Fission, Fusion – Reflecting the Power of Art!

Join us at the South Slough Reserve William Q. Wick Auditorium from 2-4 pm June 9 for the opening of Fission/Fusion, an exhibit reflecting the power of art to depict the cycle of death and rebirth in the environment. The show features the work of local artists Mike and Yvonne Ousley, and Sarita Southgate, who have generously agreed to donate 40% of the proceeds of all art sales to the Friends of South Slough Reserve, Inc! The Fission/Fusion show will run through the end of July.

Currently Sarita Southgate is exploring ideas relating to contemporary society in nonobjective, whimsical ways. With a background as an art lover and teacher she has been occupied and preoccupied with art throughout her life. She works in several different media, enjoying the visual diversity this brings to her images. She also works in the Coos Art Museum’s print shop creating colorful abstract monotypes.


Michael William Ousley was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where his natural talents were encouraged with classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduating high school he attended Arizona State University, but his studies were placed on hold while he served in the Navy. Michael said during his tour of duty he was fortunate to be stationed in Athens, Istanbul, Barcelona, Palma de Majorica, and Tunisia, where he was inspired by the works of the classical masters. Michael incorporates elements of expressionism, fauvism, and impressionism in his work. His creative process stems from these inspirations, breaking out of the established patterns to present art in a new light.


Yvonne Ramirez Ousley was born and raised in Arizona and learned her weaving techniques from the native peoples whom she lived among. Moving to Oregon increased her exposure to people of other cultures, especially people willing to share their ethnic art and craft. In her works, she reveals the balancing of two different cultures. Yvonne creates works of art that combine unusual materials and modern themes using traditional techniques.

Second Street News

Second Street Gallery at 210 Second Street in Old Town

Bandon has teamed up with local artists to offer a series of

10 workshops this summer. All workshops will be offered

between July 16th and July 28th, 2012, and will be held

either at the gallery or at nearby locations. The goal of

the program is to stimulate creativity while teaching

participants to transpose their ideas into works of art. All

workshops are designed for beginner to intermediate level

students.


Workshops will include photography, watercolor, oil

painting, acrylic knife painting, watercolor color felting,

weaving & collage. The artists involved in the program

include Richard Rahmlow, Susan Lehman, Terry Magill, Sandra

McDonald, Jane Hardgrove, Yvonne Ousley & Jeanne Steele.

Many of the participating artists have their artwork on

display at the gallery.


For additional information on the July workshops please

contact Second Street Gallery in Old Town Bandon at

541-347-4133 or visit their website at

http://www.secondstreetgallery.net./



Richard Rahmlow

Executive Director

Second Street Gallery

secondstreetgallery.net

541.347.4133

Cave Paintings

Images of women have appeared in art for as long as there have been artists to paint them. True the earliest images we have are images of hunting and probably have magical or mystical significance.

But just as soon as things got a little easier for ole cave dwelling first man, they started looking around and decided that painting buffaloes and deer was well and good but what the designer man-cave really needed was a pretty girl.

Okay, yes that is narrow and sexist and there are countless example of not-so pretty girls who have been immortalized in art and will continue to be, but Hugh Hefner pretty much explained the way things worked by taking some pretty girls and getting them to shuck out of their clothes and making him a fortune so vast that he will never be a poor little ole man living on social security.

And he wasn’t the first one to notice, no in spite of making an obscene amount of money pandering to the basest instincts of men he caught on kinda late in the game. There were one or two guys who noticed that you can pretty much sell anything if you put a girl in the picture and hint that she might actually like you a whole lot better if you’d just buy whatever was on the other side of the picture.

And no, women are not one whit better, they stare just as hard and long and that is why boys and girls Fabio shows up on the cover of every other romance novel and not because he is essential to the story. I’m thinking Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Ashton Kutcher might just have some of that working for them so let’s all admit that we stare and move on.

See way back about 1894 The Divine Sarah needed a new poster for her performance at the Theatre de la Renaissance and the new kid in town Alphonse Mucha said, “Let me have a shot at it.” They did and he did and that one event led to the whole Art Nuevo movement which oddly enough featured a whole bunch of Alphonse Mucha’s airy, ephemeral, stylized girls.

Now at this point I would love to insert one of those wonderful pictures, but unfortunately Mr. Mucha lived in the time of Copyrights and he and his estate did a wonderful job of protecting the rights to his art for himself and his family and they take a dim view of willy-nilly blog writers posting pictures of Copyrighted art and so they tend to sue and since I am a typical, starving, garret-living, cheap wine drinking, beget eating artist my financial adviser, the Long Suffern has said, “Don’t even think about it.” And I take the Long Sufferin very seriously ever since Lorena Bobbit and knowing that I do have to from time to time sleep and the Long Sufferin knows where the knives are kept so while I would love to share the best I can do and not wind up in the Vienna Boy’s Choir is post a link to Mucha’s work.

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/mucha/mucha.html

And no I don’t have any connection except to be green with envy that someone has so many Muchas and can post them on the web and not have to worry about either Lorena or being sued and it is just unfair but that’s life so let’s move on.

A few years after Mucha another one named artist came along, he had a much more stylized view of women and he created a series of eroticized pin ups for Esquire back when there was no way to get away with actually putting in a picture of a real nekkid girl and since his girls were so much more enticing than real girls why would you bother to use the real thing when you could have the stylized thing and along came Hugh boy and noticed and he went out and hired the artist away from Esquire for his baby magazine Playboy and that is how Alberto Vargas’ girls came to form the fantasy life of two generations of American men.

Vargas girls were a lot more seductive than the hazy images of Mucha’s women and they liked doing what they were doing and they looked like they were having a real good time and if you knew them they promised you’d have a real good time too and boys young and old believed every single image Alberto painted.

http://www.thepinupfiles.com/vargas1.html

His works were so famous that every area of the country soon had a Vargas competitor, painting happy, smiling buxom nekkid girls or girls wearing stuff that the PTA would never approve of. Even wholesome products like Pangburn’s chocolates had a happy girl in a cowboy hat and a smile and nobody even bothered to object.

Right here in Coos Bay at the Praus Haus Burger shop there is a collection of some of the best imitation Vargas’s girls I have seen and having grown up, or that’s what it says on my driver’s license, long before Hugh broke the Post Offices’ ban on mailing nekkid girls through the snailmail, I can tell you I have looked at Vargas and his imitators for a bunch of years and the pictures at Praus Haus are as good as they come and you should take the time to go by and get a look and while you are there you could pick up diner and make the stay-at-home part of the business happy cause then they wouldn’t have to cook and that would eventually led to making you happy cause they’d be in a much better mood not having to stand  on tired feet and cook a dead Brontosaur for your TV dinner.

And I’m sure you didn’t know, but I am going to fix that by telling you, some of the most famous images and indelible graphics of the last century owe their existence to guys like Vargas and Mucha who did the exploratory work so that along about the end of World War II a guy named Robert McGinnis could come along and make girls the stock and trade of paperback covers and movie posters.

Don’t think so?

All those wonderful Perry Mason, Sam Durell, Matt Helm, Carter Brown and Shell Scott women came from the fertile imagination of Robert McGinnis.

If you’ve never seen a Carter Brown cover you won’t have a clue what I am talking about but Dell, no the publishing house not the computer people, okay maybe the computer people cause geeks never got a date and Carter Brown covers made sitting at home alone on a Saturday night a lot more appealing, would have been out of business long before Evan Hunter had time to write the twentieth 87^th Precinct novel or Edward S. Aarons finished the thirtieth Sam Durell novel and that would have been a serious flaw in the literature of the last century cause not everyone was in love with Bond, James Bond like President Kennedy and there had to be other books for a spy chaser to read cause ole James was too soft and Matt Helm was a too rough and Sam was just right but that’s not anything to do with art at all except Robert McGinnis painted the covers for all of those guys and made lots of teenaged boys stop and pick up the book and even if they bought it for all the wrong reasons they did finally open the book and read and reading anything when you are a teenaged boy is a lot better than most of the other things you could be doing and that is why Robert McGinnis deserves praise cause he alone curbed a bunch of juvenile delinquency.

http://www.mcginnispaintings.com/

And while he was doing all of this crime prevention, he found time to create three of the most iconic images of all time, The Barbarella poster, The James Bond pistol poster, Sean the Great and Roger versions and The Breakfast at Tiffany’s poster which made Audrey Hepburn a woman with no shape at all into a colossal sex symbol which is hard to do starting with so little to work with.

No I don’t think poster art is undying, it isn’t even mentally challenging, but it is art which the non-art community sees much more often that Fine Art and might just lead to some of them coming over from the Dark Side.

So take a look at these interesting pioneers and see what they contributed to the world of art and the next time you pass a movie theater take a look at the art and ask if it is as good as the art created by these life loving artists.

The Eyes Have It

The eyes are the windows to the soul.

This quote is so old that it has lost its origin in the sands of time. I’ve seen it attributed to Shakespeare, Leonardo, Shaw, the Bible, Darwin and a host of others. I’ve seen it listed as an English proverb, a traditional proverb and one of Aesop’s proverbs, even though Aesop told fables and not proverbs but what’s a fable between friends. The whole world seems to think this is true.

I’ve spent a lot of time using my own eyes and I’m not at all certain about the soul but I am sure it would be hard to do much arting if you didn’t have eyes. No, not impossible and it might take a switch to some more tactile media but you can create art without eyes, but it ain’t easy and maybe you should do all you can to keep your eyes working as they should and not have to learn a new skill at this late point in the game.

Eyes are important to art from so many directions it is hard to say which is the most important. Does having eyes to see with make more sense than seeing the twinkle in the eyes of a subject and how many of our Hollyweird stars would be so desirable without those dancing eyes which make us watch with eyes full of stars?

Some become stars because of physical attributes which we as mere mortals can only admire and pant after. There is only one George Clooney and he seems pretty happy making movies and dating impossibly slim women of foreign descent.

The same can be said for Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie or Charlize Theron and yes, I did list more women than men because I have more experience staring at women than I do at men, in fact I don’t stare at men at all cause that would get me whacked around the parking lot by band of homophobic vigilantes and even though they’d be blaming the blameless and taking out their own latent…well they’d be doing it wrong and besides I find women much more stare able so I stare at women and can say with complete subjectivity women are just more enjoyable staring subjects than men.

 And some of those women have a trick of artifice which makes all of those slinky curves and elegant limbs and fabulous dress immaterial. They have flashing eyes. Just ask Hallmark. A few years ago they hired Catherine Bell to make a little Hallmark holiday movie filled with all of the usual Hallmark schmaltz and soap. They figured an out-of-work actress from a second-rate television series would work cheap and if the movie didn’t bring in huge audiences it would fill the time slot and that would be okay cause it was for Halloween and they were going to get hammered by the scary Halloween movies like Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street and wiped out by the funny Halloween movies like Practical Magic which is and Arsenic and Old Lace which should be mandatory holiday viewing and still holds all of the charm it did when the one joke it had was fresh, (You don’t know that in the original Broadway production Jonathan Brewster was played by Boris Karloff and when the story says the insane killer goes crazy every time someone says he looks just like Boris Karloff, it was because it was Boris Karloff?), and so they figured a little made-for-TV-movie with an out-of-work actress like Catherine Bell would be safe.

They hadn’t counted on Catherine Bell’s dancing, twinkling eyes. Now Sister Bell has many attributes which ought to belong in the anatomy hall of fame but when she flashes those peepers look out, there is no way you can avoid being completely sucked in. Probably why The Good witch has become Hallmark’s staple go-to filler for any occasion when a crowd might be handy to have. (I do hope Ms Bell’s agent wrote a good contract and they must have done all right cause there have been three additional Good Witch films and they could make another one any time now.)

Anyway, back to the peeps, even if you aren’t Catherine bell, you should take good care of the old peepers. I hear diabetics are more likely to cheat than alcoholics. My doctor got me to play straight the first time when he said the magic words: Blind and on dialysis, that gob-smacked me good enough to stick to the rules.

And since you don’t want to be without your eyes and eyes are so important to art and since even the subjects of art need eyes to make those paintings so fantastic, you really think an enigmatic smile made the Mona Lisa so famous? What about that hooded look? You can tell that lady has something on her mind that does not meet with the seal of approval of the PTA.

So to keep your eyes and all of the eyes of your subjects and family in good shape, I want you to consider Zenni Optical

http://www.zennioptical.com/

Yes, it does take a bit of thought to order and you’ll have to learn how do read your prescription, but the amount of money you save will be a wonder. Now in Oregon where things like glasses become a write off on your taxes it is hard to justify not just heading over to the local eye joint and handing in your script and being done with it the very first thing.

But even if you are going to get back all of the money you spend on your cheaters at the end of the year, finding the scratch right now can be challenge. I tried these guys cause the local folks sort of shafted me on the last pair of glasses I got. I paid close to four hundred dollars for the frames and the lenses and within a year the frames failed and they wouldn’t or couldn’t fix tem and just shrugged and said you’ll have to go in and get a new prescription.

Thanks a bunch. So when I learned about Zenni I thought I’d give them try. I’ve had two pairs of glasses made, one a single vision set of readers and the other bifocals. Yes, thank you very much I am that old.

I couldn’t be more pleased. The two pair cost less than fifty dollars, I got the first set in about two weeks and the readers came in seven days and that is faster than I would have gotten them if I had gone local.

So I think you should take a look and give them a try. I hope you have exactly the same good experience I did and if you don’t the price will be so low it was worth a bet even if they don’t get it right and they probably will so I’m just saying that you ought to give them a shot so that you can save some money and have more art supplies in your box instead of buying another Mercedes for the guys at the optical plant.

Workers of the world unite!

 The time for revolution is now!

Peace luv and Frisbee in the park, man. Let’s all go back to the commune and smoke…

Well, maybe that’s not such a good idea. It seemed like a great idea back in those days and maybe because of the loss of brain cells brought on by all that smoking and toking, it seemed like a really smart thing to do…

But the underlying idea was a good one; people have more authority, more effect, more impact when they unite. They can accomplish things which they as an individual could never do and this is the idea I’d like to talk about.

We the costal art community need a commune. We need a place where we can show our art without cost, limit, or judgment. There are folks out there who have never had a picture shown because they do not do the sort of art most juries find attractive. Now, they certainly should think about why they venture so far from the beaten path but that doesn’t mean they should give up the road less traveled. But it does mean they won’t ever have a chance to be shown unless there is a no questions venue for all artists on the Oregon Coast.

There are artists who have no trouble finding places for their art to be seen, you know the ones, they get mentioned in every newsletter by every reporter, by every print media and the names are always the same because these are the guys who never stop digging. They get up early, get out and get moving and when a place says they will hang art, they sign up before the notice hits the papers.

There are artists who do shows, you know them too, they have that magic touch that gets them past every jury. They get noticed by judges, juries and gallery owners and their work is everywhere.

There are artists who beat the drums, apply for the grants, make the thing happen and they get their work up when no one else does because they are full of energy and drive and passion.

But they aren’t the only artists on the coast.

What if your work does not easily fit into a category which can be defined in a prospectus? What if you do work of top-notch quality, but you like subjects which are not cutting edge, avant-garde, buzzworthy, where does your work fit in the art scene?

Maybe you can’t easily adapt your work into clever nifty, neat and cool things which can be turned into trinkets for the tourist trade. Will the galleries give you space or will they select some other artists who has a very saleable gift and makes things which they cam market? Those nice gallery folks are running a business and if they pick things that sell so they can pay the light bill you just can’t blame them for that.

So how do you get your work out and about?

Certainly you should do all of the things those terribly clever, driven, passionate artists do, contact venues and beg, plead, wart until they hang you just to get rid of you. Make your work into something not specifically art which the average tourist will go, “What a wonderful do-hickey, Mabel, let’s get one for the house and maybe one more for the kids.” If a new place with walls opens up be first in line for the owner’s attention so that if they actually want art for those new and very bare walls they will have to talk to you first and do it all over again and again…

And lobby every artist, every gallery owner, BAAA member and museum member every time you see them with the notion that an Artists collective is a thing which we desperately need.

No not because the work is inherently non-commercial, but because the fire in the artist’s gut doesn’t want to be commercial just to get displayed.

And remember all the nice people who do show art have time limits. They have to rotate art around because they have to justify their displays with sales.

In an Artist’s Coop, run by artists, for artists, for artist’s works which may or may not be commercial, time limits would be at the discretion of the cooperative, not at the mercy of the balance sheet.

You cannot tell me with all of the empty building in this area there isn’t a single landlord who wouldn’t rather have people coming into their building, seeing how great it looks, thinking about what it could be used for and oh yes, looking a great art. Maybe there’s a landlord who is an artist who would be willing to let an empty building they own be utilized as a home for an Artist’s Co-op. Maybe there’s a grant we could apply for which would give us the money to found an Artists Co-op.

Yeah it is a pipe dream, but maybe one day it will happen.

From Susan Lehman

Check out Victoria Tierney's and Vicki Affatati's project. They wrote a grant to help pay for the latest Kids' Art on the Boardwalk. Cleone Reed created this book documenting the project working with the Bandon middle school kids. She took pictures of all of the children and their artwork. The show goes up on Bandon's Boardwalk this next week!



http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3286921

Ava Richey's Art News

Hello Everyone,
This Monday, June 4th, 12 - 3 p.m. the paintout will be at the vacant lot west of the parking lot on Alabama in Old Town in Bandon.  We will be painting the stand of cypress trees above Old Town.
If we get rained out we will meet at Art by the Sea Gallery in the Continuum Building.

Our theme this summer is "Iconic Trees of the South Coast".  So if you have a favorite tree or two that you think we would like to set up and paint, please let me know.  We will have a show with our trees later on.
Bring a sack lunch and beverage if you like. 

***You might like to look at an article below with information on COPYRIGHTS that is reprinted with permission from Bob Burridge from his "Artsy Fartsy Newsletter".

My phone number 541-297-6118.

Thanks!
Ava
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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

Art by the Sea  Studio and Gallery, in the Continuum Building/Old Town
Bandon.  Open every day 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., except Tuesday,
Wall art, prints, cards, jewelry, pottery, etc. of local South Coast artists.
Come in and check it out!!

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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.

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 Artists' Information Corner:  "Copyright Information"...reprinted with permission from Robert Burridge's Artsy Fartsy Newsletter.  To sign up for the newsletter or to learn more about Bob's paintings and workshops visit http://RobertBurridge.com


Shirley from Oregon asks:
Please explain to me how copyright works.  I took Bob’s class a couple months ago in Oregon and I do not exactly understand…..does your copyright mean that we cannot paint any pears or other vegetables or fruit or  tree or floral or landscape that Bob taught us how to paint in class.  Of course, I know that we cannot copy exactly  those items that are on his Web pages, but if we do our own versions of the above items?  I did really enjoy the class and learned a lot, but I do submit paintings to our local art shows, etc.  but just am not sure  where I can go on this information.

Dear Shirley,
Thanks for your question -- and it is a doozy!
I have been asked this question about copyright, fair use, etc etc, a number of times and I have spent many hours combing thru copyright websites to see if I could find out anything new.

What Bob and I teach is this - it is an infringement of copyright if another's work is copied - in ANY way. The "percent changed argument" is so ambiguous that it is almost a non-issue. There is no magic formula. Yes - if an artist copies their instructor or a step-by-step from a magazine, they are infringing the copyright. I guess, to be fair, the art magazines should publish a disclaimer OR give everyone a fair use permit. On the other hand, studies completed in a workshop or with a magazine "lesson" were never meant to be works of art to be exhibited, sold or published.

Sometimes artists have gotten away with copying by saying "after the manner of..." or "in homage to..." but it is still copying.

Those are my two cents. A VERY interesting subject and certainly charges up a room of art students!

To keep yourself in the know and updated, here’s your homework - go to these websites:
www.plagiarismtoday.com
www.loc.gov/copyright
www.artcc.org

Click here (paste this into your browser: http://www.robertburridge.com/newsletter/artsyfartsy_june12/images/Art_Copyright_Coalition_White_Paper.pdf to view the PDF by Joshua Kaufman titled Copyright Infringement, An Art Copyright Coalition White Paper.

Also check out Joshua Kaufman’s website: www.jjkaufman.com
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Current Shows:

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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence

See Call to Artists in the last section below....

http://www.backstreetgallery.org

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Bandon Public Library    June 2012
****In the glass cases:  "Wild, Woolly"--- three dimensional needle felted creations enhanced with natural found objects by Tonya Rosen.

****In the hallway gallery:  "Colors of the Oregon Coast:" ---Photography of Patricia Davidson
Opening Reception will be Thursday, June 7th, 5 -7 p.m. in the Sprague Room at the Library.  Public is welcome.  http://pddesignsimages.com     http://facebook.com/pddesignsimages
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Black Market Gourmet,  495 Central Ave, Coos Bay. Open Tuesday - Friday, 11
a.m. - 6 p.m.  541-269-0194
Friday, May 17th, 5 - 8 p.m.  Opening for photography show by Robert Levy
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Chetco Community Library, Brookings

Features Audi Stanton's "Chasing Challenges in Paint".  You will see several
styles of Audi's diverse artwork at the Library.
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Coos Art Museum  235 Anderson Ave. Coos Bay    541-267-3901
http://www.coosart.org

"Expression West 2012", and "In Fine Form:Figures by
Four", and ""Photographic Synthesis, works by the Oregon Coast
Photographers.  The four artists in the figure show are: Alexandra
Eyer--Watercolor & Oil; Lorraine Filippone--Acrylic & Oil; Pat
Renner--Watercolor & Acrylic; J.M. Steele--Oil & Acrylic

****BAAA Artist of the Month for June is Jean Adamson who currently specializes in plein air watercolor paintings.

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Coos Bay Library  525 West Anderson, Coos Bay
June  ******Nancy & Frank Price--Photos of China
******Terry Woodall-- Wood Sculpture in the lobby
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Coquille Valley Art Center   10144 Hwy 42, Coquille 541-396-3294
http://www.coquillevalleyartcenter.org

May 5 - June 2nd  "Impressions of Old City Hall" 
Hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Congratulations to Michael W.Ousley who has a painting displayed in this show.
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Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. 5th Street, Coquille, OR
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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

*****June exhibit is "Sand & Sea"--a variety of local artists display their interpretations of the Oregon Coast in all mediums.
Opening reception is during ArtWalk on Thursday, June 14th.

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

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 Evergreen Court, Baycrest Village, 451 O'Connell St., North Bend, OR
541-756-7658

All-in-One" Solo Art Exhibit featuring paintings by S L Donaldson.
Show runs May 1 - June 30, 2012
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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
To see artwork created by Douglas Russell go to Coos Art Museum, upstairs, where Doug's work is currently showing in conjunction with "Expressions West 2012" in which he was the juror.
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Florence Events Center
715 Quince Street, Florence  Call for more info at 541-997-1994

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Freshwater Gallery  236-B, HWY 101, Port Orford  541-332-8019

"Where Does Heat Go", features oil paintings of Geoffrey Rhoads.  Opening reception Friday, May 4th, 4:00 p.m. - 7 p.m.  Show continues through Memorial Day weekend  Port Orford Art Walk event.

Sunday, May 27th Art Walk   3 - 6:00 p.m.

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Gallery by the Bay   2100 Union Ave, North Bend
Regular gallery hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
*****Features Liz Youngker, mixed media; and Linda Morris, dichroic glass jewelry, clay work and acrylic paintings.
Performing artists Jan Werts and Tom Drayne African Drumming on Thursday, June 14th  5-7:00 p.m. for ArtWalk.  Refreshments will be served.  Artwork will be exhibited through June 28th.
For more informaiton Kay Van Wart, . 
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Gallery on the Bay  541-888-3771  Oils & Pastels of Birds & Animals

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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St., Port Orford

Sunday, May 27th --ArtWalk  3 - 6:00 p.m.

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High Tide Cafe, Charleston

Rod Sullens is the featured artist this month, along with other artists including Michael W. Ousley and Mike Holm.

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

Link to the calendar:
http://wildriverscoastart.typepad.com/TIDE-2012-04.pdf
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Maude Kerns Gallery 1910 East 15th Ave, Eugene, OR    541-345-1571
http://www.mkartcenter.org
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MECCA (Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts), 449 Willamette Street,
Eugene

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North Bend Library, Conference Room    541-756-0400
http://www.northbendlibrary.org

*****June 2012    Floral Photographs by Paula Reis in the Conference Room:
Sharon Smith's "Memories of Newfoundland in the tall display case.

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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:
Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088
Featured artist is Sharon Backues' portraits, landscapes and still lifes.
Guest artists: members Jean Adamson, Pam Caladrino, Liz Coke, Patricia Davidson, Carol Howald, Sherry Howk, Dan Hull, Christy Sanders, Hope Sessums, Shirley Sargent Wilhelmsen, Carol Young and Barbara Mahon displaying watercolors, acrylics, oils, collage, ink and charcoal, photography, glass and jewelry..

Cone 9  Local artists featured

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)   Carolyn LeGrand's ink, watercolor or acrylic art.

Sterling Savings Bank
features paintings by Magda Druzdel, Gold Beach.

Harry Ritchie's Jewelers:   Artwork of Cheryl LeVesque and Beebe Slater

Turner Art Studio & Gallery, Ste 128, 541-290-7858  
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Port Orford Library  April through June

Sheila Oberg and Andy Anderson

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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, 210 2nd Street, Old Town Bandon
www.secondstreetgallery.net  541-347-4133 or e-mail at
info@secondstreetgallery.net

Fourth Annual Miniature & Small Works Exhibition
  Show runs April, May and June, 2012
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Signatures Gallery, 515 Chetco Avenue, Brookings,  OR   541-469-1085 or
541-661-0132  http://www.signaturesgallery.com

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South Slough Interpretive Center, Charleston -- in the William Q. Wick
Auditorium   541-888-5558  61907 Seven Devils Rd., Charleston  Hours 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

*****"Fission/Fusion: reflecting the Power of Art"  Features the work of Yvonne Ramirez Ousley, Sarita Southgate and Michael William Ousley.  Show runs through August 30th.

Opening Reception Saturday, June 9th   2 - 4:00 p.m.
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Southern Coos Hospital & Health Care  

April 22nd - June  "Weather Report--Art Inspired by the Weather" 

***See information on drop-off dates for the upcoming summer show below under Calls to Artists.

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Triangle Square Gallery  343 6th Avenue, Port Orford, OR
www.trianglesquareart.com

Oleh Lysiak  See his fabulous mobile sculptures
and "Reasonably Unruly"

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Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1625 W. Harvard, Roseburg

541-672-2532    http://www.uvarts.com

 "Artworks NW" opens in the Hallie Brown Ford Gallery.  Show runs through July 6, 2012
 "Photoworks NW" opens in the Red Gallery.  Show runs through July 6, 2012
 "WSO's Traveling Aqueous Exhibit" opens in the Corridor Gallery and the Alcove Gallery.
 "Seasons of Color" by Andrew Duclos opens in Gallery II.


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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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Mitch Baird is holding a plein air painting workshop that covers the fundamental principles of painting and composition as well as learning to 'see' as an artist.  Drawing, value, color and edges will be stressed as well as building a strong design from the elements of nature.  Two day for $200.  June 2nd & 3rd.  On Sauvie Island near Portland, OR.  to register contact Mitch at mitch@mitchbaird.com
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Art 101/ Washed Ashore    The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140
or  info@washedashore.org

Sculpture Building Workshop at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, April
18 - 21st

New Workshop Hours:  Thursdays, 5 - 8 p.m. and  Sundays  2 - 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, Continuum Bldg., Old Town
Bandon,    541-297-6118
Saturday, June 2, 2012  1 -3:00 p.m.  Flower Printing Workshop with Joanne B. Drapkin.  Learn how to create flower, herb or leaf prints.  Take home 5 note cards, 1 laminated coaster and colorful practice sheets.
Contact Joanne at 541-347-8179, or sign up at Art by the Sea.  $15  jbdrap1550@yahoo.com

Tuesday, June 19, 2012  Watercolor Workshop: Learn the Lifting technique. $25  Instructor Victoria Tierney.  10 a.m. - 2 p.m.   For more information call 541-297-6118.

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

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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CDABA (Coastal Douglas Arts & Business Alliance) Art Academy, Reedsport
Sue Bridston   541-271-4608
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Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay   541-267-4877 for more information.
Multi-Media Design for Young Artists, begins Tuesday, July 10th, with
Stephanie Tomlin

Pastel Expression Session with Karen Watson  Sat. & Sun., July 7 & 8th 10
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
Pottery/ Open Studio   Thursdays 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.  Anyone can come & try out clay.
Pottery Classes available by appointment and will work around your schedule as much as possible.  Non-members welcome too.
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
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.

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)
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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Rosie's Art Carnival,  575 B  Hwy 101, Florence
artcarnival@oregonfast.net                      www.facebook.com/rosiesartcarnival
****Wednesday, June 13, 2012   2 p.m.    Artist Trading Cards Swap.  --meet, swap, then stay to work on more.
****Friday card classes each week... 10 a.m. and again at 12:30  Sign up ahead so you can get a materials packet.
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Sage Place, 11th & Elmira, Bandon
For a schedule of classes offered go to:  http://www.sagegallerybandon.com
SIGN UP NOW for upcoming SAS COLBY workshop on Sept 21st and 22nd.  new things different than last year.  deposit now...class fee will be $225
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Southwestern Community College

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

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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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Friday, June 1, 2012    5 - 7 p.m.
****"First Friday Art is for Everyone" at Reedsport Natural Foods, 1891 Winchester Ave, Reedsport.  Sponsored by Coastal Douglas Arts and Business Alliance.
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Saturday, June 2, 2012  9:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Curry Arts Free Watercolor Class
Brookings artists Audi Stanton will help you complete a full painting and show you some painting and texture techniques to make a magnificent seascape.  For adults 18 and older.  To sign up, call Sharon Guinn at 541-425-1213.  Limited space so sign up early.  Workshop materials list is available.  Participants encouraged to bring a sack lunch.
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***Thursday, June 7, 2012  10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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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Saturday, June 9, 2012       11:00 a.m.
*****Pony Village Mall across from Maurice's (near Macy's)
Bay Area Artists Assn. monthly meeting--  Features Coni Stroud of Art Connection.  She will be presenting information on framing and matting your artwork.  Public is welcome.
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*****Saturday, June 9, 2012   10 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Soul Collage Workshop offered by Jennifer Starr, Master Certified Coach (MCC) from Boulder, CO.
South Coast Hospice Education Center, 1620 Thompson Rd. Coos Bay.  Contact: Jean Boynton at 541-267-2693, or send check to 759 9th St., Coos Bay, OR 97420  Cost is $35 prepaid or $45 on day of workshop.
Experience the magical process of self-exploration through this fun and easy form of creative expression, based on the book SoulCollageR by Seena Frost.  The theme will be "Reclaiming the Hero Within." based on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey material.  More info about Jennifer is at http://www.radiantstar.net
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Saturday, June 9, 2012  3 p.m.
BAAA sponsors "Chalk it Up" at Portland Bagel Co.#3 on the corner of Broadway & Newmark in North Bend.  The tables there are covered with chalkboard paint.  Artists are free to collaborate so bring your friends and create fun artwork.  The owner will take pictures of completed artwork for display at Portland Bagel Co. #3.  No fee to participate.  Chalk in various colors will be provided.  RSVP would be helpful, but is not required.  For more info contact Stephanie Donaldson at 541-404-9511 or info@sldonaldsonfineart.com
Winner of the best Chalk 'Masterpiece' gets a Bagel Sandwich.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012  2 - 4 p.m.
South Slough NERR Interpretive Center, Charleston  61907 Seven Devils Rd  541-888-5558
Opening reception for "Fission/Fusion: Reflecting the Power of Art"  Features the work of Yvonne Ramirez Ousley, Sarita Southgate and Michael William Ousley.
Show runs June 9 - Aug. 30, 2012  Hours are 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Tueseday through Saturday.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012    5 - 8:00 p.m.
ArtWalk    North Bend, Coos Bay, Empire    Various Venues 
For locations & info visit or call Crystal Dolphin Gallery at 541-756-1989
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Friday, June 29, 2012   
*****HarborTown Event Center  Old Town Bandon, next door to MacFarlin's
Fourth Annual Grand Salon opening reception with art, food, drink, music and ping-pong tables.
Show runs through July 13, 2012    Contact Victoria Tierney for more information 541-347-9862.
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Calls to Artists:

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*****Call to All Artists:  Pony Village Mall:  "Patriotic Art Display.  Inviting all interested artists to display their red-white-blue art for the month of July. For more information contact Kathi at Cone 9.  541-808-2248
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***** Drop off date for “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”
The Summer Show: (July, August, September): at Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, Bandon
9:00 a.m. Thursday, July 5th at the hospital.
Looking for "collectables" such as old chess boards, backgammon boards, cribbage sets THAT ARE WIRED TO HANG ON THE WALL.  Or a game you have invented, photos of games/sporting events such as local golf courses; paintings of the same; depiction of psychological games people play.  Get Creative!  It's summertime..time for fun and games.

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?)…….Paintings of games.  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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Calling All Artists for the UVAA Membership Show!
From: The Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR
Contact: Aleta McGee, 541-672-2532
Website: http://uvarts.com/call-to-artists/
Submission deadline: PAPER WORK ONLY IS DUE to UVAA by no later than Wednesday, June 13!

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 "Models on the Move"    Backstreet Gallery, Florence
Artists have the opportunity to decorate an artist's mannequin in a creative, clever, flamboyant way to enhance and transform the model into an art piece.  Entry fee and mannequin $10.  Can be picked up beginning May 15th at Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street, Florence.
The model creations will be on display at the Gallery during the month of August.  Opening reception is on August 11th Artwalk for all artists.  The proceeds go to Florence's GALA ArtWalk.  A silent auction and reception to celebrate the models will take place in the Bromley Room at the Siuslaw Library, Saturday, 8/15/12, 5-7 p.m.
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Delivery Deadline Monday & Tuesday, June 4th & 5th
Easy Lane Frames invites you to enter "Sand and Sea":  Artwork spotlighting the beautiful South Coast.  This show will be judged by a professional; prizes and ribbons awarded.  Art may be 2 or 3 dimensional.  No size limitation. 2-dimensional work must be ready to hang.  Opening reception will be Thursday, June 14th during ArtWalk, 5 - 8:00 p.m.  For more information call 541-756-7638.
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Time to get cracking on this project---it will be July before you know it.  :)
Five Rivers, Five Days Plein Air Festival , and Quick Draw Event  August
13 - 17, 2012   $5.00 to enter Quick Draw Contest, No fee to register as
artist. 541-469-9522  burtonique@gmail.com
http://www.Renaissancebythesea.blogspot.com

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Deadline: Friday, June 1, 2012, 11:59PM Mountain Daylight Time.

2nd Annual Industry & Art juried exhibition and sale to be held at Vigor
Industrial on Swan Island, 5555 N. Channel Ave., Portland.  .Industry in Art
(sponsored by the Working Waterfront Coalition of Portland) invite artists
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to submit up the 3 digital images
of existing original artwork.  The event is a fundraiser to support
industrial job training programs and habitat restoration.

Applications must be submitted using the CaFÉ website
(www.callforentry.com).

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Application deadline June 1, 2012  5:00 p.m.

The City of Ashland Public Art Commission is seeking an artist(s) to create
site-specific art as part of the Ashland Fire Station No. 2 replacement.
The Fire Station is located at 1860 Ashland Street.  This opportunity is
open to established professional artists living in the Northwest
(Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California.)

http://www.ashland.or.us/News.asp?NewsID=2468
http://www.ashland.or.us/Page.asp?NavID=14633

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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 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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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 June 14th. 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.