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NOVEMBER 3, 2016 // 7 Explore ‘The Mediterranean Muse’ of place, friendship and creativity Kristin Shauck, Nancy Cook to present next free Ales & Ideas talk ASTORIA — Clatsop Com- munity College and Fort George Brewery will present the next Ales & Ideas free community lecture, “The Mediterranean Muse: Place, Displacement, Friendship & Creativity,” at 7 p.m. Thurs- day, Nov. 3. CCC faculty Kristin Shauck and Nancy Cook will share slides from their June 2016 educational tour of Southern France, Italy and Barcelona, Spain while discussing the role of place, travel and friendship in art history and their own cre- ative processes with fine art and creative writing. Doors open with food and beverage service at 6 p.m. Seasonal beers on tap, food and other beverages are available for purchase, but no purchase is required. The Fort George Lovell Show- room is located at 14th and Duane streets. Minors are welcome. In June, CCC writing instructor Cook attended the Creativity Workshop Barcelona; afterwards she join her friend and creative collaborator Shauck for a CCC Adventure Club educational tour of Catalonia Spain and the French and Italian Riviera with stops in Carcassonne, Antibes, Nice, Cinque Terre, Pisa and final- ly the marvelous art mecca of Florence (aka Firenze to the Italians). At this Ales & Ideas talk, Shauck and Cook will discuss the artistic legacy of Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gaudi, Chagall, contem- porary French icon Ernest Pignon-Ernest and more, focusing on the themes of Nov. 5 GEARHART — The next Gearhart ArtWalk will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 at galleries and merchants in Gearhart. The featured local businesses for November are: FILE PHOTO PHOTO BY DWIGHT CASWELL Nancy Cook is a local artist, poet and teacher at Clatsop Community College. Kristin Shauck is an art in- structor at Clatsop Communi- ty College. ALES & IDEAS 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 Fort George Lovell Showroom 426 14th St., Astoria All ages Free place (genius loci), dis- placement and friendship (el companerismo) in the artists’ varied bodies of work. The pair will also share high- lights from their personal experiences with home- land, travel and the artistic inspiration found in creative collaboration with the inten- tion of helping the audience appreciate the opportunities here in the Columbia Pacific Riviera. Shauck holds a Bache- lor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from Texas A&M Commerce. She taught at the college level in Texas and South Dakota before joining the full-time faculty at CCC in 2004. She serves as founding director of “Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century,” an annual international competition of figurative art, and has exhibited her own artwork in various regional and national exhibitions as well as inter- nationally in England, Japan and India. A former fisheries biologist and National Park Service interpretive ranger, Cook received her Master of Fine Arts in creative non- fiction from the University of Alaska and her Bachelor of Science in environmen- tal science from Evergreen State College. She taught writing at Prince William Sound Community College before joining the CCC fac- ulty in 2004. Her poems and prose have appeared in the Riverteeth Journal of Non- fiction Narrative, Mountain Gazette, HipfishMonthly, Xtra Tuff, Ice Box, RAIN Magazine and the Seal Press anthology “Going Alone: Women’s Adventures in the Wild.” She also performs each year at the Astoria FisherPoets Gathering. The mother of one daughter, Cook continues to summer at her cabin in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, where she directs the annual RiverSong workshop. A Great Gallery 576 Pacific Way The gallery’s 2017 calendar has arrived, a great gift for the holidays with 12 of gallery owner Susan Thom- as’ favorite images to adorn your wall for the year. Holiday cards, gift tags, night lights and many other gift items will be available, along with original art. Refreshments — including chocolate — will be served. Gearhart Ironwerks 1368 Pacific Way Find new chef and field knives by John Emmerling and Rome Hutchings — and stop in to see how they’re made. Bladesmithing demonstrations will take place all day long. Pacific Crest Cottage 726 Pacific Way Bridal couture, sportswear, SUBMITTED PHOTO See how Gearhart Ironwerks creates its distinctive chef knives during art walk. custom English riding jackets, artisan slipcovers and most recently Pendleton wool satchels — Coast Range Studios by Kimberly Fisher is a non-stop creative institution powered by the passion and skill of an artist who manipulates any textile to achieve her desired vision. Fisher has been designing and constructing items of use and beauty since the age of 12 when she won the Montgomery Wards Make it with Wool contest, competing with contestants three times her age. Using a 1949 Singer straight stitch sewing machine, Fisher used tailoring techniques exclusive to bespoke construction. During art walk, Fisher will fea- ture Dopp kits, satchels, coin purses and cosmetic caddies rendered from Pendleton wool and Oregon leather. Romancing the Home 3350 U.S. Highway 101N. Romancing the Home will host Gayle Pedimonte for the No- vember ArtWalk. The shop offers Pedimonte’s work year-round and has some new, coastal-inspired paintings on display for the month of November. Meet Pedimonte and see her latest work. Refreshments will be served. Trail’s End Art Association 656 A St. Gheri Fouts, immediate past pres- ident of Trail’s End Art Association, will show her watercolor paintings as this month’s featured artist. Fouts paints in a style that can be described as loose realism, capturing misty moods and edgy apprehension on paper. Meet the artist, enjoy her work and partake of refreshments. Work of other member artists will also be on display. S EARCHING FOR I NNER P EACE ? Come meet with us... S UNDAYS 10:30 AM G OD F IRST Astoria Church of Christ 692 12 TH S TREET (T OP OF 12 TH AND G RAND ) A STORIA , OR 97103 B IBLE -B ASED 503.325.7398 WWW .C HURCH O F C HRIST A STORIA . COM WWW . FACEBOOK . COM /A STORIA C HURCHOF C HRIST
