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20 Wednesday, July 22, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon MONITORS: Equipment would cost more than $66,000 ARTIST: Reception is set for Friday, July 24, at SAW gallery Continued from page 18 Continued from page 3 agreement reviewed June 11 by Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Legal Counsel Darryl Nakahira and released to The Bulletin through a public records request, the equipment AliveLock pro- vided to the jail consists of 10 RiskWatches, two con- soles and various ancillary equipment. Should the jail purchase the watches, it would cost $66,650, according to the option to purchase section of the agreement. It comes at a discount, according to the sheriff: The initial price for the equipment was $110,000. After 12 months, under the option to purchase agree- ment, Deschutes County is responsible for paying soft- ware licenses, including sys- tem upgrades, modifications and maintenance. Bailey said Monday the expense is due to several factors. First, the company uses medical-grade equipment that can’t be damaged by inmates or used by inmates to hurt themselves, Bailey said. “Everything we use to manufacture out of can’t be used to hurt (inmates) or staff,” Bailey said. “If things do break, they can’t shatter or break and become sharp. Nothing can be made out of anything that isn’t medical grade.” Research and develop- ment, as well as labor and other costs in the domestic manufacture of the devices also contributed to the expense of the final product, she said. Bailey said the oxygen- saturation feature, which isn’t available in cheaper heart rate monitors, such as the popular FitBit, is key for respond- ing quickly to inmate suicide attempts. reflection and gives a glow- ing effect and depth. I get the color in my work by using colored inks to the exposed white areas,” Hartwig says. Scratchboard artists use a wide variety of tools to create different textures in the artwork, but the primary tool is usually a standard craft knife or scalpel for line work. Hartwig’s primary tool is an X-ACTO ® knife. Large and complex pieces can take hundreds of hours to be com- pleted, with many layers of tiny scratches covering the board. Hartwig’s very first re- entry back into scratch- board art was a picture of a penguin. “It was in 2007 when I was working at a company in Canada and a co-worker of mine saw a piece that I had worked on years before and asked if I could do penguins for her nephew’s bedroom,” she recalled. “It was dur- ing the time when the movie ‘March of the Penguins’ was popular. Everyone at my job liked it so much that many people started commis- sioning me to create more individuals pieces — from motorcycles to birds. I have really done a lot of birds, and eagles have been the most popular. “It was empowering for me as an artist to really get back into creating art,” she said. “For me it’s working from the darkness of black on the scratchboard and coming back into the light, like the light of life. As I got more confident, color started coming back into my life as in my pieces when I experi- mented with colored ink.” Friends and family com- missioned her to create images of their beloved pets on scratchboard. Window Blinds Draperies 30% OFF Locally owned by a Sisters family 541-788-8444 FREE CONSULTING www.BudgetBlinds.com Offer valid through Budget Blinds of Deschutes County only. Offer not valid with any other offers. Exclusive Signa ture Series ® Window Treatments by Budget Blinds ® Locally Owned & Opera ted. Offer valid throu gh 9/2/15. Hunter Douglas ® Window Blinds Shutters Draperies • Solar Shades Vertical Blinds • Woven Woods CCB Licensed #197715 Bonded | Insured 30+ Years Experience “The first dog I ever did was a boxer in 2008, and one of my favorite pieces is of my dog Chester, a schnoodle. He lived 12 years and I did it as a tribute to him,” she said. Hartwig, who has been a Sisters resident for three years, is already finding her niche within the art world. In 2013 Hartwig dis- played her scratchboard art of a cougar at the Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit an d wo n th e p eo ple’s choice award. She then entered another piece, called “Sisters,” of two horses, at the juried art show that is part of The Country Fair at Sisters Episcopal Church in 2013 and won another peo- ple’s choice award. She then sold “Sisters” at the My Own Two Hands silent auction. Hartwig is a member of the Sisters Art Association. It was empowering for me as an artist to really get back into creating art. — Jennifer Hartwig “Her work is extraordi- nary and she has a differ- ent-type medium that really stood out,” said Sisters art- ist and Dog Show organizer, photo by Jodi schneider mcnamee Dog Show artist Jennifer Hartwig holding an art piece titled ‘Bliss.’ K a t h y D e g g e n d o r f e r. “Every artist looks at dogs in a different way, and Jennifer really captures the light. To me it’s a reverse medium.” “One of the pieces I am entering in The Dog Show is ‘Bliss,’ a dog that lived in Alberta, Canada,” Hartwig said. Hartwig will be teaching an introduction to scratch- board art workshop at Alpenhimmel Creative Art Emporium in Sisters some- time in the fall. To see more of her art work visit her website at www.scratchlife.com.