Visit 16 Art Galleries Featuring:
• A great time
• Beautiful art
• Good company
• Meet featured artists
• Art demonstrations
All You Need to Know:
Who? You and your friends
What? Fourth Friday Artwalk
Where? Galleries of Sisters
Cost? FREE
The Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk returns on May 28th with a focus on art and creativity.
Visitors can leisurely stroll through town, engaging with galleries, artists and the wide variety of methods that they use to make art. Most galleries will feature artists doing demonstrations and talking about their work.
SAA welcomes two new galleries: Marigold + True at 351 West Hood Ave., and Metals Jewelry Studio at 220 S. Ash, Studio B.
Marigold + True is a small, artful boutique that focuses on selling artisan products. Owner Kelly Rae Roberts says “We support makers with a focus on small batch production, including dresses, scarves, baby clothes and toys, handbags, blankets, and more.” Metals Jewelry Studio, owned by Bryan Brown, creates amazing one-of-a-kind artisan jewelry and fine art metal creations.
Barbara Berry is the featured artist at Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery, demonstrating acrylic painting and pre-painting sketching all day. Her work bridges the worlds of Spirit and Matter,
Metals Sculpture Gallery Owner Bryan Lee Brown will work on several projects using different techniques such as fabrication, wax carving, and Mokume Gane. His gallery is also on West Hood.
Art Quilter June Jaeger will be demonstrating painting with inks from 3 to 6 p.m. at The Stitchin’ Post Fabric Arts Gallery. “My art tells the story of my connection to the land,” Jaeger says. “Our natural environment is my inspiration and deep in my soul I feel the need to create what I see, interpreting my vision.”
Hood Avenue Art’s featured artists are photographer Scott Cordner and jeweler Danica Curtright. Cordner is a fine art landscape photographer who prints his own work, and surrounds it with with one-of-a-kind, handmade wood frames. Curtright’s glass beads are individually crafted using a centuries old process called lampworking. Some beads are further embellished with silver foil or fine silver, while others are etched. All beads are annealed in a kiln for strength and durability. Curtright will be demonstrating her beadwork from 3 to 6.
The Americana Project Art and Design Portfolio Showcase is featured at the Cindy and Duncan Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works. This showcase from Sisters High School juniors and seniors is the culmination of artwork during 2020-21. Students chose an inquiry question to drive a yearlong study, involving research, design, experiment, creation and reflection, before starting the process again. Six students will show their portfolios through mid-June. They are Sahara Lucas, Raven Miller, Neya Kountchev, Katie Springer, Gilly Roshak, and Anna Mensing.
Anna Mensing’s father, David Mensing, is the featured artist at The Clearwater Gallery. He will be demonstrating and painting during the day in the courtyard.
The Homelands Collection, a special commission from 15 premier Indigenous artists of North America, continues at Raven Makes Gallery. These works overlay original antique maps with narrative drawings that reflect meaningful imagery and add an additional story to traditional ancestral lands.
Outside The Collection Gallery, master oil painter Clarke Berryman will be painting between 3 and 4, and Gary Cooley will be creating a new sculpture between 4 and 6. The Cooleys are closing out their “Kids Kits” animal sculptures. Coming soon – Dinosaurs.
A special piece on display at Beacham’s Clock Company is a replica of an E. Howard 68 Grandfather Clock, originally made in the mid-1800s. The case has veneer overlays and a carved head at the crest. On the dial is a moving globe with the day of the week, sunrise, sunset, phase of the moon, and sidereal time. The movement incorporates a gravity escapement. Complete Clock Maker C.E. Beacham III makes both the case and clock movement.
Jennifer Hartwig, “The Scratchboard Lady,” returns to Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop along with ceramicist Mary Moore. Hartwig says, “Scratchboard allows me to etch light from dark with fine precision and subtle shades. My subject emerges from darkness with each dot and scratch I place on the board.” Watch as she removes the layer of black ink to reveal a white clay with a porcelain glow. Seated figures from the sculptural court of Mary Moore perch on ceramic boxes, some more formal than others, waiting for their new homes.
Multi-talented Western artist Dyrk Godby will share his work, stories, and maybe even a song or two at the Dyrk Godby Gallery. Check out Dyrk’s new location at 123 E. Hood Ave.
Wildflower Studio (and all of the galleries, for that matter) would like to thank the customers who shopped local this year. Framing, shopping or just stopping in with a kind word has strengthened all of our relationships. We celebrate artists, art and the people whose homes are brightened by all things creative.
Sisters Gallery Maps are available in galleries, the Chamber of Commerce, .and many businesses in town. The map is also available on on our website HERE.
This month, SAA’s popular Quick Draw is back, awarding two $50 Gift Certificates, good at any participating gallery. Visitors can register once per gallery, during their stroll. SAA thanks Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters for underwriting this year’s Quick Draw.
Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:
Cork Cellars
The Open Door
Sisters Coffee Company
Paulina Springs Books
Oliver Lemon’s
Philladephia’s Steaks Cottonwood Cafe
Spoons
The Gallery Restaurant
Sisters Bakery
June’s Asian Kitchen
Sisters Meat & Smokehouse
SnoCap
Sisters Depot
Martolli’s of Sisters
The SweetEasy
Zosel Harper Realty
Rancho Viejo
Sisters Saloon
Cascade Southeby’s
Chops Bistro
Suttle Tea
Angeline’s
Hardtails
