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Sock Monkey Show is good medicine
 
By Molly Snyder Edler RSS Feed Twitter Feed
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Published Dec. 9, 2002 at 5:06 a.m.
Tags: happy thought, monkey, bridging the gap

Riverwest's Flying Fish Gallery is currently featuring The Sock Monkey Show and the small, sunny storefront is stocked with 170 sock monkeys made by 104 different artists.

It is, quite possibly, the happiest place on earth.

Gallery owners Faythe Levine and Brent Goodsell, along with co-curator and 15-year sock monkey creator, Randy Russell, distributed flyers and posted messages on Web sites, calling for sock monkeys.

"My goal was to get 70 monkeys," says Levine, a 25-year-old Riverwest artist who has four monkeys in the show.

The contributing crafts people ranged from a great-grandmother, punk teenagers, members of a fourth grade class and a set designer in Hollywood. One even came from Canada.

Most of the button-eyed, lumpy-bodied little buddies are for sale, with prices ranging from $20 to $75, and remember: sock monkeys make great stocking stuffers.

The monkeys range in style, from country cuteness to primate punk, and the heartwarming-but-still-hip exhibit also features a sock octopus -- called a "socktopus," of course-- a sock owl, a sock elephant and a sock cat.

Many of the contributors had never sewn before, but that was the idea. "We wanted to take a traditional craft that was accessible to anyone and make it the basis for a show," says Levine. "And the great thing about making sock monkeys is that you really don't need much medium. Mainly, just socks."

The Sock Monkey Shows runs through December 30 at Flying Fish Gallery, 800 E. Clarke St. The gallery is open on Saturdays, from 12-5 p.m., or call (414) 263-9209 to schedule a private showing.

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