APRIL 6, 2017 // 17
‘Monet’s Garden’ is on display
at the Seaside Public Library
SEASIDE — Through April
25 the Seaside Public Li-
brary is exhibiting photos by
Claudia Toutain-Dorbec of
Cannon Beach.
The show is titled “A
Season At Monet’s Garden”
and will be on display in
the Community Room and
foyer.
Beyond his technique,
beyond his palette, what
Claude Monet brought to
Giverny was his vision.
Similarly, beyond her
camera, beyond her experi-
ence, Claudia Toutain-Dor-
bec delivers a vision with
lavish creations of color and
form.
“Personal, novel, philo-
sophical, poetic:” these are
the ways French curator Ni-
cole Zapata-Aubé describes
Toutain-Dorbec’s work.
The circumstances under
which the compositions
were gathered and photo-
graphed are quite interest-
ing. Toutain-Dorbec only
had a few morning hours,
one week a month, to gather
the gardener’s trimmings,
then compose and pho-
tograph her pieces. She
created her arrangements
on a black background that
make the images appear in
three-dimensional.
Toutain-Dorbec became
interested in photography in
the 1970s. She is a contem-
porary multi-media artist
and author, known mostly
for her botanical photo-
graphs. Her work is current-
ly on display in New Mexico
and New York.
AVA celebrates high school artists
ASTORIA — Astoria Visual
Arts is showcasing local
student artists in the first
Clatsop County High School
Art Exhibition at the Fort
George Lovell Showroom
during the Astoria Second
Saturday Art Walk on April
8, from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Light
snacks will be provided.
The exhibition brings to-
gether students from the As-
toria, Gray, Knappa, Seaside
and Warrenton high schools
and includes a variety of
styles and approaches.
Selection was based on
use of materials; application
of artistic elements and de-
sign principles; and creativi-
ty and originality.
A First Place Jurors’
Award of $100 and a Second
Place Jurors’ Award of $50
will be presented at the
reception on April 8.
AVA believes that art
appreciation and art-making
hold immense value for stu-
dents’ personal and academ-
ic development and is an
active advocate for the arts
and arts education locally.
For more information
about AVA, visit http://www.
astoriavisualarts.org/.
Plight of the Pygmies focus of library event
ASTORIA — Wendee Nicole
is presenting about her work
with the indigenous Batwa
Pygmies in Southwest Ugan-
da at noon Saturday, April 8
at the Astoria Public Library.
The presentation is titled,
“In the Shadow of Mountain
Gorillas: Empowering the
Batwa Pygmies of Uganda.”
Batwa and Bakiga
handcrafted, fair-trade
baskets will be available for
purchase at the event.
Nicole is founder and
director of Redemption Song
Foundation, a nonprofit that
works with the Pygmies in
Southwest Uganda. She has
devoted the last three years
to assisting the Batwa.
The tribe was evicted
from their homeland when
the country created Bwindi
Impenetrable National Park
to save endangered moun-
tain gorillas. The Batwa,
hunter-gatherers who had
lived in the forest, received
no land or money for their
forced removal from the
park. They live in poverty.
Redemption Song
Foundation works to give
hope for the future through
educating the children. .
The foundation also
provides hygiene kits for
girls so they will continue to
attend school while menstru-
ating.
Colorful baskets are
woven by the Batwa and
Bakiga to sell in fair-trade
markets in the U.S. Proceeds
from sales support ongoing
education, health, and sus-
tainable interventions.
Quilt Trunk show, sale with Karen Snyder
ILWACO, WASH. — A Quilt
Trunk Show and Sale is
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday,
April 8 at the Columbia
Pacific Heritage Museum.
Noted quilt historian and
author Karen Snyder will
display vintage quilts from
her collection displayed as
a “Bed Turning” every hour
on the half hour.
In addition there will
be Karen Snyder original
quilts for sale. A portion of
proceeds from the sale will
support museum programs.
Admission to the Quilt
Trunk Show is free.
Snyder grew up knowing
that someday she would be
a quilter. However, in 1995
she received a free quilt
pattern in the mail. Having
passed her 40th birthday, she
thought perhaps the time to
start quilting was at hand.
She plunged in and stitched
her first quilt.
Within two years of
making that first quilt, Karen
had added quilting fabric to
her gift shop, Anna Lena’s,
in Long Beach, Washing-
ton. The shop’s original
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product, homemade fudge,
remained a major attraction
and the fabric inventory
grew to more than 5,000
bolts. In 2006 Anna Lena’s
was named one of the Top
10 quilt shops in the country
and was featured in Quilt
Sampler magazine.
Karen’s love of quilting
led her to write four books
of quilt patterns. Then,
with a little push from her
friends, she made a presen-
tation to a New York fabric
manufacturer and began
designing fabrics.
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