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2 // COASTWEEKEND.COM Trail’s End Gallery hosts first show of 2018 GEARHART — Trail’s End Gallery will open its first show of the new year 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, with a reception serving wine and hors d’oeuvres. The gallery is located in Gearhart at 656 A St., one block south of Pacific Way. People will find artwork by new and longstanding members in water- color, pastel, oil and acrylic, mixed media, photography and sculpture, and smaller three-dimensional items, cards and prints in the front lobby entrance. The classroom will be open for all ages to do a “make it and take it” Valentine project. All materials will be provided and directed by Janet Hutchings, a talented new member. Back in the early 1900s, before the building was an art gallery, it was “The Little Red Schoolhouse.” You can still see the remnants of it. One of the two classrooms has been converted into a gallery. The other remains a classroom with a full library and small kitchen being used as an open studio three times a week, free for members and others for a tiny fee. We also present workshops and ongoing classes throughout the year. For more information about the gallery, class and workshop offerings, and how to become a member, visit our website (trailsendart.org) or email trailsendartassociation@gmail.com. The gallery is open during the winter from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. To reach the gallery during these hours, call The Trail’s End Gallery, formerly the ‘Little Red Schoolhouse,’ is the oldest gallery on the North Coast. 503-717-9458. Ceramicists, mixed-media artists featured at Hoffman gallery MANZANITA — Through February, the Hoffman Center Art Gallery will feature four North Coast artists: two — Nancy Bond and Patti Breidenbach — who create in colorful mixed media, and two ceramicists: J.S. Hauer and John Zogg. The show opens with an artists’ reception 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2. The show continues 2 to 4 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through Saturday, Feb. 24. The gallery is free. For more information, contact Mary Roberts at hoffmancenterartgallery@ gmail.com. The Hoffman Center Art Gallery is a program of the not-for-profit Hoffman Center for the Arts (594 Laneda Ave.). COURTESY HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Patti Breidenbach’s “Queen Bee” FILE PHOTO ‘Waxing and Waning’ on view at Seaside library SEASIDE — From Tuesday, Feb. 6, through Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Seaside Public Library will exhibit original paintings by Shannon Mayo McBride. The show, “Wax- ing and Waning,” will hang in the Community Room and foyer. Like the waxing and wan- ing of the moon, Shannon McBride has always felt a push and pull of the coast and city. Though she has never “lived” at the coast, her family has always had a home there. Childhood memories of the Seaside carousel, haystack bread and her toes in the sand of the Gearhart beaches fill her past. Mc- Bride explains that “these memories and traditions have been passed down to my children as they visit my parents, who have retired at the coast. The coast will always be home in one form or another.” McBride creates images that are not representational. “I create images that evoke feelings, smells, COURTESY SEASIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY Shannon McBride’s “Tidepools” sights and sounds,” she said. “The viewer creates their own experience; their own memories are recalled when they look at the work. My work is about moments. They ignite the journey that leads me to create complex visual environments that invite others to share in my experience with art and life. These fragments that inform my work can be fleeting: a hike from Seaside to Ecola State Park, a tide pool or the taste of salt water taffy. Each is defined in my work by the interplay between artist and materials.” McBride’s studio practice is informed by these person- al moments, allowing for ac- cidents, urges and surprises. Composition is both created and exposed while working. She has come to entertain a level of unease and thrill that comes from not knowing the end result of a piece. “The universe is speak- ing,” she said, “I listen and create.” The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway St. For more information, call 503-738- 6742 or visit seasidelibrary. org.
