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By Brooke Nuckles, 298 contributed posts
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Annual Medford Open Studio Tour
June 8-9, 2019
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Annual free event. Local artists open their studios to the public for viewing and shopping. Learn how artists create their “magic”. 2nd weekend in June.
We are happy to announce the following artists (to date) will be participating in this year’s popular studio tour.
Charles Anderson, watercolor
Betty Barss, watercolor
Len and Violet Burton,sculptured wood items, photography, acrylic
Lisa Case, “Mad Hatter
Kim Faucher, watercolor, acrylic, oil, mixed medi
Karen Gilsdorf, decorative gourds
Tom Glassman, photography
Claire Harkins, oil, funky birdhouses
Cathy Nicholson, acrylic in, watercolor, jewelry
Charlotte Peterson, watercolor
Teri Sutton, acrylic, oil, paper mache
Ben Wood, pottery
Martin Steele, watercolor ink on metallic paper
Roy Musitelli, photo illustration, and Gail O’Dell, silversmith will be showing with Roy.
We have 12 locations and 16 participating artists.
More info on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Annual-Medford-Open-Studio-Tour-538995009857874/
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2 FREE Painting Demos this April!
Presented by Jeanne LaRae
Acrylic Demo – Monday, April 8th – 10am-Noon
Watercolor Demo – Wednesday, April 10th – 2pm-4pm
Where: Central Art
Fee: Both Demos are FREE (limit 20 participants per day)
*Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited. Call or visit Central Art to reserve (One reservation per individual, please. No group reservations will be accepted). 541.773.1444
Jeanne LaRae uses light and shadow to create and tell a story she relates throughout her paintings of nature, landscapes, architecture, people, and animals.
Organizations –
American Impressionists Society, California Art Club, Intermountain Society of Artists, Oil Painters of America, Southern Oregon Society of Artists, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association – Artist Members
For more information on demos and upcoming classes, contact:
By Brooke Nuckles, 298 contributed posts
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Ashland’s First Friday Art Walk
Ashland Gallery Association Art Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
April 5th, from 5 to 8 PM
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
A Taste of Ashland, Art Food & Wine Festival is April 27th & 28th. Also featuring a “Pop-up” Art Show at Ashland Springs Hotel Crystal Room. Please see attached information & visit: www.atasteofashland.com
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the April Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
A Taste Of Ashland Pop-up Art Show
Ashland Springs Hotel – Crystal Room
Art Sales during “A Taste of Ashland,” April 27 & 28, 12:00–4:00 PM
As an added attraction to A Taste of Ashland wine, food, and art festival, we will have a group of Ashland Gallery Association artist members participating in a special “Pop-up Art Show!”On display will be paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, printmaking and pastels.
Jeanne LaRae Lagano, “Chef’s Love of the Flame,” oil painting
“A Taste of Ashland” Food, Wine, and Art Festival
Celebrating its 30th Year Anniversary!
The Ashland Gallery Association’s signature fund-raising event, A Taste of Ashland takes place Saturday and Sunday, April 27th and 28thfrom noon to 4 PM.
Participants follow a map to 17 galleries discovering Ashland’s culinary delights and regional wines while enjoying the local visual arts.AllAboard Trolley will offer rides to all galleries, but most are within walking distance.
For tickets and more information about A Taste of Ashland 2019 a complete list of pairings go to: www.atasteofashland.com or call 541-951.9442.
LOCAL TICKET OUTLET: Ashland Art Center, 357 East Main St., Ashland. Tickets can also be purchased (dependent on availability) and wine glasses picked up prior to A Taste weekend at the Ashland Plaza Kiosk from 12 Noon to 2 PM April 20th – April 26th.The Kiosk will open at 11 AM on the days of the event, April 27th and 28th.
Hanson Howard Gallery
Deborah Oropallo, Dark Landscapes for a White House, video and photomontage
In conjunction with The Ashland Independent Film Festival and The Schneider Museum of Art we will be featuring Deborah Oropallo, Dark Landscapes for a White House, video and photomontages on paper.
Show runs April 5-23
Opening reception during the Ashland First Friday Art Walk April 5th, 5-8 pm. Artist talk and reception Thursday, April 11th, 5:30-7:30. *This event is free to the public.
Dark Landscapes for a White House critiques our cultural habituation to political and ecological traumas. Oropallo employs photomontage as a strategy for visualizing how media-based images accumulate and overwhelm our collective consciousness.
DEBORAH OROPALLO was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University, and a joint Master of Arts/Master of Fine Arts from The University of California, Berkeley. Although originally trained in painting, Oropallo’s practice incorporates mixed media including photomontage, computer editing, print technique and paint. Her composite works use layered visual sources to produce a dense interplay between time, place, form and content. The resulting works bear traces of the distortions that evolve or remain from digital manipulation and removal.
Deborah Oropallo, Video Frame: Pirates, Paris, photomontage on paper. *image courtesy of the Catharine Clark Gallery.
Gallerie Karon
Artist as Poet
Gallerie Karon’s annual show, “Artist as Poet” showcases artists who are poets and poets who are artists.
It’s interesting to unveil the backgrounds and current talents of our artists that few know about! Who knew that Judy Benson Le Nier wrote an occasional (and stunning) poem to go with her wildlife photography? Horst Wolf has limericks, paintings and books. Jesse Widener has his photography with us but also writes poetry and music. Ken Deveney contributes poetry, paintings (several mediums) photography and music.
New this year – a whole family of artistic people! Dan Felman, our popular guitarist, writes original music and lyrics. HIs two children have contributed photography and poetry (Abigail) and line drawing and poetry (Reuben).
We’re also proud to showcase new work by Rebecca Gabriel and Jonah Bernstein.
Not to be missed, The Taste of Ashland here at Gallerie Karon on April 27 & 28 with Callahans’s Mountain Lodge and Cuckoo’s Nest Cellars!
photo by Jesse Widener
Shepherd’s Dream
PNW Wonderland
Jessica Johnson is a contemporary landscape oil painter born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Passionate about the outdoors since her earliest backpacking trip, just 3 years old, she works to capture and communicate the inspiring beauty of the landscapes that surround her home and permeate her adventures.
Jessica creates vibrant oil paintings through bold brushstrokes, color, and movement, and invites the viewer to feel more connected to this beautiful planet, “to revel in her landscapes.”Mastering her impressionist styling silently communicates that message.
Jessica Johnson, “Still Mind,” oil painting
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
By Brooke Nuckles, 298 contributed posts
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Can you join the Cultural Advocacy Coalition in Salem on Tuesday, April 23rd for Arts & Cultural Advocacy Day? Join advocates from around the state with a strong showing of support for public funding of arts, heritage, humanities and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Our current legislative session will be halfway over and it is now time to connect with legislators and urge them to:
1) Renew the cultural tax credit that funds Oregon’s Cultural Trust
2) Keep the special assessments that protect historic property
3) Adequately fund the budgets of the Oregon Arts Commission, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the State Office of Historic Preservation
4) Provide lottery backed bonds for capital construction projects supporting culture across the state.
Please register for Arts & Culture Advocacy Day by April 12th. The day will give you a chance to meet leaders from other cultural organizations, see cultural performances, receive advocacy training from experienced professionals, and help you petition your elected officials to include arts and culture in policy and budgeting priorities.
We hope to see you there! If you haven’t yet become a member of the Cultural Advocacy Coalition, we also urge you to do so. We are the only group advocating on these issues statewide for Oregonians.
Best,
Sue Hildick,
Executive Director
Cultural Advocacy Coalition
In this workshop you will learn some of the basics of working with acrylic paint, color mixing, theory, composition, under-drawing and take home an 8” X 10” painting of a flower inspired by real photographs which will be supplied.
$50/Members,
$55/Non-Members
All materials provided
Animal Painting
with Bobbi Baldwin
Saturday, April 13
10:30 am – 4 pm
Dogs, cats, horses, tigers, cows, wild animals… Whatever your favorite animal is, we will work on learning the structure of faces as well as how to best portray them! Learn new techniques to make your artwork stand out! Artist Bobbi Baldwin will begin with a demonstration in pastel or watercolor. Then… Work on your own subject with the help of the instructor – Beginners to advanced, all are welcome! You can paint or draw in any medium (bring your own supplies). Open to all mediums except oils.
(Please register in advance. Bobbi comes from out of state to teach here.)
$80/Members,
$85/Non-Members.
Impressionism
with Kristen O’Neill
Saturday, April 20
1 – 4 pm
Learn about Impressionism. A beautiful visual lecture of Monet, Renoir, Sargent, and Cassatt will be given. Then you can copy your favorite Impressionist painting. We will use acrylic paint and 8” x 10” canvases. An afternoon of inspiration and fun! All supplies included.
$30/Members,
$35/Non-Members.
All materials provided.
Paint like Matisse
with Kristen O’Neill
Saturday, May 4
1 – 4 pm
Learn about Matisse, and Fauvism. Create your own copy of your favorite Matisse on an 8” x 10” canvas.
Explore bright color, flat surfaces, bold patterns, and a change of perspective.
$30/Members,
$35/Non-Members.
All materials provided.
Figure Painting
with Bobbi Baldwin
Saturday, May 18
10:30 am – 4 pm
Join Bobbi Baldwin for a day of investigating the techniques of masters in the art of figure drawing! Take your figure drawing to another level following the techniques offered by this workshop. Learn the easiest concepts that will help your anatomy understanding. Work from a live (clothed) model. This workshop will teach you how to understand light, shadow, composition, human structure, and how to make your work outstanding! Bring your own supplies. Open to all mediums except oil.
$85/Members,
$90/Non-Members.
Creative Idea Generator
with Karen O’Brien
Saturday, June 1
10:30 am – 1 pm
Play generates ideas and constraints make things interesting. They send you in new directions and bypass inhibitions. The assignment is to make a figure. Any kind of figure. Or more than one! The more you do, the more ideas you will generate for bigger projects like dolls, drawings, paintings, and sculpture. This is a chance to engage deeply and freely with your imagination and embrace real play.
All materials will be provided. We will use paper, cardboard, fabric, sticks, moss, feathers, buttons, metal, wood…basically whatever is around including tools – glue sticks, tape, paint, thread, string…. You are welcome to bring a Ziploc bag full of your own bits to use or share and add a nice element of surprise.
$40/Members,
$45/Non-Members.
How to Paint Vegetables
with Terri Regotti
Saturday, June 15
1 – 4 pm
This workshop is a continuation of painting in acrylic where students will expand on the study of the acrylic medium and their subject matter. A finished painting will be completed. All supplies provided.
$50/Members,
$55/Non-Members.
All materials provided.
Traditional Painting Techniques
with Kristen O’Neill
Saturday, June 29
1 – 4 pm
This class we will explore traditional painting techniques. We will start our paintings with an underpainting, then learn how to block in your painting, and add texture. Then we can use glazing, scumbling, and sgraffito. These will be taught in acrylic. Students will leave with a painting that uses all these techniques. We will be using a Renaissance palette of color. All levels are welcome!
$30/Members,
$35/Non-Members.
All materials provided.
All class sign ups are considered final and refunds are not given. The Museum will give a full refund in the case of a class being cancelled.
Unsure if your membership is active? Check in with the Museum staff by calling 541-479-3290, or email [email protected].
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Art du Jour April 2019:
Art du Jour Gallery, 213 E. Main Street in Medford will be devoted to watercolor in April with Marianne Nielsen and Marilyn Zupan. Third Friday will be on April 19, 5-8 pm with musical entertainment by classical guitarist Rod Petrone. Go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ArtduJourGallery) for updates.
Guest Artist Marianne Nielsen
With a passion for watercolor, Marianne Nielsen say it is her favorite media because of its versatility regarding techniques and textures. While enjoying all styles and subjects, her inspiration comes from all things in nature, especially animals and flowers.
After 5 years learning from the late Marshal McDaniels, he literally changed the way she looks at everyday things like clouds, trees, water and life. Soon after she became a watercolor instructor herself with 6 to 8 students, which has since grown to 4 weekly classes with more than 50 students. Since 2007, many of her students have also gone on to become teachers themselves as well as having their work in local galleries.
Marianne is a former Art du Jour member and active participant with the Watercolor Society of Oregon. She also gives workshops in Grants Pass, as well as recent workshop in Tucson, Arizona. She has shown and sold artwork at 7 Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort, and is currently a member of the Grants Pass Museum of Art. She has also been showing work at Gallery One in Grants Pass and will be their featured in July.
Church Lane by Marylin Zupan. Digital image provided by the artist 3/2019
Marilyn Zupan has always had a deep love for England’s gentle country landscapes and rustic stone homes and bridges. Her father was English and she spent three years in England falling in love with her ancestral land. “Being able to recreate those memories in watercolor is pure joy.”, she writes.
Having taught calligraphy in the Rogue Valley for more than 20 years, Marilyn began taking watercolor classes in 2009 and has been painting ever since. In 2011 Marilyn was juried into the Watercolor Society of Oregon.
As an added attraction to our featured wall, Marilyn will be teaming up with potter Susan Paul Williams for the entire month of April.
Pottery by Susan Paul-Williams. Photo provided by the artist 3/2019
Calling All Rogue Valley Artists!!!
As one of downtown Medford’s premiere art galleries, we are pleased to introduce our newest member Winnifred Liang. We are still actively seeking new artists living in the Rogue Valley region who would like to join our cooperative and display their work to the Medford community. Membership includes an active role in the Art in Bloom festival in May, as well as our monthly Third Friday event. Media to be juried for membership includes pottery, sculpture, photography and jewelry. Contact the gallery by email at [email protected], or log into our website: www.artdujourgallery.com for full membership information.
May will be our 3rd annual “People’s Choice” photography contest with the theme being “My Favorite Photo”. As in the past the popular photography contest will be on display and voted on during Art in Bloom on Mother’s Day weekend. In August the People’s Choice theme will be “Summer Fun” to include all mediums, and October the theme will be “Changing Seasons” also to include all mediums. In the event of a large turnout for the “all medium” contests, we may divide the judging into two separate categories between photography and painting. See our website for entry rules and entry form, or stop by the gallery during our regular open hours. As in the past these exhibits are dependent on the number of participants and the gallery reserves to right to cancel the contest with full refund if turnout is minimal.
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April Classes and Workshops
Happy Spring!
I have met the most wonderful people in my classes this year. My heart overflows with love, inspiration and thankfulness for the connection that happens when we all walk together in the passion of our creativity.
Here are two more workshops for April, including the Sumi-e class every Tuesday morning (which if you haven’t tried it yet, you’re missing out)- and with more exciting classes on the way!
Don’t forget Thursday evenings at Kindred are $10 art nights!
Spring Birds
A wonderfully fun and colorful assemblage!
Saturday, April 6th
11:00 – 4:00
All materials provided.
$50
A Show of Hands
Cast and collaged in your own personal style of bohemian or old school tattoos. Addicting?? Ohhh my, yes!
All materials provided!
Saturday, April 20th, 11:00 – 4:00
$55
Sumi-e
(Asian Ink Painting)
A lesson in Focus. Learn to not merely look but really see and connect with the nature around you. Don’t have time to meditate? Do this!
Every Tuesday Morning at 10:00
$25
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Sign Up NOW! Enjoy a 2-hour Demo Presented by Lupe Galvan, MFA from 4pm-6pm 3/28/19!
Lupe Galvan Free Drawing Demonstration
***SECOND SESSION***
Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 4:00pm-6:00pm!
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Where: Classroom at Central Art
Fee: FREE (Pre-registration required)
There’s still time to sign up! The first session is full, but you can sign up to attend a repeat of Lupe Galvan’s demo on Thursday, March 28th from 4:00pm-6:00pm!
In this free demo, Lupe will cover how to draw a head/face and then demonstrate the use of a limited color palette on toned paper. Techniques shown will include using a measuring system and landmarks to draw a face, and how using a limited color palette can actually be beneficial in understanding color and creating color harmony.
Call 541-773-1444 to pre-register, as space is limited. Learn more about Lupe’s art and career by visiting https://www.lupegalvan.com
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View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
Save the date and support the artists, performers and vendors participating in this brand new event, sponsored by City of Central Point Parks & Recreation! Be there! Downtown Pine Street on May 18, 2019 from 12:00 pm (noon) to 7:00 pm.
By Anna Elkins, 140 contributed posts
View all Anna Elkins's posts. 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.
Many moons ago, in a land far, far away, my life completely changed. I had been working for two years in Germany, living an art-filled but spirit-empty life. On a whim, I took the train to Switzerland to a theological commune my parents had told me about.
You could say I had my mountain-top experience on a literal mountain top. There in the Alps, my life did a complete reset, and I started on a what would become my journey of art + word + spirit.
At the time, I didn’t know how much I needed to be encouraged that there was something beyond my current circumstances—something more. (In fact, I wrote & illustrated a children’s bookinspired by that journey.)
In early June, I’ll be back in Switzerland to teach poetry. Afterward, I’m returning to that alpine village and taking a 10-day creativity retreat—my own personal pilgrimage. But this time around, I’d like to invite you to share the journey. Specifically, I’d like to share a little project of encouragement….
The Word-Painting Project
Do you ever wish a bit of encouragement would just arrive on your doorstep? Consider this an invitation to receive some!
During 10 days in June, I’ll create 10 word-paintings in watercolor & ink. Though I don’t yet know exactly what they’ll be, I know that they’ll be inspired by taking heart. (You can see a similar idea by checking out the watercolor/micropoetry pieces I created while at a writing residency last fall.)
Once I’m back home, I’ll make archival, matte, 5” x 5” postcard prints of the originals.
Sign up for the project, and I’ll sign, hand-address, & mail the postcards to you—one per week, for 10 weeks. You’ll get a tangible word of encouragement in your mailbox—your actual snail-mailbox!
Cost: $25 to addresses within the US ($30 outside the US)
You can also order the project as a gift for someone else—just send me their mailing address.
And as a fun finale: the project will conclude with a poetry reading & art reception to display the originals in San Francisco mid-August (more details on that event to come).
