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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Valley Girls ready for year 9
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
Carol Dickson is featured
artist for the ninth annual Valley
Girls Quilt Show, slated for
this weekend at the I.V. Senior
Center.
Dickson, an I.V. High
School (IVHS) alumni and
current Valley resident is
one of the founders of the
quilt show and has played an
integral part in the Valley Girls’
development.
This year’s show offers
100 never-before shown quilts
along with a country store of
handmade items and quilts for
sale.
Valley Girls will also sell
raffle tickets for the chance to
win “Mountain Valley Vistas,”
this year’s Opportunity Quilt,
with an abstract design that
suggests Shaker and American
Indian influences.
The drawing is scheduled
for the end of the show.
Several of Dickson’s quilts
will be hung in a special display,
among them, the debut of “The
Water Gatherer,” an art quilt that
was achieved with fabric paint,
fabric ink, appliqué and “thread
painting.”
Dickson will compete
to have this art quilt travel the
national quilt show circuit later
in the year. One of her quilts
was accepted into last year’s
national show.
She started quilting about
10 years ago and ever since
quilting has become both an
avocation and a business for
Dickson, who helps other
quilters by using a long arm
sewing machine to complete
their quilts, stitching together
the various layers.
She does different quilt
tasks at different times of the
day, hand stitching at night
while she watches television.
When asked which quilt is
her favorite, she responds, “The
last one I finished is always my
favorite until I finish the next
one. I make all kinds of quilts.”
She then admitted her
favorites are the art quilts, “I
make about one a year.”
The Valley Girls raise
funds for youth oriented
organizations. Last year they
donated a total of $3,500,
divided among three non-
profits.
“The I.V. Boys and Girls
Club is the core group we
donate to. We raffle off a quilt
every year, we make comfort
quilts for kids in need and we
make quilts for the Chateau
at the Oregon Caves as a
legacy that will go beyond us,”
Dickson said.
The other two selected
nonprofits this year are IVHS
baseball and Evergreen
Elementary School Life Skills
training.
When the check was
presented last year Dickson
said, “In eight years we’ve
given out $25,000. As a
nonprofit, we don’t keep
any money. Our funds are
managed by the Illinois Valley
Community Development
Organization. We also partner
with Valley businesses who give
discounts around town during
the quilt show weekend. By
them offering this, people stay
around town a little longer and
maybe get to see the good side
of our community. Everything
we do is through partnerships.”
This added bonus for quilt
show attendees is “percentage
off” specials at Carlos
Restaurante, Dairy Queen, and
Taylors’ Country Store among
others. Foris Vineyards Winery
will also honor proof of Quilt
Show attendance.
Valley Girls Quilt Show
will take place at I.V. Senior
Center, 520 E. River St., 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 and
Saturday, Oct.21 and then 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22.
Admission is $3. Lunch
and refreshments will be
available for purchase from the
Senior Center kitchen.
Annual Artoberfest offers all kinds of art
Meet custom jeweler Michael
Yanase at Yanase Jewelers. Enter a unique
world of imaginative woodwork at It’s a
Burl. Explore booths where artists from
throughout the region are offering a wide
array of wonderful creations at Artoberfest
headquarters on the Rogue Community
College Kerby Campus.
The Southern Oregon Guild’s sixth
annual Artoberfest runs from Friday, Oct.
20 to Sunday, Oct. 22. Friday and Saturday
hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday hours
are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Highlight of Artoberfest is a juried
indoor art show where visitors will
meander among the artists’ booths along
a wandering path that creates a uniquely
intimate art show. Food, live music, a
silent auction, and a separate gallery add to
the experience.
Artists in the juried show include
Wolf Creek artist Ronald Hanson, who
reminds us of our close relationship to our
natural surroundings with his paintings
while Grants Pass woodworker, Brandon
Woodward transforms what nature
produces into stunning multi-media pieces.
Crescent City fiber artists, Glenna
Kimball and Joyce Tuby perform a
different kind of transformation, making
pieces of discarded knitwear into elegant
new garments. In addition, Williams fiber
artist, Corbin Brashear, will offer her
whimsical needle felted sculptures that
have pushed that fiber art medium into
new artistic territory. Her work never fails
to bring a smile.
Ceramics, oil and acrylic paintings,
jewelry, other fiber arts, and photography
will also be found throughout the juried
show. One very special booth will be
dedicated In Memoriam to Jacksonville
artist, Dan Barker, who was part of
Artoberfest from the beginning. His
stunning spiritually inspired banners are
the amazing work of a Viet Nam veteran
reaching for inner peace.
Throughout the weekend,
soups and other culinary delights will
be available, and musicians will add to
visitors’ pleasure with a variety of musical
styles. Harpist Phoebe Knowles will play
on Friday. George &Anwyn Leverette’s
Celtic music and Terry D. Davis’s guitar
will be the musical background on
Saturday, and Davis and Sue Norman-
Jones on guitar and Alan Eisner on
keyboard will perform on Sunday.
Visits to It’s a Burl and Yanase
Jewelers are also a must. To see what
wonderfully beautiful and unusual Jewelry
designs come out of Michael Yanase’s
skilled hands and imagination, ask to see
his photo collection of custom work. His
work may inspire a special gift. At It’s a
Burl, find the wooden bicycle in a world
full of whimsy. Watch for the Artoberfest
logo at participating locations and don’t
miss these special Kerby venues.
The Southern Oregon Guild’s
Gallery & Art Center is also located on the
RCC Kerby Campus at 24353 Redwood
Highway in Kerby. It will be open for
visitors to peruse Guild member’s art and
fine crafts and to bid at the Silent Auction.
The Guild’s Website is www.
southernoregonguild.org Facebook page
is Southern Oregon Guild of Artists and
Artisans. For more information, contact
Joyce Abrams at 541-659-3858.
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