The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts offers the 2022 Mayor’s Show from Feb. 12 by March 5 in the Runyan Gallery at the Newport Visual Arts Middle.
The Mayor’s Exhibit attributes nine artists chosen from the 89 Lincoln County artists who participated in the 2022 PushPin & ClothesLine Exhibit through January. The 9 artists had been chosen in session with OCCA VAC Director Tom Webb and Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer. The Mayor’s Clearly show was started in 2016 by Webb and previous Newport Mayor Sandra Roumagoux.
Running under COVID-19 protocols, the Runyan Gallery is at present open up Wednesdays by way of Saturdays, from noon to 4 p.m. A comfortable opening reception will be held this Saturday, Feb. 12, from noon to 4 p.m., with artists talking at 2 p.m.
The nine participating artists are Veta Vakhtina, Barbara Flewellyn, Sylvia A. Hosie, Rebecca Hooper, Herb Kately, Julie Lamberson, Janet Runger, Wendy Schwartz and Carol Shenk.
Veta Vakhtina grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of the Communist era, and she credits her exposure to uncharted character, the rural Russian countryside, and a tradition of heritage for a lot of her inspiration and operating style. She works as a muralist, painter, and creator of whimsical children’s books. Her paintings can be viewed at Crow’s Nest Gallery in Toledo.
Barbara Flewellyn has expended numerous many years discovering art media — woodperforming, welding, ceramics, pastels, daily life drawing and weaving. She studied portray with Sandy Roumagoux. Flewellyn moved to the Oregon coastline 17 years back and has served as the president of the Coastal Arts Guild.
Weaving tapestry is Rebecca Hooper’s beloved indicates of creative expression. Around the many years she has taken a lot of weaving classes, including rugs at Weaving Southwest in Taos, N.M., rug weaving with Jason Collingwood from the British isles, and weaving color with Tein Chu from San Francisco. For the previous yr, she has researched intensively with award winning, fine art tapestry weaver Kathe Todd-Hooker, in Albany.
Sylvia A. Hosie is a great artwork photographer residing in Toledo. The digital revolution has permitted her to give a looser, more stylized search to a lot of of her photos. Represented in two Oregon galleries, her operate has found homes through North The usa, Europe and Australia.
Herb Kately has exhibited get the job done at the West Nebraska Art Heart and the Alliance Carnegie Art Center, and he had successful entries at the Dawes County Reasonable. Extra just lately, in 2021 he was picked for the initially round in the Toledo Phantom galleries. He maintains numerous online artist portfolios.
Julie Lamberson is an illustrator, watercolorist and muralist. She attended Lewis & Clark College or university and Newport Superior Faculty. Her operate has been exhibited in various galleries, and she has released various art publications.
Janet Runger is the operator of Crow’s Nest Gallery & Studio in Toledo. She results in imaginative art where overlooked objects have been assembled into whimsical creatures, extremely hard vehicles and captivating sculptures.
Wendy Schwartz not long ago relocated to Newport. She was the co-proprietor of Stampadoodle, a paper-crafting and art shop in Bellingham, Clean., for 29 several years. Pen and ink perform has been her most important concentrate above the past two yrs.
Carol Shenk is a blended-media artist dwelling on the Oregon coast. She recently returned to studio function right after many years in local government records and archives, in which she served doc the published and visual histories of individuals, culture and nature, previous and present. In 2021, she concluded illustration for a children’s book to be revealed in 2022. Shenk has a BA in fine arts from the College of Oregon.
The Newport Visual Arts Middle, situated at 777 NW Seashore Push, adheres to all wellbeing and safety protocols presented by the governor’s business as nicely as the metropolis of Newport. All website visitors to the VAC are necessary to don proper masks.
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts manages the Newport Visible Arts Centre and the Newport Accomplishing Arts Heart, and serves as the regional arts council for Oregon’s seven coastal counties.