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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
QUILTS: Display
showcases series of
smaller quilts
by 20 inches. The smaller
piece somehow relates to the
larger piece. Each artist was
also challenged to find a way
to incorporate the yellow of a
No. 2 pencil into her work.
Their blog page,
MIXPDX.blogspot.com, said,
“We soon discovered that the
good old No. 2 pencil is, in
fact, not a standard color.”
Betty Daggett, who has
been part of the MIX group
from its inception eight
years ago, designed her quilt
and accompanying small
piece around the concept of
density.
“I looked at the changes
taking place and the density
of population those changes
are creating. Just looking up
in downtown Portland for
inspiration, I saw large con-
struction cranes everywhere,”
she said.
Daggett said she consid-
ered what is being lost as the
call for increased density con-
tinues. Her piece is a silent
reminder of the sacrifices of
lovely old Victorian homes to
make way for tall, sleek steel
and glass towers. The ever-
present cranes can be seen
right in the middle of all the
new behemoth buildings on
the quilt.
Down at the center bot-
tom of the piece are two old
abandoned homes that, in
their day, were highly prized
residences and reminders of
Portland’s history. Now they
stand, as the name of the piece
indicates, “Condemned,”
with plywood over the win-
dows and boards crisscross-
ing the front door.
To make the houses look
even more forlorn, Daggett
used a light touch of gray oil
pastel on the windows to cre-
ate a vacant look. The sky in
her large piece is made using
ombre fabric, which fades
from dark navy at the top
down through pale lavender
to peach behind the build-
ings. Daggett got her inspira-
tion for the works from 12th
Avenue where that very scene
was playing out.
Daggett’s accompanying
small piece is titled “Portland.
Growing Up,” with a crane
among several skyscrapers.
Another pair of quilts
referenced the new Tillicum
Crossing Bridge that doesn’t
carry cars, overlaying the his-
toric St. John’s Bridge. There
is the Portland Mercado on
S.E. Foster Road, which is
a community of more than
16 businesses in the pub-
lic market and plaza, bring-
ing together diverse cultures
through food, art, and enter-
tainment. A detailed quilt
full of things old and new
in Portland, like Voo Doo
Doughnuts and the old White
Stag sign, is titled “and/or.”
The Pearl District and Union
Station are also represented.
Hanging among the quilts
is a square word board embla-
zoned with all the words the
members thought of when
they talked about Portland.
The words are all in simple
black block letters of varying
sizes on a white background,
with some printed in the same
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No. 2 pencil yellow.
The exhibit is up all month
in the Community Room and
MIX members will be avail-
able to answer questions in
the library on Saturday, July
8, Quilt Show day.
In the computer room is
a display of paintings done
over a lifetime by Ervin
Groppenbecher of Cincinnati,
and the father of Crossroads
resident Dinah Boyd. Dinah
and her British husband,
David, retired to Sisters in
2002 after living around the
U.S., and in Germany and
England where David worked
as a gas turbine engineer for
jet engines.
They became friends with
Marianne Fettkether, who
is a long-time FOSL board
member, and she suggested
displaying Groppenbecher’s
work at the library.
He was a commercial artist
by profession who also filled
his leisure time with painting
and sketching. Boyd reported
that, “Family day trips were
frequently expeditions to go
sketching and painting in
the countryside, and sketch-
ing was always part of every
family vacation.” Her father
worked in oil, acrylics, water-
colors, pencil, charcoal, and
pastels.
“I hope that you each
enjoy the variety of media
he used over a lifetime and
the diversity of subjects dis-
played. My two sisters and I
are proud of our dad!” Boyd
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
St. Johns Bridge overlayed with Tillicum Crossing.
said.
Groppenbecher shared his
passion for art with family
and friends as he gifted paint-
ings, made his silk-screened
Christmas cards for 60 years,
and created many personal-
ized cartoons for family and
friends. His church also ben-
efitted from his calligraphy
skills and a collection of car-
toon posters produced for the
church choir, of which he was
a member.
The subjects of the paint-
ings represent a wide vari-
ety from landscapes to street
scenes to portraits. Especially
notable are 12 miniatures cre-
ated using different media
and subject matter.
Boyd said her walls at
home are temporarily empty
while her father’s paintings
are on display in the library
for the month of July.
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