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By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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.
First Friday Art Walk, November 5, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Please visit gallery, studio, and artist websites for more information regarding COVID-19 safety protocols and procedures. Thank you.
Christina Madden, Go With the Flow, Oil
Art & Soul Gallery Oregon Land and Sea, by Christina Madden
For the month of November, Art & Soul Gallery will present an exhibit of oil and acrylic paintings by Christina Madden. On November 5, during First Friday Art Walk, Christina will be present to answer questions about her work.
“I have always been inspired by nature’s astounding beauty and variety. Capturing moments, lights, and shadows in landscapes and seascapes is a joyous challenge that keeps me on the edge of new horizons.” – Christina Madden
Address and Contact Information: 247 East Main, Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-9006 www.artandsoulgallery.com
Paula Rice, Dish Towels, Fiber Art
Fiber Arts Collective Paula Rice, Sunbird Scarves
Fiber Arts Collective Featured Artist for the month of November is Paula Rice. Paula believes it’s important for our culture to thrive. By block printing on everyday fabric, she feels that she is contributing to the success of our culture by creating art that can live in our everyday lives and inspire others to be creative.
Christian Burchard & Kristy Kun, Shell no. 6, Wood and Fiber Sculpture
Hanson Howard Gallery Claire Duncan, Christian Burchard, Kristy Kun
This month’s exhibition at Hanson Howard Gallery features graceful paintings by Claire Duncan, elegant wood sculptures by Christian Burchard, and rich fiber sculptures by Kristy Kun. Claire’s current work responds to questions about what it means to be human at a time when our very own actions threaten the very nature that inspires us. Alternatively, Christian and Kristy’s work is very process-driven. The collaboration started with a wooden disk abandoned in a corner of Christian’s workshop. Once steamed and re-formed, it became a perfect container for Kristy’s felt forms, resulting in a fossil-like and elegant synthesis of form and texture.
Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Appointments are available too.
John Pugh Studio The Art of John Pugh: Trompe ‘L Oeil Murals
John Pugh paints illusionary murals on large canvases in his studio that are later installed outdoors in public. For John, creating a sense of place is important. Once intrigued by the illusion, viewers are invited to visually cross into a mural to further explore and discover a deeper concept. To see more about the mural process, stop by John’s studio. It will be open on November 5, during First Friday Art Walk.
Hours: Friday: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Address and Contact Information: 255 Helman Street, #1 C/D, Ashland, OR 97520 408-835-4341 artofjohnpugh.com
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Ashland Galleries
October Visual Arts News
October = Art Opportunities
We’re excited to share a handful of fun art opportunities that are being offered to foster your inner creativity whether it be getting out and about or enjoying from the comfort of your own home.
Cheryl Kempner, Bird Bases, Ceramic
2021 Outdoor Clayfolk Pottery Show & Sale
Out of the Fire
Saturday, October 23, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Clayfolk is excited to continue their tradition of having a yearly pottery show and sale! This year, it will take place at the heart of Downtown Talent where the Almeda Fire burned. Over a dozen Clayfolk Artists will fill the parking lot of the historic Malmgren Garage Building at 111 Talent Avenue with their wonderful clay artwork. Wake ‘N Bake Food Truck will be serving food as well!
For those who are interested in attending, please click here for more information.
Roxanne Evans Stout, Scroll 1, Mixed Media
Roxanne Evans Stout, Seth Apter, Lisa Agaran
The Illuminated Scroll
Thursday – Saturday, November 11 – 13
Join Roxanne Evans Stout, Seth Apter, and Lisa Agaran for a three day virtual workshop that includes the creating of three different scroll projects. Each day, a different artist/instructor will provide step-by-step instructions to create a handmade scroll inspired by their artistic approach and style.
For those who are interested in attending, please click here for more information.
Catherine Wiley, Girl with the Pearl Earring, Acrylic
Grants Pass Museum of Art
Faux Fun & 6×6
Submit your art now – Saturday, December 18
Support the Grants Pass Museum of Art and exhibit artwork in their winter exhibition! All artwork will be on display from January 18 – February 19, 2022.
Faux Fun:
Create a copy of a masterwork with your own twist! Masterworks should be well known so that viewers are able to understand the ‘spoof’ of it. The museum has even provided a list of recommendations for inspiration.
For those who are interested in participating and would like more information, please email the Grants Pass Museum of Art at [email protected].
6×6:
Create a 6”x6” artwork for auction! Artists can create as many artworks as they wish to donate and both 2D and 3D artwork is welcome. Please do not modify the size or edges or create parts that stick out beyond 6”x6”.
For those who are interested in participating and would like more information, please email the Grants Pass Museum of Art at [email protected].
Truth to Power Club, Untitled, Mural
Peter Finkle, Walk Ashland
BIPOC Celebration Mural
Tuesday, November 23
Join the Truth to Power Club at Ashland High School to dedicate a new public art mural to Ashland High School student, Aidan Ellison, who was shot and killed last November 23. In addition to serving as a memorial, the mural also celebrates Rogue Valley Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who have made and continue to make a positive difference in our community.
For more information about the mural, please click here.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Find all the details of the Ashland Gallery Association AGA October 2021 exhibits here!
First Friday Art Walk, October 1, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Please visit gallery, studio, and artist websites for more information regarding COVID-19 safety protocols and procedures. Thank you.
AGA October 2021 Exhibits Spotlight
Art & Soul Gallery Through the Window, Pastel Paintings by Carla J Griffin
Image Credit: Carla J Griffin, First Light at Lake Louise, Pastel
Currently featured at Art & Soul Gallery is Through the Window, Pastel Paintings by Carla J Griffin. On October 1, during First Friday Art Walk, Carla will be present to answer questions about her work.
“I frequently begin a painting in my mind while looking through a window. It might be from a plane, a train, a hotel, or my rearview mirror.” – Carla J Griffin
Image Credit: Gallerie Karon, Untitled, Mixed Media
This month’s exhibition at Gallerie Karon includes masks and puppets from around the world. The exhibition includes face, helmet, and shoulder masks ranging from two inches to four feet. further, puppets include rod, shadow, and hand styles with a variety of different animals being represented.
Hanson Howard Gallery currently featuries masterful oil paintings by Jhenna Quinn Lewis, rich woodblock prints by Millie Whipplesmith Plank, and stylized ceramics by Dews. Jhenna’s paintings are simple, intimate compositions that invite the viewer to closely examine the details of a bird in an unexpected setting. On the other hand, Millie’s prints celebrate the biodiversity and preservation of open spaces. Dews is inspired by the fusion of gardening with ceramics, whether it be realistic or whimsical.
Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Appointments are available too.
Ashland Art Works Galleries Claudia Law and John Weston
Image Credit: Claudia Law, Fuji Flowers II, Textile
This month’s exhibition at Ashland Art Works includes textile works by Claudia Law and wood works by John Weston. Color, texture, and creating the illusion of depth, movement, and transparency are Claudia’s focus, whereas John consistently attempts to highlight the natural beauty found in the materials that he uses. On Saturday, October 9, Claudia will be present to demonstrate her artistic processes.
Thanks for taking a look at the AGA October 2021 exhibits. We hope you will join us for the Ashland First Friday ArtWalk on October 1! The Ashland Gallery Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the visual arts in our communities.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Ashland Galleries September Visual Arts NewsSeptember = Art Opportunities
We’re excited to share a handful of fun art opportunities that are being offered to foster your inner creativity, whether it’s getting out and about or enjoying from the comfort of your own home.
Art & Soul Gallery Give-Away Photo Contest! September 15 – 30, Anytime
To celebrate Art & Soul Gallery’s newly featured wall, they are hosting a giveaway and photo contest. To enter, visit Art & Soul Gallery, take a photo of the wall displaying a splash, post on Instagram and/or Facebook, tag Art & Soul Gallery, and use the hashtag #SplashOnTheWall.
1st Prize: Best Overall Photo, $75 Gallery/Framing Credit 2nd Prize: Most Artsie Photo, $50, Gallery/Framing Credit 3rd Prize: Most Original Photo, $25 Gallery/Framing Credit
Winners will be notified during the first week of October.
Image Credit: Tanya Bemis, Untitled, Pop-Out Book
Fiber Arts Collective Miniature Pop-Out Book Workshop with Tanya Bemis Sunday, September 26, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Join Fiber Arts Collective and Tanya Bemis for an afternoon of miniature bookmaking. Learn how to make a pie-shaped pop-out book with a secondary secret function. During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to create one book in class while receiving materials to make an additional book at home.
Space is limited. For those who are interested in attending, please click here.
Image Credit: Marianne Nielsen, Daisy, Watercolor
Grants Pass Museum of Art Watercolor Pet Portrait Workshop Saturday, September 18, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Join the Grants Pass Museum of Art and Marianne Nielsen to learn how to paint your favorite animal and/or pet using watercolor and your own reference photo. This is a wonderful workshop if you’re someone who loves animals. Watercolor experience is required and registration is $50.00.
For those who are interested in participating, please click here.
Image Credit: Dews, Untitled, Ceramic
Dews Making Sculptures with Modified Coils, the Magic in Details October 1 – 3, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / 9:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Join Dews for a ceramic sculpture workshop at Bloom Pottery. The workshop will focus on making sculptures using modified coils. Ideas include making animals, people, urns, planters, abstracts, and more. Beginners are welcome. Don’t forget to stop by Hanson Howard Gallery to view some of Dews’ work for inspiration.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Ashland Galleries September Visual Arts News
First Friday Art Walk: September 3, 2021
Please visit gallery, studio, and artist websites for more information regarding COVID-19 safety protocols and procedures. Thank you.
We’re excited to share a diverse array of wonderful artwork created by our very talented artists this month. Don’t forget to visit their websites for more information about business hours, current events, and upcoming opportunities.
Here is a sampling of our September Spotlight Galleries and Artists.
Please visit our website for links to our member galleries and artist websites, and to view the online version of the 2021 Ashland Gallery Guide.
From shared experiences in realism, tributes to spirituality, and journeys into abstraction, my artwork is a culmination and a sharing of my life experiences, dreams, inner visions, of all that I am. As a third-generation artist, I was encouraged to explore and express my creativity at an early age. Predominately, I am a watercolorist; a colorist with a strong emphasis on design. The most important part of a painting for me is the message or experience that I want to share with the viewer. How I handle this dictates the style and medium that I use. If I can do this with watercolor I will, but I won’t limit myself to just that medium. -Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass
Appointments are required during First Friday Art Walk.
Address and Contact Information: 247 East Main, Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-9006 www.artandsoulgallery.com
Paula Fong Studio
Image Credit: Paula Fong, Untitled, Mixed Media
I have been fortunate to spend much of my career as an Ecologist and my recreation time exploring nature. Every square inch of our natural world contains something scientifically interesting and artistically beautiful. I like to pick out one aspect of the environment and hold it up for inspection, with all of its imperfections and variation. By changing perspective, focus, season and habitat, I have an infinite palette and an unlimited source of inspiration. – Paula Fong
Hours: Appointment Only
Address and Contact Information: 8905 Yank Gulch Rd. Talent, OR 97540 541-535-2579 www.prfong.com
Hanson Howard Gallery Jhenna Quinn Lewis, Millie Whipplesmith Plank, Dews
Image Credit: Jhenna Quinn Lewis, A Single Pearl, Oil on Board
This month’s exhibition features masterful oil paintings by Jhenna Quinn Lewis, rich woodblock prints by Millie Whipplesmith Plank, and stylized ceramics by Dews. Jhenna’s paintings are simple, intimate compositions that invite the viewer to closely examine the details of a bird in an unexpected setting. Through the manipulation of composition, subject matter, color, light, and shading, she brings out a subtle inherent quietness in her work. Alternatively, Millie’s prints celebrate the biodiversity and preservation of open spaces. Informed by her cattle ranching heritage, vibrant colors, simple shapes, and the nostalgia of traditional woodblock printing can be seen in her work. For Dews, she is inspired by the fusion of gardening with ceramics, whether it be realistic or whimsical. Dews’ stylized animals exude peaceful, playful, expressions, while adding just a touch of mysteriousness.
Hours: Thursday – Saturday: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Appointments are available too.
Image Credit: Cara Michelle Mattern, What Dreams May Come, Mixed Media
Dreams have been extra prolific lately. Many different lives are possible in the dream world and outside of the box thoughts are often birthed there. This work is an exact image of part of a significant dream of mine, waking up with the word or name Yezamite whispered to me. As far as my research thus far… the name doesn’t mean anything. In the dream I was standing on what looked like a Martian planet with my 4 year old daughter. Looking at the weird holes in the ground all over, I received a telepathic image/message from the monsters living below the ground to put my daughter through the hole. So, I immediately picked her up. I used oil paints and a spray bottle with turpenoid to create the dripping effect on the ground and the pillars. – Cara Michelle Mattern
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Ashland Galleries August Visual Arts News
August = Art Opportunities (And September, too!)
We’re excited to share a handful of fun art opportunities that are being offered to foster your inner creativity whether it be getting out and about or enjoying from the comfort of your own home.
Image Credit: Jenay Elder, Sunset on Harris, Oil on Canvas
Art & Soul Gallery Paint Night! Sunsets
Thursday, August 19, 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Join Art & Soul Gallery and Jenay Elder in Paint Night! Sip wine and refreshments with your friends and learn painting techniques in a relaxed, small group setting. All materials will be provided and tickets include wine and light refreshments. Space is limited to eight people and registration is $45.00.
For those who are interested in participating, please click here.
Image Credit: Michael Gibson, Untitled, Acrylic
Ashland Art Works Figurative Drawing Demonstration with Michael Gibson
Saturday, September 11, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Join Ashland Art Works and Michael Gibson for an afternoon of figurative drawing. Michael received a BFA from Houston Museum of Fine Arts. He has worked as a designer, art director, and taught life drawing, illustration, painting, graphic design, and photography at the Art Institute of Houston and the Art Institute of Seattle. His passion for art, travel, and photography continues and is reflected in his art, which can be viewed at Ashland Art Works and Pomodori Bistro & Wine Bar in Medford.
For those who are interested in attending, please click here.
Image Credit: Marianne Nielsen, Daisy, Watercolor
Grants Pass Museum of Art
Watercolor Pet Portrait Workshop
Saturday, September 18, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Join the Grants Pass Museum of Art and Marianne Nielsen to learn how to paint your favorite animal and/or pet using watercolor and your own reference photo. This is a wonderful workshop if you’re someone who loves animals. Watercolor experience is required and registration is $50.00.
For those who are interested in participating, please click here.
Image Credit: Michael Lynn Adams, Gardenia with Chardin, Oil
Michael Lynn Adams Gardenia with Chardin Oil Painting Demonstration
Ongoing
Join Michael Lynn Adams from the comfort of your own home to learn more about oil painting and his creative process. Michael provides step-by-step instructions to recreate one of his paintings in addition to a time-lapse video of his process from start to finish.
For those who are interested in participating, please click here.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Join us for First Friday Art Walk and take in the AGA August 2021 exhibits of art! Many galleries and studios are open and thrilled to share a diverse array of wonderful artwork created by our very talented local artists.
AGA August 2021 Spotlight Exhibits
Art & Soul Gallery Adornment, Mixed Media Paintings by Eric Peterson
Image Credit: Eric Peterson, Adornment #4, Mixed Media
This intense year of introspection and exploration has resulted in a new body of work from Eric Peterson. The inspiration for this recent work is cultural identity as expressed through dress and embellishment. These paintings explore adornment through building and excavating layers of paint, wax, stencils, and collage, capturing some of the beauty and mystery of our multicultural world.
On August 6, during First Friday, Eric will be present to answer questions about his work. Wine and chocolates will be served alongside live music by Peter Stone.
Address and Contact Information: 247 East Main, Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-9006 www.artandsoulgallery.com
Gallerie Karon Safari II
Image Credit: Information Unavailable, Untitled, Sculpture
For the month of August, Gallerie Karon will feature the work of Vernon Lawhorn, Jane Lawhorn, and Judy Benson Le Neir. Passing away at 45, Vernon dearly loved Africa and always captured the animals and people in his work, while Jane did a fantastic job presenting it all while becoming an artist herself. Organizing photo safaris and traveling to a different location in Africa each year, Judy Benson Le Nier’s photographs reveal the inner workings of the wild animal’s mind.
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Address and Contact Information: 300 East Main Street Ashland, OR 97520 541-482-9008
Hanson Howard Gallery Wataru Sugiyama & Jon Jay Cruson
Image Credit: Jon Jay Cruson, Overview #18, Acrylic on Canvas
Hanson Howard Gallery’s exhibition for the month of August will feature Japanese inspired ceramic sculptures by Wataru Sugiyama and Pacific Northwestern inspired landscape paintings by Jon Jay Cruson.
Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Appointments are available too.
Fiber Arts Collective Urban Hieroglyphs, Chris Carpenter
Image Credit: Chris Carpenter, Peerless Hotel, Etched Cotton Velvet
This month, Fiber Arts Collective features the work of Chris Carpenter.
The canvas of the street offers me coded messages from various markings that I refer to as Urban Hieroglyphs. These images are then etched onto cotton upholstery velvet to achieve the textures of various types of pavement. My work resembles concrete, but actually has the soft tactile quality of velvet. – Chris Carpenter
Ilene Gienger-Stanfield will be featuring her current plein air work at the Grants Pass Museum of Art this month.
The deeper I dig into art, the more there is. Several years ago, I was a consummate figurative pastel painter. At that time, I thought I always would be. However, there are many artistic options to investigate such as techniques, mediums, approaches, subjects and styles. It is exciting and inspirational to make a new discovery in art making. Currently I paint any subject and paint with oils as well as pastels. I am relying on innovation, intuition, and experience more. – Ilene Gienger-Stanfield
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Address and Contact Information: 229 SW G Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526 541-479-3290 https://www.gpmuseum.com/
The Ashland Gallery Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the visual arts in our communities.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Ashland Galleries June Visual Arts NewsJune = Art Opportunities
We’re excited to share a handful of art opportunities that are being offered this month to foster your inner creativity. Denise Miller, Sunrise on Lake Miller, Mosaic
The Rogue Gallery & Art Center Berryman Gallery in The Craterian Theater at the Collier Center for the Performing Arts Deadline: Ongoing (June – September)
The Lindsay Berryman Gallery is a satellite exhibition space of the Rogue Gallery & Art Center, located on the second floor lobby of the Craterian Theater. The Berryman Gallery is open to the public before performances and to ticket holders during performances. Please see the Craterian’s website for performance dates. Artists working two-dimensionally may apply for solo exhibitions lasting approximately two months each, between September and June.
For those who are interested in participating, please click hereand visit craterian.org.
Jerryck Murrey, Untitled, Acrylic
Central Art Gallery Display Your Artwork! Deadline: No Deadline Central Art Gallery is a 650 square foot exhibition space located at 101 N. Central Avenue in Medford. The gallery will be offering exhibition opportunities for visual artists monthly during Downtown Medford’s Third Friday Art Walk.
For those who are interested in participating, please click hereor email all inquiries to [email protected].
Cherri Van Syoc, Oh, Happy Day, Oil
Grants Pass Museum of Art Volunteers Needed! Deadline: Ongoing 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Interested in being surrounded by art and in a museum setting?
The Grants Pass Museum of Art will be offering full hours soon and help will be needed. Hours are 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and tasks include greeting visitors, answering questions about current exhibitions, and general office-related tasks.
Seattle Art Museum Call for Entries: The Betty Bowen Award Sunday, August 1, 202111:00 a.m.
Administered by the Seattle Art Museum, the annual Betty Bowen Award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The winner is awarded an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000, and a selection of his or her works is shown at the Seattle Art Museum in the spring of 2021. In addition, up to two Special Recognition Awards in the amount of $2,500 are often granted at the discretion of the Betty Bowen Committee.
The award is open to visual artists in all media working in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. Artists of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Please click here to apply and for more information.
AGA Outdoor Open Studios Support A Taste of Ashland! Purchase a Coloring Book! Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In lieu of the traditional Open Studio Tour, the AGA has decided to bring the art outdoors! Chat with artists and watch live demonstrations while enjoying acrylic and oil paintings, textile art, plein air and abstract paintings, and glass work. Works in clay, silver jewelry, mixed media, textiles, wood, and garden art can be viewed inside of the galleries.
A Taste of Ashland Coloring Books will be sold at a suggested donation of $10.00 to assist with future planning of A Taste of Ashland. The limited-edition coloring book is a great way to escape, decompress, and create a collaboration between you and all of the local artists who created pages for it.
This will be a free outdoor event hosted by Ashland Art Works, located at 291 Oak Street.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Art & Soul Gallery
Following the Circuitous Thread: Mixed Media Paintings by Eve Margo Withrow
I take great delight in creating one-of-a-kind paintings using mixed media and collage materials. My paintings are magical, surrealistic, impressions reflecting the essential feeling ingredients of an experience or place. Many of my favorite and most exciting works are the result of finding creative solutions to things run amok a few times over. I play and adventure with my expressions, following threads here and there, thus entering the flow of my creative process; head and heart awake and in balance. – Eve Margo Withrow
Eve Margo Withrow, Moonlit Grove, Mixed Media
A reception will be held from 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on June 4 during First Friday.
Hours: Thursday and Sunday 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Address and Contact Information: 247 East Main, Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-9006 www.artandsoulgallery.com
Jay Gordon Art Studio
After extensive forays into music as a professional acoustic and electric bassist, and medicine as a pediatrician, Jay decided in 2014 to devote herself to learning how to draw and paint, and since then has been constantly experimenting with all kinds of art, including portraiture, still life, figure drawing, illustration and printmaking. She is affiliated as a painter and illustrator with Enclave Studios and Gallery in Ashland.
Robin and John Gumaelius, collaborating artists and husband and wife, create articulated human and birdlike sculptures. They combine ceramic, steel, and wood as they form highly inventive sculptures that are often comical or bizarre. Elements of children’s stories, religious icons, reliquaries, Medieval and Renaissance history, African skin decoration, and holy relics from Germany can be seen in their work.
Gestural strokes and spontaneous marks collide with color blocks in Robert Koch’s narrative vignettes. Often prompted by found photographs, Koch takes the liberty to make his subjects humans or creatures inhabiting the same world. Having the appearance of quickness and even naiveté, Koch’s deft drawing skills mean each mark is playful and intentional at the same time.
Robert Koch, Runaway, Acrylic on Panel
Hours: Thursday – Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment.
In July 2020, Tanya Bemis gathered a group of fiber artists in Lithia Park to discuss the possibility of starting a Fiber Arts Collective in an available building in downtown Ashland. Out of that meeting, in the middle of a pandemic, an amazing community resource was born. In a short time it has become a creative inspiration to fiber and textile artists throughout the area, offering a fabric store and an art gallery space for fiber artisans in its Ashland location. Once the pandemic is over, the Fiber Arts Collective will offer classes and resources for the community. Meanwhile, it supports local social justice issues and encourages efforts to recycle and upcycle fiber resources.
The work of approximately 30 artisans is featured. From sewing, dyeing, knitting, crocheting, embroidering, and felting to binding, collaging, painting, printing, stenciling, beading, and creating assemblage pieces, their artisans are hard at work adding beauty to the world.
Julie Simon, Untitled, Fiber
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1864 contributed posts
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Ashland Galleries May Visual Arts NewsMay = Art Opportunities
We’re excited to share a handful of art opportunities that are being offered this month to foster your inner creativity. Allen Smith, Skin, Oil on Paper
Central Art Gallery Display Your Artwork! Deadline: No Deadline Central Art Gallery is a 650 square foot exhibition space located at 101 N. Central Avenue in Medford. The gallery will be offering exhibition opportunities for visual artists monthly during Downtown Medford’s Third Friday Art Walk.
For those who are interested in participating, please click hereor email all inquiries to [email protected].
Sarah F Burns, Late Spring, Mistletoe Road, Ashland, OR, Oil on Panel
ART BEYOND Saturday in the Park: Lithia Park Plein Air Painting Event Saturday, June 19, 20219:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Open to all, artists can come and go throughout the day. The general public will be encouraged to engage with the artists between 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. where artists can talk about their work and process. Artists will be invited to show one piece created at this event at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum from June 21 – September 16, 2021. Art will be sold at and by ScienceWorks, with 50% of sales prices going to the artist and 50% to ScienceWorks.
Please register here to be a participating artist by June 1, 2021.
Charlotte Peterson, Three Pink Ladies, Watercolor
The Rogue Gallery & Art Center Community Gallery Exhibitions Deadline: Saturday, June 12, 2021
The Rogue Gallery & Art Center invites artists to submit a portfolio of work for the 2022 Community Gallery Exhibition Series. The gallery is a smaller, more intimate exhibition space. Shows include one artist and special themed exhibitions. Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply.
For those who are interested in participating, please click hereor email all inquiries to [email protected].
Northwest Ceramics Studio
Northwest Ceramics Studio Ceramic In-Person Classes May 20, 2021 Times Vary Come have fun and get a little dirty at Northwest Ceramics! They offer ceramic classes at all different levels. It is recommended to register for classes early due to small class sizes.
Grants Pass Museum of Art Rogue Valley Biennial Deadline: May 16 and May 17 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The Grants Pass Museum of Art is hosting the Rogue Valley Biennial and the exhibition will be juried IN PERSON! The call for art is open to artists living in Jackson and Josephine counties only. Artist(s) must be able to hand deliver artwork on May 16 or May 17 between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. for jury consideration.
For those who are interested in participating, please click hereor email all inquiries to o[email protected].
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Thank You! To thank and support the Ashland Gallery Association, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is offering a couple of discount codes to view performances. How exciting!
Currently streaming until May 29 is Snow in Midsummer. This 2018 U.S. premiere production interweaves two stories of a young woman who curses her city from beyond the grave, and of a wealthy businesswoman who must face the parched, locust-plagued city. This modern ghost story beautifully reimagines a classic myth and explores the legacy of trauma, the heart of injustice, and the lengths to which we go for love.
Length: Approximately 2 hours, 25 minutes, with one intermission. Codes: $5.00 Tiks Code: Connects (If you’re experiencing a hardship) $5.00 Student Tik Code: StudentSpring5 $10.00 Indigenous Community Code: IndianC10Spring $10.00 Theatre Lovers of Color Code: TLOC10Spring $10.00 Teachers for Social Justice Code: T4SJ10Spring $15.00 Group Price (Up to 30 people: per show/per group) https://www.osfashland.org/en/shows-on-o/groups.aspx
