March
5
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“Ode to Joy” by Rosemary Klein at Fair-
weather.
‘Sacred Mountain’ art show
honors Neahkahnie at NCRD
SEASIDE — The Seaside First
Saturday Art Walk, celebrating
12 years in 2016, is all about
the arts. Visitors walk about,
meet artists, sip wine or snag
appetizers by favorite restau-
rants, view artist demonstra-
tions, listen to an artist talk
or enjoy live performances in
music.
The next art walk is from 5
to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 5 at
galleries located in the historic
Gilbert District of downtown
Seaside.
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are featured this month:
NEHALEM — The North
County Recreation District
will hold an opening recep-
tion for the community art
show and sale “Sacred Moun-
tain: The Spirit of Neah-
kahnie” from 5 to 7 p.m. Sat-
urday, March 5.
Artists in a variety of art
mediums will have works for
sale at the show, which will
hang in the gallery through
March.
A beacon for canoes, sail-
ors and visitors from all over,
Neahkahnie Mountain in
Oswald West State Park has
inspired local tribes, treasure
hunters, mystics and explor-
ers for many centuries.
Neahkahnie
Mountain
is a sacred place to the Clat-
sop-Nehalem people. It has
sustained the Native Amer-
ican tribe: The mountain’s
summit served as a beacon to
canoe travelers, while the elk
and plants of its lower slopes
had a long and enduring rela-
tionship with Nehalem villag-
ers.
This mountain is still
hugely important to the Clat-
sop-Nehalem Confederated
Tribes today and is one of the
few places where tribal mem-
bers can still see the land as
Beach Books
616 Broadway
Beach Books features work from the
Green Cab Artist Collective, a working artist
group located in the Portland area created
with the goal of encouraging and inspiring
one another, sharing techniques and info
about the business side of art, and shar-
ing work with the public. The Cabbies are
a synergistic alliance of artists, working in
diverse mediums.
Helvi Smith, founder of the Cabbies,
paints every day. Color never scares her.
She is a fearless, self-taught painter. Bruce
Ulrich believes that all art is an abstrac-
tion, and painting is, at its core, colored
marks on a lat surface; painting is a way
of investigating different styles and uses of
abstraction to explore landscapes, objects,
colors and textures. Penny Forrest uses art
as an invitation to slow down, look around,
and appreciate the beauty that surrounds
us daily. Jim Zaleski combines the tradi-
tional art forms of painting and drawing
with the high tech computer world to
produce colorful art that is loaded with
whimsy.
Jeff Hall enjoys using repurposed ma-
terials; his surface building explores real
and imagined space, while leaving room
for the viewer’s own interpretation and
experience. Barbara Martin comes from a
line of storytellers and herbalists and the
product of an internationally nomadic life.
Anne E. Brown paints on wooden panels,
loving the way the brush and the paint
feels when they touch the surface of the
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The NCRD will hold a reception for the art show “Sacred Mountain: The Spirit of
Neahkahnie” March 5.
their ancestors saw it. “First
and foremost, it is a mountain
that deserves our ongoing re-
spect, protection, and delicate
care,” said the tribe.
A portion of the proceeds
from sales during this art
show will be donated to the
Clatsop-Nehalem tribe to
support its ongoing efforts to
regain federal tribal recogni-
tion.
Federal recognition of the
Clatsop-Nehalem Tribes of
Oregon was terminated in
1954 when Congress passed
the Western Oregon Indian
Termination Act. More than
100 tribes throughout the U.S.
lost federal recognition at the
time.
A resolution to restore fed-
eral recognition of the tribe
was introduced to the U.S.
Congress for the second time
in October 2015 by U.S. Rep.
Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.
At the reception, meet trib-
al representatives and learn
about their efforts to regain
federally recognized status.
The art will be for sale
through the month in the
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For more information,
contact Glenna Gray at glen-
na@nehalemtel.net
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The Wildlife Center of the North Coast will
bring a live American kestrel to Fairweath-
er House and Gallery during art walk,
and Executive Director Josh Saranpaa will
speak.
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A painting by Hevlie Smith at Beach Books.
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“Solstice Robin” by Kathryn Delaney at Fairweather.
panel. Elina Zebergs’ art is as varied as her
interests; she works in a variety of medi-
ums, including acrylics and encaustic.
Fairweather House and Gallery
612 Broadway
Fairweather celebrates its 10th an-
niversary with an opening reception for
the exhibition “Above and Beyond,” which
offers timely and relevant works of art
about the spring season. Regional artists
in the show were selected to acknowledge
the coastal lyway habitats and to awaken
visitors’ senses to nature from the ground
up. Light refreshments, wine tasting and
live music by Shirley 88 will be offered.
Cannon Beach resident Britney Drum-
heller offers art that relates to the value
people attach to the coastal tidelands
and marine life. Art by Kathryn Delaney
includes many diverse aspects of life, chal-
lenging a viewer’s horizons and viewpoint
of the world. Delaney explores the art of
birds and mixed-media inspired by the
passing of the winter solstice. Rosemary
Klein works in the realm of visionary truths.
As a former journalist and reference librar-
ian, it’s sometimes hard for Klein to let go
to the literal and venture into the more in-
tuitive dimension of “what if?” Klein’s art is
found in the beyond if one could see below
the sea.
Seaside/ Gearhart naturalist Neal
Maine will reveal his latest natural history
photo journal, as well as provide a lecture
at 6 p.m. about what is above and beyond
the coastal edge.
Special guest Josh Saranpaa, the exec-
utive director of the Wildlife Center of the
North Coast, will speak about promoting
compassion, empathy and respect for all
life. The ever dashing and handsome Fly-
nn, a kestrel, will be present.
More original art
Original art is will also be featured at:
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An encaustic painting by Elina Zebergs at
Bech Books.
SunRose Gallery, 606 Broadway; Seaside
Coffee House, 3 N. Holladay Drive; T. Anju-
li’s Gallery, 5 N. Holladay Drive; and Gilbert
District Gallery, 613 Broadway.
Restaurant participants
Participating restaurants include: Gui-
do and Vito’s, 604 Broadway; McKeown’s,1
S. Holladay Drive; Three Little Bird’s Bakery,
8 N. Holladay Drive; Tora Sushi, 619 Broad-
way; Nooni’s Bistro, 831 Broadway; and
McKeown’s, 1 S. Holladay Drive.