The Oregon Coastline Council for the Arts offers the 2022 Mayor’s Demonstrate from Feb. 12 by March 5 in the Runyan Gallery at the Newport Visual Arts Center. The Mayor’s Present attributes 9 artists chosen from the 89 Lincoln County artists who participated in the 2022 PushPin & ClothesLine Present for the duration of January. The nine artists had been selected in consultation with OCCA VAC Director Tom Webb and Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer. The Mayor’s Clearly show was started out in 2016 by Webb and former Newport Mayor Sandra Rouagoux. Working less than COVID-19 protocols, the Runyan Gallery is presently open up Wednesdays by Saturdays, noon to 4pm. A gentle opening reception will be held February 12, midday to 4pm, with artists speaking at 2pm.
The 9 collaborating artists are Veta Bakhitna, Barbara Flewellyn, Sylvia A. Hosie, Rebecca Hooper, Herb Kately, Julie Lamberson, Janet Runger, Wendy Schwartz, and Carol Shenk.
Veta Bakhitna grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of the Communist period, and she credits her exposure to uncharted nature, the rural Russian countryside, and a custom of heritage for a great deal of her inspiration and operating fashion. She will work as a muralist, painter, and writer of whimsical children’s guides. Her paintings can be found at Crow’s Nest Gallery in Toledo.
Barbara Flewellyn has spent many yrs discovering art media—woodworking, welding, ceramics pastels, existence drawing and weaving. She analyzed painting with Sandy Roumagoux. Flewellyn moved to the Oregon coast 17 years in the past and has served as the president of the Coastal Arts Guild.
Weaving tapestry is Rebecca Hooper’s favored indicates of artistic expression. Around the many years she has taken many weaving courses together with rugs at Weaving Southwest in Taos, New Mexico, rug weaving with Jason Collingwood from the United kingdom, and weaving colour with Tein Chu from San Francisco. For the earlier yr, she has studied intensively with award winning, wonderful art tapestry weaver, Kathe Todd-Hooker in Albany.
Sylvia A. Hosie is a good art photographer dwelling in Toledo. The digital revolution has allowed her to give a looser, far more stylized glance to several of her photographs. Represented in two Oregon galleries, her perform has discovered homes in the course of North The usa, Europe, and Australia.
Herb Kately has exhibited operate at the West Nebraska Artwork Center, and the Alliance Carnegie Artwork Heart and experienced winning entries at the Dawes County fair. Much more just lately, in 2021 he was picked for the 1st spherical in the Toledo Phantom galleries. He maintains many on the net artist portfolios.
Julie Lamberson is an illustrator, watercolorist, and muralist. She attended Lewis & Clark Higher education and Newport Significant College. Her perform has been exhibited in many galleries, and she has posted quite a few artwork guides.
Janet Runger is the operator of Crow’s Nest Gallery & Studio in Toledo. She produces imaginative art where by overlooked objects have been assembled into whimsical creatures, not possible cars and charming sculptures.
Wendy Schwartz just lately relocated to Newport. She was the co-owner of Stampadoodle, a paper-crafting and artwork shop in Bellingham, WA, for 29 decades. Pen and ink work has been her primary emphasis more than the previous two decades.
Carol Shenk is a blended-media artist residing on the Oregon Coast. She not too long ago returned to studio operate after decades in community governing administration documents and archives, exactly where she helped document the written and visual histories of individuals, culture, and character, past and existing. In 2021, she accomplished illustration for a children’s book to be printed in 2022. Shenk has a BA in wonderful arts from the University of Oregon.
The Newport Visible Arts Center adheres to all health and basic safety protocols furnished by the Governor’s Business as nicely as the City of Newport. All visitors to the VAC are demanded to dress in suitable masks.
The Oregon Coastline Council for the Arts manages the Newport Visual Arts Middle and the Newport Doing Arts Heart and serves as the regional arts council for Oregon’s 7 coastal counties.