Accomplishments

The strange thing about ability is that the more you do and the busier you are the more you can do and can accomplish.

Now that to me doesn’t seem fair. If you take on a lot of responsibility and have a lot of work in your life already you ought to get a break and be able to kick back and take a load off, but that just isn’t the way fate works.

Have you ever noticed, if you aren’t doing anything and no one is coming around you’ll stay that way, but the minute you start a project, especially if it is something which demands all of your attention and concentration, the phone rings, the doorbell rings, the kids start a fight, the school calls and the cat throws up?

And to an artist this is doubly dangerous because as artists we often denigrate our own work by thinking that it really isn’t as important as all of those others things like family and fiends.

The truth is your art is the most important thing in your life and if you short cut it you are probably short cutting all of the other important things in your life and that isn’t respectful of your own gifts and the people you care most about.

One of the most damaging ways an artist subverts their work is to believe that you can get it all done without money.

Try telling a Congressman that he can have anything he wants but he can’t spend any money to get it and see how long he stays in your neighborhood. Politicians are great at recognizing they have to get reelected to keep the wheels turning and they can’t do that without money.

But ask an artist how they plan to keep the coin coming in and they’ll make a sour face and say that they ever concern themselves with material things. Their world is creativity and they have to keep their minds clear and their souls pure to have the clarity to make all of the wonderful images that they make.

Then they get the hell away from you as fast as they can for fear that you’ll start talking about making that nasty ole money.

But you just have to understand money makes all of the materials you use for your art possible.

Okay, I am a photographer and I use cameras and software and printers and paper and I depend on it for most of what I do and in that respect I am more dependant on the process than a painter or sculptor, but try to paint without pigments and you’ll get the idea. You have to have things and those things cost money and you have to get it to have the things you need to make the art you make, dontcha you see?

So with Halloween a day away and with Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s just a head and then there’s Valentine’s and St Paddy’s Day just over the horizon you have six months of opportunities ahead and you should have already laid your plans to market, market, market your art.

The first and most important part of any marketing plan is you. Yes, your art is what you are marketing but you are the creator and that is more than half of the battle.

Think about the artists everyone knows and everyone sees and everyone hears about and I’ll bet you you know exactly what they look like and what they sound like and how tall they are cause more than likely they have gotten out there and done all of the talk shows and the morning shows and the malls and the cafes and they have made themselves such a public nuisance, that they are well-known.

They didn’t do this cause they wanted their face on People magazine, okay so maybe some of them did, but what they wanted was the exposure. You really believe that all of those twenty somethings leave home without their BVDs cause they need to feel the winds of change blowing?

No, the only thing they feel blowing in that direction is a cold draft, but they know that every camera carrying paparazzi will be out there doing their best to be the very first to prove to the world that you can leave home without it!

And that way they’ll get their picture on the cover and their name on all of the gossip shows and they’ll make a fortune for forgetting their drawers. Or perhaps you think Kim Kardashian is just warm natured and leaves off her Fruit of the Looms to keep cool?

So, you have to market yourself, your talents, as well as your work. Every time you meet a gallery owner or a museum director it’s a chance to get your work out there and become known. Every time you see a use for your art you find another potential revenue stream, every time you take on another task you create an opportunity to get your work where it can be seen and if it is seen it can be purchased and if it gets purchased you get some of that nasty money you need but don’t want to think about.

Have you donated anything to anyone? Sure there are hundreds of charities that would love to have original art and some of them are even willing to split the profits with the artist. But even if they aren’t they get you seen and that is a very good thing especially if they are a deserving charity with a national following. Sure it is self-centered and self-serving and that is just what you should be thinking about.

We’ve just about used up the breast cancer awareness month but that’s a good thing because that means it is the right time to think and plan and get something moving for next year. Breast Cancer is a killer and a nasty, evil thing and should be wiped off the face of the earth and a lot of good people are doing what they can to help. But what have artists done? Of all people artists have the greatest ability to make a dramatic statement and get the attention of the public. So why haven’t they? I think Coos County artists should make 2013 the year that they take a stand to wipe out breast cancer. Artists Abreast of Cancer might do for a working title. That part doesn’t matter but getting the artists of this coastal area motivated and doing something should be the important part.

Are you planning your Halloween cards for next year? Halloween is the second largest cash holiday of the calendar year and you should get a piece of it. Years ago, an actress with just a fright wig and some, okay a whole bunch of whalebone started quietly buying up Halloween themed businesses. Cassandra Peterson now owns thirty-five percent of all Halloween businesses and when she decides to hang up her cleavage, she will have a tidy portfolio to fall back on. Now come-on you’re smarter than Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, or aren’t you?

You can’t wait for money to come to you, you have to go out and find it and you can’t do that without marketing.

And marketing gets easier every day. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I wanted to have a team logo sweatshirt, but the Horn’s logo was so sad that even a rabid St Darrell guy like me couldn’t see wearing it out in public. So I borrowed an image from Bill MacClanahan’s Weekly Predictions: Ungaurenteed and went off in search of a screen printer.

No, I didn’t know nothing about Copyright violations and wanted it for my own personal use so it was a tiny violation and I have amended my ways in the years since but the important part is that screen printing in those bygone days required a negative image of which there were no cameras available to the non-professional public to use, so the image had to be done by hand. I did, well I said it was a long time ago and I had more energy them and I hadn’t spent the last fifty years working on proving the AMA right with all of their warnings so my hand was steadier and I could do it and it got done and I had my sweatshirt, but the process would have made a Llama weep. Today, I would use one of my own images which I hold the Copyright to and send it in to Custom Ink

http://www.customink.com/

or Zazzle

http://www.zazzle.com/

And I’d have my shirt in hours instead of weeks and no difficult visualizations and calculations to fight with in the process.

And I’d be ready for the season when next Halloween rolls around.

And if someone as slow as I am can figure all that out what are you doing sitting there?

Get out there and earn some money, raise the cash, beat the bushes, the politicians have wrung every stone and turnip till it bleeds and now they’ll be quiet until the next Presidential election rolls around which gives you four years to get all of the money they missed. Think of it like digging the coins out of the cushions. It doesn’t look like much at the time but if you keep digging at it for four year maybe by the next time the pols come calling they’ll have to get elected by telling their plans and not with infomercials!

Bay Area Artist's Assn Meeting

Bay Area Artists' Association General Meeting & Show and Tell


November 10, 2012, Saturday, 11 a.m.

Pony Village Mall, 1611 Virginia Ave., North Bend,

Across from Maurices, near Macy's

Guest Speaker will be Patricia Davidson


"Promoting Your Art Online"

Contact: Karin Moell 541-751-7828, moell@frontier.com

Karin Moell Exhibit

Karin Comara Moell will be exhibiting mixed-media work at Gallery By the Bay, 2100 Union Ave., North Bend, Oregon


November 5, 2012 - December 3, 2012. Artist's reception will be held as part of Art Walk on Thursday evening, November 8, 2012,

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Art Happenings by Ava Richey

Friday, October 26, 2012 9:13 AM

 

Art Information follows this announcement.  If any of you have art show
information, or other art events to post in this newsletter, please send it to yarnfarm@frontier.com

Hello Everyone,

I just checked the weather forecast…it says 20% chance of rain on Monday, October 29^th, so the painters will meet at 12:00 noon at Brewed Awakenings.  If weather allows, painters can go up Elmira or Fillmore and paint Shore Pines, or other trees in the area. -- Or whatever else you would like to capture with paint, etc.

 

My phone number is 541-297-6118 if you have questions.

Thanks.

Ava

   

  

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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This newsletter can be viewed online, along with entertaining and informative art observations by a real live art maker, appreciator, and humorist.  Go to:  http://demosthenesclub.blogspot.com

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Art by the Sea Studio and Gallery, in the Continuum Building/Old Town
Bandon.  Open Wednesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.  541-347-5355 

Wall art, prints, cards, jewelry, pottery, etc. of local South Coast artists.

Come in and check it out!!  We have a variety of art classes scheduled--see listing below in the classes section.

 

Thank you for your applications.  You will be contacted within the next two weeks.

 

 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 friends.

Congratulations to artist Karin Richardson who will be featured on Oregon Art Beat on PBS, Wednesday, November 8^th and again on Sunday, November 11^th.

 

Art by the Sea Gallery and Studio, 175 2nd Street , Old Town Bandon, In the Continuum Center  541-347-5355

Includes work by Kathleen Morey Bailey, Joanne Drapkin, Rosemary Franyi, Robin Hanna, Sharon Jensen, Susan Lehman, Ava Richey, Sandy Schroeder, Jean Stephenson, Shawn Tempesta, Arlene Tinsley, Connie Zane.  Signage and promotional design work by Robert Graham/Robert Graham Graphics

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Ashland SOU Schneider Museum Of Art

Biennial of Contemporary Art and Hanson Howard Gallery (www.hansonhowardgallery.com) has Vincent Leandro's photography "Right Before Your Eyes"

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Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay Street , Florence

 http://www.backstreetgallery.org

October’s featured artist is Jill Hardin, poet laureate.   

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Bandon Coffee Cafe, Old Town Bandon

Paintings by Aaron Hatefi; photographs by Kelle Herrick; paddles by Bill Beck Jr.; serving/cutting boards by Pete Bauer.

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Bandon Public Library   October 2012

October 1 – 31 

Cabinets:  “Birdhomes by Russ”,   Handcrafted wood birdhouses by Russ and Mary Stewart

Wall Gallery:  “My Season”, Oil paintings by Sharron Kay Womack.

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Black Market Gourmet,  495 Central Ave , Coos Bay . Open Tuesday - Friday,

11 a.m. - 6 p.m.  541-269-0194

The show for September/October is “Foundations of Perspective”,
a combined showing: The Art of Gan Martin & Ferne Martin
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Brian Scott Gallery, 515 Chetco Ave , Brookings 541-412-8687

Shawnie Wells, Pete Chasar, Loarraine Filippone, Kathleen Kresa, Christina Ohlsen, Horst Wolf, Elio Camacho, Randall Tillery, Dale Wells, Donna Goss, Manuel Lopez, Nancy Tuttle, Jewell Johnson, Jane Opiat, Dan Sawyer, Craig Barnes. 
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Charleytown Marketplace,   91152 Cape Arago Hwy. , Charleston , OR  97420  541-888-0146

Artwork by a variety of artists including Nancy Barry with original watercolors, prints, cards, tiles, boxes and calendars.

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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

 

CAM Biennial 2012  Show runs October 12 – November 24^th. 

 

BAAA Artist of the Month/*October is Joan Goodman Fox, showing in the lobby of Coos Art Museum .

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CDABA (Coastal Douglas Arts & Business Alliance ) Art Academy , Reedsport

Sue Bridston   541-271-4608

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Coos Bay Library  525 West Anderson, Coos Bay

October:  Walls:  Kathy Andreason, Paintings

                    Lobby Cases:  Ken Means, Carved Carousel Horses

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

Quilt Show, starts October 8^th.   

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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  

Local artist Carla Celestino's pottery and a variety of other artists.

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

Features a variety of artists painting to the theme of "Shades of Autumn"

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Eden Hall on SOCC Campus

October  BAAA Member Art Show

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

“Springfield Mayor’s Art Show”  October 6 – Nov. 2^nd

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

"Family Affair...for the love of Art", artists Carol & Franklin Turner and their family members will display more than 40 pieces of artwork.    

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Fisher’s Flowers and Fine Arts 638 W. Harrison, Roseburg  541-672-6621  M-F 9-5 p.m.

Artwork by Susan Lehman, Holly Werner, John Leach, Phil Bates and C. Wikstrom  Show runs through November 12^th.

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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

Features oil paintings of Geoffrey Rhoads as well as new work by Mittie Helmich and Darren Evans.  
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Gallery by the Bay   2100 Union Ave, North Bend 541-266-8727

Regular gallery hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Features Carolyn LeGrand, oil & acrylic artist, and instructor at Coos Bay Boys & Girls Club. 

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Gallery on the Bay  541-888-3771 

Oils & Pastels of Birds & Animals  Open by appointment.
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Hawthorne Gallery, 517 Jefferson St. , Port Orford

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Heritage Textile Arts Guild  Ste. 20, upstairs.Pony Village Mall

ArtWalk: demonstrations on the main floor mall: demonstrations on spinning wheel and handlooms.  Handwoven items for sale.

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High Tide Cafe, Charleston
Features artwork by Sherry Howk and Mike Holm, Photographs by Matthew Hanna, Cheryl Lee Lindmeier, and Michael W. Ousley.
New Winter Hours: Open 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 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.

Features art by Donna Vanderlanden and continues showing watercolors and collages of Connie Zane.  Show runs through December.

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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

October 12 – Nov 2^nd. “Dia de los Muertos” includes an embellished tapestry woven by Yvonne Ramirez Ousley “Skeleton Ball”, and an acrylic painting “Mi Vida” by Michael W. Ousley.

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MECCA ( Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts), 449 Willamette Street,
Eugene . 

October:  From Paper Lanterns to mysterious encaustic shrines, come see the Valiant Volunteer Variety Show” the art of those who volunteer at MECCA .

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North Bend Library, 1800 Sherman Ave, N. Bend .  Conference Room    541-756-0400
http://www.northbendlibrary.org  Mon.-Wed. 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Thu-Fri. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.;Sat. 12 - 5 p.m.

Sept. 2012:  

Conference Room:  Fantasy Drawings by Lyndee Dexter

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

"Impressions of Old City Hall " 
Contact Nella Abbott at 541-824-0779 for information.
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Oregon Bay Properties, 1992 Sherman Ave, North Bend   Located in the Hotel North Bend

http://www.obpre.com   

Artists with new work featured are Clayton Redwood, Paulette Landers, Jerry Baron, Michael Ousley, Yvonne Ousley, Sarita Southgate and S L Donaldson, and others.

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Oregon State University Galleries:

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

***** Michael Lazarus  Reception : 4:30 – 5:30, Monday, Nov. 5^th.   
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LaSells Stewart at OSU ( www.oregonstate.edu ) they have a big show of plein air artists called Vistas & Vineyards ( http://vistasandvineyards.wordpress.com/ )  Very interesting exhibit greatly influenced by the workshops of Erik Sandgren.

Memorial Union Art Gallery is the Mexican Print Exhibit of Michoacan mezzotints, monoprints and woodcuts.    All exhibits are up through the month of October..
Pony Village Mall:

Artists' Loft, 541-756-4088
October Watercolors, ink works and mixed media paintings by Barbara Mahon; Guest Artist: Beebe Slater of Scottsburg showing watercolors.

Cone 9  Local artists featured

East Wing Art Wall (by JoAnn's)  

October: Paintings by Monday Plein Air Painters of Bandon and Beyond

Sterling Savings Bank. ****October  Photographic display by Glenn Smith.

Harry Ritchie's Jewelers, Ste. 162 , East Wing 541-756-5413

Features paintings of Carol Young.   ?

Turner Art Studio & Gallery, Ste 128 , 541-290-7858   

Gallery hours are Monday, 4 - 9:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 1 - 7:00 p.m.

Student artists of Carol Turner.

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Port Orford Library   

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Raincoast Gallery  Langlois
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

A great variety of talented art and artists. 

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Seven Feathers Casino Resort, Canyonville

Yvonne Ramirez Ousley “Spirit of the American Dream” weaving, and Michael W. Ousley “Winter Hope” acrylic painting will be part of the charity auction for United Community Action Network, November 16^th, 7-10 p.m.

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Signatures Gallery, 515 Chetco Avenue , Brookings ,  OR    541-469-1085 or
541-661-0132  http://www.signaturesgallery.com

Features The Star Wars and Indiana Jones artwork of Drew Struzan.

Sandy Bonney (pastels), Kevin Roeckl (mixed media), Albert Handell (New Mexico), Karon Walstad (Huntington Beach), Thomas Sheets (Brookings), Duncan Regehr (Canada), Jan Kunz (San Francisco).

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Siuslaw Library, 1460 9th Street, Florence , OR  541-997-3132

October  Lobby: Wildlife Photography of Dr. Sabry Mason

                      Inside: Brubaker Family Wall and East Wall”:  Found Art by Washed Ashore

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Auditorium   541-888-5558  61907 Seven Devils Rd. , Charleston  Hours 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

October thru December 2012 - “ South Slough Reserve Pathways—Art by Pat Snyder”

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Southern Coos Hospital & Health Care   

October through December show is “What I Did on My Vacation” and will be honoring John Schiefer, the founder of Bandon Artist Supply with a display of paintings he created from visits to the John Muir Park before he moved to Bandon.  The community is joining in to show artwork from their own vacations.   

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

Paintings by Karen Auborn and Elaine Roemen

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

Umpqua Valley Arts Association " Umpqua Plein Air Competition & Exhibition"

Show runs through October 26, 2012

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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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Your Space Designs

2082 Sherman Ave, North Bend (next door to Ciccarellis) 541-808-2788

Currently showing paintings by SL Donaldson, Clayton Redwood and others.

 

 

 Art 101/ Washed Ashore    The Purple Yurt, 5 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101, 541-250-1140
or  info@washedashore.orgNew Workshop Hours:  Thursdays, 5 - 8 p.m. and  Sundays  2 - 5:00 p.m.
-----------------------------------------------------Art by the Sea, Gallery & Studio  175 2nd St, Continuum Bldg., Old Town
Bandon,    541-347-5355

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

 Fri. Oct. 26^th  “Collaged Tag Book Play-Day” with Susan Lehman  Class Cancelled

Tues. Oct. 30^th  “Perspective” with Nancy Post  10 – 1 p.m.  $15

Nov. 2^nd  “Watercolor on YUPO Paper” with Pat Cink  1- 4 p.m.  $25

Wed. Nov. 7^th  “Essential Expressive Line” with Jean Stephenson  11 – 2   $10

Thurs. Nov. 8^th  “Card Party” with Arlene Tinsley  1:30 – 4:30  $15

Friday  Nov. 9^th  “Designing with Collage”  with Susan Lehman  1 -4   $35

*****Sat. Nov. 10^th “Black & White—Designing with Collage”    1 – 4  Susan Lehman

$35 includes mat’ls

Nov. 13^th  “Watercolor on YUPO Paper” with Pat Cink  1- 4 p.m.  $25

Nov. 14^th  “Playday Watercolor & Ink”  with Kathleen Morey Bailey  1 – 4 p.m. $10

Nov. 27^th  “Playday Doodle Art”  with Kathleen Morey Bailey  1 – 4 p.m.  $10

Nov. 28^th  “Resin Casting Jewelry” with Shawn Tempesta  11 – 3 p.m.  $25

Some classes have materials lists--call or drop by for more information.

  
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Artist Loft Gallery, Pony Village Mall, North Bend .  Call for Class
Information at 541-756-4088
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Brookings Area and more:
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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.
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Coos Bay Public Library  “Book Arts Sampler Workshop” taught by Delores Guffey, sponsored by the South Coast Calligraphy Guild.  Saturday, October 20^th, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

$45 + $5 materials fee.  Limited to 15 students.  To reserve a spot contact Mary Cervantes at 541-269-0944  marycervantes@juno.com

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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.

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 
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Easy Lane Frames, 3440 Broadway, North Bend , 541-756-7638
Contact for information on a variety of classes.

Thursdays in November Intro to Traditional Oil Painting Techniques with F. Gary Ostrom $60

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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
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

2nd Wednesdays 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  541-329-0303

New Classes on website.  For a schedule go to:  http://www.sageplacebandon.com 

Classes include:  Open studio Glass Fusing;  Open Studio Metals.  Ask about custom art classes and parties. 

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Signatures Gallery, 515 Chetco Avenue , Brookings ,  OR    541-469-1085 or
541-661-0132  http://www.signaturesgallery.com

Albert Handell (one of the world's foremost pastel artists) is having a Mentoring Program in Brookings next August. It's already half full, so if anyone in interested they'd best put down a deposit before it is posted on his website as the spots will disappear quickly. I just went to the one in Fort Bragg last month. Fantastic! You can paint side-by-side with Albert or do your own thing. Crits every morning with career building information and sometimes a demo.  http://www.alberthandell.com  To register email albert@alberthandell.com  or call his studio office at 505-983-8373.
Sandy Bonney

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

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Turners' Art Studio, Pony Village Mall, North Bend , OR .  541-297-8703

Oil Painting, $20 per class.  Mondays, 6 - 9:00 p.m.; Fridays, 2 - 5:00 p.m.

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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.comDrop 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.

 

******Sunday, October 28, 2012  1-4 p.m.

Roaring Sea Studio Arts Open house in Port Orford.  Musicians, artists and poets are welcome, also interested listeners.   Potluck snacks provided.  Call Donna at 541-332-4444, or Suzanne at 541-332-0540 for directions or more information.

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*******Thursday, November 1, 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
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Friday, November 2, 2012   5 – 7 p.m.

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, 1624 W. Harvard Ave. , Roseburg , OR 541-672-2532

In the Corridor Gallery: Opening Reception for “A Coastal Sensibility”, works by ten south coast artists: Sharon Jensen, Janne LaValle, Susan Lehman, Mike Ousley, Clayton Redwood, Ava Richey, Pat Snyder, Arlene Tinsley, dorothea tortilla, and Connie Zane.

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******Wednesday, November 7, 2012   6-8 p.m.

Bandon Public Library, Sprague Room

Opening reception for “The Mark Show”, watercolors by Victoria Tierney.  Refreshments served and music by Mark and Friends.

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*******Thursday, November 8, 2012   5 – 8 p.m.

ArtWalk at various venues in North Bend, Coos Bay area including Pony Village Mall, Easy Lane Frames, Crystal Dolphin Gallery, and Gallery by the Bay.  Showing at Gallery by the Bay is Karen (Comara) Moel who will be showing a variety of her mixed media pieces. Music is provided by a Gaelic harpist.

 

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Friday, November 9, 2012  4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Port Orford Arts Council ‘Members and Friends Appreciation Celebration’ at the Port Orford American Legion, 421 11^th St. Port Orford.  Music, fun, art opportunities and more.

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Deadline 10/31/12

To Apply:  http://www.roguegallery.org/calls_to_artists.html

The Rogue Gallery & Art Center invites artists and artist groups living in the Northwest and northern California to submit a portfolio of work for the 2014 Main Gallery Exhibition Series. Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply. Reserved for work of the highest quality, the Main Gallery features emerging, mid-career, and established artists from the region and beyond. 

Rogue Gallery & Art Center
40 South Bartlett Street
Medford Oregon 97501
(541) 772-8118

Deadline:

10/31/12

 

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Deadline 10/29/12    To Apply go to :  http://www.onestrangebird.com/art-exhibitions.html

Posted! - an exhibit of artist postcards

One Strange Bird presents: POSTED! -an exhibit of uniquely designed artist postcards from around the world. This is an open call for entries in which every work submitted will be shown in the gallery and made available sale during an art opening. 

Works will be for sale at the set price of $15.00. (50% of sales will go to a local charity and 50% of sales will go to the gallery/art center) Submitted postcards must be an original drawing, painting, photograph, collage, print, or mixed media work, and must be standard postcard size (4 inches x 6 inches). Each Work must be mailed to the gallery and have a return address including your name. To Apply: go to website below.

Postcards must be received IN OUR MAIL by October 29th, 2012 in order to be shown. Artist must submit a $5.00 fee and application for each 4 X 6 postcard to be included.

All postcards should be mailed to:
2515 W. North Ave
Chicago , IL
60647

*All Artists surrender artwork and agree to let us use images of work for promotion. Unsold work will remain in the gallery’s possession.

Deadline:

10/29/1         

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Deadline 11/30/12  for Info go to : http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/   and type photo contest into the search box on the website.                                                       

2012 National Geographic Photo Contest

Posted:

9/10/12

Updated:

9/10/12

Submit your best shots to enter the contest. The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in the annual National Geographic Photography Seminar. 

How It Works
To enter the contest, upload your photos to the National Geographic Photo Contest website between September 1 and November 30, 2012. Enter as many photos as you'd like!

Prizes
Grand Prize: $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington , D.C. , to participate in the annual National Geographic Photography Seminar.

Two Runner-up Prizes: $2,500

The winning photos will be published in National Geographic magazine.

In addition to prizes, National Geographic photo editors will be showcasing their favorite entries every week on our website. Submit your photos early for a chance to be featured on the National Geographic website. 

Deadline:

11/30/12

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