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NEW WC Workshop! Great Blue Heron with Daniel Smith Primatek Colors!
Watercolor Exploration Workshop Series with Katrina Meister
When: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Where: Central Art
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Fee: $45 *Space is limited. Pre-registration required. Payment is required at time of registration.
Katrina has teamed up with Central Art to create the Watercolor Exploration Workshop Series! Each class is focused on supplies or techniques, all materials are included in the cost of the class, and you will have some to take home to continue on your own!
Our next will be using some of Daniel Smith’s Primatek colors, paints made from ground stones and minerals, they have a great granular quality! We’ll be painting a beautiful Great Blue Heron in this workshop!
Contact Katrina 541-601-7221 for more information, and call or stop by Central Art 541-773-1444 to sign up!
Pre-registration is required. Payment is
required at time of registration.
Call 541-773-1444 or visit us in-store
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The Southern Society of Artists (SOSA) meeting will be held at the Medford Public Library on September 23, at 7 PM.
Library doors close at 7 so we suggest 6:45 pm. Our Guest Speaker will be Tony Antonides talking about the Dutch Masters, Camera Obscura and other tools. Refreshments will be served. Guests welcome. Well behaved young people included.
Questions call Judy Grillo at 541-625-3285 or Mindy Wallace at 541- 423-5122
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JOSEPHINE COUNTY ARTISTS ASSOCIATION
presents
A Workshop With Deborah Dawson
October 21 9:30 – 3:30
October 22 9:30 – 1:30
Location:
The Bear Hotel
2101 Spalding Ave Grants Pass, OR
Cost: $75 for both days
( non-refundable after October 3 )
**There is a minimum of 10 participants needed to hold the
workshop.
The focus of the workshop will be helping you improve your landscape paintings. All media is welcome, except oil, which is not permitted at the Bear Hotel. Join us for a fun 2 days of painting with Deborah.
To register:
Send a check for the full amount of the workshop to:
Josephine County Artists Association PO Box 1275
Grants Pass, OR 97528
You can also register at the September and October JCAA meetings.
For more information or questions:
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| Watercolor Exploration Workshop Series –
“Great Blue Heron” with Katrina Meister
When: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Where: Central Art
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Fee: $45 *Space is limited. Pre-registration required. Payment is required at time of registration.
Katrina has teamed up with Central Art to create the Watercolor Exploration Workshop Series! Each class is focused on supplies or techniques, all materials are included in the cost of the class, and you will have some to take home to continue on your own!
Our next will be using some of Daniel Smith’s Primatek colors, paints made from ground stones and minerals, they have a great granular quality! We’ll be painting a beautiful Great Blue Heron in this workshop!
Contact Katrina 541-601-7221 for more information, and call or stop by
Central Art 541-773-1444 to sign up! |
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By Brooke Nuckles, 379 contributed posts
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Hello artistic students and friends,
I’m excited to let you know about a new weekly class that will be starting next week (see below for all the details).
Plus, the Rogue Gallery is hosting my plein air workshop taking place this Saturday at the lovely Alpaca Ranch in Eagle Point!
Besides all that, I’ve been taking great pleasure in plein air painting out and about in this wonderful weather! Thanks to a couple of new students, I have discovered a few more gorgeous locations. Let me know if your interested in joining us. These excursions are not pre-planned, but more or less are decided within a few days of meeting. *attached are some recent works
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
silvia
Title: ” Artistic Direction “
Location: Artist Attic /Scrappy Craft
Phoenix, OR
Description:
A class for all painting and drawing media; all skill levels welcome!
With a focus on support and evaluation to build your artistic skills, you will also be directed in developing your own personal style.
Individual instruction and attention will be provided by artist Silvia Trujillo.
Fee: $30 drop in or $100 / 4 class series
Time: Wednesday’s: 1-3pm (starting Sept 11)
Contact: Silvia to reserve your space or for more information
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Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, September 6th from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the September Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
AGA September Spotlight Exhibits
Ashland Art Works
From the Ground Up – Clay and Wood Artistry
Featuring Bonnie Morgan & John Weston
Our Featured Artists this month are Bonnie Morgan and John Weston, highlighting Bonnie’s beautiful functional and decorative ceramics with John’s luscious wood furniture and cutting boards.
Bonnie has been working in clay for many years. Currently along with her functional work she is exploring Terra Sigillata and smoke patterns that are created during the post firing process. Creating decorative and functional pottery has been the cornerstone of her work. Bonnie enjoys making a full range of functional work including mugs, bowls, serving platters, trays, vases and teapots. Bonnie’s goal is to create pottery that can enrich and celebrate our lives.
John Weston will present his latest custom furniture pieces and assorted craft items utilizing primarily local hardwoods. John has been a member of Ashland Art Works for twelve years. Becoming a part of a cooperative of artists has inspired John to stretch his woodworking and to combine form with function. His work highlights the natural beauty found in wood and is of a quality to provide generations of use and enjoyment.
Meet the artists at First Friday Art Walk Sept 6th – 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
 Bonnie Morgan, Teapot – Functional ceramics Hanson Howard
Robert Schlegel, painting & Penelope Dews, ceramic sculpture
September 6th – October 1st
Artist Reception: September 6th, 5-8 pm
Bob Schlegel creates images that possess tension between the representational and the abstract. He paints in the studio and plein aire from preliminary sketches in charcoal, pencil and oil pastel and takes reference photographs as necessary. Drawing is the foundation for his work, he is tenacious with the sketch whether it be life-drawing session or in the field. Through line, contrast, texture, color and composition he explores form and shape where things in the natural world and things that are made by man collide.
Penelope Dews graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1984 with a BFA in Ceramic Sculpture. She works in her studio in Ashland, OR and produces work to fire in a large Anagama wood fire kiln in the Umpqua Valley. An ancient technique, the Anagama kiln produces ash and volatile salts which settle on the pieces and create a natural ash glaze. Penelope uses the tone and texture unique to this process to create richly earth toned characters and objects. This gives the pieces an ancient, stone like surface. Ranging from realistic to whimsical, these animals exude peaceful, playful expressions with a touch of the mysterious.
 Robert Schlegel, Houses on Water, acrylic on canvas Photographers’ Gallery (Ashland Art Center)
The Sentinel of the Forest – Photography by Dan Elster
Local photographer Dan Elster’s new show, The Sentinel of the Forest, opens at The Photographer’s Gallery at the Ashland Art Center on Friday, September 6 for the First Friday Art Walk and continues through the month of September.
Northern Spotted Owls are perhaps the Pacific Northwest’s best-known wildlife species. In the early 1990’s they were listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Logging operations were suddenly curtailed and many even shut down. To the logging communities, the owl became a symbol for government overreach and economic hardship. To the environmentalist, spotted owls represented man’s irresponsible stewardship of the environment. Northern Spotted Owl populations continue to decline and the long-term survival of the species is questionable.
In July of 2019, I accompanied a wildlife biologist in southern Oregon. I was rewarded with a couple of the most memorable encounters to date with Strix occidentalis caurina. I hope these images will help you see Northern Spotted Owls for what they are, (fascinating, beautiful, majestic creatures), not a symbol of a bitter political argument that has gone on for decades.
Dan Elster is a wildlife photographer based in Ashland, Oregon. He hopes his images serve as reminders that we don’t own the earth, we share it.
 Dan Elster, Owl photograph Oak Leaf Studio
The Importance of Water, pastel paintings by Leif Trygg
Water, with its reflective light properties, can be a major influence in landscape art and especially so in the pastel paintings of Ashland artist Leif Trygg at Oak Leaf Studio. Trygg’s new work Stone Bridge San Francisco is featured this month along with pictures of rivers, streams, waterfalls and the ocean. The new pastel is of Stowe Lake in Golden Gate Park.
Also on view is a small collection of dramatic Pacific Northwest photographs from Bend photographer Bob Trygg that feature water as well.
Fall Print Sale September is Oak Leaf Studio’s annual Fall print sale with all Leif Trygg prints 25% off their original price. This includes framed and loose prints.
 Trygg, “Lagoon” pastel painting
Please see attached “Spotlight Exhibits” and the September Gallery Tour Map.
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Happy Labor Day Weekend!
This holiday reminds me of my goal of restful productivity. I still fail at it—often and miserably—but I keep practicing.
In early spring, I was trying really, really hard to take one day off each week. One chilly, Sabbath afternoon, I cozied up with tea and a stack of art books, and I had an idea. That idea became The Word-Painting Project: a subscription series of ten little poem-paintings of encouragement. I created one each day during a June writing retreat, made prints of the ten designs, and then mailed each batch to subscribers every week for ten weeks over the summer. Despite some postal glitches, it was fun to do, and I was heartened to receive photos of people’s prints lining their window sills and hanging on their walls. It was like one, big encouragement loop!
That project culminated in a salon & exhibit at the end of my recent writing residency in San Francisco. In fact, I mailed the last batch of prints from the mailbox on the street corner near the Noe Valley studio where I stayed. That was a lovely feeling.
I often have to encourage myself to rest. Paradoxically, from that place of rest comes the ideas and energy for the work that I love and love to share.
In the spirit of sharing, I’d like to give you a free print—that Word-Painting at the top of this newsletter. You can download it here. Print it, share it—whatever you like!
My residency was at the wonderful, new WordSpaceStudios in San Francisco. While there, I was able to finally gather together the ideas for a little nonfiction project that had been simmering away in a file for years. And so, while my poetry manuscript is off looking for a home, I am finishing up Living Large on Little: How a Poet Sees Limitation as Invitation. You can find a teaser from the intro on my Wordbody blog. And save the date this November 9 for a multi-level celebration (5-7 pm at Miners’ Bazaar in Jacksonville). More info to come.
And then…
…last but certainly not least, we were thrilled to release the anthology, Deep Travel: Souvenirs from the Inner Journey. We held the launch the night before the annual Travel Writers & Photographers Conference at the flagship BookPassage in Corte Madera, California. The book compiles writings from five years of workshops and 44 contributors…16 of whom traveled to read for the launch (they’re pictured above). It was a big labor of love to help gather these voices together, but so very worth it.
I could sum up this summer in two words: labor & play. Here’s to creating space in both to rest and dream.
With joy,
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Upcoming
Vignettes in the Vineyard
Friday, 11 October, 3-5 pm at Red Lily Vineyards (Applegate Valley, OR) This third annual writing workshop is back! I’ll be teaching the same course, so if you missed it in the past, join me this year during the peak of autumn leaves in the iconic Red Lily barn.
 Deep Travel Mexico
16-22 January 2020 (Yelapa, Mexico) It’s a winter tradition! This will be our fifth workshop of writing and practicing the art of tranquilo in a car-free village on the Bay of Banderas. Register at DeepTravelWorkshops.com.
Deep Travel Paris
4-10 April 2020 (Paris, France) We’re thrilled to hold our first workshop in the City of Light! Get ready to spend time in the parks, museums, and cafés of this delicious city that always inspires the artist’s life. Register at DeepTravelWorkshops.com.
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By Anna Elkins, 145 contributed posts
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About the author: art + word + spirit: A painter and poet, I play in the crossroads of art & spirit. My paintings are visual stanzas of a poem I will spend my life writing - with brush & pen. I've had the honor to create and exhibit art in the United States, Europe & Micronesia. "As with poetry, painting is either a battle or a dance. Given the choice between music & a sword, I choose music." See Anna's listing at the Southern Oregon Artists Resource.
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It was such a gift. Time and space in San Francisco to write. While there, I was able to work on a nonfiction project that’s been growing in a Word document for a long time: Living Large on Little: How a Poet Sees Limitations as Invitations. This is the first of several excerpts. From the introduction:
I grew up mostly in rural Montana. At the edge of our field grew a young plum tree. I loved this tree. I whispered my hopes to it and sat in its shade and…I was probably reenacting Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. I was a bit of a romantic.
Beneath that tree, I dreamed what my life would be like when I grew up. Though I can’t remember all of those dreams, I do remember that my imagination sustained me.
The farmhouse my parents rented was beautiful and old—over a hundred years at the time. It had no central heating. In the winter, our pipes would consistently freeze. The spigot mounted to the fence leaked enough water to create fantastical, three-foot-high ice sculptures.
Winter mornings, my brother David and I would don our scarves, coats, hats, mittens, and Moon Boots and plunge through the snow to see what shape had grown in the night.
One year, the spigot dripped into a being an ice chair worthy of the witch of Narnia. It was so big, we could sit on it, and we did—taking turns being King and Queen, reigning over the white and gray landscape, ours to the edge of the visible world.
More to come next month….
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Josephine County Artists Association 2019 Membership Show
Best of Show Award…..$50 Cash Award Members Choice Award…..$25 Gift Certificate for Central Art
Members- Get your artwork ready for our Membership Show
October 3, 2019
Dinner and Show at the Taprock Northwest Grill Cost: $20 – includes Buffet Dinner and gratuity
Money for tickets must be received by September 21st and will be available at our September 5th Meeting or by mail to the
JCAA PO Box
No entry fee for this show….only JCAA Members can enter Guests are welcome to attend the dinner and critique – Cost $20
Judge: Charlotte Peterson
Registration: 5:30 – 6:00 PM No paintings will be accepted after 6:00 PM Dinner: 6:00 – 7:00 PM Buffet
Awards and Critique: 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Each member can enter one painting that has not been previously entered in any JCAA Show. Paintings entered in this show will not be eligible for entry in the Spring Show.
The following are the categories for this show:
Advanced Intermediate Beginner/Classwork
The judge will determine the first, second, third and honorable mention awards for each category. The judge will also select Best of Show.
The JCAA membership will select the award for Members’ Choice.
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- Monthly meetings take place at:
- Fruitdale Grange
1440 Parkdale Drive, Grants Pass, OR
Promoting the interest and development of the arts for its members and the community. Monthly meetings include guest artist demonstrations. Activities include the annual Spring Show, Luncheon and Critique, the Fall Membership Show and Plein aire outings. Monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month except July & August. Time: Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec 1:00PM–3:00 PM; Apr, May, Jun, Sept, Oct, Nov 6:30PM–8:30PM.
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Bring Your Creative Strengths To The Surface With This New Class!
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CREATIVE UNDERPAINTING
with Instructors: Roni Marsh & Cheryl Magellen
When: Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019
Where: Central Art
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Fee: $60. Absolute beginners welcome!
Space is limited. Pre-registration required.
For more info: 541-944-8734 or www.cmagellen.com/workshops
Roni Marsh and Cheryl Magellen join together once again to bring you a new one-day workshop guaranteed to keep you excited about creating art!
With an emphasis on design and composition, participants will learn to create unique surfaces using numerous textures and painting techniques. Work in pastel, oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, graphite, or all of the above. Whether you have painted before or are an accomplished artist, this workshop will keep you inspired to produce more and more art!
Supply list provided at registration. |
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