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Wednesday, August 23, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Sisters Arts Association Fourth Friday Art Stroll By Helen Schmidling Correspondent As part of your post-eclipse therapy, visit the galleries of Sisters during the Fourth Friday Art Stroll. Most gal- leries will be open from 4 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 25, with light refreshments available. Hood Avenue Art features mixed-media artist Patricia Freeman-Martin and book art- ist Kelley Salber. Both share an interest in the narrative and symbolic, as well as a love of paper. There will be live music and refreshments. Watch out for Mama Bear and her cubs at Sculptor Gary Cooley’s Collection Gallery. Mostly self-taught and guided by instinct, Cooley translates his interest in nature into pow- erful statements in bronze. He carefully considers each detail, contemplating form and movement, incorporat- ing variations in texture, light, shadows, and attitude. Clearwater Gallery’s fea- tured artists are Mark Davis and David Mensing. Davis works in a variety of media, his favorite being oils, for a relaxed, impressionistic style. Not content to just enjoy natu- ral places, Mensing captures and shares his experience as works of art. The signatures are barely dry on Dennis McGregor’s latest dual animal paintings. PHOTO PROVIDED Spider Monkey by Dennis McGregor. These “You Stole My Name” images will be featured at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop, where McGregor might even play a song or two. The paint- ings move to Sisters Library on September 1 for a month. (See related story, page 3.) Twigs Gallery is show- ing the works of the Journeys Art Quilt Group. Journeys is a group of dedicated Central Oregon art quilters who meet monthly in Sisters. The show will feature a variety of work using many different piecing and embellishment techniques. At the Imagination Gallery, Ken Scott’s featured artist is Barbara Berry. Her acrylic paintings use vibrant colors to convey a sense of subject, time, and place. Barbara will be at the gallery showing new pieces, with a 10 percent dis- count on all of her art. Studio Redfield will be open until 6 p.m., featuring paintings by Randy Redfield and a new selection of Kibak Tiles. At Nature’s Bling, modern paleo-artist Crystal Benson has created a mural over the kids’ station, depicting dino- saurs and cave art. Her mod- ern works are also featured at the shop, which recently moved to the former site of Old West Collectables on East Hood Avenue. Bigfoot Wellness will be open for the August Art Stroll with a new show by Elizabeth Pettyjohn. Her work is acrylic on wood and canvas, inspired by oceanic elements. Sisters Library features art- work by Sisters Elementary School summer students. Using the theme “Build A Better World,” they focused 5 Quick Draw Sign up for this month’s Quick Draw – a $100 gift certificate from Melvin’s Fir Street Market – Sisters’ go-to store for just about anything. Please sign up just once in each gallery. The more galler- ies you visit, the more chances you have to sign up. on a different region of the world each week. Their art- work depicts this, along with field trips to Seed-to-Table and Sisters-Camp Sherman fire station. Topics include picking up trash, gardening, and helping African chim- panzees. Wendy Birnbaum’s photographs are still up in the library’s Computer Room. Just in time for the sea- son, Jill Neal created a line of T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and more exclusively for the Seahawks 12th Woman. Get your swag on at Jill’s Wild (but tasteful) Women. This month, Raven Makes will be closed during the Art Stroll, but other galler- ies open include The Jewel, Dyrk Godby Gallery, Disney Art Animation, Grizzly Ridge Upcycle, and Beacham’s Clock Company. Remember to sign up for the Quick Draw Prize, spon- sored by the Sisters Arts Association. This month, it’s a $100 gift certificate from Melvin’s. Sign up one time in each gallery that you visit.