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Wednesday, August 21, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 5 Fourth Friday August night’s artwalk this week By Helen Schmidling Correspondent Summer is winding down, but the evenings are still warm and perfect for stroll- ing through the galleries of Sisters. This month9s Fourth Friday Artwalk is August 23, from 4 to 7 p.m. Gather your family and friends to visit the galleries for new and unique art, discussions with artists, and light refreshments. PHOTO PROVIDED “Lily Pond” by Mike Wise at Hood Avenue Art. Hood Avenue Art will fea- ture work by plein air oil artist Mike Wise, and potter Annie Dyer. Wise, born in Brooklyn, studied biological illustra- tion at Iowa State University and earned a doctor of chiro- practic medicine degree from Northwestern Health Science University in Minneapolis. He turned to painting when he moved to Bend. <The light 4 it hits you, promising stunning scenes of beauty if you stop long enough to look. Painting this environment soothes the mind and relaxes the body,= he says. Annie Dyer9s unique pottery combines high-gloss finishes with highly textured ones, each piece being both unique and functional. The Clearwater Gallery is excited to feature award- winning oil painter David Mensing from 4 to 6 p.m. Replete with bright colors and powerful palette-knife strokes, Mensing9s style cap- tures the beauty of the West. He interprets what he sees in nature onto canvas to create vibrant and peaceful paintings. Gary Cooley is known for his colorful bronze sculp- tures, but did you know that he is also an exceptional oil painter? He will welcome vis- itors to his Collection Gallery to discuss both art forms while sipping lemonade and 4 if you9re lucky 4 sharing one of his famous homemade oat- meal cookies. At Beacham9s Clock C o m p a n y, t a l k t o E d Beacham about his unique clocks that are replicas of an PHOTO PROVIDED “Clock Works” by Ed Beacham at Beacham’s Clock Company. 1860s original which sold for a record $277,330 in the Fontaine Auction. Each of Beacham9s clocks is an invest- ment, because he is the only one in the country making them. The floor clocks each have a different carved head, but the clock faces are the same, incorporating time, day and date, sidereal time (solar noon), sunrise and sunset. Opening at Stitchin9 Post Fabric Arts Gallery is <My Story, My Work= by Marie Murphy Wolfe, who combines quilting and haiku. Murphy Wolfe has enjoyed working with her hands all her life. Her process involves decid- ing on a subject, an exhibit title, an emotion, or an image from her travels. She then writes a simple haiku, which she includes with the art quilt. Mel Archer will be demon- strating the components of his glass-on-glass impressionist landscapes at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop. Archer cre- ates his own shades of col- ored glass, in the forms of frit, rods, or panels, by blending and fusing standard colors. He then uses these components in creating multi-layered impres- sionist glass landscapes. Wildflower Studio will be featuring original acrylic paintings by David Rock and original paintings and prints by Kathy Deggendorfer. Original paintings by Linda Hanson are featured at Good Day Café, adjacent to Bedouin. Hanson, who PHOTO PROVIDED “Eagle Headed Moose Antler” by Maurice Brown at Antler Arts. lives in Sisters, studied art in San Francisco and has an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Through all her travels, Hanson9s first love is <the rough and rugged coun- try of the West, especially the high desert of Central Oregon. Rivers, trees, big mountains and bigger skies open my heart and my imagination.= Jill Neal invites you to <celebrate your inner woman= at Jill Neal Gallery, where new images decorate wooden boxes of caramels, new mugs, and Northwest Wild Women wine labels. Head down to Antler Arts for a display of jasper pen- dants by Julie Neff of JN Jewels, and the antler art of carver Maurice Brown, for- merly of Montana, recently relocated to Sisters. Brown carves and paints, and his moose-antler carvings are col- lected worldwide. Check out the fire pits at Ken Scott9s Imagination Gallery, the original work at Dyrk Godby Gallery, and the unusual and unique creations at Grizzly Ridge Upcycle.