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ASTORIA — Downtown merchants and galleries will hold
the Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday,
May 13. Meet artists and mingle with art lovers while enjoy-
ing refreshments and new exhibitions. Some locations open
earlier or later.
4. Bumble Art Studio
230 10th St.
Bumble Art Studio will host a free
children’s arts-and-crafts session.
Stop by and see our new commu-
nity-centered art studio. Stay and
create a spring-themed craft, or paint
while enjoying refreshments.
“Mary Todd’s” by Mark O’Malley, on display at RiverSea Gallery.
8. CARGO
240 11th St.
Is spring in the air? In case you
didn’t know, Cargo has many unique
artifacts from all around the globe.
Just look upon the upper parts of our
walls…
9. Forsythea Home & Garden
Arts
1124 Commercial St.
Annie Eskelin opens a new show
11. RiverSea Gallery
1160 Commercial St.
Two shows are happening at
RiverSea Gallery. Meet the artists at
the reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
In “Hope is the Thing with
Feathers,” twenty members of
Print Arts Northwest interpret the
show’s theme. Birds, feathers and
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10. Luminari Arts
1133 Commercial St .
Luminari Arts presents live acous-
tic music by “Birds of a Feather,” a
duo performing original and familiar
tunes. The featured artist is George
Carruth, presenting indoor-outdoor
sculptural art.
nests abound in a diverse array of
artistic expression and printmaking
techniques. Showing in the Alcove is
Mark O’Malley, a self-taught painter
from Washington whose charmingly
simple paintings on wooden puzzles
pay homage to the mix of upscale
and down-at-heel in Astoria’s urban
environs.
“April Visitors” by Leslie Cheney-Parr, on display at RiverSea Gallery.
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14th Stree
at Forsythea during the Art Walk.
Her mixed-media work is inspired by
intuitive mark making and coastal
imagery.
Corrie Pedersen wears a mer-
maid hat she made. She and
her work will be at Old Town
Framing during the art walk.
Commercial Street
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Duane Street
13th Street
7. Imogen Gallery
240 11th St.
Printmaker Gin Laughery, a
longtime Astoria resident, returns
for her second solo show at Imogen.
Laughery, who recently relocated to
Central Oregon, brings a rich collec-
tion of monotype prints exploring
imagery through abstraction and
dramatic use of color.
Annie Eskelin’s “High Water
Mark,” on display at Forsythea
Home & Garden Arts.
12th Street
6. AVA Artist-in-Residence
80 11th St. (above Edison Fish
Market)
Andie Sterling, an Astoria Visual
Arts artist, will project her stop-mo-
tion animation and present other
projects in a studio at the foot of 11th
Street near the waterfront. The studio
is above the former fish market across
the Astoria Riverfront Trolley tracks
from the Wet Dog Cafe & Brewery.
11th Street
3. KALA @ Hipfish
1017 Marine Dr.
AVA presents the Art of Resistance
through Monday, June 5. View work
that highlights issues of environment,
social justice and politics. The exhi-
bition features the current art of AVA
Artist-In-Residence, Terry Robinett.
Also on display: Annie Eskelin,
Roger Hayes, Bill Atwood, Sid Deluca,
Laurie Fleet, Linden, Mariah Manners,
Cynthia Lahti, Sarah Lippold, Joi
Smith, Pooka Rice, Valerie Whittlesey,
Agnes Field, Cathy Nist, Nancy Cook,
Anna Lee Larimore, Julie Roger,
Charlotte Bruhn, John Wecker,
Erika Hawkins, Judith Niland and KA
Hughes.
This photo of a doorway in El
Salvador is part of Carol Smith’s
exhibition at Tempo Gallery.
10th Street
2. WineKraft
80 10th St. (Pier 11)
WineKraft is featuring work from
six local artists, as well as live music
with The Swing Cats of Astoria start-
ing at 7 p.m. Sip wine, eat and enjoy
the arts. WineKraft is the perfect
location for you to wrap up your art
walking.
5. The Fox and The Fawn
1008 Commercial St.
The Fox and the Fawn, an upscale,
resale boutique, features a variety
of reasonably priced new and gently
worn clothing. Ayla DeCoraggio, the
shop’s owner, can offer style advice
guaranteed to make you shine.
Beautiful Turkish rugs adorn the walls
as you ascend the staircase to find
an assortment of jewelry, books and
household items.
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ART BUSINESSES
1. Astoria Art Loft
106 Third St.
Celebrate the return of the sun
with artists at the Astoria Art Loft.
May features a variety of artwork
by North Coast artists and includes
realism, abstract and non-objective
pieces in a variety of media.
Gin Laughery’s “Daily Ritual,” on display at Imogen Gallery.
12. The Art Stall
1268 Commercial St.
The Art Stall features local artists’
original works. We now are 21 artists
with 270-plus pieces of work in a
variety of mediums, from bronze to ink
drawing, fused glass to mosaics.
in El Salvador.” Her new work depicts
scenes from her recent visit. Stop by
and visit with Carol 5 to 8 p.m. Listen
to Dave Drury on guitar 6 to 7 p.m.
13. TEMPO Gallery
1271 Commercial St.
Tempo is showing new photo-
graphs by Carol Smith in an exhibition
titled “Puertas y Perros: Adventures
14. Old Town Framing
Company
1287 Commercial St.
We present “Gearhart Family
Affair,” by Maggie Shumaker and
Exchange Street
Corrie Pedersen. Shumaker is best
known for her ZenFish, brightly
decorated wooden fish with new
designs and a new painting tech-
nique that is super-cool. Pedersen
has all kinds of talents, including
drawings, paintings and fantastic
mermaid hats.
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