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10A • July 1, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com This year’s festival featured artist workshops Plein Air from Page 1A Portland artist Josh Keyes, with Archimedes Gallery, is normally a late-night studio painter, but found plein air painting “refreshing.” “It brings back studying impressionists like Monet,” Keyes said. “There’s an im- mediacy about it because the wind and light can change.” He painted Multnomah Falls with a deer jumping over the waterfall’s crumbling bridge, a metaphor for “taking a leap in life,” he said. Joining Keyes in a new Archimedes Gallery show “Overgrown” — which he de- scribed as “nature taking over and reclaiming architecture” — is Seattle sculptor Eva Fun- derburgh, who demonstrated the fi ve different stages of making her creatures. First, she creates a small model capturing the creature’s ges- ture and movement. Her com- pleted work includes bronze beasts with trees, houses and horns branching out of them. The festival was an “ex- citing atmosphere” for Dan Chen, of Bronze Coast Gal- lery, who sculpted an octopus with oil-based clay that will be bronze. Chen won South- west Art Magazine’s award for Best “And More” artist at the festival. Other festival highlights included a performance by LYRA FONTAINE/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Hazel Schlesinger, with Northwest By Northwest Gallery, taught a plein air workshop be- fore the festival. Boka Marimba Band, gallery receptions, music and s’mores on the beach, and a raku fi ring with Dave and Boni Deal. A Creative Play Space for kids, organized by Eli- za Davis, was new this year. Stations had face painting, self-portraits, and painting rocks and sand dollars. Three artist workshops during the week leading up to Plein Air were also intro- duced this year. Anton Pav- lenko, a Portland landscape oil painter with DragonFire Gallery, led one workshop. For his students, he painted two versions of the Haystack Rock landscape: one “cool and light,” another “heavy and warm.” Hazel Schlesinger, a Can- non Beach native and oil painter with Northwest By Northwest Gallery, also taught a workshop. Despite rain, she said it was “fabulous.” A former Cannon Beach art teacher, Schlesinger gave a lesson on mixing paint colors. She demonstrated how to cre- ate both warm and cool grays with a “mother color,” which can connect all color mixtures in a painting. “Everything should be har- monious when you’re using the same color pools,” she said. For her own plein air paint- ing, Schlesinger said she en- joys “simplifying and extract- ing different items” she sees. “It’s fun, fresh and chal- lenging,” Schlesinger said. “In Oregon, we have such a wonderful, rich state with the coastline, vineyards and for- est. Anytime we can be out- doors painting is a good day.” Th e cannon returns Cannon from Page 1A It has had a long jour- ney since, sitting outside in Arch Cape for years until it was vandalized in the 1980s, Trucke said. The Clatsop County Historical Society moved the cannon to the Clatsop County Heritage Mu- seum, before it found a home at the Cannon Beach history museum in 2005. Researchers at Texas A&M University wanted to do a comparative study of the cannon with the other two can- nons thought to be from the same ship that were found in 2008, but it was too oxidized. In 2012, the museum shipped the cannon and capstan to the university for extensive restoration . The cannon was rusting, with pieces falling off, when they shipped it to Texas. When it returned in 2014, the museum did not have the proper space or environment for the preserved artifacts, and they were stored at the Maritime Museum. The museum worked with engineers, contractors, architects and others to plan the exhibit, Trucke said. Al- though she faced challenges, like the diffi culties in trans- porting the cannon, she re- mained determined to get the cannon back in the museum. “I went to school specifi - cally to work in a museum, so to me this was a really import- ant thing. It became my baby project,” Trucke said. “I just kept banging my head against a lot of walls. But we fi nally got it in here, and we’ve got a great board right now.” On display The exhibit will include a carriage, a model of the USS Shark, a diagram used to build model ships, a sketch of the USS Shark, photos dis- played on a TV screen, and information that connects the carronade to the other two cannons found in 2008 , which are now at the Colum- bia River Maritime Museum. Trucke raised more than $30,000 to send the cannon to Texas. She also raised funds for the exhibit, which will cost about $45,000. The project’s largest do- nors, donating $10,000 each, included Clark Foundation, Kinsman Foundation and Braemar Charitable Trust. “This cannon is actual- ly what the area was named for,” Trucke said. Cannon Beach was named Ecola before 1922, when the town adopted the name Can- non Beach after a vote. “I remember this when I was a kid, people come in who remember it when they were a kid,” Trucke said, re- calling when she would see it at the Heritage Museum. “I’d like the future generations to enjoy it.” New chamber directors elected to replace outgoing members New members bring hospitality, marketing and rental experience By Lyra Fontaine Cannon Beach Gazette Three new people have been elected to the Cannon Beach Chamber of Com- merce board of directors, which provides the chamber with strategic direction. “There’s going to be a transition, but we have some really experienced people,” Executive Director Court Carrier said. “We had a very active election this time. It’s an indication of the progress we’ve made at the cham- ber.” Tami Florer, Lisa Spivey and Kevan Ridgway bring experience in vacation rent- als, hospitality and destina- tion marketing and will re- place one-third of the board. President Steven Sinkler, Secretary Christen Allsop and Treasurer George Vet- ter will end their three-year terms this month. This month, Chamber vice president and Cannon Beach Police Chief Jason Scher- merhorn will automatically replace Sinkler as president. Board at-large director Jason Kunde, with U.S. Bank, will replace Vetter as treasurer. One newly nominated and elected director Tami Flo- rer is the owner of Cannon Beach Property Manage- ment, which offers a variety of vacation rentals. “It’s going to be a great opportunity,” Carrier said. New director Lisa Spiv- ey, assistant manager for the Stephanie Inn, will represent Martin Hospitality. “She’s highly experi- enced,” Carrier said. “Martin Hospitality is the largest em- ployer in Cannon Beach, with fi ve key operations. They’re just outstanding examples of hospitality.” Kevan Ridgway, a former CEO of a Vancouver, B.C. destination marketing organi- Chamber of Commerce Director Court Carrier in- troduced new chamber board members. zation and current Chamber marketing committee chair, was also elected to the board. Carrier said Ridgway brings “a wealth of experi- ence.” The remaining board of directors at-large include Cascade Sotheby’s real estate broker Robin Risley, Escape Lodging chief fi nancial offi - cer Becki Filan, fi ne dining restaurateur John Newman and The Waves lodging gen- eral manager and incoming owner Greg Swedenborg. The board will nominate a new vice president and secre- tary in July. Elections were completed and ratifi ed in late June, and the three new directors will be inducted at the chamber’s July 19 board meeting. 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