Want to take a canoe trip on the river and lie on the beach in Hawaii all in one night? You can at the Attic Gallery’s August art show, called Summer Escape.

If you go

Summer Escape at the Attic Gallery will begin with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. The art from the show will be on display through Aug. 15. Admission is free, but pieces will be for sale. The Attic Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is located at 1101 Washington St. above Highway 61 Coffeehouse. Call 601-638-9221.

Gallery owner and artist Lesley Silver visualized her summer escape during the height of the heat and, with the help of her husband, Daniel Boone, who operates Highway 61 Coffeehouse below the gallery on Washington Street, came up with the theme for the annual show.

“We thought, wouldn’t it be intriguing to find out what different people would do with that theme,” she said. “Sometimes, people escape physically or mentally. Some people escape through food, through the bed or through glass.”

The show will feature 13 invited Mississippi artists, four of whom are from Vicksburg — Silver, Jean Blue, James Smithhart and Kathy Gergo.

Silver and Blue are past co-presidents of the Vicksburg Art Association, which houses works completed by its members at the Firehouse Gallery at Main and Openwood streets.

Smithhart, an Indianola native and a 29-year retired art teacher of the former All Saints’ Episcopal School, said, “In art, you can turn anything into anything you want to, and that’s the beauty of it.”

The show will include paintings, mosaics, collages and sculptures. Pieces will be for sale for as much as $500.

“We’ll have other things we don’t know of,” Silver said. “It’ll be a mystery to us too.”

The show will be on the floor above the Attic Gallery, which has been under renovations for the past two weeks. Silver is turning the top floor into her home, but is opening up a portion to guests.

“I think it’s fun to watch things change and morph into other things,” she said. “As we do this (remodel), we’ll still have our shows.”

The Attic Gallery, which sits above Highway 61 Coffeehouse on downtown Washington Street, is home to southern contemporary arts and crafts, many from local artists. It has been at its current location for nearly 40 years and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The gallery’s next show is slated for October.

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Contact Manivanh Chanprasith at mchan@vicksburgpost.com