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,
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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.
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