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Arts DEVO’s fave arts pics

Chico artist Alicia L. Parsons created this nearly life-size, tiled photo collage for the Oct. 10 Coming Out for Art group exhibit at Habitat Lab.
PHOTO BY ALICIA L. PARSONS

Cold Blue Mountain frontman Brandon Squyres, caught on the set with Tara the monkey, his co-star in his metal band’s music video for “Seed of Dissent.”
PHOTO BY MICHELLE CAMY

Brittany Waterstradt has been one of the CN&R’s busiest photographers over the past two years, and she perfectly captured these sweet oddballs for a feature on Chico band The Vesuvians.
PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

An apparent moment of clarity for Martha (Betty Burns) amid the fog of an after-hours party in the Blue Room Theatre’s spring production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

Idea Fab Labs co-founder Erin Banwell’s large 3-D printed sculpture based on his friend’s hands.
PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

Scene documentarian Sesar Sanchez caught Izabella Hilsee of Redding punk band VEXED tearing it up at a show inside Three Sixty Ecotique clothing store.
PHOTO BY SESAR SANCHEZ

Catching Seabass, drummer/vocalist for the local Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission, during the CAMMIES Punk Show at Monstros in April.
PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY
Best art pics 2015 As is tradition for this second-to-last column of the year, Arts DEVO tips his Energy Dome to the photographers who attract people to our words. Enjoy this gallery of my favorite images (including one of my own!) from the arts section in 2015. Thank you all!