Ava Art Happenings

AvA’s ART HAPPENINGs
THE SOUTH OREGON COAST’S PREMIER ART RESOURCE

February 15

2013

Published Weekly


MONDAY PAINTERS

Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 12-3pm

FIGURE PAINTING (CLOTHED MODEL) Courtney will model at OLD TOWN PIZZA, BANDON. Model fee will be shared by paint-ers in attendance so the more painters the better. For more info, contact Ava Richey at 541-297-6118 or yarn-farm@frontier.com.

POETRY BY THE BAY

Friday, February 22, 2013 6pm

“POEMOIRS” followed by OPEN MIC at OREGON BAY PROPER-TIES’ COMMUNITY ART GALLERY, NORTH BEND. Open to poets and friends alike. For more info, contact Herb Yussim at 541-290-0889 or Thomas Brinson 631-889-0203.

BACKSTREET GALLERY…IS ON THE MOVE...but we've moved only a hop, skip and a jump away... as in, right next door from our old location at 1421B Bay Street to 1421A BAY STREET in FLORENCE.

CONGRATULATIONS TO Yvonne Ramirez Ousley and Michael William Ousley who have been invited to present their art at the "Cultural Connections: The Many Faces of Afri-ca" exhibit in the LaSells Stewart Center's Giustina Gallery at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

THE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF OREGON will be holding their fall conference in Bandon this coming Octo-ber. Victoria Tierney and Sharon Jensen are co-chairs in hosting this large group of artists for meetings, sightseeing and a paint-ing workshop. We are excited to welcome them all to our area.

PORT ORFORD ARTS COUNCIL is looking for someone to fill the position of Treasurer. Contact Jerry McManus at jerry.mack.manus@gmail.com if you can help. The next board meeting will be at the A-Frame on Wednesday, Feb. 6th at 5 p.m.

EXHIBITS


BANDON


ART BY THE SEA GALLERY AND STU-DIO Old Town 541-347-5355 New Feb./March Show. This art cooperative is comprised of 17 local artists showing & selling their work in the gallery & a busy classroom for artists to share ideas with the public & each other.

ART 101/ WASHED ASHORE

The Purple Yurt, 5 mi S of Bandon 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org Artwork by Angela Pozzi & other. BANDON COFFEE CAFÉ Old Town Serving/cutting boards by Pete Bauer, aerial photographs of Bandon.


BANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY Febru-ary—Hallway Gallery: Lea Lyman, “Reflections” –tapestry weavings.

Glass Cases: Tonya Rosen, “It’s Not Your Mother’s Needlepoint”.

HARBORTOWN EVENTS CENTER Old Town Features creatures made from plastic debris found on beaches. The new home of the Washed Ashore Project!

INNER GARDEN Old Town Artwork by various artists.

SAGE PLACE 11th & Elmira 541-329-0303 Sage Art, Consignment Art, Beads, Glass, Jewelry, Classes & More.

SECOND STREET GALLERY

Old Town 541-347-4133

info@secondstreetgallery.net Features fabulous art by Local & Northwest Artists & beyond.

SOARING SEAL GALLERY 1295 Ore-gon Ave SW, Hwy 101 541-329-0551 “Wild Love” show runs through Feb 14th.

SOUTHERN COOS HOSPITAL & HEALTH CARE January 13th through March show is “Trees!” includes paintings from the Bandon Monday Plein Air Paint-ing Group & entries from the community at large.

SPIRIT OF OREGON Old Town 541-347-4311 Paintings by Richard Herr, Photographs by Gaia & Pottery by Donna Henderson.

TWO LOONS CAFÉ Baltimore Center, 11th & Baltimore Photography by Gaia.

WHISKEY RUN JEWELRY Old Town Artwork by Courtney Gaspar.

BROOKINGS

BRIAN SCOTT GALLERY 515 Chetco Ave 541-412-8687 New works by Pete Chasar, Loarraine Filippone, Kathleen Kresa, Christina Ohlsen, Horst Wolf, Ran-dall Tillery, Dale Wells, Donna Goss, Nan-cy Tuttle, Jewell Johnson, Jane Opiat, Craig Barnes.

CHETCO COMMUNITY LIBRARY

405 Alder St Gallery: Works by Tom Farmer; Showcase: Chain-maille Jewelry by Austin Bertelson.

MANLEY ART CENTER 433 Oak St 541-469-1807 “Deserts and Desserts”, Fea-tured artist Jay Mosby. Classroom panels: Jane Turner, Don Christiano, Heidi Heikki-la, Christina Olsen, Agatha Conrad, Jewel Johnson, & Mudslingers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

EXHIBITS, BROOKINGS, CONT’D

SIGNATURES GALLERY 515 Chetco Ave 541-469-1085 “Show of Hands” by Sandy Bonney, also works of Jan Kunz, Drew Struzan, Albert Handell, Frank Gus-tafson & Royal Canadian Artist Duncan Regher.

WRIGHT’S CUSTOM FRAMING AND ART SUPPLIES 810 Chetco Ave Fea-tured Artist Kim Redd shows “Fractal Art” in addition to many other artists.

CHARLESTON

CHARLEYTOWN MARKETPLACE 91152 Cape Arago Hwy 541-888-0146 Artwork by a variety of artists including Nancy Barry with original watercolors, prints, cards, tiles, boxes & calendars. HIGH TIDE CAFÉ Featured Artists for January are Andrea Trail, Jean Boynton, Mike Holm, & Hope Sessums with paint-ings & photography. SOUTH SLOUGH INTERPRETIVE CENTER William Q. Wick

Auditorium, Seven Devils Rd 541-888-5558 Photography Exhibit by Patricia Davidson Feb through March 31. Open-ing Reception Sat. Feb 16th 2-4pm.

COOS BAY

BLACK MARKET GOURMET 495 Cen-tral Ave 541-269-0194 “Foundations of Perspective”, a combined showing: The Art of Gan Martin & Ferne Martin.

COOS ART MUSEUM 235 Anderson Ave 541-267-3901 Feb 8 – March 9 Color Me Baron: Retrospective of Paintings & Draw-ings by Oregon Painter Jerry Baron //VISION 2013—Annual High School Art Exhibition. Opening Reception for VI-SION 2013 Fri. Feb 15 3:30-5pm Lobby: BAAA Artist of the Month. February fea-tured artist is Georgia Martin.

COOS BAY LIBRARY 525 West Ander-son. Walls: Rebecca Barnts drawing & calligraphy. Lobby Cases: African jewelry.

EDEN HALL Southwestern Oregon Com-munity College Campus.

EVERGREEN COURT Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St 541-751-7658 Bay Area Artists Association Board Members Show.

GALLERY ON THE BAY 658 South Empire Blvd, Cape Arago Hwy 541-888-3771.

COQUILLE

COQUILLE VALLEY ART CENTER 10144 Hwy 42 541-396-3294 February features “Still Life” paintings of CVAA members, & also Permanent Collection pieces. OLD CITY HALL Corner of Second & Adams 541-824-0779 "Impressions of Old City Hall".

U.S. BANK-COQUILLE BRANCH Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tier-ney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Travel-ing Show of Oregon Prison Art.

FLORENCE

BACKSTREET GALLERY 1421A Bay St Various artists.

FLORENCE EVENTS CENTER 715 Quince St 541-997-1994

RIVER GALLERY 1335 Bay St 541-902-2505

SIUSLAW LIBRARY 1460 9th St 541-997-3132 Through March 14th Lobby: Pacific Shores Community of Artisans Inside: Brubaker Family

Wall: Carole Hilsbery watercolor paintings East Wall: Warren Davidson oil paintings Cases: Glass Collections of Wendy Vaughn & Susie Voth.

GOLDBEACH

BISCUIT COFFEEHOUSE & ART GAL-LERY 29707 Ellensberg Ave., Hwy 101 A variety of artists.

LANGLOIS

LANGLOIS PUBLIC LIBRARY 48234 Hwy 101 Features art by Donna Vander Zanden & continues showing watercolors & collages of Connie Zane. RAINCOAST GALLERY 48358 Hwy 101 541-348-9992 Featuring work of many local artists.

NEWPORT

COVAS: COASTAL OREGON VISUAL ARTISTS SHOWCASE GALLERY Visual Arts Center, 777 NW Beach Dr 541-265-6540 Feb 1-Feb 23: Bill Karcher, Douglas County artist, ceramic marine creations. The Visual Arts Center also houses the Runyon Gallery & the Upstairs Gallery. Jan. 4-Feb. 24: Runyon Gallery: “Coastal Concinnities”, current work by Yachats Arts Guild. Upstairs Gallery: ”Sweet Grief”, Paintings by Senitila McKinley with Poetry by Drew Myron.

NORTH BEND

CRYSTAL DOLPHIN GALLERY 1901 Sherman Ave 541-756-1989

EASY LANE FRAMES & SELECT GAL-LERY 3440 Broadway 541-756-7638 Feb - March Features acrylic paintings by Tony Adams. Artist’s Reception, Sat. Feb. 16 2-4pm.

NORTH BEND LIBRARY Conference Room, 1800 Sherman Ave 541-756-0400. Manga Art of Tiffany and Brittany Valdez.

OREGON BAY PROPERTIES 1992 Sherman Ave Located in the Hotel North Bend Artists with new work featured are Clayton Redwood, Paulette Landers, Jerry Baron, Michael Ousley, Yvonne Ousley, Sarita Southgate & S L Donaldson, & others. “Poetry by the Bay” 6pm, “Poemoirs” followed by Open Mic. the last Friday of each month.

PONY VILLAGE MALL 1611 Virginia St Artist Loft 541-756-4088: Guest artist - Liz Coke, paintings. Featured member artist - Hester Solseng, new jewelry presentation.

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's): Photog-raphy by Tom & Marijke

Branderhorst.

Sterling Savings Bank: Don Sanne’ marine scenes, landscapes, originals & prints, now through March 15.

Harry Ritchie's Jewelers 541-756-5413: Featured artist - Michael W. Ousley with acrylic paintings.

Heritage Textile Arts Guild: Hand-woven items for sale.

Turner Art Studio & Gallery 541-396-5373: Now featuring Don McMichael’s prints of his undersea paintings. Also showing: oils by April Geiger, pen & inks by Jeremy Geiger; encaustic by Nancy Natal; photography by Daniele Rose, James Cook & Shannon Haight; oil paint-ings by Franklin & Carol Turner.

YOUR SPACE DESIGNS 2082 Sherman Ave 541-808-2788 Currently showing paintings by S L Donaldson, Clayton Red-wood & others.
PORT ORFORD

FRESHWATER GALLERY 236-B, HWY 101 541-332-8019 Features oil paintings of Geoffrey Rhoads as well as new work by Mittie Helmich & Darren Evans.

HAWTHORNE GALLERY 517 Jefferson St

PORT ORFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY

Jack Wood, Dana Amarisa, Dusty Harring-ton TRIANGLE SQUARE GALLERY 343 6th Avenue Artwork by Joyce Spicer, Julie Roemen, Cindy Prince, Oleh Lysiak, Janet Pretti ,Elaine Roemen; Karen Auborn; Russ Hepworth

REEDSPORT

CDABA (COASTAL DOUGLAS ARTS & BUSINESS ALLIANCE) ART ACADEMY 541-271-4608

CLASSES

BANDON

ART 101/ WASHED ASHORE

The Purple Yurt, 5 mi S of Bandon 541-250-1140

ART BY THE SEA, GALLERY & STU-DIO Old Town 541-347-5355

February Classes:

~Mon. Feb. 18 Wire Wrapping Jewelry with Shawn Tempesta 11am-2pm $25

~Tues. Feb. 19 ABTS Members Only Play day Acrylic 10am-4pm

~Sat. Feb. 23 Doodle Art with Kathleen Morey Bailey 11am-3pm $10

~Wed. Feb. 27 Cards: Pen & Ink, W/C with Kathleen Bailey 11-3 pm $15

~Thurs. Feb. 28 Pouring Playday with Sharon Jensen 1-4pm $10

For more class info, check out: www.artbytheseagalleryandstudio.com.

Sign up now for classes--- $5.00 holds your spot, pay the remainder when you come to class.

SAGE PLACE 11th & Elmira 541-329-0303 New Classes on website www.sageplacebandon.com.

Classes include: Open Studio Glass Fusing & Open Studio Metals.

BROOKINGS

MANLEY ART CENTER 433 Oak St 541-469-1807 Call for class & workshop schedules. SIGNATURES GALLERY 515 Chetco Ave 541-469-1085 Call for class sched-ule. Albert Handell (one of the world's foremost pastel artists) is having a Men-toring Program in Brookings next August. To register: albert@alberthandell.com

or call his studio office at 505-983-8373.

SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COL-LEGE Curry Campus 541-469-5017 Sat., Feb 9th 9:30am -12pm Linday Mul-vany, Instructor “Discover Collage” $18

WRIGHT'S CUSTOM FRAMING

910 Chetco Ave 541-469-7625

saradee1@frontier.com Drop in Art Workshop every Fri afternoon 1-4pm. Individual instruction & demonstrations in various medium; critiques of completed work & works in progress. $12 per ses-sion. Each week something new is pre-sented during demonstrations.

COOS BAY

COOS ART MUSEUM 541-267-4877 for more information.

~Sat. & Sun. Feb. 9 & 10th Beginning Basketry with Shannon Weber 10am-4pm

~Tuesdays, Feb. 19 & 26th Solarplate etching workshop with Pat Snyder 10:30am-2pm

~Thurs., March 28th Windsor & Newton Watercolor Lecture & Demo with Christine Hanlon 7pm – $5 advance registration fee.

~Sat. & Sun. May 4 & 5 Colored Pencil Stew with Eileen Sorg 9:30am-4:30pm.

Gallery on the Bay 658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771 Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.

COQUILLE

Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42 541-396-3294 www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org

~Mondays Painting/Drawing 10am-3pm // Painting with Bunny Upton 12-3pm // Stained Glass 2:30-5pm & another class 6-9pm // Yoga 6pm

~Tuesdays Appliqué 10am

~Tuesday & Wednesdays Painting with Pat Weaver 10am-3pm

~Wednesdays Quilting 10am

~Thursdays Pottery/ Open Studio 10am-1pm. Anyone can come & try out clay.

~Thursdays & Fridays Painting with Anna Crosby 10am-3pm ~Fridays Stained Glass 9:30am-12:30pm ~Fridays Fiber Arts 10am

~By Appointment Pottery Classes avail-able. Will work around your schedule as much as possible. Non-members welcome too.

FLORENCE

Rosie's Art Carnival 575 B Hwy 101 artcarnival@oregonfast.net

~2nd Wednesdays Artist Trading Cards Swap. 2pm. Meet, swap, then stay to work on more.

~Fridays Card Classes each week... 10am & again at 12:30pm. Sign up ahead so you can get a materials packet.

GOLD BEACH

Southwestern Community College Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741 kshumak-er@socc.edu

NORTH BEND

EASY LANE FRAMES & SELECT GAL-LERY 3440 Broadway 541-756-7638 Contact for information on a variety of classes, including Next Step Watercolor with Sherry Howk.

Heritage Textile Arts Guild Pony Village Mall Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items. Turners' Art Studio Pony Village Mall, Suite 128 541-297-8703 Oil Painting, $20 per class. Mondays 6-9pm; Fridays 2-5pm.

PORT ORFORD

FRESHWATER GALLERY 236-B, HWY 101 541-332-8019 (next to Paula's Bis-tro) wilddoodle@earthlink.net

REEDSPORT

CDABA (COASTAL DOUGLAS ARTS & BUSINESS ALLIANCE) ART ACADEMY 541-271-4608

ROSEBURG

UMPQUA VALLEYARTS CENTER 1624 W. Harvard 541-672-2532 www.uvarts.com Saturday Art Series (SAS): Books, Brushes, and Beads.

CALLS TO ARTISTS

DEADLINE: Feb. 13, 2013 Florence Events Center Artists Rent-a-Rod which will hang in Gallery 5. The show will be hung February 27th. Show runs through May 1st. 2-d art only, no photog-raphy will be included. Each artist may apply for one rod from which 3 paintings can be hung. Maximum framed width per painting is 30”. Application fee for the show is $20, which includes admission to the artist’s reception to be held shortly after the exhibit opens. Guidelines and application at www.EventCenter.org.

DEADLINE: Feb. 21, 2013

ArtWorks NW 2013 (formerly 100 Val-leys) Exhibition & PhotoWorks NW 2013 Exhibition. Umpqua Valley Art Association, Roseburg. Cash Awards. Show run May 10th to July 5th For infor-mation on the Painting Show and the Photography Show www.uvarts.com.

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2013

Coos Bay Community Mural Project Community groups & individual artists are encouraged to submit designs for 4’ x 8’ murals to be installed on the exterior of the First Call Resolution building on 2nd Court in Coos Bay. Designs should be submitted in a format no larger than 24” x 36” & delivered to the Coos Bay Down-town Association Office on the 4th floor of the Hall Bldg on 230 Central (Suite 410). Open Tues.-Fri. 9am-12pm. Designs with a maritime theme are encouraged. Selec-tions will be made during the first week of March. 4’ x 8’ MDO board, paint & brush-es will be provided. Paintings should be completed by end of April. Murals will be installed during May. Questions? Nathan Jurey nathan@coosbaydowntown.org 541-217-8293 -OR- Jennifer Groth sjgroth@charter.net 541-217-8293.

DEADLINE (Postmark): March 2, 2013

Expressions West 2013 at Coos Art Museum, 235 Anderson Ave, Coos Bay, OR97420 541-267-3901 www.coosart.org email info@coosart.org. Cash awards: 1st-- $1000; 2nd-- $750; 3rd-- $250; 4 hon-orable mention ribbons. Painters residing in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming are eligible. Juror is John Hewitt.

Call for Oregon artists to be consid-ered for solo exhibits in the coming year. All media are welcome including: free-standing sculpture, hangable textile, paintings, and drawings. Submissions will be jurored and chosen works will be dis-played for 3 months. Sales will be han-dled by the artists and no commissions will be charged by the gallery manage-ment. A secondary exhibit space will be available for smaller works of photog-raphy and print media. For exhibit infor-mation or to receive the Call to Artists, please contact Janne LaValle at artistjan-uary@gmail.com.

DEADLINE: March 4, 2013

Emerald Spring Exhibition 2013 Na-tional Juried Show Emerald Art Center, Springfield. Prospectus: www.emeraldartcenter.org. Juror is Marla Baggetta. $6000 plus in cash awards.

DEADLINE: April 1, 2013

TRANSFORMED TREASURES 2013

Black Tie Dinner & Auction Fri. April 5 7:30pm, Black Market Gourmet, Coos Bay

Eligibility: all artists, any media, as long as some or all materials used are ob-tained from Salvation Army’s Thrift Store at 307 2nd St S, Coos Bay. No entry limit. Entries to be auctioned as fundraiser. You are encouraged to call 541-888-5202 or 541-260-7205 for the full prospectus. Contact person, Catherine Walworth.

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