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20 Wednesday, February 20, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CALDERA: Open Studios is free to the Sisters public Continued from page 3 <I feel like it positions you in a particular way,= Masum- Javed muses. <It seems like daughters often take up the brunt of responsibility for their parents, caregiving, receiving social expectation and parental expectation4 and the collision of those things.= Saturday9s Open Studios will also feature country crooner and House of Larréon fashion designer Larry Krone (see sidebar). Other artists include Abigail Chabitnoy, a 2016 Peripheral Poets fellow. A member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska, Chabitnoy lives in Colorado, where she works to support indigenous self-determination. Self-described <border rat= Rubén García Marrufo has produced feature films and short experimental vid- eos. The work <focuses on the aftermath of bor- ders, bilinguality, and body instrumentality.= Three artists from Minneapolis are in residence this month. Sarah Abdel- Jelil works with dance and film, combining slow move- ment with time-lapse video techniques. Gisell Calderón brings a DIY/punk/underground sen- sibility to her work in disci- plines spanning video, writ- ing, 35mm photography, and music. Textiles, printmaking, and installation enable Ian Hanesworth to investigate <systems of reciprocity and the malleability of queer identity through material explorations.= Portland performer, writer, and artist Maximiliano is also in residence. He is a 2019 Oregon Arts Commission individual artist fellow, and collaborator on the <perfor- mance x fashion= project Cvllejerx and the radical art space Nat Turner Project. Also from Portland comes writer, educator, and commu- nity organizer Jamila Osman, whose writing has appeared everywhere from Teen Vogue to Aljazeera. AiR Open Studios is free of charge and takes place Saturday, February 23 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Readings, performances, and artist stu- dio tours begin at 1 p.m., pre- ceded by snacks and coffee. Caldera is located 16 miles west of Sisters off Highway 20 at 31500 Blue Lake Dr. Turn down SW Suttle Lake Loop, drive two miles to Caldera9s gate, and follow signs to the Hearth Building. The final AiR Open Studios event this sea- son is slated for March 23. Additional information is available at www.calderaarts. org. Sequins and masculinity: the art of Larry Krone <I do a lot of things by myself that people say you can9t do.= For example, he got a museum Ukulele-strumming crooner, textile artist, show as an unrepresented artist, and self-pub- and House of Larréon designer Larry Krone lished his <Look Book.= Krone9s lilting voice and ukulele may make is in Sisters Country this month. He will share work with the public at Caldera9s AiR Open an appearance at Open Studios. But for most of his residency at Caldera, Krone has focused Studios this Saturday. The New York Times recently called Krone9s on designing sets for Hand2Mouth Theatre9s costume and clothing design <glitzy, gleeful, newest show, Dream|Logic, which opens in sexy and sleazy,= adding that it was <not so Portland this week. Krone has also been at work on his <Then relatable.= Moving on from House of Larréon and into and Now= series, <taking found materials and Krone9s other work, one finds sweet songs making something new.= He starts with castaway and thrift-store and hand-sewn artworks. While Krone lives in New York, his onstage persona suggests Sisters items. <It9s mysterious and beautiful that peo- ple made these things,= Rodeo. he says of the samplers, Are his 10-gallon hat embroidery, and textile and meticulous Western ephemera that come into ensembles sincere or his hands. ironic? He tells The Making bright paths of Nugget that his aesthetic sequins, he sews every- arose from <a real love of thing together, creating country music.= a new textile object such <If you like Western as a cape. The act brings wear, you9re gonna like together all the original looking at my shows,= he makers 4 regardless of says. <It9s my own version their geographical loca- of the golden age of coun- tion, gender, or class. try music.= <All these different <These are my people,= people would never meet,= Larry thought when he Krone says. His work is a first delved into country way to <honor them, and music. <This is how I am a to consider all this content man 4 this weird balance in all these pieces.= One of being super emotional of the resulting works is and this masculine front.= currently on display at the He notes that you RISD Museum. can be a masculine man Meet Larry Krone on in country music, while February 23, at Caldera, <commiserating on your 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. More failures and drinking in sad PHOTO BY TODD OLDHAM information in this issue of bars.= Consistent with the Larry Krone designs costumes for himself in The Nugget (page 3) and at Western ethic, Krone says, addition to theatre and cabaret performers. www.calderaarts.org. By T. Lee Brown Correspondent The Nugget is brought to you weekly because of our advertisers’ support. So we ask you to support the local businesses which help make your community, hometown newspaper possible. nugget_2019-02-20.indd 20 PHOTO BY GARY MILLER SHOP LOCAL 2/19/19 10:57 AM