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Wednesday, August 9, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LIBRARY ART:
Photographer has
traveled widely
Continued from page 3
photography can be seen
at Sisters Gallery & Frame
Shop.
Wendy and her husband,
Bill, moved to Sisters in
July of 2008, following eight
months of volunteer work
in Peru, and four months of
travel in Ecuador, Chile, and
Argentina. This show includes
photographs from all of these
places, as well as Norway,
Ireland, and the United States.
Each piece depicts
something about the
life and culture of the
place, like that yarn
from the family-owned
mill in Ireland.
— Wendy Birnbaum
“Each piece depicts some-
thing about the life and cul-
ture of the place, like that
yarn from the family-owned
mill in Ireland,” she said.
You’ll find a bicycle at an
old hacienda in Argentina,
a portrait of beautiful wine
glasses in Argentina, and
even two of Wendy’s black-
and-white photographs,
“Cheerios” and “Tranquility,”
shot with a view camera and
printed in the darkroom in the
1990s.
“Through my photogra-
phy, I tell the story of what
I see and feel in the world
around me,” Birnbaum told
The Nugget. “I create my
photographs first in my mind
— images which move me
emotionally. My photographs
portray how I see a world of
beauty in nature, history, and
life.”
Meanwhile, the walls of
the library’s Community
Room are alive with the artis-
tic imagination of kids in
the summer programs at the
library, in an exhibit curated
by Paige Bentley-Flannery,
Community Librarian.
While construction is
ongoing at school, Sisters
Elementary School held
its summer program at the
library. Using the theme,
“Build A Better World,”
instructor Shelly Hicks
based lessons on this theme
for four weeks. They visited
various locations, includ-
ing the Sisters Community
Garden and Harmony Farm
Sanctuary, and discussed how
they could help build a better
world right here in Sisters,
or right at their homes. They
made drawings, and then
created paintings filled with
flowers, gardens, the town,
and working together.
The Sisters Family Fun
Storytime group created art
pieces after storytime. The
children learned to use paint
on canvas for the first time,
and families worked together
to create a community paint-
ing while discussing what
they did this summer to build
a better world. The children
and their families took advan-
tage of the warm weather to
paint outside, creating their
own little masterpieces.
Maybe they made a bird-
house, picked up the trash,
walked a neighbor’s dog, or
worked in a garden. Again,
their artwork is filled with lots
of flowers and gardens.
The Tween Art Camp
created three pieces of art
that answered the question,
“What would you give an art-
ist to build a better world?”
Answer: A camera, a beautiful
day, and a bright flower.
Both exhibits will remain
up through August in the
library at 310 N. Cedar St. in
Sisters. Hours are Tuesdays
through Fridays, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. All Deschutes
Public Library branches
will be closed on the day of
the solar eclipse, Monday,
August 21.
PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING
Art by Sisters school children will be featured in the community room.
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