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10 Wednesday, March 20, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CALDERA: Final arts event of the season is on tap Continued from page 3 as a <first-generation queer Xicana, raised among nopales, strawberries, and canneries in Watsonville, California.= After studying fine arts at San Francisco State University, where she focused on print- making and painting, she began working toward <inclu- sive arts education.= Martinez became a teacher, focusing on students with moderate to severe disabili- ties. <I am dedicated to exalt- ing people of color,= she wrote in her bio, <and the LGBTQI artists community through multi-disciplinary learning, collaboration, and education.= At AiR Open Studios, Martinez plans to show a new series of mixed-media paint- ings begun during her time in Sisters Country. <Pop culture references, family portrai- ture and childhood ephemera are layered in bright acrylics, linocut stamping, embroidery and beading,= she said. Also sharing work at Open Studios is writer Emily X.R. Pan, author of <The Astonishing Color of After.= Born in the Midwest to immi- grant parents from Taiwan, she now lives in Brooklyn. She is a co-creator of <Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology= and the founding editor in chief of Bodega magazine. Another Brooklyn- based resident is visual art- ist Carolyn Monastra, whose work focuses on climate change. (See story, page 11.) Seattle-based Kemi Adeyemi teaches gen- der, women, and sexual- ity studies at the University of Washington. Her book manuscript, <Making New Grounds: Black Queer Women9s Geographies of Neoliberalism,= and co-edited volume, <Queer Nightlife,= are in development. Adeyemi wrote exhibi- tion catalog essays for <black is a color= (Los Angeles), <Endless Flight= (Chicago), and <Impractical Weaving Suggestions= (Madison, WI). She co-curated <unsta- ble objects= at The Alice in Seattle, and will curate a show on black texture at Ditch Projects in Eugene this year. Julie Hammond lives in Vancouver, B.C. She describes her art as <working across performance, pedagogy, and intervention.= Encompassing theatre and public projects, her practice <activates spaces with the performative and investigates the relationship between performance and audience, spectator and place, site and story.= Hammond9s work appears onstage, in print, and in the streets. It is supported by Vancouver New Music, On the Boards, and the Oregon Arts Commission, among others. From Saratoga, California comes Alisa Yang, an interdis- ciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice is rooted in collage across mediums. Yang explores themes of language, cultural identity, memory, and sexualities of diasporas. Yang9s recent film <Please Come Again= won the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Golden Reel Award for Short Documentary. Her film <Sleeping with the Devil= took the Ann Arbor Film Festival9s Best Regional Filmmaker Award. Another artist and film- maker, Miami-based Analise Cleopatra, joins Caldera from Portland, where she is cur- rently working. Cleopatra describes her work as center- ing around <matriarchs, water and foliage,= celebrating <our connection to ancestry through trees and nature.= Cleopatra co-curated the Portland Black Film Festival and was a featured art- ist in <Primary,= a Culture Series exhibition at the head- quarters of creative agency Wieden+Kennedy in Portland. Agency co-founder Dan Wieden is also the founder of Caldera. It began in 1996 as a youth camp in the woods, offering arts education and nature immersion to kids who lacked access to such opportunities. Now Caldera encompasses summer youth camp, off-sea- son AiR program, and a host of other youth programs reaching across a wide span of ages and demographics. Middle school students in Sisters and teens from Bend and Redmond are among those served. AiR Open Studios is free to all, and takes place Saturday, March 23 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Snacks and coffee will be on-hand. Presentations begin at 1 p.m. Caldera is located at 31500 Blue Lake Dr. Drive 16 miles west of Sisters on Bring in this coupon for $2 OFF $1 OFF or any 16-20 lb. bag of Cat Food any 30-35-40 lb. bag of Dog Food PHOTO PROVIDED Alex Martinez enjoys a snowy cabin stay at Caldera where she is working on mixed-media paintings featuring acrylics, embroidery, and beading. Highway 20, turn down SW Suttle Lake Loop and drive two miles to Caldera9s gate. Then follow signs to the Hearth Building. Additional information is available at calderaarts.org. This will be the final AiR Open Studios of the 2019 win- ter season. Dr. Thomas R. Rheuben General, Cosmetic, Implant and Family Dentistry ~ Your Dentist in Sisters Since 1993 ~ We are here to help you smile with confi dence! 541-549-0109 | 304 W. Adams Ave. PLUMBING EXPERTS Call Us Today! 7:30 am-4 pm Mon.-Fri. 260 N. 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Dr. Price will guide us as we—and the scientific world—try to understand what seeing the invisible might reveal. For more insight, context and great video: www.sistersscienceclub.org T Tuesday, d March M h 26 The Belfry, 302 E. Main Ave., Sisters Lecture at 7 p.m. with introduction by Dr. Ron Polidan Doors open at 6 p.m. for community hour, food & drink! Admission: $5; Teachers and Students - FREE 22&14K, Fancy-Cut White Topaz Call 541-588-0083 20 Years Experience | ccb#191760 Now scheduling! Call today! Save the Date: Tuesday, April 23 Dr. Daniel Lowd: “Algorithms and Artifi cial Intelligence: Science takes on fake news” BRING YOUR CURIOSITY AND AN APPETITE FOR KNOWLEDGE!