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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Gallery event gets steampunk
Steampunk art and quilts
are strange bedfellows, but
you can find both in Sisters
Galleries during this week’s
Fourth Friday Art Stroll, and
extending through the Quilt
Show month.
The Sisters Arts
Association invites you to
stroll the town this Fourth
Friday, from 4 to 7 p.m. (and
maybe a little later), and see
what’s new. Listen for music,
share light refreshments, and
enjoy the galleries on Hood
Avenue, Cascade, across
town at Sisters Art Works on
Adams, and down the block
to Canyon Creek Pottery.
Gallery maps are available in
all of the locations and at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Steampunk refers to a
subgenre of science fiction
or fantasy that incorporates
technology and aesthetic
designs inspired by 19th-cen-
tury industrial steam-powered
machinery. Steampunk art
repurposes this technology
into items that are either dec-
orative or wearable.
At Things, Etc., Candy
Park is bringing in origi-
nal hats by Avery Milieu
Millinery of Seattle, hats
constructed around histori-
cal fantasy with steampunk
embellishment and whimsi-
cal frivolities. Artist Peter
Jon will display 35 differ-
ent designs of sterling silver
quilt charms, and there is a
huge display of Oregon sun-
stones. This tiny gallery will
also feature crystalline glazed
pottery – the crystals grow
in the glaze during the firing
process. Says the artist, Lynn
Rothan (working with Bill
Earhart), “I take my kiln to
the peak temperature, let the
temperature drop, then hold at
various temperatures to grow
the crystals, which are made
of mostly zinc and a little
titanium.” It’s a very complex
process, used by only about
200 artists in North America.
Take it outside and see what
happens in the sun!
Across Hood Avenue,
at Grizzly Ridge Upcycle,
Rhonda Barney is going big
with steampunk furniture and
jewelry, lots of art from recy-
cled materials. You can sit on
it, put your stuff in it, wear it,
or light it up.
At Navigator News, Janet
Brockway is featuring two
collage artists, Pamela Kroll
from Bend, and Beverly
Soasey from Eugene.
Pamela’s collage can be con-
sidered in the steampunk
genre.
Lots of businesses (and
galleries) will be displaying
quilts leading up to, during,
and after the Fiber Arts Stroll
and Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show (SOQS). Stitchin’ Post
is Quilting Central in Sisters,
and in the Twigs Gallery this
month, “Where Paint and
Fabric Meet” is a collabora-
tive show with painter Judy
Hoiness and Jean Wells, quil-
ter. Look for individual work
by each artist as well as the
mixed-media collaborations.
Look for “Sunflowers
by the Yard” at Sisters Art
Works. Kathy Deggendorfer’s
original designs are on dis-
play in the form of original
watercolors, tiles and fab-
ric, which can be purchased.
How? Why … by the yard, of
course!
Sisters Gallery & Frame
Shop has original quilt paint-
ings by Dennis McGregor:
“The Source,” for the
40th Annual SOQS, “The
Lighthouse,” for the Quilters
By The Sea show, coming up
in August in Newport, and
“Fall” – the last in the series
of original “Four Seasons”
quilt paintings, along with the
quilt-themed book, “Dream
Again.”
Touchable art includes
new alpaca rugs by Marlene
Baldock of Desert Song
Alpacas in Sisters. Marlene
raised and sheared the
alpacas, created the designs,
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to be woven onto a jute base.
Now back home in Sisters,
the rugs, in both three-by-
five, and four-by-six feet, are
soft to the touch, but durable.
Each of the colored stripes
represents a different one
of Marlene’s alpacas. Helen
Schmidling can’t wait to
introduce them to you.
B e a c h a m ’s
Clock
Company has brought in spe-
cial clocks to honor the Quilt
Show. Each clock is color
decorated inside with items
related to quilting.
Clearwater Gallery is
ready to open the first of
their cabanas in the court-
yard of The Open Door. Plein
air artist Jim Horsley will be
featured. Stop by the court-
yard for refreshments, and
sit a while. You may even
end up as subject matter in
one of Jim’s paintings. He is
embarking on this adventure
as a follow-up to the Smith
Rock Pleinair Paintout, to
broaden his palette in this
intimate setting while diners
enrich their palates.
Walk on down to The
Collection Gallery. Starting
this month, a piece of art will
be given away to the winner
of a free drawing. Just sign
up, and you could be a win-
ner. This month’s treasure
is a 24x32 photograph of
Mount Washington on can-
vas by Lisa Belt. Stop in and
say hello to Gary and Karen
Cooley.
Next door at Hood
Avenue Art, Fourth Friday’s
featured artists Katherine
photo by helen sChmidling
a collage by Pamela Kroll, titled “Mind reading” is viewable at Navigator
News during this week’s fourth friday art Walk.
Taylor and Tina Brockway
have a treat in store. Though
coming from different art
forms, Katherine’s paint-
ings and Tina’s pottery give
new meaning to color and
luminosity.
Later in the month, the
gallery will pair wine and
painting. What a concept!
That’s how they did it in
Paris, and that’s what inspired
Katherine and watercolorist
Winnie Givot to create “Vino
Van Gogh,” a paint-and-sip
experience. They will give
you all the supplies you need
— you bring the wine — and
together, paint the night away.
Call Hood Avenue Art for
more details.
At Cowgirls and Indians
Resale, Kate Aspen just got in
a large shipment of turquoise.
She has one of the largest col-
lections of Native American
art in Central Oregon. A lot
of this art is disappearing,
being bought up by collectors
around the United States.
New to Sisters is Jeffrey
Murray Photography. One
day last week, Jeffrey was
hanging out of an airplane
in the morning, and out of a
helicopter in the evening, tak-
ing aerial photographs of our
beautiful mountains. Hang in
there Jeffrey – we can’t wait
to see your photos!
Cha has collected some
rare and unusual items in her
gallery, Cha For The Finest. A
new display features a T-Rex
embryo (see related story,
page 29), and you can even
see where the umbilical cord
was attached to the body.
Award-winning artist
Jennifer Hartwig is bring-
ing her distinctive style
of scratchboard art to
Alpenhimmel. She will teach
an all-day workshop on July
25, walking you through
every step of the way to cre-
ate a beautiful 8x10 work of
art. Charity Alva will have
See art Stroll on page 29