Wild Rivers Coast Art

Biscuit West Photographic Gallery and Gold Rush Gallery accepting art starting September 10

The time is drawing near for the completion of the Biscuit West Photographic Gallery and the Gold Rush Gallery!

Art for both Galleries will be accepted starting September 10 at the new Biscuit West Photographic Gallery (located across the street from Gold Beach Books in the new historic Gold Rush Building) during the following hours:

Wednesday, September 10 from 2:00-5:00 PM
Thursday, September 11 from 5:00-7:00 PM
Friday, September 12 from 4:00-6:00 PM
Saturday, September 13 from 1:00-5:00 PM

Please call Carolyn or Bev at Gold Beach Books (541.247.2495) or email at mail to:frontdesk@oregonCoastBooks.com if you wish to make an appointment to drop off art if these dates or times will not work for you.

The Grand Opening of the Historic Gold Rush Building is scheduled for Saturday, September 27. It will be a must-be-there event!

Royal Canadian Artist to be featured at Signatures Gallery in Brookings

Royal Canadian Artist Duncan Regehr's new show, "Endings and Beginnings" will be opening at Signatures Gallery in Brookings, Oregon on Saturday, September 13th, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. The artist will be in attendance for Book Signing from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.

Since his first exhibit in 1974, Duncan Regehr has maintained an astonishing succession of shows. Among his numerous awards are The American Vision Award for Distinction in the Arts, the lifetime title of Royal Canadian Artist and, this year, the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria.

Regehr's art of the last thirty years has evolved to establish him as a figurative painter of national and international prominence. His work is found in important collections worldwide, including the Smithsonian Institute (USA), the Jilin Collection (China), the Kunsthallen (Copenhagen), Focus on Masters Ventura Archives for the Getty Museum (USA), the Syllavethy Collection of Scotland (GB), and several more.

His automonograph, "The Dragon's Eye" received international acclaim and was lauded by art critics and literary reviews for its visual and poetic excellence.

For more information please contact Sandy Bonney, Curator

Signatures Gallery of Fine Art
519 Chetco Ave - Brookings, OR
(541) 469-1085
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 5:30 pm

Looking for a relaxing break from the easel?

Wednesdays...5 pm...Wine Bar of Bella Italia at 1025 Chetco Avenue in Brookings...

Horst plays...

Lorrain pours...

You get to relax!

5 Days left to enter the 2008 CRAA Juried Art Competition...

Click for Printable Prospectus/Entry Form

Late Bloomer Grants

The Festival of the Arts Late Bloomer Grant program announced three grant winners for 2008:

Bonnie Ruth Carper, Harbor, OR - Watercolor
Karen McMahon, Harbor, OR - Writer
Nadine Long, Crescent City, CA - Printmaking

The LBG program began in 2003 and is open to anyone fifty years of age or older who demonstrates creative potential and applies for funds to continue their artistic development. This year's LBG awards bring the total grant monies distributed to $6,000 and the total number of recipients to twenty-four.

Portland Artists Showing at Biscuit Gallery in Gold Beach

Pat Clemens and Josie Koehne, oil and acrylic artists from Portland, will be showing at the Biscuit Gallery in Gold Beach during the month of September. You are invited to a reception for the artists held on Saturday, August 30 from 5 pm to 7 pm at Gold Beach Books/Biscuit Gallery.

We'd like to introduce you to these two very talented women and give you a preview of their art.

Josephine S. Koehne

Condelario 

Josie Koehne is a Portland painter working primarily in oils and acrylics. She was a sculpture major at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1968-1970 and graduated in anthropology in 1973 from Boston University. She got a start as a CETA-funded "Artist in the Community" in Burlington, VT and taught art for several years in Vermont and Brooklyn. She worked as a computer graphic artist in NYC doing children's game graphics from 1983-1993. After moving to Portland in 1998, she worked fulltime as producer/project manager developing Web sites and interactive software and training, and painting part time. Since 2006, she has has been painting landscapes and figuative work fulltime and has a studio in NE Portland in the Boxlift Studios Building.

Two Guatemalan Masons

"I am drawn to the environment and what makes people do the things they do--how they think, work, play and relate to one another. I want to capture each individual's essential personality and their motivations. In February, I went to Guatemala to build houses in Coban with a Habitat for Humanities group. My recent work stems from the strong connection I feel for the people I worked with there and their capacity for very hard physical labor. Without language, one can still get to know a person very well by how they work and the way they work with you. I hope my painting captures the individual natures of each of these Guatemalan workers."

Floras Lake July

Suvie Field

Suvie Island Field at Sunset 

Pat Clemens

Pat Clemens started painting when she was five and was soon asked to demonstrate painting to the other students. She went on to receive the Bank of America award for art in northern California and was offered several art scholarships, including one to the Oakland School of Arts and Crafts. She received her degree in art from U C Davis where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Arneson. She then went to UCLA where she studied art history and to Paris for research on Leonardo da Vinci's work in France. For several years she taught art in various schools in California and New York.

Pat has her paintings in private collections in Italy, New York, Florida, California, and Oregon and has completed public works projects of her painting in London and New York City.

Since moving to Portland, Oregon nine years ago, Pat has had one-person shows at the Interbeing gallery and the Alberta Coop in the Alberta Arts district. She has also shown with the Box-Lift Studios group and her work was picked by the Oregonian newspaper as the example of that group show. Her paintings were also selected by Mark Woolley of the Woolley gallery, one of the foremost galleries in Portland, to hang in a juried show at the Box-Lift Building.

"In the last few years, several themes have inspired my work. I explored, by means of painting, the way in which the world of the spirit was expressed in art throughout time and by various cultures. I also painted how nature served that purpose for me - giving me views of the outdoor world that seemed to be more than just that of the physical.

I was also inspired by dreams: my current show was based on a dream in which I tried to save a chimpanzee by taking it to the jungle. After painting the process of the dream and being able in paint to actually bring the chimp to safety, I started painting other animals: first, an abstraction of their environment in which words like love and care were painted and then the animals painted into that place of safety.

I am most happy when I am inspired by an idea and then find that I cannot stop painting."

   

Scenes at Brookings Festival of the Arts

The Fifteenth Annual Festival of the Arts held at the Port of Brookings Harbor lived up to its reputation as the best Fine Arts Festival (as it was named by the Oregon Festivals and Events Association). This juried festival of original arts and crafts does not allow any manufactured, assembled, imported, or consumable items.

The Festival of the Arts is an independent nonprofit volunteer organization under the umbrella of the Brookings Harbor Area Council for the Arts (BACA). After operational expenses, all proceeds are donated to local organizations to promote the development of the arts or contribute to projects that beautify the Brookings-Harbor area. The Festival’s prime income is from Festival fees; however, tax deductible donations are accepted and contribute greatly to the ability of the Festival committee to carry out their mission in the local community.

 

    

Entertainment and Demonstration Schedule for this weekend's Brookings-Harbor Festival of the Arts

Entertainment and Demonstrations
Saturday August 16 and Sunday August 17

Music by Juwat both days

Saturday August 16th

10am  Opening/ Late Bloomer Grant presentations
11am  Abandon Beledi – Gypsy Tribal Dance Troupe
Noon  Acid Etching – Craig Blakely
12:30pm Working with Clay – Connie Blakely
1-3pm Music by Lon Goddard & Aura Wright
2pm  Microwaving Pressed Flowers – Shawn Halley
3pm Abandon Beledi – Gypsy Tribal Dance Troupe
3:30pm Didgeridoos & Artwork – Scott Shaw

Sunday August 17th

11am  Microwaving Pressed Flowers – Shawn Halley
Noon  2nd Annual Festival of the Arts Regatta
    (remote control sailboats at boat launch)
1-3pm ‘Ramblers’ - Music by Shirley Hyatt & Gil Kirk
2pm  Scratchboard Art Techniques – Lara Strazdas
3pm  Raffle Drawing – Display at Information Booth 
3:30pm Rock Painting - Brenda Stafford

CHILDREN’S ART ACTIVITY CORNER
with Miss Dori   Booth 76

DEMONSTRATION TENT LOCATED NEXT TO INFORMATION BOOTH

Sunny August Art Walk

Manley Art Center and Gallery featured the art made during the Kids Summer Camp sponsored by Manley and taught by Janeen Vick.

Tisha Bailey and the other young artists acted as Docents for the event and explained to visitors the art principles they were practicing in each work.

Delaney O'Conner with her pitcher painted monochromatically to learn about painting value.

Elizabeth Norman with her whimsical moon.

Outside Manley Art Center a large Ducky announced that tickets for Rotary's upcoming Wild Rivers Ducky Derby on September 21 are available at Manley.  Only $5 to adopt a duck and a chance to win some amazing prizes.

Lon Goddard and Aura Wright entertained at Eye for Art where Gold Beach Artist Lorraine Filippone's large floral art fills the gallery with a riot of color.

Outside The Cabaret Scott Graves led a Drum Circle that included Horst Wolf. Inside delicious hors d'oeuvres and music by Marshall Thompson, plus a wonderful selection of Christina Olsen's art.

Just down Artwalk Alley (behind the Pilot) we found Leslie Wolf dancing with a large group that was surrounded by K.A.S.P.E.R. Kids' Kave Artwork. The exquisite art of Chinese Artist Lihua Zhao is still featured at Signatures Gallery - try to see it while a large selection of her work is still hung. Wrights Custom Framing was showing the work of Billie Ruth Furuichi and offering some delicious cookies - if you haven't been to this new business in town, you won't be sorry if you make a point of stopping in to Wrights (next door to the Pilot) to see all the art supplies and ready made frames they offer.

There was much more going on during the Art Walk... the K.A.S.P.E.R. Kids "Shoe Box Zoo" at Stout Mountain Railroad, a reading at Words and Pictures by Pat Bisgrove, the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the "new" Chetco Library and "The Sea Strings" program of classical music, and the Art of Rick Green at Diamond Electronics.

   

Wild Rivers Coast Photographer Going to the State Fair

Jo Mochulski's photograph "Ramona's Window" won the Blue Ribbon and Judges Choice awards in Advanced Photography at the Curry County Fair in July. "Ramon's Window" will be exhibited at the State Fair in Salem, Oregon from August 22 to September 1. Jo has won several previous awards for her photography. Jo Mochulski received a second Blue Ribbon in the Amateur Watercolor Category for her large painting called "Inspiration". Congratulations Jo!

In addition to her photography and painting, Jo Mochulski is also Chairperson of the Brookings-Harbor Festival of the Arts. The Festival of the Arts was named Best Fine Arts Festival by the Oregon Festivals and Events Association at the Northwestern Festivals and Events Conference in March. The Festival of the Arts is coming soon at the Port of Brookings Harbor - August 16 and 17, and you won't want to miss it.

CABARET! At the August Second Saturday Art Walk in Brookings

Come to the Cabaret on Saturday August 9. It's on Art Walk Alley, at the CABARET (formerly Terra Cotta Corner) in Brookings. The Art Walk includes 11 locations and several special events this month. Click on the Art Walk Program in the right column for a printable program, list of events, and map.

Art Lovers and Wine Connoisseurs -- Come to the CABARET!

Scott Graves (editor of the PILOT) will lead a drum circle.

Christina Olsen will be painting and showing her whimsical creations.

Lorrain Swigert of Bella Italia will be pouring wine while Horst Wolf entertains at the keyboard.

Marshall Thompson from Chico, CA (folk, blues, and originals) will alternate with Horst Wolf on keyboard (chamber jazz), and their guest performers (including the B.I.G.s).

SEE YOU AT THE CABARET!

Glorious Summer Day for a Garden Tour

The Coastal Garden and Art Tour was held in and around Brookings, Oregon, on August 2, on a perfect summer day. A bit of fog early in the morning cleared away to bright blue skies. Eight gardens full of flowers and artists delighted tour goers. Wine tasting and refreshments were nice surprises along the way.

In the woods at the Heiss garden little Red Riding Hood, aka Christina Olsen, was busy creating the whimsical art that she is famous for.

Deeper into the woods, James McCarten found the perfect plein air site for an oil painting.

Barbara Edmiston set up her gallery under a spreading tree with a swing.

Leslie Wolf showed her fashion designs - both her sketches and finished garments.

Horst Wolf immediately set up an easel and began painting the Heiss residence and beautiful front landscaping.

Next, the side by side Moeller and Grimes gardens.
  Two artists and their grandchildren painted in this lovely setting right above the ocean.

Audi Stanton and her granddaughter, Mary, offered paintings and cards, plus lapel pins FREE. Mary also sold her grandfather's famous blackberry jam.

Dale Wells and granddaughter, Kelsey both painted and sold their paintings.  Eleven year-old Kelsey sold several paintings that she created during the tour.

The Lent garden combined vegetables and florals in a thoroughly charming and artistic arrangement.
Here are squash and other vegetables among the flowers.
Garden owner, Gro, welcomed guests and discussed her beautiful garden.
Artist Sara Broderick set up her watercolor easel and had no end of subjects to paint.
Completely surrounded by flowers of every color, Sara worked on larger-than-life florals.
Some gardens were difficult to leave, but the next one always made you happy to be there.

At the Henley garden, Karen Berry made a charming oil painting of the vegetable garden.
Kathy Huxley made a wonderful oil painting (with a palette knife) of the woodshed.
Sarah Logan offered watercolor flowers and calligraphy.
And Carol Salin set up along the beautifully rocked stream bed that flows through the garden. Carol photographed the gardens included on the tour a few days before the tour and offered cards with photographs of the gardens.

Wandering through the spacious Butler garden, we found Jean Beebe painting and offering some of her famous porcelain work.

Kimberly Somerlott displayed her photographs on a garden lattice with legs made of tree limbs.

Talented teenage artist, Elizabeth Pettinger, demonstrated drawing and offered her paintings.

Charlotte Palmer found plenty of flowers for watercolor painting.

This flower blooms only once a year. It opened in the Burton's garden on the day of the Coastal Garden and Art Tour.  Photographer, Violet Burton captured this photo.
Violet Burton in the Burton's art gallery.

Tall verbena in the Burton's mountain garden.

Burton's picturesque chickens are an integral part of the garden.

Len Burton in the Burton's gallery with some of his most recent oil paintings.

The Stafford Family had a wonderful display in the Menzel garden. Bob Stafford makes lighted light houses from old artillery shells and other recycled materials. Bob and Brenda create garden bells from outdated fire extinguishers. Bob cuts off the ends, removes the paint and repaints the cylinders -then Brenda, paints designs on the cylinders and Bob installs copper wind catchers to create hanging garden bells. Brenda also sold her rock paintings and their daughter Kolleen, her watercolors.

Brenda Stafford discussing rock painting with garden visitors.

  Claudia Mach completed several small watercolors during the tour. Here she is beginning a floral painting on the deck in the Menzel garden.

The Menzel garden was the final garden on the tour. The garden included many unusual plants and an array of hydrangeas in startlingly vivid colors. The question most asked was, "What do you feed them?" The answer - Triple 13 once a year. That's all.

The next Gold Beach Art Roll is August 23, 4 pm to 7 pm

Tour all seven galleries via the FREE tour bus or enjoy a self-guided tour.

All galleries that participate in the Gold Beach Art Roll will provide:
Art Demonstrations! Live Music!
Refreshments!
And Prizes for those who complete the tour!
10% discount on artwork at participating galleries!

Check out the exciting schedule of events!!

The Wave Gallery
Art Demo by Alexandra Eyer at 4:30

Pieces of Time Gallery
Music by Horst Wolf and Friends
Art demo by Lynn Higgins, Mosaic Art at 5 pm

Picture This Gallery
Art demo by Jimmie Dickerson at 5:30 pm

Biscuit Gallery
Art video and other materials describing art in the Vatican Museums - 6 pm

Gray Whales Gallery
Demo by Maggi Frazier, Jewelry Making at 6:30 pm