Visit Art Galleries in Sisters Featuring:
• A great time
• Beautiful art
• Good company
• Refreshments
• Music
• Demonstrations
• Hors d'urves
October’s fourth Friday Artwalk is right on schedule this Friday, with many galleries and supporting businesses remaining open from 4 to 7 p.m. in support of the arts and Sisters Arts Association.
Hood Avenue Art is featuring work by Carolyn Platt, printmaker; and glass artist Susie Zeitner. Carolyn creates monotypes: ink drawn on a hard surface and transferred to paper by running it through a printing press under pressure. Sometimes she starts with an image, and sometimes just with an impulse, perhaps a gestural movement of tools that leads to a dance on paper, adding and subtracting ink prior to putting it through the press. Each of Susie’s original pieces is handmade, fused at 1,400 to 1,500 degrees, and then slumped into its final shape in another firing process. Each piece is signed and dated.
Clearwater Gallery is featuring work by artists David Mensing and Dan Rickards. Look for “Hidden Sparks” and “Adventure on Wonderland” by Dan, and “Tensive” and “The Consention” by David.
Take a few moments to stop by Beacham’s Clock Company, and if you time it right, the sound of chimes will ring in your ears on the hour and half-hour.
Bring on the Bling! Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop is featuring brand new beaded jewelry by Vicki Hodge and Laurie SantaMaria. Sunflowers, a fused glass painting created by Sisters Middle School students with glass artist Mel Archer, will be shown in the gallery during the Artwalk.
“Triumph,” the last painting done by Stephen Juharos, is on display at Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery. Juharos, a native of Budapest, Hungary, began painting at age seven. After earning a master’s degree in fine and industrial art, he immigrated to the United States and eventually settled in Sedona, Arizona. His work is in museums, churches, and collections worldwide, and his portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower is included in Gettysburg’s Museum Hall of Presidents. He continued to paint until age 95, two years prior to his death.
In celebration of fall, Jill Neal’s Gallery features new images on canvas and lots of “Wild Women, Wild West,” all served with red wine and chocolate. Watch for sale items just in time for holiday shopping.
Central Oregon’s Studio Art Quilt Association has a display of the 2019 Theme Quilts, “Beneath the Surface,” at The Stitchin’ Post Fabric Arts Gallery. This international organization celebrates fiber arts with varied interpretations of this theme, from a literal exploration of what lies beneath the surfaced of our landscape to a more emotional exploration of what lies within each individual. This inspirational exhibit offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on the foundations beneath and within all of us.
Fabric Artist Judith Beaver’s “Aha Moments” are on display at Good Day Café, near Bedouin. “The Aha Moments” are those sudden instances of beauty, clarity or appreciation that provide the inspiration that drives my art,” Judy says. “They make me stop, smile, sigh, or fill my heart with praise.” After studying design at UC Berkeley and living in Hawaii for 37 years, Judy and her husband retired to Sisters in 2010, where she discovered a thriving arts community. “I enjoy the warm sensuous nature of quilting, especially the feel of the cloth. I work intuitively, allowing the piece to transform as it progresses.”
Walk down Cascade Avenue this month, because some locations will be open until 7. They are Antler Arts, Blue Burro Imports, Sisters Cascade, Sisters Cascade Sweet Shoppe, Graceful Touch Bodyworks, and ZoselHarper Realtors.
Blue Burro has art and more themed for upcoming “Day of the Dead.” Signed and numbered prints by Martin Grelle and Howard Terpning are at Graceful Touch Bodyworks, and art by Randall Tillery is at Zosel Harper.
Sisters Coffee Company, and Dyrk Godby Gallery will also be open. The monthly Artwalk will continue year-round, with Quick Draw entries for two $50 gift certificates to local galleries each month. Quick Draw is supported by contributions from R.A. “Dick” Howells Realtor and ZoselHarper Realtors.
Hayden Homes is the featured sponsor of the October Artwalk and supporter of the Arts in Sisters.
