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The Long Beach Peninsula’s
Meet AVA’s new
RESTAURANT artists in residence
MONTH
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Restaurants
42nd Street Cafe & Bistro
The Cove
The Depot Restaurant
Galletti’s Spaghetti House
Lost Roo
[pickled fish]
Salt Pub & Grub
The Pub at Shelburne Hotel
Lodging
Adrift Hotel
Boreas Inn
China Beach Retreat
Enchanted Cottages
Inn at Discovery Coast
Mermaid Inn
Salt Hotel
Shelburne Hotel
Sou’wester Lodge
ASTORIA – Astoria
Visual Arts has two excep-
tional local artists, Celeste
Endlich and Sally Lackaff,
working in two downtown
studios January through
April as part
of the AVA
artist-in-res-
idence
(AVA a-i-r)
program.
Endlich is
Astoria Visual
new to Asto-
ria but not
Arts
to the North Astoria artist
Coast. Much Celeste
of her recent Endlich.
work is done
as black-and-
white line drawings on cir-
cular canvases, but she also
likes to paint with watercol-
ors and draw with charcoal.
Endlich explores themes
of mental health, identity
and the human experience.
Her work is
serious and
playful, and
incorporates
dark humor.
The past two
years she
worked and
Erick Bengel
lived in Thai-
land, where Astoria artist
she had her Sally Lackaff.
first solo
exhibition.
Lackaff, a native of Clat-
sop County, is a self-taught
illustrator and author. Since
age 18, Lackaff has built a
career around art and gar-
dening. Highlights include
illustrating more than 10
books, designing logos and
painting signs for busi-
nesses from Manzanita
to Astoria, filling promi-
nent restrooms with murals,
and writing and illustrating
interpretive signage. She
Astoria Visual Arts
‘Nowhere to Go’ by Celeste Endlich
Astoria Visual Arts
‘Sarah’s Circus,’ illustrated and co-authored by Sally Lackaff.
lives in Astoria with her art-
ist/musician husband, Roger
Hayes.
AVA a-i-r, begun in
March 2015, is designed
to encourage the creative,
intellectual and professional
growth of local artists. The
program is supported by
AVA members and the gen-
erosity of the Astoria Cof-
fee House & Bistro and Stu-
dio 11.
For more information
about AVA or to learn more
about the AVA a-i-r pro-
gram, visit astoriavisualarts.
org/.