The Friends of the Sunriver Area Library present an exhibit featuring pottery by Ceci Capen and pastel paintings by Barbara Bailey, at the Sunriver Area Library. Capen, born in Oahu, Hawaii, has a heritage of Filipina, Portuguese and Chinese, and says that this blend of cultures has shaped her philosophical artistic approach to her work. Visual arts was Capen’s first love -- first drawing with charcoal and then turning to photography. After moving to the Oregon coast, she had several opportunities to enter her art in juried exhibitions, with excellent results. After moving to Bend, Ceci took a pottery class at COCC and there discovered the joys of working with clay. Capen says “using a potter’s wheel allowed me to concentrate and block out all of the world’s troubles.” Capen has continued to learn and experiment in clay – attending a raku pottery workshop with clay artist Jim Romberg – and now works in raku as well as traditional pottery, and has experimented with glaze mixing. Capen is co-chair of Potters for Education, a partnership between Oregon potters and Arts Central. Potters for Education conducts several shows each year, exhibiting and selling local potters’ work while raising funds for the Arts Central Art Scholarship Fund.
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What do you get when you take a warm sunny weekend in mid-August, one beautiful new and improving Village at Sunriver, 60 incredibly talented Artisans eager to display and sell their art, and a dedicated and enthusiastic group of volunteers? Nothing short of a great time for one and all.Mark your calendars for the 3rd annual Juried Sunriver Art Faire, sponsored by the Sunriver Women’s Club (SRWC). It will once again be held in the Village at Sunriver, Oregon on August 10-12, 2012. Last year was very successful for both the participating artists and the SRWC. The community also benefited by the several thousand visitors who came to Sunriver for the Faire. The sponsorship has grown, due to the increased support of area merchants. In response to requests by many of the artists, the decision was made to expand this year’s event to three days. The Faire hours Friday and Saturday will be 10am to 7pm, and Sunday from 10am to 2pm.
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Sunriver Betty Gray Gallery presents a fine art exhibition of work by gallery artists. Continuing until January 15 are small landscapes by Joanne Donaca, figurative works by Vicki Shuck and animal portraits by Barbara Slater. Donaca shows expressionistic landscapes of Central Oregon in both pastel and oil. Recognized for her art by the Oil Painters of America, Donaca also is a signature member of the Pastel Society of Oregon, the Northwest, and the Pastel Society of America. Her art appears in private and public collections including Sunriver Resort. Shuck ‘s presents small figurative, expressionistic oil paintings of scenes such as café patrons, rodeos and horses, street scenes and others. Recognized for her spiritual imagery such as the print collection, Seven Days of Creation, she added the secular portraits in 2007. A member of Oil Painters of America, Shuck teaches adult classes at Arts Central.Oil painter Barbara Slater exhibits fanciful and endearing animals including elegant roosters, soulful horses, beloved dogs and others. Her affection for them and her skillful grasp of their nature is apparent in the imagery. A frequent participant in the Richard Schmidt Art Auction in Colorado, she travels to Arizona in January to the Scottsdale Art School to study “fur and feathers” with noted animal artist Phil Beck. Beginning January 17 and continuing through January, an exhibition of gallery artists begins with brilliantly colored acrylic landscapes by Jean Schwalbe, elegant pastel landscapes by Leslie Cain, expressionistic waterscapes by Ann Bullwinkel and dramatic landscapes by Gary Vincent.Sunriver Betty Gray Gallery welcomes the public to the exhibit in the upper and lower galleries of Sunriver Lodge. Billye Turner, art consultant, organizes gallery exhibitions for the Sunriver Resort and provides additional information at 531-382-9398.
Sunriver Betty Gray Gallery joins the Traditions celebration with a fine art exhibition on display through the New Year festivities. Presenting animal portraits in oil, Barbara Slater joins Joanne Donaca and Vicki Shuck showing small works.Oil painter Slater exhibits fanciful and endearing animals including pigmy pigs, elegant roosters, soulful horses, a holiday lamb and other barnyard animals. Her affection for them and her skillful grasp of their natures is apparent in the imagery. This devotion to animals began while growing up on her grandfather’s rich farmland in the Eden Valley in Utah where irritated heifers would finally herd her away from their baby calves. Though adoring animals and a lifetime painter, she began to paint her beloved barnyard subjects in earnest only in 2008.
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This December the Village at Sunriver will come alive with holiday spirit! You can expect to find frequent visits from Santa, free craft making for the kiddos, roaming holiday carolers and even a free family puppet show just to name a few of the many family friendly things the Village will be offering. In addition to the great activities, you can help out some of the local charities by supporting the second annual Holiday Wish Weekend of Giving event taking place Dec 9-11.
Have you been naughty or nice this year? Come to the Village at Sunriver’s North Pole and tell Santa all about it. The big fella himself will be visiting every Saturday along with some additional hours as Christmas Day gets closer. If it’s free entertainment you’re looking for then come to the hilarious family puppet show Look Who’s Coming Down the Chimney presented by Tree House Puppet Theater. Join in the fun and sing along with Ricky and Rocky Raccoon as they try and find out who is eating all of Santa’s cookies.
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