The Arts
‘Paintings by Patrick’ focus on Renaissance style
By Shelley Davis
Of The Print
“It’s a Renaissance. It’s not
pop art, and it’s not modern
art. Nobody’s doing my
style,” artist Patrick Baird
said of his “Paintings By
Patrick,” a display of work
that is currently showing at
Clackamas Community Col
lege.
“Paintings By Patrick” is
set up in the Pauling Center
Gallery and will last through
Jan. 31. “I didn’t know that
they (instructors) wanted to
show them,” Baird said.
“They weren’t intended for a
show,”he added.
“His work is just
incredible. ”
Baird, 19, is a student at the
College and has been painting Art of Patrick Baird
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for 10 years. He previously at the past.
tended a small art school for
He is currently enrolled in
five years located on four art classes at the College.
McLoughlin Boulevard. Baird Instructor Leland John con
is a graduate from Clackamas fesses that “I don’t teach him
High School where a display a thing.” Although Baird
had been set up of his jyork in doesn’t need to be taught
much, it gives him a place to
work.
The amount of time Baird
spends on his paintings have
ranged from 20 minutes to
three years. The one he has
been working on for three
years is presently in the “car
toonist stage,” as Baird calls
it. He explained it’s basically
sketched out in colors, and
he’s been adding to it little by
little.
Baird plans to sell his pain-
Photo by Joel Miller
tings in the near future. In the
distant future, he would like to
attend a large university and
continue doing paintings on a
commission basis.
“His work is just
incredible,” John said.
Music classes invite community interest
By Julie Miller
Of The Print.
One-act play “Stray Cats,” currently in rehearsal, centers
around a newlywed couple facing the trials of an additional
roommate. Performance dates for “Stray Cats” and another
one-act play, “At Home” are March 12 at noon and March 13
at noon and 7 p.m..
Photo by Joel Miller
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Interested in music? Do you
like the sound of a choir in
perfect harmony? How about
the jazzy sounds of a Big
Band? Or the blending of
classical * music in an or
chestra?
Community Choir, Com
munity Orchestra and Big
Band classes are being offered,
tuition free, to anyone in the
community who is interested.
The classes meet once a week
in Randall Hall on campus.
Lonnie Cline, Choral direc
tor at the College, is directing
the Community Choir and
Loretta Kaser of Silverton is
the accompanist.
The Choir performed at
“Christmas By Candlelight,”
the College’s Christmas pro
gram along with the Com
munity Orchestra and the Col
lege Corale. They will be per
forming at the Church Women
United Choir festival on May
5 where church and other
choirs will meet and sing.
Each choir will sing a selec
tion and then the groups will
combine to sing three selec
tions. Lonnie Cline will con
The Big Band class con
duct the groups. This will be ducted by Frank Leuck,
his third year doing so. The rehearses on Monday nights in
Community choir will also Randall Hall. The class plays
perform at the College’s music from such jazz oriented
graduation ceremony, along bands as Glenn Miller, Buddy
with a special brass ensemble Rich and Doc Severanson.
conducted by Garey Neilson.
Leuck said the eight-piece
Community Orchestra
Big
Band has been a popular
meets on Mondays from 7-10
p.m. and is conducted by Tom and successful community
Gingerich, a music teacher at outlet for talented high school,
college and community musi
Canby High School.
The orchestra consists of cians for several years, “big
approximately 15 to 20 string band music,” he said, “is
and wind instrument musi now, more than ever, enjoying
cians, with an average age of great popularity, both by the
about 25. Gingerich said that public and the many excellent
one of the basic purposes for ly trained musicians to be
the orchestra class is so people found in most every communi
in the community can have a ty.”
chance to play with other
Several public appearances
musicians. It also provides
them with a chance to keep in by the Big Band class are plan
ned. A joint Big Band and
practice, he said.
Though Gingerich is pleased College Stage Band Concert
with the orchestra, he said he will be presented on Campus
still would welcome more str at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 12. They
ing players - preferably cello will also be featured as the
and bass players. If anyone is special guest band at the an
interested in joining the Com nual College Jazz Festival,
munity Orchestra the deadline March 15 and 16, along with
for entry is by the end of nearly two dozen top high
winter term.
school state bands.
Clackamas Community College