at (928) 274-1393 or email
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