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coast culture
Exploring
life’s wise and
wherefores
“Lake Trees” by Laurie Lambrecht
See budding projects
at spring resident show
The latest cohort of residents at the Sitka
Center for Art and Ecology will share plans
for their creative projects this Wednesday,
Jan. 22, when Sitka hosts its Spring Resident
Show & Tell.
The free event will give guests the chance
to chat with the first four residents to arrive
— visual artists Brie Schettle and Laurie
Lambrecht, music composer Eli Neuman-
Hammond and ecologist Susan Waters.
Waters, who joins Sikta as the Howard
L. McKee Ecology Resident, serves as a
rare species ecologist at the Center for
Natural Lands Management in Olympia.
Washington, and an affiliate professor at
the University of Washington-Bothell.
Her research focuses on plant-pollinator
community dynamics and restoration of
habitat for rare butterflies.
Eli Neumann-Hammond is a composer
from Massachusetts who explores themes of
representation and place through minimally
processed field recordings. At the core of his
approach is an understanding of sound as
a social and material flux between listeners
and their environments.
Laurie Lambrecht, a native of
Bridgehampton, New York, is a
photographer and fiber artist who studied
at Marymount College, The University of
Colorado and The Visual Studies Workshop.
Her work celebrates the landscape in an
intimate way combining photography
and needlework while exploring nature’s
patterning and a craving of the tactile.
Brie Schettle is an interdisciplinary artist
and curator living in the Pacific Northwest.
She holds a BFA in Painting and a BA
in Art History from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Schettle identifies as
a hybrid artist — working with many modes
of expression including painting, installation,
sculpture, digital printmaking and
photography. Her work illustrates “process
A coastal residence
The Sitka Center is currently accepting
applications for its Fall/Winter 2020 and
Winter/Spring 2021 residency. Residents
selected for these cohorts will be on cam-
pus during Sitka’s 50th anniversary year.
Residencies range from two weeks to
three and a half months and are open to
people from a wide range of experience
levels, from emerging creatives and scien-
tists to experienced practitioners.
Applications will be accepted through
March 31. For more residency application
information, go to www.sitkacenter.org/
residencies.
over product” and merges technology with
environmental art.
The Spring Resident Show & Tell is
free and open to all. Doors open at 5:30
pm and presentations begin at 6 pm in
Boyden Studio. The Sitka Center for Art
and Ecology is located at 56605 Sitka Drive,
just north of Lincoln City. Take Three Rocks
Road from Highway 101 and follow the
signs.
Stage and TV actor Liz Cole will
explore questions of mortality when
she presents her one-woman version
of “WIT” by Margaret Edson on
Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Manzanita.
“WIT,” which won the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1999, tells the story
of a brilliant professor who suddenly
finds the tools of
academia useless
in her journey to
come to terms
with her diagnosis
of ovarian cancer.
Cole originated the
leading role in the
first production of
the play in 1995 at
the South Coast
Repertory in Costa
Mesa, California,
where she won the L.A. Drama
Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding
Performance.
“The Wisdom of WIT” is Cole’s
solo version of the play, a piece she has
performed numerous times across the
country. Like the play, this version is
both heart-wrenching and humorous,
and explores the beauty of simplicity
and the puzzle of our irrevocable fate.
Cole will perform the piece as part
of the Art of Aging, Art of Dying
Program at 3 pm and again at 7 pm at
the Hoffman Center for the Arts, 594
Laneda Avenue.
Cole has had a long acting career
on the professional stage, and has also
made TV guest-star appearances on
“Seinfeld,” “ER,” “Star Trek,” “The
Practice,” “Judging Amy,” “Las Vegas”
and many others. She has performed
at events for various costal nonprofits,
including the Lower Nehalem Land
Trust, Food Roots, Rinehart Clinic
and the Nehalem Valley Historical
Society.
Admission to the Jan. 22
performances is $10 at the door.
For more information on the Art of
Aging, Art of Dying Program, contact
email Tela Skinner at telaskinner@
gmail.com.
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