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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Artists work in the open air at vineyard
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
Faith Hope & Charity
Vineyards hosted Art in
The Vineyard last Saturday,
achieving their goal of pro-
viding access to art and allow-
ing visitors to sample wines
while enjoying the delicious
food available for purchase
from their full menu.
Sisters Arts Association
(SAA) artists showcased the
fruit of their talents, offering
artwork for sale. The artists9
booths were placed in differ-
ent locations in the open area
between vineyards and the
tasting room, spaced apart
with the vendors wearing
facemasks for COVID-19
safety. Visitors wore masks
and maintained physical
distance.
Located in the scenic
ranchlands of the Lower
Bridge area east of Sisters,
Faith Hope & Charity
Vineyards and Events Center
is a working vineyard with a
tasting room and a venue for
music events and weddings.
Owned by Roger and Cindy
Grossmann, the vineyards
sit on 312 acres between
two ridges and a canyon in
Terrebonne.
<Faith Hope & Charity
Vineyards is a beautiful
location that just calls to an
artist9s heart,= said Cindy
Grossmann. <With the rolling
fields, canyon and ridges ris-
ing up to the Three Sisters of
the Cascade mountain range,
we are a perfect location for
showcasing the arts. Whether
it is culinary, music, or artists
using all the mediums to cap-
ture the beauty of the valley,
or just inspired by the area to
create art, it has been part of
our identity since day one.=
She added, <We have
showcased artists in paint-
ing classes and in our mar-
ketplaces held many times
a year. We welcome the
artist9s heart and share the
large space we have with the
beauty surrounding it.=
About a month before
the Artist Studio Tour that
was held in September, SAA
member Mel Archer talked
with Grossmann about doing
a fall and potential spring/
summer art event in the vine-
yard with SAA.
Cindy mentioned
that we needed to boost
the community spirits,
give people something
to do, and give artists a
financial lift since most
all shows and events
have been canceled...
— Terri Dill-Simpson
Archer noted, <Since the
SAA has an events commit-
tee, I emailed them and asked
who would like to meet with
Cindy. Terri Dill-Simpson
and Susie Zeitner both
volunteered.=
They all met at Faith,
Hope & Charity Vineyards
and hammered out some
rough ideas.
Dill-Simpson noted,
<Cindy mentioned that we
needed to boost the commu-
nity spirits, give people some-
thing to do, and give artists a
financial lift since most all
shows and events have been
canceled the last six months
because of COVID-19.=
During Saturday9s art
show, Faith Hope & Charity
Vineyards9 marketing person,
Michelle Jimenez, said, <This
is our introductory art event
with SAA. It works well
and next time we9re going
to invite other artists in and
make it a larger event.=
Local artist Jim Horsley
displayed some of his oil
paintings that showed off his
distinct representational style
of the American West.
<32 Mule Hitch Combine=
was painted from a 1909
black and white photo.
Horsley demonstrated his
talent by painting in oils from
a photograph of a buck heavy
with antlers.
When asked if he sells any
of his artwork online during
COVID-19 he mentioned that
SAA member, and Bedouin
owner, Harmony Thomas
has been helpful with social
media.
Horsley said, <I have my
artwork on Facebook, but
she really got me involved
as more as a business, as
opposed to just social. She9s
really grown her business
with it.=
For Redmond resident
Kathy Huntington, an excep-
tional watercolor artist who
also creates beautiful table
art, being stuck amid the pan-
demic is disappointing.
She said, <It9s been very
stressful for me. I don9t have
a website. But I9m not saying
no to social media. We9ll see.
Right now, I9m getting my fix
from just being creative.=
Her husband Russel does
woodworking and is an
engineer.
<I worked for his company
for a while,= Huntington said.
<I was a machinery designer.
It9s drafting and I started out
doing electrical drawings.
Then I wanted to do water-
colors, so I took some lessons
12 years ago and I9ve just
stayed with it.=
Cheryl Chapman of
La Pine hand paints glass; she
showcased her business, Silly
Dog Art Glass. Her paintings
reflect her passion for ani-
mals and nature, with a twist
of whimsy.
<I am a glass enamel artist
and have been working with
glass for 30 years,= she said.
<I have been painting on glass
for the last 12 years using
high-fire glass enamels.=
Her work is done in a
reverse process and takes
multiple stages of painting
and firing.
<This is the only show I9ve
been able to do this year, but
I sell online, too, with an Etsy
shop,= she said. <However,
glass is one of those mediums
where people like to touch it
and feel it, it9s three dimen-
sional so selling online is
really hard.=
Landscape artist Patricia
Kirk from Crooked River
Ranch said she9s been an art-
ist her whole life.
She said, <I only work out
of my home right now paint-
ing with my oils. I have done
a lot of shows in the past
and they were all indoors.
They9ve all been canceled.
This is the first show I9ve
done since early spring. I
do have a website and sold
a piece online. I did a com-
mission. But I find it so hard
without the shows and getting
exposure.=
Local artist from Sisters,
Jill Neal, known for her
<Wild (Tasteful) Women,=
shared a booth with her sister-
in-law, Kathy Neal.
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