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‘Hidden Figures’
salutes black
women who
worked at NASA
ASTORIA — The Asto-
ria International Film Fes-
tival presents “Hidden Fig-
ures” at the Liberty Theatre,
2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20.
Tickets are $10 at the door.
One of the top-rated
fi lms of 2016, the fi lm tells
the untold story of the black
women who worked at
NASA in the 1960s. Based
on the nonfi ction book by
Margot Lee Shetterly, this
screening is in honor of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
and a tribute to the Afri-
can American women who
helped build America’s
space program.
A discussion will follow
the screening.
The theater is at 1203
Commercial St., Astoria.
For more information, visit
libertyastoria.org.
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Calling coastal artists! Applications open for artist residency
ASTORIA — Recol-
ogy Western Oregon
(RWO) and Astoria Visual
Arts (AVA) are pleased to
announce the fourth round
of the Coastal Oregon Artist
Residency Program.
Recology and AVA aim
to support the creation of
art from recycled, repur-
posed and discarded mate-
rials recovered from the
Recology Astoria Recycling
Depot and Transfer Sta-
tion. The residency provides
the two selected artists with
access to discarded materi-
als, a stipend of $1,000 per
month for four months, stu-
dio space at RWO’s War-
renton-based facility and, at
the close of the residency, a
public exhibition in Astoria.
By supporting artists who
work with recycled materi-
als, RWO and AVA hope to
encourage the public to con-
serve natural resources and
promote new ways of think-
ing about art and the envi-
ronment. Two four-month
residencies will begin June
1 and end Sept. 30.
During their residen-
cies, artists have weekday
scavenging privileges at the
Astoria Transfer Station and
eligible to apply.
Application Process
Astoria Visual Arts
The 2018 recipients of the Coastal Oregon Artist Residency
(from left): Wenda Vorce of Astoria, Cara Mico of Nehalem,
Stephen Shumaker of Knappa.
access to a studio space at
RWO’s Warrenton offi ce.
RWO encourages artists to
spend roughly 20 hours per
week on their art projects.
Eligibility
The Coastal Oregon Art-
ist Residency is open to
local, career-level artists liv-
ing in Clatsop and Tilla-
mook counties in Oregon
and Pacifi c and Wahkia-
kum counties in Washing-
ton who are working in any
style or medium. Applica-
tions are not accepted from
artists who reside a driv-
ing distance of more than an
hour from the RWO Astoria
Transfer Station. Previous
COAR participants are not
Applicants are asked to
submit the following materi-
als by March 31:
1. Contact information:
Name, address, telephone
number, email address.
2. Website address, if
available.
3. Resume or C.V.
4. An essay that
addresses the following:
• Artist’s Statement.
• Statement of Purpose.
Please describe what you
plan to work on during the
residency and how you will
incorporate recycled mate-
rials. Additionally, please
answer the following ques-
tions: What encouraged you
to apply for this residency?
What medium do you gener-
ally work in? What types of
tools do you generally work
with?
5. Four samples of
past work. Please submit
high-quality JPEG or simi-
lar format. Use DropBox or
similar link if images are too
large to attach to email.
6. Contact information
(phone numbers and email
addresses) for two refer-
ences that can speak to your
artistic practice.
All application materi-
als must be submitted elec-
tronically to rwoeducation-
andoutreach@recology.
com, with the subject head-
ing “COAR Application.”
Paper applications are not
accepted.
Artists interested in col-
laborating on a project must
submit individual applica-
tions and appropriate work
samples, along with a joint
description of the work they
intend to do at the Resi-
dency. An example of a pre-
vious collaborative work
(either completed or in prog-
ress) may also be submitted.
Recology is an employ-
ee-owned company that pro-
vides integrated services to
more than 889,000 residen-
tial customers and 112,000
commercial customers in
California, Oregon and
Washington. The Recology
mission represents a fun-
damental shift from tradi-
tional waste management
to resource recovery. The
vision of Recology is to cre-
ate a world without waste
by developing and discover-
ing sustainable resource-re-
covery practices that can be
implemented globally.
Astoria Visual Arts seeks
to place the arts at the cen-
ter of a changing rural com-
munity and economy by
supporting artists, encour-
aging artistic opportunity
and diversity, and serving
as an artistic hub of coop-
eration, education and
information-sharing.