Northwest By Northwest Gallery features sculptors, oil painters
CANNON BEACH — During this
year’s Plein Air & More Arts
Festival June 26 to 28, North-
west by Northwest Gallery
will feature leading regional
artists, including Georgia Ger-
ber, Ivan McLean, Jeff White,
Hazel Schlesinger and Doug-
las Granum.
Gerber, known for her
sculptures in downtown Port-
land depicting Oregon wild-
life, will create clay sculpture
in front of the gallery.
McLean is a contemporary
steel sculptor who has created
numerous pieces throughout
Portalnd’s Pearl District. He
has just returned from install-
ing six spheres on Hollywood
Boulevard in California. He
is known for his numerous
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White is a master oil paint-
er. He has been an OBP “Or-
egon Art Beat” featured art-
ist. His work can be seen in
numerous public collections,
at the Hawaii Temple Visitor
Center, San Francisco Bay
Wildlife Refuge and Columbia
River Gorge Visitor Center.
Schlesinger grew up in
Cannon Beach and is a devot-
ed plein air oil painter, belong-
ing the Oil Painters of Amer-
ica and the Plein Air Painters
of Hawaii. Her work has
been featured in Southwest
Art Magazine, and she is also
known for her abstracts.
Granum works in sculp-
ture from super realism, like
his project for the Gig Har-
bor History Museum called
“The Big Catch,” based on a
1909 photograph of a cannery
worker with a king salmon
taken by Asahel Curtis. The
sculptor and painter works in
a broad range of styles. He is
currently creating a sterling
silver canoe based on an ear-
lier carved wooden canoe by
the artist.
A Friday evening recep-
tion will feature jazz guitarist
Bobcat Bob and Patrick McEl-
ligott pouring Sineann Wines.
Northwest By Northwest Gal-
lery is located at 232 N. Spruce
St. For more information, call
503-436-0741.
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“Floral” by Douglas Granum at Northwest
by Northwest Gallery.
DragonFire Gallery to host demonstrations Artists work outside, throughout town
during Plein Air & More Arts Festival
CANNON BEACH — DragonFire
Studio and Gallery will feature a
full weekend of events and artist
demonstrations for the Plein Air &
More Arst Festival, June 26 to 28.
DragonFire’s featured artists
include veteran festival participants
and award-winners Michael Or-
wick and Anton Pavlenko, as well
as festival newcomer Rob Hooper.
The gallery’s artist reception
will take place from 4 to 6 p.m.
Friday, June 26.
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DragonFire will also host art-
ist demonstrations from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Saturday with painter
Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, who
renders light in colorful acrylic
and gold-leaf landscapes; jewel-
ry artist Deb Steele, who creates
organic textured jewelry using
precious metal clay; and Dana
Murray, whose photographic por-
traits of water embody the artistic
element of physics.
After overwhelming success
and popularity at the 2014 Stormy
Weather Arts Festival, DragonFire
will host another Dualing Easels
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DragonFire Gallery will host Dualing Easels
at 11 a.m. June 28 – an event where two
artists start working on individual canvas-
es and intermittently swap canvases.
event at 11 a.m. Sunday, with
Pavlenko and Orwick. During
Dualing Easels, each artist begins
work on a separate canvas and
then intermittently swap canvases,
with the end products providing a
lesson in art, technique, collabora-
tion and friendship. A lite brunch
will be served. The event will also
feature live music from local sing-
er/songwriter Bucky Pottschmidt.
Lower Columbia
HorseFest
Presented by:
North Coast Chapter OET
Saturday
June 27th
8:30am-4:30pm
D ow ntow n A storia’s
M ost Respected
A partm ent Com plex
Since 1969.
FREE
Admission
Clatsop County Fairgrounds • Astoria, Oregon
1046 Grand Avenue
Astoria, OR 97103
503-325-2280
Demonstrations • Seminars
Vendors • Displays
503-791-3066
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CANNON BEACH — Cannon
Beach’s natural beauty has
beckoned artists from around
the world to capture the land-
scape’s elements “en plein air”
or “in the open air.” To cele-
brate this challenging artistic
style, the Cannon Beach Gal-
lery Group presents its seventh
annual Plein Air & More Arts
Festival Friday to Sunday, June
26 to 28.
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some artists painting and other
artists working in additional art
forms — hence the “& More”
in the festival’s name. As you
wander through town and along
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working in stone, or creating
the clay forms that will even-
tually be cast in bronze, wood
carvers (one who goes at it with
his chain saw), ceramic artists
(complete with a kiln on the
beach) and metal workers.
Artists will be creating all
weekend, with their work show-
cased at gallery receptions from
5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
The Cannon Beach Cham-
ber of Commerce will open its
doors at 10 a.m. Saturday for the
festival’s Group Show, featuring
a sampling of all participating
artists’ works, and for attendees
to vote for the People’s Choice
Award. Saturday will culminate
with the Plein Air and Pinot Art-
ists Reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
at the chamber, where festival
awards of excellence in both the
“En Plein Air” and “& More”
categories will be presented by
Kimberli Moore of Southwest
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“All That Doesn’t Meet the Eye” by Jo Lund-
berg at Archimedes Gallery.
Art Magazine.
Artist work on site and the
Group Show at the chamber
will continue Sunday until the
festival conclusion at 3:30 p.m.
The events are free and take
place rain or shine. Maps will be
available at gallery group loca-
tions and the chamber.
Galleries and their partici-
pating artists include:
• Archimedes Gallery: Lori
LaBissioniere, Jo Lundberg
• Bronze Coast Gallery: Pa-
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• Cannon Beach Gallery:
Presenting “Terra Nova: An All
Juried Show. Artists
Blur the Lines of Contempo-
rary Landscape.” Participants to
be announced.
• DragonFire Gallery: Anton
Pavlenko, Michael Orwick
• Haystack Gallery: Sally
“Vase in Ruby, Gold, Butter & Olive” by Su-
zanne Kindland at Icefire Glassworks.
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Kingwell, Suzanne Kindland
• Jeffrey Hull Gallery: Jef-
frey Hull
• Northwest By Northwest
Gallery: Georgia Gerber, Jeff
White, Hazel Schlesinger, Ivan
McLean and Douglas Granum
with special guest Rob Arps
• Primary Elements Gallery:
Marianne Post, Heather Soder-
berg, Rip Caswell,
Josh Henrie, Michelle Vell-
rath, Josh Blewett, Richard
Sears, Terri Axness, Mike
Rangner,
Sharon
Ab-
bott-Furze
• Jewelry by Sharon Amber:
Victoria Brooks
• White Bird Gallery: Pame-
la Wachtler-Fermanis, Dave and
Boni Deal, Scott
Johnson, Gretha Lindwood,
Leigh Anne Boy.