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Beet Gallery presents Sara Swink’s newest ceramic works in Progeny:
Beet Gallery
1720 NW Lovejoy, Portland
(503) 224-5000
March 5–31, 2009
First Thursday Recption: March 5, 5–9 pm
To see more of Sara’s recent work, please see her blog at http://claycircle.wordpress.com/; her website is at http://claycircle.com. For more information about the exhibit, please see http://www.beetgallery.com/.
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Lucia Douglas Gallery presents Ten Inches by Ten Inches Square, a group show with several Portland Open Studios artists (Kelly Neidig, Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, and Jennifer Mercede):
Lucia Douglas Gallery
1415 13th Street
Bellingham, Washington
March 7-28, 2009
Artist Reception: Saturday March 7, 5-7 pm
For more information, please see Lucia Douglas Gallery website.
Below, Nest, by Sara Swink.
Congratulations! Bonnie, Christine, Donna, Doug, Kari, Kati, Sunny, Susan and Tien (left to right, starting from top):
Nine 2008 Portland Open Studios Tour Artists
Featured at the 2009 Beaverton Arts Commission
27th Annual Visual Arts Showcase
From a field of over 600 entries, 9 Portland Open Studios Tour Artists had work chosen for the Beaverton Arts Commission’s 27th Annual Visual Arts Showcase. Opening night on Saturday, February 7th was packed with people viewing the art, sampling chocolate covered strawberries and voting on their favorite pieces for the People’s Choice Award.
Kati Bendig, 1st place winner in the watercolor division, was honored for her painting, “The Old Man”. Juror, Susan McKinnon, commented Bendig’s painting was a “Beautiful handling of the medium. Loose, yet controlled with expression…watercolor at its best.”
Also chosen in the watercolor/painting division were Christine Helton, Donna Sanson, Sunny Smith, and Tien-chu Loh and Kari Dunham. Doug Richardson was chosen for his photograph, “Louvre Lights”. And sculpture division featured the work of Bonnie Meltzer, “Viola as Young Musician” and Susan Gallacher-Turner’s, “Winter/Imbolc”.
In addition, 7 other previous Portland Open Studios Tour Artists were juried into the show including Berle Bledsoe, Pamela Green, Allen Greene, Gretha Lindwood, Pattie Palmer-Baker, Linda Terhark and Liz Walker.
The Annual Visual Arts Showcase has featured the work of local artists since 1984. You can visit the showcase and see the work by Portland Open Studios artists and many others through February 21st at the Beaverton City Library during library hours. The event is free.
Beaverton City Library
12375 SW 5th Ave, Beaverton
Meeting rooms A & B
Sundays 1 to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
