Duane West likes to describe a person’s life as “brush strokes on your canvas.”
West, 81, was in Iola Friday evening for dual events at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.
First, he hosted the opening of an art exhibit at the Mary L. Martin Gallery featuring unique works of Jesse Montes, who creates two- and three-dimensional pieces from corrugated cardboard. “A genius,” West calls Montes.
After the show’s opening, he retired to the Creitz Recital Hall to give about 70 people an intriguing appraisal of his life,…
