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Friday, January 7, 2011
Winter Workshops at Sage and Sage Place.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
KIDS ART SHOW
Students, parents, teachers and the general public are invited to the reception on Sunday, January 9th from 1-3 pm for the opening of the Kid’s Art Show at the Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center in Bandon. There will be punch and cookies served and music will be provided by Holly and Jim Sylvester and Mary Johnson.
This latest art show at the hospital features art work being created by students at Ocean Crest Elementary School as well as art from special programs around the area. Art works from Carolyn Le Grand’s classes at the Boys and Girls Club in Coos Bay will be featured along with those of Anastasia Savenko-Moore’s students from her classes at the Coos Art Museum, her Little Owl School and Terry Magill’s Many Hands Studio in Myrtle Point. Carol Waxham’s TAG students, Cynthia Hogatt’s HeadStart students, and Bittin Duggan’s students from the Lighthouse Charter School are also participating in the show.
Please join in celebrating the art being created by the children in this area and see what wonderful programs there are available. This exhibition which is up through the end of March is sponsored by AVK Arts and the Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center.
Any questions: contact Susan Lehman at 541 347-9888.
This latest art show at the hospital features art work being created by students at Ocean Crest Elementary School as well as art from special programs around the area. Art works from Carolyn Le Grand’s classes at the Boys and Girls Club in Coos Bay will be featured along with those of Anastasia Savenko-Moore’s students from her classes at the Coos Art Museum, her Little Owl School and Terry Magill’s Many Hands Studio in Myrtle Point. Carol Waxham’s TAG students, Cynthia Hogatt’s HeadStart students, and Bittin Duggan’s students from the Lighthouse Charter School are also participating in the show.
Please join in celebrating the art being created by the children in this area and see what wonderful programs there are available. This exhibition which is up through the end of March is sponsored by AVK Arts and the Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center.
Any questions: contact Susan Lehman at 541 347-9888.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The South Coast comes to Ashland
A bit of the coast goes inland as J. M. Steele joins the list of top artists represented by the Thomas Lee Gallery. This pristine space is located in Ashland, so plan on making it an overnight trip. Get your excursion finalized early and you can go during The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and revel in food for the mind and the mind's eye.
http://www.thomasleegallery.com/
J.M. isn't the only South Coast artist represented by the Thomas Lee Gallery, Tod, her better half is on the roster too and has already sold two works. The link will take you to the website and you can see for yourself why Tod and J. M. have been so fortunate.
Congratulations Steeles, thanks for getting the Word about South Coast art out. In those culturally deprived inland areas they need all the fine art they can get.
http://www.thomasleegallery.com/
J.M. isn't the only South Coast artist represented by the Thomas Lee Gallery, Tod, her better half is on the roster too and has already sold two works. The link will take you to the website and you can see for yourself why Tod and J. M. have been so fortunate.
Congratulations Steeles, thanks for getting the Word about South Coast art out. In those culturally deprived inland areas they need all the fine art they can get.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Not all of the art gets displayed in Oregon, some of it goes south and winds up in California. But we won't hold that against J. M. Steele, 2008 winner of the CAM Biennial. This sort of art might just make getting your visa renewed a good thing. Besides traveling to foreign lands can be broadening, you see different things, meet interesting people and are exposed to strange and terrible culture. Not as exciting as a trip to Vegas but this way you get to travel and come home with money. Not a bad trade-off.
http://www.efgallery.com/
If you don't believe me take a look at the E F Gallery site. And call your travel agent.
http://www.efgallery.com/
If you don't believe me take a look at the E F Gallery site. And call your travel agent.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Year One
This is the very first day of the new year and what are your plans?
You say you can't think with three football games going on at once and the dog howling to get out and the washer banging because some one overloaded it and now it is trying to rip a hole in the laundry room floor. You need a whole new perspective on life. Why not try art?
I know you have been doing your craft for years and are highly respected in the community and have a wall full of awards and get invitations to show your work from galleries and museums all the time. So what. It's a new year and the slate has been cleared and what you make of depends on what you start doing today.
Maybe you should get out of the studio and start a class? You have all of the credentials, right? Why not share some of that hard won knowledge? Doing it the hard way is what happens when you can't find a teacher. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. New people move to the south coast every day and they know nothing about where to find things here. Go see if you can help them.
Ever wonder why Ava Richey and Susan Lehman get mentioned all of the time? “No, they're just teacher's pets and they get all the good words and probably even get to clean the erasers.” If they do and they don't, because they are so busy that they would, but they don't have the time, so get over it and admit that they do twice as much as any three people and wouldn't you like to know why and how? Maybe if you asked them, they'd tell you. I know, radical idea, ask people about what you'd like to know.
Yes, I do know when you ask an artist about their work everybody within earshot rolls their eyes up into their heads and loses the will to live. Except for the ones willing to pay attention. They actually listen and learn something.
Did you know the South Coast if full of educators? Ex-teachers are hiding behind every easel. They put up with rude, screaming brats for years and now that they are retired you think there is anything an artist can do to intimidate them? Phooey! Go ask them how they got so smart.
Talent. That and a five dollar bill will keep you from getting thrown out of Starbucks. (Just don't take any five dollar bills in North Bend 'cause there are rotten, nasty forgers lurking about and they'd just love to give you some of their art work). Talent is great, but unless you use it and keep on using it and find a way to develop it, is just another happy gift. Remember the line about Carnegie Hall? Nowhere does it say, “Talent.”
Make this the year you go out and beg, plead, weep, toady and moan until you get someone to pony up the money to mount a show. Our Coos Art Museum director Steven Broocks is too polite to say so, but the truth is if you go out and get the money and do the organization and send out all of the mailings he can probably find a place for you to stage your show. But come prepared, he has too much work to do to stop and deal with half-realized pipe dreams.
Maybe a show is too big an idea. How about meeting a fellow artist? As artists we tend to dig in and hide in our studios and not come out until well after Punxsutawney Phil has signaled the all clear. But we could. We could go out and talk to the other artists in the community. There are receptions almost every weekend. Go, look and meet, and you might just enjoy yourself. How 'bout taking a look at The Art Connection, Easy Lane Frames and Select Gallery, Sage Gallery, Whistling Gallery, Bandon Art Supply, The Black Market Gourmet, every one of those places is usually full of artists and they talk. They actually like to meet new people. Did you know that Monty Rogers, one of the most gifted and distinguished artists in our community is a delightful fellow and has a bag full of stories he'll share along with his prodigious knowledge of art and technique. Ask him about the “Ladies” being invited out of town. David Castleberry can be intimidating and I don't always understand what he is doing with his art, but boy can he do it! And if you haven't shared a table with him at the Fall Fling or one of the other events you've missed out. But then how would you know if you don't get out of the studio.
The year is what you make of it. I have learned so much and met so many talented and gifted people since I started writing the South Coast Trawler, I can't begin to acknowledge all of them. Fortunately they don't look for a credit line or a pat on the back, they're just doing what a friend does, they share their gifts, their spirit, their hearts and their knowledge, and thank God, their tales, tall or not!
You say you can't think with three football games going on at once and the dog howling to get out and the washer banging because some one overloaded it and now it is trying to rip a hole in the laundry room floor. You need a whole new perspective on life. Why not try art?
I know you have been doing your craft for years and are highly respected in the community and have a wall full of awards and get invitations to show your work from galleries and museums all the time. So what. It's a new year and the slate has been cleared and what you make of depends on what you start doing today.
Maybe you should get out of the studio and start a class? You have all of the credentials, right? Why not share some of that hard won knowledge? Doing it the hard way is what happens when you can't find a teacher. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. New people move to the south coast every day and they know nothing about where to find things here. Go see if you can help them.
Ever wonder why Ava Richey and Susan Lehman get mentioned all of the time? “No, they're just teacher's pets and they get all the good words and probably even get to clean the erasers.” If they do and they don't, because they are so busy that they would, but they don't have the time, so get over it and admit that they do twice as much as any three people and wouldn't you like to know why and how? Maybe if you asked them, they'd tell you. I know, radical idea, ask people about what you'd like to know.
Yes, I do know when you ask an artist about their work everybody within earshot rolls their eyes up into their heads and loses the will to live. Except for the ones willing to pay attention. They actually listen and learn something.
Did you know the South Coast if full of educators? Ex-teachers are hiding behind every easel. They put up with rude, screaming brats for years and now that they are retired you think there is anything an artist can do to intimidate them? Phooey! Go ask them how they got so smart.
Talent. That and a five dollar bill will keep you from getting thrown out of Starbucks. (Just don't take any five dollar bills in North Bend 'cause there are rotten, nasty forgers lurking about and they'd just love to give you some of their art work). Talent is great, but unless you use it and keep on using it and find a way to develop it, is just another happy gift. Remember the line about Carnegie Hall? Nowhere does it say, “Talent.”
Make this the year you go out and beg, plead, weep, toady and moan until you get someone to pony up the money to mount a show. Our Coos Art Museum director Steven Broocks is too polite to say so, but the truth is if you go out and get the money and do the organization and send out all of the mailings he can probably find a place for you to stage your show. But come prepared, he has too much work to do to stop and deal with half-realized pipe dreams.
Maybe a show is too big an idea. How about meeting a fellow artist? As artists we tend to dig in and hide in our studios and not come out until well after Punxsutawney Phil has signaled the all clear. But we could. We could go out and talk to the other artists in the community. There are receptions almost every weekend. Go, look and meet, and you might just enjoy yourself. How 'bout taking a look at The Art Connection, Easy Lane Frames and Select Gallery, Sage Gallery, Whistling Gallery, Bandon Art Supply, The Black Market Gourmet, every one of those places is usually full of artists and they talk. They actually like to meet new people. Did you know that Monty Rogers, one of the most gifted and distinguished artists in our community is a delightful fellow and has a bag full of stories he'll share along with his prodigious knowledge of art and technique. Ask him about the “Ladies” being invited out of town. David Castleberry can be intimidating and I don't always understand what he is doing with his art, but boy can he do it! And if you haven't shared a table with him at the Fall Fling or one of the other events you've missed out. But then how would you know if you don't get out of the studio.
The year is what you make of it. I have learned so much and met so many talented and gifted people since I started writing the South Coast Trawler, I can't begin to acknowledge all of them. Fortunately they don't look for a credit line or a pat on the back, they're just doing what a friend does, they share their gifts, their spirit, their hearts and their knowledge, and thank God, their tales, tall or not!
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