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It’s fall. Days are shorter and nights are cooler, but the art scene is as strong as ever in Sisters. This month’s Fourth Friday Artwalk, Sept. 27 from 4 to 7 p.m., features some heavy-hitting fabric shows, vivid watercolors, and new ideas in clay and sculpture. Sisters Arts Association invites everyone to visit the galleries and see the latest.
At The Stitchin’ Post Fabric Arts Gallery, Leotie Richards’ “Embrace Nature” show of art quilts focuses on botanical images, fabricated with hand-dyed wool, ingeniously hand-stitched. Richards employs a new technique and style of wool appliqué, which she calls “Modern Wool Appliqué.”
More fabric art is featured at Sisters Art Works, as the Journeys Quilters’ 12th Annual Show opens. This year’s theme, “High Desert Moods,” draws from the vastness of the desert, the smell of juniper and sage, and the colors of the seasons. Journeys’ artists Judy Beaver, Helen Brisson, Sheila K. Finzer, Betty Gientke, June Jaeger, Jean Wells Keenan, Tonye Phillips, Donna Rice, Jody Rusconi, Martha Sanders, Marion Shimoda, Mary Stiewig, and Jan McBrien Tetzlaff go beyond traditional quilting to create fiber art.
In a land of contrasts, the quilts portray vivid turquoise skies, striated grey stone, chartreuse rabbit brush and yarrow. Fragile botanical taxonomy and extreme climate shifts create stark and beautiful geography. Jean Wells Keenan’s “Deserted Foothills” depicts pillars of basalt that stretch across the desert, forminghigh standing ridges of stone above the sage-covered floor. Judy Beaver’s “High Desert Impressions” depicts the patterns on the ground, rocks, and shrubs; the earth is marked with animal tracks and rivulets where water and wind have left their traces. It’s all of this … and more!
Hood Avenue Art and the Watercolor Society of Oregon present an exhibition featuring WSO members from Central Oregon. The featured artists are Sandra Neary, Helen Brown, Jennifer Starr, Hazel O’Rear Reeves, Linda Shelton, Elizabeth Haberman, Judy Hoiness, Rebecca Sentgeorge, Michelle Lane, Dorothy Roth, Winnie Givot, and Linda Burgel. The show, runs through Oct. 20.
Gary Cooley’s latest creations are shown at the Collection Gallery. Throughout the years, his art has evolved from North American and African wildlife, to a variety of human figures, some life size, and monumental, all conveying dignity, power, and grace.
Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop has some new clay work by Mary Moore and Ann Grossnickle, along with new framing ideas, scratchboard demonstration and class signup by Jennifer Hartwig.
Artist Mike Mason of Portland creates landscapes using carefully dried, pressed, and placed botanicals. His floral impression brushstrokes are created using nature’s color and form. His stunning landscapes are at Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery.
More clay work, this time by Kelly Thiel, is on the wall at Good Day Café, near Bedouin. The Bend artist is known for her paintings as well as the faces (human and animal) in this display. Thiel also runs The Wilds, a co-working studio for creatives.
Wildflower Studio has new oil paintings by John Runnels and Chris Nelson.
Jill Neal Gallery has new images of horses, horsewomen, and wild (tasteful) women. Artwork is available as originals or reproductions on canvas, mugs, tapas plates, and note cards.
Watercolors by Terri Dill Simpson and photographs by Linda Ziegenhagen are wrapping up their stay at the Sisters Library. Stop and see them before they go away.
This month, signed and numbered prints by Martin Grelle and Howard Terpning are being shown and are for sale at Graceful Touch Bodyworks, 170 W. Cascade Ave., #5. Stop in and visit with Tammy Patterson during the Artwalk.
Also open this month are Antler Arts, Dyrk Godby Gallery, and Grizzly Ridge Upcycle. The Open Door is hosting a wedding reception, so the Clearwater Gallery will be closed, as will Beacham’s Clock Company.
