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
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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.