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22 // COASTWEEKEND.COM May 7 SEASIDE — The Seaside First Saturday Art Walk, cele- brating 12 years in 2016, is all about the arts. Visitors walk about, meet artists, sip wine or snag appetizers, view artist demonstrations, listen to an artist talk or enjoy live per- formances in music. The next art walk is from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 7 at galleries located in the historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside. SunRose Gallery 606 Broadway SunRose Gallery introduces the artwork of two new artists. Juanita May Smith’s artful clay pinch pots are both decorative and functional. “Clay is my favorite medium to respond to and extend the natural world,” Smith says. Also find pique assiette mosaic picture frames by Gina Bryant, daughter of Astoria artist Chris Bryant. Gina Bryant was inspired to learn mosaic after a visit to SunRose several years ago. “Pique-assiette” is a style of mosaic that incorporates pieces of broken ceramics — plates, dishes, cups, tiles — and other found objects into the design. The Gilbert District Gallery 613 Broadway The gallery, a co-op shared by artists from Washington and ANNIVERSARY W EEKEND S PECIAL $ 69 ED LIMIT ILITY B A AVAIL IONS RVAT RESE QUIRED RE E A C H EVERYONE ZIPS for the price of a kid! Saturday, May 7 th & Sunday, May 8 th 92111 HIGH LIFE ROAD WARRENTON, OR INFO 503.861.9875 highlife-adventures.com Oregon, is celebrating12 years and features watercolors, bronze sculptures, giclee prints, Native American jewelry, oil paintings, greeting cards, nature designs and gifts. Artists include Larry McKee, Diane Beeston, Mike Sage, Lynn Bean, photographer Steve Bash and more. Gallery co-owner Dave Bartholet is represented by over 200 galleries across America. Beach Books 616 Broadway Beach Books features work from the Green Cab Artist Collective, a working artist group in the Portland area created to encourage and inspire one another, share techniques and info about the business side of art, and share work with the public. The Cabbies are a synergistic alliance of artists, work- ing in diverse mediums. Participat- ing artists for May 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. Martin comes from a line of story tellers and herbalists and the prod- uct of an internationally nomadic life. Zeberg works in a variety of mediums, including acrylics and encaustic painting. Zaleski com- bines painting and drawing with a computer world to produce art loaded with whimsy. Fairweather House and Gallery 612 Broadway Fairweather will hold an open- ing reception for “In Full Flower,” an May exhibition featuring floral paintings and arrangements. New artist Rebecca Gore’s paintings are done with acrylics or oil, with cold wax incorporated as a finish. Paintings include the human form within a landscape of flowers rang- ing in style from a loose realism to stylized or lyrical abstraction. Seattle artist Savvy Dani presents artwork depicting cluster blooms amid greenery. Living flowers will be showcased in a veritable collec- tion of table top centerpieces cre- ated by owner Denise Fairweather to complement new floral art from regional artists Melissa Jander, Paul Brent, Lori Wallace-Lloyd, Joanna Donaca and Kathryn Delany. Resident artist Michael Muldoon will ofer a Seaside Painting Live Clay pinch pots by Juanita May Smith at SunRose Gallery. “Portrait in Bloom” by Rebec- ca Gore at Fairweather. A photo by Steve Bash at The Gilbert District Gallery. A painting by Jim Zaleski at Beach Books. episode, aiming to complete a quick inish painting. At 6 p.m., Seaside nature photographer Neal Maine will introduce his latest natural history journal of images. Wine tasting, light bites and live music by Shirley Smith-Yates will be provided. All patrons will enjoy loral gifts. T.anjuli’s Gallery 7 N. Holladay Drive Gallery owner and resident artist Billy Lutz focuses on what “Tillamook Head” by Billy Lutz at T. Anjuli’s Gallery. lies beneath appearances in his artowrk: Having reemerged into the field of opposites, the irrational landscape, now exposed, is stitched into the physical realm for all to see. From now on, one cannot escape or deny that there is more going on in present tense than just the world spinning and us moving about on its surface. More original art: Seaside Coffee House, 3 N. Hol- An oil painting of pink be- gonias by Savvy Dani at Fair- weather. laday Drive; and Seaside Antique Mall, 726 Broadway. Participating restaurants: Guido and Vito’s at 604 Broad- way; McKeown’s at 1 S. Holladay Drive; Three Little Bird’s Bakery at 8 N. Holladay Drive; Tora Sushi at 619 Broadway; Nonni’s Bistro at 831 Broadway. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
