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Wednesday, May 13, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Patchwork
Players to
perform
The Patchwork Players,
a group of locals who love
to share live theatre with the
Sisters community, will per-
form from a repertoire of one-
act plays on Thursday, May
14, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Hood
Avenue Art gallery. The per-
formance is part the gallery’s
series of art salons.
The players are: Rosalie
Van Ness-Hanford, Jerry
Hanford, Angela Dean Lund
and Shawn O’Hern.
Bendistillery will offer
samples and selections for
purchase from their line of
Crater Lake Spirits. A $10
suggested donation at the
door includes appetizers, no
reservation required.
This event is the last in
a three-part fundraiser for
Circle of Friends, a Sisters-
based program whose goal
is to provide Sisters’ most
vulnerable children a nurtur-
ing and sustained relationship
with a volunteer mentor who
teaches positive values and
has attainable expectations for
each child to become healthy,
productive members of the
community.
MoTH: Event celebrates
as well as supports
arts in Sisters
Continued from page 1
and supports the Americana
Project and affiliated pro-
grams of SFF.
The Americana Project
helps to connect young people
to self-expression through the
visual and performing arts,
guitar-playing, songwriting,
recording and performing.
The parade was fol-
lowed by a town-wide art
stroll. Folks came from all
around to join in the celebra-
tion with Sisters residents as
they moseyed through the
streets to enjoy the various
venues, mingling with artists
and musicians and exploring
shops and galleries filled with
music spread across town.
T h i s y e a r ’s t h e m e ,
“Imagine,” was exquisitely
depicted by Sisters artist
Kimry Jelen’s painting of a
radiant horse that looked as
if it would gracefully fly off
the canvas on its translucent
wings.
Jelen’s original was on
display at Sisters Gallery &
Frame Shop.
“There are two stories
that inspired me to paint that
horse,” she said. “When I
was displaying my artwork
in France, an artist friend
and I watched a beautiful
gray Iberian stallion perform,
being ridden with just a neck
rein, and the rider rode him
with about 15 other horses
in the ring. The horse that I
painted has the spirit of the
stallion from France; he was
so elegant, graceful and pow-
erful and had such a great
partnership with his rider.
“And then when I was a
child, my grandfather lived
next to an Arabian breeding
farm, and when I was 5 or 6 I
used to go out and feed a stal-
lion named Galaxy. I would
hang out and talk to him
all the time. One day when
nobody was around Galaxy
invited me to ride him; he
seemed to ask me if I wanted
to see where he lived at his
paddock. So I climbed up
the fence and got on him. He
walked around with me riding
him without a halter or any-
thing, and then brought me
back to the exact same spot
and he let me get off. As soon
as I got down my dad came
flying around the corner and
couldn’t believe I had ridden
that horse. The face on the
horse that I painted is Galaxy;
he was so kind and amazing.
So my painting ‘Imagine’ is
made up of all those beautiful
moments that I had with those
beautiful horses.”
After the parade many of
photo by JoDi sChneiDer mCnamee
Rick Johnson performed at Sisters gallery & Frame Shop.
the students of the Americana
Project performed during the
art stroll at Sisters Coffee Co.
Sisters High School music
teacher and singer/songwriter
Rick Johnson entertained
folks during the art stroll
playing his acoustic guitar
at Sisters Gallery & Frame
Shop.
The festivities continued
at The Belfry, where the com-
munity performing arts eve-
ning was held.
The show brought the
community together to enjoy
an amazing evening of music,
with Sisters High School
Jazz Choir singing up in the
pews of The Belfry, and the
Americana Project students
performing on stage, along
with veteran musicians from
the Sisters community.
F o l l o w i n g F r i d a y ’s
events, the celebration con-
tinued with the My Own
Two Hands Art Party and
Auction at Ponderosa Forge
& Ironworks, which raised
over $135,000 to support the
varied programs of SFF (see
related story page 23). SFF
provides significant financial
support to budget-strapped
schools, assisting in providing
visual arts education opportu-
nities, music education and a
unique guitar-building pro-
gram in which students learn
a variety of transferable skills,
including computer-assisted
design (CAD) (see school
budget story page 1).