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All You Need to Know:
Who? You and your friends
What? Fourth Friday Artwalk
Where? Galleries of Sisters
Cost? FREE
The Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk is back, this week. Most of the Galleries of Sisters will be open with featured art and artists, light refreshments, and the return of QuickDraw between 4 and 7. The art will be on display in galleries all day, with most featured exhibits continuing well into April.
The Rickards Gallery’s featured artist is Molly Newbern, working under the moniker Nomadic Ceramics. Molly’s passions have always revolved around art and travel. From her hometown in North Carolina, to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and now Bend, her wanderings have left their mark on her artistic process. Themes are the power of simplicity; beautiful utilitarian objects bringing people together, different firing techniques and subtle natural glazing. The signature on the base of her work is in Arabic, an acknowledgement that she would not be a potter if she had not been studying to become a translator. After exclusively creating work influenced by her travels, Molly is excited to see what staying in one place will inspire.
The Campbell Gallery showcases work by Melanie Whedon. Melanie is a watercolor artist living in Bend. Hailing from Philadelphia, she is a full-time architect but has always found watercolor as a medium to translate ideas about the world onto paper. Her main artistic themes include looking at scale in nature and striking the balance between abstract texture and crisp detail. Outside of painting, she is an avid hiker, yogi, reader, and most recently, rock climber.
Space In Common owner Amelia Morton features her work this month. Amelia started watercolor painting at the age of four in a Waldorf preschool in Ashland, Oregon. Her creative focus is to experience and explore the relationship between color and emotion. Her pieces are simply felt moments translated into color and shape. The landscapes of the high desert are her current inspiration. She continues to explore watercolor as an everyday practice, and by teaching watercolor classes at her gallery.
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The Stitchin’ Post’s featured artist, Terry Batchelder, works in stained glass. Thirty-five years after being introduced to stained glass, Terry is sharing work inspired by contemporary quilt artists Jean Wells, Maryte Collard, Hilde Morin and Sharon Koppel, and from the stained glass world, Josephine Geiger and Antoni Gaudi. Terry’s common thread is to portray the natural impact of light and color upon the creations that surround us.
Makin’ It Local’s featured exhibition is large-format landscape photography by Pete Alport, Christian Murillo, and James Parsons. The three Bend-based photographers capture the beauty of our state from their personal perspectives. Pete’s photos have graced many magazine covers, and his production company has produced stunning ski and snowboard footage and various commercial projects. An avid thru-hiker, James gets off the beaten path and captures iconic Oregon landscapes. Christian captures nature organically through the camera lens, with a purist approach, natural light, and conservative post-processing.
Hood Avenue Art highlights Patricia Freeman-Martin and Breezy Anderson. Patty creates work that reflects impressions and amusements from her life on a horse ranch in Terrebonne, OR. Drawing, mixed media painting, and printmaking create a narrative and descriptive line describing a mood, emotion, or event, layered with remembered and symbolic color choices. Fabric pieces incorporate ink drawings on muslin with found and hand-colored fabrics to make appliquéd and quilted wall hangings. Breezy is a self-taught metal sculptor. She creates figurative sculptures inspired by memory, movement and time, in an attempt to transform ordinary materials into something extraordinary. Fiddler Bob Baker will entertain at the gallery during the Artwalk.
Wildflower Studio celebrates a glimpse of spring with consumable gifts, art supplies, journals and artwork. Try new spring scents in diffusers, lotions and candles. Wildflower carries Brittany’s Bees Honey, locally sourced in Mitchell, and homemade jams from the Kitchen Cupboard based in Long Creek. Samples of both products will be available during Artwalk.
Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop hosts three artists and silent auction to benefit Kiwanis Food Bank. New at the gallery are colorful clay Luminaries by Mary Moore. Two pieces of art from featured artists Steve Mathews and Brad Earl will be up for bid, starting at $150 and increasing in $25 increments. Steve’s piece, “Caretakers,” is a pen and Prismacolor pencil work on juniper that is a tribute to First Nations. Brad’s “High Hollow Ranch” is a framed original acrylic painting depicting an imaginary Western Ranch home dressed in bright foliage.
Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries. Also, a reminder to those who have won these gift certificates during this year to use them up before the year ends.
Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.
SAA is a 501(c)3 organization that welcomes new members: individuals who love art, artists, students, and businesses. Annual memberships range from $50 to $150, and now is a great time to join for 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!
Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:
Alpaca By Design
Big Chief Vintage
Chops Bistro
Cottonwood Cafe
Dale McCullough Marketing
Dixie’s
Gypsy Wind Clothing
Hardtails Bar & Grill
Hayden Homes
June’s Asian Kitchen
Paulina’s Bookstore
Philladelphia's Steaks
PK Thompson Guitars
Ponderosa Lodge
Rancho Viejo
Sisters Bakery
Sisters Cascade
Sisters Chamber of Commerce
Sisters Coffee Company
Sisters Folk Festival
Sisters Movie House
Sisters Saloon
Snow Cap
Spoons
Suttle Tea
The Gallery Restaurant
The Open Door
The SweetEasy Co.
The Wakefield Inn
The Jewel
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