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MIXED MEDIUM
MARCH 23�30, 2022
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
Feves Gallery hosts Seattle artist Sara Everett
Go! staff
P
ENDLETON — The Betty
Feves Memorial Gallery will
open an exhibit featuring artist
Sara Everett on Friday, April 1,
4:30-6:30 p.m. at Blue Mountain
Community College.
The event is free, family-
friendly and light refreshments
will be served. There will be
an artist talk at approximately
5 p.m.
The exhibit, titled “Mending
Measures,” is a series of artwork
that Everett created to cap-
ture and catalog endangered
animals and corresponding
endangered landscapes. Each
artwork is accompanied by a
label that identifi es the conser-
vation status, primary threats
and geographic location.
Her technique involves a
symbolic process of destruction
— fi rst she creates a painting on
canvas, then cuts or tears the
canvas and the destroyed paint-
ing then becomes the fabric of
something new as she stitches
the pieces together.
According to a press release,
“the stitch work is a design ele-
ment, but also integral to the
work; these ‘mended’ animals
and landscapes have been re-
created, but all are profoundly
changed.”
Everett received a bachelor of
Liberal Arts degree from Ever-
green State College. She has
exhibited her work internation-
ally and currently serves on the
board of directors of Seattle’s
Uptown Arts and Culture Coali-
tion.
She lives in Seattle. For more
information about the artist, visit
her website at www.saraeverett.
com.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
The Betty Feves Memorial
Gallery at BMCC is a nonprofi t
exhibition space connect-
ing emerging and established
artists and their work with
students, staff and the general
public in Eastern Oregon. The
gallery welcomes tours from
schools, clubs and other orga-
nizations during exhibits. Those
Sara Everett/Contributed image
Sara Everett created her show
“Mending Measures” to “capture
and catalog endangered animals
and corresponding endangered
landscapes.”
interested should contact Feves
Gallery Director Nika Blasser,
nblasser@bluecc.edu or 541-
278-5952.
The gallery is open Monday-
Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.,
and is located in Pioneer Hall on
the Pendleton campus, 2411 NW
Carden Ave. Admission is free.
Sara Everett/Contributed image
Seattle artist Sara Everett creates a piece, cuts it up, then stitches it back
together. Her show “Mending Measures” opens April 1 at the Betty Feves
Memorial Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton.