NOVEMBER 2, 2017 // 11
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, NOV. 3
• 7:30 to 10 p.m. Stormy Weather Arts
Benefit Cocktail & Dessert Party
Interact with professional jewelry artists
who discuss their techniques while their
works are being modeled. Sample a
custom cocktail, created specifically for
the event by Cannon Beach Distillery,
and a local craft beer also made espe-
cially for the event, alongside sparkling
wine and a dessert buffet that features
sweets from local bakeries and choco-
latiers. The celebration will also include
live music and a raffle and silent auction
with vacation packages.
Cost: $35. Location: Cannon Beach
Community Hall
COURTESY
CANNON BEACH
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
they would say ‘huh?’” said Hull, who is
known for his sea and landscape paintings.
“It’s definitely grown as an event. In the first
five years, people didn’t really know about
it. Clearly, it has resonated.”
‘An adventure’
Amber doesn’t remember much about
the first year of the festival, other than
getting a knock on the door from a Chamber
of Commerce employee asking if she’d be
interested in participating in a brand new art
festival.
“It started as an itty bitty thing,” Amber
said. “I didn’t know if it was going to get
off the ground. I thought it would be too late
in the season. Turns out it was successful
because it is late in the season.”
Amber is among the professional jewel-
ers who will be featured at Friday’s Stormy
Weather Arts Benefit Cocktail & Dessert
Party. She’s been a jeweler for 44 years, 30
of them in Cannon Beach.
While the ocean often serves as a design
inspiration, this year visitors can expect to
see jewelry reflecting the nearby woods.
“It’s easy to go about your day and to not
see the beauty that surrounds you, especially
here,” Amber said.
The natural world is integral to why art-
ists feel inspired to work in Cannon Beach.
And, as any person who lives on the coast
knows, in the winter, mother nature isn’t
always friendly.
But for Jane Brumfield, the festival com-
mittee chair and owner of Imprint Gallery,
the blustering winds and intense rainfall is
ERICK BENGEL PHOTO
Pam Wachtler-Fermanis (left), an oil painter
from Bainbridge Island, Wash., discusses over-
tones and undertones with Trieste Andrews,
from Oregon City, during the 2014 Stormy
Weather Arts Festival.
‘IT STARTED AS AN
ITTY BITTY THING.’
SHARON AMBER
part of what makes this event so special.
“During my first year at Cannon Beach
Arts Association, I remember it was
sideways raining, and everyone came in
dripping wet. But they would just bundle
up and get blown over to the next gallery,”
Brumfield said. “It becomes an adventure
almost. It’s a shared experience.”
Timeless art
Jim Paino, interim director of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and festival committee
member, said the festival has evolved from
a small community event into a tour-
ism-based one.
“We want to make it bigger and better.
It’s always a lot of work, but we’ve built
it, and we want to keep it going for many
years to come,” Paino said.
The number of galleries has grown.
Recent additions, like musicians and the
fashion show, continue to diversify and ex-
pand. But one aspect of the festival seems
to remain constant: the visitors.
“I have about 15 people who have been
coming for years,” Hull said. “They are
clients, but really they are friends. I know
about their kids and their dogs.”
Lincoln, owner of Northwest By North-
west Gallery, has had a similar experience.
Over the past 30 years, the group of vis-
itors and locals who return each year has
become a kind of arts community family,
she said.
There are lots of beautiful places to ex-
perience art in the Pacific Northwest. But,
Lincoln said, Cannon Beach’s reputation as
an art town isn’t determined by the number
of galleries or artists, but by the type of art
and the culture of the people who make
and sell it.
“(Cannon Beach) is a place to
connect with artists, gallery owners,
friends. It’s an authentic experience,”
Lincoln said.
“Trends are trends,” but the art that
people buy in Cannon Beach is often time-
less, she added. “It’s not something you’re
going to get tired of.” CW
SATURDAY, NOV. 4
• 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Music Around Town
Enjoy live performances by regional
musicians at five different locations.
Cost: free/donations
Locations: The Landing, Sandpiper
Square, Coaster Theatre Courtyard,
Ecola Square, Haystack Square
• 10 a.m. (doors open at 9:40 a.m.)
Dancing in the Rain Fashion Show
Pick out a new outfit at this runway
show featuring apparel and accesso-
ries from local and national designers
available in Cannon Beach shops.
Cost: Free, or $5 guaranteed seating
donation. Location: Coaster Theatre
Playhouse
• 8 to 10 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 p.m.)
Spotlight Concert: Heels to the Hard-
wood
The Seattle Americana band brings
their foot-stomping sound to Cannon
Beach.
Cost: $30. Location: Coaster Theatre
Playhouse
SUNDAY, NOV. 5
• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brews, Blues &
Barbecues
Sample local craft brews, including
one created especially for the festi-
val, enjoy live Delta Blues from Steve
Cheseborough and savor a delicious
barbecue lunch from a local chef.
Cost: $25. Location: Cannon Beach
Community Hall
