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Last year’s OHDC poster tells a story of connection. Over the years, Kimry has reflected on the poster of Marta Batha’s that inspired her, about how it set her on a path to support J Bar J and the OHDC for so many years. It felt right to make last year’s poster a tribute to Marta. Kimry set out to paint it using similar colors and horse position to the poster she saw shortly after her arrival in Bend in 2007.

Kimry also wanted to celebrate one of the horses from the Oregon High Desert Classics, and along with the OHDC team, chose Capilano, Lindsey Garner’s four-year winner of the OHDC Grand Prix.

‘Cappy’ seemed like a beautiful fit, as his history with the Oregon High Desert Classics runs deep.

It wasn’t until the painting was underway that Kimry learned that the combination tribute to Marta and Cappy shows another connection. Lindsey had helped train Cappy as a foal, who was later sold.

He returned to Bend when Lindsey’s friend and student Marta Batha, artist of the 2007 poster, purchased him and brought him back in 2016, ultimately completing his circle when she sold him to Lindsey.

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ife with horses builds bonds: The connection between human and horse grows through ground work and time in the saddle.

Lessons build more than skills, they nurture trust between a rider and their trainer. Events create spaces for equestrians to gather and meet, where exhibitors exchange stories during breaks and shared meals, growing friendships.

weather didn’t cooperate that first year, and Diana recalls the judges sitting on the back of a flatbed in the downpour, huddled in horse blankets while watching competitors. It was so wet, she considered canceling the final events until Gary told her, “Stop fussing about and let’s run the grand prix!” The show ran in that location for several years during the 80s and became the Michelob Classics.

Central Oregon’s largest horse show, the Oregon High Desert Classics, not only brings a highly ranked USHJA show to Bend, it has become entwined in the culture of the community. It expands the circle of bonds beyond those who are immersed in the world of horses, connecting horses with those who are not. Showing hundreds of spectators a glimpse into equestrian life, and the beauty of the bond between horse and human.

In 1989, youth from the J Bar J Boys Ranch began providing much-needed labor, and the event became a fundraiser for its parent company. The J Bar J Youth Services board agreed to provide a permanent home and became responsible for the show. The organization worked to laser level the fields on the Boys Ranch, build up the substrate, and plant the lovely grass arenas used to this day. Each July, on that open field, a showground arises. Rings are defined with fencing and jumps brought in to build courses in them.

Tents, judging booths, and stables for 600 horses are raised. Flowers, tables, a service kitchen all appear where there was only grass the week before.

Today, the Oregon High Desert Classics draws hundreds of competitors from all over the West. World-class hunters and jumpers square off in each week’s Grand Prix and the International Hunter Derby. The event has become a tradition, and was even awarded the USEF Heritage Competition designation for its ‘substantial contribution toward the development and promotion of the sport by achieving, maintaining and promoting the equestrian ideals of the sportsmanship and competition.’

This premier event began small, on the polo field at the Stevenson Ranch.

Called the High Desert Horse Fair, it was the vision of Diana Davis to raise money for a project her life-long friend Don Kerr was building: The High Desert Museum. Diana and Don drove to Bend together in his old VW van from Portland, along with his two owls as passengers, to walk the property where he envisioned a place fashioned after the Living Desert Museum in Tucson. Sparked by his excitement about this project, Diana planned his initial big fundraiser: a horse show.

The High Desert Horse Fair drew competitors from around the Northwest. Bend was a small town, but the desire for a hunter jumper event was clear. They even managed to attract a few professionals, including Gary Henley, a renowned trainer who lived in Washington at the time. The

A big piece of OHDC’s history is the artwork of Kimry Jelen. Not long after moving to Bend, a poster caught Kimry attention. Something about it touched her and she knew in that moment she wanted to create posters like that one by Marta Batha. Over the years, Kimry has come to trust the belief that if you set your intentions, opportunities come. Things fell into place, and since that time Kimry has created 14 posters for the Oregon High Desert Classics.

J Bar J Youth Services has helped thousands of kids over the years move toward self-sufficiency and wellness. J Bar J programs include J Bar J Boys Ranch and J5, The Academy at Sisters, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon, Cascade Youth & Family Center, at: project, Grandma’s House, and Kindred Connections. The Learning Center offers a high school diploma track as well as GED training and testing. And, of course, many people know them for their largest fundraiser of the year, the Oregon High Desert Classics: a fundraiser where the love of horses empowers youth. oregonhighdesertclassics.org Oregon’s Only Arts Magazine Since 1995 | June 2022

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FIRST FRIDAY & BEND EXHIBITS The Alexander Soba Noodle Bowl, watercolor and mixed media,

by Rebecca Sentgeorge 1125 NE Watt Way 458-256-6854 thealexanderbend.com Redmond artist, Rebecca Sentgeorge, will be featured in a solo exhibition during the months of June and July at The Alexander on NE Watt Way. The show, which is titled Asian Flair, focuses on the beauty of the land, its people and culture. The artist’s intent was to recreate the essence of people and place.

This series showcases Sentgeorge’s exquisite use of color and form and is an affirmation of all our shared humanity through the connections every culture feels to the land and people, regardless to the culture.

Sentgeorge is a member of the High Desert Art League and the Watercolor Society of Oregon.

Bend Senior Center 1600 SE Reed Market Rd. 541-388-1133 bendparksandrec.org/facility/bend-senior-center The Bend Senior Center at the new Larkspur Community Center is showing art by members of the SageBrushers Art Society. Come visit the new facility and enjoy beautiful paintings in acrylic, oil, pastel, and watercolor, as well as outstanding photography. Showing thru June.

Blue Spruce Pottery 20591 Dorchester E. 541-382-0197 • bluesprucepottery.com This family-owned business has been making handmade pottery in Bend since 1976. Call to arrange a time to come shop their large selection of mugs, bowls, casseroles, lamps and more. Shop online and have gifts shipped directly to your family and friends. You can also find Blue Spruce Pottery at Red Chair Gallery in downtown Bend.

Deschutes Historical Museum 129 NW Idaho Ave. 541-389-1813 • deschuteshistory.org The Deschutes Historical Museum opened an exhibit on the town of Maxville, Oregon and its timber history on April 28.

Timber Culture is a traveling exhibit from the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center that explores the lives of loggers and their families drawn together from different cultures during the great migration of African Americans from the South, and presents an inclusive look at Oregon’s multicultural logging communities. In sharing and discussing the history of the segregated logging community of Maxville, Oregon, the exhibit examines issues of race and social justice through the lens of Oregon’s history. The exhibit will be on display thru June 10.

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Superthrive by Stephen Hendee

High Desert Museum 59800 S Hwy. 97 541-382-4754 • highdesertmuseum.org New at the Museum, Lair: Light and the Art of Stephen Hendee. The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith once reviewed his work as being like a “collaboration between the creators of Spider Man, the set designers for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and maybe Star Trek, and the computer artists involved with Tron.” Now, the glowing, high-tech world of Stephen Hendee is at the High Desert Museum. On display thru November 27.

Vanishing Night: Conserving Dark Skies in the High Desert continues thru July 10, featuring breathtaking large-scale imagery of the changing High Desert skies and information about the harm light pollution causes to wildlife. It also offers simple solutions for all residents to cut back their use of artificial light.

Continuing thru September 25, Imagine a World considers the ambitions, intentions and outcomes (sometimes disastrous) of intentional communities in the High Desert and Western United States over the past half century. It highlights contemporary artists as well, sharing their visions of alternative worlds and futures. Imagine a World invites each of us to reflect on how we are.

Kreitzer Gallery 20214 Archie Briggs Rd. 805-234-2048 • KreitzerArt.com TRADITION LIVES: Find peace and healing in the profound depiction of the waters and lands of the West, as well as vineyards, koi, florals, fantasy and figures in the art of Contemporary Realist David Kreitzer. In the tradition of Turner and Cezanne, painter David’s love of nature, fantasy and the human form, propels him to create exquisitely detailed, mood-invoking landscapes, figures and striking still life floral studies in a variety of mediums. A full time artist for 55 years, David’s career began with sold out shows at Maxwell Gallery in San Francisco. David grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister who, due to his vocation, moved his family frequently throughout the Nebraska countryside.

Kreitzers’ works are in the collections of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Hirschhorn Foundation, Revlon Coporation, Olga Corporation, Barnes-Hind Corporation, Sinclair Paints, Lloyd’s Bank, Cargill Corporation and the San

FIRST FRIDAY & BEND EXHIBITS Diego, Santa Barbara, Nebraska and Minnesota Museums. Private collectors include Ray Bradbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Douglas, Pepe Romero, Quinn Martin, Raymond Burr and Robert and Linda Takken.

“David Kreitzer… is a highly traditional figure painter who demonstrates how much poetic intensity the old tradition can still contain.” ~Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle.

Open daily and for monthly First Friday Art Walk.

Undercurrent, mixed media painting

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Layor Art + Supply 1000 NW Wall St., Ste. 110 541-322-0421 • layorart.com This June, Layor Art + Supply is showing art by members of the SageBrushers Art Society. Stop in to see this work by the artists of Bend’s largest arts organization. In a variety of media and subjects, this exhibit is sure to have something for everyone: shop for your own art and desk supplies while you browse this great exhibit space. The show starts on June 3 for First Friday Art Walk, 5-9pm, and can be viewed thruout June during Layor’s regular business hours: Monday thru Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday, 11am-4pm; and Sunday, 12-4pm.

Lubbesmeyer Studio & Gallery Old Mill District Second Story Loft 541-330-0840 • lubbesmeyer.com The Lubbesmeyer twins offer a range of work created in fiber and paint. Thru the twins’ collaborative process, they distill literal imagery into vivid blocks of color and texture, creating an abstracted view of their surroundings. Call the studio for hours and appointments.

The Day Ahead, Fiber with overstitching, 26.5 x 32.5”

Mockingbird Gallery 869 NW Wall St. 541-388-2107 • mockingbird-gallery.com On First Friday, June 3, from 5-8pm, Mockingbird Gallery will be hung with beautiful artwork for Vestiges, a two-person show for Steven Lee Adams and Joseph Alleman. This exhibit will run thru the end of June.

Steven Lee Adams strives to portray an elusive feeling of timelessness that lies beneath the surface of what may seem commonplace... introspective paintings, urging us to look deeper for the subtleties of nature around us, and the complex world of emotion within each of us. His work closely relates with the Tonalist artists, who were working in the 1800s.

For Joseph Alleman, an important motive to paint lies in understanding his surroundings. “I’m visually compelled by shape, value and pattern. Through the process of painting, I gain new and deeper insight into my subject.”

Familiar subjects, such as weathered barns, red-roofed farmhouses and windswept fields of alfalfa, attract his interest.

Oxford Hotel 10 NW Minnesota Ave. 541-382-8436 The Oxford Hotel is pleased to feature High Desert Art League member, Rebecca Sentgeorge, in Walk a Mile in My Shoes, featuring

Let Your Light Shine by Rebecca Sentgeorge

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Local Artists and Quality Framing 834 NW BROOKS STREET • BEND 541-382-5884 • www.sageframing-gallery.com

Undercurrent, mixed media painting

by Terri Gonzalez, showing at Layor Art + Supply

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FIRST FRIDAY & BEND EXHIBITS watercolor paintings and mixed media pieces during the month of June.

Rebecca said, “All of the shoes depicted in the paintings are empty, just waiting for the viewer to fit them on and imagine where those shoes have been, and the road they have taken.” The world could be a better place if we all could put ourselves in another’s shoes and try to see their point of view.

Rebecca has a degree in art and was an art educator for 40 years. She has lived and taught in China, Japan, Australia and the U.S., and has artwork in private collections in each of those places as well as having taught workshops in Thailand, Japan, China, California and Nova Scotia. Rebecca teaches occasional workshops in Central Oregon.

In addition to the High Desert Art League, Rebecca is vice president of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and was a Fulbright Memorial Fund Participant.

She was selected to participate in the National Consortium of Teaching about Asia, and the Teachers Institute of Contemporary Art. Peterson Contemporary Art 550 NW Franklin Ave. 541-633-7148 • pcagallery.com This First Friday, June 3, from 5-8pm, Peterson Contemporary Art will feature the work of Alexandra Becker-Black and Glenn Ness. This show will continue thru June.

Alexandra’s relationship with watercolors started with an odd step when she was forced to choose a new medium after developing an allergic reaction to oil paints. Within weeks of first painting in watercolors, Alexandra found her new medium and her new voice. Years later, most of her technique is still self-taught through her natural exploration of the medium and its applications.

Glenn started with drafting in pen and ink and then his art took a natural progression to oil paints; they provide the saturation and richness that he hopes to achieve. Glenn does take photographs of his subjects, but they don’t tend to have all the fine details, so he uses them as references to create the realistic urban and cityscapes.

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Red Chair Gallery 103 NW Oregon Ave. 541-306-3176 • redchairgallerybend.com In June, Red Chair Gallery showcases Michelle Lindblom’s monotype prints, which reflect her deep love of nature. Blue Spruce Pottery fills the pedestals with its stoneware featuring classic Cascade Mountain views.

Stephanie Stanley displays her hand-woven scarves and ponchos in luscious summer colors. Located at the corner of Bond Street Hand-woven textile art

by Stephanie Stanley and Oregon Avenue, Red Chair Gallery is open seven days a week: Monday-Saturday, 10am to 6pm and Sunday, noon to 4pm. Open late on Friday, June 3 for First Friday.

Sage Custom Framing & Gallery 834 NW Brooks St. 541-382-5884 sageframing-gallery.com For the month of June, Sage Out of the Loop, acrylic by Sue Vordenberg Custom Framing and Gallery is excited to show a diverse and thought provoking selection of acrylic paintings done by local artist Sue Vordenberg. Bold, Curious & Eclectic is showing June 1-25.

In Sue’s own words: “Curiosity and boldness are basic to my representations of the world, through the eclectic selection of subjects, manipulation of colors and compositional elements and varying degrees of abstraction and surrealism. My goals are to be absorbed joyfully in the process and to stimulate lasting delight and curiosity in viewers and collectors.

Reference photos usually are my starting point for a painting regardless of subject.

Sometimes I work abstractly from the beginning, but more often I begin realistically.

Before long my curiosity leads me to working the idea more unconventionally resulting in more abstraction or surrealism. I want my painting first to stimulate a compelling visceral reaction in viewers and second to stimulate the viewers’ curiosity both about my artistic decisions and their own reaction to the painting. The subject portrayal may be boldly bold, or boldly subtle but there nearly always will be some degree of boldness in my interpretation, with color choices often driving the final effect. I paint in acrylic and use both flat brushes and palette knives. Sometimes I add collage or use gel plate. I believe strongly in life-long learning, and so experiment gleefully with subject, composition, technique and effect.

Creative problem solving as a community college vice president, and creative expression as a violinist provided experiences and insights fundamental to my curious, bold and eclectic approach to painting. David Kinker, Jane Davies, Scott Gellatly and other artists have contributed to my understanding of visual art history, concepts and techniques.”

Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm; Saturday, 12-4pm; and First Friday reception 4-7pm.

FIRST FRIDAY & BEND EXHIBITS Little Gems of Spring, pastel painting by Barbara Alford

SageBrushers Art Society 117 SW Roosevelt Ave. 541-617-0900 sagebrushersartofbend.com SageBrushers Art Society presents a group show of current works by the Dusty Dames group of pastel artists.

Stop in to enjoy the beauty of soft pastel landscapes, still life, portraits and more. The SageBrushers Gallery is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 1-4 pm. Showing thru June.

Tumalo Art Company Art by Danae Bennett-Miller Old Mill District 541-385-9144 • tumaloartco.com Small birds along with cranes, eagles and elk all show up in Danae BennettMiller’s June show, Spirit Found, opening June 3, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. For this exhibit, Danae has created both bronze sculpture and collage monoprints with polyurethane layers on cradled board.

The animals who live with and around Danae are her inspiration.

They connect to the spirit of the earth and fill her soul. A rancher who raises chicken and other farm animals, Danae has a close relationship with her surrounding environment and is wellknown for her organic, life-filled forms of animals. To create their dynamic shapes she flows out strips of wax with ripples and texture and forms them into the shapes she is imagining for each creature. This technique gives an organic aliveness to each one. Once cast, her pieces are one-of-a-kind. Augmenting her sculpture works with printmaking has given a new avenue to express form, texture and line to all of her animals.

Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open seven days a week.

Umtanam Columns, photographs

The Wine Shop

by Michele McKay 55 NW Minnesota Ave. 541-389-2884 thewineshopbend.com The Wine Shop is showing photographs by Sagebrushers Art Society member Michele McKay. “I love roaming in all types of landscapes and allowing my attention to be drawn to the unique. My rambles here and abroad are an engaging form of moving mindfulness, and in recent years I’ve practiced capturing singular moments of time, place, and perception through photographs and haiku notes. Much of my enjoyment lies in making photographs that are not digitally altered or enhanced, and discovering how these images can express the nature of particular elements and experiences.” Showing thru July.

The Wooden Jewel 844 NW Bond St., Ste. 100 541-593-4151 • thewoodenjewel.com The Wooden Jewel invites Central Oregon to come in and be amazed at the variety of fine art works — both paintings and sculptures — as well as and unique, contemporary, handmade custom jewelry, all by local and international artists.

Fine Art & Contemporary Craft

Presenting our Showcase Artists for June: Michelle Lindblom ~ monotypes Blue Spruce Pottery ~ stoneware pottery Stephanie Stanley ~ hand woven clothing

Blue Spruce Pottery

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Acclaimed Sculptor of Light Opens New Exhibit at

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he New York Times art critic Roberta Smith once reviewed his work as being like a “collaboration between the creators of Spider Man, the set designers for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and maybe Star Trek, and the computer artists involved with Tron.” Now, the glowing, high-tech world of Stephen Hendee is at the High Desert Museum.

The new exhibit, Lair: Light and the Art of Stephen Hendee, opened at the Museum on May 28, which took place during the High Desert Museum’s 40th anniversary festivities.

Hendee’s work is being created exclusively for the High Desert Museum for this exhibition. Using light, color and space, Lair explores the spaces in which we live both physically and virtually, drawing inspiration from the High Desert landscape. Walking into the gallery, visitors will be immersed in a futuristic world of light and sound with elements hinting at current environmental issues.

Wildfire and climate change are altering the reality of living in the High Desert and thus, Hendee says, play a pivotal role in Lair. In recent exhibitions at the Museum, largescale photography and installation artwork have been used to explore the changing forest conditions, from nature’s resiliency to the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Stephen Hendee furthers that exploration through large-scale, ambitious installations. His translucent walls will glow with a warm, animated light that suggests flames.

“Coupled with expression, art can also be a unique and inspiring way to explore scientific topics,” says Museum Executive Director Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D. “Stephen Hendee’s artwork will not only delight visitors with sight and sound, it will also prompt dialogue about humanity’s relationship with the landscape.”

For 30 years, Hendee has immersed audiences in experiences that are both dynamic and emotional. Hendee serves as a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his art has been on display everywhere from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to Meow Wolf Las Vegas. Hendee’s recent awards include a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks Grant.

Lair: Light and the Art of Stephen Hendee (highdesertmuseum.org/lair) will be on display through November 27. The exhibit is made possible by Lonza with support from Portland Monthly, Waypoint Hotel and the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. highdesertmuseum.org

Some Zombies by Stephen Hendee

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Red Chair Gallery Presents . . .

by JULIA KENNEDY COCHRAN — Red Chair Gallery

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What you don’t see is the hours of preparation required before the weaver even sits down to weave.

Stephanie Stanley, whose woven garments are showcased in June at Red Chair Gallery, explains that many technical skills must be mastered before you can create a thing of beauty.

“It takes more time to put the warp on the loom than to weave a whole scarf,” she says. “There are a lot of steps before you can actually start weaving.” The way you thread the shafts on a loom affects the pattern you weave. A scarf might require 300 pieces of thread, each cut exactly the same length, to be threaded on the shafts of the loom to create the warp. With just a four-shaft loom, you can create 20 different patterns with one threading. This is because the threads can be inserted in a number of different combinations and the treadles can be tied to the shafts in various ways. Additionally, the weaving pattern can be changed by the order in which the treadles are pressed down.

After the weaving is completed, there is still more work to do. Stanley “wet finishes” the garments in soapy water, dries them and sometimes fluffs them in a dryer. For some scarves, the threads are twisted into a plied fringe. Most of the fabrics must be pressed three times to “settle in” the fibers, Stanley explains.

Stanley owns six looms, all of them floor looms and the largest of which is five feet wide. They range from 4 to 24 shafts. They take up one bedroom and a sunroom in her house. She weaves her scarves and ponchos from different types of natural fiber, including organic and conventional cotton, wool, silk, bamboo and tencel, which is a silky type of rayon that is made from wood pulp (cellulose). Stanley notes that the manufacturing process for Tencel does not release chemicals into the environment. “I try to use materials that are sustainable,” she says.

Come into the gallery to see her gorgeous creations in June. redchairgallerybend.com

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ichelle Lindblom is a multi-talented artist. Last month, Red Chair Gallery featured her abstract oil and acrylic paintings and this month it presents her monotypes.

According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a monotype is a one-of-a-kind print made by applying paint or printing ink to a flat sheet of metal, glass or plastic. The painted image is transferred to paper by using a press.

For her monotypes, Lindblom uses a sheet of plexiglass cut to the required size and then bevels the edges and roughs up the surface with sandpaper so that it holds the printing ink well. She then applies water-based inks and adds textured materials such as dried flowers and leaves, fabric or even a snakeskin and lays the plexiglass on thick print-making paper that has been soaked in water. The sandwiched materials are rolled through a press to create a unique print. “I don’t quite know what’s going to come out on the other side,” she says, but she likes the “spontaneity” of the process.

Lindblom uses a wide variety of mostly natural matter for her monotypes. She cultivates wildflowers in her garden, which she dries. She saves and recycles other things like mesh, ribbon and rope for prints. “I like to repurpose things rather than throwing them out,” she explains. The snakeskin was not Spiritual Energy by Michelle Lindblom something Lindblom anticipated using until a artistic friend whose son raises snakes offered to send her snakeskins that had been shed. When the package arrived in the mail, she remembers “I didn’t open it for about six months because I was afraid of them.”

Lindblom, who has an undergraduate degree in visual art from the University of New Orleans and an MFA from the University of North Dakota, taught art for 24 years at Bismarck State College. She and her husband moved to Bend in 2015 and she has been a member artist at Red Chair Gallery since 2017 In the Midwest, Lindblom had many solo exhibitions at venues and galleries around the region. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists and has been juried into several exhibitions, four in New York City. Here in Bend, she has participated in exhibitions at various venues: The Alexander, Oxford Hotel, and Franklin Crossing, Sage Gallery and Framing, UUFCO and the Commons Café. This spring her work was accepted into two online exhibitions through Manhattan Arts International, “Herstory” and National Association of Women Artists, “At a Crossroads.”

You can read Lindblom’s blog at m-lindblom.medium.com. redchairgallerybend.com • michellelindblom.com

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Chosen as the 2022 Artwork for Sunriver Music Festival

ally MacAllister’s original painting, oil on canvas 16x20, Cascade Sunset has been selected as Sunriver Music Festival’s poster artwork for 2022. Each year, the Festival features an artist local to Central Oregon for the season’s poster.

Artists were invited to submit a piece for consideration and a jury of professional artists from the Artist’s Gallery Sunriver selected Sally’s artwork.

Sally MacAllister’s original artwork is a 16x20 original oil on canvas, is custom framed by Eastlake Framing and will be a featured auction item at 2022’s annual fundraiser, Festival Faire, on July 10, 2022 at the Sunriver Resort Great Hall.

In the artist’s words: “I was born and raised in Southern California, living from the desert to the sea and leaving a piece of my heart in the Eastern Sierras. Although I did not grow up in a family of any practicing artists, I did grow up surrounded by good art and good artists. My father was a journalist of the great Southwest and he and my mother also owned the Desert Southwest Art Gallery in Palm Desert. There were many childhood road trips visiting artists in their studios from Tucson to New Mexico, the canyons of Sedona to the vast Navajo reservations. Not only did I get to sit and emerge into the sensory overload of artists’ studios, I also got to trek along on impressionable plein air outings with masterful painters. A seed was planted.

“I enjoyed creating, but never pursued painting as anything more than a part-time interest. I did take a few studio classes at the University of California but chose to major in Art History with the museums of California and my travels extending the classroom. Raising a family and working full-time in the business world precluded time to practice art.

“Seven years ago I was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.

However I had pictured an active retirement was now changed and challenged. One of the first books I read in researching this disease was a biography by Anne Romney and her journey with MS. She left me with a poignant piece of advice — one that surely applies to anyone facing a chronic disease: “pursue your passion”. My passion, even though a latent one, was PAINTING. And so my journey — on a new path — began.

“Three years ago, my husband and I retired to his native Oregon, and settled in Bend.

My immediate task was to find an instructor and get immersed in the art community of Bend. I am an active member of the SageBrushers Art Society — a resource of Cascade Sunset, oil on canvas 16x20, original painting by Sally MacAllister education, camaraderie and studio space.

“I have been so inspired by this amazing landscape that surrounds and envelopes us. The colors of the seasons, the brush strokes of sunrises and sunsets, the majestic contours of our mountain peaks and the soothing expanse of rolling hills and fields — even the juniper that punctuate the high desert are an inspiration. What is my style? Not an easy answer as I am still exploring and learning so much about painting and myself. I do know that broad and bold brushstrokes are so satisfying, and the magic of a colorful palette is so exciting. I tend toward abstract landscapes, not intending to replicate what I see but evoke the feelings I sense before me.

“I am so honored to partner with Sunriver Music Festival’s 45th season. Art meets art. I hope each viewer of my Cascade Sunset is left feeling the warmth of a cold winter’s day, sensing the pride of stoic winter trees as they wait for spring and hearing the soft music of the slow winter river.”

Sunriver Music Festival posters are available for $20 ($28 shipped). Framed posters are $75. Notecards with Festival art throughout the years are $20 for a pack of ten. All merchandise available at the Sunriver Music Festival office in the Village at Sunriver and art through the years can be viewed at sunrivermusic.org.

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aldera Arts invites members of the community to join us for the first annual Hearth Festival on June 10-12. Hearth Festival is a joyous return to shared space and experiences, celebration, playfulness and community. Join us on Saturday, June 11, for an open gathering of community, meditative engagement with the land and a shared visit with the beautiful Blue Lake.

Our featured artists for this year’s event are Unit Souzou, presenting Constant State of Otherness, an immersive, experiential performance. Constant State of Otherness has been a more than four-year journey of creative and community engagement, ensemble-building, resilience, challenge and emergence and is co-created and performed by Unit Souzou Ensemble Members - Ian Berve, Michelle Fujii, Kristy Oshiro, Toru Watanabe, David Wells and Vicky Zhang.

This weekend-long series of performances will be the final stop on the debut tour for this project. We are excited to welcome Unit Souzou back to Caldera, where the deep creation process began.

Hearth Festival was imagined as a family-friendly opportunity to welcome the community back to the land where Constant State of Otherness was imagined.

Much of the central storytelling inherent in the piece was informed by the stories of youth, families, elders from the community and Caldera students.

Because of this, it feels natural and important to welcome that community back as we present the work that was born from this collective sharing of stories.

Free Events: On Saturday, June 11, we invite you to join us for a full day of free, familyfriendly activities from 10am-6pm. Community members are welcome to stay for the whole day or drop in throughout the day for just the elements you wish.

Saturday highlights will include: • Unit Souzou will share Otherness Stories: Four site-specific performances spaced out over the course of the day in various locations. These Saturday performances are free to all attendees.

• Sacred Rhythmic Hike: A facilitated walking meditation with Unit Souzou to notice, build awareness and reflect in togetherness, including a visit to Blue Lake.

• Drum Workshop with Unit Souzou • Family-Friendly Workshops, suitable for children and adults.

• Student Art/ Youth artwork displayed • Canoes at the Dock (lifeguards/waivers) • Food will be available for purchase onsite or bring your picnic lunch to enjoy near Blue Lake.

• Video art installations from additional artists • Guided Camp Tours, games and fun!

Ticketed Performances: Extend your Hearth Festival experience by attending one of our ticketed performances!

Constant State of Otherness will be presented in full on both Friday evening ( June 10) and Sunday afternoon ( June 12), for limited, in-person audiences. Run-time is two hours, with a 15-minute intermission. Our Sunday matinee performance will be followed by an audience talk-back session with the artists.

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Tickets for these performances will be limited, and we ask that guests purchase tickets in advance by visiting calderaarts.org.

About Unit Souzou: Unit Souzou was founded in 2014 by Co-directors Michelle Fujii (Caldera Arts Artist in Residency Alum 2011 and 2018) and Toru Watanabe, relentless innovators at the forefront of a growing artistic movement within the taiko community. Fujii and Watanabe met at Warabi-za, Japan’s foremost traditional folk dance troupe based in Akita, Northern Japan. They have been guest artists and collaborators with many North American and international taiko groups. unitsouzou.com About the Project: Caldera Arts is proud to be a co-commissioning presenter and residency partner for Unit Souzou’s Constant State of Otherness. Our co-commissioning partners for this project include The Myrna Loy (Helena, Montana), Dance Place (Washington, DC), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Risk/Reward (Portland, Oregon). Major funding has been provided by — National Performance Network/Visual Artist Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund, MAP Fund, Puffin Foundation and New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project Award.

About Caldera: Caldera partners with youth and artists to build transformative art and environmental programs that drive cultural and social change. Our programs nurture individual creativity to ignite self-expression and transform the way young people engage in their lives, families and communities. calderaarts.org Oregon’s Only Arts Magazine Since 1995 | June 2022

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Classical Music in the Wild Brings 60 Outdoor Concer ts to Six States across the West

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unter Noack, classical pianist, naturalist and founder of the award-winning, groundbreaking wilderness concert series, IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild, opens the seventh season of 60 concerts on May 18 with concerts in northern California at San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Jack London State Historic Park and Filoli Historic House and Garden. Tickets are now available to see Noack at these and other concerts in national parks, state parks, ranches, farms and gardens across the Western United States through October.

Founded in 2016 by Noack, IN A LANDSCAPE is an outdoor concert series presented in America’s most stunning landscapes. As a nonprofit with a mission to celebrate both classical music and the outdoors in experiences that are accessible to all, the team brings a nine-foot Steinway grand piano to the middle of forests, fields, calderas and historical sites for classical music concerts. To meet the acoustical challenges of performing in the wild, music is transmitted to the concert-goers via wireless headphones. No longer confined to seats, they are free to explore the landscape, wander through secret glens, lie in sunny meadows and roam old growth forests. Over six years, 145 concerts have been presented in dramatic locations including Oregon’s Mt. Bachelor, Alvord Desert, Crater Lake National Park and Smith Rock State Park, Montana’s Big Sky Resort, Jackson, Wyoming, Idaho’s Teton Valley and California’s Sierra Mountains.

In the spirit of the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Music and Theater Projects, which presented thousands of free concerts and plays in theaters, public spaces and parks across the country during the Great Depression, IN A LANDSCAPE events are subsidized by grants, sponsors and individual donors.

Noack grew up exploring, hunting, fishing and kayaking the rivers of Oregon, forming a strong connection to nature. He started piano at age four and by the fifth grade he was up at 4am to light a fire and practice piano before taking the bus to school. After intensive training at Interlochen Arts Academy, San Francisco Conservatory, University of Southern California (B.M.) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (M.A.), Noack returned to Oregon and founded IN A LANDSCAPE, which Thomas Lauderdale, pianist and bandleader of Pink Martini, praises as “The most exciting classical music project in America, hands down.”

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Hunter Noack at Mt. Bachelor. Photo by Joey Hamilton

Noack, an occasional guest performer with Pink Martini, is inspired by the work of John Muir, who said we need “beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul” ( John Muir, The Yosemite (1912)) and Frederick Law Olmsted, who believed our parks and public lands are our most democratic spaces. With music in magical landscapes, IN A LANDSCAPE brings together a wide cross-section of people who would otherwise rarely be sharing a concert experience together. Cowboys, city folk, children, hipsters and matrons flock from cities and deserts alike to hear Noack perform on a nine-foot Steinway grand piano on a flat-bed trailer. They sit with a picnic or wander through the landscape listening to classical music through wireless headphones. Noack also collaborates with guest artists who are atypical of traditional classical concerts, including poets, Native American musicians, dancers, singers and visual artists. IN A LANDSCAPE has won multiple awards and has been featured on CBS This Morning, in the Los Angeles Times and as part of TEDxPortland.

After six years of performing outdoors, Noack’s debut album, also titled, In a Landscape will be released on June 8, 2022 at the iconic Silver Falls State Park, as part of the 100th anniversary of Oregon State Parks. The album features select favorites from the classical piano canon like Maurice Ravel’s Ondine and Robert Schumann’s Forest Scenes, as well as collaborations with Native American flutist James Edmund Greeley, psychedelic electronics by Dave Friedlander, a spacious movement from a Ravel piano concerto with the Salem Orchestra and an arrangement of Franz Schubert’s Serenade with Pink Martini’s China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale. The album, which aims to transport listeners to the secret glens and sunny meadows that inspired the composers and performers featured in this contemplative collection, will be released on vinyl, CD and digital.

About the album, Noack says, “The title track, In a Landscape by John Cage, inspired the name of the album and the concert series. Cage, like other post-war avant garde composers, challenged us to reconsider what ‘music’ is and asked us to consider all noise — and its absence — as music. My challenge is to reconsider the environment in which we experience art. inalandscape.org • media@inalandscape.org

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Alvord Desert Princeton, Oregon June 4, 5

Lithia Park Ashland, Oregon July 11

Lewis & Clark Timberlands Cannon Beach, Oregon August 21

The Suttle Lodge Sisters, Oregon June 7

Crater Lake National Park Discovery Point, Oregon July 13

Shore Acres State Park Charleston, Oregon August 23, 24, 25

Silver Falls State Park Sublimity, Oregon June 8, 9

Newberry National Volcanic Monument East Lake La Pine, Oregon July 15

Crissey Field State Recreation Site Brookings, Oregon August 27

Stoller Family Estate Dayton, Oregon June 15, 16 Cottonwood Canyon State Park Wasco, Oregon June 18, 19 Wallowa Lake Lodge Joseph, Oregon June 21 Wallowa Lake State Park Joseph, Oregon June 22, 23 Sumpter Dredge State Heritage Area Sumpter, Oregon June 25, 26 John Day Fossil Beds National Mon. Cant Ranch Dayville, Oregon June 28, 29 Imperial River Company Maupin, Oregon June 30 Warm Springs Reservation Warm Springs, Oregon July 2

Mt. Bachelor Bend, Oregon July 17, 18 Tetherow Resort Bend, Oregon July 20 Pine Meadow Ranch Sisters, Oregon July 22 Huntsville Monastery Huntsville, Utah August 6 Jug Mountain Ranch McCall, Idaho August 10 Kelley Point Park Portland, Oregon August 13 Hoyt Arboretum Vietnam Veterans Memorial Portland, Oregon August 14, 15 Dunes Meadow Park Gearhart, Oregon August 19, 20

Fort Rock State Natural Area Fort Rock, Oregon September 3, 4 Smith Rock State Park Terrebonne, Oregon September 6, 7 Sun Valley Museum of Art Hailey, Idaho September 10, 11 The Woodbury Preserve Jackson, Wyoming September 13 Pontirussa Ranch East Alta, Wyoming September 17 Joshua Tree National Park Hidden Valley, California October 24, 25 Yosemite National Park Lower River Amphitheater California October 27 Golden Gate National Recreation Area Crissy Field San Francisco, California October 29, 30

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Cascade School of Music Announces A P R I L

Avery Brown with Stephanie Slade

R I S I N G Avery Brown, age 13, has been a voice student of Stephanie Slade’s for about two years. Stephanie has watched Avery change from a shy little kid to a strong, confident young person. Avery is growing into her own and it really shows! In this year alone, Avery has been in two plays and a solo in her middle school choir. The song was in Latin, which needs to be sung with the vowels very uniformed and vertical.

It’s a hard technique to tackle, but Avery was ready to do it! Stephanie is so proud of Avery and is looking forward to assisting further on her journey.

Stephanie Slade is the voice teacher of 16-year-old Ella Simpson. In the short two years that Stephanie has known Ella, she has grown so much as a singer, musician and person. Working diligently to advance her vocal technique, Ella is continuing to get more and more in touch with the way her body works to create her unique sound. Dedicated to her practice, Ella always comes to her lesson prepared.

Ella even did her first classical music voice competition (solo and ensemble festival) this year. Stephanie is so proud of how far Ella has come and excited to see where she will go with her music!

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Louee Elterman, nine years old, has been studying drums with Brent Barnett for about eight months. Brent has stated that Louee is one of the most naturally talented students he has ever had the pleasure of teaching. Her dedication to learning the drums and consistent practice is a tribute to her quick success! Louee is an auspicious listener and always has a great attitude during lessons.

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Louee Elterman with Brent Barnett

Kwincy Ebner, age nine, has been studying drums with Meshem Jackson for about two years. Kwincy brings a very positive energy and cool style to his lessons — especially while playing the drum set!

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Sixteen-year-old Shea Miller has been taking voice lessons from Stephanie Slade for about seven months. Constantly surprising her teacher, Shea has amazing control and understanding of her instrument. Not only is Shea open to new ideas and techniques, she also does her own research outside of lessons.

Hungry for knowledge, Shea is willing to explore every type of music — opera, musical theater, rock, pop, everything!

Additionally, this well-rounded musician has also started writing, recording and producing her own music!

Sierra Hewes with Ginny Hollon

Eight-year-old Sierra Hewes has been studying violin with Ginny Hollon for about a year. Since she started, Sierra has been mostly an online student. Despite the difficulties of online learning, Sierra is excelling in all of the following areas: enthusiastically demonstrating a love of music with a natural talent, listening to quality music, practicing regularly and asking appropriate questions. Another accolade to this student’s success is her wonderful family’s support.

Rowan Snider with Ginny Hollon

Rowan Snider, age eight, has been a fiddle student of Ginny Hollon’s for about 11 months. As a beginning seven-year-old student, Rowan announced that he loves the fiddle and that his goal is to play The Devil Went Down to Georgia! Working with him toward that ambitious goal, Ginny has helped Rowan set progressive goals that will one day help him reach his ultimate goal of playing The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Throughout this tedious process, Rowan has shown independence and a drive to excel, working diligently to play patiently, slowly and precisely.

Nine-year-old Myles Wenger has been taking piano lessons from Amy Conklin for about two years. A kinder, more respectful young man, you will never meet.

Myles comes to each lesson well-prepared, well-practiced and ready to learn. The joy that learning the piano brings to Myles truly comes out in his playing! Myles also enjoys playing musical duets with his older brother (who plays the violin) and together they share the joy of music with their friends and family!

Georgia Boggs with Amy Conklin

Julia Perry, age eight, is a ukulele/voice student of Amy Conklin’s. Julia puts her whole self into her music! In her year and a half of music lessons, she has proven to be dedicated to her practice, never shying away from a musical challenge.

She sings and plays with such confidence and enthusiasm, it is inspiring. Born to perform, Julia lights up the room with each lovely melody she shares!

Julia Perry with Amy Conklin

Cullen Blackmarr, age 11, is a piano student of Amy Conklin’s. In the twoand-a-half-years of study, Cullen has practiced very hard and has made quick progress. Cullen has likely practiced in more states that your average 11-year-old.

While his family was taking a road trip across the country, Cullen still managed to keep practicing on his electric keyboard and take online lessons. No state line or boundary is going to keep this kid from pursuing his music!

Cullen Blackmarr with Amy Conklin

Myles Wenger with Amy Conklin

Georgia Boggs, age 12, is a piano student of Amy Conklin’s. In the past two years of lessons, Georgia has become quite the proficient sight reader. Reading the music is one of the most challenging obstacles when learning to play an instrument, but Georgia has progressed quickly due to her hard work and positive attitude. With a raw talent for musicality, Georgia feels the music from her fingers down to her toes.

Her most recent performance of Let it Go from Disney’s Frozen brought a huge smile to every face in the audience.

Matti Joy Puccio is the guitar teacher of eight-year-old Lola Mues. Lola has a cheerful and funny demeanor during lessons, never failing to put in the work to be successful. One thing that Matti Joy loves about Lola is her unique approach to her music. This is a quality that is very difficult to teach, but so much fun when a student can naturally portray their musical individuality. Lola’s slow and precise practice has resulted in a strong establishment of music fundamentals!

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Lola Mues with Matti Joy Puccio

Grey Anderson with Amy Conklin

Grey Anderson, age eight, has been studying piano with Amy Conklin for a little over a year. Grey loves to play fast, agile pieces on the piano. His teacher Amy swears that she has often seen smoke rising from above this eight-yearold’s fiery fingers. Grey is also extremely creative, often composing his own music!

Passionately curious, Grey never ceases to ask many thoughtful questions during each lesson.

Eleven-year-old Delaney Hell has been a piano student of Amy Conklin’s for over three years. Delaney has proven to be a diligent, hardworking student, but, (like many other students) was a little shy about performing. The pandemic created the unique new opportunity for pre-recorded online performances, in which Delaney was willing to participate. After performing marvelously in the online recitals, and once things began opening back up after the pandemic, Delaney decided that she was Delaney Hell with Amy Conklin ready to try a live solo performance. Showing off her hard work splendidly, Delaney conquered her nerves and performed beautifully, her teacher Amy had never been more proud!

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igh Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) presents the members of their Educational Outreach program, the Spotlight Chamber Players, in a number of free concerts for the community. This program provides a high level of regular chamber music instruction to aspiring young musicians. This year’s group includes Nicholas Oncken (violin) and Ezra Oncken (violin) from Cascades Academy and Matthias Santucci (piano) from Summit High School.

“This past year, I was thrilled to get back to work with our region’s talented U P C O M I N G P E R F O R M A N C E D AT E S Sunday, June 5, 1:30pm at Sisters Coffee Company (273 West Hood Ave., Sisters) Saturday, June 11, 2pm at Touchmark at Mount Bachelor Village (19800 SW Touchmark Way, Bend) Wednesday, June 15, 3pm at Whispering Winds Retirement (2920 NE Connors Ave., Bend)

young musicians,” states Executive Director Isabelle Senger. “These concerts will be a culmination of the group’s work this season.”

Auditions are held annually, and open to violin, viola, cello, bass and piano students with three or more years of private study and intermediate to advanced levels of playing. This year’s students come from the private teaching studios of Kara Eubanks and Janet Smith.

High Desert Chamber Music’s mission is to bring world-class chamber music and musicians to Central Oregon. Now in its 14th season, HDCM presents an acclaimed concert series and is the premier and leading chamber music organization in the region offering an exciting roster of professional performing artists. highdesertchambermusic.com (L-R) Spotlight Chamber Players Matthias Santucci, 541-306-3988 Ezra Oncken and Nicolas Oncken.

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POV High Desert Community Radio is proud to announce they have partnered with Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) to create the KPOV Endowment Fund of Oregon Community Foundation.

OCF’s stewardship and long-term investment program will maintain KPOV’s endowment fund in perpetuity, providing a stable stream of income to support KPOV’s mission: “KPOV is radio by the people and for the people of Central Oregon. We strengthen community, arts, culture, and democracy through independent, non-commercial radio.”

Last November, KPOV received a generous $600,000 gift from the estate of Marjo Mynttinen-Goodwin to support community radio in Central Oregon.

“To honor Marjo and the Central Oregon community, KPOV is pleased to entrust a portion of her gift to OCF and the KPOV Endowment Fund to responsibly steward resources for the future of KPOV and its listeners,” said KPOV Board President Kurt Kempcke.

“This partnership provides our donors the opportunity to designate a gift to this permanent fund to build a solid and lasting financial base for KPOV’s

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work. KPOV also offers the option of creating a life income gift, often called a planned gift,” added KPOV Station Manager Bruce Morris.

OCF staff works with KPOV’s staff and donors to create bequests, charitable remainder trusts (CRTs) and charitable gift annuities (CGAs). Assets remaining at the termination of the trust or gift annuity will be designated to a fund that will provide ongoing support for KPOV. For more information about making a planned gift to KPOV, please contact Sam Corti, Development Director at sam@kpov.org or 541-322-0863 KPOV High Desert Community Radio is a listener-supported, volunteerpowered, nonprofit community radio station that broadcasts at 88.9 FM and at kpov.org. KPOV produces original local programming, including civic affairs, election coverage, and the most diverse music programming in Central Oregon. The noncommercial station also features several nationally syndicated news and information programs not otherwise heard in the area.

KPOV is located in downtown Bend. Contact KPOV by calling 541-3220863 or visiting kpov.org. kpov.org

Sisters Folk Festival Presents

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isters Folk Festival (SFF) presents Summer Concerts at Sisters Art Works with five outstanding concerts at 204 W Adams Ave. in Sisters. The first show is Thursday, July 7 with MarchFourth, a “kaleidoscope of music and visual energy that inspires dancing and celebration.” Followed by An Evening with Rising Appalachia on Thursday, July 21 and An Evening with Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) on Saturday, July 30. Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius will perform Friday, August 5 and the final performance will be with Memphis soulrockers Southern Avenue joined by Jontavious Willis, presented by Sisters Rhythm & Brews and Sisters Folk Festival on Thursday, August 11. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, May 18 at 10am at sistersfolkfestival.org.

July 7 — MarchFourth is a joy-inducing force of entertainment. This larger-than-life ensemble of 15 musicians and acrobats tours the country year-round, bringing a spirit of celebration wherever they go. The colorful explosion of brassy funk, rock and jazz from the group delivers a performance full of swagger, fun and a healthy dose of New Orleans magic. Attendees of the July 7 concert can expect to hear captivating grooves from their fourth studio album, Magic Number, released in September 2016. USA Today aptly dubs the group, “Talented band geeks turned rebels.” MarchFourth has been seen on stages from ESPN’s Espy Awards to festivals like Wakarusa, Bumbershoot and High Sierra Music Fest, to world-class venues like The Kennedy Center and The Fillmore. Bend-based band Company Grand will open the show.

July 21 — Rising Appalachia group-members and sisters, Leah and Chloe Smith, grew up absorbing the rich hip-hop culture in Atlanta and simultaneously traveling with their family to fiddle camps all across the Southeast. Years later, the sisters formed a musical partnership and realized that performing could be just one component of a greater overall vision – one that includes advocating for social justice, racial justice, environmental justice and Indigenous rights. The sisters have since toured all over the world amassing a loyal fan base built upon a deep sense of connection, key to understanding Rising Appalachia as a whole. They are self-described folk musicians at their core, but have masterfully merged the sonic textures of folk, world and urban music on their seventh album, Leylines, with features by folk hero Ani DiFranco, soulful songwriter Trevor Hall, jazz trumpeter Maurice Turner and the addition of West African musician Arouna Diarra and Irish musician Duncan Wickel to the group.

July 30 — Formerly known as Mandolin Orange, married duo Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz have undergone a reinvention as a band with a new name, Watchhouse, and a new sound with subtly experimental folkrock. The new moniker is inspired by Marlin’s place of childhood solace and comes with the realization that their former name never quite fit with the

Concerts will be exclusively held at the Sisters Art Works venue at 204 W Adams Ave. Doors open at 6pm with shows starting at 7pm. Additional band and ticket information is on the SFF website (sistersfolkfestival. org). These are general admission, all ages shows. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Oliver Lemon will have a food pop-up on site and SFF’s bar will be serving beer, cider, wine and non-alcoholic offerings. Chairs are not provided; bring your low-back festival chairs or blankets. Only service animals are permitted in the venue. Be sure to follow @SistersFolkFestival on Instagram and Facebook for updates and additional information. sistersfolkfestival.org music they made. Since their conception in 2009, the duo became known as the new flag bearers of the contemporary folk world, sweetly singing soft songs about the hardest parts of our lives. Their first release under their new identity serves as an inspired search for personal and political goodness, with tracks offering welcome lessons about what any of us might become when the night begins to break.

“We’re different people than when we started this band,” Marlin says, reflecting on all these shifts. “We’re setting new intentions, taking control of this thing again.”

August 5 — Hailing from Wheeling, West Virginia, two-time Grammy award winner Tim O’Brien has toured the world and delighted audiences since 1975 with his warm vocals, string wizardry and heartfelt original songs.

His 2021 album, He Walked On maps a pathway through today’s world partly inspired by our explosive national reckoning with racial prejudice and violence.

In duet with his wife, Jan Fabricius, on mandolin and vocals, attendees of the August 5 performance can expect rootsy acoustic instrumentation and sweet harmony singing, interspersed with O’Brien’s trademark self-deprecating humor. Central Oregon artist Pete Kartsounes will open the show.

August 11 — Memphis-based blues and soul band, Southern Avenue, operates from a distinctively international vantage point, producing a wideranging collection of music predominantly co-written by Israeli-born guitarist Ori Naftaly and powerhouse lead vocalist Tierinii Jackson. Their latest release, Be the Love You Want, comes on the heels of their Grammy-nominated, Billboard-charting album, Keep On. With their latest project, the group explores bold new ideas of what it means to be a blues band in the modern world. Packed with soul power and jam band liberation, gospel, blues and righteous R&B, they have crafted their own timeless brand of American music.

They are joined by the Grammy nominated 24-year old multi-instrumentalist, Jontavious Willis. His latest album, Spectacular Class, features dynamic vocals and impressive fingerpicking, flat-picking and slide prowess earning him the nickname “Wonderboy” from blues-legend, Taj Mahal.

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he Sunriver Owners Association is excited to announce singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elle King will perform on Tuesday, June 21 in SHARC’s John Gray Amphitheater. Tickets are on sale now at eventbrite.com A multi-platinum, award-winning recording artist, King’s most recent single release has her reuniting with country singer Miranda Lambert on the infectious collaboration — Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) — which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock and Country Digital Song Sales charts.

This was the second time these female powerhouse performers have recorded together after their first release, Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which won the 2020 ACM Award for Music Event of The Year.

King’s debut album Love Stuff featured her breakthrough single, Ex’s & Oh’s, which earned her two Grammy nominations and is certified four-times platinum. The breakthrough single hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs

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chart, topped the AAA, Hot AC and Alternative Radio charts and propelled King to become the second female artist in 18 years to reach No. 1 for the latter format. Her 2016 collaboration with Dierks Bentley on Different for Girls, also scored No. 1 on the Country Airplay charts and won the CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year.

Her single, Shame, featured on her second studio album Shake The Spirit, was King’s fourth radio No. 1 single and marked King as the only act in history to have scored No. 1 singles on the adult pop, adult alternative, alternative and country airplay charts.

King has toured and performed with The Chicks, Heart, Joan Jett, Train, Ed Sheeran, Miranda Lambert and is currently touring with country star Chris Stapleton.

More details about the concert are available at sunriversharc.com/ticketedconcert. sunriverowners.org • sunriversharc.com

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First Interstate Bank & Eberhard’s Dairy Products Present

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ring the lawn chairs, grab a blanket and join the Redmond Chamber of Commerce & CVB for free live music as we host the 27th year of Music on the Green, presented by First Interstate Bank and Eberhard’s Dairy Products at Sam Johnson Park in the heart of Central Oregon, Redmond.

This year’s lineup includes, JuJu Eyebal ( June 29), Heller Highwater ( July 13), Junkyard Joyride ( July 27), Kristi Kinsey & The Whiskey Bandits (August 10) and Junebugs (August 24). Per annual tradition, a performance by Redmond’s own Hokulea Dancers, a troop featuring traditional Hawaiian Island dance and drumming, will round out the 2022

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Along with free musical entertainment, Music on the Green will feature a variety of food and drinks, farm, art, craft and business vendors in booths throughout Sam Johnson Park. Kids and adults alike will love the bounce houses on site and other games and activities in the park.

Music on the Green is made possible thanks to a number of community sponsors, starting with presenting sponsors First Interstate Bank and Eberhard’s Dairy Products. Other sponsors include Summit Medical, Pacific Power, Redmond Municipal Airport, LS Networks, and Horizon Broadcasting Group. visitredmondoregon.com/music-on-the-green

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JuJu Eyeball Wednesday, June 29 | 6pm Bend Oregon has a Beatles cover band? They do now, luv. From She Loves You to She’s So Heavy, JuJu Eyeball takes an exciting and exacting look at The Beatles catalog. You’re likely to hear your favorite, and no one’s stopping you from dancing. Original guitarist and native North Westerner Paul Eddy had long wanted to form a Beatles cover band. That desire became a reality when he met future band mates Dan Larsson and Karl Lindgren, who both happen to be Swedish. Thank you, Sweden!

Heller Highwater Wednesday, July 13 | 6pm Based out of Bend, Oregon, Heller Highwater Band creates a vibe that audiences of all ages can move to. With the cool sounds of Motown, rock, and blues, artists from Adele, Aretha, The Rolling Stones, our lead vocalist will sing the soulfulness right out to you. With beautiful harmonies and rocking guitar you got to put on your dancing shoes.

Junkyard Joyride Wednesday, July 27 | 6pm Junkyard Joyride. A perfect blend of soulful musicianship and catchy songwriting. A tasteful formula that nods to roots of southern rock with a slight blues flavor and a hint of R&B. Original music and carefully selected covers. Matthew Finfer-Guitars, Steve McKinnon-Guitars, Eddie HastingsBass, Brett Allehoff-Drums and Jennifer Brazil-Vocals.

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Kristi Kensey & The Whisky Bandits Wednesday, August 10 | 6pm Since their beginning in early 2018, Kristi Kinsey & The Whiskey Bandits have entertained fans with talented and energetic performances, playing a wide spectrum of country, rock and blues.

Junebugs Wednesday, August 24 | 6pm Imagine if Neil Young and Janis Joplin had three love children, and those children grew up to like folk rock and hip hop. The Junebugs combine highenergy pop and rock with Pacific Northwest folksy goodness to create a genrebending sound you can kick up your heels to.

Hokulea Dancers Wednesday, September 4 | 6pm Redmond’s very own traditional Hawaiian Dancers are back and are always a crowd favorite! This high energy troop will showcase traditional Hawaiian Island dance and drumming. Lead by Hawaiian Natives Novelen and Joey Tavita, they bring a true taste of the Islands with many generations of their family and friends. Come join us as we say Aloha to summer in the true Hawaiian style.

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FILM/THEATRE

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he Tower Theatre Foundation established the Doug Watson Scholarship for Performing Arts in memory and honor of our longtime friend, member, sponsor, volunteer and board chair.

Doug was a true believer in the performing arts, especially in the power of arts in education. The Tower Foundation is grateful to Doug’s wife Marianne for initiating the funds for this special scholarship.

We are proud to announce that $3,800 will be awarded to each of the three 2022 graduating high school seniors below — one each from Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook Counties.

Deschutes County: Casey James: Casey is a senior at Redmond Proficiency Academy. After graduation he is planning on attending the University of Portland, with the intended major of Theatre/ Music Performance.

Crook County: Brooke Everest: Brooke is a senior at Redmond Proficiency Academy, but lives in Prineville. After graduation she is planning on attending Western Oregon University, with the intended major being Education.

Jefferson County: Brooke Delamarter: Brooke is a senior at Madras High School. After graduation, she is planning on attending Grove City College, with the intended major of Biochemistry. She will also be part of the marching band at Grove City College. towertheatre.org

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LITERATURE

Native American Scholar & Author

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Featured in OSU-Cascades Annual Literary Event

Beth Piatote is a writer and scholar of Native American and Indigenous literature and law. Piatote, who is Nez Perce and an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, is a professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans Indigenous studies, American studies, literary studies, legal studies and women’s and gender studies. Piatote is recognized for her focus on revitalizing Indigenous languages, including Nez Perce. She writes fiction, poetry, plays and essays, and is the author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature, and The Beadworkers: Stories, which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, both in 2020. Photo by Kirsten Lara Getchell.

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eth Piatote, a writer and scholar of Native American and Indigenous literature and law, will read and discuss her recent work on June 6 at the High Desert Museum.

The program, titled Writing West: A Conversation with Two Award-Winning Authors, will take place from 6:30-7:30pm.

A reception will follow.

Piatote, who is the OSU-Cascades Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program’s 2022 Distinguished Visiting Writer, will be joined by MFA faculty author Raquel Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez’s latest book, Brown Neon has been lauded in national media since its release earlier this year.

Following their readings, Piatote and Gutiérrez will discuss opportunities and challenges faced by writers of color whose storytelling is shaped by landscapes in the American West.

Raquel Gutiérrez uses poetry, non-fiction and critical writing to explore their perspective as a queer and brown writer.Their work encompasses migration from Mexico and Central America, desire and colonization and the U.S. Southwest.

They are a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism.Their writing has appeared in Art in America,The Georgia Review and on NPR Music.They teach poetry in the OSU-Cascades MFA program. Photo courtesy of OSU-Cascades

Piatote, who is Nez Perce and an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, is a professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans Indigenous studies, American studies, literary studies, legal studies and women’s and gender studies.

Piatote is recognized for her focus on revitalizing Indigenous languages, including Nez Perce. She writes fiction, poetry, plays and essays, and is the author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature, and The Beadworkers: Stories, which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/ Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, both in 2020.

Gutiérrez uses poetry, non-fiction and critical writing to explore their perspective as a queer and brown writer. Their work encompasses migration

from Mexico and Central America, desire and colonization and the U.S. Southwest. They are a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism. Their writing has appeared in Art in America, The Georgia Review and on NPR Music. They teach poetry in the MFA program.

Writing West celebrates the growing literary connections between the High Desert Museum and OSU-Cascades’ MFA program.

One example, the Waterston Desert Prize Writing Prize, a museum program, was founded by MFA faculty author Ellen Waterston.

The event is $5 and members of the High Desert Museum receive a 20 percent discount.

Registration is free to OSU-Cascades students.

To register, visit highdesertmuseum.org/events.

To register visit highdesertmuseum.org/events. osucascades.edu • highdesertmuseum.org

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CENTRAL OREGON EXHIBITS

Madras / Warm Springs

The Museum at Warm Springs 2189 U.S. 26 • 541-553-3331 • museumatwarmsprings.org Visitors to The Museum at Warm Springs will experience firsthand the sounds of ancient songs and languages, the mastery of traditional craftsmen and the sights of rich and colorful cultures that make up the Confederated Tribes of The Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Their histories and traditions are told in an exciting, permanent, interactive exhibit, bringing to life the fascinating story of the Tribes.

In 1968, the tribal leadership and community recognized that private collectors and off-reservation institutions were buying much of their material culture. Soon thereafter, the Tribes began to allocate $50,000 per year for the purchase of artifacts from individual tribal members and families of the Warm Springs community. More than $1.5 million has been expended to date.

In addition, the Museum’s archives boasts 2,500 photographs dating from the 1850’s to the present. The final component of the archive consists of important tribal documents and many books on a wide range of subjects on American Indian history, art and culture.

The collections of the museum are rotated throughout the year. So, when you visit you may see an entire new display in the gallery.

The dream of a tribal collection for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon began over four decades ago.

Prineville

Rick Steber & Company — MAKERS 131 NE Fifth St. • 541-447-3115 • rickstebermakers.com On display in the retail showroom at Rick Steber – MAKERS is the incredible work of over 160 artists and artisans from Central and Eastern Oregon. Designated as an Oregon Scenic Attraction, this unique collection of one-of-a-kind items has become a destination for many, and an opportunity to introduce your family to the creative culture of the High Desert. Here you will find Native bead work, metal sculptures, leather tooling, saddle making, wood working, silversmithing, original artwork, whittlings, carvings and the

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Geothermally Heated Cabins Hot Mineral Baths 541-943-3931

2 Hours SE of Bend • www.summerlakehotsprings.com 2 Hours SE of Bend • 541-943-3931 • www.summerlakehotsprings.com

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CENTRAL OREGON complete collection of books by popular author, Rick Steber.

Open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am to 5pm.

Rimrock Gallery 405A NW Third St. 541-903-5565 • rimrockgallery.com 2nd Saturday Event! 2-5pm; Ralph James, Steven Homsher & Pamela Claflin.

Gallery Owner Pamela Claflin invites you to come enjoy new works featuring landscapes, waterscapes, florals and animals by our talented June featured artists of Colorado, North Carolina and Oregon! We also feature 20 painters and Steelhead Falls, 30 x 30 oil By Ralph James seven bronze sculptors from Oregon and the Western States, Canada and New Zealand.

Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5:30pm.

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LTA Gallery 611 NE Jackpine Ct., #3, Redmond 541-316-0362 • darrenklingart.net LTA is an aviation acronym that stands for Lighter Than Air, referring to aircraft that are able to float in aerostatic equilibrium such as a hot air balloon. Darren Kling is an Aeronaut, also known as a hot air balloon pilot.

For nearly 30 years flying balloons has been Darrens’ profession and during this time he’s also been making art. “The ongoing expression of flying balloons and making art has been the consistent thread my life has followed. Since the beginning I’ve searched out ways to show the connection between these two seemingly separate activities. For me, flying balloons is an art form in

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every way, and I’ve always challenged myself to show how these two expressions can overlap, merge, and provide perspectives that I would never have otherwise.”

LTA Gallery is a project by Darren which now incorporates his two passions into a space where his artwork can be viewed and the “art of flight” experienced. Darrens’ artwork is primarily landscape based, rendered with a fluid and abstract style, he works in various mediums including oil, acrylic, ink, as well as reclaimed wood pieces.

Schoolhouse Produce 1430 SW Highland Ave., Redmond 541-504-7112 schoolhouseproduce.com Schoolhouse Produce is featuring the work of SageBrushers Art Society member Barb Crislip.

Barb’s transparent watercolor paintings capture light and color and Mainly in Maine, watercolor painting by Barb Crislip shape in her varied subjects. “Painting provides me with a path to satisfaction and pleasure,” says Barb. “If my paintings bring something positive to others, even better.” Stop in to have a positive experience, while you stock up on local fresh food! Showing thru July.

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High Desert Chamber Music S p o t l i g h t C h a m b e r P l ay e r s S I S T E R S C O F F E E C O M PA N Y • h i g h d e s e r t c h a m b e r m u s i c . c o m

IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild T H E SU T T LE LOD GE, SIST ERS • inalandscape.org

OUTSIDE CENTRAL OREGON

Burns

Oard’s Gallery 42456 Hwy. 20 East, Burns • 541- 493-2535 • oardsgallery.com Exhibiting many one-of-a-kind items, including original, handmade arts and crafts from nine tribes around the area — baskets, beaded art, clothing, furniture, native art, paintings, rugs, jewelry and more.

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F o u r t h F r i d ay A r t Wa l k D OWNTOWN SIST ERS sistersartsassociation.org

S y lv i a C A S C A D E S T H E AT R I C A L C O M PA N Y cascadestheatrical.org

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SISTERS EXHIBITS

Humane society of central oregon to volunteer or donate call 541.382.3537 • www.hsco.org

Photography by Scott Cordner

Hood Avenue Art 357 W Hood Ave., Sisters hoodavenueart.com • info@hoodavenueart.com • 541-719-1800 Join us June 24 from 4-7pm for the 4th Friday Art Walk. Featuring amazing panoramic photography by Scott Cordner framed in his handmade solid wood frames. Also featuring the unique glass art by Susie Zeitner, including her stunning totems and fused glass wall art. Live music and refreshments provided. Representing 40 local Central Oregon Artists.

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541.719.1800 | 357 W Hood Ave. Sisters | hoodavenueart.com

Buffalo Hunt by Dolores Purdy, Caddo-Winnebago, on Buchon’s 1825 map of North America, 19” x 25” I want to be like you when I grow up father.,

by Joe Pulliam, Oglala Lakota, on Gray’s 1873 map of Dakota Territory, 12” x 15”

Raven Makes Gallery 182 E Hood Ave., Sisters 541-719-1182 • ravenmakesgallery.com Raven Makes Gallery continues to offer the second edition of The Homelands Collection. The collection consists of 65 antique original maps from the 17 and 1800’s with artwork drawn upon them by 20 Native American artists. These are new works that were commissioned by the gallery for the collection.

The Homelands Collection continues thru June 13. Any maps acquired during this time will be released after the exhibition concludes.

Stitchin’ Post Gallery 311 W Cascade Ave., Sisters 541-549-6061 • stitchinpost.com Stitchin’ Post Gallery continues to feature Patti Stewart and Kris Lang thru June 20, and begins featuring Valori and Jean Wells June 24 thru July 19.

Shop, Create and Learn — Come Feed Your Passion. You can also check out our online items such as books and patterns, fabrics, gifts and kits, mixed media and more.

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The Winding Path of the Life of Western Artist

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here’s a host of things about Dyrk Godby that can distract your focus from the man you’re speaking with, but spend some time talking and you’ll find that the conversation always circles back on one thing. It’s something that emanates from deeply within his heart and gets favored pure and naturally above all else — the horse.

Dyrk grew up on a horse ranch in South Central Idaho, ventured into the world of the rodeo circuit, nearly lost his leg to a bronc in the arena and then spent some years as a musician who sometimes wrote and sang about stallions, fillies or mustangs.

The compelling energy and the drive to work with things seemed to fully settle into his most capable hands and fingers around 35 years ago when Dyrk became serious about a somewhat neglected lifelong talent — making visual representations of the American West as he knew it. First drawing, then painting, he focused in on that ability to express what was within and knew best.

In his early 60’s now, Dyrk’s still got horses on his ranch between Sisters and Santiam Pass and he always will. His nationally award winning artwork reflects that lifelong bond with the animal as they are the primary theme of his multidimensional artistry.

Dyrk’s art gallery is filled with an amazing variety of his top-shelf Western artwork — oil and acrylic paintings, burnt leather landscapes and pencil drawings. But don’t let the steeleyed cowboys, dust raising cattle drives, rodeo arena action scenes, Plains Indian settings or the soaring mountain vistas in his works sway your attention too far away from the real focus of his art.

The horse comes first in Dyrk’s vast body of artwork and in the pieces that show them, the rest of the work revolves around the animal. Having been with horses all his life, he’s masterfully skilled at getting their anatomy absolutely correct. However, it’s his ability to give them life by capturing the horse’s temperament in the moment — the attitude that shows in their expressive eyes, the head’s positioning and the body’s posture — that really sets his work apart from the majority of Western artists.

To us however, he’s the guy across the street with an art gallery that compliments ours as ours does his (Cowboys and Indians) and is someone we gladly take the time to chew the fat with nearly every week. Down to earth, a tad shy at first or just old school respectful, he’s easygoing and patient with a person if you just show him some everyday common courtesy.

So if you get the chance to drop by Dyrk’s art gallery on Hood Ave. in Sisters, which also serves as his studio, and you get to talking with him, the conversation may turn to recollections more fascinating than you might expect. There could be a story about his amateur boxing career that nearly got him to the Olympic Games, or one about the time he toured with a Bob Hope USO show, or when the winding path of life led him into the company of celebrities — Johnny Cash, Brooke Shields, Waylon Jennings — for a spell.

As fascinating as all of Caviada by Dyrk Godby

those accounts are to hear about, they’re mostly colorful foreground and background. Perhaps they’re even intended to see if you’re really paying attention to what matters — a person who grew up a ranch-raised, God worshipping kid in south central Idaho and had a strong desire to explore his abilities, the world and what this life can offer a person. In Dyrk’s case, it turned out to be that he’s truly a horseman at heart who eventually settled down with being a much sought out artist, which is certainly true to this day. ravenmakesgallery.com

Waiting His Turn by Dyrk Godby

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SUNRIVER EXHIBITS Artists’ Gallery Sunriver Village 57100 Beaver Dr., Bldg. 19 541-593-4382 artistsgallerysunriver.com DIY Wood Craft with Tim Burnett, June 11, 4-6pm.

Tim Burnett crafts DIY wood craft kits from donated Breedlove Guitar “scrap.”

Breedlove didn’t want this beautiful, rare wood to go to waste, and donated it to the nonprofit High Desert Makers, which turns scrap into materials for makers.

The kits come in various levels of difficulty for both kids and adults. Coaster DIY wood craft kits by Timothy Burnett sets and ornaments as well as figurative butterflies and cats and foxes can be a fun craft for anyone! Come and have some fun and meet Artists’ Gallery newest member, Tim Barnett.

Artwork by Kelly Theil

30 local artists

Diane Miyauchi, Pottery

ART Imitates Life

Wade Womack: Wood Prints

Dianne Lay, Watercolors

Dori Kite, Pottery

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Wine, Beer, Appetizers | Artist Demonstrations

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Sunriver Resort Lodge - Betty Gray Gallery 17600 Center Dr. 503-780-2828 The Betty Gray Gallery continues to feature two globally-themed artists with unique styles. Artist Mark D. Shelton in the Upper Gallery has a technique he refers to as, “painting with paper,” where he layers paper, acrylic and other media to make a brilliantly-textured picture. He focuses on highlighting his Native American heritage though reproductions of historical photographs.

South African native Adries Fourie uses his years of art experience to mix board, silkscreening, painting and metal work in a colorful style.

Andries is featured in the Lower Gallery with a variety of approachable pieces.

Both artists will be on display through the middle of July.

Candelaria Fin by Mark Shelton

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rtists at the Artists’ Gallery in the Village at Sunriver are helping bridge spring showers into summer sun with beautiful new art. Visitors and locals both will want to enjoy these new pieces provided by this month’s featured artists. With the relaxation of mask requirements, the Gallery is also celebrating the ability of visitors to more easily eat and drink “good stuff ” while attending our Second Saturday Celebration. Saturday, June 11, 4-7pm should be marked on your calendar for a fun time at the Gallery. The Gallery is also moving to summer hours. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, we will be open from 10am to 7pm daily.

A relatively new addition to the Gallery is Sunriver local watercolor artist Diane Lay. Lay’s paintings are beautifully delicate. The many translucent layers of color work together to make her images colorful yet soft. The artist’s latest project highlights local Central Oregon scenery. Hager Mountain hiking locations supply irresistible wildflowers — especially the arrowroot balsamroot. In a series of pieces, Lay presents first an up close and personal view with one flower and a leaf. Next in the series is a step back to view a clump, and finally a mountainside landscape with the full display of flower masses. It is liquid sunshine.

Also featured this month is wood print artist Wade Womack. Because of the carving process used in the creation of his pieces, they seem to have a beautiful movement in them. One piece, titled l’agrume, presents a bowl of fruit. This art piece is a jig-saw relief prints and is made by cutting each color shape out and inking them separately, then fitting them back together to print the image. Then the artist carves a separate plate for the black line and prints it over top. Another piece, titled Bald Eagles, has been produced with a mono-print. The black outline is a carved work woodblock, inked and printed, then the color is hand-painted with watercolors. In Womack’s Ravens, the birds appear to be having a somewhat heated conversation!

Potter Dori Kite is known for her desire to continually try new glazes and techniques. One of her recent series is inspired by ravens behaving badly! These pieces required learning a new decorative technique that (as usual) she had never tried before. The artist experimented with masking tape, wax paper and was resist for the series entitled Jail Birds. Her latest series uses slip trailing to outline butterflies and sunflowers by using empty fabric paint tubes to squeeze a runny clay infused with black stain into lines.

Long-time Gallery favorite Diane Miyauchi produces some of the most popular pottery in Central Oregon. Visitors have been collecting her practical and beautiful bowls, plates, cups and serving pieces for years. In a nod to springtime, Miyauchi has added colorful pieces for use in your garden or to hang in the breeze on your patio.

Come to the Artists’ Gallery Sunriver this summer to enjoy these, and over 30 other artists. There’s always something for everyone to enjoy at the gallery. It is located in the Sunriver Village, along with a variety of other art stores, restaurants and many other fun shops. artistsgallerysunriver.com Oregon’s Only Arts Magazine Since 1995 | June 2022

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ART WORKSHOPS There is a charge of $20 to list classes and/or workshops or they are free with a paid display ad.

Email AE@CascadeAE.com for more information.

printmaking • watercolor CASCADE FINE ART WORKSHOPS

Contact Sue at info@cascadefineartworkshops.com for more information.

2022 WORKSHOPS ARE FILLING! REGISTER TODAY! To register, contact Sue at info@CascadeFineArtWorkshops.com.

Local COVID regulations at the time of workshop will apply.

Painting Portraits from Photos with Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portraits 5-day Workshop June 20-24 — $795 Openings still available!

Colley Whisson’s only workshop on the West Coast in 2022 is in Bend!!

Modern Impressionism in Action with Colley Whisson Plein Air & Studio Workshop Oil & acrylic artists welcome — Demos in oil.

4-day Workshop October 19-22 - $675 Registration Deadline Extended to June 15!!

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sagebrushersartofbend.com • 541-617-0900 All classes listed below held at 117 SW Roosevelt Ave., Bend Wise Woman Emerging – Mixed Media Collage With Maria Wattier & Mattie Swanson June 12, 1-5pm Join Maria Wattier & Mattie Swanson for a monthly gathering of women creating and expressing feminine soul wisdom through mixed-media collage.

No experience necessary, instruction and encouragement available as needed!

Cost: $20 for workshop and $14 for journal. Please come join us for a delightful afternoon in a circle of women. For more information contact Mattie at swany139@hotmail.com or 541-610-2677.

Field Sketching In Watercolor with James Adams June 18, 10am-3:30pm Join James Adams (jamesadamsart.com) for this monthly 4.5-hour watercolor class. The first two and a half hours will be spent in the classroom covering introductory elements and a monthly theme. Following an hour lunch break, the group will meet at a location in or close to Bend to explore and employ the skills and techniques developed during the morning session. Cost: $75.

For more information or to register, email james@jamesadamsart.com or visit jamesadamsart.com. All levels of experience are welcome.

Art Talk And Pastel Exhibit Tour with SageBrushers Art Society June 18, 2-4pm Join the SageBrushers “Dusty Dames” group of pastel artists for this conversational talk, demo, and tour about the origins and art of contemporary pastel painting. No cost, just bring your curiosity!

(As with all of our classes and workshops, this will be held at the SageBrushers gallery/studio at 117 SW Roosevelt Ave, Bend.)

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ooperation behind the scenes will become more public after the 3rd. Let go of thinking you have the answer on the 4th and let life surprise you. A new understanding on the 6th is inspiring and could promote healing and new beginnings. Trust what is offered on the 10th and realize there are big changes right around the corner.

Notice how the dialogue is improving after the 13th and listen for clues about the changes. The Full Moon on the 14th invites you to shine your light for all to see. Step forward on the 15th and realize you are now free to be your authentic self. Trust your intuition when making decisions on the 18th and

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stay focused on your goal.

Opportunities show up near the 20th and it’s important to feel optimistic about them. Appreciate the cooperation in your life on the 21st and remind yourself what a difference it makes. Let yourself explore new ways to enjoy yourself on the 23rd and remember to stay open to a change in your plans.

Conversations are very helpful on the 27th and it will be easy to take action because of what is said. The New Moon on the 28th brings expansion of the heart. Let yourself feel love and notice how much better life gets.

Love and Light Always, Eileen Lock

Eileen Lock, Clairvoyant Astrologer / Spiritual Medium 1471 NW Newport Ave., Bend, Oregon 97703 • 541-389-1159 eileenlock.freeservers.com • oneheartministry.freeservers.com Listen for the song in your heart, f ind the melody and dance to the music.

Check out Eileen’s radio programs online at blogtalkradio.com. Cosmic Lunch Break on Mondays at 8am, What’s Up Wednesday at 8am and Talking With Spirit on Fridays at 8am.

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