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April 2 SEASIDE — The Seaside First Saturday Art Walk, celebrating 12 years in 2016, is all about the arts. Visitors walk about, meet artists, sip wine, enjoy light bites, view artist demonstrations, listen to an artist talk or enjoy live performances in music. The affairs are free and held in galleries, businesses and dining estab- lishments located between Holladay Drive and Broadway in the historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside. The next art walk is from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 2. SunRose Gallery 606 Broadway SunRose Gallery opens their art walk season with “Expressions of Spring,” featur- ing the whimsical mixed-media art of Sea- side artist Patty Thurlby and the broken chi- na mosaic art and jewelry of SunRose owner and artist Cathy Tippin. Live jazz music will be provided by Richard T. on guitar and Ray Coffey on sax and flute. Earthcore Apothecary & Wild Commons 609 Broadway Kirsten Webb has opened a wildcraft- ed herbalism business with community space and a performance venue aspect. Webb grew up in the Seaside area, then left for university and to travel the country before returning. Drawing on backgrounds in wildcrafting, art, performance, theater management and production, design and teaching, Wild Commons’ intention is to empower locals and tourists alike to connect more deeply to the land through local plant remedies and workshops, and to connect to imagination and creativity through curated events, open movement studio time, and other arts-related offerings. Earthcore Apothecary has had an online presence for a few years, but this is the first time it’s been in a physical location. Read more about the vision and apothecary at: earthcoreapothecary.com/wild-commons Fairweather House and Gallery 612 Broadway Fairweather will hold an opening re- ception for the exhibit “Rain or Shine,” which juxtaposes an array of art, images and voices in a way that resonates with the spring season, reshaping boundaries between the reality and the creative process. Artists Gre- tha Lindwood and Susan Curington offer a fascinating approach in distinctive pictorial language. Lindwood, a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, cherishes the landscapes and delights in capturing beauty in oil pas- tels. By painting in the traditional plein air style and by using an impressionistic touch, Lindwood’s landscapes invite the viewer into the scene. Curington, the third generation to live on her rural wooded land, has known particular trees since childhood. By living in the thick of nature daily, her painting ex- presses gratitude for the power and beauty of nature. These featured artists will offer a Sea- side Painting LIVE episode, starting with a blank canvas at the beginning of the art event and completing a quick finish at the end, offering patrons opportunities to watch two masters create. Seaside nature photographer Neal Maine introduces his March/April natural history journal and will speak at 6 p.m. Patrons can enjoy wine tasting, light bites and live music by Shirley 88 throughout the evening. Beach Books in the Loft Gallery 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 tech- niques and info about the business side of art, and sharing work with the public. The Cabbies are a synergistic alliance of artists, working in diverse mediums. Participating artists for April are Jeffery Hall, Annie Brown, Barbara Martin, Elina Zeberg and Jim Zaleski. Hall enjoys using re-purposed materials in his art-making process. Brown paints on wooden panels, letting some of the wood show through. Martin comes from a line of story tellers and herbalists and the product of an internationally nomadic life. Zeberg works in a variety of mediums, including 10 | March 31, 2016 | coastweekend.com Jeffery Hall is featured at Beach Books. Chasing the Light by Neal Maine at Fair- weather. Elina Zeberg is part of the Green Cab Artist Collective featured at Beach Books. Billy Lutz is featured at T. Anjuli’s Gallery. acrylics and encaustic (wax) painting. Za- leski combines the traditional art forms of painting and drawing with a computer world T. Anjuli’s Gallery 7 N. Holladay Drive Artist Billy Lutz is the owner and res- ident artist. His artwork focuses on what lies beneath appearances. Featured work for April includes “The Picnic,” a day-in-the- life representation of the family in repose, absorbing and considering the weight of information found. More original art Find more original art at: The Gilbert District Gallery, 613 Broad- way; Seaside Coffee House, 3 N. Holladay Drive; and Seaside Antique Mall, 726 Broad- way. Participating restaurants Guido and Vito’s, 604 Broadway; McKe- own’s, 1 S. Holladay Drive; Three Little Bird’s Bakery, 8 N. Holladay Drive; Tora Sushi, 619 Broadway; and Nonni’s Bistro, 831 Broadway. SUBMITTED PHOTOS Girl’s Weekend by Patty Thurlby.
