Backstreet Gallery welcomes Caroline P. Estill
FLORENCE — Backstreet Gallery,
1421 Bay St., welcomes oil painter
Caroline P. Estill as a new member.
Recently back from a museum
viewing trip to England and Paris, the
experience has influenced her work.
The rich colors, the soft impres-
sionistic strokes and the luminous
light bathing her subjects create a
peaceful essence about her paintings.
Her art takes the viewer from the
serene garden to the restless sea,
across tranquil landscapes and back
home to appealing still lifes.
Estill initially studied painting tech-
niques at art schools in Tennessee and
in Denver, Colo. For several decades,
she has studied many artists connected
with the International Impressionist
Movement.
Among several of her favorite inter-
national artists are Joaquin Sorolla,
Anders Zorn and Peder Kreyer.
Estill was a corporate artist in
Houston, Texas. Later she taught
An oil painting by Caroline
P. Estill is part of Backstreet
Gallery’s “Stormy Weather”
art theme on display.
painting is a suburb of Houston, then
took a 24-year break to raise her two
daughters before moving with her
family to Florence in 2003.
From 2007 to 2011, Estill served on
the board of the Siuslaw School
District.
She is happily married to “Dr.
Bob,” a mathematician teaching at
LCC. Her daughters are completing
their education at Oregon State
University and the University of Utah
at Salt Lake City.
Join Estill and the other Backstreet
artists as they illustrate the theme of
“Stormy Weather.”
Backstreet Gallery is open daily 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., and is on the Second
Saturday Gallery Tour.
Coastal Celtic Society to host annual Burns Night Feb. 6
COOS BAY — Rabbie Robert Burns,
Scotland’s greatly loved national poet and
bard, is celebrated around the world.
Celebrations of his birthday, called
Burns Nights, happen all over the world,
including some unlikely places such as
Tanzania, Delhi, St. Petersburg, Russia,
Beijing, Belgium and Iraq.
The Coastal Celtic Society has present-
ed its Burns Night for 14 straight years,
although the first Burns Night in the Coos
Bay-North Bend area occurred 102 years
ago.
This year’s event will take place
Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Mill Casino Hotel,
3201 Tremont Ave., in North Bend, start-
ing at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $35 per person and are
available by calling the Mill Casino Hotel
Gift Shop, 800-953-4800, ext. 9
Proceeds from the event support the
Coastal Celtic Society, a nonprofit charity
promoting Celtic Culture through music,
dance, education and the arts.
The Celebration is rich with traditional
ceremony including: The piping in of the
Haggis, accompanied by kilted swords-
men honor guard, Burns’ Ode to the
Haggis and his Selkirk Grace Address to
the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, as
well as his traditional Toast to the Lasses
and Reply to the Laddies.Scottish Attire
suggested but not required.
For more information, call Robert More
at 541-266-8989 or email to the-
mores@msn. com.
Fifth-grade students’ Cigar Box Guitars on display at museum
COOS BAY — Cigar Box Guitars will
be featured as part of “Musical
Instruments @ CAM,” an exhibition of
instruments and instrument building,
being held at Coos Art Museum through
Feb. 13.
The Cigar Box Guitars represent a sam-
pling of the 130 guitars built by the 2014-
2015 fifth-grade class at Sunset Middle
School.
The guitars, part of the museum’s
Studio-to-School program, were built
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over the course of three months under the
direction of Sunset teacher Nick Krissie,
who won a STEM Champion Award for
his work on this project.
Studio-to-School is funded by a grant
from the Oregon Community Foundation
and represents a partnership which
includes Sunset School and Coos Art
Museum.
Many other community members and
businesses donated materials or volun-
teered time to this project.
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During the construction of the guitars
the students developed skills in science,
technology, engineering, and math.
Students also learned about the rich
history of this instrument in American
music.
At the culmination of this project, stu-
dents had the opportunity to work with
international cigar box guitar expert Justin
Johnson, who spent a week with the stu-
dents and taught them basic music theory,
rhythm and 12-bar blues.
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The students also had the opportunity to
perform in concert with Justin at the
Egyptian Theatre in May.
The museum offers a wide range of arts
activities including exhibitions, art classes
and lectures.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on
Saturday.
Museum admission is $5 general, $2
for students, veterans and seniors, and free
to museum members.
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