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FEBRUARY 23�MARCH 2, 2022
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
Help rename the Co-Op Gallery at Art Center East
Go! staff
L
A GRANDE — The Co-Op
Gallery at Art Center East
will soon have a new name, but
the fi nal decision is up the com-
munity.
Through March 10, votes
can be cast for one of four area
artists who were nominated
posthumously. The artist who
receives the most votes will be
announced at 6:30 p.m. Friday,
March 11, during the closing
reception for the Fiber Arts &
Jewelry exhibit.
Darcy Dolge, ACE executive
director, asks that people vote
only once.
Votes can be cast at www.
artcentereast.org, by calling the
art center at 541-624-2800, or in
person at ACE, 1006 Penn Ave.
ACE is open Wednesday
through Friday, noon-5 p.m., and
Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The Co-op Gallery was origi-
nally without gallery lighting and
mainly used for events. A grant,
Dolge said, “allowed us to give
the gallery a facelift.”
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Craig Canoy
Sue Orlaske
Kat Galloway
Tom Madden
The art center decided to
name it in honor of a local artist
and compiled names suggested
by the community and staff , then
sought permission from the art-
ists’ families.
Dolge said a diffi cult selection
process awaits voters: “There
is no wrong choice because
this is such a beautiful group of
people.”
Here’s a look at the nomi-
nated artists:
cades. He lived in several cities
on the western side of Oregon
before relocating to La Grande
upon retirement in the 1990s.
He loved the Elkhorn Mountains,
Anthony Lakes and the Owyhee
high country of Southeastern
Oregon.
Often focused on depicting
the beauty of the natural world,
Canoy worked primarily in pastel.
He exhibited his work in three
galleries in Oregon: Portland
State’s Littman Gallery, the
Kathrin Cawein Gallery of Art at
Pacifi c University and Peterson’s
Gallery in Baker City.
Upon his death in 2020, the
artist made a cash bequest to
ACE and left his art collection to
the nonprofi t art center for the
purposes of fundraising.
merville. She became a full-time
artist and created ceramic/clay
art as well as two-dimensional
pieces. Her themes often includ-
ed abstract and representational
natural elements — Eastern
Oregon landscapes, critters and
plants.
Orlaske was a member and
actively involved with three
art co-ops: Valley Art in For-
est Grove, Art Center East in La
Grande and Crossroads in Baker
City. She became well known in
the region for the quality of her
work and for her willingness to
help and teach others. Her work
appeared in many art shows
DENNIS ‘CRAIG’ CANOY
Canoy taught art and de-
sign in the Hillsboro Union High
School District for three de-
SUE ORLASKE
Orlaske was born in Michigan
but moved to Oregon in 1977
to attend graduate school and
stayed. She earned bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in biology.
She had no formal art train-
ing but from a young age was
interested in art and produced
detailed pen and ink drawings.
In the early 1990s, she and
her husband moved to Eastern
Oregon and settled in Sum-
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