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Wednesday, June 14, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Art in the Park serves up wide variety of crafts
zy Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
A showcase of fine arts
and crafts that spread across
the manicured lawns of
Creekside Park drew in scores
of folks to enjoy 75 vendors at
Sisters annual Art in the Park
event, during rodeo weekend
in Sisters.
Folks strolled through an
eclectic variety of handmade
treasures from metal art and
whimsical bird houses to
handmade upcycled metal art.
Junk to Jems designer,
Marianne Prodehl, a new
vendor from Bend, handcrafts
jewelry using mixed metals.
“I really do craft old junk
metal into jewelry,” Prodehl
said smiling.
Prodehl has been upcy-
cling metal into stunning
designs of jewelry for four
years. Her studio is at The
Workhouse in Bend, a cre-
ative space with open active
work studios.
“It all started in the garage.
One day I decided to cut up
my husband’s old red toolbox.
I designed earrings out of
that old metal,” Prodehl said.
“Discarded copper wire from
a job site became hoops and
pendants. I learned how to
hammer and solder. I mix a lot
of metals into my designs.”
Prodehl loves rocks and
gems and has incorporated
them into metal rings and
pendants.
Mountain Bear Trading
owner Doug Mountain
Bear Stack, from Sutherlin,
Oregon, handcrafts every-
thing from elk-hide jackets
to blacksmithing high-quality
hand-forged knives and toma-
hawks. He’s part Cherokee
and related to Daniel Boone,
the American pioneer,
explorer, and frontiersman.
“My aunt did our whole
family tree and I am related to
Boone on my mother’s side,”
Bear Stack told The Nugget.
“I make my products from
elk and other animal hides.
And every animal I hunt I use
for food. I use every part of
the animals to craft clothing,
tools and jewelry,” Bear Stack
added.
He learned how to hunt
and fish at age four. He
designs jackets and pants
out of elk and deer hides
and sews them all together
with an 1800s treadle sewing
machine.
Visitors and vendors
tapped their feet to musical
entertainment provided by
Jim Cornelius.
New vendors Peter Sibbett
and his wife, Jeannie, from
Tacoma, Washington, show-
cased hundreds of solid cedar
wood puzzles underneath
their huge tent.
Sibbett, his wife, and their
four children work together
to make jigsaw puzzles out of
Peter’s amazing photos. They
use salvaged and re-purposed
cedar, white fir and maple
logs. The whole family con-
tributes to these wonderfully
unique Northwest puzzles.
“I take big slabs of wood
and hand-slice them into
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
Aztec dancerd were featured during Sidterd Art in the Park.
boards,” said Peter. “I mount
my photos and cut the pat-
terns into jigsaw-puzzle
pieces that go into a cedar
box that I designed and had
patented.”
“Peter and I travel thou-
sands of miles each year cap-
turing wildlife, glacier lakes,
city skylines and more. I have
always loved puzzles, and
when my passion for puzzles
met my husband Peter’s skill
in engineering and photog-
raphy, Sibbett Studio was
born,” Jeannie said.
Os car M art i n ez an d
Fabiola Alavez from Bend
brought homemade items
from Mexico.
“Our family who lives in
Mexico sends us clothing and
other items to sell,” Alavez
said.
The couple also belongs
to The Bend Aztec Dance
Group and performed a tradi-
tional Aztec prayer and ritual
dance with Isaiah, another
member, on Saturday and
Sunday afternoon, to a crowd
of spectators.
“The ritual dance we per-
formed is more of a lifestyle
practice dance,” said Isaiah.
“We perform dances through-
out Oregon and are based in
Bend. The dance has a lot of
elements of teaching philoso-
phy and a history of the for-
gotten people of the Aztec.”
The dancer’s regalia, or
costumes, were handmade
by each performer. Each
headdress was made from
pheasant feathers.
“Each feather represents a
prayer or a specific teaching,”
Isaiah said.
Event organizer Richard
Esterman was happy the
weather held up with only a
few sprinkles throughout the
weekend event, though he
acknowledged that the chilly
conditions reduced traffic
from last year’s numbers.
“Regardless of the
weather, it’s a fact that events
like this bring curiosity to
travelers and locals alike.
I enjoy bringing people
together in a creative atmo-
sphere in the hopes the arts
and creativity will not be lost
by modern technology.”
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