(Pandemic Portraits is a 96-page book including 88 monotype portraits of people wearing their COVID-19 masks | Photo courtesy of Paul Alan Bennet) Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the sight of masked people in shops, a doctor’s office or on the street is not so unusual. But nearly a year ago, the novelty and variety…
The Sisters Arts Association started to plan its fourth annual Artist Studio Tour way back in January. Artists began the year filled with creativity and passion. Then came the coronavirus and the pandemic, with closures of shops and galleries. Monthly Fourth Friday Artwalks through the Galleries of Sisters came to a halt. Still, artists continued,…
(Studio of Caroline Stratton Crow, Sculpture by J. Chester Armstrong) On the last weekend in June, artists in the Sisters area are opening their studios to the public for an up-close view of their creative processes. This is the third annual Artist’s Studio Tour sponsored by the Sisters Arts Association. This year, the tour has…
What’s it called when one animal takes its name from another? Artist Dennis McGregor pondered that riddle one day, as he contemplated painting a turtle. He painted the underside of a turtle, to be exact. But to show the underside of a turtle, he had to put it on something–like a string of barbed-wire fence….
