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Gallery: Community support was the deciding element of their growth
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CAMBIUM GALLERY
One of the drinks was
named by a visitor describ-
ing its texture. “The fi rst per-
son to try it said that it felt like
you were in a warm cabin and
you’d just opened the door to
the cold,” Trask said.
The drink is called The
Cabin Door, served in a spe-
cialty hourglass cup, and
begins with warm, bitter
espresso, giving way to a
cold milk base. It’s an expe-
rience meant for the gallery
space itself, a unique blend
delivered to Cambium from
nearby Columbia River Cof-
fee Roaster , paired with an
ever changing rotation of
regional art.
Portland artist Leah
Kohlenberg, the fi rst artist to
secure representation from
the gallery, crafted the cen-
terpiece behind the coff ee
counter. “We wanted some-
thing that would represent our
place in Astoria,” Long said
of the piece, a lush, forested
scene of fi ddlehead ferns.
The piece also refl ects
an ethos Cambium seeks to
uphold. “When we opened
Cambium, we wanted to
work with artists who were
historically marginalized, and
we wanted to make sure that
we went by an older school
gallery model of professional
development, helping them
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Wheel throwing with Audrey Long
May 28 from 1 to 4 p.m., class fee is $75 and includes two to
four week fi rings
Photos by Lissa Brewer/The Astorian
LEFT: Abstract artist and gallery co-owner Kirista Trask stands behind the coff ee counter at Cambium
Gallery. RIGHT: Audrey Long’s ceramic studio, which was the starting point for Cambium, sits
adjacent to the coff ee shop and gallery.
outside of Cambium to be
more successful,” Trask said.
Cambium
is
featur-
ing a series of woodblock
scenes from printmaker Kar-
ina Andrews, whose work
focuses on the subtleties of
land and seascapes. Next up,
the gallery will feature three
dimensional body focused
works from ceramicist Elis-
abeth Walden. “She is an
exceptional artist,” Trask said.
“One of my favorite pieces
was a woman who had a mas-
tectomy, and so the form only
had one breast, it had a scar
where the other breast was
and the person who bought
that, it was a very personal
experience for them, that for
the fi rst time, their experience
was represented in a piece of
art.”
Trask’s own works are
thoughtfully place based,
rooted in a deep sense of the
region. Describing her work
as “a documentation process
about being somewhere,”
Trask, a seventh generation
Oregonian, paints her con-
nection with the state through
abstract expression of tone
and form. It’s a technique
she’s delighted to share, host-
ing remote classes that make
use of common household
objects. The next one, set for
Sunday, will focus on abstract
art journaling.
For Trask, creating a jour-
nal allows for a relation-
ship with a handmade object.
“When you make something,
even if it’s imperfect, you are
already connected to it,” she
said. She’s hopeful that classes
like these will inspire others
to look at everyday objects as
art making pieces. “I just hope
it opens some doors for peo-
ple,” she said, “then I feel like
I’ve been successful.”
While Trask’s classes
continue remotely, Long’s
ceramic workshops, capped
at fi ve participants each, have
returned to the studio. “I have
students from (ages) 3 to 93,”
said Long, who taught full-
time before the pandemic.
Framing ceramic work
through a beginner’s eye, her
classes are lively and fun,
allowing students to experi-
ence the meditative details
of sculpting. It’s a return to
Cambium’s origins, as the
space began by housing
Long’s ceramics studio. After
participating in the building’s
remodel alongside Glen Her-
man, whose lamps and plant-
ers now decorate the gallery,
she began working in the stu-
dio space, which has contin-
ued to grow.
Now, both Trask and Long
look forward to crafting new
ways of building community
connections, partnering with
other local businesses and
events.
Long crafts handmade
vases for fl ower bouquets
at the Astoria Sunday Mar-
ket, set to open for the season
next week, and the pair plan
to serve vendors at Cambium
in the early morning.
“We will be open at
7:30 a.m. before Sunday
Market,” Trask said. “That
community is important to
us and we’ll be open early
while they’re setting up their
booths, getting them some
great coff ee on the way in,”
she added.
Both gallery owners
emphasize that community
support was the deciding ele-
ment of their growth through
the pandemic.
Now, blending virtual and
studio connections, the gal-
lery feels complete.
“Cambium tries to harness
the positive parts of the inter-
net and online experiences
while also keeping people
rooted in the real life experi-
ence of art, and now coff ee,”
Trask said. “And now coff ee,
which is a whole diff erent art
form,” Long added.
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