Visit 13 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
TWO EVENTS IN ONE WEEKEND – Artwalk and Studio Tour
The Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk on Sept. 24 kicks off a whole weekend of Art in Sisters Country. Thirteen galleries participate in Artwalk each month. In some galleries, the Artwalk lasts all day, while others limit hours to late afternoon and early evening. The Artwalk Quick Draw concludes this month with give-away of two $50 gift certificates to any participating gallery, thanks to a donation from Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty. SAA will also give-away two $100 gift certificates good for purchase from any Studio Tour artist. Winners will be drawn after the Studio Tour.
After browsing the galleries on Friday, art lovers can hit the road on Saturday and Sunday to see artists in their home studios, during the Fifth Annual Artist Studio Tour, sponsored by the Sisters Arts Association. Twenty-five home studios will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and 35 artists will demonstrate what they do and meet visitors face-to-face (albeit with masks on!). You can see more about the tour and the featured artists HERE. Download Gallery maps and Studio Tour Guides HERE.
Three galleries are swinging into the Artist Studio Tour early, starting on Friday. Kelly Rae Roberts will be her own featured artist at Marigold + True. A former social worker, Kelly Rae picked up a paintbrush at age 30 and everything changed. She shares her joyful art, mostly floral paintings in happy colors, in her gallery and through ecourses, books and retreats that focus on her philosophy that “when we let art out, we let love in.”
Three popular artists will be featured at Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop. Kay Baker’s plein air oil paintings feature scenes of Oregon from the Coast to Willamette Valley to Central Oregon’s Cascades, and are popular among collectors from around the world. Jennifer Hartwig, aka “The Scratchboard Lady,” specializes in creatures of fur and feathers, and reproductions of her own work as mugs, jewelry and decorative items, using a dye sublimation printer. Mike Stasko creates fine art drawings of Oregon landscapes in Prismacolor Pencils, and they “seem to glow from within,” as visitors say. Mike’s original work and giclee prints will be available.
Custom jewelry designer Bryan Lee Brown creates one-of-a-kind pieces that feature the 400-year-old Japanese technique known as Mokume Gane. He also repairs and restores antique jewelry. His Metals Jewelry Studio will be open during the Artwalk and the Studio Tour.
Journeys Art Quilters new exhibit, “Unhinged,” is opening at Twigs Gallery in The Stitchin’ Post. “Unhinged” can be unbalanced, or unstable, but also free and unleashed. The Journeys quilters respond to these concepts and their work opens with a reception from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The show continues through Oct. 21.
Regrettably, this will be the final Artwalk for two popular galleries. Gary and Karen Cooley share “bittersweet news with all our great friends here in Sisters. We’re closing The Collection Gallery and retiring. We’re looking forward to doing some traveling and of course, spending time with the grandkids. Gary will still continue to create fine art and we will be very involved in our wonderful art community. We greatly appreciate all the great support we’ve had the eight years we’ve been in Sisters. We welcome you to drop in and see some new work and special prices through the end of September.”
Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery is closing as well, but not without an artistic fanfare. Fine wood craftsman John Scheideman will be on hand with his exceptional collection of wood-turned vessels and other creations. John comes from a long line of woodworkers. He was an industrial arts teacher in the Madras schools for 35 years. Meet John and learn the how and why of his inspiring creations.
Hood Avenue Art featured artists are printmaker Gin Laughery and Fiber Artist Sharyl Parker McCulloch. Gin grew up in Eastern Washington with its sparse landscapes and panoramic views. Following a career as a speech language pathologist, Gin studied printmaking arts with internationally known artist and educator Royal Nebeker. Printmaking became a passion and soon she invested in a press and established a studio. Inspired by nature and natural phenomena, she renders work that suggests a place or a mood, sometimes abstract, and sometimes representational. Sharyl loves fiber arts, and served as a board member of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show for seven years, even though she’s not a quilter. A long-time knitter and knitting instructor, she taught herself how to weave, and how to design fiber art-wear for all seasons. Her intuitive work has been part of the Central Oregon High Fiber Art Show and other specialty shows. Her inspirations are nature, music, and poetry. She works primarily with premium alpaca and merino wools, silks, linens, cottons and plant-based yarns.
Featured this month at The Clearwater Gallery is father and son duo, Jerry and Dennis Dame. Jerry’s landscapes draw the viewer into serene, quiet experiences of fly fishing on an Oregon river or hiking through a forest trail. Dennis focuses on locations and fleeting moments of time that otherwise might have been overlooked. Both of these oil painters will be in the gallery between 4 and 6 p.m. when Clearwater will offer light appetizers and wine.
Wildflower Studio will be featuring paintings by local painters Bill Hamilton and Chris Nelson. Bill is an acrylic painter who enjoys depicting sweeping panoramic views. Chris will be showing new oil paintings, both landscapes and birds.
Raven Makes Gallery features “Art of the Far North,” the highly collectable Cape Dorset original drawings and select prints, and Inupiat and Yup'ik masks and carvings. The limited edition prints of Cape Dorset's Kinngait art cooperative reflect historical traditions, deep connections to landscape and artistic vision of Indigenous Inuit artists of the Arctic Far North. In December 2019, the residents of Cape Dorset voted to rename the hamlet to its Inuktitut name of Kinngait. As a center for drawing, printmaking and carving, Kinngait has called itself the calls itself the "Capital of Inuit Art.” In the 21st century, printmaking and carving continue to be the community's main economic activities. Each year, Kinngait Studios issues an annual print collection. Kinngait has been hailed as the most artistic community in Canada, with some 22% of the labor force employed in the arts.
The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works features fabric art by Ericka Eckert. Erika fuses her knowledge of painting, fabric and silk-screening to expertly create wall hangings and paintings. Her latest work merges her rigorous classic art training with her desire to create lightness and whimsy. Her ability to capture nature, emotions and imagination is accessible, fun, and enlightening.
Beacham’s Clock Compay is a must see gallery of clocks as a rarefied form of art. The sound alone will lift your spirits while you explore the beauty of precision, hand-crafted materials come together in a rhythm of time. Dyrk Godby Gallery will take you to an earlier time, featuring his widely collected original paintings and leather carvings featuring native and western American cultures from the past into current times. The western way of life is alive and thriving and Dyrk has lived it all.
All of these galleries participate in Artwalk. Register at each of them to win one of two $50 gift certificates, donated by Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty. The $50 gift certificates may be redeemed at any of the participating galleries.
Then during the Studio Tour, your sign-in will register you for one of two $100 gift certificates good for purchase from any Studio Tour artist. Winners will be drawn after the Studio Tour.
Pick up a Gallery Map and a Studio Tour Guide in any gallery location or HERE.
Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:
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