Wednesday, May 24, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Arts Association Fourth Friday Art Stroll
By Helen Schmidling
Correspondent
Sisters Arts Association’s
Fourth Friday Art Stroll is this
Friday, May 26, from 4 to 7
p.m., in local galleries.
At Hood Avenue Art,
Katherine Taylor and Blaine
Cyr are showing their work.
Taylor’s oil paintings use
mood, color, and palette knife
to form two-dimensional
images that suggest a three-
dimensional experience. Cyr
creates segmented wooden
bowls with upward of a thou-
sand handcrafted pieces cho-
sen for color and character.
Clarke Berryman is
the featured artist at The
Collection Gallery. Reared
on a ranch in Montana, vet-
erinarian Berryman’s talents
include pencil and oil art and
wildlife photography. He has
traveled to Africa, India, and
South America to search out
his wildlife subjects. He has
a passion for exotics and por-
trait painting.
Clearwater Gallery features
new work by Dan Rickards
and Chris Nelson. Rickards
unveils his latest National
Park painting, “Joshua Tree
National Park,” and “Path
of Totality,” depicting this
year’s solar eclipse. Posters
and giclee prints are available.
Nelson shows new landscapes,
flowers and animals in oil.
Sisters Gallery & Frame
PHOTO PROVIDED
An incredible alabaster bowl will be featured at The Jewel.
Shop introduces “The Sunset
Series” by Sisters artist Mike
Stasko. His renderings use
graphite, pastel, and charcoal.
Stasko explores the changing
effect of light over distance,
particularly at sunset. He
works from photographs taken
in Central Oregon, locales
recognizable to those who
travel or fish on the Deschutes
River. Complementing these
are Wendy Birnbaum’s golden
photos on metal, set with glass
by Suzie Zeitner.
Nina Walz is featured
at Ken Scott’s Imagination
Gallery. An artist with skills in
several media, her focus at the
Imagination Gallery has been
on thoughtful and humorous
works of clay.
Raven Makes highlights
new canyon country water-
color and ink paintings by
Navajo artist Douglas Yazzie,
unique hand-painted gourd
and deer skin rattles, and fine
silver jewelry from the arti-
sans of Arizona’s Hopi Mesas.
Twigs Home and Garden’s
exhibit, “Launched from
the Backroom,” features
art quilts by Betty Daggett,
Jody Rusconi, and Marion
Shimoda. One serendipi-
tous day, following a work-
shop on minimal quilt-mak-
ing, Daggett, Rusconi and
Shimoda gathered in the
classroom for some after-
workshop sewing. This show
evolved from time shared in
the classroom, and reflects
their individual styles as well
as the influences of teachers
such as Jean Wells and Bonnie
McWilliams.
The Jewel specializes in
unusual handmade jewelry,
from rare gem materials set in
sculptural precious metals, to
national artists using Japanese
paper and pearls, or fabrics set
under quartz. Two new addi-
tions are large architectural
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Quick Draw
Sign up for this month’s
Quick Draw prize – a $100
Gift Certificate from Chops
Bistro, in the former Latigo at
370 E. Cascade Ave. One sign-
up per location; the more stops
you make, the greater your
odds. Sisters Arts Association
thanks Chops Bistro for its
donation.
alabaster and mokume gane
(ancient Japanese marriage of
metals creating woodgrain-
like textures) by Master Bryan
Brown. Owner Jan Daggett’s
latest designs incorporate rare
agatized oak wood set with
golden south-sea pearls and
gems.
Zosel Harper Realtors will
host Jill Haney-Neal and her
Wild (but tasteful) Women.
Stop at 170 W. Cascade Ave.
for light appetizers, beer and
wine. Ten percent of all sales
during the Art Stroll will go
to Circle of Friends. Haney-
Neal’s art has been a fixture in
Central Oregon starting with a
boutique in downtown Bend
and now her gallery and studio
at 207 N. Fir St. in Sisters. Her
art exaggerates the feminine to
celebrate the universal spirit of
women transcending their cul-
tural and ethnic backgrounds.
Other stroll locations
include Beacham’s Clock Co.,
Dyrk Godby Gallery, Studio
Redfield, Bedouin/Navigator
News, Grizzly Ridge Upcycle,
Cha for the Finest, Sisters
Library Gallery, Bigfoot
Wellness and Nature’s Bling.