South Coast Trawler

The Picture who came in from the Cold

2012-03-06T18:36:00.000-08:00

Didja get out today?

It was colder than a witch’s…okay maybe that particular characterization isn’t fair to witches. Maybe they don’t get all that cold and if they do who’s to say that any one part of a witch gets any colder than any other, right?

So it was cold and a good day to stay inside. It was cold enough to make going to work a good idea and that kids is cold!

But cold also brings some interesting opportunities for image making and that is what I want to ask you about, Didja get any pictures of all of the winter stuff today.

It was raining, a cold and nasty rain when I left the house this morning. On the way over the mountain, yes, I know Libby doesn’t go over a mountain, but I’m from Texas and anything higher than a speed bump qualifies as a mountain, so on my way over the mountain there was snow. It made the forested parts of Libby look down right Currier and Ivesie.

When I got to Coos Bay, it was dry but very bitter. That’s a lot of different slices of the weather pie for one day. Did you make use of it?

Come-on, you won’t get this kind of chance all that often, even here on the Oregon Coast where the weather changes like a host at the Oscars. You have to get out at least long enough to take a few pictures so that when you get back inside you can add them to whatever project you are working on.

A coupla things to consider, take a picture. Yeah I know you are a painter and don’t hold with the magic box which steals the very soul form things, but let me tell you, that magic box lets you grab an image and get back in the warm studio.

You know damn well you are not a nineteenth century artist, living in a garret, un-heated, drafty and starving. You eat regularly, paint with pre-mixed paints and have central heat in that studio and that makes for a much happier artist. If Vinnie the Go had had central heat he might still have painted sunflowers but he wouldn’t have been driven to ear surgery by the cold uncomfortable studio.

So, grab a camera and get out and take a picture or two when the weather offers this sort of quick change wonder and then duck back inside and get warm.

Now when you do go out, protect your camera.

Back in the Paleolithic area when I started taking pictures the biggest cold weather fear was condensation between the lens elements. Want to ruin an expensive lens fast? Take it from a seventy degree studio out into thirty degree weather and watch as the water forms inside the elements where you can’t get at it. If you are lucky, letting it sit for a week or so in a warm dry place will evaporate out the moisture. If not, you have a most interesting bookend.

Now the big problem is battery life. You don’t even think about your batteries, you charge the camera when it runs down and you forget about it until you want to use it and the battery is dead cause it sat on a shelf for half a year and didn’t move and now you are fit to be tied cause Brad Pitt parked his yacht in the channel and took a swim across to the north spit in the buff and your camera was a doorstop.

Cold can suck the life out of a battery in half an hour. Don’t take your camera out in the cold without giving some thought to how to keep it warm.

Now the easiest way, for those of you who are goil sort of people and if you are a small guy this works too, buy a jacket a coupla sizes too big. No silly, this is your utility jacket, get it at Goodwill or the Hospice or the Salvation Army, the object is to keep you and your camera warm, not impress the tar out of George Clooney.

See if it is too big you can tuck the camera between your warm body, your body is still warm isn’t it, and the jacket and keep the camera and your bod warm and ready for action. When you want to take a picture pull it out take the picture and put it right back inside where it will stay warm and safe and the batteries will live to go stale on your shelf.

This will also help acclimatize the lens so that condensation doesn’t get inside the elements. This isn’t the problem it was when 35 mm was king, the new digital cameras use lenses which are smaller in size while being bigger in reach and they have tighter construction so water isn’t as welcome as it once was.

Once you get your pictures and get back in the house get them out of the camera so that even if there is some lasting effect from the cold they won’t get eaten.

And why would you go to all of this trouble?

Because the light on cold bitter days does good things and even the most common objects start to look like fine art.

Not being able to keep my hands off it I did give it a little tweak.

Okay, so I did more than a little tweak.

But I couldn’t have done any of it without going out into the cold.

Oh yes, not once did I encounter any witches with or without extremely cold…noses!

Nose Art

2012-03-05T18:32:00.002-08:00

No it has nothing to do with rings or piercing no nothing like that at all. Nose Art is the forgotten, almost lost tradition of personalizing the war craft of flyers.

See I told you it didn’t involve anything getting punctured.

First you have to remember that it was only a brief window in time, those years between the beginning of World War II and the end of the Korean War. Sure flyers still personify their planes and men still sail in ships they call by women’s pronouns, but the glory days of Nose Art last less than a decade.

Okay, now for a lesson in telling time. Unlike the scholars and the scientists, we all know that decades do not break on the decimal system. We call them by their decimal enumerators, the Thirties, The Forties, The Fifties and the Sixties. But the truth is culture lags behind the calendar. The decade of the Forties really ran from 1936 through 1945. The Fifties ran from 1946 through 1955 get it? Or do you really think all that free loving, flower powering, drug-crazed, rock fueled sixties stuff started in 1960?

Come on, in 1960 the Kingston Trio and the Four Freshman still topped the charts, the Beatles were playing in Liverpool and Keith Richards still had all of his original blood.

So what we call the Forties are really The War Years and what we call the Fifties are really the Post-War Years plus Korea.

In those fleeting times when passion was hot, jazz was cool and planes were deadly, the Nose Art of the Great War Birds came into life, blazed against the horizon and then passed.

Most of the men who painted the art are long gone and the plane, those mechanical wonders are now scrap or in the hands of the few, who flew them, loved them, and can afford to keep them.

And that means if we don’t step up right now, that art, so vivid and wonderful and so amazing being the work of unpaid amateurs will be lost forever.

So, have you ever thought about it? Have you tried to include it in your own work? Have you looked it up at least?

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/militarynoseart/overview3.htm

This is a serious page devoted to the artists and heroes who fought the wars and painted that wonderful art. Have a look and see if you don’t get just a bit choked.

http://www.noseart.ch/main.htm

This site isn’t so serious, but it is full of the paintings which went to war and made the guys feel like they had more than just a machine under them.

Now take a minute and think about this art.

It was painted freehand, by men not professionally trained artists, using whatever materials were available in war time, painted on the side or the curved nose of a bomber or fighter aircraft, which might have had extreme damage to its skin and done in stolen moments between critical missions.

That any of it was good is a miracle, that most of it was excellent is inspirational.

This isn’t the boxy art of the still life where the artists can set up his little diorama and light it exactly as it needs to be to bring out all of the tones and make the shadows give three dimensions where there are only two. No this is guerilla art composed on the fly, done in snatches without good lighting or sleep or expensive paints or stretched canvas.

And it ain’t abstract art, where things do not have to be completely recognizable in the “real” world, this is art for the ordinary men, fighting and getting killed and not sleeping or eating or resting, things pretty much have to look right.

And what things are they supposed to look right at? Girls! That’s right, the bulk of Nose Art is pin up art and a guy who has been flying two missions a day for thirty days straight might not know a Klee from a Weyth, but he damn sure knows what a girl looks like.

The Memphis Belle, Betty Boop, Ill Wind and so many others, they were the girls they guys loved the best and took to war and counted on to get tem back in one piece.

The next time you sit staring at your canvas or paper or clay trying to wring an idea out of the ether, think about those guys in the air over Europe or Japan, Korea, South Viet Nam or The Gulf and maybe you’ll see an inspiration in satin floating on a cloud and wearing nothing but a smile and luck and you’ll know just what it was all about.

Ava Richey's Art News

2012-03-03T18:03:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

This Monday, March 5th, 12 - 3 p.m., we will paint at Bandon Dunes, main building, Tufted Puffin / Gallery Restaurant.

If you would like to carpool or caravan, meet me at the north end of the parking lot at Ray''s Food Place at 11:30.

My phone is 541-347-4643 or cell is 541-297-6118.

Thanks!

Ava

ps---Anyone interested in taking a Painting with Pastels Class on Friday evenings, March 9th through 28th, call me at the phone number above. Thanks! Ava

pps.-- EVERYONE: Don't forget to be working on your paintings, etc. for the "Weather Report" show upcoming in April at Southern Coos Hospital. See more information under "Call to Artists" below.

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Art Information:

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FYI: New listings have asterisks ***** next to the date.
If any of the web links below in blue are not "live", meaning if you click on it and it doesn't take you to the website,--- right click on it and choose copy, then open your internet web browser, left click on the web address window at the top to highlight it, then right click and paste the web link into your browser and hit enter. The site should open.

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Bandon Artist Supply, winter hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays 10 -5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 541-347-4482 or 541-297-6118.

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Artists' Accomplishments:

We want to honor the achievements of all you artists, so don't be shy about sending the highlights of your art lives, or those of your artist friends.

Congratulations to J. M. Steele whose painting "Organic Girl" was juried into the Oregon Artist's Showcase.

The exhibit is at the Central Gallery in the Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St. in Newberg, OR. The show runs Jan. 31 - March 30, 2012. 503-487-6883. You can see the exhibit online at http://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org/central-gallery/oregon-artist-showcase?utm_source=Members&utm_campaign=ae5e3b74c0-Artist_Membership1_27_2012&utm_medium=email

Congratulations to Pat Snyder who recently had two collages accepted into the juried Northwest Collage Society Spring Exhibition at the Rob Schouten Gallery on Whidbey Island, Greenbank, WA. Show runs March 2 - April 4, 2012.

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Current Shows:
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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence http://www.backstreetgallery.org/

*****Kathryn Damon-Dawson is the featured March artist. Reception March 10th, 3 p.m.

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Bandon Public Library March 2012

*****Angela Cardas-Meredith, "Weddings as Art". Reception: March 6th, 6 - 8 p.m., Library Sprague Room.

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Black Market Gourmet, 495 Central Ave, Coos Bay. Open Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. 541-269-0194

March 1st - April 30th "Abstract Enthusiasm" featuring art of Robin Jenkins, Sarita Southgate, and Mike Holm. fundraiser for Children's Art Education Programs at the Coos Art Museum. 60% of proceeds go directly to support this effort.

Reception is Saturday, March 18th, 2 - 4 p.m.

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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

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Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay 541-267-3901 http://www.coosart.org/

*****Opening reception: Friday, March 2nd, 5 - 7 p.m. for the 2012 Biennial Student Art Exhibit & Vision 12 High School Art Competition.

****BAAA Artist of the Month for March is Shirley MacLean showing in the Lobby of the Coos Art Museum

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Coos Bay Library 525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

March

******Wall Display and Lobby: Coos Sand & Sea Quilters' Quilts

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Coquille Valley Art Center 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

*****March 14 - April 13th "The 7th Annual Young Artists Show"

Hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR

Photography show featuring works by Kathy and Dick Chambers of Myrtle Point; Patricia Davidson, Coos Bay; Kelle Herrick, Bandon; Richard Kirk, Myrtle Point; Kathy Phillips, Myrtle Point; David Sinnot, formerly of Coquille; and Tony Spenader, Coquille. A portion of sales goes to the CVHA Auxiliary. Show runs through February.

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Crystal Dolphin Gallery

1901 Sherman Ave, North Bend, 541-756-1989

*****ArtWalk, March 8th, 5 - 8 p.m. Features wood artists Ed Butler, Bernice Martin, Robert McHaney and Jack Dohallow. During ArtWalk there will be a 15% off sale on these artists showings. Snacks, tea and coffee available.

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Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery

3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

"What's New?". Features Gallery Artists and their new works.

February 6 - March 30 "Winter Wonder", Reception Friday, Feb. 10th, 2-4 p.m.

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Emerald Art Center http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/
500 Main Street, Springfield 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday

****February 28 - March 31st: Photographsy by Bruce Barnbaum, plus featured members: Gladys Bacon Rust, "From the Southwest to the Northwest", and Chuck Roehrich, "Back to The Basics."

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Evergreen Court

Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR

541-756-7658

*****Bay Area and Bandon Plein Air Artists Show. Opening Reception Sunday, March 4th, 1 - 3 p.m.

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Fairbanks Gallery located on campus at OSU in Corvallis. Free, open to the public Mon.- Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 8 - 12 noon. Contact Douglas Russell at 541-737-5009, or drussell@oregonstate.edu http://oregonstate.edu/fairbanksgallery

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Florence Events Center

715 Quince Street, Florence Call for more info at 541-997-1994

*****Gallery One: March show features "Tactile Expressions". Textiles, fiber art and the work of local painters.

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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St., Port Orford

Features "Friends", a series of hot glass sculptures that skillfully depict characters who have stood out in the artist's life in one way or another. Artist is Danny White.

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High Tide Cafe, Charleston

Michael William Ousley is showing a display of his Yacht Club works of art . Open 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

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Langlois Public Library 48234 Hwy 101, Langlois, OR 97450

Hours: Mon. 11a.m.-2 p.m., Tues-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Manley Art Center 433 Oak Street, Brookings, OR 541-469-1807

March

********Artist of the month is Buzz Stewart, showing watercolors. He will be demonstrating at the Saturday, March 10th artwalk in Brookings.

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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 541-345-1571 http://www.mkartcenter.org/

February 24th - March 23rd Opening reception Feb. 24th, 6 - 8 p.m.

Portraiture: "Three Twists" Frank Moro, Russ Revok, Mike Sirl

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MECCA (Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts), 449 Willamette Street, Eugene presents "Museum of Awesome", a Collage show that touches on science, a solo show by Marilyn Kent. Show runs through March. Opening reception if Friday, March 2nd, 5:30 - 8:30

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North Bend Library, Conference Room March

541-756-0400 http://www.northbendlibrary.org/

*****Features : Josie Reid watercolors (open for ArtWalk, Thurs. March 8th.

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Old City Hall-- 99 E. Second Street, Corner of Second & Adams, Coquille

Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for information.

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Pony Village Mall:

ArtWalk: Various artists showing at tables in lobby areas near Katherine's and Harry Ritchie Jewelers, Cone 9, Heritage Textile Arts Guild, Rose Palette, East Wing art wall, and Artists Loft.

Also in the Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088

*****Features Guest Artists: "The Bigger, The Better" show..opens on ArtWalk, Thursday, March 8th.

***East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's) Oils by Frank Turner

Sterling Savings Bank

*****Paintings by Jean Adamson
****Harry Ritchie's Jewelers: Catherine Walworth is the March featured artist.

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Port Orford Library January-March

Paintings by Susan Lehman, Jane Schmaltz and Ava Richey

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Raincoast Gallery

Featuring work of many local artists.

Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.

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Second Street Gallery, Old Town Bandon 541-347-4188 http://secondstreetgallery.net/

Features annual "Wall of Opportunity" with 50% off regular sales price of local artists' work including 2-d, jewelry, pottery, glass, greeting cards and books. Inventory changes weekly.

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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick Auditorium 541-888-5558

*****March 3rd - 31st Features "Tropism", S.L. Donaldson's vibrant acrylic and ink paintings convey impacts of various stimuli. Opening reception Saturday, March 3rd, 2 - 4 p.m.

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January 11th through March, 2012

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center

"Down on the Farm" features agriculture related art.

In addition:

March 1, 2012 through March: 21 award-winning watercolors selected by Juror Ted Nutall of Arizona for the traveling show of the Watercolor Society of Oregon .

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

Through March 2, 2012 "Student Art Show", 500 works in a variety of media fill all six UVAA gallery spaces.

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U.S. Bank--Coquille

Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tierney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Traveling Show of Oregon Prison Art.

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Whistling Gallery

87456 Ste. A, Whistling Drive, Bandon (located in Laurel Grove, 5 miles south of Bandon.) A variety of artists showing 2-d and 3-d work.

Also in charge of showing work at Billy Smoothboar's and other venues for those artists interested in showing their work, contact Vickie. 541-404-7336, or whistlinggallery@gmail.com

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Art 101, The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org

Saturdays and Sundays 1 - 5:00 p.m.

Volunteer Workshops to build "Leo the Leopard Shark" Have a hand in constructing the newest member of the Washed Ashore family. This work is designed to permanently reside at the Chula Vista Nataure Center in San Diego, CA. The sculpture consists of 100% ocean going debris (plastics and more). Help inspire others to do something about this problem by building this eye-catching sculpture.

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Art by the Sea, Gallery & Studio 175 2nd St, Old Town Bandon, (next to Bandon Artist Supply) 541-297-6118

*****Pastel Painting Classes with Arlene Tinsley & Ava Richey
Fridays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. starting March 9th.

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Monday, April 2, 2012 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Silkscreen Monoprint Class Instructor is Pat Snyder, class fee $45. to register call 541-297-6118 Class is full, but you can go on a waiting list..

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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. Call for Class Information at 541-756-4088

If you are interested in taking a Chinese Brush Painting class with Darlene Diehl on April 12, 2012, $67 for 5 hours with all supplies provided, please contact Carol Young at 541-260-4573. Class will be held in the Artist Loft classroom.

Beginning Watercolor with Carol Young, for info call 541-260-4573.

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Bay Be, located in Charleston, next door to High Tide Cafe is now open and offers licensed childcare for kids 3 yrs & up with a focus on nature and art projects. ALSO offer workshops for adults--making lip balm, jewelry, knitting and yoga.

Drop-in Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. with only $5 and 5 minutes we can help you create a craft such as paper, a candle, a willow basket, driftwood sculpture or bird feeder. 541-888-3265, Find us on Facebook.

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Brookings Area and more:

various classes are listed at http://wildriverscoastart.com/

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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay 541-267-4877 for more information.

Tuesday - Thursday, April 3, 4, 5th, 2012 Watercolor from Start to Finish with Judy Morris 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturdays, May 12th & 19th: Paper Arts with Holly Rodenkirk and Mary Cervantes 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille, OR 541-396-3294

http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

Painting with Pat Weaver 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesdays & Wednesdays

Painting with Anna Crosby 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays

Painting/Drawing 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mondays

Painting with Bunny Upton 12 - 3 p.m. Mondays

Woodcarving with Larry Roberts 9-12 Mondays 541-396-2579

Woodcarving 6 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays

Wood Burning 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesdays

Play with Clay 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursdays

Ken Means Carving 9 - 12 noon and 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays

Quilting 10 a.m. on Wednesdays

Appliqué 10 a.m. Tuesdays

Stained Glass 2:30 - 5:00 and another at 6 - 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays 9:30 - 12:30

Fiber Arts 10 a.m. on Fridays

Yoga 6 p.m. Mondays No Classes during January or February.

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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Palette Knife Technique with Acrylics with Carolyn Le Grande is continuing on Mondays from 2 - 4:00 p.m. Call to see about joining this class.

Susan Lehman's Textures in Collage class has been changed to April . Call for information.

Cartooning with Bandon artist Leo Chiantelli will be offered at the gallery this summer. Students of any age and ability are welcome. Class will be four sessions for $60. Supply list available at the gallery.

The gallery is interested in setting up some children's classes for summer. If you would be interested in teaching a class please contact Jane 541-756-7638.

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Freshwater Gallery, 236B Hwy 101, Port Orford (next to Paula's Bistro)

Sundays, 3-5 p.m.: Figure Drawing with Model, $25

Mondays, 5-7 p.m.: Seascape Painting, $20 per class. For information: 541-332-8019 or 541-236-8077, or wilddoodle@earthlink.net

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Gallery on the Bay

658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771

Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.

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Heritage Textile Arts Guild

157#A, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items.

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Manley Art Center, Brookings

Call for class and workshop schedules. 541-469-1807

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Rose Palette, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. 541-290-7858

Oil Painting classes by Carol Turner, 2:30 - 5:30 Mondays, $20 per class. You can reach Carol at 541-396-5373 for information on other classes as well.

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Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence artcarnival@oregonfast.net www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival

New Classes: e-mail for more information.

Fridays: Two Card Classes, one at 10:00 a.m. and the other at 12:30. Sign up ahead of time so a materials packet will be available for you.

Saturday, March 9th: Stampscapes Class with Cathy.

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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon

For a schedule of classes offered go to: http://www.sagegallerybandon.com/

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Southwestern Community College

Brookings: Saturday, April 7, 2012 1 - 5 p.m. "Containers, A Mixed Media Art Workshop". Learn to make a coiled fabric basket and explore containers as art and metaphor. Instructor Linda Mulvany lindajmulvaney@gmail.com

Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741

Weekly collage class, Tuesdays 4 - 5:30 p.m. April 3rd, 10th, May 8th and 22nd. Rich and varied collage materials furnished to help you explore the possibilities and learn a variety of techniques. lindajmulvaney@gmail.com

SOCC, Port Orford : Saturday, May 19th, 1 - 5 p.m. "Aspect Dolls: A Mixed Media Art Workshop" Identify different parts of yourself and create mixed media dolls to honor those parts. lindajmulvaney@gmail.com

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*****Studio T Classes, Bandon

Color Workshops with dorothea tortilla:

Dynamic Color Workshop 12:30-5:30 Saturday, March 10

sign-up deadline: Monday, March 5, 2012

$55 all materials included

Advanced Color Workshop

***Prerequisite: Dynamic Color Workshop***

12:30-5:30 Saturday March 17 sign-up deadline: Monday March 12

12:30-5:30 Monday March 19 sign-up deadline: Monday, March 12

$55 all materials included

Please email dorotheatortilla@msn.com for available openings, complete class descriptions or any questions

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg

1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

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Wright's Custom Framing 910 Chetco Ave, Brookings 541-469-7625 saradee1@frontier.com

Drop in Art Workshop every Friday Afternoon 1 - 4 p.m.

Individual instruction in any medium; demonstrations in various mediums; critiques of completed work and works in progress. $12 per session. Just drop in and bring something you would like to work on, or need help with. Each week something new is presented during demonstrations.

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******Friday, March 2, 2012 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Music for the Arts fundraiser for the Umpqua Valley Art Association, 1645 W. Harvard, Roseburg. Dinner provided by Brix 527, music by their local band Slo Poke. $25 per person. All proceeds to UVAA.

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*****Friday, March 2, 2012 5:30 p.m.

Eugene First Friday ArtWalk starts at Opus VII, 22 W. 7th Ave, at 5:30 p.m.

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Saturday, March 3, 2012 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Coquille Valley Art Center, 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille Quilt-a-Thon to make small "care quilts" to be donated to children at risk. All ages of helpers are invited. Those who don't sew can cut, iron and tie knots. Refreshments served. Contact Carolyn for more information at 541-439-2425.

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Sunday, March 4, 2012 1 - 3 p.m.

Evergreen Court on the Campus of Baycrest Village, 4510 O'Connell Street, North Bend

Opening reception for the Plein Air Painters Exhibition featuring painters from Oregon's Bay Area and Bandon. Please join us for art, food and friends.

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*****Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:00 a.m.

Bay Area Artists Association monthly meeting at Pony Village Mall in North Bend, located near Macy's across from Maurice's, Bill Blumberg will be giving a talk with demonstrations on "CAlligraphy and Prismacolor drawing".

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*******Saturday, March 10, 2012 4 - 7:00 p.m.

Brookings Second Saturday Art Walk. Artist and musicians invite you to join them for the Murder Mystery Art Walk in downtown Brookings. Pick up your Murder Mystery Booklet at Chetco Library 4 -5 p.m. This details the locations of the ten Suspects at five different places. Will you be able to solve the mystery??

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****Saturday & Sunday, March 24th & 25th,

2012 Southcoast Wood Carvers 21st Show & Sale at North Bend Community Center, 2222 Broadway.

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Thursdays.

Gold Beach Episcopal Church Easternmost end of Moore Street.

Figure Drawing. To confirm & for more information contact Alexandra

alexandra@portraitsbyalexandra.com

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Calls to Artists:
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****Deadline Friday, March 2nd, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Artists Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

"The Bigger, The Better", A Juried Show Paintings, Drawings, all mediums, and photography. One piece per artists, $5 entry fee. Show will be judged and ribbons will be awarded. The reception will be on ArtWalk night, Thursday, March 8th. Minimum size is 21" x 28".

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****Delivery March 1st through March 9th for the Seventh Annual Young Artists Show at Coquille Valley Art Association. Ages 3 - 18, up to three entries per person in each category of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. All area children invited to participate.

Artwork must be suitable for hanging with backing, mats or frames. Age categories include 3-5 years old, 6 - 8; 9-12; 13 - 15; 16 - 18. Coquille Valley Art Center, 10144 Highway 42, Coquille. Show runs March 14th - April 13th. 541-396-3294 for more information.

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2012 Southcoast Wood Carvers 21st Show & Sale will be held Saturday, March 24th & 25th at the North Bend Community Center, 2222 Broadway.

There will be 50 spaces available for woodcarvers to sell or display. For more information contact Ken Means at 541-396-4501 or kenscarousel@aol.com

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*****Delivery deadline 'the last week of March'

Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery Call to Artists for "The Color of Spring". Open to all, no entry fee, no size limitation. For more information call 541-756-7638.

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March 5, 2012 Postmark Deadline

Emerald Art Center, 500 Main Street, Springfield, OR Emerald "Spring Exhibition" National Juried Show. Cash awards of at least $6000 will be announced at the opening of the show.--14 paintings will be selected for cash awards. $35 entry fee for 1 or 2, $10 for each additional. Show runs May 1 - June 1, 2012. Juror is nationally known pastelist Dawn Emerson. http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/pdf/2012%20EAC%20NJS%20Prospectus%20nFinal.pdf

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Deadline March 23, 2012 to return application for Yachats: Crafts on the Coast 15th Annual Spring Arts & Crafts Festival, which runs May 26-27th, 2012, AND Crafts on the Coast 15th Annual Harvest & Holidays Arts & Crafts Festival Nov. 3-4th, 2012.

Call 541-547-4738 for application packet for both events.

First time participants are welcomed, and demonstrations of arts and crafts are appreciated. Festivals are juried separately with the May event juried at the end of March, and the Nov. event juried in August.

70 exhibitors of exceptional, gallery quality crafts, fine arts and gourmet food products from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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The Spring Show: (April, May, June): “WEATHER REPORT”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Works inspired by the South Coast Weather. We’re a land of wild winds, torrential rains, glorious sunsets, rainbows, waving grasses, threatening clouds and churning (or shining) seas----all fair game for our local artists and photographers. No snapshots please. If you have a really fine photo it must be matted and framed and ready for hanging.

Any questions…..check with Ava Richey at Bandon Art Supply or call Victoria Tierney or Susan Lehman at 541-347-9888.

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April 14, 2012 postmark deadline

Coos Art Museum, 235 Anderson, Coos Bay, http://www.coosart.org/

19th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition. Show runs July 14 - September 22, 2012. $35 for up to 3 entries. Go to above website for prospectus and entry application.

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Postmark Deadline March 5, 2012

Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibit to be held at the Museum & Arts Center, Sequim, WA. Exhibition dates May 1 - 27th.

Cash and merchandise prizes totaling over $1500. Open to all adult artists. All work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copyright or published art or executed in a supervised class, and must be for sale. Entries are $20 for the first entry, additional $5 each up to five entries.

http://www.sequimarts.org/ 360-681-4884

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Deadline May 16, 2012 at 5 p.m.

Career Opportunity Grants, available from Oregon Arts Commission, help support individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills; expanded marketing capacity and/or the further development of the nature or quality of their artwork.

Grant amounts may range from $300 - $1500. A new collaboration with The Ford Family Foundation is now included with the application. To apply, visit http://www.oregonartscommission.ort/content/grants/ For more information call Shannon Planchon at 503-229-6062.

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Deadline March 19, 2012

Artists are invited to apply to display their works at the third annual Sunriver Art Faire. Limited to 60 exhibitors, the juried show will be held August 10 - 12th. Submit applications at http://www.zapplication.org./ For more information visit http://www.sunriverartfaire.com/

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Deadline April 16, 2012 for postmark and/or hand delivery of application and fee.

"Exposure 2012" Photography Only show. Florence Events Center

Show runs April 30th - June 28th, 2012 $20 per rod, rod hold 3 photographs. For guidelines and application:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/exposure-guidelines.pdf

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Submission Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center’s

Call for Artists: 2013-2014 Exhibits Schedule
Artists working in all 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, including
installations, are invited to submit images of their work along with an application form to be considered for the next biennium (2013-2014) of exhibits at the Maude Kerns Art Center. Submissions may include solo, group, and/or themed shows. There is a $15 submission fee for individual artists and a $5 fee per artist for group shows.

The postmark deadline is Friday, April 20, 2012. Application forms and prospectuses are available at the Art Center or online at

http://www.mkartcenter.org/

Call 541-345-1571 for more information.

The Maude Kerns Art Center, located at 1910 E. 15th Avenue at the corner of 15th and Villard, is Eugene’s oldest non-profit community center for the visual arts. Gallery hours are from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday, and noon to 4:00 pm on Saturday when exhibits are on display.

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Umpqua Valley Arts Association , Roseburg

44th Annual Summer Arts Festival, scheduled for Friday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 24th, 2012.

Look on their website: http://www.uvarts.com/ starting in January for applications for booths for artists, crafters, food vendors and entertainers.

This is an established, major cultural event in the Umpqua Valley drawing artists and crafters from across the U.S. for the 3 day festival with live music, food from local vendors, and lots of art. The event draws over 16,000 visitors of all ages. Proceeds benefit the UVAA's arts-in-education programs, bringing art instruction to elementary school children in Douglas County.

Those with questions are encouraged to consult the FAQ document posted on http://uvarts.com/summer-arts-festival/ or contact the UVAA by phone at 541-672-2532.

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The Summer Show: (July, August, September): “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

It was Crystal Landucci’s impressive collection of games of Chinese checkers that inspired this one. We’re looking for board games of all sorts that can be mounted on the walls; your own inventions would be great too……you’ve got a little while to work on this one so start inlaying those chess boards or drilling those cribbage sets….(fashioning those dominos?)…….This should be a really fun exhibit for the summer and we hope it will combine collectibles and the fruits of your imagination.

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The Fall Show: (October, November, December) “WHAT I DID ON MY VACATION”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Paintings and Journals created by the travelers amongst us. We already have some folks in mind but if you have some work you think might fit in….please let us know.

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The Artists' Village, McMinnville, OR Saturday & Sunday, July 14th & 15th, 2012

The McMinnville Sunrise Rotary Club is hosting their 4th Annual Artists' Village. Funds raised from this event go to help develop the arts and help Oregon artists with this event.

This is a juried event to obtain a booth at this show in order to sell your work. 10 ' x 10' booth under a tent, $100 for both days. Jurying fee will be non-refundable $25. Best in Show cash prizes total $1000.

They are looking for a variety of fine art participants including painting, sculpture, pottery, metalwork, dance, music and readings.

Information and applications will be posted in January on their website: http://www.artinmac.org/ Their email contact is artinmac@gmail.com

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Summer Boardwalk Show at Bandon waterfront: It’s The Year of the Dragon, so start planning now!

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Bandon Library Art Committee is seeking artists for exhibitions in both the Hallway Gallery and the Glass Cases during the 2013. You can also put your name on the list in case there are cancellations before then. The art can be paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, and the like;
crafts, collections, small sculptures and/or jewelry for the cases. Please contact Alexis Proctor at alexis2101p@yahoo.com or call 541-329-0530.

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Opportunity to Sell your Work:

Kathy from "Katherine's" in Pony Village Mall (south wing) is seeking artists to display art on Art Walk Thursdays from 5 - 8:00 p.m. each month.

The upcoming one is March 8th. The Mall will provide easels and tables. Other stores will be doing music and appetizers. There is no fee, no commission...it's FREE. Contact Kathy at 541-808-2248.

LACDA 2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION

2012-03-02T17:14:00.001-08:00

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:50 AM

Formatted announcement:

http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

lacda

los angeles center for digital art

102 West Fifth Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

LACDA 2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION

Jurors:

Nancy Meyer, LACMA
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art,L.A. County Museum of Art

Rex Bruce, LACDA
Director and Senior Curator, L.A. Center for Digital Art

Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography!

Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographical locations.

The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on museum quality paper (approximately a $2,500-$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artist.

Second place prizes: Ten second place winners will receive one print of their work up to 24x36 inches ($150-$200 in value) to be included in upcoming group exhibits. Second place winners will be scheduled into a group shows within twelve months of announcement of winners. Consideration is given to placing these works in shows appropriate to their style, genre and/or content. These shows will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

Special consideration will be given to all entrants for inclusion in future shows at LACDA. Many entrants from past competitions have been included in our exhibits.

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging and established artists. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints.

Deadline for entries: March 26, 2012

Winners Announced: April 2, 2012

Exhibit Dates:

April 12-May 5, 2012

Artist's Reception:

April 12, 7-9pm

click here for complete information and prospectus

click here for direct link to registration

Entry fee is $30US

Online registration only

For questions email:

lacda@lacda.com

No phone calls please

Call To Artists

2012-03-02T17:06:00.001-08:00

Photographers Invited

Exposure 2012!

Deadline - April 16

Photographers from Florence, the Oregon coast, and across the Willamette Valley are invited to display their work in “Exposure 2012,” a show which will be up through May and June in Gallery Five at the Florence Events Center.

Each photographer may enter up to three pieces in the show for a one-time entry fee of $20. All photographs must be properly mounted, framed and wired, ready to hang. Maximum width is 30”. All photographs must be available for sale. If a piece sells during the show, the photographer may replace it at no additional fee.

Photographs must be delivered to the FEC in person on Monday, April 30, and picked up on Thursday, June 28. An artist’s reception will be held in the gallery after the show opens and is hosted by the FEC.

Applications are available online at http://www.eventcenter.org/. Click on the Community link to download. Applications are also available at the FEC, Digital Dunes Photography and at the Siuslaw Public Library. Deadline for entries is Monday, April 16 at 5:00 p.m.

Tara L. Haley

Community Outreach Manager

715 Quince St.

Florence, OR 97439

541-997-1994 Ph. 888-968-4086 Toll free

541-902-0991 Fax http://www.eventcenter.org/

The City of Florence is an equal opportunity employer and service provider.

PUBLIC RECORDS LAW DISCLOSURE: This is a public document. This e-mail is subject to the State Retention Schedule and may be made available to the Public.

Biological Threat

2012-03-01T18:35:00.000-08:00

If you were planning on enjoying the Fine Art of S. L. Donaldson this weekend, I have bad news. S. L. has come down with the Infernal Rippling Death and cannot leave the house nor would you want her to. Fortunately this is only a temporary plague and S. L will once again be up and taking awards in no time flat. The exhibition of her works at the estuary has been rescheduled for March 17 barring mischief by wily Leprechauns.

The Pasteboard Easel

2012-03-01T18:27:00.001-08:00

It has happened to all of us, the news of a big show comes in late, there’s a moment of blind panic and then a frenzy of desperate preparation and the rush to the post office or the hurried Internet submission.

But wait, there’s a problem, you have to get that entry ready and that means making a disc and getting the art onto that disc.

No problem-o, you can do that sort of thing in your sleep. You just set up the art on an easel, light the image correctly and take a picture, easy, peasy, calabresy!

You have the camera, you have the proper lighting tools cause you’ve been reading the ole Trawler, you have the disc ready, but there’s no easel. Sure you have the one in the studio, with the sixty by forty unfinished oil on it, drying slowly as only an oil can dry. Can’t move that puppy. You my friend are toast!

But once again, the Ole Trawler has come to your rescue. Disclaimer, this will in no way replace the steady, professional easel you use to create your art. It will get you out of a bind and it costs nothing and takes less than half an hour which should fit both your budget and your schedule.

You need at least one maybe two sheets of heavy cardboard, ¼ an inch, 3/8 is better and by ½ you’re getting into more trouble than it is worth territory. You need a flat-head screwdriver old and worn out is best, with the blade dull and rounded. You need a Xacto knife or a box cutter, a ruler, a pencil or felt-tip and good light.

I know around here that means either work lights or move to Nevada.

Okay, so take the sheet of heavy cardboard and mark off a three inch wide strip at least ten inches long. (This is where having two sheets of heavy cardboard comes in handy; you can cut up one and save the other for the body of the easel.) Cut this away from the sheet and then cut it into two five inch strips. Set them aside and move on.

Take the sheet, you did find two, right? Take the sheet of heavy cardboard and mark off a three inch wide strip along the bottom edge. Use the pencil or felt tip to mark this so that you have a guideline. Take the screwdriver and carefully score or crease the line you marked. Don’t cut through the cardboard! This is why I said use a worn-out screwdriver. Once you have scored the line carefully bend it ninety degrees. If you failed basic math this makes a right angle or makes a shelf-like lip. You need this for the art to sit on.

Now take the two five inch strips and carefully mark off the center point, two and a half inches if you have trouble figuring this center thing out and from the center point mark off one inch in each direction. You should now have three marks, one in the center and one in each direction one inch from center. Select either side mark and make a parallel mark one quarter inch or three eights inch whichever your cardboard requires and mark it. Measure one and a half inches from the edge of the strip and mark that. This is the top of the slot you are going to cut so make your side lines reach this top mark and close the lines. Now you should have two slots marked on the five inch strip. Take the box cutter or Xacto knife and cut out the slot. Do this on the other strip too.

Now you have three pieces of the puzzle, let’s put it together. Take the back piece of the heavy cardboard, the one with the right angle lip and using one of the five inch strips lock the right angle lip into place. Don’t make it hard, it just means use the five inch strip to hold the lip in place. Now do the same on the other side.

Holy scaffold Batman, you now have an easel!

Wasn’t that hard?

Here’s the secret, you can use this to photograph any flat object you need to photograph, you can display paintings on it in a bind and you can take it apart and carry it into the filed and us it when you go plein air painting. If it gets wet, burned, spindled, folded or mutilated, if the dog eats it or if it gets stolen, you can make another one. Remember the cost part of this presentation, you used cardboard. If you’re like me you have enough empty picture/frame boxes lying around to build a space shuttle and this is so much easier and practical. And oh yes, once again, it’s free.

Next class, building a death ray from stuff you find in an ordinary cat box…

Collage by Susan lehman

Luddite Frame of Mind

2012-02-29T17:25:00.002-08:00

It’s so easy to hate the Information Revolution, computers, iPads, iPhones, MP3 players, digital cameras, software and television. And yes, I’ve been guilty of the Luddite frame of mind.

What are Luddites? They were nineteenth century textile workers who rebelled against the Industrial Revolution, often by smashing the mechanized loom which they believed were cheapening their craft, ruining their industry and putting them out of jobs.

And frankly the temptation to join the Luddites is overwhelming, one look at the popular media and sign me up. I’ve had it to the gills with texting, iPhones, Kim Kardashian, Fashion Police, American Idol, Desperate Housewives, Survivor and Nutrisystem.

But that just won’t work and it won’t get me off the hook. You see, progress, even if I don’t think much of it can’t be stopped. Get with the program or get plowed under.

Now it doesn’t mean you get to cut corners and put out shoddy art, that’s what all of the fuss and feathers is about.

Nothing stands still. It either changes or dies and having had a bit more of the later than I am willing to revisit, I am here to tell you I am firmly in the change camp.

Just because something is new and strangely different does not make it a bad thing. Like most change it is the people who drag their feet who allow the hucksters and the flim-flam artists to take over. If you aren’t out there fighting the good fight who is left? That’s right those guys and we all know what a complete lack of moral fiber and aesthetic sensibility they have!

See it isn’t an Elvis on velvet that makes art look cheap. It is the folks who don’t make sure there are other voices present. How do you know that an Elvis on velvet isn’t fine art if no one shows up to argue for the fine side?

Okay, anything on velvet except maybe a white cat or a bottle of vintage wine is tacky, but you have to make your voice heard if you expect anyone to listen.

Along the coast we have hundreds of car enthusiasts, they work like the devil restoring the wonderful and not so wonderful cars of years gone by, you know way back before the EPA made anything which could change your blood pressure just by driving by, extinct.

I love those old beauties, Auburn, Cord, the twelve cylinder Cadillac and the most iconic of all the Rolls Royce. Don’t think so; just take a look around, any time the ad-guys want to make you think ultra rich, out comes the Roller. Not just any Roller mind you but those fantastic land yachts with the big, square, silver grill like a tombstone on wheels. In fact the most iconic Roller of all Rollers is the 1963 long-wheel base saloon, Silver Cloud III with the single headlight mounts. Just screams ya-na-na-na-nah!

And you’d better be loaded with those nas cause that four thousand pound rolling mansion gets about ten miles to the gallon. At five bucks a gallon those nas come dear.

You all know how I feel about phones, I hat’em but I don’t have any special hatred for the mobile kind. I don’t text, surf, photo or stream on my phone and I am brilliant unsuccessful and antisocial enough I know no one is looking or me.

But those mobile phones are sure great when you have a flat at night or you run late and the Long Suffering is holding diner or you need to place a carry out order. Try ordering from your favorite eatery while sitting in front of your television set and then making it there and back while the food is still hot.

I did mention I had a chance to play with film cameras and in truth I lov’em; I started shooting with a film camera and learned a lot of stuff which is now obsolete but even with all of that knowledge weighing heavy on my heart having a digital camera makes shooting so much easier.

No processing get it? Just pop the USB data chord into the port and download to the computer where the magic of software can diddle it to death and make something out of nothing.

Beats hours of darkroom time trying by test stripping to get the enlarger exposure right.

Does any of this make change any easier? Not a bit. It’s hard to cram new knowledge into sixty-four years of solid ivory. And it pisses me off that I have to do it. I don’t like having to learn new stuff. But I like the results, and that’s why I’m asking you to keep your eyes peeled for that Luddite thingy.

Take your eye off the ball for just a second and there you are, extolling the virtues of grinding your own pigments and plastering your own scratchboard.

Sure if you want to, if you have the time, if it is part of what you consider your artistic process then please don’t mind me, go ahead and do it. But maybe you have a job or taxes to file or a houseful of kids, pets, spouses and you have no idea how you can get diner made, clothes washed, food on the table, the house picked up and find any time for art. Then having some technology at your beck and call can be a life saver.

I’m sure you’ve grown tired of my whiney-crybaby-sissy opinion of travel on Oregon roads. And to tell the truth so have I. So it was a big help for me to be able to use the Internet to enter two juried shows in other parts of the state, well lower Oregon, you know California? Took about two minutes and no persons or cars were injured or killed while it was being done which might not have been the case had I had to drive down to Redding.

So, while I reserve the right to complain about Kim Kardashian I also work very hard to overcome my Luddite tendencies. How ‘bout you? Fire up the Betamax, slip in a tape and hunker down with some chicory coffee and a sugar pie, fried in lard and rolled in powdered sugar cause it’s gonna be cold out tonight!

Going Green

2012-02-28T17:56:00.003-08:00

This is the time of the year when everything turns green and people start thinking about…St Patrick’s Day.

You thought I was going to say spring, but no, that’s ages away, first we have to celebrate the wearin’ of the Green.

I’ve mentioned I used to run a theater troop, well murder mystery troop, doing murder mystery plays on-site for anyone with the money to pay for them.

Yes, that was a big deal. You’d be surprised how many people want you to give away your product because they have a bigger/better/brighter business. I had an offer from a ski resort in Colorado which wanted me to fly my troop there, spend five days and stage a whole weekend murder mystery event. They didn’t think they should pay, cause after all we were getting to spend time at their resort!

Even actors want to get paid. It happens so seldom that when they get a chance to get paid they can become quiet indignant if you try to stiff them. Oh and the airline folks, they just won’t let you board if you haven’t paid and this was before the Homeland Security SS started manning the airports.

So no I didn’t get to see the wonderful resort at…I won’t name names but it had to do with fire and wheels, you work it out.

So aside from herding actors, writing a coherent play, directing actors, stirring up publicity, scrounging props and paying the light bill I had to deal with clients. If ever you wonder why those folks in Hollyweird get paid so much, try working with demanding, impatient, whiney clients for a while. Yeah, it was a good thing when I stopped.

But doing a murder mystery show is a very seasonal thing. You have to be aware what the next holiday is so that you can have a show up and running for it with the correct theme. Halloween doesn’t work for St Paddy’s, you know.

And the same if true of art, you have to be aware of what your clients are looking for if you are going to take advantage of the natural tie-in with the holidays.

On the east coast where almost all of the civil workers have some ethnic connection, St Paddy’s is bigger than Christmas. There isn’t a soul who’ll admit to being British or refuse to wave the Green. Out here, there isn’t so much dedication, but you’ll find pockets of folks who miss the big St Paddy’s celebrations and want a bit of the Old Sod for their green beer drinking.

And you should see that they get it.

I heard that groan. Look St Paddy’s day isn’t all Leprechauns and green beer, Ireland and the Irish have seeped into all of our culture, just take a look and you’ll find a Finn.

Take for instance John Ford’s brilliant and lyrical The Quiet Man. John Wayne never looked as heroic nor as well suited to be a romantic leading man and Maureen O’Hara, (Why was she always so mad?), plays The Girl to a T and not a lad in the audience who wouldn’t play patty-fingers in the Holy Water for a touch of her hand. Victor McLaglen was one of the few actors who could stand toe to toe with Big John and not look like a patsy. And the whole Irish Mafia in supporting roles make this film a classic by any standard.

So why do you care? One of the central elements of the film is the White of Morn, an idealized Irish cottage, just the sort of thing for a painter to set his or her brushes to this month. Then there are the horses, the pub scenes and the big fight and you can spend a lot of days just doing Quiet Man themes.

But why would you? Well there are a lot more living rooms in need of an Irish themed painting than there are suited for Iris or Sunflowers.

Did you know that the Titanic and her sister the equally ill-fated Olympic were built and launched in, that’s right, Ireland.

There’s this little show coming up in a quick hurry, let me see, oh yes, the Maritime Show. Now would that be a good place for a painting, photograph, sculpture of one of these giant ships? Right, no photographs, anyone know the way to the Ghetto?

Hint* I like those fine line drawings that show up in the Maritime show, nothing like a colored pencil sketch for getting all of the majesty of a big liner right.

Oregon is the home of so many micro-brews it is hard to keep up without a scorecard, but the one commercial brewing company which never has to worry about the competition is…Guinness! Irish again, but who’s counting?

Those hand-blown bottles and dark brew make for wonderful still life images. And there are hundreds of people who want a still-life for the kitchen. Even a lowly glass, not the proper, correct and right pub glass, can become a wonderful subject if it is filled with Guinness.

And okay, you could do a Leprechaun or two. Yeah I know they are trite, but you’re an artist so you can re-imagine them in a way that makes them less Lucky Charms and more Fine Art.

You know Hollyweird has made a good living off the Little People. Darby O’Gill and the Little People gave us both the traditional Leprechaun and the biggest Bond of them all, Sean Connery, now you just can’t beat that.

Mr. Fantastic, no not the Marvel comic book, Fred Astaire, the original Mr. Fantastic made Finian’s Rainbow something to smile about even if you can’t bring yourself to admit you enjoyed watching it.

Fred was kind of a very tall Leprechaun, so maybe you could do a tribute to Mr. Astaire?

The opportunities are there if only you go and look for them. Now what did I tell you six months ago? That’s right, you should be thinking about Halloween and Thanksgiving, cause the time-frame for them is right now and you’ve kinda missed St Paddy’s day, but that won’t let you off the hook for next year.

Tell you what, I have the Irish Rovers on disc, copied from my dusty-trusty ole LP and could let you give a listen or better still, draw a Guinness, fill up your best briar and move a little closer to the fire and I’ll put on Glen Yarborough and the fabulous Limeliters and we’ll listen to Darlin’ Sportin’ Jenny or talk a little treason and sing By the Risin’ O’ the Moon.

Blinded by The Light

2012-02-27T18:14:00.002-08:00

Light is a curious thing, we all think we know what it is and yet it seems to be so elusive? How come we can’t get a grip on it?

Maybe because it changes each time you look at it. Think not, take a look at the same piece of real estate, at the same time every day for a month and find out. You won’t see the same light twice.

We’ve all seen what light does to sunsets, just give it a few clouds and let it sink beyond the horizon and be prepared to be struck blind. The colors and the drama can’t be matched.

As a photographer I deal with light all of the time, it is the single most important thing I need to capture an image. But don’t walk away, light is important to painters too.

Let’s take a look at some basic light and see what it does when we try to use it.

Light coming from below the target of the image, be it photographic or paint makes for dramatic shadows. This can be perfect when the image is something technical or three dimensional, nothing like deep shadows to give substance to something which by its very nature has no substance.

But there’s a danger here, light from below can pick up casts from the background and transfer it to the subject. This is critical for photographers and you’re probably saying “I’m a painter it doesn’t effect me,” but you’d be wrong.

Film makers have known since the 30’s that a slightly greenish cast makes for a very convincing corpse/monster and if it happens to come form below the center line so much the better. Deep shadows and green tint give a very creepy look to any image.

Painters have to be aware of this because nothing ruins a painting faster than having the light come from the wrong place. Put that light in the wrong quadrant and the viewer will spend all of their time trying to figure out where the heck that light came from instead of understanding your composition.

In the thirties and early forties there was a B actor, Rhondo Hatton. His chief claim to fame and the reason why he got so much work was because of his brutish facial structure. This was due to acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland. Of course it gave him a career so I’m thinking he didn’t mind nearly so much as he would have if it had been the heartbreak of psoriasis and no career move in sight, but you’d have to ask Rhondo.

The thing about Rhondo was that he did have exceptionally brutish features, but they were given a helping hand by low green lighting. That made him into a regular creep show all by himself.

Now while this was a wonderful thing for Rhondo, career-wise and all, it would be terrible for a bride or a child and this is where attention to lighting comes into play for both painters and photographers, don’t make your brides into Rhondo Hatton.

In fact have a care that you don’t do this to anyone unless it is Halloween and they want to look creepy. Any person place or thing which has distinct angles to their appearance can be turned into a night crawler by low green lighting.

So what do you do? Remember way back when you were in school, yes, that was before Roosevelt and Daylight Savings Time, you probably had a mention of the color wheel and how to find the complimentary colors.

No, you don’t need a time machine, but a trip down memory lane wouldn’t hurt.

That lesson squandered on you when all you really cared about was what was going to happen to Davey Crockett this week and whether or not you’d get your Sky King Lunch box, could have told you about pink.

No, not the singer although if you like rock and haven’t heard Pink you ought to give a listen, cause the stinkpot can really blow and she has so much personality she’s a hoot to watch and given that her talent is singing and she’s a big-time, wild-assed, rock-star, she has some pretty exceptional talents as an aerialist. But I digress; pink can make a world of difference to your work, photograph or painting.

See pink is a softening agent. You add a touch of pink, in light or paint and you can take years off a face that would have been comfortable when the Pilgrims were just grim and the rock was still a big clod. Add pink to a landscape and you bring spring out in a winder scene, pink to the ocean and those tossed and battered ships will make safe harbor, people, animals and plants and you make them all look a lot younger.

Here’s a thought, if you have a pal who has been in the hands of the Croakers lately, like, I don’t know, me, then try some pink and get those haggard hospital lines out of their tortured faces.

I have a cousin, yes, even I have family, who is old enough to be my Aunt, but because of a recession in the early part of the last century, she was born to parents twelve years older than my own parents making her twelve years older than little ole me, but still the daughter of my Aunt and Uncle and that makes her my cousin and not my Aunt, see?

Anyway, I’ve been promising her a picture so she can see how much weight I’ve lost courtesy of my surgery and it turns out I also owe my sister, yes, I have one of those too, a picture and I want to give them one which will reflect my weight loss without scaring the beejesus out of them which is hard to do considering the subject, but I want to try it anyway, so I’ve been experimenting around and so far my results are not quiet as good as the look ole Rhondo had so I’m still working on it, but now I know what to do.

I’m getting a lot of light from two or more sources with a pink filter or drape and maybe that will keep me form looking like Rhondo Hatton as The Creeper and not scare the living daylights out of my relatives.

So the next time you approach the canvas or peer through the lens, think. Think about the good light and pink and don’t bring back Rhondo Hatton.

Do What You Love

2012-02-26T17:48:00.000-08:00

Do what you love and the money will follow. It’s a great idea, but it never worked for me. I guess that’s why I spent my working years as a mole, doing the midnight until dawn gig so that when the sun came up I could go do the things I liked.

Now I’m not saying that I hated what I did, far from it, some of it was rewarding, some of it was exciting, some of it was drudgery and some of it was a ball, but it wasn’t what I loved and it never could have been.

The problem I see with the philosophy, “Do what you love and the money will follow,” is it presumes one tiny little thing, it assumes that you will love something commercial or at least popular.

Now here’s the truth, we’d all love to fins something we could love that everyone else would love and that they would buy in truck loads and spend wildly for and tell all of their friends about and that is what television is all about. But for the most part, I have been singularly successful at picking shows which get cancelled after half a season.

I loved The Avengers, Steed and Mrs. Peel were great and fired all of my rockets, but I loved Cathy Gale before Mrs. Peel and Tara King and the incomparable Purdy long after Mrs. Peel had run off with James Bond. The series lasted three years on American television; fortunately I had friends in the UK who could bootleg it for me.

Then there was the Dresden Files. Oh yes, that was a few years later but it was the same thing all over again, loved it and all of the changes for TV. Died like a dog. Terrance Man as Bob the skull was delightful, but it wasn’t enough to hook the big enchilada.

I’m waiting on Body of Proof, the Dana Delany series and CSI: New York and Combat Hospital, Flashpoint and Lost Girl, my Canadian favorites all loves of my life and on life support.

When it comes to being mainstream, I flunked.

So doing what I love is probably not going to be the secret of my success. Should I try to chase a trend, maybe catch a falling star and put it in my pocket to save for a rainy day? There are problems there too, stars don’t much like to be caught and trends are funny things, the minute you chase one it stops being a trend and becomes a passing fancy.

Now I know what you are saying, you must like something other people like. Not really, not in any commercial sense. See I really like watching television. Okay, I know that’s something which should only be admitted under questioning by the Inquisition or at least after water-boarding at Guantanamo. But I really do.

I like guns. Yes, you can leave the room if you like but I don’t use them to shoot harmless animals. I like the unique mechanical complexity of guns. It is amazing to me that the human mind, in a flash of insight, realized that chemicals could be mixed together to cause an explosion, directed if that explosion was contained in a metal pot and used for hunting and military purposes. What a deal!

But unlike your averaged pickup driving, camo wearing, Beauregard’s Battle Flag waving, (You do know that the Stars and Bars, often called the Confederate flag was the battle flag of General Beauregard and not a “National” flag at all. The Bonnie Blue Flag was the first “National” Confederate flag and it was the flag which flew over the Confederate batteries which opened fire on Fort Sumner), survivalist I do not think the end is near or that Bambi poses a serious, long-term threat or that any day now the forces of the Scientologists are going to march into downtown Coos Bay and take over. I just like taking guns apart and seeing how their innards work.

(* This has nothing to do with anything, but I find it fascinating, the first successful semi-automatic handgun, the Mauser Military Pistole of 1899 called the C96, was so perfectly designed that not one single screw was used in its assembly until war-time production demands in the 1940’s forced the addition of a screw into the grip panels.)

Same is true for old cameras but I’ve gone on and on about that and I know you are getting tired of it, so I won’t say anything more about it, except, loving guns for their mechanical innards and obsolete cameras is not a money making venture.

There is the thing about nekkid girls. Yes, you can make money with nekkid girls but that sort of profession requires fur coats, sunglasses and large, gas-guzzling cars or slick magazine production or obnoxious websites you’d block on your children’s’ computers in spite of the fact that the average child get around a block established by a parent in less time that it takes to switch on a light, and besides the Long Suffering would not approve of such an undertaking so that’s out, which brings me right back to where I started, doing what you love and expecting to get paid for it is a lot like expecting your Lotto winnings to finance your retirement.

Just move somewhere warm and learn to make salads from dumpster produce.

This does not mean you shouldn’t do what you love. On the contrary I think doing what you love is one of the most self-affirming things you can do. Just don’t plan on buying out Warren Buffet’s Berkshire-Hathaway stock.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, before there was a Kim Kardashian, there was a belief in a Calling. People with some special connection to certain disciplines had a life calling and they took up the job of following their passion knowing that they would never become rich doing it.

They did it for the love of what they were doing. Please re-read that last part, love of what they were doing.

Art is a miserable way to make a living. You can probably do it if you have a special gift, work like a man possessed and live in one of the giant art centers like New York or L.A. but just because you can’t make a living at it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it.

About a thousand years ago, before there was Paris Hilton I worked the evening shift at Ling/Temco/Vought. It was a good job, but like most young guys I wanted the bright lights and the fast life I was sure was waiting just around the corner. I was chronically dissatisfied.

I worked with a guy called Lanny, thirtyish, married, with a family and bills and a degree in psychology. I asked Lanny, on one of those nights when there was little to do and a lot to talk about, I asked what he was doing here, why wasn’t he out using his degree? He smiled and said, “I have a job.”

I had no idea how profound that was. Work is what you do to pay the bills so that you can do the things you really want to do when you aren’t working. Don’t try to make your passion support your life. Work and then go home and do the things you love.

And Lanny, now I know…

2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

2012-02-25T15:02:00.000-08:00

North Valley Art League
Carter House Gallery & Gift Shop

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NORTH VALLEY ART LEAGUE of REDDING, CALIFORNIA
2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
May 1 - June 2, 2012
PROSPECTUS

Printable Version Click Here

                                                          ELIGIBILITY
This show is open to all photographers. All forms of photographic expression are encouraged: from film-based to digital capture -- black and white darkroom to digital manipulation and alternative processing -- montages to hand-colored photographs. All entries must be the entrant’s original work, i.e. the capture of the image as well as dark room and digital processing. This does not preclude the use of professional labs for printing, resizing, and film development. Images previously accepted into a NVAL Juried Photography Show are not eligible.

EXHIBITION
Our purpose is to professionally exhibit your unique artwork in our gallery for patrons to view, appreciate and purchase. Approximately 70 images will be exhibited at our spacious Carter House Gallery and on the NVAL Online Gallery. The gallery is located in Caldwell Park, 48 Quartz Hill Road, Redding, CA 96003, and fronts on the banks of the Sacramento River as it runs through the heart of Redding. It is adjacent to major recreational sites, consequently attracting local and tourist foot traffic.

AWARDS
All Accepted images will be exhibited
Best of Show $1000
2nd Place $500
3rd Place $250
Up to 8 Honorable Mention Awards - $25 framing, printing gift certificates

SHOW CALENDAR
Entry Deadline: March 24, 2012
Notice of Acceptance: April 3, 2012 by email
Shipped Artwork Due: April 17 - April 28, 2012
Hand-delivered Artwork Due: April 24 - April 28, 2012
Show Opens: May 1, 2012
Reception & Awards: May 6, 2012, 1-3 pm
Show Closes: June 2, 2012

JUROR: Jennifer L. Daly
We are pleased to have an exceptional juror, Jennifer L. Daly, Art and Art History Instructor at Shasta College. She has a BFA from the University of Missouri and a MFA with Distinction-Photography from California State University, Chico. She has exhibited all around the country.

JUROR STATEMENT:
“Photography has always been a diverse art form with evolving and emerging technologies, ideas, and styles. As a juror, I look forward to seeing the breadth of the medium from ‘straight’ photography to photo-manipulation, digital, traditional and alternative process and everything in between in order to facilitate an exhibition of interpretations of photography today.”

ENTRY FEES
• First 3 entries    $30
• Additional entries    $8 each
• No Limit on the number of submittals per entrant
• All submissions will be online using Smarter Entry. All images will be juried in electronic format as submitted, with final jurying for awards based on the gallery presentation
• THE NON-REFUNDABLE ENTRY FEE WILL BE CHARGED TO YOUR CREDIT CARD

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• EXHIBIT PRINTS: All accepted images submitted for exhibition must be printed and framed either professionally or in a professional manner. Simple dark framing with white or off-white matting is recommended. Works must be delivered ready to hang. Maximum frame dimension is 40” and maximum weight is 12 pounds. NVAL hangs with cables hooks, so please use only frame hangers, D-rings or split rings (no wires). Local professional printing and framing can be arranged.

If framed work does not substantially meet the appearance of the JPEG entry, or if the print quality, matting or framing are not suitable quality for gallery presentation, the NVAL may ask the artist to replace whichever element is not suitable. If the artist is unwilling to meet these standards, the NVAL reserves the right to replace the entry with another work selected by the juror.

• ACCEPTANCE NOTICE: Everyone who submits will receive an email notification regarding acceptance on April 3, 2012. Instructions for delivery, shipping, handling and artwork identification will be detailed in the notice.

• SALE OF ARTWORK: There will be a 20 percent commission charged by the gallery on any piece that is sold. California sales tax will be collected.

• USE RIGHTS: By submission for jurying, artists whose submissions are chosen for the exhibition grant the North Valley Art League the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, marketing the North Valley Art League’s programs and subsequent display on the NVAL website of past exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their image(s) as stated without further contact or compensation from NVAL. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use.

TO PREPARE YOUR IMAGES FOR ONLINE ENTRY, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA
• 72 ppi resolution
• Sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side of the image
• JPG format only
• JPG compression (quality) 7 medium
• File size no larger than 2 MB
• Make sure that your file name (not the title) does not include special characters: ‘ “ ; : { } \ / or any of the characters found above the numbers (@, #, *, etc.) except the underscore and dash.

              CLICK HERE TO ENTER

TIPS ON USING THE SMARTER ENTRY SITE
• Once you set up your account, you will be asked to use your credit card to pay the entry fee
• PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE TITLE. Judging is from files without names attached
• In the Required Dimensions (in inches) field put the approximate size of the unframed print that you would show in the Gallery if that entry is accepted by the juror. This is for the juror’s benefit.
• If you need additional help, please email or call the show chairmen

QUESTIONS: Email nvalphotoshow@sbcglobal.net
Call show chairmen
Bernie & Charlotte Bryson
Home phone 530-221-1993, cell 530-227-9790

Ava Richey's Art News

2012-02-24T17:51:00.000-08:00

Please note my new e-mail address yarnfarm@frontier.com

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Hello Everyone,

This Monday, February 27th, 12 - 3 p.m., we will paint at Art by the Sea Studio & Gallery in the Continuum Building, next door to Bandon Artist Supply in Old Town Bandon.

Bring your lunch, if you like. There will be a still life set up, or bring your own resource to paint from.

My phone is 541-347-4643 or cell is 541-297-6118.

Thanks!

Ava

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Art Information:
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FYI: New listings have asterisks ***** next to the date.

If any of the web links below in blue are not "live", meaning if you click on it and it doesn't take you to the website,--- right click on it and choose copy, then open your internet web browser, left click on the web address window at the top to highlight it, then right click and paste the web link into your browser and hit enter. The site should open.
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February sale at Bandon Artist Supply: Paints 15% off (excluding kits).

NEW Winter Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays 10 -5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 541-347-4482 or 541-297-6118.
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Art Connection is moving to a new location, 245 South Fourth St, (corner of 4th & Anderson) and will open there on April 2nd. In the meantime, inventory reduction sale has items with a red dot at 40% off this week, and 50% off the next week and so on.
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Artists' Accomplishments:

We want to honor the achievements of all you artists, so don't be shy about sending the highlights of your art lives, or those of your artist friends.

Yvonne Ousley has had two Meso-American wool tapestries accepted into the Ancient American Exhibit at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The show runs from February 21st to March 26, 2012, with a reception on March 8th at 6:30 p.m.

Congratulations, Yvonne!!
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Current Shows:
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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence http://www.backstreetgallery.org/ http://www.katheryndavis.com/katys_book/qw_publishing.html

Jerry Polder and Mohn McMahan, winners of the LIttle Dickens Miniature Show
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Bandon Public Library February 2012

Hallway Gallery: "Island Dreams and Coastal Themes", watercolors & oils by Shawn Tempesta

Cases: Larry Linder's woodcarver collectables.
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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

February "Coast to Cactus Country", featuring Pete Chasar

Showcase: "A Collection of Valentines" display by Evelyn Allen
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Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay 541-267-3901 http://www.coosart.org/

Coming March 2nd: Biennial Student Art Exhibit & Vision 12

February BAAA "Artist of the Month" featured in the BAAA display located in the Coos Art Museum lobby is Beth Wegner.
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Coos Bay Library 525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

February

Wall Display "The Coquille River"--selected acrylic & ink paintings celebrating the flora & fauna of the Coquille River by SL Donaldson

Lobby: Pottery by Catherine Walworth
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Coquille Valley Art Center 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

February 13 - March 2, 2012 "The Miniature Show"

Hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR

Photography show featuring works by Kathy and Dick Chambers of Myrtle Point; Patricia Davidson, Coos Bay; Kelle Herrick, Bandon; Richard Kirk, Myrtle Point; Kathy Phillips, Myrtle Point; David Sinnot, formerly of Coquille; and Tony Spenader, Coquille. A portion of sales goes to the CVHA Auxiliary. Show runs through February.
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Crystal Dolphin Gallery

1901 Sherman Ave, North Bend, 541-756-1989
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Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery

3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

"What's New?". Features Gallery Artists and their new works.

February 6 - March 30 "Winter Wonder", Reception Friday, Feb. 10th, 2-4 p.m.
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Emerald Art Center http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/

500 Main Street, Springfield 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

February 1st - 24th "Top 21 Paintings from the 46th Fall Transparent Watercolor Society of Oregon Watercolor Show". Also Featured Member Nancy Ericksen Ward, and Work from the Photography at Oregon Committee, and other members' works. Music by West Winds Flute Choir.
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Evergreen Court

Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR 541-756-7658
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Fairbanks Gallery located on campus at OSU in Corvallis. Free, open to the public Mon.- Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 8 - 12 noon. Contact Douglas Russell at 541-737-5009, or drussell@oregonstate.edu http://www.blogger.com/goog_682313859

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Florence Events Center

715 Quince Street, Florence Call for more info at 541-997-1994

Gallery One: "Water Media Artists" display of 16 Watercolor Society of Oregon members.
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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St., Port Orford

Features "Friends", a series of hot glass sculptures that skillfully depict characters who have stood out in the artist's life in one way or another. Artist is Danny White.
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High Tide Cafe, Charleston

Michael William Ousley is showing a display of his Yacht Club works of art . Open 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
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Langlois Public Library 48234 Hwy 101, Langlois, OR 97450

Hours: Mon. 11a.m.-2 p.m., Tues-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Paintings of Sheila Oberg continue into the new year.
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Manley Art Center 433 Oak Street, Brookings, OR 541-469-1807

February

"The Acrylics of Thomas Moody"

Gallery Theme "Abstracts". Panel Displays: Plein Air Painters Christina Olsen, Sandy Bonney, Eileen Jensen, Philip Wadsworth, Nancy Moore-Hope, the Mudslingers.

the Photo Club presents a slide show of members' works.
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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 541-345-1571 http://www.mkartcenter.org/

February 24th - March 23rd Opening reception Feb. 24th, 6 - 8 p.m.

Pportraiture: "Three Twists" Frank Moro, Russ Revok, Mike Sirl
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North Bend Library, Conference Room February

541-756-0400 http://www.northbendlibrary.org/

Features : Manga Art by Tiffany & Brittany Valdez
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Old City Hall-- 99 E. Second Street, Corner of Second & Adams, Coquille

Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for information.
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Pony Village Mall:

ArtWalk: Various artists showing at tables in lobby areas near Katherine's and Harry Ritchie Jewelers. and Artists Loft.

Also in the Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088

Gallery Artists Group Show, features jewelry by Hester Solsang. Guest Artist--watercolors by Cindy Horner

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)

Photography--local color and other works by Dan Hull

Sterling Savings Bank

Fabulous Oils by Carol Turner

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Port Orford Library January-March

Paintings by Susan Lehman, Jane Schmaltz and Ava Richey
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Raincoast Gallery

Featuring work of many local artists.

Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.
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Second Street Gallery, Old Town Bandon 541-347-4188 http://secondstreetgallery.net/

Features annual "Wall of Opportunity" with 50% off regular sales price of local artists' work including 2-d, jewelry, pottery, glass, greeting cards and books. Inventory changes weekly.
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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick Auditorium

January 7 - February 29, 2012

Graphite renderings of birds and wildlife by Lance Cox.
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January 11th through March, 2012

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center

"Down on the Farm" features agriculture related art.

In addition:

******March 1, 2012 through March: 21 award-winning watercolors selected by Juror Ted Nutall of Arizona for the traveling show of the Watercolor Society of Oregon .
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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

Through March 2, 2012 "Student Art Show", 500 works in a variety of media fill all six UVAA gallery spaces.
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U.S. Bank--Coquille

Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tierney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Traveling Show of Oregon Prison Art.
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Whistling Gallery

87456 Ste. A, Whistling Drive, Bandon (located in Laurel Grove, 5 miles south of Bandon.) A variety of artists showing 2-d and 3-d work.

Also in charge of showing work at Billy Smoothboar's and other venues for those artists interested in showing their work, contact Vickie.

541-404-7336, or whistlinggallery@gmail.com
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Classes
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Art 101, The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org

Saturdays and Sundays 1 - 5:00 p.m.

Volunteer Workshops to build "Leo the Leopard Shark" Have a hand in constructing the newest member of the Washed Ashore family. This work is designed to permanently reside at the Chula Vista Nataure Center in San Diego, CA. The sculpture consists of 100% ocean going debris (plastics and more). Help inspire others to do something about this problem by building this eye-catching sculpture.
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Art by the Sea, Gallery & Studio 175 2nd St, Old Town Bandon, (next to Bandon Artist Supply)

Monday, April 2, 2012 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Silkscreen Monoprint Class Instructor is Pat Snyder, class fee $45. to register call 541-297-6118.
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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. Call for Class

Information at 541-756-4088

If you are interested in taking a Chinese Brush Painting class with Darlene Diehl on April 12, 2012, $67 for 5 hours with all supplies provided, please contact Carol Young at 541-260-4573. Class will be held in the Artist Loft classroom.

Beginning Watercolor with Carol Young, for info call 541-260-4573.
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Bay Be, located in Charleston, next door to High Tide Cafe is now open and offers licensed childcare for kids 3 yrs & up with a focus on nature and art projects. ALSO offer workshops for adults--making lip balm, jewelry, knitting and yoga.

Drop-in Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. with only $5 and 5 minutes we can help you create a craft such as paper, a candle, a willow basket, driftwood sculpture or bird feeder. 541-888-3265, Find us on Facebook.
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Brookings Area and more:

various classes are listed at http://wildriverscoastart.com/
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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay 541-267-4877 for more information.

Tuesday - Thursday, April 3, 4, 5th, 2012 Watercolor from Start to Finish with Judy Morris 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturdays, May 12th & 19th: Paper Arts with Holly Rodenkirk and Mary Cervantes 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille, OR 541-396-3294

http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

Painting with Pat Weaver 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesdays & Wednesdays

Painting with Anna Crosby 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays

Painting/Drawing 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mondays

Painting with Bunny Upton 12 - 3 p.m. Mondays

Woodcarving with Larry Roberts 9-12 Mondays 541-396-2579

Woodcarving 6 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays

Wood Burning 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesdays

Play with Clay 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursdays

Ken Means Carving 9 - 12 noon and 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays

Quilting 10 a.m. on Wednesdays

Appliqué 10 a.m. Tuesdays

Stained Glass 2:30 - 5:00 and another at 6 - 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays 9:30 - 12:30

Fiber Arts 10 a.m. on Fridays

Yoga 6 p.m. Mondays No Classes during January or February.
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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Palette Knife Technique with Acrylics with Carolyn Le Grande is continuing on Mondays from 2 - 4:00 p.m. Call to see about joining this class.

Susan Lehman's Textures in Collage class has been changed to Sat., March 31st, 10 - 2 p.m. $40 which includes supplies. Beginners through intermediate.

Cartooning with Bandon artist Leo Chiantelli will be offered at the gallery this summer. Students of any age and ability are welcome. Class will be four sessions for $60. Supply list available at the gallery.

The gallery is interested in setting up some children's classes for summer. If you would be interested in teaching a class please contact Jane 541-756-7638.
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Freshwater Gallery, 236B Hwy 101, Port Orford (next to Paula's Bistro)

Sundays, 3-5 p.m.: Figure Drawing with Model, $25

Mondays, 5-7 p.m.: Seascape Painting, $20 per class. For information: 541-332-8019 or 541-236-8077, or wilddoodle@earthlink.net
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Gallery on the Bay

658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771

Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.
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Heritage Textile Arts Guild

157#A, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items.
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Manley Art Center, Brookings

Call for class and workshop schedules. 541-469-1807
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Rose Palette, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. 541-290-7858

Oil Painting classes by Carol Turner, 2:30 - 5:30 Mondays, $20 per class. You can reach Carol at 541-396-5373 for information on other classes as well.
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Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence artcarnival@oregonfast.net www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival

New Classes: e-mail for more information.

Fridays: Two Card Classes, one at 10:00 a.m. and the other at 12:30. Sign up ahead of time so a materials packet will be available for you.

Saturday, March 9th: Stampscapes Class with Cathy.
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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon

For a schedule of classes offered go to: http://www.sagegallerybandon.com/
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Southwestern Community College

Brookings: Saturday, April 7, 2012 1 - 5 p.m. "Containers, A Mixed Media Art Workshop". Learn to make a coiled fabric basket and explore containers as art and metaphor. Instructor Linda Mulvany lindajmulvaney@gmail.com

Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741

Weekly collage class, Tuesdays 4 - 5:30 p.m. April 3rd, 10th, May 8th and 22nd. Rich and varied collage materials furnished to help you explore the possibilities and learn a variety of techniques. lindajmulvaney@gmail.com

SOCC, Port Orford : Saturday, May 19th, 1 - 5 p.m. "Aspect Dolls: A Mixed Media Art Workshop" Identify different parts of yourself and create mixed media dolls to honor those parts. lindajmulvaney@gmail.com
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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg

1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/
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Wright's Custom Framing 910 Chetco Ave, Brookings 541-469-7625 saradee1@frontier.com

Drop in Art Workshop every Friday Afternoon 1 - 4 p.m.

Individual instruction in any medium; demonstrations in various mediums; critiques of completed work and works in progress. $12 per session. Just drop in and bring something you would like to work on, or need help with. Each week something new is presented during demonstrations.
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*****Saturday, March 3, 2012 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Coquille Valley Art Center, 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille Quilt-a-Thon to make small "care quilts" to be donated to children at risk. All ages of helpers are invited. Those who don't sew can cut, iron and tie knots. Refreshments served. Contact Carolyn for more information at 541-439-2425.
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 1 - 3 p.m.

Evergreen Court on the Campus of Baycrest Village, 4510 O'Connell Street, North Bend

Opening reception for the Plein Air Painters Exhibition featuring painters from Oregon's Bay Area and Bandon. Please join us for art, food and friends.
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Thursdays. No meetings until March

Gold Beach Episcopal Church Easternmost end of Moore Street.

Figure Drawing. To confirm & for more information contact Alexandra

alexandra@portraitsbyalexandra.com
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Calls to Artists:
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*****2012 Southcoast Wood Carvers 21st Show & Sale will be held Saturday, March 24th & 25th at the North Bend Community Center, 2222 Broadway.

There will be 50 spaces available for woodcarvers to sell or display. For more information contact Ken Means at 541-396-4501 or kenscarousel@aol.com
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*****March 2, 2012 application receipt deadline

Art on Broadway, 12570 SW Broadway, Beaverton, OR is calling for entries of original artwork for their "Oregon Originals" Guest Show which runs March and April, 2012. $25 for up to two entries. Art to be delivered, (no digital entries for judging).

For more information see: http://www.allaprimaportland.blogspot.com/2012/02/call-to-artists.html
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*****March 5, 2012 Postmark Deadline

Emerald Art Center, 500 Main Street, Springfield, OR Emerald "Spring Exhibition" National Juried Show. Cash awards of at least $6000 will be announced at the opening of the show.--14 paintings will be selected for cash awards. $35 entry fee for 1 or 2, $10 for each additional. Show runs May 1 - June 1, 2012. Juror is nationally known pastelist Dawn Emerson. http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/pdf/2012%20EAC%20NJS%20Prospectus%20nFinal.pdf
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******Deadline March 23, 2012 to return application for Yachats: Crafts on the Coast 15th Annual Spring Arts & Crafts Festival, which runs May 26-27th, 2012, AND Crafts on the Coast 15th Annual Harvest & Holidays Arts & Crafts Festival Nov. 3-4th, 2012.

Call 541-547-4738 for application packet for both events.

First time participants are welcomed, and demonstrations of arts and crafts are appreciated. Festivals are juried separately with the May event juried at the end of March, and the Nov. event juried in August.

70 exhibitors of exceptional, gallery quality crafts, fine arts and gourmet food products from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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*****April 14, 2012 postmark deadline

Coos Art Museum, 235 Anderson, Coos Bay, http://www.coosart.org/

19th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition. Show runs July 14 - September 22, 2012. $35 for up to 3 entries. Go to above website for prospectus and entry application.
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Postmark Deadline March 5, 2012

Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibit to be held at the Museum & Arts Center, Sequim, WA. Exhibition dates May 1 - 27th.

Cash and merchandise prizes totaling over $1500. Open to all adult artists. All work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copyright or published art or executed in a supervised class, and must be for sale. Entries are $20 for the first entry, additional $5 each up to five entries.

http://www.sequimarts.org/ 360-681-4884
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Deadline May 16, 2012 at 5 p.m.

Career Opportunity Grants, available from Oregon Arts Commission, help support individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills; expanded marketing capacity and/or the further development of the nature or quality of their artwork.

Grant amounts may range from $300 - $1500. A new collaboration with The Ford Family Foundation is now included with the application. To apply, visit http://www.oregonartscommission.ort/content/grants/ For more information call Shannon Planchon at 503-229-6062.
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Deadline March 19, 2012

Artists are invited to apply to display their works at the third annual Sunriver Art Faire. Limited to 60 exhibitors, the juried show will be held August 10 - 12th. Submit applications at http://www.zapplication.org/. For more information visit http://www.sunriverartfaire.com/
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Deadline February 29, 2012 5 p.m.

2012 Art Contest to Benefit New ODFW (Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) Habitat Conservation Stamp

Artwork must feature one of the fish or wildlife species identified in the Oregon Conservation Strategy in its respective strategy habitat. Announcement:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/2012_Oregon_Department_of_Fish_and_Wildlife_Art_Contest.pdf

List of Species: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/document_pdf/b-species.pdf
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Deadline April 16, 2012 for postmark and/or hand delivery of application and fee.

"Exposure 2012" Photography Only show. Florence Events Center

Show runs April 30th - June 28th, 2012 $20 per rod, rod hold 3 photographs. For guidelines and application:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/exposure-guidelines.pdf
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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Artworks NW 2012" (formerly "Hundred Valleys")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

Northwest Collage Society Spring Exhibition

2012-02-24T17:17:00.002-08:00

Collage artists Susan Lehman of Bandon and Pat Snyder of Coos Bay each have had two of their collages accepted into the juried Northwest Collage Society Spring Exhibition at the Rob Schouten Gallery on Whidbey Island, Greenbank, WA showing March 2 - April 4, 2012.

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2012-02-23T11:22:00.000-08:00

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Fun, fun, fun…

2012-02-22T18:09:00.000-08:00

Till your daddy takes your T-bird away.
That’s what the Beach Boys promised and you know the Beach Boys would never lie to you, they’re very honest boys.

I mean if you can’t trust five, clean-cut, blonde-haired, dazzling smile, Ivy-coated, surfer dudes before there was a surfer dude, who can you trust?

Excuse me while I pry my tongue from my cheek and continue, you really should listen to the fun part.

That’s right, I’m talking to all of you serious, dedicated artists out there, are you having fun yet?

If you aren’t maybe you should be doing something else. Let’s face it making a living from art in the big centers of art frenzy like L.A. and New York is tough, but out here in the wilds of Oregon, you could do better selling lemonade.

My favorite writing instructor, Lawrence Block, an exception to the old rule, “If you can’t do teach,” does, he does a lot, he does it well, he gets paid for doesing it and that kids is no easy trick. He says, “The odds of getting published are so remote you might as well write what you like. That way you will at least enjoy the process and if nothing else happens you won’t be left with shattered dreams, you enjoyed getting there.

Now that is sage advice for anyone working in the creative fileds, do what you like so that you enjoy the process of getting there.

I had forgotten that. I had, I’ve been so busy trying to get my life back on track after falling into the hands of the Croakers and losing six weeks to the hospital and missing all of the art shows of the Fall and Winter that I was frantic, trying to find new avenues and techniques to guarantee my place in the next big show.

I was crushed after spending a week or ten days working up a perfectly nifty design for the Ancient Americas show only to discover if I got a piece in I would have to ship it to the show and that would in the face of all of my indentures to the medical profession be prohibitive. There I sat with a perfectly good design and nowhere to use it. What a waste!

But it wasn’t. I learned something new, I dimpled my old brain and I came away with a little design which won’t do me any good right away but will someday and that’s the trick, I really enjoyed doing it and if it doesn’t pay off now, it will.

I had completely forgotten that at the time. I was so angry and disappointed and frustrated that I wanted to kick the cat. Fortunately all of my cats are too clever and too fast to be kicked by an old fart fresh from the Quacker and they ran circles around me until I was so dizzy that I had to sit down.

And while I was sitting two ancient 35 mm cameras fell into my lap. Okay, they didn’t fall, but they did come as a surprise and they did need attention.

They weren’t top of the line cameras, not at all collectible, not even something to make the audience gasp on Antiques Road show. They were just old film cameras in need of some love and understanding. I spent the better part of a week working on them. I had to search the Internet to find and download the manuals for them,

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/

And then I had to find the proper batteries to bring life into their old tired bodies, I even had to scrounge around Goodwill to find a lens for one of them.

And you know what happened next? I got both of them working again and sent them back to their owners with the manuals and batteries and a word of caution. And I was left with nothing but the web address for manuals I no longer had cameras to wonder about.

(Read the instructions The three most important words in the English language Valentine’s Day aside, love matters most to the young at heart but instructions last forever.)

And yet, I wasn’t left with nothing. I had a lot of fun. I had a ball bringing life back to those old guys. The owner took them to a photography studio which shall remain nameless and was told that they weren’t worth fixing. Boys and girls, Rule 2, people in the business of selling you new anythings make poor consultants when it comes to fixing old things which just might serve as well as the new things they are selling.

Now I won’t claim that there was any ill will, maybe they didn’t even check the camera’s battery compartment, even though they should have known that without the correct batteries both of these cameras are paper weights. They won’t work at all, even the films advance lever won’t turn. Maybe they just didn’t care enough, but when I did check the batteries in one of the cameras were inserted in the wrong orientation with the negative post where the positive post should have been and you know electricity is very picky about that sort of thing, it doesn’t like it at all.

If the battery had been fresh and hot there’s a very good chance that the electronics on this camera would have been toast. But the batteries were dead and there was no harm, no foul. Except my pal got some pretty bad advice.

I got something else, I got the look of delight when I returned the cameras and saw the joy it brought the owner to have the old guys back on the job. No, modern, digital cameras can run rings around both of the old timers and don’t need a trip to the processing plant before the results can be seen, but there’s something magical about film which can’t be explained to those raised on the CCD.

Okay, so enough about the cameras, you don’t care about cameras old or new, you are an artist, a rigorous, demanding, exacting artist. You don’t compromise, don’t minimize, you don’t commercialize your art. You are an aesthete.

But are you having any fun?

Sure suffering for your art is a long held belief, but should it be something you take to your heart of hearts? Can you enjoy yourself and still be a serious artist?

I sure hope so.

See the reality is you won’t sell enough to make warren Buffett shake in his boots, Donald Trump won’t forsake his empire and but on sack cloth and ashes and Time will not feature you on its cover. Sure you may become a famous artist and I sincerely hope that you do, but in the meantime, while you are waiting, wouldn’t it be a good idea to enjoy what you do?

I told pal, this was a coupla years back so I have matured since then, I told her that photographs should look like photographs and that a little judicious tweaking, shifting colors and making some adjustments was fine but beyond that anything else was just a photographer trying to be a painter without having the skills. I was completely wrong.

I still think photographs should look like photographs, but photographs are a very plastic medium, they can look like a lot of stuff. And I stopped taking myself so seriously and started having more fun. Wanna see a seagull?

I’ll bet you have. Now take a look at my seagull.

Not so common, but what if it was to get a complete make-over?

Now it’s like one of those dancing Mayan patterns on the Central American pyramids.

What about a bicycle?

I found this one lying in the snow. But I thought it had more to say so I adjusted it.

Now it looks like Norman Rockwell had a word in my ear.

Is it a painting? No of course not, but it sure was fun. And that is what I am trying to have a lot more of these days.

The next time the Quack gets her hands on me I might not come back with the same skills, so I want to use what I have right now, while I still have them. That means enjoying what I am doing while I do it, returning old cameras to service, installing a hard drive in a nearly scraped computer or taking an ordinary photograph and making it a bit more interesting. Now that guys is fun, fun, fun…

Finish it

2012-02-21T18:23:00.001-08:00

I have been working on one of my books and I don’t remember working this hard when I wrote it.

Now you may say that’s because I’m a hack and I will admit that, I never had any ambition to write the Great American Novel, my heroes have always been pulpers, Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout and Edgar Rice Burroughs, with a special nod to Walter B Gibson who as Maxwell Grant wrote two hundred and thirty-two Shadows novels. What devotion!

Jus give me a hero and a threat and maybe a mean, dastardly villain and leave me alone to write and I am content. Unfortunately that’s not all that has to be done.

The writing part is the easy part, just the word processor and a blank screen and word after lovely word and in time you have a novel.

And if that were all it takes, I would have five published novels and an income like J.K. Rowling and be living my life in the tabloids.

Fortunately I have avoided all that by being unpublishible.

That’s right, what I write will never be published. See publishing is a business. They want a guy or girl who can crank out a one hundred and fifty thousand word novel twice a year for the next twenty years and bring in half a million sales with each title. Do you have any idea what that takes?

That’s right; you have to find a way to hook the public. James Patterson has it, that’s about all he has. His books have become so formulaic that they aren’t worth reading, but that doesn’t stop hundreds of thousands from buying each new title. His “Girl’s” Murder Club, he thinks its Women, but none of the women in his stories are mature enough to be anything but girls, has nine titles in the series. There are even more Alex Cross titles and probably will continue so long as he wants to keep writing. I stopped reading Alex Cross when Patterson named his villain The Mastermind. Oh Good Grief! The Mastermind?

But his publisher is happy. And that is really the most important thing, cause a happy publisher is a driven publisher. You sell half a million copies and they’ll send you more than a month old box of Valentine’s candy, you can bet.

To even get a publisher you have to jump through enough hoops to make art look like a smart way to earn a living. You have to write the thing. No one is going to take your word for it, if you don’t have the finished copy you got diddly.

Then you have to start looking for an agent. Sure you can send it in without an agent…do you like the DMV? Let me tell you sending in a book “over the transom” is like going to get your license renewed on a Monday, it will be Thursday before your number gets called and by then you may be too weak to stagger to the counter. “Over the transom” submission don’t even go to the bottom of the pile, they get read, in their spare time, by under-paid, over-worked assistant editors and if they like it after all of the thousands of books they read, they might just pass it on to their boss. Why not just buy a Lotto ticket? You’re odds are better.

If you get an agent to look at your book, you have to convince them that they can make money flaking it cause they don’t get paid if they don’t sell your book and they won’t do a thing with something they can’t sell.

You can self-publish, don’t make a face, Mark Twain did it with Huck Finn and that seems to have worked out. Amazon even makes it pretty easy, so long as you submit your social security number and banking information. Try just leaving your car unlocked the next time you go shopping, the results will be the same and walking is such good exercise.

Jack the Giant Killer had it easy compared to the writer trying to get a book out of his computer and into the bookstores.

But…the biggest obstacle in front of any artist, writer or not is the oldest one, finishing what you start. You can’t do anything if it isn’t finished.

Did you frame it? Did you mat it/ did you go back and create a glossary if you used words which are made-up or not standard English?

I didn’t. Yeah, I know bitch and prod, whine and complain and then be guilty of what you are moaning about.

So that’s what I’ve been doing all day, creating that glossary and it looks like its going to take several days, maybe even a week or two. But there’s nothing to do but do it, cause you have to finish it. You have to finish what you start.

Silliness for Artists

2012-02-20T10:49:00.000-08:00

FAMILY TREE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

His dizzy aunt ---------------- Verti Gogh

The brother who ate prunes---- Gotta Gogh

The brother who worked at a convenience store ------ Stop N Gogh

The grandfather from Yugoslavia - U Gogh

His magician uncle ----------- Where-diddy Gogh

His Mexican cousin ----------- A Mee Gogh

The Mexican cousin's American half-brother --------- Gring Gogh

The nephew who drove a stage coach --------------- Wells-far Gogh

The constipated uncle -------- Can't Gogh

The ballroom dancing aunt ---- Tang Gogh

The bird lover uncle -------- Flamin Gogh

An aunt who taught positive thinking ------------- Way-to-Gogh

The little bouncy nephew ---- Poe Gogh

A sister who loved disco ---- Go Gogh

And his niece who travels the country in an RV --- Winnie Bay Gogh

Enchanted Hours

2012-02-19T18:19:00.001-08:00

For the last several days I have been crawling around in the innards of two old thirty-five millimeter cameras.

Now why would anyone do that you ask? I mean everyone knows film is a dead medium. Digital is the ONLY way to go.

And yes, everything you’ve said, you didn’t really say it cause this is a blog, but you would have said it if you’d had one of those nifty, neat and cool, Dick Tracy writs radios, wouldn’t you? Course you would cause you know a thing or two and you have every right to express your opinions and when you see someone driving off a cliff it is your duty to tell them, “Hey you’re getting ready to drive off a cliff.”

So I’ve been told and it didn’t do one bit of good, cause I am a resurrectionist. No, not like Burke and Hare the Scots grave robbers of the nineteenth century, I love to try and bring back life into old stuff. I’m sitting next to a stereo system which cost thirty-seven dollars. It has a receiver, five disc changer and a turntable for LP’s. (If you aren’t old enough to remember LP’s get someone to explain them. They’re like Frisbees with a greater purpose and you could use them to listen to music before there was a tinny Ipod to carry around. Besides the old vinyl records sound better than those MP3 thingies and you can’t get Jackie Cooper’s band playing the theme to Hennesy on MP3. Yeah, I know, you don’t know what Hennesy was. Take it form me there was funny long before Seinfield.)

See I scrounged around at Goodwill and the Salvation Army looking for parts for my Frankenstein and over the years I’ve managed to put together two respectable stereos that way. No, they aren’t as cute as a Bose and they don’t have an Ipod dock, cause I don’t have an Ipod.

Back to my story, I got them because one of my pals have them lying around catching dust and didn’t know what to do with them and besides film is dead so they might as well go to the junkyard.

This wasn’t helped any by a double-breasted, hounds toothed, oil slicked photo expert who said, “Film is dead. These things aren’t worth anything to anyone and you should toss them before you trip over them and do yourself an injury.” Okay, maybe the injury part was made up, but that was the jest of it and it was just plain wrong.

It is true that film cameras are not in demand these days. Digital is just so easy, you point, shoot, download and print and it’s all done and over.

Back in the old days, you never really knew what was lurking inside the magic box, might be the next Ansel Adams or just a blurry piece of silver-coated plastic. What you thought I was going to say POS? No way, I’ve never seen a POS come from a camera. True I didn’t always get what I was aiming at but I always found a use for what I did get.

So my pal, brought the two cameras to me and said, in effect, “They’re junk, play with’em.”

The first part was wrong and the second part was right and that’s a fifty-fifty average which is not at all bad.

Okay so the first step was to check them out. Fortunately cameras aren’t all that complicated, one end has a hole in it and the other has a flat carrier to hold the treated plastic. You let light in through the end with the hole and move the plastic along so that you only take one image per measured section, unless you are in the advanced class and want to do a double exposure. Yes, tell them that’s what you had in mind even if you did just do it by accident, it’s always better to claim you did it on purpose.

Took a while to clean things up, nothing nasty or foul here just too much time sitting on a self not working and that is as bad for a camera as it is for a human. Once they were clean I could get into the insides and see what was working and what wasn’t.

Okay, now for the part where I fess up and admit that I do not know everything there is to know about every brand of camera. I used Miranda cameras when I was doing film and I had four or five of them and they never let me down. I also found that when you are working away from your home-20 it helps to have a machine which can use multiple lenses designed for something else and something cheap enough so that you don’t want to jump off a cliff if you drop it in the river. So if these had been Mirandas I would have been ready for teddy. But they weren’t.

Fortunately the Internet makes this sort of thing easy and it only took a coupla hours to find the correct user manuals. Good thing too. I never used a completely automated camera and didn’t know that one of my new toys has to have battery power or it is a paper weight. The other news flash was half of the problem with that camera was the batteries were inserted upside down. I wouldn’t have known without the manual and batteries for this sort of camera only run down every six months or so so I am pretty sure my pal either forgot which way they went of lost the manual and couldn’t refer to it to find out. Batteries in and presto, chango it works! Not only does it work, but it has more double-secret stuff than a house full of Deltas.

I was enchanted.

The other old timer wasn’t so far wrong either, it just needed a bit of cleaning and some touch up and it sprang to life too.

So now I can go back to my pal and say, “Tak’em they’re yours and they work.”

Of course to be really sure, I’ll have to run a roll of film through each one and wait on the developing, but in the mean time I can send the guys back home. It will be a hoot to take the pictures by later in the week and see the expression of the face of someone who thought I was administering Last Rites when al I was doing was applying a Band-aide.

And what do I get out of it? Seven, maybe eight days of unadulterated joy playing with the senior staff members, not to mention learning all about two brands of cameras I never had a chance to use in my film career.

They say that learning new things, not just taking on the daily crossword in the paper helps fight off Alzheimer’s. I don’t know and I do the crosswords too, but they don’t give me the jump-start trying to bring back old technology does.

And yes, when the film comes out of the soup I’ll give you a look. But why don’t you see if there’s some obsolete technology you can try. Just changing the tools and techniques you use might fire off your creative juices. You never know, there might be a cave painting in your future!

Pushing the Envelope

2012-02-18T16:17:00.000-08:00

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Artworks NW 2012" (formerly "Hundred Valleys")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com
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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Photoworks NW 2012" (formerly titled "Best Photo")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com

Random Acts Of Time

2012-02-18T15:56:00.000-08:00

Call for Art: Random Acts of Time

OCCCA Call for Art: Random Acts of Time

Curator and Juror: William Moreno

Online Entries only, click here to enter!

Deadline for entries, March 31st, 2012

Exhibition Dates: May 5th - June 23rd, 2012

Juror Statement

This exhibition investigates our relationship to the concept of time, the choices we make and the random, uncontrollable events that shape our lives. From the moment we begin our journey into the cacophony of the world - a series of decisions, choices and twists of fate guide us - often lurching or blissful and occasionally tragic. What have we chosen for ourselves? When has our hand been forced? Where have random or serendipitous events changed our course? When have we triumphed? What have we lost? What have we remembered and forgotten? Time is a recurring thematic in artists' works - witness the public response and fascination with Christian Marclay's 24-hour montage The Clock. Exploring that inexorable passage via divergent points-of-view, media and imagery demands introspection and perspective. This exhibition will investigate what binds or propels us, notions of conscious or unconscious experiences and the narratives we collect as we negotiate our lives.

About the Curator and Juror

William Moreno is a curator, writer and director of William Moreno Contemporary which mounts periodic exhibitions. He was most recently the Associate Director of ArtPadSF, a hotel- based art fair. William was the founding Executive Director of the Claremont Museum of Art and the director of The Mexican Museum, San Francisco. He has organized and overseen numerous exhibits including: Karl Benjamin: Conversations in Color; Ephemeral: Explorations in Light: an international, multi-media exhibition featuring contemporary light-based installations and sculptures; Multiverse, delving into the hypothesis that physical reality exists within a set of multiple, parallel universes and Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk, which explored a singular music scene.

He has been a featured panelist addressing topics ranging from the contemporary role of museums and the international art landscape at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, the American Institute of Architecture, Latino Art Now Conference, William Turner Gallery, ArtPadSF, Flagstop and others. He has appeared on KCET's series California's Gold as well as other media. William serves as board President of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and on the Advisory Board for the California Associations of Museums.

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

117 North Sycamore

Santa Ana, CA USA, 92701

www.occca.org

Opening events sponsored by Reed's

Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
117 N Sycamore. Santa Ana, CA 92701 www.occca.org
714 667 1517 · Hours: Th & Sun 12-5pm, Fri & Sat 12-9
1st Saturday Receptions: 6-10pm

OCCCA is located
at the corner of 2nd and Sycamore in the Santa Ana Artists Village.
There is no entrance fee. Please see the web site for more
information, www.occca.org , or call the gallery during regular operating hours.

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Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Is an artist run California nonprofit corporation. OCCCA affiliate artists are committed to presenting contemporary art exhibitions in an atmosphere conducive to discussion without censorship.

OCCCA is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation and all donations
are tax deductible to the fullest extent provided by law

Ava Richey's Art News

2012-02-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

This Monday, February 20th, 12 - 3 p.m., we will paint at Sage Place. It's located at the corner of 11th and Elmira in Bandon.

Bring your lunch and beverage, if you like. There will be a still life set up, or bring your own resource to paint from.

My phone is 541-347-4643 or cell is 541-297-6118.

Please note my new e-mail address yarnfarm@frontier.com The harborside address isn't good anymore.

Thanks!

Ava
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:February sale: Paints 15% off at Bandon Artist (excluding kits).

NEW Winter Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays 10 -5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 541-347-4482 or 541-297-6118.
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Artists' Accomplishments:

We want to honor the achievements of all you artists, so don't be shy about sending the highlights of your art lives, or those of your artist friends.

Yvonne Ousley has had two Meso-American wool tapestries accepted into the Ancient American Exhibit at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The show runs from February 21st to March 26, 2012, with a reception on March 8th at 6:30 p.m.

Congratulations, Yvonne!!
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Current Shows:
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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence http://www.backstreetgallery.org/ http://www.katheryndavis.com/katys_book/qw_publishing.html
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Bandon Public Library February 2012

Hallway Gallery: "Island Dreams and Coastal Themes", watercolors & oils by Shawn Tempesta

Cases: Larry Linder's woodcarver collectables.
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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

February "Coast to Cactus Country", featuring Pete Chasar

Showcase: "A Collection of Valentines" display by Evelyn Allen
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Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay 541-267-3901 http://www.coosart.org/

Coming March 2nd: Biennial Student Art Exhibit & Vision 12

February BAAA "Artist of the Month" featured in the BAAA display located in the Coos Art Museum lobby is Beth Wegner.
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Coos Bay Library 525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

February

Wall Display "The Coquille River"--selected acrylic & ink paintings celebrating the flora & fauna of the Coquille River by SL Donaldson

Lobby: Pottery by Catherine Walworth
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Coquille Valley Art Center 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

February 13 - March 2, 2012 "The Miniature Show"

Hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR

Photography show featuring works by Kathy and Dick Chambers of Myrtle Point; Patricia Davidson, Coos Bay; Kelle Herrick, Bandon; Richard Kirk, Myrtle Point; Kathy Phillips, Myrtle Point; David Sinnot, formerly of Coquille; and Tony Spenader, Coquille. A portion of sales goes to the CVHA Auxiliary. Show runs through February.
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Crystal Dolphin Gallery

1901 Sherman Ave, North Bend, 541-756-1989
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Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery

3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

"What's New?". Features Gallery Artists and their new works.

February 6 - March 30 "Winter Wonder", Reception Friday, Feb. 10th, 2-4 p.m.
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Emerald Art Center http://www.emeraldartcenter.org

500 Main Street, Springfield 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

February 1st - 24th "Top 21 Paintings from the 46th Fall Transparent Watercolor Society of Oregon Watercolor Show". Also Featured Member Nancy Ericksen Ward, and Work from the Photography at Oregon Committee, and other members' works. Music by West Winds Flute Choir.
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Evergreen Court

Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR

541-756-7658
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Fairbanks Gallery located on campus at OSU in Corvallis. Free, open to the public Mon.- Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 8 - 12 noon. Contact Douglas Russell at 541-737-5009, or drussell@oregonstate.edu http://oregonstate.edu/fairbanksgallery
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Florence Events Center

715 Quince Street, Florence Call for more info at 541-997-1994

Gallery One: "Water Media Artists" display of 16 Watercolor Society of Oregon members.
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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St., Port Orford

Features "Friends", a series of hot glass sculptures that skillfully depict characters who have stood out in the artist's life in one way or another. Artist is Danny White.

Opening reception is February 18th, 4-6 p.m.
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High Tide Cafe, Charleston

Michael William Ousley is showing a display of his Yacht Club works of art . Open 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
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Langlois Public Library 48234 Hwy 101, Langlois, OR 97450

Hours: Mon. 11a.m.-2 p.m., Tues-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Paintings of Sheila Oberg continue into the new year.
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Manley Art Center 433 Oak Street, Brookings, OR 541-469-1807

February

"The Acrylics of Thomas Moody"

Gallery Theme "Abstracts". Panel Displays: Plein Air Painters Christina Olsen, Sandy Bonney, Eileen Jensen, Philip Wadsworth, Nancy Moore-Hope, the Mudslingers.

the Photo Club presents a slide show of members' works.
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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 541-345-1571 http://www.mkartcenter.org/

******February 24th - March 23rd Opening reception Feb. 24th, 6 - 8 p.m.

Pportraiture: "Three Twists" Frank Moro, Russ Revok, Mike Sirl
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North Bend Library, Conference Room February

541-756-0400 http://www.northbendlibrary.org/

Features : Manga Art by Tiffany & Brittany Valdez
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Old City Hall-- 99 E. Second Street, Corner of Second & Adams, Coquille

Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for information.
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Pony Village Mall:
ArtWalk: Various artists showing at tables in lobby areas near Katherine's and Harry Ritchie Jewelers. and Artists Loft.

Also in the Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088

Gallery Artists Group Show, features jewelry by Hester Solsang. Guest Artist--watercolors by Cindy Horner

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)

Photography--local color and other works by Dan Hull

Sterling Savings Bank

Fabulous Oils by Carol Turner
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Port Orford Library January-March

Paintings by Susan Lehman, Jane Schmaltz and Ava Richey
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Raincoast Gallery

Featuring work of many local artists.

Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.
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Second Street Gallery, Old Town Bandon 541-347-4188 http://secondstreetgallery.net

Features annual "Wall of Opportunity" with 50% off regular sales price of local artists' work including 2-d, jewelry, pottery, glass, greeting cards and books. Inventory changes weekly.
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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick Auditorium

January 7 - February 29, 2012

Graphite renderings of birds and wildlife by Lance Cox.
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January 11th through March, 2012

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center

"Down on the Farm" features agriculture related art. Don't miss it!
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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

Through March 2, 2012 "Student Art Show", 500 works in a variety of media fill all six UVAA gallery spaces.
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U.S. Bank--Coquille

Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tierney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Traveling Show of Oregon Prison Art.
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Whistling Gallery

87456 Ste. A, Whistling Drive, Bandon (located in Laurel Grove, 5 miles

south of Bandon.) A variety of artists showing 2-d and 3-d work.

Also in charge of showing work at Billy Smoothboar's and other venues for

those artists interested in showing their work, contact Vickie.

541-404-7336, or whistlinggallery@gmail.com
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Classes
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Art 101, The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org

Saturdays and Sundays 1 - 5:00 p.m.

Volunteer Workshops to build "Leo the Leopard Shark" Have a hand in constructing the newest member of the Washed Ashore family. This work is designed to permanently reside at the Chula Vista Nataure Center in San Diego, CA. The sculpture consists of 100% ocean going debris (plastics and more). Help inspire others to do something about this problem by building this eye-catching sculpture.
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******Art by the Sea, Gallery and Studio 175 2nd St, Old Town Bandon, (next to Bandon Artist Supply)

******Monday, April 2, 2012 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Silkscreen Monoprint Class Instructor is Pat Snyder, class fee $45. to register call 541-297-6118.
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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. Call for Class

Information at 541-756-4088

If you are interested in taking a Chinese Brush Painting class with Darlene Diehl on April 12, 2012, $67 for 5 hours with all supplies provided, please contact Carol Young at 541-260-4573. Class will be held in the Artist Loft classroom.

Beginning Watercolor with Carol Young, for info call 541-260-4573.
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Bay Be, located in Charleston, next door to High Tide Cafe is now open and offers licensed childcare for kids 3 yrs & up with a focus on nature and art projects. ALSO offer workshops for adults--making lip balm, jewelry, knitting and yoga.

Drop-in Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. with only $5 and 5 minutes we can help you create a craft such as paper, a candle, a willow basket, driftwood sculpture or bird feeder. 541-888-3265, Find us on Facebook.
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Brookings Area and more:

various classes are listed at http://wildriverscoastart.com
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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay 541-267-4877 for more information.

Tuesday - Thursday, April 3, 4, 5th, 2012 Watercolor from Start to Finish with Judy Morris 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturdays, May 12th & 19th: Paper Arts with Holly Rodenkirk and Mary Cervantes 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille, OR 541-396-3294

http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org

Painting with Pat Weaver 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesdays & Wednesdays

Painting with Anna Crosby 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays

Painting/Drawing 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mondays

Painting with Bunny Upton 12 - 3 p.m. Mondays

Woodcarving with Larry Roberts 9-12 Mondays 541-396-2579

Woodcarving 6 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays

Wood Burning 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesdays

Play with Clay 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursdays

Ken Means Carving 9 - 12 noon and 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays Quilting 10 a.m. on Wednesdays

Appliqué 10 a.m. Tuesdays

Stained Glass 2:30 - 5:00 and another at 6 - 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays 9:30 - 12:30

Fiber Arts 10 a.m. on Fridays

Yoga 6 p.m. Mondays No Classes during January or February.
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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Fridays, Watercolor Studio with Jane Snoddy, $10 per session.

Palette Knife Technique with Acrylics with Carolyn Le Grande, 4 week class in February.
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Freshwater Gallery, 236B Hwy 101, Port Orford (next to Paula's Bistro)

Sundays, 3-5 p.m.: Figure Drawing with Model, $25

Mondays, 5-7 p.m.: Seascape Painting, $20 per class. For information: 541-332-8019 or 541-236-8077, or wilddoodle@earthlink.net
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Gallery on the Bay

658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771

Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.
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Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741
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Heritage Textile Arts Guild

157#A, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items.
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Manley Art Center, Brookings

Call for class and workshop schedules. 541-469-1807
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Rose Palette, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. 541-290-7858

Oil Painting classes by Carol Turner, 2:30 - 5:30 Mondays, $20 per class. You can reach Carol at 541-396-5373 for information on other classes as well.
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Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence artcarnival@oregonfast.net www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival

New Classes: e-mail for more information.

Fridays: Two Card Classes, one at 10:00 a.m. and the other at 12:30. Sign up ahead of time so a materials packet will be available for you.

Saturday, March 9th: Stampscapes Class with Cathy.
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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon

For a schedule of classes offered go to: http://www.sagegallerybandon.com
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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg

1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com
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Wright's Custom Framing 910 Chetco Ave, Brookings 541-469-7625 saradee1@frontier.com

Drop in Art Workshop every Friday Afternoon 1 - 4 p.m.

Individual instruction in any medium; demonstrations in various mediums; critiques of completed work and works in progress. $12 per session. Just drop in and bring something you would like to work on, or need help with. Each week something new is presented during demonstrations.
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*****Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11 - 5 p.m.

Art by the Sea Studio and; Gallery, an Artists' Cooperative, opens in The Continuum Building in Old Town Bandon. Paintings, prints, cards and other things will be available for sale. Classes are being scheduled, so if you would like to teach or attend, please sign up. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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******Sunday, March 4, 2012 1 - 3 p.m.

Evergreen Court on the Campus of Baycrest Village, 4510 O'Connell Street, North Bend

Opening reception for the Plein Air Painters Exhibition featuring painters from Oregon's Bay Area and Bandon. Please join us for art, food and friends.
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Thursdays. No meetings until March

Gold Beach Episcopal Church Easternmost end of Moore Street.

Figure Drawing. To confirm & for more information contact Alexandra

alexandra@portraitsbyalexandra.com
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Calls to Artists:
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Postmark Deadline March 5, 2012

Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibit to be held at the Museum and Arts Center, Sequim, WA. Exhibition dates May 1 - 27th.

Cash and merchandise prizes totaling over $1500. Open to all adult artists. All work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copyright or published art or executed in a supervised class, and must be for sale. Entries are $20 for the first entry, additional $5 each up to five entries.

http://www.sequimarts.org 360-681-4884
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Deadline May 16, 2012 at 5 p.m.

Career Opportunity Grants, available from Oregon Arts Commission, help support individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills; expanded marketing capacity and/or the further development of the nature or quality of their artwork.

Grant amounts may range from $300 - $1500. A new collaboration with The Ford Family Foundation is now included with the application. To apply, visit http://www.oregonartscommission.ort/content/grants/ For more information call Shannon Planchon at 503-229-6062.
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Deadline March 19, 2012

Artists are invited to apply to display their works at the third annual Sunriver Art Faire. Limited to 60 exhibitors, the juried show will be held August 10 - 12th. Submit applications at http://www.zapplication.org. For more information visit http://www.sunriverartfaire.com

Deadline February 15, 2012 Postmark and/or delivery deadline for application and fee.

"Public Hanging 2012" at Florence Events Center, Florence, OR Show runs February 27 - April 30th. $20 for 3 pieces. For application and guidelines:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/pub-hanging-guidelines.pdf
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Deadline February 29, 2012 5 p.m.

2012 Art Contest to Benefit New ODFW (Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) Habitat Conservation Stamp

Artwork must feature one of the fish or wildlife species identified in the Oregon Conservation Strategy in its respective strategy habitat. Announcement:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/2012_Oregon_Department_of_Fish_and_Wildlife_Art_Contest.pdf

List of Species: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/document_pdf/b-species.pdf
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Deadline April 16, 2012 for postmark and/or hand delivery of application and fee.

"Exposure 2012" Photography Only show. Florence Events Center

Show runs April 30th - June 28th, 2012 $20 per rod, rod hold 3 photographs. For guidelines and application:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/exposure-guidelines.pdf
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Deadline for entry is February 10, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center "Variations: Art Expressing Music" Submit images of 2D & 3D artwork in all mediums that is inspired by music or related to the theme of music. Supply
five digital images in color at 300 dpi on CD in jpeg format. Work will be
selected by jurors from the submitted images. There is a $15 submission fee.

Application forms & prospectus available at http://www.mkartcenter.org

or call 541-345-1571. Show runs April 6 - May 11, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center is located at 1910 E. 15th Ave. (corner of 15th &

Villard), Eugene. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. M-F,

Saturday--noon -4 p.m.
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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Artworks NW 2012" (formerly "Hundred Valleys")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com
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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Photoworks NW 2012" (formerly titled "Best Photo")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com
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Deadline February 29, 2012

Applications for members of the local arts to apply for grants from the Coos County Cultural Coalition are due by Feb. 29th. They have $11,000 in available funds. For more information http://www.cculturalcoalition.org

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Submission Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center’s

Call for Artists: 2013-2014 Exhibits Schedule

Artists working in all 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, including

installations, are invited to submit images of their work along with an

application form to be considered for the next biennium (2013-2014) of

exhibits at the Maude Kerns Art Center. Submissions may include solo, group,

and/or themed shows. There is a $15 submission fee for individual artists

and a $5 fee per artist for group shows.

The postmark deadline is Friday, April 20, 2012. Application forms and

prospectuses are available at the Art Center or online at

http://www.mkartcenter.org

Call 541-345-1571 for more information.

The Maude Kerns Art Center, located at 1910 E. 15th Avenue at the corner of

15th and Villard, is Eugene’s oldest non-profit community center for the

visual arts. Gallery hours are from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday,

and noon to 4:00 pm on Saturday when exhibits are on display.
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Umpqua Valley Arts Association , Roseburg

44th Annual Summer Arts Festival, scheduled for Friday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 24th, 2012.

Look on their website: http://www.uvarts.com starting in January for applications for booths for artists, crafters, food vendors and entertainers.

This is an established, major cultural event in the Umpqua Valley drawing artists and crafters from across the U.S. for the 3 day festival with live music, food from local vendors, and lots of art. The event draws over 16,000 visitors of all ages. Proceeds benefit the UVAA's arts-in-education programs, bringing art instruction to elementary school children in Douglas County.

Those with questions are encouraged to consult the FAQ document posted on http://uvarts.com/summer-arts-festival/ or contact the UVAA by phone at 541-672-2532.
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The Artists' Village, McMinnville, OR Saturday & Sunday, July 14th & 15th, 2012

The McMinnville Sunrise Rotary Club is hosting their 4th Annual Artists' Village. Funds raised from this event go to help develop the arts and help Oregon artists with this event.

This is a juried event to obtain a booth at this show in order to sell your work. 10 ' x 10' booth under a tent, $100 for both days. Jurying fee will be non-refundable $25. Best in Show cash prizes total $1000.

They are looking for a variety of fine art participants including painting, sculpture, pottery, metalwork, dance, music and readings.

Information and applications will be posted in January on their website: http://www.artinmac.org Their email contact is artinmac@gmail.com
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The Spring Show: (April, May, June): “WEATHER REPORT”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Works inspired by the South Coast Weather. We’re a land of wild winds, torrential rains, glorious sunsets, rainbows, waving grasses, threatening clouds and churning (or shining) seas----all fair game for our local artists and photographers. No snapshots please. If you have a really fine photo it must be matted and framed and ready for hanging.

Any questions…..check with Ava Richey at Bandon Art Supply or call Victoria Tierney or Susan Lehman at 541-347-9888.
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The Summer Show: (July, August, September): “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

It was Crystal Landucci’s impressive collection of games of Chinese checkers that inspired this one. We’re looking for board games of all sorts that can be mounted on the walls; your own inventions would be great too……you’ve got a little while to work on this one so start inlaying those chess boards or drilling those cribbage sets….(fashioning those dominos?)…….This should be a really fun exhibit for the summer and we hope it will combine collectibles and the fruits of your imagination.
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The Fall Show: (October, November, December) “WHAT I DID ON MY VACATION”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Paintings and Journals created by the travelers amongst us. We already have some folks in mind but if you have some work you think might fit in….please let us know.
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Summer Boardwalk Show at Bandon waterfront: It’s The Year of the Dragon , so start planning now!
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Bandon Library Art Committee is seeking artists for exhibitions in both the

Hallway Gallery and the Glass Cases during the 2013. You can

also put your name on the list in case there are cancellations before then.

The art can be paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, and the like;

crafts, collections, small sculptures and/or jewelry for the cases. Please

contact Alexis Proctor at alexis2101p@yahoo.com or call 541-329-0530.
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Opportunity to Sell your Work:

Kathy from "Katherine's" in Pony Village Mall (south wing) is seeking

artists to display art on Art Walk Thursdays from 5 - 8:00 p.m. each month.

The upcoming one is March 8th. The Mall will provide easels and tables.

Other stores will be doing music and appetizers. There is no fee, no

commission...it's FREE. Contact Kathy at 541-808-2248.

Fair or Foul

2012-02-16T18:21:00.000-08:00

I don't for a second claim this is as creative or clever as what Jackson Pollock was doing with his spatter canvases, but it does look a bit like a Pollock. Now the real question is, is it fair?

Can a photographer take a marginal photo and run it through the editing software and create a fine art print of value?

The value of any piece of art isn't in the artist's eye, all of an artist's work is valuable, right? No, unfortunately the public, that amorphous mass decides what is valuable and what isn't. So is doing something like this which takes a coupla minutes in the computer fair when it will be compared to a work which a painter labored over for weeks and weeks?

Certainly it is not if the photographer does not clearly state this is a photograph. I might be a bit prejudiced but I consider photography in all of its forms as fine as any painting is in fine art terms, but it is still photography. It takes less time and maybe less creativity to produce.

Or does it? the painter composes on canvas, the mind is the archive of images from which the painting is composed and the light comes not from the heavens but from the clever fingers of the painter. Need a winter scene? No problem, just call up the right memory and there you have it, a scene worthy of Currier and Ives.

The photographer is limited by what the camera sees. The composition is done in the camera and what you see is for the most part what you get. Sure, with the advent of powerful photo editing software that isn't as true as it was back when I started and I'm glad. the guys working with cameras now don't have to feel their way along the walls and use a seeing-eye dog to get close enough to capture a good shot. Time was when a zoom lens cost more than a mid-sized house, oh that was yesterday wasn't it, and for a fine camera lenses could cost as much as the first Apollo program.

The skills needed to be a good photographer, I wouldn't know about great cause I never made it that far, come with repeated failures and repeated attempts. Did I mention seasons, sunsets and wildlife have to be caught where they are and not in the warm, dry studio? Sure some of that can be done with a good editor, the high priced spread can make L.A look like the dark-side of the moon, but it can't make it look like a salt marsh or put low-flying pelicans on the horizon. someone has to go out to that salt marsh and shoot the pelicans. they just don't show up at the Oscars.

And it is true that you have to know what to shoot. Just any old thing will not make for a Jackson Pollock clone or even a bad Picasso. You have to be able to see and know that when you work with it it can be made into something better than it was.

So back to where we started, is it fair? That is a question which only time can answer.

Just why are artists nuts?

2012-02-15T17:22:00.001-08:00

Are artists nuts?

The rest of the country seems to agree, yes. But they aren’t artists are they?

There are so many myths about what an artist’s life is like that sorting the truth from fiction is hard to do. For one thing, fiction is so much better, beautiful, nekkid woman lounging on furs while the Avant-garde artist mixes his pallet and using his thumb as a substitute gun site creates scandalous, seductive, graphic porn!

Yeah, right. This assumes that all artists are lecherous men and ignores the fact that well over half of all working artists in this country are women. And women just don’t letch, okay, yes they sometimes do, but usually it involves Brad Pitt and not some nekkid woman, unless you are willing to believe the other big myth, artist’s are all sexually promiscuous and gender confused.

Let’s try one thing at a time; most artists working today seldom do nudes. You’ve heard me whine about the lack of people in art at shows and the lack of people in art for sale and the lack of people in art because people don’t like having strange people hanging around on their walls. No where does this exempt nekkid people. People are still people whether they have on clothes or not and around these parts they just don’t get painted.

The rest of the BIG MYTH is so obvious it makes me wonder of these are the folks who watch Ghost Hunters, a television show in which nothing but whispering happens hour after hour. Get serious, central heat is a new invention, relatively. Until the later part of the nineteenth century most places were heated by fireplace, which means one side warm the other Birdseye. If you, male or female can talk a beautiful woman into getting starkers in a room where meat can sit out without fear of spoilage you shouldn’t be doing art, you need to be a lawyer or televangelist and make some big money! Women generally have more brains than men and do not as a rule get naked in a deep freeze.

And while we are at it lets talk just a minute about the beautiful part. Now I am a huge advocate of using real people in art, people who are not air brushed within an inch of becoming anime, but for most of our known history there has been a gigantic social prohibition against any kind of semi-public nudity. Nice girls don’t, (Until of course folks like Paris Hilton made getting naked a career move), and even not so nice girls don’t and in fact even rotten girls don’t which leaves…professional girls.

Yes, that means exactly what you think it means and that is where ninety percent of artist’s models came from, right off the corner and into the studio. Modeling had much better hours than streetwalking and the perks were better, only one letch to deal with, bathrooms in studio, even if that was an enameled pot behind a curtain and food. Yes, traditionally models worked for food and money and didn’t give a hoot about Fine Art.

And just how did all those nekkid-painting Bohemian artists come by their studios? They had patrons. A patron is much like an absolute dictator without so much social consciousness. They saw what, when and where you will work and for how long and if you don’t believe that read Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy.

So much for free-wheeling, licentiousness and wild chandelier swinging parties ‘round the old Sistine Chapel. Sure some artists did have affairs with their models and some artists batted for the other side and so have some Congressmen and you don’t hear a word about how crazy they are!

So forget about it! That part of the BIG MYTH is just so much apple sauce.

I think it begins in public school, the longest, established concentration camp system not condemned by the Geneva Convention.

See there is no more hostile, rigid, structured society than found in the typical high school. Geek, Nerd, Dweeb and a host of unprintable others all leveled at anyone not exactly like everyone else. Try being a happy artist in that climate. They’ll surround you, isolate you and drive you straight for the cliff the lemmings aren’t using.

Who makes up these rules? The ones who fit, that’s right, the ones who fit have the most to lose and the most to protect. They are the arbiters of all things high school. And they come down with the hammer if you don’t go along with the program.

Now let’s say you’re an artist, only you don’t know it. Maybe it takes twenty or thirty years to find out that what you were meant to do is create fine art. They’ll let you pace yourself and find the things which bring meaning to your life. Not on this planet, anything which upsets the established order like someone who can’t be fit in a neat little box had better get with the program or get on the road.

But after four miserable years you get your reprieve and graduate and join the larger society where things will be so much better.

Not a chance. Those same people who haunted, harassed and hate you in school have become the bankers, legislators, judges and policefolk of the country and they haven’t changed or forgotten a thing. They still think you’re a dork.

They also become talking heads because as we now being pretty is much more important to the news than being smart. And with rare exceptions they bring their own mythology to the tube. Those cheerleaders and football heroes of yester year don’t like anyone they can’t put on the shelf.

Now I have nothing against footballers and cheerleaders, I was a football player myself, while I was flailing around trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up, and sure I had some pretty rigid notions about what sort of people should be catching the headlines. Trouble was I did eventually grow up.

I never really liked Rock’n’Roll, couldn’t stand the Beatles and Elvis makes me want to drive red-hot nails into my ears. I liked jazz, you know, the divine Ella, Big Bands and Hoagie Carmichael’s immortal Stardust and for many, many years I thought there was something wrong with me. See a lot of folks told me so along with the Dweeb/Nerd word.

Took a while but I finally found out that there are a bunch of other people just like me who love jazz and aren’t so crazy for Rock.

And that’s where the lesson is for today class; when you hear someone say “All artists are crazy…” consider the source.

Superstition: National Juried Illustration Exhibition

2012-02-14T18:11:00.000-08:00

Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM announces a call to artists for a juried exhibition at Runnels Gallery, April 3-27, 2012. Social, cultural, political, gender, and sexual superstitions are deeply engrained into the lives of many people. The scope and belief of superstitions can be so powerful that they govern people's daily interactions, practices, and choices. The aim of this exhibition is to feature illustrations that offer personal narrative surrounding superstition. Open to any artist living in the continental United States. Illustrations can be traditional hand drawn/painted illustration, digital illustration, or a combination of both. Illustrations must be original, completed within the last five years, and not previously shown at the Eastern New Mexico University's Runnels Gallery. All work must be two-dimensional, framed artwork that cannot exceed 40" in height and length and must be properly wired for hanging. No saw tooth hangers. Frames must be black, white, or silver. Matting must be black, white, or any shade of gray. No illustrations requiring electricity, water, or perishable items will be accepted. Download prospectus (PDF format). $20 for 1 to 2 entries, $40 for 3 to 6 entries. Deadline: March 16, 2012. Questions? Contact Bryan Hahn at Bryan.Hahn@enmu.edu or call 575-562-2778

Hey, Hot Shot! A Photography Competition

2012-02-14T18:08:00.001-08:00

Hey, Hot Shot!, the premier international photography competition, is now open for entries! Submit 5 photographs from a single body of work by March 14, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) for your shot at $10,000 and more. Our esteemed panel selects five photographers per round of competition. Each selected photographer will be awarded a $500 honorarium, participation in the 2012 Hot Shot Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, and the opportunity to release an edition on 20x200. From these Hot Shots, one image maker will be selected by Jen Bekman Projects to win the grand prize of $10,000, a solo exhibition at the Jen Bekman Gallery, and representation from the gallery for two years, commencing with his/her selection. Vist website for details. Entry fee starting at $60. Questions? Email help@heyhotshot.com

Focal Point: Fine Art and Creative Photography Exhibition

2012-02-14T18:03:00.001-08:00

The Maryland Federation of Art invites all artists residing in the US and Canada to submit any original work created in any form of photography. Cash awards $1000. Juror, Margaret Adams received an MFA in Photography from Temple University and teaches at Corcoran College of Art + Design, George Washington University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Maryland Institute College of Art. Selected artwork will be on view May 25-June 17, 2012 at MFA's Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, MD. Deadline: March 14, 2012. Online submissions only. One-two entries $35 (MFA members $20), additional four entries $5.00 each. Visit website for prospectus. Questions? Please contact Kyle Freeman at info@mdfedart.org or call 410-268-4566.

Networking

2012-02-13T17:31:00.000-08:00

Did you know that most people living in the United States say they selected their church because of the networking possibilities? Gimme that old time religion and how bout them Giants?

I’m not at all sure this is the best way to find a place to contemplate your relationship with the universe or even your place in the PTA, but that’s what the polls say and I’m guessing they spent a lot of time and money to find that little factoid out.

Now I don’t know about you, but I am just not the joining type. Could be I had a terrible childhood and it scared my delicate psyche, could be the phase of the moon, could be I’m just peculiar, but I don’t do collectives, okay, I do do collectives but not well.

And it’s not that I don’t find large groups of people fascinating, some of them are and some of them aren’t, it’s just the whole bunch thing sends me screaming for some space.

Now I know people who will not get in an elevator. They are convinced that if they do the walls will close in on them like one of those horrible traps Ming the Merciless set for Flash Gordon in the serials. I know writers who make their characters share this elevator panic. Truth is everyone at one time or another has been on an elevator when it jumped or bumped and it felt for a second like the damned thing was going to stop between floors and trap you like a rat.

(I’m thinking being trapped in an elevator is a lot better than being trapped in a sinking ship or a crippled airplane, forced to land on a peak in the Andes where you will suffer from frostbite, boredom and eventually eat your fellow passengers unless they eat you first and you know how bad that is for your cholesterol, human beings, as the talking heads are so fond or reminding us, have become so obese and you are supposed to watch the amount of fatty food you take in because it causes all sorts of terrible problems, like high cholesterol, diabetes and the heartbreak of psoriasis. But in an elevator someone is sure to come along long before you start munching on your pals and strangers in that elevator so aside from the panic attacks the lack of a bathroom, getting trapped in an elevator isn’t all that bad, when you think about it.)

So it’s common for people to have fears about elevators but not so common for people not to like groups. Okay, the Republicans don’t like a bunch of groups, undocumented immigrants, liberals, intellectuals, artists, Bohemians and Presidents, but that’s not likely to bother anyone who is an artist, right?

So here’s the deal, networking is the way most things in this country get done, ninety percent of the jobs are found by networking, ninety-five percent of all vendors depend on networking to supply their clients, ninety-eight percent of all business depend on networking to spread their good works far and wide so if you aren’t out there doing your best to rub elbows with all of those other potential networkers you’ve missed the boat!

Now I might have mentioned I come from Texas and in Texas grown men don’t touch anyone unless, A) They don’t have a gun, B) They are getting ready to slap the sand out of someone or C) they are playing a team sport.

So you see there are legitimate reasons why my elbow rubbing skills are unpolished. But that shouldn’t stop you. This is Oregon. I’ve seen people I don’t even know give hugs to people I would worry about if they were handcuffed to a police cruiser. And networking takes a lot less intimate contact than hugging.

Why network? Because you can’t be everywhere, it’s that simple. There are people who travel to Portland, Salem and Eugene every week; they know things that isolated in Coos Bay/North bend we’ll never find out.

I hear Yvonne Ousely has pieces in the OSU Ancient Americas show, suppose she knows a thing or two about both primitive art and weaving? I’d guess so, but to know for sure you’d have to ask her. She happens to know a pretty good artist, Michael William Ousely, local star painter and man about town. Guess what, you could get a double dip by talking to both of them at the same meeting and maybe exchanging success stories. People love to talk about successful folks, especially artists.

Archi, yes, that Archi, the one who decides if your submission to Expressions West is going to get passed on to the jury or tossed in the bin because you didn’t read the prospectus and submitted your images on 4 X 5 slides and no one wants to deal with a slide the size of home plate and besides the prospectus specifically said disk submission and now you are out of luck except Archi will probably be nice and let you fix the problem or at least won’t toss your submission in the bin without warning, that Archi had a birthday, (Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you…), and everyone came out. Were you there?

If you were you had a chance to network with your peers while paying dues to the Imperial Omnipotent Stomper and eat some pretty good grub, artists in Coos Bay/North Bend seem to be awfully good cooks, and all for nothing except showing up.

Sure there was a lot of talk and the place was packed and no one spent a bunch of time with any one place or person, but that’s what makes networking so important, it doesn’t feel like a plug, it doesn’t take a lot of time and it may not do a thing…right now.

But it will some time when you least expect it. All you have to do is do it.

Oh yeah, about those elevator fears, make sure the person you get on with is smaller than you, that way if you have to eat them or starve they won’t put up so much of a fight you’ll be too tired to enjoy your meal.

Baking News

2012-02-12T15:03:00.001-08:00

C2B, The Bakery Studio, 1948 Sherman Ave., North Bend, Oregon is changing hands on March 1st, 2012. New operators but the same great breads and biscotti, as well as new pastries and more. Over the past year it has become a popular, old fashioned neighborhood bakery. The new owner is committed to continuing the real artisan tradition and the warm hospitality.

C2B founder, local artist Gary Ostrom has published his first volume of The Pocket Bakery series: A Breadcrumb Trail Mystery and it became available Friday , February 10, 2012 in paperback on Amazon.com. It will be published in digital versions for Kindle and Nook in about 2 weeks. There are five volumes planned for the series with cover paintings by the author/artist. A group of eccentric friends (are there any other kind?) investigate crimes in the food industry on a re-imagined and satirized Oregon Coast. Wit, wordplay, absurdity, and risk; a light and thoughtful read.

Keyfinder

2012-02-12T14:48:00.000-08:00

We’ve all done it, you want to add a program or you’re working in a program and it has an update and to install the update you need the product key, only you can’t remember what the heck it is or where you put the disc and even though you just cleaned up your work are the streets of Berlin in 1945 were easier to get around on and now it takes a bulldozer and a team of miners to dig out anything and why did you go and clean everything up when you knew exactly where everything was before and now it is buried in a file some where and it would take more time to find it than it would to just go and buy a new copy of the program and get a new product key.

What about Word and it’s conversion feature, you know when your stupid cousin in Milwaukee sends you that file in WordStar or something created in Works and you can’t open it without the original disc or you have to go to MicroSleezy’s website and download the conversion unit only they make you enter your product key before they’ll let you do anything because the pointy heads at Redmond think you’re a thief and they make you prove that your copy of their software is legit before they’ll even talk to you even if it was their update that wiped out the feature you wanted to use and don’t even get me started on Windows media Player which just updated and wiped out the names of 1672 tracks in my media player which all had to be added back in by hand which was really nice of the pointy-heads at Redmond.

But no matter, you still don’t have the product key.

But now there’s a way which doesn’t compromise your eldest daughter, empty your checking account or make you commit a breech of social convention…The Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,54296/description.html#tk.nl_pvx_h_crawl

Visit this url and download the little free program and never have to weep, wail or run around in little circles screaming, “The Sky is falling,” ever again.

You could even tell your friends and relatives and make them download it and you won’t get calls in the middle or Downton Abby asking, begging, pleading for your help.

And remember it’s free!

That’s right, it costs you nothing to try it and if you don’t think it is neater than sliced bread or mini-skirts then you don’t have to keep it. It was free and getting rid of it doesn’t cost anything so you can do it all with a completely clear conscience.

So get out your internet browsers and take a trip to the PC World site and download the Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder, it’s the right thing to do.

The END is Coming

2012-02-10T17:16:00.001-08:00

If you’ve been dragging your feet and haven’t yet gotten your Valentine’s bribe, excuse me, gift, then time is short, the end is near, repent, repent!

Or you can save your bacon and head over to Charleston to Cantrell’s Bakery where you can salvage your reputation, save your skin avoid headlines like: Lorena Bobbitt strikes Again! Or St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Or Bloody Tuesday

And you don’t want that to happen now do ya? So go buy a treat and save the ER staff a whole lot of work.

And good new for you Cantrell’s is going to be open on Tuesday so you can have a happy Valentines after all.

Ava Richey's Art News

2012-02-10T17:06:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

This Monday, February 13th, we will meet at Coquille Valley Art Center from 10 a.m. -3 p.m.

It's located at 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille. Their phone is 541-396-3294. Bring your lunch and hopefully it will be nice enough to paint outside, or there is plenty of room inside to paint.

If you would like to caravan or carpool, pleases meet at the north end of Ray's Food Place parking lot by Bree's at 9:20 a.m. Let me know if you will be meeting there so we don't leave you.

My phone is 541-347-4643 or cell is 541-297-6118.

Thanks!

Ava

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Art Information:

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FYI: New listings have asterisks ***** next to the date.

If any of the web links below in blue are not "live", meaning if you click on it and it doesn't take you to the website,--- right click on it and choose copy, then open your internet web browser, left click on the web address window at the top to highlight it, then right click and paste the web link into your browser and hit enter. The site should open.

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February sale: Paints 15% off at Bandon Artist (excluding kits).

NEW Winter Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays 10 -5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 541-347-4482 or 541-297-6118.

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*****If any of you have Sculpy or Fimo Clay in red or white or Valentine's colors that you would like to donate to the after school art classes in Bandon, please contact Vicki Afatati before Tuesday. vickimajid@yahoo.com

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Thank you for your donations to the Port Orford Arts Council to pay for artists in the schools. There is enough money for teachers and some left over for supplies. Way to support the arts and the kids!

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Artists' Accomplishments:

We want to honor the achievements of all you artists, so don't be shy about sending the highlights of your art lives, or those of your artist friends.

Yvonne Ousley has had two Meso-American wool tapestries accepted into the Ancient American Exhibit at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The show runs from February 21st to March 26, 2012, with a reception on March 8th at 6:30 p.m.

Congratulations, Yvonne!!

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Current Shows:

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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence http://www.backstreetgallery.org/ http://www.katheryndavis.com/katys_book/qw_publishing.html

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Bandon Public Library February 2012

Hallway Gallery: "Island Dreams and Coastal Themes", watercolors & oils by Shawn Tempesta

Cases: Larry Linder's woodcarver collectables.

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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

February "Coast to Cactus Country", featuring Pete Chasar

Showcase: "A Collection of Valentines" display by Evelyn Allen

Reception at Saturday Art Walk, February 11th at 4 p.m.

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Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay 541-267-3901 http://www.coosart.org/

Opening Art Reception for "Wood Art Invitational" in the Mabel Hansen Gallery, featuring 10 wood artists: Philip Clausen, Thomas Clevenger, Jim Deardoff, Rick Fox, Steve Kuntz, Kenneth, Kenneth Means, Mitch Rolicheck, Charles Tatum, George Vrana, and Terry Woodall.

"Native American Basket of the South Coast" in the Uno E. Richter Gallery.

And also showing in the Atrium: "Charleston, Images in Paint". Featured artist & curator Charles of Charleston & Cohorts : Hope Sessions, Joan Goodman Fox, Sally Rolicheck, Sarita Southgate, Jean Adamson, Dutch Mostert, Nancy Berry, Carollee Tucker, Rod Sullens and Curt Hitch. (Organized by Joan Goodman Fox.)

Show runs December 9, 2011 through February 11, 2012

February BAAA "Artist of the Month" featured in the BAAA display located in the Coos Art Museum lobby is Beth Wegner.

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Coos Bay Library 525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

February

Wall Display "The Coquille River"--selected acrylic & ink paintings celebrating the flora & fauna of the Coquille River by SL Donaldson

Lobby: Pottery by Catherine Walworth

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Coquille Valley Art Center 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

February 13 - March 2, 2012 "The Miniature Show"

Hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR

Photography show featuring works by Kathy and Dick Chambers of Myrtle Point; Patricia Davidson, Coos Bay; Kelle Herrick, Bandon; Richard Kirk, Myrtle Point; Kathy Phillips, Myrtle Point; David Sinnot, formerly of Coquille; and Tony Spenader, Coquille. A portion of sales goes to the CVHA Auxiliary. Show runs through February.

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Crystal Dolphin Gallery

1901 Sherman Ave, North Bend, 541-756-1989

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Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery

3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

"What's New?". Features Gallery Artists and their new works.

February 6 - March 30 "Winter Wonder", Reception Friday, Feb. 10th, 2-4 p.m.

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Emerald Art Center http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/

500 Main Street, Springfield 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

February 1st - 24th "Top 21 Paintings from the 46th Fall Transparent Watercolor Society of Oregon Watercolor Show". Also Featured Member Nancy Ericksen Ward, and Work from the Photography at Oregon Committee, and other members' works. Reception February 10th, 5 - 7 p.m. Music by West Winds Flute Choir.

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Evergreen Court

Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR

541-756-7658

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Fairbanks Gallery located on campus at OSU in Corvallis. Free, open to the public Mon.- Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 8 - 12 noon. Contact Douglas Russell at 541-737-5009, or http://www.blogger.com/drussell@oregonstate.edu%20http://oregonstate.edu/fairbanksgallery

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Florence Events Center

715 Quince Street, Florence Call for more info at 541-997-1994

Gallery One: "Water Media Artists" display of 16 Watercolor Society of Oregon members.

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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St., Port Orford

Features "Friends", a series of hot glass sculptures that skillfully depict characters who have stood out in the artist's life in one way or another. Artist is Danny White.

Opening reception is February 18th, 4-6 p.m.

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Langlois Public Library 48234 Hwy 101, Langlois, OR 97450

Hours: Mon. 11a.m.-2 p.m., Tues-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Paintings of Sheila Oberg continue into the new year.

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Manley Art Center 433 Oak Street, Brookings, OR 541-469-1807

February

"The Acrylics of Thomas Moody" --he will be demonstrating on Feb. 11th 4-7p.m.

Gallery Theme "Abstracts". Panel Displays: Plein Air Painters Christina Olsen, Sandy Bonney, Eileen Jensen, Philip Wadsworth, Nancy Moore-Hope, the Mudslingers.

the Photo Club presents a slide show of members' works.

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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 541-345-1571

"Shaping Visions", work by Craig S. Holmes and Maude I. Kerns Show runs through February 10th. Saturday, Jan. 28th, 2 - 4 p.m. there will be a Discussion of the show.

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North Bend Library, Conference Room February

541-756-0400 http://www.northbendlibrary.org/

Features : Manga Art by Tiffany & Brittany Valdez

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Old City Hall-- 99 E. Second Street, Corner of Second & Adams, Coquille

The first of a series of art/music events in 2012 to celebrate CENTENNIAL 1912- 2012 in Coquille:

February 12, 2012 2:00 p.m. A multimedia show with Jack Ponting. 20 art pieces and 100 minutes of original music. $10 per person--prepaid reservations required at the door. Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for reservations and information.

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Pony Village Mall:

ArtWalk: Various artists showing at tables in lobby areas near Katherine's and Harry Ritchie Jewelers. and Artists Loft.

Also in the Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088

Gallery Artists Group Show, features jewelry by Hester Solsang. Guest Artist--watercolors by Cindy Horner

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)

Photography--local color and other works by Dan Hull

Sterling Savings Bank

Fabulous Oils by Carol Turner

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Port Orford Library January-March

Paintings by Susan Lehman, Jane Schmaltz and Ava Richey

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Raincoast Gallery

Featuring work of many local artists.

Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.

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Second Street Gallery, Old Town Bandon 541-347-4188 http://secondstreetgallery.net/

Features annual "Wall of Opportunity" with 50% off regular sales price of local artists' work including 2-d, jewelry, pottery, glass, greeting cards and books. Inventory changes weekly.

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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick Auditorium

January 7 - February 29, 2012

Graphite renderings of birds and wildlife by Lance Cox.

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January 11th through March, 2012

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center

"Down on the Farm" features agriculture related art. Don't miss it!

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

Through March 2, 2012 "Student Art Show", 500 works in a variety of media fill all six UVAA gallery spaces.

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U.S. Bank--Coquille

Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tierney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Traveling Show of Oregon Prison Art.

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Whistling Gallery

87456 Ste. A, Whistling Drive, Bandon (located in Laurel Grove, 5 miles south of Bandon.) A variety of artists showing 2-d and 3-d work.

Also in charge of showing work at Billy Smoothboar's and other venues for those artists interested in showing their work, contact Vickie.

541-404-7336, or whistlinggallery@gmail.com

Feb.11 "Valentine's Wine and Art Show" no cover, no-host wine bar. Live auction of art, 10% of proceeds go to Coastal Harvest.
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Classes

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Art 101, The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org

Saturdays and Sundays 1 - 5:00 p.m.

Volunteer Workshops to build "Leo the Leopard Shark" Have a hand in constructing the newest member of the Washed Ashore family. This work is designed to permanently reside at the Chula Vista Nataure Center in San Diego, CA. The sculpture consists of 100% ocean going debris (plastics and more). Help inspire others to do something about this problem by building this eye-catching sculpture.

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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. Call for Class

Information at 541-756-4088

If you are interested in taking a Chinese Brush Painting class with Darlene Diehl on April 12, 2012, $67 for 5 hours with all supplies provided, please contact Carol Young at 541-260-4573. Class will be held in the Artist Loft classroom.

Beginning Watercolor with Carol Young, for info call 541-260-4573.

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Bay Be, located in Charleston, next door to High Tide Cafe is now open and offers licensed childcare for kids 3 yrs & up with a focus on nature and art projects. ALSO offer workshops for adults--making lip balm, jewelry, knitting and yoga.

Drop-in Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. with only $5 and 5 minutes we can help you create a craft such as paper, a candle, a willow basket, driftwood sculpture or bird feeder. 541-888-3265, Find us on Facebook.

Thurs. Feb. 16th: Knitting with Nancy 7 - 8:30 p.m.

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Brookings Area and more:

various classes are listed at http://wildriverscoastart.com/

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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay 541-267-4877 for more information.

Friday, February 3, 2012 Golden Acrylics and the New Inventions with Corrine Loomis Dietz 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 4, 2012 Acrylic's Seductive Surfaces and Palettes of Pigment with Corrine Loomis Dietz 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday - Thursday, April 3, 4, 5th, 2012 Watercolor from Start to Finish with Judy Morris 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturdays, May 12th & 19th: Paper Arts with Holly Rodenkirk and Mary Cervantes 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille, OR 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

Painting with Pat Weaver 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesdays & Wednesdays Pat's classes cancelled for now due to illness..

Painting with Anna Crosby 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays

Painting/Drawing 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mondays

Painting with Bunny Upton 12 - 3 p.m. Mondays

Woodcarving with Larry Roberts 9-12 Mondays 541-396-2579

Woodcarving 6 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays

Wood Burning 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesdays

Play with Clay 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursdays

Ken Means Carving 9 - 12 noon and 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays Quilting 10 a.m. on Wednesdays

Appliqué 10 a.m. Tuesdays

Stained Glass 2:30 - 5:00 and another at 6 - 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays 9:30 - 12:30

Fiber Arts 10 a.m. on Fridays

Yoga 6 p.m. Mondays No Classes during January or February.

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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Fridays, Watercolor Studio with Jane Snoddy, $10 per session.

Creating Textures in Collage with Susan Lehman, Feb.18th, 10 a.m. -2 p.m.

Palette Knife Technique with Acrylics with Carolyn Le Grande, 4 week class in February.

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Freshwater Gallery, 236B Hwy 101, Port Orford (next to Paula's Bistro)

Sundays, 3-5 p.m.: Figure Drawing with Model, $25

Mondays, 5-7 p.m.: Seascape Painting, $20 per class.

For information: 541-332-8019 or 541-236-8077, or wilddoodle@earthlink.net

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Gallery on the Bay

658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771

Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.

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Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741

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Heritage Textile Arts Guild

157#A, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items.

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Manley Art Center, Brookings

Call for class and workshop schedules. 541-469-1807

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Rose Palette, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. 541-290-7858

Oil Painting classes by Carol Turner, 2:30 - 5:30 Mondays, $20 per class. You can reach Carol at 541-396-5373 for information on other classes as well.

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Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence artcarnival@oregonfast.net www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival

New Classes: e-mail for more information.

****Saturday, Feb. 11th, 10:30 a.m. ATC (artists trading cards) swap.

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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon

For a schedule of classes offered go to: http://www.sagegallerybandon.com/

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg

1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

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Wright's Custom Framing 910 Chetco Ave, Brookings 541-469-7625 saradee1@frontier.com

Drop in Art Workshop every Friday Afternoon 1 - 4 p.m.

Individual instruction in any medium; demonstrations in various mediums; critiques of completed work and works in progress. $12 per session. Just drop in and bring something you would like to work on, or need help with. Each week something new is presented during demonstrations.

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Dateline Events:

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****Saturday, Feb. 11th, 10:30 a.m.

Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence artcarnival@oregonfast.net www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival

ATC (artists trading cards) swap. New Classes: e-mail for more information.

February 4 - March 18, 2012
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Saturday, February 11, 2012 5 - 8:00 p.m.

Whistling Gallery, 87456 Whistling Dr., 5 miles S. of Bandon in Laurel Grove

"Valentines Wine & Art" Ten percent of silent auction proceeds benefit Coastal Harvest.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012 4 - 7:00 p.m.

Second Saturday Art Walk, Downtown Brookings

Many venues, delectable food and drink, amazing live entertainment, brilliant people, and of course, fabulous artwork.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:00 a.m.

Bay Area Artists Association monthly meeting features Pamela Rose Hughes presenting a program called "Learning How to See". NEW MEETING LOCATION at Pony Village Mall in North Bend, in the space next to Heritage Textile Guild (near Macy's).

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Saturday, February 11, 2012 3 - 5:00 p.m.

Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Old Town Florence OR. 541-997-8980 http://www.backstreetgallery.org/

GALA reception with featured artist Mary Beers.

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Thursdays, No meetings until March

Gold Beach Episcopal Church Easternmost end of Moore Street.

Figure Drawing. To confirm & for more information contact Alexandra

alexandra@portraitsbyalexandra.com

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Calls to Artists:

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*****Postmark Deadline March 5, 2012

Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibit to be held at the Museum & Arts Center, Sequim, WA. Exhibition dates May 1 - 27th.

Cash and merchandise prizes totaling over $1500. Open to all adult artists. All work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copyright or published art or executed in a supervised class, and must be for sale. Entries are $20 for the first entry, additional $5 each up to five entries.

http://www.sequimarts.org/ 360-681-4884

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******Deadline May 16, 2012 at 5 p.m.

Career Opportunity Grants, available from Oregon Arts Commission, help support individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills; expanded marketing capacity and/or the further development of the nature or quality of their artwork.

Grant amounts may range from $300 - $1500. A new collaboration with The Ford Family Foundation is now included with the application. To apply, visit http://www.oregonartscommission.ort/content/grants/ For more information call Shannon Planchon at 503-229-6062.

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******Deadline March 19, 2012

Artists are invited to apply to display their works at the third annual Sunriver Art Faire. Limited to 60 exhibitors, the juried show will be held August 10 - 12th. Submit applications at http://www.zapplication.org/. For more information visit http://www.sunriverartfaire.com/

Deadline February 15, 2012 Postmark and/or delivery deadline for application and fee.

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"Public Hanging 2012" at Florence Events Center, Florence, OR Show runs February 27 - April 30th. $20 for 3 pieces. For application and guidelines:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/pub-hanging-guidelines.pdf

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Deadline February 29, 2012 5 p.m.

2012 Art Contest to Benefit New ODFW (Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) Habitat Conservation Stamp

Artwork must feature one of the fish or wildlife species identified in the Oregon Conservation Strategy in its respective strategy habitat. Announcement:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/2012_Oregon_Department_of_Fish_and_Wildlife_Art_Contest.pdf

List of Species: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/document_pdf/b-species.pdf

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Deadline April 16, 2012 for postmark and/or hand delivery of application and fee.

"Exposure 2012" Photography Only show. Florence Events Center

Show runs April 30th - June 28th, 2012 $20 per rod, rod hold 3 photographs. For guidelines and application:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/exposure-guidelines.pdf

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Deadline for entry is February 10, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center "Variations: Art Expressing Music" Submit images of 2D & 3D artwork in all mediums that is inspired by music or related to the theme of music. Supply five digital images in color at 300 dpi on CD in jpeg format. Work will be selected by jurors from the submitted images. There is a $15 submission fee.

Application forms & prospectus available at http://www.mkartcenter.org/

or call 541-345-1571. Show runs April 6 - May 11, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center is located at 1910 E. 15th Ave. (corner of 15th & Villard), Eugene. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. M-F, Saturday--noon -4 p.m.

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Deadline for Entries February 16, 2012

Northwest Watercolor Society's 72nd Annua International Open Exhibition (you don't have to be a member to enter) http://.www.nwws.org/ for prospectus. Juror is Thomas Schaller Over $10,000 in awards.

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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Artworks NW 2012" (formerly "Hundred Valleys")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com/

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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Photoworks NW 2012" (formerly titled "Best Photo")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com/

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Deadline February 29, 2012

Applications for members of the local arts to apply for grants from the Coos County Cultural Coalition are due by Feb. 29th. They have $11,000 in available funds. For more information http://www.cculturalcoalition.org/

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Submission Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center’s

Call for Artists: 2013-2014 Exhibits Schedule

Artists working in all 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, including
installations, are invited to submit images of their work along with an application form to be considered for the next biennium (2013-2014) of exhibits at the Maude Kerns Art Center. Submissions may include solo, group, and/or themed shows. There is a $15 submission fee for individual artists and a $5 fee per artist for group shows.

The postmark deadline is Friday, April 20, 2012. Application forms and prospectuses are available at the Art Center or online at

http://www.mkartcenter.org/

Call 541-345-1571 for more information.

The Maude Kerns Art Center, located at 1910 E. 15th Avenue at the corner of 15th and Villard, is Eugene’s oldest non-profit community center for the visual arts. Gallery hours are from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday, and noon to
4:00 pm on Saturday when exhibits are on display.

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Umpqua Valley Arts Association , Roseburg

44th Annual Summer Arts Festival, scheduled for Friday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 24th, 2012.

Look on their website: http://www.uvarts.com http://www.uvarts.com/starting in January for applications for booths for artists, crafters, food vendors and entertainers.

This is an established, major cultural event in the Umpqua Valley drawing artists and crafters from across the U.S. for the 3 day festival with live music, food from local vendors, and lots of art. The event draws over 16,000 visitors of all ages. Proceeds benefit the UVAA's arts-in-education programs, bringing art instruction to elementary school children in Douglas County.

Those with questions are encouraged to consult the FAQ document posted on http://uvarts.com/summer-arts-festival/ or contact the UVAA by phone at 541-672-2532.

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The Artists' Village, McMinnville, OR Saturday & Sunday, July 14th & 15th, 2012

The McMinnville Sunrise Rotary Club is hosting their 4th Annual Artists' Village. Funds raised from this event go to help develop the arts and help Oregon artists with this event.

This is a juried event to obtain a booth at this show in order to sell your work. 10 ' x 10' booth under a tent, $100 for both days. Jurying fee will be non-refundable $25. Best in Show cash prizes total $1000.

They are looking for a variety of fine art participants including painting, sculpture, pottery, metalwork, dance, music and readings.

Information and applications will be posted in January on their website: http://www.artinmac.org/ Their email contact is artinmac@gmail.com

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The Spring Show: (April, May, June): “WEATHER REPORT”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Works inspired by the South Coast Weather. We’re a land of wild winds, torrential rains, glorious sunsets, rainbows, waving grasses, threatening clouds and churning (or shining) seas----all fair game for our local artists and photographers. No snapshots please. If you have a really fine photo it must be matted and framed and ready for hanging.

Any questions…..check with Ava Richey at Bandon Art Supply or call Victoria Tierney or Susan Lehman at 541-347-9888.

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The Summer Show: (July, August, September): “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

It was Crystal Landucci’s impressive collection of games of Chinese checkers that inspired this one. We’re looking for board games of all sorts that can be mounted on the walls; your own inventions would be great too……you’ve got a little while to work on this one so start inlaying those chess boards or drilling those cribbage sets….(fashioning those dominos?)…….This should be a really fun exhibit for the summer and we hope it will combine collectibles and the fruits of your imagination.

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The Fall Show: (October, November, December) “WHAT I DID ON MY VACATION”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Paintings and Journals created by the travelers amongst us. We already have some folks in mind but if you have some work you think might fit in….please let us know.

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Summer Boardwalk Show at Bandon waterfront: It’s The Year of the Dragon , so start planning now!

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Bandon Library Art Committee is seeking artists for exhibitions in both the

Hallway Gallery and the Glass Cases during the 2013. You can
also put your name on the list in case there are cancellations before then.

The art can be paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, and the like; crafts, collections, small sculptures and/or jewelry for the cases. Please contact Alexis Proctor at alexis2101p@yahoo.com or call 541-329-0530.

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Opportunity to Sell your Work:

Kathy from "Katherine's" in Pony Village Mall (south wing) is seeking artists to display art on Art Walk Thursdays from 5 - 8:00 p.m. each month.

The upcoming one is February 9th. The Mall will provide easels and tables.

Other stores will be doing music and appetizers. There is no fee, no commission...it's FREE. Contact Kathy at 541-808-2248.

Why Juried Shows

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Jpeg for Shows

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Get Gallery Show Submission Ready

Need a Jpeg image of your artwork?

A few helpful hints:

1.Artwork should be unframed and if applicable out of glass.

2.Artwork should be unsigned (or edited out digitally).

3.Any art on paper or other medium which tends to curl or buckle should be mounted (if only temporarily) on a flat board of some sort so that the whole piece will be in focus when photographed.

4.When photographing your artwork natural lighting is best.

5.Artwork image Jpegs should be burned on a CDR.

6.Always follow the prospectus (guidelines) given.

Still having problems getting a useable jpeg or questions?

If you are unequipped to get a good image ready for submitting into a gallery or call to artist, there are those who can!

Local photo help:

John Waller; Imaging by Fox at johnwaller@qwest.net.

(If you are a photographer equipped and able to offer this service to artists, please contact UVAA Gallery Manager at aleta@uvarts.com ).

ArtWorks NW and Photoworks NW Deadline is NEAR!

2012-02-10T16:23:00.000-08:00

The prospectuses for the ArtWorks NW and PhotoWorks NW Juried Art Shows are available on our website. You can apply online or by snail mail. We encourage artists of all skill levels and all ages to submit! These are both no-theme shows. Application deadline is FEBRUARY 28th, right around the corner!

NVAL 2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

2012-02-10T16:20:00.000-08:00

$1750 IN PRIZE MONEY WITH BOTH A PHYSICAL GALLERY AND ONLINE EXHIBIT.
Best of Show is $1000. The show will be exhibited May 1-June 2 at the North Valley Art League's Carter House Gallery in Redding, California. The gallery is adjacent to the Sacramento River and major recreation areas attracting both local and tourist traffic. The show is open to all photographers and all forms of photographic expression are encouraged.

We have an outstanding juror, Jennifer L. Daly, MFA with Distinction-Photography, who has exhibited all over the country. Her juror statement reads: "Photography has always been a diverse art form with evolving and emerging technologies, ideas, and styles. As a juror, I look forward to seeing the breadth of the medium from 'straight' photography to photo-manipulation, digital, traditional and alternative process and everything in between in order to facilitate an exhibition of interpretation of photography today."

All entries will be online and are currently being accepted. The prospectus and entry information are on our website or click the following link: http://nval.org/Photography_Show.html

Deadline: 03-24-2012

North Valley Art League

Redding, CA

Contact: Charlotte Bryson

email: nvalphotoshow@sbcglobal.net

Phone: 530.221.1993

Website: http://www.nval.org/

The Magic

2012-02-08T16:23:00.000-08:00

Somewhere out there there is a thing, a tool, a concept, an idea which if embraced will instantly transform your art into show winning, top-selling, news worthy stuff.
Sure. Maybe you could do a sex tape too.

Unfortunately there is no secret magic cure; this art stuff is hard work. Why do you think the folks out there spend so much time talking about how crazy artists are? They do it because they too believe there is some magic which allows artists to live the life of Riley without working.

Harry Potter aside there is no magic. Now here comes the disclaimer, writers are the worst. I’ve been reading Stieg Larsson and the more I read, the more convinced I become that if I only wrote in more violence and hatred of women I too could have a more successful writing career.

But it doesn’t work that way, I can’t just mimic J.K Rowling, Stieg Larsson or even Janet Evanovich, they’ve use that McGuffin and it just won’t work again for a generation or so until the readers forget that they did it and think it’s all new once again.

And that is true for artists of all stripes; you can’t just do whatever trend is current and expect to create great art. You can’t use whatever technique is hot and expect to have winning results. You can’t buy the latest gimmick and think it will transform your work into the blue ribbon you always wanted.

Look, trends are just that, they come and go and for an artist to chase a trend is like looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You can look and look and all you’ll get are eye strain and tired feet. By the time you identify the trend, master the technique and get your work out where it can be seen, something else will be the trend.

It’s like chasing the horizon, no matter how hard you run it will always be the horizon and just over the edge of the world.

Techniques are the basis of all creative process, we have to know what we are doing in order to do it at all and if we don’t study and practice that technique we will never master it and make art worthy of notice.

You all know I am trying to re-learn to draw. There was a time way back about the time man invented the wheel when I was okay, never great and never stunning, but my draftsmanship was good, I could manage the human body and get all the parts in the right places and the shapes in perspective and the appendages not too long or too short. Yeah, that was a long time ago, now I struggle to get even close. Some days I do okay and some days I do Picasso.

But that doesn’t give me a pass. The only way to get the skill back is to do it every day. Do it a bunch. Do it till the fingers cramp, the eyes burn and the head throbs. That’s why in ages past artists served an apprenticeship. They didn’t get to go out on their own right away; they had to copy their master until the master thought they had it right. That day never came for some. They never got to be journeymen or masters, they always stayed apprentices.

So have you served out your apprenticeship? Have you worked your technique until the blood dripped from your fingers? Have you work long and hard into those sleepless nights when passion and desire drive you to work, work, work?

If you haven’t you’re just spinning your wheels looking for magic.

Passion and desire are the next things you need to find. If you don’t have those in your bag of tricks then there isn’t much practice can do. One of my favorite writing mentors, Lawrence Block says, “The odds of you getting published are so thin you might as well do what you like. Then you’ll enjoy the process.” That is so true. Remember that when you sit down to create, enjoy the process.

Too many people approach art as a curse. If only you’d been attracted to something less demanding you could have accomplished everything you wanted.

Do you really believe that? Sure art makes you sweat and strain and weep bitter tears especially when it isn’t going right, but when it does, then there is nothing better. You aren’t curse you’re called.

We in this material, toy driven society forget when a job was a calling. Police, teachers, clergy and scholars didn’t expect to become rich and famous; they heard the sound of the siren and answered its call. They did what they had to do because they were called.

Now take a look around, plumbers and carpenters want to make as much as doctors. Lawyers sue for incredible amounts for pain and suffering when the injured party couldn’t expect to see that kind of money if they lived to be a hundred years old and worked until they were laid out in the coffin, but try to tell a litigant that and see if you don’t get sued too.

Even if you manage to avoid all of these traps and focus on your work to the exclusion of all else, there’s the toy factor.

You need a bigger, sturdier easel, more brushes, better canvas, a brand name camera, a special French mud, some imported chalks, a Japanese kiln, watercolor paper and maybe better lighting.

Oh I know all about this stuff, I’m a photographer. Just open any photography magazine and you’ll see page after page of gewgaws which if you’d just buy your pictures would be sooooooooooo much better. There’s a DSLR which is exactly like an SLR but digital, longer, bigger lenses, lights and strobes, backdrops, backdrop stands, and all of the stuff for displaying the better pictures you are going to take once you buy all of this stuff.

How did nineteenth century painters/photographers manage? They didn’t have any of this stuff and yet they actually produced some great work. Maybe they didn’t waste so much time on distractions.

You can always find some magic thingy which if only you had it would make all of your work better.

But it won’t. The only thing that makes you better is constant, daily practice. Okay, so I believe competition with your peers helps and selling to the public and you can do all of that without a single magic charm.

o are you filling your pockets with gold coins and heading for Diagon Alley or will you stay and work? Work to make your own brand of magic without all of the myth and mumbling.

Call for Artists Sequim Arts 36th Annual Juried Show

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Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its annual juried art exhibit to be held at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim, WA

Postmark deadline: Entries must be received by March 5th, 2012.

Exhibition Dates: May 1st through May 27th

Cash and merchandise prizes totaling over $1,500. Open to all adult artists. All work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copy-right or published art or executed in a supervised class and be for sale.

Two-dimensional and three dimensional art such as, but not limited to oil, acrylic, water media, mixed media, original prints, collage, pastel, fine art photography, drawing, assemblage ,sculpture (any medium), basketry, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and textiles.

The jurors will be Marilyn Bergstorm and Kari Bergstrom MacKenzie.

Non-refundable entry fee: $20 for first entry, with all additional entries $5 each with a maximum of five entries per artist. For detailed information including entry form visit http://www.sequimarts.org/ or send a SASE to: PO Box 1842, Sequim, WA 98382. Contact: Linda Stadtmiller: juriedshow@sequimarts.org phone (360)681-4884.

2012-02-07T16:27:00.000-08:00

Call for Entries deadline for FORGED: March 19, 2012

Click here to apply online and here to download a prospectus!

Forged - Deadline for Entry: March 19th, 2012

Exhibition Dates: May 19th - June 24th, 2012

Description: This is a media specific sculptural exhibition that explores the contemporary approaches to forged metal work. The work can range in size with the stipulation that it incorporates forged metal elements. This is open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Juror: Twylene Moyer

Twylene Moyer, managing editor of Sculpture magazine, has published numerous articles and catalogue essays on contemporary art. She has been a featured speaker at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at SOFA Chicago and has juried and curated several exhibitions, including “Insight Out” and “Disintegration” at the Arlington Arts Center. She is the co-editor of The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency, A Sculpture Reader, Conversations on Sculpture, and Landscapes for Art, all distributed by the University of Washington Press.

"Wall of Opportunity" At Gallery

2012-02-07T16:21:00.001-08:00

Second Street Gallery presents its annual "Wall of

Opportunity" which showcases works by local and regional

artists. The exhibit changes weekly as sold work is updated

regularly by new works.

Included in this year’s collection are works by

painter’s Barry Lavoie, Dolores Egger, Janet Tarjan Erl,

Dan Dunn, Robert Sherwood, Dee Sidwell, John Paul Morgan,

Laura Wiens and John Benjamin. Also included is work by

collage artist Susan Lehman, potters Michelle Carter, Bruce

Fontaine and Norm Lewellen, pen & ink drawings by Phil

Finley, raku potter Tom Guisti and photographer Nancy

Rotenburg.

The show runs through the end of March and can be viewed

daily between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. For additional information

call gallery director Richard Rahmlow at 541-347-4133 or

e-mail info@secondstreetgallery.net.

Richard Rahmlow

Executive Director

Second Street Gallery

secondstreetgallery.net

541.347.4133

The cult of beauty

2012-02-06T18:12:00.000-08:00

In this country we worship a cult of beauty.

Think it’s not true; just take a quick look at any magazine rack. The faces you see on the covers of all of those magazines are pretty faces, young faces, beautiful faces.

And there is nothing at all wrong with being young, pretty and beautiful, but they aren’t the only faces. And to focus on the one to the exclusion of the other is wrong.

As artists we have a responsibility to make our art about all things, young and old, smart and stupid, beautiful and ugly. And here I am not just talking about faces.

Do you do flowers? I’ll bet you do only flowers in full bloom, in bright sunlight on a cloudless day. Sure they are the prettiest ones and everyone likes to see them, but they aren’t the only blooming things in the garden. You gotta make room for the ugly too.

How many times have you heard, “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.” And what they mean is they like beautiful stuff, colorful sunsets, polished cars, raindrops on a mirror. Anyone can see that stuff, but as artists we have to show something that doesn’t get seen all the time.

You know I have always suspected Staties don’t like Picasso not because he can’t paint, but because what he paints isn’t beautiful. That wasn’t always true. Take a look at his “Blue” period. He knew just as much about correctly drafting the human structure as Michelangelo, he just chose not to follow that path and the result was shocking, stunning, liberating and well, ugly.

Didja ever look at Guernica? It is so angular, so disjointed, so choppy, but then that is exactly what happens when a quiet, farming village gets bombed. There are men and animals scattered all about, squealing and praying and begging for death, it is ugly, just like Guernica.

Let’s take a less extreme example, Klee. Now you probably don’t recognize the name, most Staties don’t, but you’ve seen his work, Senecio Painting is the huge round multi-colored head that just sits there staring back at the viewer with those unblinking eyes.

It will halt you cold, it will make you think, it will take your breath, but it is ugly. It’s another Cubist image which jangles our Statie eyes.

See we were raised on Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell images of everyday life, where the turkey was brown, the men manly and the women Betty Crocker, well, except for Rosie.

Yes, the King of Common-place created one of the most iconic and yet out of character images of our time, Rosie the Riveter. Now don’t be confused, Rockwell’s Rosie is a hard-working gal with muscles, rosy cheeks, a bandanna and a sandwich and her rivet gun, she’s one tough broad and all Statie with a cause.

The Rosie most of us remember is not a Rockwell, but the “We Can Do It” Rosie made for Westinghouse by J. Howard Miller. Neither Rosie is particularly comely, but there was a war on.

And that seems to be the one extenuating circumstance we allow, it’s okay to be ugly if there’s a war on.

Okay, there are plenty of artists who make a cross for us all to bear, Robert Maplethorpe comes to mind and Andy Warhol with his soup cans and brightly colored repetitive images have caused no end of grief, but they do make their point. Art is everything. It does not come in one size fits all.

Like Maplethorpe, lord help the public figure who dares to defy convention. Even the film community has its flock of nay-sayers. The Fashion Police get their own show. I’m just glad no one gets to see me writing this blog. It ain’t pretty and it ain’t for public consumption!

So here we are back at the beginning, is art only for the young and beautiful or will we as artists dare to cover all of existence? There are things in nature and not-so-natural that become beautiful when looked at with a thoughtful eye. Surely they deserve space on our canvas.

Do you take time out to read? The reason I ask is one of my favorite authors, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series has been made into a film starring Katherine Heigl. Katherine is a beautiful lady if you like them fresh out of grade school. But for the part of Stephanie Plum she is wrong, wrong, wrong. Stephanie, my Stephanie is a tall, curly-haired, Jersey-girl with a nasal voice and a great fashion sense. I’d have been all right with Joanne Kelly of Warehouse Thirteen or Amy Ackerman of Buffy, I could live with Malin Ackerman, who is about the right height and has the acting chops, but what I got was Katherine Heigl, who is too blonde, too short and doesn’t have curly hair. She is pretty, very, very pretty.

Will the film be a hit? I don’t think so. You see Janet Evanovich has nineteen Stephanie Plum books and a ton of fans and we KNOW what our Stephanie looks like. The last film to be this badly cast was The Avengers, (Twerps, Kenneth Brannagh as Steed and Martine McCutchen as Mrs. Peel), and you know what happened there. Oh, I guess you don’t. You probably stayed away like the thousands of Avenger fans and the film tanked.

Now I can’t make you chose to paint tin cans or rusty anchors, I can’t change your mind about what is a fit subject for your art, but I do want to ask, are you being seduced by the cult of beauty?

Only you can answer and that may just send you searching for another kind of subject.

Brilliant

2012-02-05T16:50:00.001-08:00

I’ve known for a long time that we have a prejudice problem in this country. And the worst part is no one is doing anything about it, not Congress, well silly me Congress never does anything anyway, not the news papers, not television.

We despise anyone who has creative ability. There I’ve said it.

You think not? Okay what do you say when someone does something amazing? “You rock!” “You’re a rock star!”

Just what does playing a guitar have to do with accomplishing anything?

But there’s more, we idolize people who become famous because of their athletic ability, their appearance, their notoriety. Just what does any of that have to do with accomplishment?

What do we say about Warren Buffett, Stephen Hawking or Jeff Bezos? If anything we dismiss them as money-grubbing business robbers. That certainly clarifies where we stand on accomplishment. Get famous for a sex tape = good, build a business empire = bad.

And that doesn’t even begin to cover what we think about creative people.

Just how many artists do you know who are living in a garret? No me either, not here or in Paris, and why would anyone want to live in Paris? First there’s all those French to deal with and then you have to learn their language cause they won’t talk to you if you don’t speak French but if you do learn to speak French then they won’t talk to you cause your accent makes their ears hurt. Okay the pastries are good, but keep it under your hat cause my doctor thinks she did a sweetectomy on me and now I don’t even think about sweets.

Artists live in garrets, they have Bohemian lifestyles, just what is a Bohemian lifestyle? I was never really sure about that. Do you have to name all of your children Bo or become a sheep herder so that you can mingle with the rest of the Peeps?

Why not just say vagabonds or gypsies? That’s what the term Bohemian means, wanderers, adventurers, vagabonds. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been pretty clear about how I feel about Oregon roads, I wouldn’t ask a Congressman to wander on them and that’s about as mean spirited as I get. Do you vag your bonds on the road or do you stay at home where your studio is and all of your tools and the easel and the rest of the stuff you need to create?

Okay, I am pretty mobile, my studio is in my computer and even though it’s a tower unit I could pack it up and move it in a hurry. Wouldn’t take an hour and I’d be headed over the horizon looking for the next electrical outlet. And one of these days when I win the Lotto I’m getting a laptop so then I could be really mobile. The Long Suffering has a laptop, a dedicated financial machine, so that when it isn’t being used it can be shut down and disconnected from the Net and the power lines and no hacker can get into an unplugged computer, which pretty much explains why the Long Suffering has complete control of it and why it doesn’t have my portable studio in its little Intel driven heart.

Have you ever heard a national politician say anything good about a creative person? When the natives get restless the Congress cuts PBS. Sure it’s a great target; it has a small audience made up of intellectuals, the mature and the creative. None of the politician’s constituents there you can bet.

You won’t see a politician demanding an end to NASCAR. Nope, even though they can’t spell the sponsor’s names right, the folks running for office lov’em.

Moody, needy, overly dramatic, self-centered, incomprehensible,

And oh yes, nuts. That’s only a partial list of the character traits artists are supposed to have. Some say that in order to be a gifted artist one must be a sociopath teetering between lunacy and violence and of course they cite Van Gogh as the universal example.

So there have been no artists since Van Gogh worthy of analysis? Boy ole Vinnie the earless sure had an impact. And throw in the collective homophobia and you’ve got another reason why artists can’t be trusted, they’re all…you know. There are those who would re-do the ceiling of the Sistine chapel just to remove the work of the noted gay, Michelangelo.

Something in a nice terra cotta, il Pape?

No we aren’t the only field where people wrongly believe most of its practitioners are crazy, but artists sure get the brunt of it.

You know in England when someone accomplishes a major success they say, “Brilliant!” That to my ears sounds so much better than “You rock.” Sure a rock star gets a lot of press. Just one drunken night and a hotel room destroyed and you’re an item in the paper with a guaranteed appearance on Letterman.

Now here’s where I admit I am too old to count. I have lived long enough to become statistically insignificant. Maybe like texting I just don’t get it.

But I will still spend my twilight years admiring the work of Annie Leibovitz rather than Kim Kardashian, I’ll take the word of Warren Buffett over The Donald any day and Stephen Hawking will still soar higher than whichever Manning is in the Stupid Bowl.

The Best Laid Plans

2012-02-04T15:32:00.000-08:00

Ever notice how life gets in the way of what you had planned?
I had the best intentions. I try to write something new and interesting every day and most of the time I do find something to write about, but there are those days…no, I don’t believe in writer’s block. Writing like art is a profession and you have to do it when the client wants it not when you are driven by white hot passion.
So why haven’t I written anything for the blog since January

Remember those best intentions, I had’em but life got seriously in the way.
First I had a pal who was having trouble with his computer, seems a program he needed wouldn’t load and there was no real reason. I got asked to take a look at it which I was happy to do and that shot my intentions all to Grand Prairie or a place much like that which is extremely warm and not likely to show up on the Travel Channel.
Computer programs are written by pointy heads who think in binary, that’s ones and zeros. It takes a great eye and a very disciplined mind to write computer programming and that sort of skill does not leave a lot of room for experiencing what life is like in the world of computer users. That’s why it is so hard to get computers to do what you want them to do instead of what they want to do. The guys who write this stuff don’t actually use it so they write it any way they want.
Many years ago about the time we first crawled out of the primordial sea and stood upright the Long Suffering worked in computer land, a place a whole lot like Oz and knew a bunch of pointy heads who could do most anything with computer code.
One of the pointy heads was so good he could write in Hex, (Hexadecimal code), as fast as he could punch keys. He was assigned to write a machine language for the switches and he did so. Now the Cappo de tutti capi thought he’d write it in binary so that just any ole person could get in and read it and fix it and maintain it so as soon as the writing was done the Cappo demoted and reassigned the guy to Outer Mongolia. That lasted until the switch failed and the guys went in with their picks and shovels to fix it and discovered that the underlying code was hex and written so that it fed binary directly to the machine and no one could figured out how it was done.
That’s right, back from Outer Mongolia he came to deal with the broken code and he stayed out of Outer Mongolia for as long as he remained with the company and so far as I know when he left they had to bring in some new pointy head to re-write the code in normal binary cause nobody could ever figure out how the direct write from Hex worked.
These are the guys who write the programs for your computer so no one should ever feel bad that they can’t get the thing to work like it should.
But back to my pal, he had the program, legally licensed and ready to load except the genius who built the new machine decided that it didn’t really need a CD drive. I mean CD’s are obsolete, right? So even with the original disc there was no way to load the beastie.
My pal tried loading it on a USB drive, which should have worked, but it wouldn’t run. He tried two different drives and still couldn’t get it to work so he could either let me have a go or run around in circles screaming “The sky is Falling.”
No the sky isn’t which is how I got involved. (I started the process all over again and had pretty much the same results as my guy.) The program was there, it should have run, but it didn’t. I did notice that the USB drive was not happy with the ports and the OS, so I reasoned with my non-pointy head head, try another USB drive, which I did and it worked.
So here’s one little bit of computer stuff you should know, if it doesn’t work it probably isn’t your fault. Try another device and see if that will fix the problem.
Oh yes, one more thing, with a program you can’t just copy it from one computer to another, the Master Boot Record and the Registry won’t recognize it and it won’t run. It has to be installed. So when you try to copy it, make sure you copy the Install file, also called the Install.exe. If you have that on the USB drive and the drive is recognized by your computer, run it from there. Click on the Install.exe and let it do its thing.
Yeah it would make more sense to just be able to copy it, but that’s not the way pointy headed people think and MicroGreedy would be hysterical about you stealing one of their protected programs.
After all that you’d think I could rest on my laurels, but no, some one wanted pictures of their art taken and prepped for entry at a specified DPI.
Now if you’ve been listening you know what half of the answer is, download and install Faststone Image Viewer. This nifty little hummer will do the resize double quick and takes it IQ of a plum and about twenty seconds.

But of course there are always problems.
How to get the picture in the first place. This would be a lot easier if ya’ll would just stop all that painting and carving and sculpting and take photographs cause they are digital files and that’s what you need so if you are doing photography it makes the whole thing so much easier. But I guess you don’t want to do that cause they don’t allow photographs in Expressions West and if you’ve spent all that time learning how to paint it doesn’t make much sense to switch to photography, so you’ll stick with what you know and need a photograph to send in when something like Expressions West comes along.
There are three major problems lying in wait for taking a picture of existing art work. They are lighting, distortion and color.
Lighting is fairly simple to solve, it takes some, okay it takes a lot and that makes for another problem, glare.

The painting to be photographed needs a bunch of light to let the film if you are still using stone-aged camera equipment or the CCH if you have gone digital to record an image. Best way absolutely, a big window close to an easel so that you can get natural light. Be aware of the shadow if the light is behind you and make sure it doesn’t fall on your picture. No natural light, two at least separate but equal light sources which are easy to move. Set up the easel and put a mirror on it and then place your lights, move back to where you are going to position the camera and take a look. If there is a hot spot your lights are too close and not wide enough.
What you want is to make an X with the light so that the picture is at the exact point where the light crosses the other light. Keep moving the lights around until you get soft side light without a hot spot. It just takes practice and you can do that right
The next problem is distortion. This one is harder. In a perfect world you will have a big easel and can set it six feet or so away from the camera with the painting flat or leaning forward just a hair. Put the camera on a tripod or use your string tripod to get the best, stable platform you can. Don’t get in too close. Use your zoom and shoot from six or more feet away.

What happens if you don’t have an easel? You are going to get some distortion at the edges. This is not a bad thing and it won’t ruin you picture. Crop the picture as close as you can with respect to the prospectus. This will probably solve the problem. If not don’t worry too much, the jury will be looking at the image not the frame or the mat.

The last one is a pain. Printers do not produce the colors you see on the monitor. There is a whole network of programs that the image has to pass through to get printed and try as you might it is not going to look exactly the same as it does on the screen.

Best advice, tune the image on the screen, the jury isn’t going to print the image out and you won’t either unless you want to get a Giclee made. That is why the guys who print Giclees charge by the square centimeter.

Trying to make something for someone else is one of the most thankless jobs you can take on. Don’t do it unless you are committed to doing it right and then take the time to make sure that when you return the computer or the file it is the best your skills can manage.

Oh yeah, and don’t whine about the time it took from your other stuff, you sniveling, whiny, cream-puff.

Ava Richey's Art News

2012-02-03T16:52:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

This Monday, February 6th, we will meet at Brewed Awakenings. 12 - 3 p.m.

It's located on the corner of Hwy 101 and Elmira, across the street from the Shell Gas Station. If the weather is nice, there are tables outside.

Hope to see you there.

My phone is 541-347-4643 or cell is 541-297-6118.

Thanks!

Ava

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Art Information:

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FYI: New listings have asterisks ***** next to the date.

If any of the web links below in blue are not "live", meaning if you click

on it and it doesn't take you to the website,--- right click on it and

choose copy, then open your internet web browser, left click on the web

address window at the top to highlight it, then right click and paste the

web link into your browser and hit enter. The site should open.

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February sale: Paints 15% off at Bandon Artist (excluding kits). NEW Winter Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays 10 -5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 541-347-4482 or 541-297-6118.

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*****Donations Needed: The Port Orford Art Council writes grants to fund artists in school for kids in Kindergarten, First and Second grades. The funding is short for this Spring's art classes which will be starting soon. $400 is needed to pay a stipend to the artists who are teaching. An "Angel" has offered a $200 matching grant if the POAC can come up with the other $200.

If you can help, no donation is too small. Please send whatever you can to help. Any funds donated over that amount will go toward buying art supplies for the children. Please send your check to: Georganne White, PO Box 558, Port Orford, OR 97465. You can contact her at gw@georgieart.com Thanks for your help!

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Artists' Accomplishments:

We want to honor the achievements of all you artists, so don't be shy about sending the highlights of your art lives, or those of your artist friends.

Yvonne Ousley has had two Meso-American wool tapestries accepted into the Ancient American Exhibit at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The show runs from February 21st to March 26, 2012, with a reception on March 8th at 6:30 p.m.

Congratulations, Yvonne!!

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Current Shows:

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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence http://www.backstreetgallery.org/ http://www.katheryndavis.com/katys_book/qw_publishing.html

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Bandon Public Library February 2012

Hallway Gallery: "Island Dreams and Coastal Themes", watercolors & oils by Shawn Tempesta

Cases: Larry Linder's woodcarver collectables.

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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

****February "Coast to Cactus Country", featuring Pete Chasar

Showcase: "A Collection of Valentines" display by Evelyn Allen

Reception at Saturday Art Walk, February 11th at 4 p.m.

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Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay 541-267-3901 http://www.coosart.org

Opening Art Reception for "Wood Art Invitational" in the Mabel Hansen

Gallery, featuring 10 wood artists: Philip Clausen, Thomas Clevenger, Jim
Deardoff, Rick Fox, Steve Kuntz, Kenneth, Kenneth Means, Mitch Rolicheck, Charles Tatum, George Vrana, and Terry Woodall.

"Native American Basket of the South Coast" in the Uno E. Richter Gallery.

And also showing in the Atrium: "Charleston, Images in Paint". Featured
artist & curator Charles of Charleston & Cohorts : Hope Sessions, Joan Goodman Fox, Sally Rolicheck, Sarita Southgate, Jean Adamson, Dutch Mostert, Nancy Berry, Carollee Tucker, Rod Sullens and Curt Hitch. (Organized by Joan Goodman Fox.)

Show runs December 9, 2011 through February 11, 2012

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February BAAA "Artist of the Month" featured in the BAAA display located in the Coos Art Museum lobby is Beth Wegner.

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Coos Bay Library 525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

February

Wall Display "The Coquille River"--selected acrylic & ink paintings celebrating the flora & fauna of the Coquille River by SL Donaldson

Lobby: Pottery by Catherine Walworth

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Coquille Valley Art Center 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

******February 13 - March 2, 2012 "The Miniature Show"

Hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR

Photography show featuring works by Kathy and Dick Chambers of Myrtle Point; Patricia Davidson, Coos Bay; Kelle Herrick, Bandon; Richard Kirk, Myrtle Point; Kathy Phillips, Myrtle Point; David Sinnot, formerly of Coquille; and Tony Spenader, Coquille. A portion of sales goes to the CVHA Auxiliary. Show runs through February.

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Crystal Dolphin Gallery

1901 Sherman Ave, North Bend, 541-756-1989

*****ArtWalk, Thursday, February 9th, 5 - 8 p.m.: Winston bead artist Peggy Gilbertson shows and demonstrates new designs and unique, affordable custom beads and jewelry.

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Easy Lane Frames & Select Gallery

3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

"What's New?". Features Gallery Artists and their new works.

February 6 - March 30 "Winter Wonder", Reception Friday, Feb. 10th, 2-4 p.m.

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Emerald Art Center http://www.emeraldartcenter.org/

500 Main Street, Springfield 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

******February 1st - 24th "Top 21 Paintings from the 46th Fall Transparent Watercolor Society of Oregon Watercolor Show". Also Featured Member Nancy Ericksen Ward, and Work from the Photography at Oregon Committee, and other members' works. Reception February 10th, 5 - 7 p.m. Music by West Winds Flute Choir.

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Evergreen Court

Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR

541-756-7658

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Fairbanks Gallery located on campus at OSU in Corvallis. Free, open to the public Mon.- Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 8 - 12 noon. Contact Douglas Russell at 541-737-5009, or drussell@oregonstate.edu http://oregonstate.edu/fairbanksgallery

Mark Newport "Alter Egos". Hand-knit superhero costumes, embroidered comic book covers and digital prints. January 17 - February 8, 2012

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Florence Events Center

715 Quince Street, Florence Call for more info at 541-997-1994

Gallery One: "Water Media Artists" display of 16 Watercolor Society of Oregon members.

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Langlois Public Library 48234 Hwy 101, Langlois, OR 97450

Hours: Mon. 11a.m.-2 p.m., Tues-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Paintings of Sheila Oberg continue into the new year.

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Manley Art Center 433 Oak Street, Brookings, OR 541-469-1807

******February

"The Acrylics of Thomas Moody" --he will be demonstrating on Feb. 11th 4-7p.m.

Gallery Theme "Abstracts". Panel Displays: Plein Air Painters Christina Olsen, Sandy Bonney, Eileen Jensen, Philip Wadsworth, Nancy Moore-Hope, the Mudslingers.

the Photo Club presents a slide show of members' works.

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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 541-345-1571

“Shaping Visions", work by Craig S. Holmes and Maude I. Kerns Show runs through February 10th. Saturday, Jan. 28th, 2 - 4 p.m. there will be a Discussion of the show.

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North Bend Library, Conference Room February

541-756-0400 http://www.northbendlibrary.org/

******Features : Manga Art by Tiffany & Brittany Valdez

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Old City Hall-- 99 E. Second Street, Corner of Second & Adams, Coquille

The first of a series of art/music events in 2012 to celebrate CENTENNIAL 1912- 2012 in Coquille:

February 12, 2012 2:00 p.m. A multimedia show with Jack Ponting. 20 art pieces and 100 minutes of original music. $10 per person--prepaid reservations required at the door. Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for reservations and information.

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Pony Village Mall:

ArtWalk: Various artists showing at tables in lobby areas near Katherine's and Harry Ritchie Jewelers. and Artists Loft.

Also in the Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088

Gallery Artists Group Show, features jewelry by Hester Solsang. Guest Artist--watercolors by Cindy Horner

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)

Photography--local color and other works by Dan Hull

Sterling Savings Bank

Fabulous Oils by Carol Turner

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Port Orford Library January-March

Paintings by Susan Lehman, Jane Schmaltz and Ava Richey

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Raincoast Gallery

Featuring work of many local artists.

Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.

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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick Auditorium

January 7 - February 29, 2012

Graphite renderings of birds and wildlife by Lance Cox.

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January 11th through March, 2012

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center

"Down on the Farm" features agriculture related art. Don't miss it!

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com

Through March 2, 2012 "Student Art Show", 500 works in a variety of media fill all six UVAA gallery spaces.

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U.S. Bank--Coquille

Works by Joanne Drapkin; Victoria Tierney's paintings of Coos County Parks for the 30 Parks by 30 Artists Show; selected works from "TIME" - A Statewide Traveling Show of Oregon Prison Art.

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Whistling Gallery

87456 Ste. A, Whistling Drive, Bandon (located in Laurel Grove, 5 miles

south of Bandon.) A variety of artists showing 2-d and 3-d work.

Also in charge of showing work at Billy Smoothboar's and other venues for

those artists interested in showing their work, contact Vickie.

541-404-7336, or whistlinggallery@gmail.com

Feb.11 "Valentine's Wine and Art Show" no cover, no-host wine bar. Live auction of art, 10% of proceeds go to Coastal Harvest.

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Classes

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Art 101, The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140 or info@washedashore.org

Saturdays and Sundays 1 - 5:00 p.m.

Volunteer Workshops to build "Leo the Leopard Shark" Have a hand in constructing the newest member of the Washed Ashore family. This work is designed to permanently reside at the Chula Vista Nataure Center in San Diego, CA. The sculpture consists of 100% ocean going debris (plastics and more). Help inspire others to do something about this problem by building this eye-catching sculpture.

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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. Call for Class

Information at 541-756-4088

If you are interested in taking a Chinese Brush Painting class with Darlene Diehl on April 12, 2012, $67 for 5 hours with all supplies provided, please contact Carol Young at 541-260-4573. Class will be held in the Artist Loft classroom.

Beginning Watercolor with Carol Young, for info call 541-260-4573.

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Bay Be, located in Charleston, next door to High Tide Cafe is now open and offers licensed childcare for kids 3 yrs & up with a focus on nature and art projects. ALSO offer workshops for adults--making lip balm, jewelry, knitting and yoga.

Drop-in Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. with only $5 and 5 minutes we can help you create a craft such as paper, a candle, a willow basket, driftwood sculpture or bird feeder. 541-888-3265, Find us on Facebook.

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Brookings Area and more:

various classes are listed at http://wildriverscoastart.com/

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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay 541-267-4877 for more information.

Friday, February 3, 2012 Golden Acrylics and the New Inventions with Corrine Loomis Dietz 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 4, 2012 Acrylic's Seductive Surfaces and Palettes of Pigment with Corrine Loomis Dietz 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday - Thursday, April 3, 4, 5th, 2012 Watercolor from Start to Finish with Judy Morris 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturdays, May 12th & 19th: Paper Arts with Holly Rodenkirk and Mary Cervantes 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Coquille Valley Art Association 10144 Hwy 42, Coquille, OR 541-396-3294 http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org/

Painting with Pat Weaver 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesdays & Wednesdays Pat's classes cancelled for now due to illness..

Painting with Anna Crosby 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays

Painting/Drawing 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mondays

Painting with Bunny Upton 12 - 3 p.m. Mondays

Woodcarving with Larry Roberts 9-12 Mondays 541-396-2579

Woodcarving 6 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays

Wood Burning 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesdays

Play with Clay 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursdays

Ken Means Carving 9 - 12 noon and 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays

Quilting 10 a.m. on Wednesdays

Appliqué 10 a.m. Tuesdays

Stained Glass 2:30 - 5:00 and another at 6 - 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays 9:30 - 12:30

Fiber Arts 10 a.m. on Fridays

Yoga 6 p.m. Mondays No Classes during January or February.

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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend, 541-756-7638

Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Fridays, Watercolor Studio with Jane Snoddy, $10 per session.

Creating Textures in Collage with Susan Lehman, Feb.18th, 10 a.m. -2 p.m.

Palette Knife Technique with Acrylics with Carolyn Le Grande, 4 week class in February.

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Freshwater Gallery, 236B Hwy 101, Port Orford (next to Paula's Bistro)

Sundays, 3-5 p.m.: Figure Drawing with Model, $25

Mondays, 5-7 p.m.: Seascape Painting, $20 per class.

For information: 541-332-8019 or 541-236-8077, or wilddoodle@earthlink.net

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Gallery on the Bay

658 S. Empire Blvd, Empire 541-888-3771

Lessons in painting pastel by Darrell Sanders.

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Gold Beach SWOCC Center (on the fairgrounds) 541-247-2741

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Heritage Textile Arts Guild

157#A, Pony Village Mall, North Bend

Lessons available in wearables, kitchen linens and gift items.

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Manley Art Center, Brookings

Call for class and workshop schedules. 541-469-1807

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Rose Palette, Pony Village Mall, North Bend. 541-290-7858

Oil Painting classes by Carol Turner, 2:30 - 5:30 Mondays, $20 per class. You can reach Carol at 541-396-5373 for information on other classes as well.

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Rosie's Art Carnival, 575 B Hwy 101, Florence

artcarnival@oregonfast.net http://www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival
New Classes: e-mail for more information.
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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon

For a schedule of classes offered go to: http://www.sagegallerybandon.com/

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"Studio t" in Bandon presents:

Art Journaling Play Day! with Susan Lehman on Sunday, February 5, 2012. 1 - 4:00 p.m. 3 hours/$35/includes all materials except a journal. Bring a blank book no larger than 12"x16" and get creative. You will be altering photos, stitching and weaving things onto the pages, writing to prompts, doodling, stamping, stenciling and more. For registration and information contact studioblue@mycomspan.com There are still two spaces open in this class--register now if you would like to participate.

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg

1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-2532 http://www.uvarts.com/

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Wright's Custom Framing 910 Chetco Ave, Brookings 541-469-7625 saradee1@frontier.com

Drop in Art Workshop every Friday Afternoon 1 - 4 p.m.

Individual instruction in any medium; demonstrations in various mediums; critiques of completed work and works in progress. $12 per session. Just drop in and bring something you would like to work on, or need help with. Each week something new is presented during demonstrations.

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Dateline Events:

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February 4 - March 18, 2012

Second Street Gallery, Old Town Bandon 541-347-4188 http://secondstreetgallery.net/

features annual "Wall of Opportunity" with 50% off regular sales price of local artists' work including 2-d, jewelry, pottery, glass, greeting cards and books. Inventory changes weekly.

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*****Saturday, February 11, 2012 4 - 7:00 p.m.

Second Saturday Art Walk, Downtown Brookings

Many venues, delectable food and drink, amazing live entertainment, brilliant people, and of course, fabulous artwork.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:00 a.m.

Bay Area Artists Association monthly meeting features Pamela Rose Hughes presenting a program called "Learning How to See". NEW MEETING LOCATION at Pony Village Mall in North Bend, in the space next to Heritage Textile Guild (near Macy's).

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Saturday, February 11, 2012 3 - 5:00 p.m.

Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Old Town Florence OR. 541-997-8980 http://www.backstreetgallery.org/

GALA reception with featured artist Mary Beers.

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Thursdays, No meetings until March

Gold Beach Episcopal Church Easternmost end of Moore Street.

Figure Drawing. To confirm & for more information contact Alexandra

alexandra@portraitsbyalexandra.com

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Calls to Artists:

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******Deadline February 15, 2012 Postmark and/or delivery deadline for application and fee.

"Public Hanging 2012" at Florence Events Center, Florence, OR Show runs February 27 - April 30th. $20 for 3 pieces. For application and guidelines:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/pub-hanging-guidelines.pdf

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*****Deadline February 29, 2012 5 p.m.

2012 Art Contest to Benefit New ODFW (Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) Habitat Conservation Stamp

Artwork must feature one of the fish or wildlife species identified in the Oregon Conservation Strategy in its respective strategy habitat. Announcement:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/2012_Oregon_Department_of_Fish_and_Wildlife_Art_Contest.pdf

List of Species: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/conservationstrategy/docs/document_pdf/b-species.pdf

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***** Deadline April 16, 2012 for postmark and/or hand delivery of application and fee.

"Exposure 2012" Photography Only show. Florence Events Center

Show runs April 30th - June 28th, 2012 $20 per rod, rod hold 3 photographs. For guidelines and application:

http://www.eventcenter.org/images/stories/gallery-photos/exposure-guidelines.pdf

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Deadline for entry is February 10, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center "Variations: Art Expressing Music" Submit images of 2D & 3D artwork in all

mediums that is inspired by music or related to the theme of music. Supply

five digital images in color at 300 dpi on CD in jpeg format. Work will be

selected by jurors from the submitted images. There is a $15 submission

fee.

Application forms & prospectus available at http://www.mkartcenter.org/

or call 541-345-1571. Show runs April 6 - May 11, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center is located at 1910 E. 15th Ave. (corner of 15th &

Villard), Eugene. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. M-F,

Saturday--noon -4 p.m.

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Deadline for Entries February 16, 2012

Northwest Watercolor Society's 72nd Annual International Open Exhibition (you don't have to be a member to enter) http://.www.nwws.org/ for prospectus. Juror is Thomas Schaller Over $10,000 in awards.

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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Artworks NW 2012" (formerly "Hundred Valleys")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com/

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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012

"Photoworks NW 2012" (formerly titled "Best Photo")

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471

http://www.uvarts.com/

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Deadline February 29, 2012

Applications for members of the local arts to apply for grants from the Coos County Cultural Coalition are due by Feb. 29th. They have $11,000 in available funds. For more information http://www.cculturalcoalition.org

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Submission Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2012

Maude Kerns Art Center’s

Call for Artists: 2013-2014 Exhibits Schedule

Artists working in all 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, including

installations, are invited to submit images of their work along with an

application form to be considered for the next biennium (2013-2014) of

exhibits at the Maude Kerns Art Center. Submissions may include solo, group,

and/or themed shows. There is a $15 submission fee for individual artists

and a $5 fee per artist for group shows.

The postmark deadline is Friday, April 20, 2012. Application forms and

prospectuses are available at the Art Center or online at

http://www.mkartcenter.org

Call 541-345-1571 for more information.

The Maude Kerns Art Center, located at 1910 E. 15th Avenue at the corner of

15th and Villard, is Eugene’s oldest non-profit community center for the

visual arts. Gallery hours are from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday,

and noon to 4:00 pm on Saturday when exhibits are on display.

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Umpqua Valley Arts Association , Roseburg

44th Annual Summer Arts Festival, scheduled for Friday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 24th, 2012.

Look on their website: http://www.uvarts./com starting in January for applications for booths for artists, crafters, food vendors and entertainers.

This is an established, major cultural event in the Umpqua Valley drawing artists and crafters from across the U.S. for the 3 day festival with live music, food from local vendors, and lots of art. The event draws over 16,000 visitors of all ages. Proceeds benefit the UVAA's arts-in-education programs, bringing art instruction to elementary school children in Douglas County.

Those with questions are encouraged to consult the FAQ document posted on http://uvarts.com/summer-arts-festival/ or contact the UVAA by phone at 541-672-2532.

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The Artists' Village, McMinnville, OR Saturday & Sunday, July 14th & 15th, 2012

The McMinnville Sunrise Rotary Club is hosting their 4th Annual Artists' Village. Funds raised from this event go to help develop the arts and help Oregon artists with this event.

This is a juried event to obtain a booth at this show in order to sell your work. 10 ' x 10' booth under a tent, $100 for both days. Jurying fee will be non-refundable $25. Best in Show cash prizes total $1000.

They are looking for a variety of fine art participants including painting, sculpture, pottery, metalwork, dance, music and readings.

Information and applications will be posted in January on their website: http://www.artinmac.org/ Their email contact is artinmac@gmail.com

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The Spring Show: (April, May, June): “WEATHER REPORT”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Works inspired by the South Coast Weather. We’re a land of wild winds, torrential rains, glorious sunsets, rainbows, waving grasses, threatening clouds and churning (or shining) seas----all fair game for our local artists and photographers. No snapshots please. If you have a really fine photo it must be matted and framed and ready for hanging.

Any questions…..check with Ava Richey at Bandon Art Supply or call Victoria Tierney or Susan Lehman at 541-347-9888.

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The Summer Show: (July, August, September): “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

It was Crystal Landucci’s impressive collection of games of Chinese checkers that inspired this one. We’re looking for board games of all sorts that can be mounted on the walls; your own inventions would be great too……you’ve got a little while to work on this one so start inlaying those chess boards or drilling those cribbage sets….(fashioning those dominos?)…….This should be a really fun exhibit for the summer and we hope it will combine collectibles and the fruits of your imagination.

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The Fall Show: (October, November, December) “WHAT I DID ON MY VACATION”

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon

Paintings and Journals created by the travelers amongst us. We already have some folks in mind but if you have some work you think might fit in….please let us know.

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Summer Boardwalk Show at Bandon waterfront: It’s The Year of the Dragon , so start planning now!

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Bandon Library Art Committee is seeking artists for exhibitions in both the

Hallway Gallery and the Glass Cases during the 2013. You can

also put your name on the list in case there are cancellations before then.

The art can be paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, and the like;

crafts, collections, small sculptures and/or jewelry for the cases. Please

contact Alexis Proctor at alexis2101p@yahoo.com or call 541-329-0530.

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Opportunity to Sell your Work:

Kathy from "Katherine's" in Pony Village Mall (south wing) is seeking

artists to display art on Art Walk Thursdays from 5 - 8:00 p.m. each month.

The upcoming one is February 9th. The Mall will provide easels and tables.

Other stores will be doing music and appetizers. There is no fee, no

commission...it's FREE. Contact Kathy at 541-808-2248.

Florence Events Center

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Practise, practise, practise

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In my never ending search to make your life easier I have been out looking under leaves and rocks and twigs and have found for your surprise and delight…stuff!

That’s right more stuff from the Ole Trawler.

First and maybe the easiest I have ever seen is this little Web-base picture editor, Pixlr. It isn’t as powerful as the high priced spread or as flexible as Photoscape but you can do some amazing things with it and best of all it doesn’t clog up your hard drive cause it’s web-based. Let someone else’s server carry the load. Oh yes, it’s free. Now that’s not bad, no space on you hard drive and free, that’s nifty, neat and cool.

http://pixlr.com/editor/

Click on the link and then bookmark it and you’re done, a picture editor in a web-based package with nothing for you to do but click and enjoy.

Ever wonder what all of those buttons and settings on your digital camera are for and what should you do with them if you knew what they were? Wonder no more.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248699/using_your_cameras_settings_program_mode_shutter_speed_and_more.html#tk.nl_wbx_h_crawl2

Read this short but inclusive article and you’ll have the inside track and be able to manipulate your Brownie with all of the aplomb of Annie Leibovitz! Don’t let the Program setting buffalo you, take charge and make that camera whistle Dixie, oops that politically incorrect song again, maybe the Sound of Music sound track would be a better choice…The hills are alive…

And when you finish the article and are walking around with your head in your hands and thinking maybe the ole hemlock death of Socrates wasn’t such a bad deal, go to…

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

Where you can start putting all of that knowledge to good use without spoiling a single frame of digital film!

For next class there will be a pop quiz on camera settings so don’t think you can just go home and watch re-runs of Gilligan all night and expect to be prepared when we meet again!

32nd Annual Spring Photography Contest

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32nd ANNUAL SPRING PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

presented by Photographer's Forum Magazine and sponsored by SIGMA
PRIZES :: OVER $8,000
IN CASH & EQUIPMENT

EARLY ENTRY Date: APRIL 16, 2012

Early entry fee is $4.95 per photo entered

(uploaded/postmarked on or before

end of day April 16, 2012 EST)

FINAL ENTRY Date: MAY 14, 2012

Final entry fee is $5.95 per photo entered

(uploaded/postmarked on or before

end of day May 14, 2012 EST)

WINNING PHOTOS PUBLISHED IN THE NOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUM MAGAZINE AND EXHIBITED AT BROOKS INSTITUTE GALLERY 27.

ALL CONTEST FINALISTS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE BOOK BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2012.

ENTRY GIFT: 2 FREE ISSUES OF

PHOTOGRAPHER'S FORUM MAGAZINE

$10 Value - Just for Entering!

(U.S. and Canada only)

Enter Online at:

PFMagazine.com/photography-contest/

To Enter Prints or Slides by Mail

Download Entry Form:

PFMagazine.com/contest.pdf

Camille Pissarro

2012-01-30T18:26:00.001-08:00

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

::: Henry Moore :::

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There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

::: James McNeill Whistler :::

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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.