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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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