THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022 A3
First Friday art walk expands again in Redmond
spare, elegant landscapes and
panoramic views. Renditions
of place are created with an
etching press, multiple layers
of ink and additional methods
of markmaking.
“The results are sugges-
tions of the land and mood to
which I am so connected, a
merging of external and inter-
nal landscapes,” said Laughery.
BY TIM TRAINOR
Redmond Spokesman
The August edition of the
First Friday Art Walk, spon-
sored by the Dry Canyon Arts
Association, is set for August 5
from 4-7 p.m.
This month’s edition has ex-
panded to feature eight local
artists at seven different ven-
ues. A new venue this month
will be Arome, the downtown
kitchen store that will be cele-
brating its own grand opening
on the same day.
Mel Archer
Mel Archer’s impressive
glass works will be displayed
at the new Arome kitchen
store, 432 SW Sixth.
Archer “paints” with glass
— nothing but glass. Land-
scape scenes are assembled of
many individually made el-
ements, positioned together
and fired in a technique
known as fusing. The process
is repeated several times as
the completed painting slowly
comes together.
Archer was recognized in
2006 as a top 20 “emerging
artist” in Bullseye Glass’ inter-
national biannual competi-
tion, “Emerge.”
Jim Hensley
Jim Hensley’s pen and ink
creations will be on display at
the Redmond Senior Center,
Bill Lind
Bill Lind’s wooden bowls
will be part of the two-per-
son show at the new Arome
kitchen store.
Lind has a passion for bowl
making. He finds joy in re-
vealing the beauty hidden
within each piece of wood. No
live trees are harvested for his
bowls.
He enjoys uncovering the
color, texture and grain pat-
terns that nature provided.
The utility bowls are food safe.
325 NW Dogwood.
Hensley sketches trees with
unique shapes in all stages of
their natural seasons of life
and landscapes with visual
character like abandoned and
historic structures. He is chal-
lenged with bringing beauty to
an ever-changing landscape by
portraying the sketch in sim-
plicity and allowing the viewer
to fill in gaps with their imag-
ination.
Gin Laughery
Printmaker Gin Laughery’s
work will display at Eqwine
Wine Bar, 218 SW 4th Street.
Laughery’s work celebrates
Oregon’s High Desert with its
Gary McPherson
The oil and watercolor paint-
ings of artist Gary McPherson
will be at the Junction Roastery
for the August art walk.
McPherson discovered his
love of art and penchant for
detail drawings when he was
about 10 years old by doing
various pencil portraits. That
continues today in both water-
color and oil.
Many of McPherson’s orig-
cations in graphic design, web
and multimedia design.
She is the founder of ART-
NIK, a nonprofit t that offers
arts education, community
engagement, as well as a dig-
ital art magazine known as
ARTNIK, Inc.
Kelley Salber
Kelley Salber’s exquisite
miniature book art will be dis-
played at the SCP Redmond
Hotel.
Salber loves to experiment
with the book as a sculptural
form. Using her passion for tex-
ture and color, she forms minia-
ture worlds in a variety of forms
by altering old books. She also
delights in inventing her own
books as, well as building with
bookboard and paper.
inal paintings, as well as his
home and studio, were lost to
the Camp Fire that destroyed
Paradise, Calif. He and his
wife have been busy rebuild-
ing their lives while trying to
become familiar with their
new Oregon home.
Kym Myck
Kym Myck’s multimodal vi-
sual art will take center stage at
Grace and Hammer Pizzeria.
Myck has multiple art de-
grees and professional certifi-
Laurel Werhane
Laurel Werhane’s fused glass
creations will be displayed at
the High Desert Music Hall.
Werhane said she is fascinated
with the organic feel and fluid-
ity of fused glass.
Her designs blend a number
of techniques by combining
sheets of art glass, repurposed
glass, powdered glass and
metals. Currently, Werhane’s
focus is on Pate’ de verre ves-
sels which translates to “paste
of glass”.
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Reporter: ttrainor@
redmondspokesman.com
Fence project brings fresh look to Terrebonne school
Animals, icons (and
a T-bone steak)
decorate Terrebonne
Community School
BY NICK ROSENBERGER
Redmond Spokesman
A fresh coat of bright, multi-
colored animals stalk the front
of the Terrebonne Community
School.
Mountains lions wearing Se-
attle Seahawks colors. Bedazzled
vultures. Snakes and rockchucks
in various shades of various col-
ors.
The variety of critters and
creatures, including some ran-
dom and creative interpretations,
adorn the fences that surround
the school — the stellar crafts-
manship created by its students.
The painted wooden cutouts
are of items and animals em-
blematic of Terrebonne.
“Smith Rock, Monkey Face,
they’re so indicative of Terre-
bonne,” said Linda Barker, an
Photo courtesy Linda Barker
artist and Art on the River board
Students paint snakes and other animals with Linda Barker, which
member who helped organize
the project. Her husband and two have since decorated a fence around Terrebonne Community School.
sons installed the artwork in May
Students painted
as the school year was coming to
a close.
wooden art to
Whether it was a cougar
decorate a fence
painted in Christmas colors or
around Terre-
a rock that was mistaken for a
bonne Commu-
T-bone steak, Barker was pas-
nity School.
Photo courtesy
sionate, excited and delighted
Linda Barker
about the designs that the third,
fourth and fifth-grade classes
came up with this year.
“The kids — they don’t need
any coaching, they just take off,”
Barker said. “There was no hes-
itation. They just came in and
got with it.”
The project was spearheaded
by Art on the River, an annual
event held at Eagle Crest un-
til the COVID-19 pandemic
ended the shows in 2020.
The organization’s remaining
funds helped supply Terrebonne
Community School with sup-
plies for the project and have
gone to help fund art classes in
Redmond schools as well.
“Art is an outlet for emo-
tions and expression,” said Joan
Sheets, an art educator who’s
served on the board at the
Portland Art Museum and is a
founding member of Art on the
River at Eagle Crest. “This is es-
pecially important to students
who have been through the last
couple of years when the pan-
demic brought so much uncer-
tainty.”
Sheets mentioned how aca-
demic growth improves when
kids are exposed to artists, dif-
ferent styles and the process of
creating.
Art on the River also received
help from Sherwin Williams
and Miller Lumber, which pro-
vided discounted materials for
the kids to work off.
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Reporter: nrosenberger@
redmondspokesman.com
Linda Barker stands behind the com-
pleted section of a fence with artwork
decorated and designed by students of
the Terrebonne Community School on
July 20 in Terrebonne.
NICK ROSENBERGER/Redmond Spokesman
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