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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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non-Beach-History-Center-and-Muse-
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