Museum names Kudo, Kyle ‘People’s Choice’ Award winners
COOS BAY — The always popular
CAM Biennial drew to a close on Dec. 2.
This exhibition provided Oregon artists
from across the state an opportunity to
exhibit their recent works within an art
museum setting. The creativity of 110
Oregon artists represented by 267 art-
works in all media of artistic expression,
have been on display at Coos Art Museum
since Oct. 14.
The highlight of this exhibition is the
awarding of “The People’s Choice
Awards” as determined by you the view-
ing audience.
In secret balloting, museum visitors and
members have selected their choices for
special recognition.
In a very unusual twist, two artists have
tied for the 2016 People’s Choice Award.
Coos Art Museum has announced First
Place went to both Jean Kyle of Coos Bay
and to Sandy Kudo of Bandon.
Kudo’s piece, titled “Reef Rascals,” is a
carved and painted gourd while Kyle’s
work, “Into the Woods,” is a watercolor.
As a result of this selection of their
works as “The People’s Choice” Kudo
and Kyle will be given a two-person exhi-
bition at the Museum starting in
Second Place honors.
“Gerberas,” an oil by artist
Lynne Margulies of South
Beach, received the Third
Place People’s Choice Award.
Specializing in wildlife
wood
carvings,
Dale
Karstetter of North Bend
received
an
Honorable
Mention award for his entry
“Stretch.”
Tod C. Steele of Gold
Beach received an Honorable
Mention for his acrylic “Frida
Cowlo II.”
“Colorful Night,” an oil by
Kevin Audett of North Bend,
received
an
Honorable
Mention award.
Wes Whitman of Coquille
received
an
Honorable
Mention award for his water-
color “Summer Retreat.”
COURTESY PHOTOS
Museum hours are 10 a.m.
From left: “Reef Rascals” carved and painted gourd by Sunny Kudo and “Into the to 4 p.m., Tuesday through
Woods” watercolor by Jean Kyle.
Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on
Saturday. Museum admission
December of 2017.
Tomatoes” captured the eye of the voters is $5 general, $2 students, veterans and sen-
Marcella R. Weaver’s oil “Yellow and was presented People’s Choice iors, free to Museum members.
Backstreet’s annual ‘Little Dickens’ art show begins
Dec. 6 marks the begin-
ning of the annual Little
Dickens Miniature Show
held at Backstreet Gallery.
The community has
been invited to enter their
tiny masterpieces. The
highly anticipated show
will continue to display
through Jan. 3.
The artists reception
will be on Dec. 10 with the
Second Saturday Gallery
Tour.
Ribbons will be award-
ed to first-, second- and
third-place winners.
In April, first-place
recipients will be invited
to show with at least three
pieces of their work during
April in the gallery.
Michael Wood, noted
artist and painting instruc-
tor with Florence Regional
Arts Alliance, will be the
juror for this year’s “Little
Dickens.”
Backstreet is fortunate
to have an artist of
Wood’s stature as the
juror.
His work is available
to view at the Vardanian
Gallery, Old Town
Coffee or online at
w w w. f m i c h a e l w o o d .
com, linking to the
other national galleries
that exhibit his art.
The public is invited
to attend the reception
for the Dickens Artists
at Backstreet Gallery,
1431 Bay St. in
Florence, on Dec. 10
from 3 to 5 p.m.
Enjoy great refresh-
ments and an excellent
display of mighty mini
art.
Last year’s win-
ning piece of
‘Little Dickens’ art
was by Poncho
Clark.
COURTESY PHOTO
Jazz Kings to
perform holiday
favorites
A night of Christmas song favorites will
take place Dec. 14 at the Florence Events
Center when Jesse Cloninger and the
Emerald City Jazz Kings perform their ninth
annual Christmas concert.
Cloninger promises to bring back all our
holiday favorites, from “White Christmas,”
“The Christmas Song,” “I’ll Be Home For
Christmas” and “Have Yourself A Merry
Little Christmas.” to “Button Up Your
Overcoat” and “Mele Kalikimaka,” along
with a fine selection of sacred and tradition-
al songs, including “O’ Holy Night” and
“Silent Night.”
As usual, make sure you’ve spruced up
your singing chops to join in on some good
old-fashioned carol sing-alongs.
An evening for the entire family not to be
missed.
The Wednesday, Dec. 14, concert will
begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets can be reserved for $30 (or $15
for youth high school age and younger) by
calling the FEC at 541-997-1994 or online at
www.eventcenter.org.
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