Workshops

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.

SAGEBRUSHERS ART SOCIETY 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 December 11, 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.

Mixed Media Expressions with Ken Marunowski

Thursdays, December 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 9am-12pm Local artist Ken Marunowski (kennethmarunowski.com) will lead students in considering various combinations of pencil, charcoal, acrylic paint, pastel and crayon to produce both small studies and larger finished works of art. Participants will explore fundamentals of art such as line, shape, color, texture and value throughout the creative process. These classes will offer inspiration and exercises for those wishing to move from relative accuracy towards greater expressivity. Cost is $40 per session. Drop-ins welcome, but to ensure your space RSVP to Barb Crislip at barbjc45@yahoo.com. Bring your own materials: see list at sagebrushersartofbend.com/classes.

Discovering Your Voice in Skies & Water with Amanda Houston March 18-20, 2023, 10am-5pm This three-day workshop will go beyond the “how-to” steps of creating radiant sky paintings from photographs. It will explore the intuitive creative process while still covering the foundation of good design and composition. We will focus on a series of small-scale color sketches and finish with one larger piece. While Amanda will share how she approaches skies, this workshop is for you to explore your own mark-making and undergo a deeper self-discovery to define your own unique painting style. Learn what habits holds you back so your true voice can come out. Amanda will demonstrate in pastel but any medium is welcome. Cost is $425. Contact Nancy Misek at nancym2010@bendbroadband.com for more information and registration.

CALL TO ART

PUBLIC ART CALL TO ARTISTS FOR COLORADO AVENUE & COLUMBIA STREET ROUNDABOUT

Art in Public Places seeks to commission a permanent large-scale work of art for the Colorado Avenue and Columbia Street Roundabout in Bend.

The Colorado Avenue and Columbia Street Roundabout connects drivers coming from downtown Bend to the westside of town over the Colorado Bridge where the Bend Whitewater Park is located on the Deschutes River. Along Colorado Avenue is The Pavilion (Bend Park and Recreation District ice skating rink for the community) and Deschutes Brewery Warehouse and Tasting Room.

This roundabout also provides direct access to the Old Mill District, Riverbend Park and Hayden Homes Amphitheater one mile away. The roundabout is near numerous office buildings and a half mile from Century Drive which is a main thoroughfare for the westside of Bend filled with restaurants and shops. The volume of cars on 14th Street/Century Drive is estimated at over 15K car per day and approximately 20K cars cross the Colorado Bridge daily.

Art in Public Places will announce the finalists and the community will have the opportunity to view digital renderings and submit their input online or in person in the spring 2023. Fabrication and installation of the sculpture will take place over 2023-2024. The cost of the sculpture is being covered by the Bend Foundation with administrative work being managed by Art in Public Places. The work of art will be owned and maintained by the City of Bend as part of its public art collection.

This is an open competition for artists or artist teams residing in in the Northwest and Southwest United States, specifically Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), Women and LGBTQAI+ community members are highly encouraged to apply. Artists living in Oregon are highly encouraged to apply. The project timeline is 20232024 and the total project budget for the roundabout is $130,000.

A full listing of the Call to Artists site context and submission requirements can be found on CAFÉ.

CALL FOR ART

The Art Resource Team invites you to submit your work for a juried Art Show; Fractals, Repeated Patterns in Nature, for exhibit February 5 through April 2, 2023 in the Linus Pauling Gallery, located in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon, 61980 Skyline Ranch Rd., Bend.

From Computer graphics to the many repeated petal patterns in a flower, there are many examples of fractals in math and art. With apologies to Benoit Mandlebrot, we will render our own interpretation of fractals, in nature, through a variety of different medias. Without parameters, except for repeating patterns — I look forward to seeing your creations.

Please send a digital submission to Ellen Atkin, atkin@bendbroadband.com or Paul Alan Bennett, pbennett3@gmail.com.

For more information call 541-678-5016.

For inspiration view the Following YouTube videos: • Fractals: a world in a grain of sand | Ben Weiss | TedxVeniceBeach • Nature by Numbers by Christobal Vila • Nature’s Fractal Patterns and Fibonacci Sequences