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Wednesday, June 13, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Art in the park brings creative variety
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Last Saturday and Sunday
Creekside Park was filled
with white tents and talented
artists displaying their hand-
crafted goods at Art in the
Park. The showcase of arts
and crafts spread across the
park grass, drawing in scores
of folks to enjoy more than
85 vendor booths. The annual
event, in its 16th year, was the
perfect added attraction for
visitors to enjoy during rodeo
weekend in Sisters.
Folks strolled through an
eclectic variety of craftman-
ship from metal art and vin-
tage buttons to handmade
earrings from recycled bullet
casings.
Lisa Sophia, an artist
based in Seaside, was enjoy-
ing her first year at the annual
event.
“I quit the day job and
decided to see if I could sell
my art,” Sophia said. “I’ve
been painting in acrylics for
about 25 years and ran my
own professional photo stu-
dio also.”
In the last few years she’s
been dabbling in computer
art.
“I take my photos and do
color studies on the computer
using Photoshop,” she said.
“It helps me work at layers,
colors and texture. I then
paint an original in acrylic
from my color studies.”
Sophia is part owner and
displays her artwork at Gilbert
District Gallery in Seaside.
When three artistic
longtime friends, who met
while in college, get together
to showcase their goods you
have an eclectic variety of
handcrafted artwork that
folks were thrilled to browse
through.
Peggy Glascock from
Portland machine-quilts triv-
ets, Mary Rioux-Forker from
Sisters transfers her watercol-
ors to tempered glass cutting
boards, and Carol Milliman
from Eugene crafts glass-
infused earrings.
“We’ve all stayed friends
over the years after we
met in college because our
boyfriends were friends,”
Glascock said laughing. “We
also brought Carol’s friend
Louise Botterill from Eugene
with us this trip to display her
hand-drawn mandala cards in
pen and ink.”
Art in the Park offered
something for all ages and
interests — including live
music, food, and the Family
Fun Zone.
Many new vendors offered
imaginative and unique goods
for sale, and one of them was
Maria Winner from Salem.
Winner, owner of Material
Things, sells vintage silk
kimonos that she refashions
into skirts, vests, jackets and
more.
“These are retired kimo-
nos from Japan,” Winner told
The Nugget. “I’ve been doing
shows for only six months
but have done trunk shows
before and had home parties.
My trips to Japan began when
I became the head chaperone
for young exchange students
going from one of the ele-
mentary schools in Portland
to Japan.”
Folks come buzzing
around when there’s pure
honey in a variety of flavors
to sample. Beekeeper Tanya
Rudometkin from Christmas
Valley had loads of flavors to
satisfy anyone’s palate.
After years of beekeep-
ing Rudometkin has up to
300 hives all over the area.
There’s blackberry honey
from the Willamette Valley,
maple honey from Silverton
Hills, white clover honey
from La Pine and much more.
“I took classes and started
with just six hives the first
year,” she said. “It turned into
a passion. Bees are beautiful
to watch and so calming for
me.”
Visitors and vendors
tapped their feet to musi-
cal entertainment by Scott
Brown, who plays a little bit
of everything. In between
Brown’s sets you could hear
soothing harmonic tones pro-
duced by singing bowls com-
ing from Taryn Balthazor’s
tent.
Singing bowls, usually
made of brass, have a number
of traditional uses throughout
India and Nepal. Their tones
are often used as a part of
religious worship in Buddhist
temples, and they may be
rung at home to prepare the
mind for meditation.
“I ordered these bowls
from India because I’m really
interested in the science of
sound,” said Balthazor. “And
I will be selling the bowls
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
Taryn Balthazor demonstrates “singing bowls” at Art in the Park.
eventually. Right now, I’m
just playing around with the
tones and trying to show peo-
ple more about the power of
sound.”
Balthazor was actually
selling tie-dye cotton clothing
that she designed.
“I’m just learning about
the designing end of tie-dying
cotton clothing. I work with
a team and we all come up
different designs,” she said.
Event organizer Richard
Esterman was happy to see
the rodeo crowds stopping
at the park to check out the
vendors.
“It’s one of the first events
of the season, and it’s a
chance for people to get out
and browse through crafts and
the many new art vendors that
are here this year,” he said.
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