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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
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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.
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