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SWARM
OF ARTISTS
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Outdoor creation is the
focus of Cannon Beach’s
ninth annual Plein
Air & More arts festival
By KATHERINE LACAZE
FOR COAST WEEKEND
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trictly translated, the term “en
plein air” refers to the tradition
of artists painting outdoors,
where they can observe and in-
corporate how the air, shadows and light
affect their subject.
The Cannon Beach Gallery Group
takes a less stringent approach to the
term during its annual Plein Air & More
arts festival, which applies the concept
of publicly crafting artwork outdoors to
a number of mediums, creating a more
robust, varied experience.
The ninth annual festival will take
place Friday through Sunday, June 23
through 25, in Cannon Beach. During that
time, more than 30 artists — mostly from
the Pacifi c Northwest — will create art
on location throughout town.
“The gallery group invented this (fes-
tival) as a chance to engage people with a
type of artwork much of the public would
not be familiar with,” said Jim Kingwell,
of Cannon Beach’s Icefi re Glassworks.
“Generally, getting this many galleries to
cooperate is an unusual event in towns.
It’s so much a character of this town.
Each gallery has a distinct difference, and
you see a joint cooperative effort instead
of a competitive effort.”
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Multimedia wildlife artist Dan Chen, represented by the
Bronze Coast Gallery, will be back at the Cannon Beach
Gallery Group’s ninth annual Plein Air & More festival.
GALLERIES AND
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
PHOTOS BY GEORGE VETTER
Anton Pavlenko, a plein air oil painter, works on an art piece during last
year’s Plein Air & More festival, put on by the Cannon Beach Gallery Group.
Pavlenko, represented by the DragonFire Gallery, is one of four nationally
recognized artists conducting a workshop in the couple days leading up
to this year’s ninth annual Plein Air & More festival.
Archimedes Gallery: Nicole Gustafsson
Bronze Coast Gallery: Pamela Clafl in, Dan
Chen, Kristina Boardman
Cannon Beach Gallery: Christopher Perry, J.
Scott Wilson, Sidone Caron
DragonFire Gallery: Joanne Shellan, Anton
Pavlenko, Michael Orwick
Icefi re Gallery: Jim Kingwell, Suzanne Kind-
land, Michelle Kaptur, Pamela Juett
Imprint Gallery: Angela Purviance, Lisa Wiser,
Alisa Vernon, Mark Andres
Jeff rey Hull Gallery: Jeff rey Hull
Jewelry By Sharon Amber: Sharon Amber,
Steven Amber-Voorheis
Northwest By Northwest Gallery: Jeff
White, Ivan McLean, Tolley Marney, Cristina
Acosta, Hazel Schlesinger
White Bird Gallery: Greatha Lindwood, Dave
and Boni Deal, Robert Schlegel, Bev Drew
Kindley, Josh Henrie