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Hood River News, Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
IN FRONT of Brandon Hall’s mural, Nate Chavez (left) and Nick Vik arrange works by artists featured in “Art That’s Beneath You”: Nik
Vik, Vance Feldman, Nate Chavez, and Stump One, and in front, Cooper Morton and Leah Hugon. ON PAGE A1: Cowboy and tortoise by
Cooper Morton.
‘Art That’s Beneath You’
Photo by Jim Drake
‘VOICE’ STAR SHINES
Taylor John Williams, a finalist on NBC’s hit show “The Voice,”
kicked off the Griffin House concert series on Sunday to a packed
house. More jazz, soul and blues music is coming up on May 24
with guitarist Kit Garoutte, June 7 with blues artist Julie Amici,
June 21 it’s the Blues Cabaret band featuring singer Earl Thomas
and on Aug. 9, it’s blues diva Duffy Bishop. For more information
about the shows get on the e-mail list at
www.thegriffinhouse.com.
‘Good People’ opens May 8
Columbia Center for the Arts and CAST Theater pre-
sent the spring play “Good People” by David Lindsay-
Abaire, directed by Judie Hanel. “Good People” is set in
South Boston and gossiping and bustin’ chops is the
name of the game. Throughout it all, the characters dis-
cuss the role luck has, or does not have in success, while
they encourage the audience to rethink our relationships
with others, our assumptions and our words.
Performance dates are May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7:30
p.m. and May 10 and 17 at 2 p.m.
Tickets for these upcoming performances are available
at Columbia Center for the Arts in the gallery, Waucoma
Bookstore and online at www.columbiaarts.org. Colum-
bia Center for the Arts is located at 215 Cascade Ave. in
downtown Hood River.
Tim Mayer seeks ‘Groove
Project’ Kickstarter funding
The Remains
opens new show
May 1 in the ‘out
there’ below-
ground gallery
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
T he Remains g allery
packs its subterranean walls
with oils, acrylics, murals,
cartoons, and paintings on
wood, doors, windows and
other surfaces for its first
show of 2015.
Owners Nik Vik and Nate
Chavez will present their
own art, along with guests
from the Gorge and beyond,
in the g roup show “Ar t
That’s Beneath You” opening
the new season May 1.
The event starts at 6 p.m.
at the 10-month-old gallery,
500 Industrial Way, below
Full Sail. To find it, take the
steps next to the railroad
tracks on the north side of
the west end of Union Build-
ing. This is an all-ages show.
Parkdale band Black Ju-
niper will perform acoustic
soul, followed by the local
band The Adoration Society
(Mike Andrews, Ian Meyer,
Ryan McAlexander, Tim
Snider, and friends).
Chef Garrett Arceneaux
serves
his
authentic
Louisiana gumbo, and Manja
Warner will provide body art
to go along with what’s on
the walls.
New with the exhibit is a
permanent mural by Bren-
dan Hall, who is from New
York and now living in Park-
Hood River pianist Tim Mayer’s next gig is May 1, 5:30-
8:30 p.m. at The Pines, performing with Ed Detrich on
bass. Mayer, well known for his solo and Groove Project
ensemble gigs at clubs and benefit concerts, is in the
midst of a Kickstarter campaign for a Groove Project
Christmas CD. Mayer has until May 13 to raise $2,200 for
the CD, a recording of Christmas originals and standards
played by the Groove Project. For details go to kick-
starter.com and search for Tim Mayer.
As Mayer explains, Kickstarter is a web site that al-
lows people to raise funds for creative projects. The per-
son develops a project or
idea, sets a fundraising
goal for that idea, and has
a deadline to reach that
goal. The project or idea is
to the entire staff, especially the nursing
described in words, photos,
staff at Hood River Memorial Hospital
and usually a video on the
for the excellent care I received as a
kickstarter website.
Thank You
Entertainment list-
ings can be e-mailed to
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com
recent patient. Thank you Dr. Becker
for always being there. Special thanks
to my husband Jack and my sons Stuart,
Chris & family, especially Taz for their
loving, care & support.
dale. Look for another Hall
work just outside the Re-
mains’ main door, and sever-
al other of his works in the
show.
“He’s a good friend of Re-
mains and an awesome artist
who’s been with us from the
start,” Chavez said.
Adding color and provoca-
tive detailed images are
Stump One, recently seen at
Hood River Library, and the
cartoons of Cooper Morton.
Portland artist Vance Feld-
man presents panels from
his perennial project, “Fore-
verscape,” accompanied by
an audiovisual display syn-
chronized with music.
Chavez met artist Leah
Hugon in Portland, and “we
hit it off after seeing her
work, and are excited to have
her,” he said. “She does some
bizarre stuff,” including a
boxer painted on a wooden
pallet.
Melissa Chavez, Nate’s sis-
ter, does body adornments —
“really cool jewelry she’s
been working on really
hard,’ he said.
“We’re super proud of the
stuff we have in this show,
it’s totally representative of
The Remains feel we have,
which is outsider stuff,”
Chavez said. “Every time
something came in, it’s like
‘we’re so lucky to have this,’”
he said.
“For this show it just
clicked,” Vik said. “Every-
body who brought stuff in it
went above and beyond ex-
pectations. Everything that
comes in the door is just
making it better and better.
“We got kind of settled in
and this has been a little
smoother than the last two —
kind of got our feet on the
ground,” he said.
“Our other shows had
themes but this time it’s the
first collaborative show that
you get to see everybody’s in-
dividual personality, their
styles, and it’s got so much
flavor,” Chavez said. “We
don’t have to group things to-
gether, we can mix them up
Art Carroll
HRV Parks District
Board Member
and they fit. Somehow
they’re all really complemen-
tary, which is cool.”
Since the Day of the Dead
show in November, Vik and
Chave z have had open
gallery hours and used the
space for work.
“People could come down
and wander through, and we
would be down here every
day,’ Chavez said.
Vik and Chavez will keep
“Art That’s Beneath You” on
display through May or
longer, and are working on
The Remains first-anniver-
sary show.
“It’s going to be putting to-
gether more work, fresh
work. I think it’s going to be
a great way to kick off the
summer season,” Chavez
said.
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Volunteers in Action -
Providence Community Caregivers
Volunteer Training
1-5 p.m.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital
VIA-PCC offers non-medical volunteer assistance to older adults
and those with chronic illness in Hood River and Klickitat Counties.
If you have an hour a week or an hour a month,
you can be someone’s “good neighbor.”
Volunteer tasks might be taking someone to the doctor, picking up a prescription,
friendly visits, grocery shopping and or other assistance.
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Call to register or find out more,
call 541-387-6150
or email clare.black@providence.org
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