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10A • February 27, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Art is about the practice, not the Muse Artists must be ‘stubborn and persistent,’ says Andrea Mace a 6-year-old son, Emelio. Last winter, the couple took over a local eco-friendly window-washing business, now called Tate’s Window ‘The natural Services. When she isn’t CANNON BEACH world really greeting patrons at the gal- CAMEO By Erick Bengel lery, Mace often helps Tate inhabits a big Cannon Beach Gazette scrub down commercial part of my As director, she’s mount- properties in downtown character and Andrea Mace is the ed more than 80 shows and Cannon Beach. “poster child for the Can- worked with thousands of “That’s been really my soul, but non Beach Arts Associa- artists from across the Pa- great for us. I think you I take it for tion,” she said. FL¿F 1RUWKZHVW 7KLV VKH KDYH WR ¿QG \RXU QLFKH LQ granted, too’ Before becoming the said, is the best part of her WKLV DUHD´ VKH VDLG ³<RX executive director in 2007, job and keeps her plugged have to be creative in how Andrea Mace 0DFHKHOGKHU¿UVWDUWVKRZ in to the art world. you make a living and ap- — where she also made Mace’s friendship, proach your lifestyle in KHU ¿UVW SDLQWLQJ VDOH ² DW for example, with Hills- this area if you’re not al- the association-run Cannon boro-based artist Carl An- ready retired.” Beach Gallery on South nala — whose paintings re- Andrea Mace, executive director of the Cannon Beach Arts 0DFH¶V DI¿QLW\ IRU WKH Hemlock Street. And she has cently bedecked the gallery Association. Mace works 20 hours a week at the gallery. natural environment has submitted pieces for the Ju- walls in a joint exhibition kept her on the North Coast. ried Show Program, where with Cannon Beach’s Peter She takes advantage of the guest curators judge the Greaver — gives her ongo- Clatsop Community Col- any artist working in any temperate climate, toiling work of aspiring artists and ing insights into the Port- lege’s art department. ¿HOG ³<RX KDYH WR KDYH away in her English cot- choose some artwork for a land-area arts scene. +HU³¿UVWSDVVLRQ´KRZ D SUDFWLFH <RX KDYH WR GR tage-style garden in front of month-long installation. “I’ve met some really fas- ever, is writing, she said. it every day, whether you her picturesque 1920s-era So, as a lifelong art- cinating people,” she said. For several years, she sup- feel it or not,” she said. The cabin on Harrison Street, ist herself, Mace said she plemented her income by Muse may be present, but she said. knows what it’s like to have Freelance writer “The quality of life is so freelancing for The Daily “it’s not about the Muse, it’s Mace, 42, grew up on Astorian, Coast Weekend, about the practice ... having great that, when you leave, those all-important phone calls: “Sorry, Andrea, you Washington’s Kitsap Pen- HIPFiSH Monthly and oth- something you come to ev- you realize, wow, we really didn’t make it. Click,” or, insula, across the Puget er local publications. have it good on the North ery day and build on.” “Wow, they actually chose Sound from Seattle. Fol- Oregon Coast,” she said. Whatever her topic, it lowing graduation from was important to her that Quality of life your piece!” The gallery — which has To get anywhere, the The Evergreen State Col- she wrote regularly, which Mace and her part- occupied its current space artist must be “stubborn lege in Olympia, she moved is good advice for virtually ner, Jonathan Tate, have for 20 years — might have and persistent” and should to Oregon in 1993. After 22 “keep putting yourself out years on the North Coast, there,” she said. ³, GH¿QLWHO\ FRQVLGHU Case in point: Mace ap- myself an Oregonian,” she plied for the association’s said. Individual Artist Grant She initially moved for a three times before receiving summer waitressing job but it in 2006. “fell in love with the area Her grant project, titled and have found myself here “Elemental Grace: Where ever since,” she said. Now the Earth Meets the Sea,” a Cannon Beach resident, combined her black-and- Mace has also lived in Arch ZKLWH ¿QH DUW SKRWRJUDSKV Cape, Wheeler, Elsie and of sites between Falcon Manzanita. Cove and Indian Beach — Discovering the arts as- developed in a dark room, sociation (founded in 1986) the “old-school, labor-in- and volunteering for gallery tensive way” — and her shifts as a docent became a metal-wire basketry deco- “nice thing to have in (the) rated with shells and beads. rhythm of my life — not be- Shortly after Mace’s ing a total hermit/recluse-art- one-woman show, the as- ist,” she said, smiling. sociation board and gal- 9LVXDODUWVDQG¿QHFUDIWV lery committee hired her as like basketry and jewel- executive director. At this ry-making, tend to dominate point, “I’ve worn all the Mace’s body of work. She hats that we have to wear,” studied under the late Roy- she said. al Nebeker when he chaired JUHDWHU IRRW WUDI¿F LI LW RS erated in downtown, where, for commercial businesses, “I’m sure it’s like ground zero; it’s the spot to be,” she said. “But I like being a little bit out of the craziness of downtown.” And with the gallery sit- uated near Gower Street’s public beach access, just a short walk from Haystack Rock, she spends a good deal of her life watching people from around the world enjoy the beach — from European families to Buddhist monks in full regalia. As a Northwesterner, “the natural world really inhabits a big part of my character and my soul, but I take it for granted, too,” she said. “And when peo- SOH FRPH KHUH IRU WKH ¿UVW time, the impact it makes on them is very noticeable and impressive.” She always hopes that visitors take their expe- rience of Cannon Beach back to their urban or sub- urban lives, she said — and remember the feeling that “the natural world is full of wonder, and we should protect it and save it and relish it.” Andrea Mace, executive director of the Cannon Beach Arts Association, makes jewel- ry, like these necklaces, out of Czechoslo- vakian pressed glass. Her work is on display and for sale at the Cannon Beach Gallery. ERICK BENGEL PHOTO Trivia contest won’t be trivial For those who enjoy searching out trivia about Cannon Beach, the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum is offering a trivia contest from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 14. Each competitor may purchase a sin- gle trivia card for $2. Each card contains 10 questions that must be answered while the player is in the museum. No cellphone or Internet searches are al- lowed. All of the questions are con- tained within the museum’s exhibits and displays. “The event is a combination of scav- enger hunt and trivia contest,” said Director Elaine Murdy-Trucke. “The answers to every single question are contained within the museum’s exhibits, even the bonus questions.” Those who answer all 10 questions correctly will win a prize. The museum will offer brain food in the form of Sleepy Monk coffee and a few light snacks. Writing materials and writing stations are provided throughout the museum. For more information vis- it www.cbhistory.org or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Can- non-Beach-History-Center-and-Muse- um/105716359459384 THANKS YOU! Because of the incredible generosity of our community WE DID IT - WE MET THE CHALLENGE! 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