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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015
Photos by Michael Mathers
Views of the Astoria Column restoration taken from the restroom adjoining the caretaker’s cottage.
Column: The exhibition’s title has a double-meaning
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Friends of the Astoria Column that runs through
Nov. 14 — will also feature a display of histor-
ic Column photographs and materials from site
manager John Goodenberger’s private collection,
photos by locals who have captured the Column’s
transformations over the years, and prints of pho-
tos from the Oregon Historical Society.
Astoria High School art students will also pres-
ent miniature interpretations of recreated mural
segments that, hung side-by-side, will compose a
full interpretive replica of the frieze that winds up
the Column.
‘It’s art’
The exhibition’s title has a double-meaning,
Christie said.
The Column itself inspired the restoration team
— under project director Marie Laibinis’ leader-
ship — to join forces creatively from June through
September, and to labor long hours to complete
the project. “It’s the Column that pulled this group
of people together,” Christie said.
It also inspired artwork in the teams’ private
lives.
Rachel Maxi, for example — a professional
painter from Seattle who worked on paint manager
Kitty Kavanaugh’s team — will show three small
paintings on Masonite panels: one of the Column
enshrouded in the white netting that covered the
structure during the summer; another of the netting
blowing off the Column during the summer storm;
and a third of the Astoria Bridge as seen from the
Astoria Riverfront Trolley tracks at sunset.
“I really loved Astoria. I really had a great time,”
Maxi said. “I feel honored to have been part of that.”
Kavanaugh, master scenic artist for the Seattle
Opera, is crafting an Astoria Column costume for
the exhibition.
“Astoria is so good about parades and celebrat-
ing things, and I just thought it’d be neat to put a
costume in (the exhibition) that somebody would
want to wear in a parade or something,” she said.
“It just goes with Astoria in my mind. The people
are so ... jubilant.”
She added: “I’ve only been there in the sum-
mertime, so that might have something to do with
it, but, yeah — you guys really know how to cel-
ebrate.”
Her husband, Rick Araluce, who also worked
on the restoration, will enter a small conceptual
sculpture.
“You get to see the artists in another way,”
Goodenberger said, “and when you see their abil-
ity, and go back and look at the Column, you just
say, ‘Wow, the Column’s really quite something.’
And it’s not simply images — it’s art.”
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Rachel Maxi, one of the crew members who worked on the Astoria Column’s mural during
the restoration this summer, will show this small painting of the Column under wraps in
the exhibition.
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‘You get to see the artists in another way,
and when you see their ability, and go back
and look at the Column, you just say, ‘Wow,
the Column’s really quite something.’ And
it’s not simply images — it’s art.’
John Goodenberger
site manager
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Photo by Kitty Kavanaugh
This is the “in process” costume of
the Astoria Column that Kitty Kava-
nagh, the restoration team’s paint
manager, will show at the exhibition
once it’s finished. (Her husband, Rick
Araluce, is assisting with the cupola.)
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