ArtWalk This Friday, October 23, 2026
Visit Art Galleries Featuring:
• Beautiful art
• Good company
• Artist Talks
• Demonstrations
All You Need to Know:
Who? You and your friends
What? SAA Fourth Friday Artwalk
Where? Galleries of Sisters
Cost? FREE
The Sisters Arts Association’s October 23 Fourth Friday Artwalk arrives this week with autumn’s colors, scents, and flavors. Galleries welcome visitors all day, with featured events starting around 4 p.m. Here’s what to look for.
GALLERIES
The Campbell Gallery features Melanie Whedon, a self-taught watercolor artist whose nature scenes capture movement, often balancing abstract texture with crisp detail. She restores vintage frames and creates artwork tailored to each find. A full-time architect, Melanie enjoys life with her one-year-old, husband, and 12-year-old pup.
Hood Avenue Art features four artists. Printmaker Carolyn Platt uses monotype printing to express shapes, shadows and designs in unique, unrepeatable originals, unlike traditional prints. Central Oregon woodturner Bill Lind creates one-of-a-kind bowls and vessels from downed Oregon forest trees and recycled wood fragments from arborists, reimagining the wood’s former glory. Sharyl Parker McCullough brings patience and attention to detail to knitted, woven and designed wearable fiber art, taking collectors beyond clothing’s utility into self-expression. Plein air artist Barbara Cella paints Central Oregon’s diverse geography on canvas, using bold, expressive strokes to capture shifting light and shadow, enliven her landscapes and reconnect viewers with the world around them.
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The Rickards Gallery features “Between the Lines,” original figurative oil and charcoal works by Dan Rickards. Rather than individual portraits or narratives, these pieces explore shared emotional experience through light, gesture, color, and painterly marks. The figures are both specific and anonymous, inviting recognition while leaving room for viewers to find themselves. Some paintings convey quiet restraint; others use expressive color and bold brushwork to reveal greater emotional intensity beneath the surface. Though distinct from his landscapes, this work continues Dan’s lifelong exploration of the quiet dialogue between light and shadow, presence and absence, observation and feeling. Whether figure or horizon, the subject changes, but the search remains the same.
Sisters Gallery and Frame welcomes fall with new and favorite images by Randall Tillery, showcasing the Oregon Cascades amid the golden glow of aspens before their leaves fade. The images invite viewers to follow a path into autumn’s color or meet its brilliance head-on. The gallery also continues “The Many Faces of Paper,” featuring Debra Fisher’s paper art masks and Linda Wolff’s tissue paper collages in vintage frames. In early November, that show makes way for Kimry Jelen’s 2027 Calendar Images.
The Stitchin’ Post’s new exhibit, “The Stitching Showcase,” brings together embroidery, collage, contemporary quilts, garments, and fiber sculpture. This varied collection reflects an eclectic group whose regular gatherings blend social time with creative stitching, sharing, and learning from one another. Featured artists are Marion Shimoda, Mary Noble, Kit Stafford, Ginn Staines, Linda Weick, Karen Brock, Sheryl Rudolph, Belinda Batchelder, Leotie Richards, Tonye Phillips, and Jean Wells.
Toriizaka Art invites you to slow down, explore, and discover something unexpected. This month, instead of a single exhibition, the gallery brings together works by artists central to its collection. Since opening in Tokyo in 2006, Toriizaka has looked beyond individual exhibitions, seeking art that speaks across cultures and fosters deeper connections. Today, its collection pairs contemporary Vietnamese and Japanese artists with accomplished PNW artists. Paintings include dreamlike Vietnamese landscapes by Vu Cong Dien and Dao Hai Phong and deeply human figurative works by Lim Khim Katy and Nguyen Thanh Binh. Abstract works, sculpture, kinetic art, glass, ceramics, textiles, and more complete the collection, including works by Henriette Heiny, Donald MacLane, Lawrence Stoller and Karen Ehart.
Wildflower Studio features small original oil paintings by local artist Chris Nelson, with new works added monthly. The latest paintings depict landscapes, still life, and local birds. Diffusers, room sprays, and candles are newly restocked for fall.
BEYOND GALLERIES
The Sisters Clay Collective is open during Artwalk and it’s a great time to stop by to visit, explore opportunities for classes and memberships, and fellowship with others who like to “play in the mud.”
As you venture out, look for the ArtWalls, the non-gallery businesses that feature work by local artists. The Hub will have an open house featuring two new artists: Beadwork by Heidi Brickhouse and painting, fiber and sculpture by Nicole Penoncello. The Barn showcases Raina Verhey’s impressionist paintings. Sisters Bakery displays the Halloween inspired work by Gloria Enchanted and Fika Sisters has new watercolors, linoleum prints and skateboards by Sisters artist Andrew Loomis.
QUICKDRAW
QuickDraw: At the close of the Artwalk, a drawing will e held for two $50 gift certificates, good at any participating gallery. Visitors may sign up once per gallery. Winners will be notified by phone and email, so it is important that all fields be complete. Thanks to Susan Bird and Stellar Realty Northwest of Sisters for their generous sponsorship.
ART WALLS
Fika Sisters - Featuring art by Andrew Loomis.
The Barn - Featuring Raina Verhey with original oils.
Sisters Bakery - Featuring art by Gloria Enchanted.
The Hub - Open House for beadwork artist Heidi Brickhouse and painter and sculptor Nicole Penoncello.
MAKERS STUDIO
The Clay Collective will not be open during the September 25th Artwalk due to the traffic impacts of the Sisters Folk Festival. They will be back for the Artwalk in October.
SAA is a 501(c)3 organization that welcomes new members: individuals who love art, artists, students, and businesses. Annual memberships range from $50 to $150, and now is a great time to join for 2026. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the number of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!