Sisters Arts Association invites you to keep celebrating the holidays by joining the Fourth Friday Artwalk this week, through the downtown galleries. Share in our good cheer, light refreshment, and enjoy the local arts scene with family and friends. If you haven’t done a Fourth Friday Artwalk because of your busy schedule, this may be your best opportunity.

The Flying Horse Gallery, at 161 South Elm Street, features original paintings and giclee prints from resident artists Brad Earl and Sloane Earl, along with selected work from spotlight artists. Brad Earl is known for nostalgic paintings ranging from typewriters, cameras, and local favorite spots like Sno Cap. Sloane’s paintings bring you to imaginative, mystical worlds of fantasy. Starting mid-January, the gallery will be exclusively showcasing the original art, and creative process, behind the new Game of Thrones book covers designed by local artists.

Toriizaka Art offers up end-of-year cheer. We have enjoyed our second year in Sisters and we look forward to thanking all of our patrons and friends on this Fourth Friday. We hope to feature our latest pride and joy, our grandson Calvin, who will be visiting from the east coast! Five Toriizaka artists have been selected for a featured show at The Coos Art Museum in their January to April exhibition. Please visit the museum to see selected works by AJ Evansen, Bui Thanh Tam, Chas Martin, Lim Khim Katy, and Nguyen Dinh Vu. Information about the show will appear on their website soon. A sincere thanks to Helen Schmidling of Sisters Gallery and Frame who graciously opens the gallery when we are not there. Please feel free to call, text or email us at Toriizaka Art for an appointment during the winter months, but if you happen to come by and we are not around, Helen is happy to unlock our space and handle on-site inquiries and sales.

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Sisters Gallery and Frame is staging an Equine Roundup this month, featuring the work of Kimry Jelen (acrylics and prints), Caroline Stratton Crow (watercolor), Lynn Brush (oil on linen), Kim Black (gourd wall art), Melissa Cole (mixed media), and Ann Grossnickle (pottery). It’s just a friendly “neigh-borhood” gathering, so stop by.

Makin’ it Local celebrates the year end and new beginnings with a group showcase of new work by Kathy Deggendorfer, Megan Marie Myers, Lindsay Gilmore, Rachel Dantona, James Parsons, Quail Lane Press, Green Bird Press, Mitch Jewelry, Julie Hamilton, Susan Luckey Higdon, Kara Frampton, Cheryl Chapman, Kari Phillips, Terri Axness, and Sheila Dunn. Hors d’oeuvres, Oregon Sokol Blosser sparkling wine, Deschutes Brewery IPA, and Makin’ It Local’s “famous” gingersnaps will be served.

Rickards Gallery looks back at some of Dan Rickards’ most iconic paintings. This collection will focus on Dan’s use of the elements of fire and ice. For a bit of extra heat, Wild Roots Distillery will offer tastings of spirits and wines.

Space In Common owner Amelia Morton is releasing a small collection of mixed media pieces in honor of the winter solstice and the lengthening of the days. Each artwork holds a night sky painted in watercolor surrounded by a portal or explosion of light made by carving through layers of oil pastel. The pieces represent the beauty of darkness, the way we must balance rest with work, and are connected to a larger body of work coming in 2025 titled “Window to the Sky.” Space In Common also continues to show the work of Sisters artist Randy Redfield through the end of December.

Stitchin’ Post’s Fiber Art Gallery’s new exhibit opens during Artwalk from 4 to 6 p.m. Stop by to see block printed art works and vintage quilts by Valori Wells.

Wildflower Studio, Campbell Gallery, and Hood Avenue Art will not be open for the Artwalk this month.

Gallery maps are available in every gallery location, and online at sistersartsassociation.org. We look forward to visiting with you in 2025 when the Artwalks resume in March.

Sign up for SAA’s Quick Draw, once in each gallery. Thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters, two $50 gift certificates will be awarded. Gallery maps are available in all of the galleries.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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The Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk is in a holiday mood this Friday. In between shopping, baking, and giving thanks, take a few moments to stroll through the galleries and see what’s happening this month. Galleries are open during the day and the featured artists’ receptions generally take place between 4 and 7 p.m.

Makin’ It Local features three Central Oregon artists in a pairing of art, wine and food on this Friday as well as next week – Friday, 3 to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m. Featured art and artists are raku pottery by Terri Axness of Muddy Creek Studio in Haines, Oregon, new fine art prints by Susan Luckey Higdon of Bend, and Kathy Deggendorfer of Sisters. Pairings and receptions feature Oregon wines curated by Mark Clemens of Friends and Vine in Sisters.

Wildflower Studio has prints, cards, stickers and Christmas card packets by Megan Nielsen, a local artist with a design and illustration background.  Pick up new art supplies, ready-made frames, seasonal soaps and room sprays, among other sustainable, consumable and affordable gifts.

The Cindy and Duncan Campbell Gallery continues with the joy of “Hugs”, monoprint images by Sisters’ artist Paul Alan Bennett that recall the time after the pandemic when we could finally exchange hugs. Monoprints are available as is the artist’s self-published book, “Hug.”

Hood Avenue Art will be warmed by the fiddle music of Bob Baker, while visitors stroll through art by the gallery’s many fine artists. As with the other locations, there will be light refreshments, great conversations, and time to share with friends.

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At Space in Common, S. Randy Redfield will display a collection of mostly new work through November and December.  He is a noted regional painter who has lived and worked in Sisters for 35 years.  He says, “The best part of painting is to teach myself to see the world around me and translate that into something real. Interior space blends with the surrounding landscapes we are all part of.”

The Rickards Gallery showcases new jewelry by Wendy Vernon. She has been making jewelry for more than 40 years. This show will include new shapes, colors and interesting geological tidbits with stones and gems including citrine, labradorite, kyanite, amethyst, garnet, and prenite.

The Stitchin’ Post’s Staff Handcrafted Gift Boutique opens during the Artwalk from 4 to 6 p.m. The boutique is full of wonderful items including quilts, bags, pincushions, ornaments, and holiday décor. Explore the wide variety of wonderful things the creative and talented staff has made.

The Flying Horse, Sisters’ newest gallery at 161 South Elm Street, spotlights artist Megan Nielson from Canyon Cove and unique creature displays from Hailey Nelson, along with Small Works of Whimsey from more than 20 local and global artists. Resident artists are Brad and Sloane Earle. Brad is known for his paintings of typewriters, cameras, and iconic spots; Sloane’s oil paintings and prints whisk you off to a fantasy world.

Sisters Gallery and Frame has new work by several artists. Sandy Melchiori’s colorful chickens strut their stuff, Antonia Carriere’s soft pastel landscapes take you to Northeastern Oregon, pen-and-Prismacolor fantasies on board by Steve Mathews, and Linda B. Wolff’s tissue paper landscape collages are just dreamy! Speaking of dreams, the second edition of printmaker Denise Kester’s popular book, “Drawing on the Dream,” has just arrived and there are several signed copies in stock. Check out the colorful multi-artist wall as you stroll alongside the gallery.

Toriizaka Art will be closed during Fourth Friday Artwalk, but will return in December.

Sign up for SAA’s Quick Draw, once in each gallery. Thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters, two $50 gift certificates will be awarded. Gallery maps are available in all of the galleries.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk will have plenty of sweet and a little bit of the unusual. Visit the galleries in Sisters to see what’s new this month – including a brand new gallery in town!

The Flying Horse Gallery at 161 South Elm Street is a new artist-owned gallery that brings a unique twist to Central Oregon. Resident artists, Brad Earl and Sloane Earl (father and daughter), bring you to a world of fantasy, whimsy and playful nostalgia. The gallery will also spotlight artists from all over the globe throughout the year. The opening exhibit features the premier of original paintings by local Canyon and Cove illustrator Megan Nielsen, and Hailey Nelson’s unique creature displays.

Sisters Gallery and Frame is featuring new landscapes by Mike Stasko titled “The Deschutes Plateau Suite.” The images portray views on a single day’s drive leaving the rugged Deschutes River canyon from Maupin and heading south to Sisters. Stasko explores the effects of light over distance and ever changing vistas during stormy weather. The renderings are done on four-ply rag museum board with Prismacolor Premier pencils that are thick and soft, lay down evenly and provide good saturation of color.

Wildflower Studio is featuring framed original paintings by Bill Hamilton, Sandy Melchiori, and Mark Davis. Subjects range from local landscapes to impressionistic atmospheres and mid-century modern designs. Celebrate the autumn season with replenished scents in both diffusers and candles.

Makin’ it Local highlights Central Oregon jewelry designer Ashley Scholtes of Mitch Jewelry. Scholtes took a leap of faith to start Mitch Jewelry in 2010 to highlight the fine art of metalsmithing, and create quality pieces that emphasize longevity and design that is somewhere between organic and geometric.

The Rickards Gallery’s main attraction is fine gourds and woven baskets by Leslie Burtt and Chris Warren. Burtt’s weaving techniques combine traditional styles with contemporary methods, and the focus of her work is the use of found materials such as naturally shed antlers, cherry bark, reeds, and grasses. She considers her work to be odes to the primitive containers first used by humans. Warren studied and taught basketry, but her real love was weaving. The main emphasis in her baskets is the use of natural materials including bark, kelp, and driftwood.

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The Stitchin’ Post’s new exhibit is “The Stitching Showcase,” a collection of fiber arts by individuals who regularly gather for social time and creative stitching of all kinds. Sharing and stitching and learning from each other is what weaves together this eclectic group of women.

The Campbell Gallery brings us joy through “Hugs,” monoprint images done by Sisters artist Paul Alan Bennett after the pandemic. When the covid vaccine came out, people dropped their masks and they could hug again! The collection includes self-hugs, hugs of grief, and hugs of objects and pets – all made into “Hug,” a book published by the artist.

As we approach the darkest days of the year, Taylor Manoles has painted a collection called “Sundown,” at Space in Common. The paintings explore the deeper rhythms of life that ebb and flow like the setting sun. Just as the seasons change, bringing both storms and calm, our lives are marked by a series of beginnings and endings. Each sunset signifies a close, a need for rest, as well as an invitation to pause and reflect. But in the darkness, there are whispers of hope—a reminder that with every closing chapter comes the potential for renewal.

At Hood Avenue Art, the featured artists are bowl maker Bill Lind and landscape painters Anne Gibson and Barbara Cella. Lind reveals the natural beauty hidden in found and recycled Oregon woods, sourced from arborists, downed trees and wood mill “extra” piles. Known for her plein air landscapes, Cella captures the energy and exhilaration of painting in the wild. She has been experimenting with what she calls her ecstatic landscapes, pushing color and mood filled with exuberance. Autumn days bring quieter trails, warmer colors and crisp night to Gibson’s autumn palette. Skies turn deep azure, unless they are choked with smoke. This “new normal” reinforces the importance of making choices to preserve our natural world.

Toriizaka Art will be closed during Fourth Friday Artwalk, but will return in December.

Remember to sign up for Quick Draw in each gallery that you visit. Two gift certificates, each for $50, will be awarded after Artwalk, thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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The Sisters Arts Association invites you to visit the Galleries of Sisters on Friday, Sept. 27, during the day and early evening, as you get ready for the Sisters Folk Festival. It’s our Fourth Friday Artwalk. We are delighted to celebrate the art and music that makes our town so special! The usual Artwalk hours are 4 to 7 p.m., with some locations offering Artwalk from 3 to 6 this time in order to accommodate the music!

Wildflower Studio is featuring several new framed paintings by Bill Hamilton, who depicts local landscapes in acrylics. The studio has also restocked diffusers, candles and lotions with a new season of scents, and Brittany’s Bees has replenished a gift selection of local Central Oregon honey.

The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Artworks continues to show drawings by Maren Inga Veloso. Inspired by her mother’s Norwegian heritage, Maren created many of these images in the public library on Orcas Island last September, after she came across a digital archive of antique embroidered shawls (Halskläde) from the 1800s, and a book about traditional Norwegian knitwear.

Hood Avenue Art features four artists. Paul Alan Bennett’s paintings feature night scenes along the rivers in Central Oregon. Sharyl Parker McCulloch is a fiber artist who designs and creates unique wearable art using natural fibers. Vivial Olsen’s wildlife paintings capture the beauty of animals as nature’s gift. She recently illustrated a children’s book, “The Good, The Bad and The Goofy,” filled with wild animals and stories of their whimsical behaviors. Art Blumenkron dedicates himself to creating fine furniture from beautiful Northwest hardwoods.

Makin’ It Local features “Our Extreme Oregon,” work by Central Oregon adventure photographer James Parsons. An avid hiker, James heads off the beaten path to capture iconic landscapes from unique perspectives. He says, “Oregon is a state of extremes. No other state has as much beauty and natural diversity, from the coastal temperate rainforests and the alpine areas of the Ring of Fire to the high deserts of southeast Oregon. Extreme Oregon is my lifetime photographic project to document all that is out there in this amazing state.”

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Rickards Gallery features “Shades of Light,” the work of Sarah B. Hansen. A lifelong outdoor explorer, Sarah’s paintings express her connection to the natural world. She pushes colors and plays with shapes, and textures to suggest landscape elements. Leaving certain areas undefined, she creates an atmosphere that allows the viewer’s imagination to fill in the rest. Sometimes she adds words from journal excerpts or long-ago poets to create a conversation with nature.

Sisters Gallery and Frame shares “Colorful Autumn Aspens” by Barbara Berry, along with and a few newly delivered works by other gallery artists. Berry is a longtime Sisters painter and art instructor whose acrylic paintings have consistently been admired in the galleries that have been at 222 West Hood, going back four generations of owners. Her paintings are “gallery wrapped,” that is, Barbara paints enhanced borders and frames directly on the fronts and sides of her artwork.

Space in Common continues to exhibit paintings by Reina Verhey and Taylor Manoles, two artists who were part of the Artist Studio Tour last weekend. Reina’s new work is an emotional deep dive into the spirit of stone and sand in ancient and sacred places, and explores new texture and color. Taylor continues to paint contemporary Oregon landscapes, including scenes from Eastern Oregon, Madras, and Warm Springs.

The Stitchin’ Post’s exhibit is “The Whisper Challenge” by the Central Oregon Studio Art Quilt Associates  (SAQA). This project is modeled after the childhood game of “Telephone.” Thirty quilt artists were randomly divided into six teams of five participants. The first person on each team has one month to make an art quilt of their choice, measuring 18-by-30 inches, which they hand off to the next person with no conversation about their intent. That person responds to the quilt (theme, color, line work, or concept) and has one month to create their own quilt, which they hand off to the next person, and so on. Each person sees only the previous quilt until the Team Reveal at the end of the challenge, when all can see and marvel at the quilting conversations.

Toriizaka Art will not be participating in the September 27 Fourth Friday art walk. Please mark your calendars for an intimate talk and reception in the gallery with Lawrence Stoller on October 17, 4 to 6 p.m. This special event titled “Crystals and the Power of Beauty” promises to give us a glimpse of Lawrence’s extensive thoughts on beauty, love and creativity.

Please be kind, and remember to “shop local.” All of the galleries and most of their artists are local, and welcome your support. Sisters Arts Association reminds you to sign up for its Quick Draw – two tickets will be selected at random, each good for a $50 gift certificate. Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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Summer is winding down, temperatures are cooling, and families are heading back to school. Where has the summer gone? Sisters Arts Association’s final Summer Fourth Friday Artwalk on August 23 offers one more opportunity to explore the galleries of Sisters with friends.

Hood Avenue Art this month features three artists. Ceramic Artist Susan Yokoyama’s clay artistry began in the rich soils of Kula, Hawaii and is now inspired by the colors of Central Oregon. Her interest is in the structure of Japanese tea bowls created using the raku process. Ruth Carroll paints dramatic landscapes of Oregon and her native California, primarily in oils. Pastel and oil painter Kathleen Keliher is known for her plein air studies that she develops into larger studio paintings.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop’s featured artist, Caroline Stratton-Crow, works in two- and three-dimensional realms from dancing junipers in watercolor and acrylic, to clay figures, spirit masks, and astrological projections. Her horses are an expression of freedom, strength and power. Owls, symbolic of wisdom, and crows, which are quick-witted and smart, represent magic.

Toriizaka Art spotlights work by Nguyen Thanh Binh (Vietnam). Born in 1954, he graduated from the fine art university in Saigon in 1983. His paintings are rendered with subdued hues of creams, browns and whites, punctuated with reds and blacks. Binh’s preference for simplicity in composition and design reflect his own way of life. The paintings often express his sorrow and the sorrow of many in his generation. The elegance of his nudes and women in traditional Ao Dai moves beyond the form of his subjects to capture their grace and beauty. Japanese haiku inspires Binh. Just as a haiku contains only three lines, its meaning is profound. Similarly, art can have great meaning with minimal color and detail.

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Space in Common hosts oil painter Raina Verhey, whose impressionistic landscapes of the high desert and stone are a modern depiction of ancient and sacred spaces. Raina moved west from Georgia as a teenager. Her work is based on travels through Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico.

The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Artworks displays drawings by Maren Inga Veloso. Inspired by her mother’s Norwegian heritage, Maren created many of these images in the public library on Orcas Island last September, after she came across a digital archive of antique embroidered shawls (Halskläde) from the 1800s, and a book about traditional Norwegian knitwear. She grew up around piles of sweaters and a collection of carvings made by generations of her family. Maren’s work also adorns ceramics by her childhood friend, ceramist Laura Campbell.

Wildflower Studio features signed and numbered limited edition prints by local artist Norma Holmes. Norma works in pastel, and paints both plein air and in her studio. Wildflower also carries Norma’s book, “Land Escapes,” where she explores in depth several eastern Oregon destinations. The gallery also has new prints, cards and stickers by Kelly Rae Roberts.

The Rickards Gallery welcomes mosaic glass artist Mare Schelz. Mare’s new show, “Optic Flow,” is filled with colorful glass depictions of nature that flicker and catch your eye as you wander through them. Some are familiar, some are abstract; all are eye-catching.

Makin’ It Local features newly released giclee prints by Kathy Deggendorfer, one of Sisters’ favorite artists. Inspired by her surroundings, color, and texture, Kathy’s vibrant and colorful watercolors are whimsical representations of ranch life, her travels, and the environment.

The Stitchin’ Post’s guest artist is Sharon Carvalho, whose “Piece by Piece” collection is free-flowing, organic, and improvisational. Starting with the vaguest of ideas, Sharon’s art is inspired by shape, color, and serendipity. It involves piecing, applique, and mixed media, including fabric she designed and printed, commercial prints, and decorator textiles with lots of texture. It often consists of melding photographs she has taken and repurposed to her own style of mixed media. Using photo-editing software, she mixes images with other art and prints on cottons, silks and other media.

Please be kind, and remember to “shop local.” All of the galleries and most of their artists are local, and welcome your support. Sisters Arts Association reminds you to sign up for its Quick Draw – two tickets will be selected at random, each good for a $50 gift certificate. Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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As the heat wave continues, the Sisters Arts Association assures you that some of the coolest places in town are the Galleries of Sisters. The July 28 Fourth Friday Artwalk, between 4 and 7 p.m., promises new featured work by artists along with light nibbles and good deals.

At Sisters Gallery and Frame, look for raven figures by Michelle Deaderick, and functional pottery pieces by her husband, Mitch Deaderick. Mitch and Michelle met at the Sisters Rodeo 45 years ago and have made a career of turning clay into fun and functional objects together ever since. Michelle’s “Raven Woman,” is a work in progress, as she is studying bronze sculpture with Gary Cooley in Sisters. Mitch’s mugs, bowls, and serving dishes are glazed and fired with extreme care and remain durable for daily use for decades.

Toriizaka Art celebrates its Two-Year Anniversary in Sisters with two special artists. Nguyen Minh Nam’s paintings depict the conflict and confusion between traditional and modern mores and values. Transparent colorful figures symbolize modern life and future generations. Previous generations are depicted in black and white - simple, rustic, discreet and honest with a dedication to a spiritual life. By bringing both the old and the new together, he hopes to raise questions about the changes in morality in contemporary society. Last year, Lim Khim Katy visited the gallery and demonstrated some of her brush techniques when painting figurative works. This show features 22 of her new landscapes, inspired by her time in central Oregon. The time she spent here, meeting and interacting with friends of the gallery, was motivational for her and led to these new works characterized by and painted with joy.

Makin’ It Local features regionally acclaimed artist Susan Luckey Higdon. The show, called “Color, Light, Texture, And Shapes,” features nine newly released giclee prints.  Susan’s son, Jackson Higdon of Sisters’ own, Luckey’s Woodsman, will provide some massive flavor bombs - with light hors d’oeuvres and appetizers. Susan Luckey Higdon is known for dramatic landscapes in complex interactions of color and pattern that she describes as natural abstractions.

The Rickards Gallery presents new work by Garth Williams, a Sisters favorite and longtime friend of the Rickards family. He loves fly fishing and the great outdoors, so he often finds himself translating his favorite environments to canvas. He has a unique concept of realism that weaves shapes and colors together, using palette knife to create dramatic portrayals of aspens and landscapes.

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Space In Common’s featured artist is Alex Drury, a young artist who lives with chronic health issues. Her creative escape and therapy uses watercolor, torn and collaged in layers and finished with touches of mixed media to add detail and depth. She says “The tearing of paper is as important in the process as it is for the finished aesthetic. The destroying or breaking in this step is a symbolic act of rebuilding. I hope these paintings bring you as much peace as they have brought me.”

Hood Avenue Art spotlights three of its artists: printmaker Carolyn Platt, jewelry artist Sharon Reed, and painter Sandy Dutko. Platt layers various and multiple forms of printmaking to create her images.  She prefers to imply forces and capture their vitality economically, rather than illustrating things or scenes. Reed creates one-of-a-kind hand wrought jewelry. Dutko works with water media but sometimes experiments with oils and pastels. Her work varies from semi- to pure abstract depending on the subject matter.

Wildflower Studio encourages the arts by carrying art supplies and ready-made frames. Pick up a travel watercolor set, sketch book and watercolor pencils to take on a hike. The studio also offers art by local artists, gift products and cards.

The Stitchin’ Post’s Art Wall has “Landscapes and Dress for Less” by Judy Hoiness. Two themes emerge – landscapes on paper, canvas or bisque-fired plates with recycled mixed media, and garments with an emphasis on mending, with a wire figure as hanger. This is Hoiness’s quest to find, salvage and design materials that might otherwise find their way to the landfill. Media includes horsehair, cloth, paper, canvas, wire, construction wire mesh, thread, ink, watercolor paint, acrylic paint and ceramic bisque plates.

The Campbell Gallery continues to show artwork by Caprial Hope.

Sisters Makers is sitting this this month, but look for something new and exciting from them during the August 23 Artwalk and beyond.

Remember to sign up – once per gallery visit – for the SAA’s Quick Draw. Thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters, two $50 gift certificates will be awarded at the conclusion of the Artwalk.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

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Sisters Arts Association partners with SFF Presents to kick off the best part of summer with the Fourth Friday Artwalk and Ponderoo Arts Experience on June 28.

Galleries will generally be open from 10 to 6:30 or 7 p.m., and the family-friendly Artwalk and Ponderoo event begins with live music and art at 13 venues around town from 4:30 to 6 or 7 p.m.

Art Walkers are invited to pick up a “Ponderoo Passport” and map from any of the participating locations, and have it stamped at each of the businesses they visit. Completed passports can be redeemed for a “Little Ponderoo,” a miniature wood rainbow trout created by Jason Chinchen and the Sisters High School Woods II students, and decorated by local artists and art lovers. Redeem passports at the Village Green check-in tent.

Also, be sure to sign up for the Sisters Arts Association’s “Quick Draw,” whereby two $50 gift certificates will be awarded, for use in galleries participating in Artwalk. This is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters.

 Here’s a rundown on this once a year event!

 At Toriizaka Art, Henriette Heiny’s abstract poured art is featured in the June issue of Cascade A&E, where writer James Morris calls it “a vibrant testament to the enduring allure of abstract expressionism.” Also, being shown are Dominique Rovers, a wildlife artist from the Netherlands, explores the soul of each animal she paints, and Karen Ehart’s sculpted fused glass,  a unique, multi-dimensional piece created with heart and soul. Music will be by singer-songwriter-guitarist Alicia Viani, performing with Lilli Worona, a vocalist who also plays guitar and fiddle.

Sisters Gallery and Frame hosts multi-talented artists, singer-songwriter-poets Beth Wood and Dennis McGregor, and artist Jennifer Hartwig-Klingbiel, aka The Scratchboard Lady. Some of McGregor’s original artwork, from his forthcoming book “You Stole My Name Tool!” will be shown in person for the first time. Hartwig’s “Sunflower Chipmunk” will join half a dozen never-before shown works of delicate scratchboard. She has taken a year to focus on perfecting the combination of scratchboard with added color, and to revise simple black-and-white shadows for depth on fur and features. She will have 19 new cards and mugs.

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The Stithin’ Post’s own Valori and Jean Wells combine talents in a show called “Two Voices Speaking Creatively.” Val’s block printing and Jean’s freeform quilting take textile art to the next level, with bold colors, new designs, and shapes. Always experimenting and working intuitively, they let their pieces take on a life of their own. Two Smoke Drifters will provide music.

Hood Avenue Art spotlights Alisa Looney, Susie Zeitner and Scott Cordner. Looney’s original fused enamel images depict such natural events as seedlings sprouting through lava rock, water bubbling over snags and fungi fruiting near tree roots.  Zeitner has been working in fused glass for more than 25 years, making hanging light fixtures, mosaic glass yard sculptures and glass enamel paintings. Her latest commission is a 13-piece lighting installation on the Oregon Coast. Cordner’s fine art landscape photographs are printed on canvas and presented in handmade frames using renewable hardwoods. Bob Baker and Mark Barringer will keep the tunes rolling.

Space In Common’s artist, Taylor Manoles, shows “Among The Mist,” paintings that explore themes of hope, longing, and the unknown life. They invite the viewer into their current moment, and, though the future may be unknown, there is joy in the waiting and beauty to be embraced. John Shipe Duo will accompany.

The Rickards Gallery presents “Light as a Virtue,” new work by David Mensing. “Capturing the character of light is one of the most daunting challenges a painter will face, because there is no source of light on the canvas. A painter can only create a sense of light by skillfully reflecting the light that is available in the room,” Mensing explains. “As a result, creating a painting that accurately captures the light is profoundly gratifying.” See how he’s done this while listening to music by The Overhollers.

Wildflower Gallery has new work by oil painter John Runnels and stained glass artist Mitch Saba. The Bunkhouse Two, musical duo of Gabrielle and Jordan, will be playing on the front porch.

Makin’ It Local hosts Cheryl Chapman of Silly Dog Art Glass. She employs traditional glass painting techniques to create shadowing and texture, then combines it with opaque high-fire glass enamels for detail and color. Each piece is kiln-fired as many as five times. Her artwork is featured on the 2024 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show poster. The Kelcey Lassen Duo will keep the music rolling.

Sisters Makers joins the Artwalk this month. Located in the former Chamber of Commerce Building, 291 E. Main Ave. Christie Lower, an artist in residence at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture, is featured. Coinciding with the theme, “Traditions and Migrations,” and inspired by the forced migration of birds due to forest fires, Lower is creating a full-scale barn owl sculpture from needle felting. The size and details of her work are a rarity in the world of needle felting. Melanie Rose Dyer Trio will perform their original music.

The Campbell Gallery’s artist Caprial Hope draws inspiration from Central Oregon’s rugged landscape and varied wildlife. From palette knife to fine detailed brushwork, her work spans the range from might to serenity and includes original paintings, prints, and stickers. Mike Biggers and Jim Cornelius will entertain.

At Canyon Creek Pottery, potter Ken Merrill has completed 10 new Raku murals, in addition to a variety of other new work. Sisters High School’s Americana Project student performers will be featured.

 There will also be live music at other stroll locations, Thompson Guitars and Nechville West.

The Big Ponderoo will feature a preview venue at the Village Green Park. There will be activities including a community weaving project, fish painting, a creativity table, and puppet theater, with food and drinks from local vendors.  A sneak peek concert from festival bands The East Pointers and Sam Chase and the Untraditional will take place on the Ponderoo stage from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Bring your Silipint or SFF stainless still cup from a prior event if you plan to enjoy a beverage at the venue. Weekend ticket holders can pick up their festival wristband and a new Silipint at the box office tent, starting at 5 p.m. Vintage Silipints will be sold for $5 to those who need them.  

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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The Sisters Arts Association’s May 24 Fourth Friday Artwalk will unveil amazing art and showcase some of Sisters’ up-and-coming talents and veteran artists. Galleries are generally open all day and receptions with featured artists begin at 4 p.m. Walk through nine galleries and sign up for Quick Draw, to win two $50 certificates to the galleries, thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Sotheby’s Realty of Sisters.

Hood Avenue Art features painter Layne Cook, who says, “I like to try to catch the energy in human motion or, by contrast, the quiet moments of contemplation. When I am not painting people, I usually paint buildings. They also have personality and gesture – the same things that attract me with humans. And they suggest the presence of humans. I have tried to paint landscapes, but so many people do it better than I do. You must paint what moves you.”

Makin’ It Local has a showcase of fine pottery by Kara Frampton of KF Stoneware. Hawaiian-born and Oregon-based, Kara draws her inspiration from outdoors experiences and celebrates human existence in the natural world. Her stoneware vessels are designed with plants and organically symmetric patterns.

The Rickards Gallery’s own Dan Rickards will unveil a brand new landscape of our beautiful Three Sisters and a couple of other wild surprises! When asked the inspiration behind his newest works he said, “Throughout my career as an artist I have been fortunate enough to glean my most treasured inspirations right from my backyard.” Dan invites the community to help name this stunning new work. Stop in between 4 and 6 p.m. and enter to win a free print if your name is chosen.

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Toriizaka Art showcases the petroglyph-like style of celebrated artist Chas Martin in an exhibition called “Abstract Illusions: Faces in Art.”  Prepare to stretch your imagination through his sculptures and masks. Martin studied at the Pratt Institute in New York City and was an artistic and creative director with agencies in Boston and San Francisco before moving to Oregon, eventually turning to art full time. At his Multnomah Village studio, he creates, mentors artists, and offers classes. Chas will discuss his work at Toriizaka on Saturday, May 25, at 4 p.m.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop features the work of Two Lindas. Linda Wolff creates multi-layered colorful collage landscapes from white tissue paper. This collection, created during two late winter months in Sedona, emphasizes images with night skies, full moons, and deep, vibrant colors. Linda Barker is an eclectic, mostly self-taught artist who enjoys working in a variety of media. She makes unique, stylish jewelry and clothing using repurposed materials from thrift stores, garage sales, scrapyards, and the occasional street find. The art reveals her value for protecting the environment by using resources that others have tossed out, and her sense style.

The Campbell Gallery has the 2024 AP Art and Design Showcase on display through June 5. Sixteen Sisters High School art students worked all year to build a ten-piece portfolio that demonstrates their exploration and experimentation in a sustained investigation of their choice using a variety of media. The artists are Presley Adelt, Hailey Asson, Ellie Bates, Timber Bionda, Jay Bolam, Abby Christopher; Araiya Grummer, Ezer Harris, Riley Kerkmann, Bryant Leaver, Sam Liddell, Parker Miller, Ava Riehl, Lilly Sundstrom, and Kaleb Woods.

Space In Common hosts Clairen Stone of Stonefolk Studio, a visionary fiber artist whose goal is a more sustainable clothing industry. Her love of the natural world and an insatiable desire to create meaningful items channel her creative path. She sources thoughtfully grown and produced natural fibers and creates relationships with the people who produce them. Her art resides the creation of simple, beautiful garments for people to enjoy wearing.

 The Stitchin’ Post is featuring “Color, Pattern, Play and Passion!” by multi-award winning quilt artist Judy Beaver from 4 to 6 p.m. Her work is filled with rich saturated colors and bold patterns, unusual design elements and color palettes that are playful and express a spirit of passion and joy. She often begins with one inspirational piece of fabric and builds a color palette around it. She seldom pre-plans her work, but intuitively makes the various patterns and motifs play well together as she just lets the piece flow in its own direction.

Wildflower Studio features art supplies, leather bags, and pottery. Paints, travel watercolor sets, pencils and journals pair perfectly with spring and summer hikes. Leather hip purses and bags by Triumph Outpost come in a variety of styles and leather tones. Potter and teacher Hunter Teig makes small bowls, cups and mugs using his own unique glazes.

   Pick up a map in any of our galleries, or online at www.sistersartsassociation.org. Remember to sign up for Quick Draw, once per gallery. Two lucky registrants will each win $50 gift certificates, good for purchase in any of the above listed galleries. Quick Draw is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s Realty in Sisters.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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With Mother’s Day just a few days away, mothers and grandmothers play a significant role in the April 26 Fourth Friday Artwalk in the Galleries of Sisters. Local galleries will be open all day, and most will serve light refreshments and feature guest artists between 4 and 7 p.m. New Gallery Maps are available in all galleries to help you navigate.

Space in Common’s “Motherline” is a collection of work by Sisters artist Amelia Morton as well as her maternal grandmother Nasha Tischinsky (1932-1970), and her step-grandmother Diane Olsson (1932 - present). The creative spark was passed down from Nasha, whom Amelia never met, and was nurtured by Diane, who was her first creative idol and an early mentor. The paintings in “Motherline” are all pieces Amelia grew up with or watched Diane paint. In her own work for the show, Amelia explores the connection to her maternal grandmothers through a series of original line drawings and watercolor paintings on watercolor paper in handmade cherry frames.

The Rickards Gallery’s Christine Joy learned to paint from her grandmother, Norma Peterson. They painted together through Christine’s early childhood chronic illnesses, with Norma providing encouragement and inspiration. Christine went on to earn a degree in fine art from George Fox College, and to study with master oil painters. She paints mostly en plein aire, and teaches at Chehalem Center in Newberg.

Hood Avenue Art features pastel artist JoAnn Burgess and ceramicist Annie Dyer. JoAnn’s love of nature is reflected in her artwork, and her love of teaching the fine art of pastels to beginning artists. For more than 30 years, Annie has been bringing clay to life in the form of pots that are friendly, intimate, and grow more personal with everyday use. Her distinctive pieces are thrown or hand-built, then sculpted, scored, stretched, smooshed, and/or flattened to resemble bark, perforated rock, a twisted piece of wood or the swirl and knot of burl. She finds success in loving the process of making things with her hands, and having a few people along the way really like what you’re doing.

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Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop welcomes printmaker and author Denise Kester, creator of “magical realism.” Denise specializes in viscosity printmaking using oily lithography inks on Plexiglas plates and printed on fine-art papers. Her studio in Ashland is a safe place where she opens her heart to connect with the world, to celebrate joy, lend support to others in difficult times, and touch people’s hearts and souls. The second edition of her popular book, “Drawing on the Dream,” is in progress and she will take prepaid orders for signed copies, in addition to showing original work, giclee prints and note cards. As an extra treat, oil painter Sandy Melchiori will show new paintings of spring flowers in all their glory.

Makin’ It Local proudly displays “Deep Impressions / Perfect Print / Wonderful Feeling” – Letterpress prints from Green Bird Press and Quail Lane Press. The two Oregon-based artist studios capture the beauty of Oregon through fine art prints inspired by nature, local area geographical maps, and artistic interpretation of the high desert. Letterpress is a relief printing technique in which the raised surface from a printing plate or handset type is inked and pressed into paper. The pressure from the press, combined with a thick paper stock, creates a deep impression in the paper, giving each piece a unique tactile quality.

The Campbell Gallery continues a show of work by Melanie Whedon of Bend. Originally from Philadelphia, Melanie is a full-time architect who uses watercolor as a medium to express her ideas of the world. She regards scale in nature and strikes a balance between abstract texture and crisp detail. Outside of painting, she is an avid hiker, yogi, reader, and most recently, rock climber.

Wildflower Studio introduces original acrylic paintings and new prints with sweeping landscapes and Cascade Mountain views by Bill Hamilton. The prints are matted to ready-made frame sizes. Also, for Mother’s Day, check out the natural handmade sustainable products from Rough Cut Soap Co. The lineup includes soaps, shampoo bars, lotion bars and lip balms.

The Stitchin’ Post Gallery shows “My Own Back Yard,” themed pieces by the Journeys Art Quilt Group. Their “Back Yard” is filled with forests, flowers, bluebird skies, rivers, lakes and mountains. Or perhaps it is a back yard from another place, another life. Celebrate the artistic voices of Judith Beaver, Helen Brisson, Betty Gientke, June Jaeger, Jean Wells Keenan, Donna Rice, Martha Sanders, Marion Shimoda, Mary Stiewig, and Jan Tetzlaff.

If all that’s not enough to fill your art’s desire, be sure to visit Art(ifacts) 2024, Sisters High School’s annual high school art showcase, from 6 to 8 p.m.. It will feature live music, upcycled t-shirts (or BYO), hands-on art fun, and a silent auction. The action is in the SHS Commons.

Remember to sign up for Quick Draw, once per gallery. Two lucky registrants will each win $50 gift certificates, good for purchase in any of the above listed galleries. Quick Draw is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s Realty in Sisters.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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This will be the last Sisters Arts Association Fourth Friday Artwalk of 2023. It’s a great opportunity to find gifts that may be just what you’ve been looking for.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop has a brand new selection of gourds and framed gourd shards by Kim Black of Beaver Meadow Arts arriving on Friday. Also new framed art by Paul Alan Bennett and Brad Earl, and more hand knitted and crocheted hats by Helen Schmidling. Bennett’s “Moons Over the John Day River” series combines printmaking and painting. Earl plays a nostalgic chord with two jukeboxes and four classic typewriters. Black decorates gourds with traditional carving or wood burning, and then applies transparent ink dyes, metallic paints, and botanicals. There will be sweet refreshments between 4 and 7.

Hood Avenue Art Gallery’s focus will be their jewelry artists during the holiday season, through the end of February. The jewelry artists are Alisa Looney, enamel jewelry; Karen Evans, fine hand-woven beaded bracelets and necklaces; Danica Curtright, glass beads using a century-old process; Sharon Reed, hand wrought items; Sunstone Store, sunstone earrings, necklaces and rings; and Zantana Design, dichroic glass jewelry.

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Toriizaka Art invites art lovers to the gallery during this festive time, and will be open on Friday from 11 to 7, with refreshments from 4 to 7. Look for a selection of affordable ceramics and woodcarvings along with contemporary art.

Raven Makes Gallery wishes everyone Happy Holidays and a rejuvenating New Year. New pieces for Christmas include Navajo jewelry, Zuni fetishes and miniature Kachinas..

The Rickards Gallery features gifts made by local artisans and light appetizers from 4 to 6 p.m. The Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Items include jewelry from Wendy Vernon, pottery from Nomadic Ceramics, fused glass from Edie Shelton, mosaic glass from Mare Schelz, hand painted gourd ornaments from Chris Warren and Leslie Burtt, and, of course, beautiful artwork. Gift cards and complimentary giftwrapping are available.

Canyon Creek Pottery will feature “Raku After Dark.”  Master Potter Ken Merrill will be pulling pots from the raku kiln, starting at 5:30 p.m. at his gallery at 310 N. Cedar in Sisters. It will be a lively and exciting demonstration, and you get to see beautiful pottery created in real time. From red-hot to beautiful finished pots in minutes. The gallery also has a wide selection of gifts and stocking stuffers.

Wildflower Studio has small batch candles, diffusers, linen sprays and lotion collections in unique seasonal blends. The studio is stocked with oringinal paintings, prints, handcrafted gifts, artisan and felted soap  and shampoo bars.

The Campbell Gallery has artwork by Jill Neal displayed through the end of December, but will not be open during Artwalk.

Space in Common is home to lots of gift items: pottery, candles, soaps, hand-made jewelry, and more. In addition, look for some lovely small paintings from Taylor Manoles and watercolors from Amelia Morton. Stay tuned for announcements of upcoming workshops in 2023.

Makin’ It Local, a new gallery in Sisters, celebrates Oregon at 281 West Cascade Avenue, with art, photography, fine crafts, jewelry, ceramics, and more. Featured artwork is by Megan Marie Myers, Lindsay Gilmore, Rachel Dantona (Hikerbooty), James Parsons (Extreme Oregon), letterpress by Quail Lane Press and Green Bird Press, Julie Hamilton, Sheila Dunn, Susan Luckey Higdon, and more.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries. Also, a reminder to those who have won these gift certificates during this year to use them up before the year ends.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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It’s not just Black Friday in Sisters, it’s the Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk this week. What’s out there to supplement your holiday décor, fulfill a gift wish, or create that special element for your home? Gather the family, the visiting friends, and the kids for some fun and good treats between 4 and 7, in the galleries of Sisters. Most galleries will be open all day, with QuickDraw tickets available. Sign up for the monthly drawing one time in each gallery. Two $50 gift certificates will be awarded, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain in Sisters.

Canyon Creek Pottery will feature “Raku After Dark.”  Master Potter Ken Merrill will be pulling pots from the raku kiln, starting at 5 p.m. at his gallery at 310 N. Cedar in Sisters. Western style raku involves removing pottery from the kiln while red-hot and placing it into a container with combustible materials. Once the materials ignite, the container is closed, producing an intense reduction atmosphere, which creates the colors in glazes and produces deliberate crackling. It will be a lively and exciting demonstration, and you get to see beautiful pottery created in real time. From red-hot to beautiful finished pots in minutes. You can see a video of the Ken doing a RAKU firing HERE

The Stitchin’ Post Staff’s Handcrafts Boutique opens from 4 to 6 p.m. with a variety of fiber arts and hand made crafts for sale – everything from holiday decor like Christmas ornaments, gnome bottle toppers, and embroidered tea towels, to great gifts like quilts, little wallets, zippered bags, and earrings. Also featured are block printed panels and other items by Valori Wells.

The Campbell Gallery will continue to show the colorful works by Jill Neal all month at the Sisters Art Works building.

Hood Avenue Art Gallery will be featuring jewelry artists during the holiday season, from November through the end of February. The jewelry artists are Alisa Looney, enamel jewelry; Karen Evans, fine hand-woven beaded bracelets and necklaces; Danica Curtright, glass beads using a century-old process; Sharon Reed, hand wrought items; Sunstone Store earrings, necklaces and rings; and Zantana Design, dichroic glass jewelry. Below are Sharon Reed’s jewelry piecs. She is a studio artist living in Bend, who creates one-of-a-kind jewelry and contemporary abstract paintings.

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Raven Makes Gallery is stocked with new Hopi Kachina dolls, Navajo jewelry and weavings acquired during late summer buys from Native artists. The gallery will be open regular hours during Fourth Friday. Please see the website for hours and new arrivals.

Toriizaka Art will not be open for the Fourth Friday event, but will be available by appointment during December. The gallery, featuring contemporary Asian art and works by local artists, has a lovely selection of affordable items, perfect for the holiday season. Call 650-580-6551 or email info@toriizakaart.com to make an appointment.

Wildflower Studio is ready for the gift-giving season. Small batch candles, diffusers, linen sprays and lotion collections are made in-house and boast unique seasonal blends. The studio is also stocked with new products from Rough Cut Soap Co. Handcrafted artisan soaps, felted soap, soap bars and shampoo bars. Shop local art, prints, original paintings, and handmade works by local artisans. Art, consumables and locally made products make unique and affordable gifts.

At Space in Common, Taylor Manoles will display a series of paintings inspired by “October Skies.” This moody collection reflects the colors of late autumn and the vastness of the Central Oregon skies. Manoles is an oil painter whose work explores themes of faith and the human experience through contemporary landscapes.  Space in Common will hold a Small Business Saturday sale all weekend. Purchases over $60 will get a $10 gift card; purchase over $100, a $15 gift card, and over $200 will get a $30 gift card.

The Rickards Gallery’s Wendy Vernon has been designing and making jewelry for decades and her jewelry has been a fixture there for many years. Color, line, stones, and gems – including their healing properties – are all part of Vernon’s design story. More than 50 new pieces have been added for this show, and Vernon will be in house to help select just the right piece for you or your special someone.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop welcomes the colorful work of Sandy Melchiori, an oil painter and landscape designer who paints bold canvases and boards with liberal brushstrokes. This show features mostly Pacific Northwest landscapes with some colorful still life for good measure. Also new are hats, cowls, and scarves to keep you warm or gift to a friend. They are all made by owner Helen Schmidling. During Artwalk, pick out a hat and then draw a ticket for $2 to $22 off the price of your item, in celebration of our new gallery location at 222 West Hood Ave.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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Colors decree, “It’s Fall” in the leaves, in the skies and in the Galleries of Sisters. It is time for Fourth Friday Artwalkers to bundle up, slow down, and appreciate the more relaxed pace of this month’s event.

At Canyon Creek Pottery, Ken Merrill will be firing Raku in front of his gallery at 310 N. Cedar Street, just north of the library. This is a must-see experience, happening live between 5 and 7 p.m. The gallery, features beautifully crafted ceramics, all made on site.

The Stitchin’ Post is featuring work by the Journeys Art Quilters in a show called “Mélange” meaning a mixture of incongruous elements. The show explores a mix of new and traditional techniques. Artists include Jean Wells Keenan, June Jaeger, Judy Beaver, Jan Tetzlaff, Donna Rice, Helen Brisson, Betty Gientke, Marion Shimoda, Martha Sanders, and Mary Stiewig. The exhibit opens with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m.

Space in Common owner Amelia Morton is a featured artist in her own gallery this month. She started watercolor painting at age four in Ashland, Oregon. Her work looks simple, but is deceptively complex, as she explores the relationship between color and emotion, and translates “felt moments” into landscapes inspired by the high desert. Her new work explores a combination of acrylic and watercolor techniques in a larger scale than her ealier work. Also featured in the gallery are new works by Taylor Manoles.

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At Rickards’ Gallery, visit with Bob Bousquet, a local, self-taught woodworker who learned his trade by trial and error, creating a lot of firewood along the way. Woodworking has been Bousquet’s passion since grade school. His objective is to build practical pieces that are pleasing to touch and beautiful to see.  

Toriizaka Art features three artists – Robert Paulson, Lieu Nguyen, and Rae Holton – and refreshments from 4 to 7 p.m. Paulson, a talented wood artist who is a gallery favorite, will be on site from 1 to 7 p.m. His work begins with collected snags, driftwood, blowdowns, and fire or storm damaged trees. Using basic hand tools, sandpaper, oil and wax, he turns found objects into refined wood art that is elegant and captivating. Vietnamese artist Lieu Nguyen often paints while in a dreamlike state. He dreams of his images in vivid color and then recreates his dreams on canvas. Other than some initial brushwork to create the framework or structure of some branches or a tree trunk, Lieu Nguyen does not touch the canvas with either palate knife or brush. Instead he drops paint onto canvas, a  technique was pioneered by Max Ernst and popularized by Jackson Pollock. Tens of thousands of single points of color are applied with a precision, creating flawlessly balanced vibrant landscapes. Rae Holton was born and raised in Oregon among a family of artisans. After experimenting in a wide variety of media, she now works primarily in clay, stone, and metals. Rae has studied raku, saggar, and pit fire techniques, sculpture and three-dimensional design.

Hood Avenue Art welcomes Sharyl McCulloch and her one-of-a-kind wearable fiber art. She will demonstrate the use of a Rigid Heddle Loom. She uses merino, alpaca and organic plant-base yarns – mostly hand-dyed – to create treasured wearables that are perfect for fall. Vivian Olsen has a new “gang” of wildlife paintings – otters, foxes, and more – and a newly published book, “The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy.” Sandy Dutco’s experimental mixed-media art is inspired by the natural world. There will be refreshments and music by Mark Barringer and Jana Novotny.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop hosts two beloved Sisters artists: Steve Mathews and Barbara Berry. Mathews started his art career as an illustrator but soon moved on to teaching at the high school and college level. Now retired he still volunteers in the art department at Sisters High School. He’s known for his whimsical creatures – both human and other – rendered on wood slabs with fine-line markers and colored pencil. Berry is best known for colorful acrylics on board or canvas. Aspens and the striking colors and textures of fall in the high desert  are featured in new paintings of favorite scenes from Sisters landscapes.

The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Artworks Welcomes Jill Neal. Recent work includes impressionistic Western images with bold colors and strokes. But she is best known for her “Wild and Tasteful Women” who embody a diversity of color, size and ethnicity and show power, sexuality, joy, and good humor. They are soul enhancing and joyful. Her work will be hanging in the gallery for two months.

Wildflower Studio welcomes new potter Hunter Teig, who lives and teaches in Bend. He mixes and creates his own glazes in various styles and colors, and will show small bowls, mugs, and cups at the studio.

Autumn arrivals at Raven Makes Gallery include jewelry and art from American Indian, Alaska Native and First Nation artists. This month, the gallery will be closed during Fourth Friday but you can visit the collection online at ravenmakesgallery.com.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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Experience “Art All Weekend” in Sisters. Start with the Fourth Friday Artwalk through the Galleries of Sisters. Galleries are open during the day and most will offer light refreshments between 4 and 7 p.m. Then, continue with the Seventh Annual Artists Studio Tour, from 10 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday. Studio Tour Guides are available in local galleries and businesses and online at sistersarts.org. Since not everyone has a studio that can be easily accessed, several galleries will host artists on Friday and continue through the weekend. It’s a great time to meet your favorite artists, up close and personal.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop features the street scenes of photographer Bill Birnbaum, as well as the exquisite Prismacolor pencil landscapes of Mike Stasko, and the pastels and plein air oil paintings of Kay Baker. Stasko will be working on images to be unveiled in the gallery in coming months. Birnbaum, who is president of the Sisters Photography Club, will share stories of his travels and how he arrived at “street photography” as his specialty.

Space in Common will host three artists: Taylor Manoles, Raina Verhey, and Maren Burck. Mini-studios will be set up so folks can walk through and meet the artists and see their work as they create it. All three artists will be present on Saturday and Sunday for the Studio Tour.

Canyon Creek Pottery will be set up for demonstrations on Friday and during the Studio Tour and Saturday and Sunday. Watching Ken Merrill create pottery on the wheel is like poetry in motion, so be sure to take the time to cross Cascade Avenue and visit him at 310 N. Cedar Street. You won’t regret it.

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The Rickards Gallery presents “Me, Re-imagined” from Dan Rickards, a nationally and regionally celebrated professional landscape artist. In his own words, “This show, in so many ways, is a reflection of my journey to now, everywhere I have been and desire to go, the things I have learned and all the ways I still want to grow. This is an exploration: a way to see the beauty around me in a new way: new dimensions, new colors, letting a line begin and end at the edge of imagination. I am excited to share this next season of my work with you.”

Toriizaka Art is hosting Lim Khim Katy from  September 20 to 29. Katy recently immigrated to the United States from Vietnam and is currently settling into her new life. Over the past two decades, Katy has been painting with immense passion and dedication, in two very different styles – realistic portraits that depict the lives and struggles of the urban poor in Saigon and the surrounding Mekong Delta, and eye-popping landscapes that represent dreams of peace and tranquility. In her words, “The series of paintings that I have made since 2019 are my best to date. When my technique was still ‘young,’ there were certain visual and academic things that limited me. I needed to paint, to read, to be sensitive and get hurt by life; all these factors were absorbed and helped build the reserve of compassion I called upon to create this body of work.”

Hood Avenue Art’s featured artists are Anne Gibson, Layne Cook and Bill Lind. Gibson’s acrylic paintings often encompass water and the rocks it flows over. She hopes it will remind people to treasure and protect the places we have left. Cook’s art captures people’s personalities, from quiet moments of contemplation to the energy of human motion that depicts personality and gesture. Veteran wood turner Bill Lind reveals the color, texture and grain patterns of nature. His vessels are produced from found and recycled Oregon woods, sourced from arborists, downed trees and wood mill “extra” piles from central and western Oregon.

The Stitchin’ Post is featuring work from a theme challenge titled, “Meandering,” sponsored by the Central Oregon Chapter of Studio Art Quilt Association (SAQA). Meandering can be defined as “moving slowly and not in a straight line.” The quilts by 31 SAQA members interpret the concept of meandering using design elements – contrast, color, line, value, repetition, placement of focal point – to move the viewer’s eye around their work.  In addition to the theme, each quilt must conform to the 18” x 40” size and also include the highlight color turquoise.

Wildflower Studio celebrates the fall season with new scents in soaps, lotions, linen sprays, and candles. Local company Triumph Outpost is featuring new leather hip bags, earrings, and bracelets. Aster Raine skincare has new all-natural soaps, in addition to the original line of facial products.

Take a tour through the western art of Buckaroo artist Len Babb at Bub Warren’s Sweetgrass Leather Shop, 183 W. Hood Ave., Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 10 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday. This is a one-time only show, so you don’t want to miss it.

The Campbell Gallery continues to feature the work of Karla Diaz Cano. She uses different media to explore and deepen her creativity and inspire others to open their hearts to the creative magic within and around us.

Raven Makes Gallery will not be open during the Artwalk this month, but they are featuring some wonderful new original work the week following through October. They will see you on the next Artwalk.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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NEW to the Artwalk – Welcome Canyon Creek Pottery (310 N. Cedar St.)
Master potter Ken Merrill will be adding his charming gallery to the Artwalk this Friday. He has operated one of Sisters’ oldest working studios for more than 20 years and has been a potter for 40 years in Oregon. His gallery at the corner of Adams Avenue and Cedar Street is home to a diverse array of beautiful handmade pottery including lamps, mugs, dinnerware, wall art, and custom creations. It’s a few steps beyond the downtown core, but well worth the walk.

The Stitchin’ Post’s exhibit is “The Gift of Water” by June Jaeger of Sisters. Concerned about the natural resources that surround her, Jaeger immerses herself in water, nature, and the outdoors. Working with fabric and paints, she tunes out the world and becomes absorbed in creating her vision of nature. The opening reception will be from 4 to 6 p.m.

The Rickards Gallery features father and son oil painters, Jerry and Dennis Dame. Jerry’s landscapes draw the viewer into serene experiences of fly fishing on the Metolius River or hiking up Wychus Creek. He captures scenery that is both imaginative and familiar. With an art background that spans dozens of mediums and industries, Dennis finds creativity in each new painting. Shapes, values, and colors are arranged to convey something that cannot be said with words. They will be at the “Meet the Makers” Dinner on August 24. Tickets are still available. On Friday, both artists will be at the gallery from 4 to 7 p.m. with live music beginning at 6 p.m.

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Toriizaka Art’s Nguyen Thanh Binh likens his preference for simplicity in composition and design in his art work to his own way of life. His paintings often express his sorrow and the sorrow of many in his generation. Although most well-known for his paintings of women in Ao Dai, he is also passionate about music, dance, architecture, and flowers, and is most interested in following his passions at this point in his career. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with refreshments from 4 to 7.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop’s featured artists are the prolific acrylic painter Brad Earl, and Jennifer Hartwig, aka The Scratchboard Lady. When Earl moved to Sisters, he went from being a full-time architect with a painting hobby, to an artist with an architectural hobby. His art is architectural and nostalgic: old buildings, classic cars, traditional tractors, vintage campers, and antique typewriters. Scratchboard allows Hartwig to etch light from dark with fine precision and subtle shades. She is one of only a few scratchboard artists to add full color. Visit the gallery between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., with refreshments starting at 4 p.m.

Hood Avenue Art features work by JoAnn Burgess, Susie Zeitner, and Art Blumenkron. Burgess has been creating pastel landscapes and abstracts for more than 15 years. Blumenkron enhances the characteristics of the wood slab he’s working on, often inspired by his morning walks in the forest. Zeitner fabricates glass and steel totems and two-dimensional glass wall art that is painted then fused in kiln, and mounted on rusted metal.

Raven Makes Gallery is one of the few galleries nation-wide to work directly with artists to share special jewelry. The Puebloan Hopi Tribe of Northern Arizona is known for their silver overlay jewelry. Designs may be highly symbolic or realistic. Pictorial pieces are often based on ancient sources such as potshards, petroglyphs, or spiritual beings, and often reflect symbols depicting prayers for moisture and rain.

The Campbell Gallery is featuring Karla Diaz Cano. She uses different media to explore and deepen her creativity and inspire others to open their hearts to the creative magic that is within and around us. For her, this creativity is a deeply healing, spiritual experience.

Wildflower Studio welcomes new work from stained glass artist Mitch Saba. He uses color and composition to depict landscape and traditional design. Edie Shelton also works in glass, but uses a fused glass process. Her newest work features landscape and flowers in clear glass. Wildflower’s wine, snacks and art will be served from 4 to 7 p.m.

Space in Common is featuring the work of abstract landscape artist Lindsey Luna Tucker. Each painting is a compilation of sketches, photos, sentiments, and memories that seeks emotional truth over visual representation. The paintings are less about the subject itself and more about the act of searching for answers but never fully resolving the question.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

Click on the ad below for a larger view.

This month, the Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk leans toward contemporary artists who are pushing the envelope in their respective disciplines, as well as traditional artists who are experimenting with new techniques and methods. Visitors are encouraged to stop in the galleries at any time during the day, but galleries will welcome them with light refreshments, starting at about 4 p.m.

Hood Avenue Art’s July show is “Meet the Printmakers.” See the variety of work created through printmaking processes by four artist-printmakers – Glen Corbett, Carolyn Platt, Gin Laughery, and Patricia Freeman-Martin. The variety of work created by printmaking includes monotypes, relief, woodcut, reduction, and intaglio methods. Each method offers unique qualities and possibilities, quite unlike that of any drawn or painted mark. Never totally direct, this art form adds an element of surprise to the proceedings, akin to that of alchemy. The definition of an original print, as opposed to a reproduction, is that however the artist-printmaker arrives at his or her final printed image, they have influenced and orchestrated the proceedings by hand, from the making of the matrix (block, plate, screen, or other method) through to the final print.

The Stitchin’ Post’s artist is Bonnie McWilliams of Peacock Pottery. Her process begins with dyeing, printing, designing, stitching, and finally progresses to pottery. Pottery can be functional, or whimsical and useless, delightful, or thought provoking. McWilliams works to feel the core nature of clay, fabric, and gardens, and she finds much joy in the journey.

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The Rickards Gallery’s featured artist, Mare Schelz of Bend, creates beautiful and intricate glass mosaics, often with recycled and vintage materials. She enjoys working in a variety of media, using an array of tools and techniques. She teaches classes in her studio and is a contract teacher at several schools in Bend, working with children to open their world to multiple tools, techniques and media.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop’s show is “Two by Four,” two-dimensional art by four artists: painters Antonia Carriere, Kay Baker, and Lynn Brush, and printmaker Denise Kester. Baker is a plein air painter who mainly works in oils, but occasionally in pastels. Brush, whose work is new to the gallery, specializes in street scenes and landscapes in oil, painted on linen and mounted on panel. Carriere’s pastel landscapes of Northeastern Oregon depict huge canyons, greenbelt rivers, farmland, snowy mountain peaks, dry golden hills and big skies. Kester specializes in monoprints and monotype viscosity printing as well as multimedia, drawing and painting.

Space in Common will feature a new collection of paintings from Bend artist Taylor Manoles. Her artwork explores themes of faith and the human experience through contemporary landscapes.

At Toriizaka Art, Rae Holton, a fifth generation Oregonian and accomplished ceramicist and sculptor, will share her story and works from 4 to 7 p.m. Rae works primarily in clay, stone and metals. In it, you can see the rhythm and flow of nature and the energetic elements of  our Earth. Also featured are new works by contemporary Vietnamese artist Vu Thang. Several of his newest arrivals were influenced by cave drawings and funerary sculpture of the hill tribe peoples, and depict primitive figures that speak to universal experiences, emotions, and feelings. Other figurative pieces were created using many different materials (wood, hemp, canvas, fabric, and clay), and he uses the properties of each to help inform the entire piece. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and artists will be present, and refreshments will be served from 4 to 7.

Raven Makes Gallery’s featured artist is David K. John. His work reflects appropriate symbols of Navajo mythology and stories, and his deep connection to his spirituality. His children are involved in art as well, incorporating tradition and – with John’s encouragement – new technology that does not interfere or cloud the Dine worldview. Gallery hours are 11 to 4.

Wildflower Studio features new work by John Runnels. He uses a palette knife and oil paints to create bold textured paintings. His new work concentrates on aspens and landscapes. Stop by Wildflower Studio to see paintings, prints, new leather hip bags, stained glass and other gifts, with wine, snacks and conversation from 4 to 7.

The Campbell Gallery continues to show work by Raina Verhey. The gallery will be open to visitors but will not have a reception this month.

SAA encourages visitors to patronize our supporting businesses, including Big Chief Vintage, Dixie’s, Gypsy Junk Tea Room and Art Gallery, and The SweetEasy Co. Visit our Supporting Businesses page.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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The Sisters Arts Association will partner with the Sisters Folk Festival’s Big Ponderoo for the Fourth Friday Artwalk. Many of the galleries will feature live music. Remember to register for Quick Draw, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate, good in any participating gallery, thanks to a generous gift from Coldwell Banker Bain of Sisters. You can also pick up a Ponderoo Passport for a chance to receive a fused glass gift at the music event. See link below for more info on the Big Ponderoo Art Experience.

Toriizaka Art is thrilled to have Lawrence Stoller’s work back in the gallery.  His spectacularly carved crystals are presented on one-of-a-kind bronze bases designed to bring out the best in each stone while each being its own piece of art. Stoller’s work represents great artistic vision coupled with exquisite craftsmanship. Also featured is the artwork of Phuong Quoc Tri, an artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Tri grew up in a very large family, the oldest of 12 children.  At an early age, he moved to Saigon and started working odd jobs to help support his family. He had very limited formal education, but his heart yearned for a way to express his thoughts and emotions. He sculpted expressionist pieces from clay and painted figurative works to help deal with bouts of intense depression and isolation. Due to his lack of formal education, he was not exposed to other artists who could help him channel his creative talents. Ultimately, he had the courage to introduce himself to a patron of the arts and the rest is history. His expressive figurative works can now be found in collections around the world.

The Rickards Gallery features the basketry of Leslee Burtt and Chris Warren for the Artwalk and the “Meet the Maker” dinner on Thursday, June 22. Burtt studied art and taught high school before concentrating on her own vision as an artist. When Warren took classes at a local arts center, she discovered she was hooked on basketry. Both award-winning artists are members of the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, and Lake Oswego Crafts and Arts League, and their work is featured in the Lark Press book, 500 Baskets.

Raven Makes Gallery highlights Tsimshian David Boxley’s body of work. Spanning over 40 years, it is a testament to an artist committed to sharing, teaching and mentoring. A master carver, Boxley’s body of work ensures the continuation and survival of ceremony, history and art of Coastal Peoples. His pieces are held worldwide in collections both private and public.

The Campbell Gallery shows work by Raina Verhey, a Central Oregon oil painter, who works in abstract themes of landscape and textured movement. Self-taught since 2018, Raina began in watercolor and slowly transformed to using charcoal and acrylic. Casually coined as “emotional impressionism,” Verhey’s thick impasto inspires feelings of resilience, tenacity, and comfort.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop highlights the delicate and colorful tissue paper collage of Linda Wolff. She created this unique process 11 years ago as a way to replace six months of dahlia gardening when she moved to Sisters from Port Townsend, Washington, and discovered that the deer feasted on her flowers like they were their own private smorgasbord! She welcomes the open-ended creativity of the medium – not knowing how the piece will evolve as light rises and sets on the canvas.

Hood Avenue Art’s featured works are by Alisa Looney, Ruth Carroll, and Kathleen Keliher. Looney fuses kiln-fired layers of enamel to steel sculptures, panels, and jewelry. She will demonstrate her enameling process during the Artwalk. Carroll earned a BFA in drawing in 1987, believing that a strong foundation in drawing is essential to painting well. Since 2009, she has focused on landscapes in oils. Keliher works in pastels and oils, focusing on plein air in the summer and retreating to her studio for winter.

Space in Common features oil paintings by Taylor Manoles of Bend. She studied art and education, and taught middle school art, before focusing on her own artwork, which explores themes of faith and the human experience through contemporary landscapes. Painting is a cathartic practice and how she commemorates the goodness in the world around her.

The Stitchin’ Post features the works of Valori and Jean Wells. Their recurring themes have to do with natural configurations: rocks, trees, grasses, flowers, and the land, as well as travel. Printmaking is Valori’s passion! She enjoys the entire process from sketching images to carving the blocks and printing them on fabric. Her mother, Jean, is a contemporary quilt maker known for teaching as well as her art. Central Oregon’s natural beauty is constant inspiration as they work intuitively in their chosen field.

Wildflower Studio is showing giclee art prints by Norma Holmes and Kathy Deggendorfer. Both are local painters. Holmes has released a book mapping eastern Oregon destinations through painted images. Deggendorfer’s vivid watercolors show the beauty of color and pattern in the central Oregon landscape.

QUICK DRAW is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

PONDEROO ART EXPERIENCE information can be found HERE.

SAA encourages visitors to patronize our supporting businesses, including Canyon Creek Pottery, Beacham Clock Company, The Jewel, Gypsy Junk Boutique, Big Chief Vintage, Dixie’s, and The SweetEasy Co. where jewelry creator Sana Hayes will preview the “Faith, Hope, and Charity Collection” – upcycled crosses (Faith), inspirational necklaces (Hope), with proceeds going to Mustangs To The Rescue (Charity). Visit our Supporting Businesses page.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

Click on the ad below for a larger view.

This month, a new gallery is opening and other galleries are featuring artists new to the community. The new gallery, Space in Common, owned by Amelia Morton, is at 351 West Hood Avenue and will feature her work and selected pieces by upcoming artists. The gallery will officially open on June 2, but stop in during Fourth Friday for a preview.

Hood Avenue Art features photographer Scott Cordner, landscape painter Barbara Hudler Cella, and sculptor Michelle Deaderick. Scott prints fine art landscapes on canvas and makes his own frames using renewable hardwoods, finishing with linseed oil and beeswax. Many of Barbara’s paintings are based on small plein air pieces that she’s contemplated for a long time. Each of Michelle’s clay figures is a treasure to be passed down for generations.

Raven Makes Gallery is in the third year of The Homelands Collection. Indigenous artists create ledger-style, narrative artwork on antique maps, to include a body of work representing Indigenous artists from across the Earth. Artists from Peru, Nepal, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Northern Scandinavia, and the Torres Strait of Australia join artists from North America. Gallery owner Chris Morin says “Using the title ‘Decolonizing the Map’ as this year’s theme better illuminates how we brought together people worldwide in a singularly focused art exhibition. To our knowledge, a project of this nature has never been attempted.” This year’s edition offers 88 works from 28 artists. The Homelands Collection will be on exhibit until June 1.

The Stitchin’ Post’s group exhibit is “In The MIX.” MIX is a Portland-based mixed media group. Members Lynn Anderson, Kathy Blondell, Betty Daggett, Annette McFarlane, Elaine Millar and Hilde Morin use techniques including printing, painting, embroidery, piecing, appliqué, quilting and more to bring original designs to life. Once a year, the group comes up with a challenge using common elements such as theme or measurements. The MIX blog is online at mixpdx.blogspot.com and on Instagram @mix_pdx.

Wildflower Studio owner Chris Nelson is her own featured artist this month. Chris has new paintings, prints and cards depicting local landscapes, birds and florals. She works in oil with a loose painterly brushstroke and uses color and line to create detail in her paintings.

The Rickards Gallery featured artist is Sarah B. Hansen. A life-long hiker, backpacker, and outdoor explorer, Sarah ‘s show is called “Unlimited Skies: A Walk Through Nature.” Her work taps the beauty of nature as she pushes and plays with shapes, colors, and textures to suggest landscape elements. In leaving certain parts undefined, she allows mystery and imagination to dance at the edges. She often scripts words such as journal excerpts or poetry into painted landscape to create a conversation about nature, and they suggest that not everything is known in the wild.

Toriizaka Art introduces the unique work of Ngo Van Sac (Vietnam). His mixed media two-dimensional works include wood burning, collage, and paints on natural wood. Years ago, when the French occupied Vietnam, they insisted that all the old manuscripts using the original Chinese characters be burned. This was a part of their “modernization” effort when changing the Vietnamese written language to the Latin or Roman alphabet. Ngo Van Sac’s grandfather was a poet, philosopher and professor, and instead of burning his manuscripts, he buried them. Today, Van Sac often incorporates these formerly forbidden manuscripts into his mixed media works.

The Cindy and Duncan Campbell Gallery is featuring Sisters High School Art and Design students Abby Christopher, Makenzie French, Araiya Grummer, Devan Hepburn, Addie Kroytz, Zoey Lorusso, Adriana Luna, Kaleb Woods, and Sage Wyland. Each student chose an inquiry question as the premise for their projects and pursued a detailed investigative cycle through research, experimentation, creation, revision, reflection, and finally display. This show, a representation of what they studied and discovered, will be up until June 1. The gallery will be open during regular business hours only.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop features new monoprints and monotypes by Denise Kester, vessels in wood, alabaster, and soapstone by master woodworker John Scheideman, and clay plus pine-needle basket weaving from Ann Grossnickle and Kim Black. In her book, “Drawing on the Dream,” Denise Kester explains “Making art … is how I express my love for the world.” She is a printmaker specializing in viscosity printmaking, using oily lithography inks on a Plexiglas sheet or plate. “What I really do is use the medium of monoprinting to draw out my dreams.” Gallery favorite artist Jennifer Hartwig, “The Scratchboard Lady,” will be showing new pieces that have emerged from the dark of winter to the light of spring.

SAA encourages visitors to patronize our supporting businesses, including Big Chief Vintage, Dixie’s, and The SweetEasy Co. where jewelry creator Sana Hayes will preview the “Faith, Hope, and Charity Collection” – upcycled crosses (Faith), inspirational necklaces (Hope), with proceeds going to Mustangs To The Rescue (Charity). Visit our Supporting Businesses page.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

Click on the ad below for a larger view.

April Artwalk welcomes home Raven Makes and Toriizaka Art gallery owners from art expeditions.

The Stitchin’ Post’s Fabric Arts Gallery will display the work of artist Judy Hoiness, recently featured on Oregon Art Beat. Hoiness is known for her abstract landscapes that often incorporate watercolor and acrylic paint, stitching, calligraphic marks, collage, and mixed media on canvas and recycled cloth. Drop in between 4 and 6 p.m.

Hood Avenue Art displays award winning Western artists, K.C. Snider and Diane L. Farquhar Hallstrom. Snider’s work, inspired by the historic high desert, features realistic scenes in oils and acrylics. Hallstrom’s oils and acrylics are Western in style within an abstract context. Annie Dyer’s organic pottery designs reflect her training in Japan, using rocks, shells and wood to create lasting impressions. A reception with music by Kurt Silva, appetizers and beverages runs from 4 to 7 p.m.

The Clearwater Gallery, soon to be the Rickards Gallery, is featuring the work of impressionist oil painter David Mensing, Iowa native who grew up surrounded by wide prairies and carefully groomed cornfields. Moving West as a young man cultivated his love of its wild places and the raw beauty that he expresses in his paintings. Meet David and celebrate with wine and light appetizers from 4 to 6 p.m.

Raven Makes gallery owners traveled more than 7,000 miles visiting artists, resulting in new and exciting high-quality acquisitions. Owners Chris Morin and LaRita Chapman say it was simply wonderful to see artists in person again. Two new artists are Sheldon Harvey, Navajo, and Kolten Khasalus Grant, Kwakwaka’wakw. Harvey’s sculptures explore Diné Spiritual Beings. Grant’s masks are carved with precision, as he was taught by two Northwest Coast masters. Just ahead is the Homelands Collection, Third Edition. There will be a private showing on May 11, and the exhibit opens on May 12.

Toriizaka Art owners have been culture and art traveling in Asia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzogovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. They are back home and ready for a Fourth Friday opening featuring the work of two Bend artists. AJ Evansen is a ceramicist specializing in delicate porcelain vessels finished with rare crystalline glazes. The vessels are thrown on a potter’s wheel and high-fired for an extended period in order for the crystals to form in the glaze. Marjorie Wood Hamlin is an abstract painter. Six of her geometric paintings created with copper and 23K gold foil on canvas are featured at the entrance to the gallery.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop is featuring art educator and illustrator Steve Mathews of Sisters and new work by the widely collected Baker City painter Nancy Coffelt. From the age of five, Mathews has been an artist. He began as an illustrator and moved into ceramics, drawing, painting and other things, including teaching at the high school and college level. He volunteers in the art department at Sisters High school. He’s known for his whimsical creatures (human and other) rendered on wood slabs with ink, fine-line markers and colored pencil. Coffelt is also known for her whimsical animals rendered in acrylic, gouache, and metal foil on birch cradleboard.

Wildflower Studio is featuring framed and unframed works by Bill Hamilton. A longtime resident of Central Oregon, Hamilton paints sweeping Cascade views, local rivers, and wildlife in breathtaking acrylic colors. Wine and light appetizers will be served from 4 to 7.

The Campbell Gallery will not be open during Artwalk this month but will continue to feature the mixed-media work of Lois Pendleton.

SAA encourages visitors to patronize our supporting businesses, including Big Chief Vintage, Dixie’s, and The SweetEasy Co. where jewelry creator Sana Hayes will preview the “Faith, Hope, and Charity Collection” – upcycled crosses (Faith), inspirational necklaces (Hope), with proceeds going to Mustangs To The Rescue (Charity). Visit our Supporting Businesses page.

Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. We encourage visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org. SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

Click on the ad below for a larger view.

April Artwalk welcomes home Raven Makes and Toriizaka Art gallery owners from art expeditions.

The Stitchin’ Post’s Fabric Arts Gallery will display the work of artist Judy Hoiness, recently featured on Oregon Art Beat. Hoiness is known for her abstract landscapes that often incorporate watercolor and acrylic paint, stitching, calligraphic marks, collage, and mixed media on canvas and recycled cloth. Drop in between 4 and 6 p.m.

Hood Avenue Art displays award winning Western artists, K.C. Snider and Diane L. Farquhar Hallstrom. Snider’s work, inspired by the historic high desert, features realistic scenes in oils and acrylics. Hallstrom’s oils and acrylics are Western in style within an abstract context. Annie Dyer’s organic pottery designs reflect her training in Japan, using rocks, shells and wood to create lasting impressions. A reception with music by Kurt Silva, appetizers and beverages runs from 4 to 7 p.m.

The Clearwater Gallery, soon to be the Rickards Gallery, is featuring the work of impressionist oil painter David Mensing, Iowa native who grew up surrounded by wide prairies and carefully groomed cornfields. Moving West as a young man cultivated his love of its wild places and the raw beauty that he expresses in his paintings. Meet David and celebrate with wine and light appetizers from 4 to 6 p.m.

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Raven Makes Gallery owners traveled more than 7,000 miles visiting artists, resulting in new and exciting high-quality acquisitions. Owners Chris Morin and LaRita Chapman say it was simply wonderful to see artists in person again. Two new artists are Sheldon Harvey, Navajo, and Kolten Khasalus Grant, Kwakwaka’wakw. Harvey’s sculptures explore Diné Spiritual Beings. Grant’s masks are carved with precision, as he was taught by two Northwest Coast masters. Just ahead is the Homelands Collection, Third Edition. There will be a private showing on May 11, and the exhibit opens on May 12.

Toriizaka Art owners have been culture and art traveling in Asia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzogovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. They are back home and ready for a Fourth Friday opening featuring the work of two Bend artists. AJ Evansen is a ceramicist specializing in delicate porcelain vessels finished with rare crystalline glazes. The vessels are thrown on a potter’s wheel and high-fired for an extended period in order for the crystals to form in the glaze. Marjorie Wood Hamlin is an abstract painter. Six of her geometric paintings created with copper and 23K gold foil on canvas are featured at the entrance to the gallery.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop is featuring art educator and illustrator Steve Mathews of Sisters and new work by the widely collected Baker City painter Nancy Coffelt. From the age of five, Mathews has been an artist. He began as an illustrator and moved into ceramics, drawing, painting and other things, including teaching at the high school and college level. He volunteers in the art department at Sisters High school. He’s known for his whimsical creatures (human and other) rendered on wood slabs with ink, fine-line markers and colored pencil. Coffelt is also known for her whimsical animals rendered in acrylic, gouache, and metal foil on birch cradleboard.

Wildflower Studio is featuring framed and unframed works by Bill Hamilton. A longtime resident of Central Oregon, Hamilton paints sweeping Cascade views, local rivers, and wildlife in breathtaking acrylic colors. Wine and light appetizers will be served from 4 to 7.

The Campbell Gallery will not be open during Artwalk this month but will continue to feature the mixed-media work of Lois Pendleton.

SAA encourages visitors to patronize our supporting businesses, including Big Chief Vintage, Dixie’s, and The SweetEasy Co. where jewelry creator Sana Hayes will preview the “Faith, Hope, and Charity Collection” – upcycled crosses (Faith), inspirational necklaces (Hope), with proceeds going to Mustangs To The Rescue (Charity). Visit our Supporting Business page.

Sign up for Quick Draw, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to these galleries. SAA thanks Coldwell Banker Bain of Sisters for sponsoring QuickDraw.

Quick Draw encourages visits to more than one gallery during the Artwalk. Fill out a blank ticket at each gallery on Friday, for a chance to win one of two $50 gift certificates that can be used toward purchase at any of the participating galleries.

The Quick Draw is supported by a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, which will also be open during the Artwalk. Please take the time to fill out each ticket completely. This shows your support for Sisters Arts Association and its member galleries.
SAA does not sell your info, but uses the numbers of visitors as a measure of the importance of The Arts in the vitality of our community!

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org

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The Holidays are here, and Sisters Arts Association has one more Fourth Friday Artwalk in 2022.  It’s fun to spend time walking through the galleries of Sisters this week. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find in the galleries, whether you are doing last-minute shopping or just taking a relaxing walk through downtown.

Wildflower Studio wishes you Happy Holidays. Stop in for last minute stocking stuffers. New products include local wildflower honey by Brittanny’s Bee’s and Rough Cut Soap Co. Felted soaps and lotion bars. Original paintings explore local landscapes, prints, glass, candles and cards. Join us in celebrating this winter season from 3 to 6.

At The Clearwater Gallery this month, you’ll find classic holiday offerings made by talented crafters and artisans. Hand-painted gourd ornaments by Chris Warren and Leslee Burtt, pottery by Molly Newbern, fused glass by Edie Shelton, miniature paintings by Sarah B. Hansen, PF candles, and Dan Rickards holiday cards. Stop in at Clearwater from 4 to 6 to celebrate the season with wine and light appetizers.

  Courtney Parker has put together a collection of western themed artwork for this month’s show at The Campbell Gallery. Courtney has loved to draw for as long as she can remember. “Creating portraits in pencil is my passion. There is something special about the blank paper or canvas … that the outcome of the art is unknown and that’s exciting and beautiful.” Working from photographs, she begins each portrait with the eyes. “If I can get the eyes accurately, I find that the rest of the drawing falls into place.” The best part of doing commissioned portraits is delivering the end product. “I love to see their faces when I can hand deliver the finished drawing. That has always meant so much more than any monetary gain.” She has recently begun to work in watercolor and pastel, and to explore doing colored pencil portraits.

Like the instrumentalists in an orchestra, the Hood Avenue Art gallery artists are coordinating their skills, memories and perception of “Peace’d Together” for a group show. Peace that is something cherish, especially at this time of year.  We worked together to find spirit of place, love of family and our fellow humans, and the need to express ourselves as individuals. That is the meaning of “Peace’d Together,” and the art that’s part of it. The gallery will celebrate its Artwalk from 4 to 7 p.m. with music and holiday cheer.

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Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk. Click on any image to enlarge the view.

At Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop you can buy a HUG or two from artist Paul Alan Bennett. His latest hardcover book, “HUG: A Visual Chronicle of Our Need to Touch” has arrived, just in time for Christmas. He will be on hand to sign books. The gallery continues to feature photography by seven local artists: Curtiss Abbott, Gary Albertson, Wendy Birnbaum, Greg Davidge, Roger Dorband, Bruce Jackson, and Dennis Schmidling. The show “Owls and the Friends – A Tribute to Jim Anderson” continues through the end of the year. Partial proceeds from sale of the owls etc. will be donated to the Jim Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund at Sisters High School. There will be a sneak peek at new pottery by Ann Grossnickle. The gallery will feature light refreshments from 3 to 6.

Raven Makes Gallery has an ever-growing selection of fine art and jewelry from the Southwest, Plains, First Nations and Alaska Native artists and ranging from museum quality masters to innovative new talent. They continue to offer positive energy and beauty to art lovers worldwide. Raven Makes will be open Friday during regular hours, until 5.

The Stitchin’ Post is always a favorite. This Friday, the shop will be open during regular hours, 10 to 4. There are a few gift items remaining in the Employee Boutique, if you are still looking for handmade gifts. There will not be an evening Artwalk at The Stitchin’ Post this month.

Toriizaka Art owners are away, so the gallery will not be open for Fourth Friday.

Remember to sign up for SAA’s “Quick Draw,” as we will give away two $50 gift certificates, good in any of the participating galleries. Thanks to Coldwell Banker Bain in Sisters for their support.

Sisters Arts Association wishes everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season to come.

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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 2023. More information is available at sistersartsassociation.org

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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It’s happening – the day after Thanksgiving. Some call it “Black Friday” and if we get snow, it may be a “White Friday,” but Sisters Arts Association still calls it “The Fourth Friday Artwalk.” This month’s Artwalk offers excitement and variety. Put away your leftover turkey and trimmings, and walk through the Galleries of Sisters.

Toriizaka Art welcomes two soulful artists – both working equally with their head, hands, and heart. Lawrence Stoller is a world-renowned crystal and bronze sculptor. His quest for finding beauty in natural crystals has taken him to all corners of the world in search of amazing and unique stones. Once the stones are in his possession, he and the artisans who work with him study the stones over an extended period to determine how to best cut and present them to reveal their inner secrets. Lawrence’s mega-crystal and bronze sculptures have been featured in galleries from Fifth Avenue in New York to Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles as well as in museums around the world. AJ Evansen is a ceramicist specializing in delicate porcelain vessels finished with crystalline glazes. All of AJ’s vessels are thrown on a potter’s wheel and high-fired for an extended period for the crystals to form in the glaze. The process is arduous, and results in a significant number of lost pieces. The result for the surviving pieces is unique and stunning with unpredictable crystalline shapes in iridescent hues. Both artists live and work in central Oregon, and both artists will be featured through mid-December.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop will focus on photography, with late fall and early winter images by Greg Davidge, Dennis Schmidling, Gary Albertson, and Steve Giardini, and “Reciprocity,” a display of work depicting wildlife and daily life of the Turkana and other tribes from Kenya, by Wendy Birnbaum. Wendy realized a 50-year dream last June when she was able to travel to Africa on a photo safari. She met the Turkana, semi-nomadic tribes who live in a very remote area of the Northern Kenya Rift Valley not far from Ethiopia. They rarely interact with the Western World. Currently, they are suffering from a major draught, which threatens their health, food, and livelihood. Their cattle, goats, sheep, animals and people are becoming ill and dying from the severe lack of food and water. In a spirit of reciprocity, a percentage from the sale of her photographs will be sent back to these tribes.

Raven Makes Gallery is open again. The gallery's ever-growing range of fine art and jewelry from the Southwest, Plains, First Nations and Alaska Native artists range from museum quality masters to innovative new talent. They continue to offer positive energy and beauty to art lovers worldwide.

The She Show at the Cindy and Duncan Campbell Gallery aims to raise money for Saving Grace of Oregon, a local women’s shelter and support center. The organization helps survivors of domestic and sexual violence to find safety and healing. Under the direction of Kit Stafford, local artists have created artwork with titles including an uplifting phrase or sentence that begins with “she” or “her,” to send a message of hope to women who need it. All pieces are $40, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Saving Grace.

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Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk. Click on any image to enlarge the view.

Hood Avenue Art celebrates its one-year expansion anniversary. The added space allowed for more local artists including Glen Corbett, Barbara Cella, Diane L. Farquhar Hallstrom, Gary Cooley, K.C. Snider, Ruth Carroll, and Lyne Cook. In celebration, a gallery-wide group show explores the theme “Peace’d Together.” Some artists piecing together their art or adding on, while others contemplated peace together for all, families, or just a sense of peace in a place.

Featured at The Clearwater Gallery is local jewelry artist, Wendy Vernon. Wendy meticulously hand makes each piece using a variety of fine gemstones and crystals including druzy agate, labradorite and geode slices. Every creation is unique, with distinctive characteristics. Wine and light appetizers will be served from 4 to 6 p.m.

Opening on Friday and running through Christmas is The Stitchin’ Post Staff’s Handcrafted Gift Boutique. Items range from quilts and stuffed animals through everyday items, as well as ornaments and holiday decorations.

Wildflower Studio welcomes the holiday season with love and gratitude for all things that bring us appreciation for life, family and the beauty around us. Wildflower features local art prints, handmade leather bags, stained and fused glass, cards, candles, diffusers and more! Stop by for your holiday gifts this season! Celebrate Art Stroll from 12-4 at Wildflower Studio.

Sisters Arts Association wishes everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season to come.

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters. 

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop starts with “Owls and Their Friends: A Tribute to Jim Anderson,” and his love for owls. The acclaimed, and beloved, Oregon Naturalist and long time Sisters resident passed on Sept. 22. The gallery is featuring favorite owl images by Jennifer Hartwig-Klingbiel, Lynne Myers, Barbara Berry, Caroline Stratton-Crow, Danae Miller, Kimry Jelen, Kim Black, and guest artists Yuji Hiratsuka and Sheila Dunn.

Part of the proceeds from the sale of owl art will be donated to the Jim Anderson Scholarship at Sisters High School. Karen Lord and John Klement established the scholarship to honor Jim. When he was just 11, Jim’s grandfather told him, “You eat what you shoot,” after Jim shot a great horned owl, which firmly established his life-long conservation work ethic. The scholarship is awarded to a full-time student majoring in environmental science, biology, botany, earth science, or a related field.

Toriizaka Art introduces Donald MacLane and his kinetic sculptures. After several sculptural apprenticeships, Don completed an undergraduate degree from Antioch College and an MFA while sculpting and crafting in various art forms. He moved to Oregon, earned a mechanical engineering degree from Portland State, and embarked on a career developing color printers for Tektronics / Xerox. As a student, then engineer, Don had little time for sculpture, but started to play the hammered dulcimer. This led to a study of the science of musical instruments. He discovered that their vibrations were remarkably close to the oscillations of his kinetic sculptures. This led him to start making portable instruments that he could take with him on extended business trips to Japan. “Early retirement from Xerox, and all my years as a welder, engineering student and engineer provided skills and knowledge to make instruments and kinetic sculpture.”

The Stitchin’ Post Gallery hosts “A Slice of Orange,” an exhibit of art quilts from the Central Oregon Chapter of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). More than 30 local chapter quilters let their imaginations fly on a challenge: include a small “slice” of orange in an 18-by-40-inch art quilt. Orange can be a challenging color for quilters, but they met the test with designs ranging from landscape to collage to abstract.

The Campbell Gallery’s featured artist is mixed-media creator Linda B. Wolff. She paints white tissue paper with watered-down acrylic paints, and then glues pieces of this tissue to heavy watercolor paper, playing with different shapes and sizes to reflect Nature’s changing colors as landscapes. Last year, she challenged herself to try a different technique with each collage – even a three-dimensional piece using the skeleton of dead prickly pear cactus. Linda also collaborated with Joyce Burk Brown on “The Magic in Listening,” a book for readers, ages 4 to 8. The book helps children and their significant adults understand how to listen, and the importance of listening. Half of the proceeds from art sales in this show will go toward distributing this book to Head Start, the Children’s Book Bank, and others. Linda and Joyce will be at the Campbell Gallery during Artwalk, and the book will be for sale there.

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Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk. Click on any image to enlarge the view.

Dan Rickards is unveiling his new show, “Imagining Creation,” at The Clearwater Gallery. Dan has been imagining, “if God was also a painter, what would His design process look like?” His conclusion? “If we let go of what we understand a landscape to be, and instead imagine all the things that it could have been, then we’re able to discover new ways of realizing our surroundings.” Dan will be the featured artist at this month’s “Meet the Maker Dinner” on Wednesday, October 26, with a six-course dinner curated by Executive Chef Julia Rickards. Call 541-549-6076 or visit opendoorwinebar.com/specialevents for reservations.

Hood Avenue Art is showing plein air acrylic landscape paintings by Barbara Hudler Cella, diverse landscapes by Diane L. Farquhar Hallstrom, and ceramics by Annie Dyer. Barbara’s work captures the richness of Central Oregon’s water and mountains. Diane, a native Oregonian, shows her “wild side” with random nonobjective abstracts. Annie leaves raw clay beside shiny glazes in functional and decorative pieces. Music will be by Mark Barringer.

Wildflower Studio has new products including Aster Raine skin care, felted soaps, wildflower candles, diffusers, copper necklaces and more.

Bryan Lee Brown will be closing Metals Studio Gallery permanently on November 24. “It’s time for a new chapter in life,” he says. “I’d like to thank everyone for their patronage and friendships.” Stop by to thank Bryan for his creativity and beautiful art. He has earned a heart-felt send-off from Sisters art lovers.

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters. 

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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This month, the Fourth Friday Artwalk kicks off an entire weekend of Art Exploration, sponsored by the Sisters Arts Association.

Stroll through the Galleries of Sisters, see their featured artists, and enjoy light refreshments on Friday. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, take a leisurely tour to visit local artists in their home studios. Pick up a Studio Tour Guide from any of the galleries or from many businesses in Sisters, or online at www.sistersarts.org.

Wildflower Studio will be featuring original artwork by Mitch Saba and John Runnels. Mitch works in stained glass using shape and color to show movement in his original designs. John paints with palette knife and uses color and line to emphasize dimension in his landscapes. Wine and light appetizers will be served between 4 and 7 p.m.

Raven Makes Gallery explores fresh perspectives on jewelry and art from outstanding American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations artists.

Bryan Lee Brown of Metals Jewelry Studio is always trying something new, like the Mokume Gane cup he is featuring this month. He welcomes you to stop by for a visit.

The Campbell Gallery’s show called “Life After” by June Park continues this month with multidisciplinary art inspired by the rhythm and energy of the natural world.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop will have its Grand Opening at 222-C West Hood Ave., with four local artists who will continue to meet with the public at the gallery throughout the Artist Open Studio Tour event. Photographer Steve Giardini from Bend will unveil color images of Smith Rock and the Painted Hills, the latter depicted in such a fashion that almost evokes the spread of watercolor paint across a canvas. Speaking of canvas, Kay Baker of Bend, another longtime artist at Sisters Gallery, will display new and favorite plein aire paintings of Central Oregon. Jennifer Hartwig, lovingly known as The Scratchboard Lady, is doing working demonstrations of scratchboard art, and she will show new original work along with prints, notecards, mugs and jewelry that feature her designs. Prismacolor Artist Mike Stasko will round out the quartet; his original landscapes are timeless depictions of scenes in Central Oregon. Fine art giclee reproductions will also be available.

Hood Avenue Art is featuring three of their 40 Central Oregon artists. Carolyn Platt creates a variety of pieces from drawing to wildly textured collagraphs, inspired by the geological wonderland around us. Sharyl Parker McCulloch designs, weaves and knits unique and wearable fiber art with a passion for color and texture. Kathleen Keliher explores Central Oregon landscapes in oil and occasionally pastel, going above and beyond strictly representational. Appetizers and wine are served from 4 to 7, with music by Jim Cornelius.

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Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk. Click on any image to enlarge the view.

Toriizaka Art features two artists: Yuji Hiratsuka from Eugene and Don Zylius of Sisters. Born in Osaka, Japan, Yuji Hiratsuka has a B.S. in Art Education from Tokyo Gakugei University, and degrees in printmaking from New Mexico State University and Indiana University. He is a professor of printmaking at Oregon State University.  Zylius, a long-time Sisters artist, paints in watercolor in a style that depicts the landscape of the Northwest as it might be portrayed by the brush of a Japanese artist. Both will also be onsite during the Studio Tour.

The Clearwater Gallery focuses on oil painter, Garth Williams. He is the featured artist for this month’s Meet the Maker dinner on Thursday, September 22. This is a six-course dinner curated by The Open Door executive chef, Julia Rickards, an artist meet-and-greet, live demonstration, and sale of the onsite painting. Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 541-549-6076 or visit opendoorwinebar.com/specialevents. Artist Garth Williams is a loves fly-fishing and the great outdoors, admires our landscapes and imagines how they translate to canvas. His concept of realism allows shapes and colors to weave together until an image appears. He uses a palette knife technique to create eye-catching aspens and dramatic landscapes. Coming from the Big Sky country of Helena, Montana, Garth was fortunate to grow up acquiring a deep love of the outdoors. He remembers his dad packing him on his back across a trout stream so they could get to the next fishing hole. The best time to fish was always in the fall when the streams were low and the autumn colors were spectacular. Every time Garth paints fall aspens, these special memories come to mind.

At The Stitchin’ Post, Opening Friday, Journeys Art Quilters present “Exploration.” Journeys is a group of women who explore textile design and media. This time, they picked magenta as common color in each of their original works. The color can be subtle or more

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters. 

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

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Summer may be winding down but the Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk is going strong, with a Gallery Grand Opening, a Soft Opening, and some of Sisters’ finest featured artists ready to meet you and discuss their latest work.

Toriizaka Art is thrilled to be a part of the Sisters Arts community and the gallery is thriving in The Hood. “We have received a very warm welcome during our soft opening and are looking forward to our official opening this Friday,” said owner Karen Thomas. “Please join us as we continue to exhibit a wide variety of figurative and landscape works from our gallery artists. This month, Don Zylius, a Sisters icon and well know watercolorist will be joining us to share stories about his many years of painting and fishing (his favorite pastime).”

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop spent August on the move to its new space, next to Toriizaka, and welcomes visitors to its soft opening. Paul Alan Bennett and Rochelle Carr will be featured artists. Visitors can meet Paul in support of his forthcoming HUG book, and purchase signed copies of his previous two books, “Pandemic Portraits” and “Night Skies.” Rochelle is a new artist to Sisters Gallery.

Hood Avenue Art features Glen Corbett, who does extraordinary botanical watercolors and woodcut prints that show off our central Oregon landscape. JoAnn Burgess, a pastel artist with an extraordinary sense of colors is unveiling new work including abstracts, aspens, and mountains. Art Blumenkron creates furniture with a raw edge using mostly Oregon walnut, as he lets the wood decide what it wants to be. Greg Davidge, who lived in Hawaii for many years, is known for creating amazing guitars from woods that musicians love to play. Music will be by Kurt Silva and refreshments will be served.

At The Stitchin’ Post, “Inspired by Yellowstone,” is Betty Gientke’s textile exploration of thermal pools in Yellowstone National Park. Her medium is silk and silk organza combined and overlapped with hand dyed fabric, cotton, and velvet. She was so inspired that she even wrote a poem about the pools.

The Campbell Gallery’s show is “Life After” by June Park, a multidisciplinary artist. They draw inspiration for their art from the rhythm and energy of the natural world, and the perspective they’ve gained moving through this world as a non-binary femme queer Korean American who grew up in rural Idaho. The artist says, “My artwork focuses on challenging, shifting, and deconstructing mainstream narratives and stereotypes about nature, life and death, and the multitude of identities we each hold by invoking visuals through the lens of my experiences as a rural American, Korean immigrant, and non-binary queer.” With a variety of media and techniques to fit each body of work, they use imaginative storytelling to evoke intuitive knowing and empathy to guide creating artwork that moves the viewer toward acceptance of ourselves, others, and our shared humanity.

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Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk. Click on any image to enlarge the view.

Raven Makes Gallery shows new works from Acoma Pueblo award winning potter Sandra Victorino and Hopi silver overlay jewelry pieces.

Metals Jewelry Studio’s owner, Bryan Lee Brown,  has ceated a specialty bolo made from a customer’s father’s watch, by recycling all the gold in the watch case and parts of the band. Stop by and see what he can make for you.

Wildflower Studio will be featuring Kathy Deggendorfer’s original paintings, prints and tiles. Kathy’s vibrant, saturated colors combine with pattern to depict landscapes and wildlife. Wildflower has a wide selection of local gifts, candles, diffusers, lotions, jewelry, art supplies, glass and art prints.

Featured at The Clearwater Gallery is local artist, David Mensing and his new show, “Eminently Capable.” David is also the featured artist for this month’s Meet the Maker dinner on Thursday, August 25. This includes a six-course dinner curated by The Open Door executive chef, Julia Rickards, an artist meet-and-greet, live demonstration, and sale of the onsite painting. Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 541-549-6076 or check online at opendoorwinebar.com/specialevents for more information. Mensing grew up in Iowa, surrounded by wide prairies and carefully groomed cornfields. Family camping, backpacking, and biking trips cultivated his love of wild places. When he moved West, he was captivated by its raw beauty. His ambition is to know and share that beauty through his work.

As always, Sisters Arts Association’s Quick Draw will award two $50 gift certificates to lucky recipients. Be sure to sign up as often as once per gallery, for each place you visit on the Artwalk. The Quick Draw is made possible thanks to a generous incentive from Coldwell Banker Bain in Sisters. Sign up once in each gallery.

Beacham’s Clock Company joins Artwalk with the exciting mixed media work of Don Griffith from Happy Valley. He will show several of his images of the inside workings of old pocket watches and alarm clocks from noon to 7 p.m.

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters. 

Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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If the summer seems to be flying by, it’s true. There are five Fridays in July, and the Fourth Friday Artwalk, on July 22, will mark the halfway point of Sisters Arts Association’s 2022 Fourth Friday Events. 

This month, we welcome a new gallery. After almost a year of design and construction, Sisters’ newest gallery has arrived. Toriizaka Art will open its doors at 222 West Hood Avenue on Friday for a “soft opening.” 

Toriizaka Art primarily features a selection of accomplished contemporary Asian artists from Vietnam and Japan.  Throughout the late summer and early fall, the newly designed space will showcase a selection of works from gallery artists. Please stop by to see the art, the gallery and to meet Jack Bird and Karen Thomas.

The Stitchin’ Post’s exhibition wall will be filled with “Possibilities with Cloth and Stitch” by Betty Davis Daggett. In her artist’s statement, she says, “Cloth is my medium of expression. Color, line and texture have been my guideposts. I enjoy what nature presents and architectural structures.” She began her journey using commercial textiles and traditional methods of construction for clothing and quilting making. Now she creates her own cloth by hand dyeing, screen-printing, and painting.  She generates her own designs from fabric that she has created as well as from old and new collected fabric.  “I am hand stitching my screen prints, exploring the all the colors that are present in the print. You can see how my work has evolved by being actively involved in two quilt groups and a community of fiber artists and mentors.”

Hood Avenue Art shines a spotlight on four artists. Gin Laughery makes monoprints: abstract landscapes that combine subtle use of color and texture to bring a sense of joy and tranquility to any space.  Watercolor and multimedia artist Vivian Olson’s love of animals serves as an inspiration for her paintings. “The animal friends I had as a child marked me for life. Wild or tame, they have been my focus all these years. I portray each animal as unique, so no two ever look alike.” Sharon Reed creates wearable art: unique jewelry in combinations of textured metal, stones and fossils. Danica Cartwright designs colorful glass beads, and you can watch her process between 4 and 6 p.m.  There will be music by David Skeleton, appetizers and wine.  All artists’ work will be displayed throughout August, along with work by 40 local central Oregon artists. 

Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop will hold its final Fourth Friday Artwalk in its current location before moving a few steps to the East on West Hood. Stop by to meet Jennifer Hartwig, the Scratchboard Lady, and several of the other gallery artists. Work on the move to the West Bay of 222 West Hood Avenue starts right after Fourth Friday. 

The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works continues to display the new pieces by Amelia O’Dougherty.  

Raven Makes Gallery offers works from museum quality masters to innovative new talent. Indigenous artists continue to bring positive energy and beauty to art lovers worldwide. 

Wildflower Studio welcomes Ron Rogers, a local artist who is both a photographer and a woodworker. His newest endeavor is a series of handmade wooden cheese boards. His landscape photos will also be displayed. Come by to enjoy wine, light appetizers and conversation from 4 to 7.

On the way, stop at Metals Jewelry Studio to see new and masterful jewelry and metal work by Bryan Lee Brown.

Featured this month at The Clearwater Gallery is local artist, Sarah B. Hansen. She will be unveiling her new show, “Hope and Healing Through Nature.” Usually an avid hiker, birder and adventurer, Sarah  had to slow down due to a surgery on her right hand. Now on the mend and back at the easel, she focused on moving forward with hope and encouragement for the future. Most of the pieces in this series are painted from her imagination and memory as opposed to photo references. The Clearwater Gallery will not be participating in this month’s Artwalk due to a private event. However, they invite you to spend an evening with Sarah on the night before, Thursday July 21, for the first of their 2022 Meet the Maker Dinner Series. The event includes a six-course dinner curated by executive chef Julia Rickards, an artist meet-and-greet, live demonstration, and the exciting sale of the onsite painting. This will be a memory worth making. Please visit theclearwatergallery.com for more information. 

Beacham’s Clock Company joins Artwalk with the exciting mixed media work of Don Griffith from Happy Valley. He will show several of his images of the inside workings of old pocket watches and alarm clocks from noon to 7 p.m. 

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters. 

 Sisters Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk on June 24 celebrates the coming of summer. Hood Avenue Art District galleries welcome you and your friends to meet local artists, see new and old favorite artworks, and take advantage the long hours of summer daylight. Pick up a Gallery Map and follow the ART flags to visit the local galleries.

The Clearwater Gallery is freshly stocked with locally made Rustic Garden Art just in time for summer. These whimsical characters and phrases bring beauty and joy to any outdoor space, and they make perfect gifts for garden enthusiasts. Each piece is designed and produced right here in Central Oregon, and the gallery looks forward to its seasonal delivery every year. Visit the gallery or stop in the courtyard for lunch or dinner to see this charming collection. The Clearwater Gallery we will not be participating in this month's Artwalk, but will be back in July featuring local acrylic painter, Sarah B. Hansen.

Hood Avenue Art is featuring glass artist Susie Zeitner and photographer Scott Cordner. Scott creates large panoramic photos that capture emotion and movement of the landscape surrounding him. He enhances his photography with handmade hardwood frames that fit with any style. Susie paints with light on glass. Her unique style of drawing and painting starts with glass powder and enamel fired on sheet glass, showing her talent in drawing and design. In addition, her love of colors she has made her inspirational beautiful totems with recycled metal and glass to be enjoyed by so many. Come hear music by Mark Barringer and Celtic fiddler Jana Nvotny.

Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk.

At The Stitchin’ Post, two voices in textile art, mother and daughter, Jean Wells Keenan and Valori Wells, take you on an inspired journey of their current work in this exhibit. Valori is a renowned printmaker and textile designer who creates magical drawings that are carved by hand and then printed onto textiles. Jean’s most recent work is driven by her love of the colors and designs that you see in nature.

Raven Makes Gallery is rich in tradition, contemporary ideas and renewed perspectives, with works from museum quality masters to innovative new talent. The gallery’s Indigenous artists continue to bring positive energy and beauty to art lovers worldwide. New works this month include oil paintings by award-winning Ojibwe-Pawnee artist, Raymond Nordwall of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The piece shown here is called “Out of the Storm.”

Amelia O’Dougherty is the featured artist at The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works. Amelia’s creative focus is to experience and explore the relationship between color and emotion. Her pieces portray simple moments translated into color and shape. The landscapes of the high desert are her current inspiration, especially the contrast of an electric sunrise over a dry lakebed, and the heaviness of an expansive sky filled with storm. Amelia started watercolor painting at four years old in a Waldorf preschool in Ashland, Oregon. Since then she has expanded into graphic design, ceramics, fiber arts, and acrylic painting, but watercolors remain her most comfortable home. In 2017 she moved to Sisters and has been in a state of joy and often tears at the colors and contrast ever since. The paintings in this show, “Cold Spring,” were inspired by the wild weather of Spring 2022 in Sisters, Summer Lake in Paisley, and San Francisco. All pieces are watercolor on paper with walnut or maple frames by Nathaniel Potter of Bigrock Woodcraft in Terrebonne. More of Amelia’s work can be found on her website ameliamorton.squarespace.com and on Instagram @amelia.rascal.

At Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, check out new work by acrylic artist and retired architect Brad Earl and prismacolor pencil fine artist Mike Stasko. Brad added to his collection of landmark images The Sno Cap and Cottonwood Café. Mike’s final entry in his Seasons of Sisters series is Fall: Autumn Aspen.

Wildflower Studio joins Hike’n’Peaks, Dyrk Godby Gallery, and Sisters Log Furniture for a five-year Anniversary and Block Party. These businesses celebrate five years of art, framing, and supporting creativity in the community, thanking their customers and inviting them to participate in a community celebration, including a raffle to support Sisters FAN. The Art Stroll and Block Party will take place in the Back Courtyard of these collective Hood Avenue locations. Stop by from 4 to 7 during the Fourth Friday Artwalk and enjoy light appetizers, beverages, raffle prizes and friends.

Metals Jewelry Studio is not participating this month, as owner Bryan Brown is away.

All of the galleries welcome you to visit and sign up for Quick Draw. Fill out one ticket in each gallery, for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used in any of the participating galleries. The Quick Draw is sponsored by SAA, thanks to a generous donation from Coldwell Banker Bain Sisters.

 Sisters Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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Our May Artwalk happens this Friday, May 27, and features new artists to Sisters Country plus a showing of the best student art from Sisters High School. 

Hood Avenue Art this month has work by Mixed-Media Painter Sandy Dutko, Enamels by Alisa Looney, and is introducing Artist Layne Cook, a Northwest native. In addition to a livelong interest in the arts, Cook’s career has included time as a counselor for adolescent girls, a home builder and remodeler and explorers of a variety of art media. Her work is in private collections, major hospitals, hotels, and corporate institutions. Currently her work centers around painting, textile printing and design. She continues to be fascinated by all aspects of painting: the power of a good composition, the role of light and shadows, the use of color, and the value of restraint using color.” 

The Clearwater Gallery will showcase work by Mosaic Artist Mare Schelz. She creates beautiful glass pieces that range from familiar landscapes to abstract patterns, and often does so with a reclaimed window or door. Each piece tells a story and has a history to be shared. Wine and light appetizers will be served from 4 to 6 p.m.

The Stitchin’ Post Fiber Arts Gallery features “Friendship Throughout the Seasons,” a collection of quilts by Kris Lang and Patti Steward. There will be works by both artists as well as a collaborative piece. While Kris and Patti have different creative styles, they appreciate and learn from each other. 

Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk.

Raven Makes Gallery continues to feature The Homelands Collection, original art by Indigenous artists on antique maps that once showed their traditional homelands. This unique art form combines the long established practice of using pages from antique ledgers with contemporary Native American Art. 

At Metals Jewelry Studio, Bryan Brown creates one-of-a-kind custom jewelry, all made on site. Featured this month is a palladium and sterling silver wedding set with a 14-karat white gold insert and blue diamonds. In addition, to his custom work he offers expert jewelry repair.

Wildflower Studio’s featured artist is John Runnels. He paints with both a palette knife and a brush – large landscapes depicting all seasons. Wine and appetizers will be served between 4 and 7 p.m. 

The Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works is hosting Sisters High School’s AP Portfolio Showcase and the 2022 Scholastic Art Awards. This is a presentation of work by Advanced Placement (AP) students who have been pursuing a sustained investigation and creative process in an area of their choice. They research, plan, experiment, create and revise throughout the process. The AP artists are Sidney Sillers, Lexie Miller, Marieke Jeffrey, Anya Shockley, Brynn Beaver, Bailey Knirk, and Ariya Grummer. The Scholastic Awards Artists are: Brooke Blakelock, Brooklyn Liddell, Anya Shockley, Charlotte Seymour, Angelina Chistensen, Katie Ryan, Erik Ryan, Mary Lapray, Daisy Draper, Layla Hicks, Kaleb Woods, Lilly Sundstrom , Dominc Martinez, Kiana Mendoza, and Hollie Lewis.

Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop will host a scratchboard demonstration by Jennifer Hartwig, and feature new work by clay artist Ann Grossnickle. Both artists have been busy creating and are looking forward to sharing their new work.  Selected pieces by both artists will be available at spring sale prices..

Sisters Cascade at 150 W. Cascade Ave., a supporting business, pays tribute to our four-footed friends this month as artist Sana Hayes shows her upcycled jewelry called “Licensed to Love.” These pieces are made from the tags of former shelter dogs. Proceeds from sales support Three Rivers Humane Society in Madras. Sisters Cascade will be open until 7 p.m., serving cookies and fudge samples.

SAA happily celebrates the 30th Anniversary of long time supporter and a favorite local hangout: Paulina Springs Books. Saturday May 28 marks the official date.

As you visit each gallery, sign up for SAA’s Quick Draw. These gift certificates may be redeemed in any of our participating galleries. 

 Sisters Gallery Maps are available HERE or get them in galleries, at the Chamber of Commerce, and at many businesses in town.

Supporting businesses that are always ready to serve you on 4th Fridays include:

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It’s April in Sisters, and whether or not snow gives way to spring, it’s one of the most spectacular weeks to see local art and meet local artists.  The Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Artwalk on April 22, in addition to featured artists in galleries, will feature displays of the artwork donated to My Own Two Hands (MOTH) Auction in galleries and businesses around town. You can also see all the auction items HERE.

Galleries and local businesses displaying MOTH art include Bedouin, The Barn, Sisters Coffee Company, Hood Avenue Art, Paulina Springs Books, the Clearwater Gallery, Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, Wildflower Studio, and the Campbell Gallery at Sisters Art Works.

The actual Art Auction and Party, a major fundraiser for the Sisters Folk Festival, will take place at Sisters Art Works next weekend. See story in the Nugget News for details. Quick Draw is back and this month includes two tickets to My Own Two Hands Art Auction and Party, donated by Sisters Folk Festival, and two $50 gift certificates, good at participating art galleries. Visitors may sign one ticket at each gallery location they visit. 

Here is a peek at what you will find on the Artwalk.