News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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There was a time, when Len Babb finished a painting, he'd give it to a friend, or maybe trade it, but mostly he'd toss it into a corner and then move on to the next one. But that was before he realized that, not only was he creating a legacy of art from Western history, he was crafting iconic images for future generations. Len spent his life as a buckaroo. He wasn't out fixing fences or baling hay. He rode, and he rode hard. And when he was done, he painted, and did a little... Full story
Photographer Conrad Weiler is prolific. He heads outdoors with camera in hand nearly every day. After a short walk, a longer drive, or a kayak paddle, he returns to his home in Camp Sherman to harvest that day's crop of images. Some get posted on his Facebook account. Others he mails to friends. The best he has printed and framed. Many of these are on display throughout the month of April at Sisters Library, in the entryway and community room. Weiler's favorite subject matter... Full story
Exploring the world of regional creative residencies, courtesy of The Roundhouse Foundation, recent works by six Sisters artists are now on exhibit at Sisters Art Works. Last Thursday evening, these six artists reported on their experiences while studying and making art at residencies all around the country. Then, artist and businesswoman Suzanne Redfield described a mission to Europe's Nordic region that she shared with Kathy Deggendorfer last year, to discover what it takes to create an alliance between art and community.... Full story
In an effort to further its support for the arts and artists in Sisters and Central Oregon, The Roundhouse Foundation invited a group of local artists to experience artist in residency programs around the country. The local artists variously attended Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, Sedona Arts Center, Maine Media, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and created new work in printmaking, photography, ceramic, painting, and mixed media. Work that... Full story
The Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit presented its People's Choice Awards at a reception at the library on Friday evening. As the names of four award-winners were announced, from the far corner, by the shelved books on hold, came a sudden round of celebratory back-slapping and general excitement. Steve Mathews, a 75-year-old retired art teacher and counselor, and his young friend and part-time Tollgate neighbor 19-year-old Austin James Jackson, outdoor photographer and... Full story
"Color Gone Wild," the 2018 traveling show by the Weaving Guilds of Oregon (WeGO), kicks off a statewide tour January 8 at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. For Sisters resident Linda Davis, it's been a yearlong labor of love as she's headed up the 2018 traveling show committee. Davis is a spinner, weaver, knitter, seamstress and longtime member of Central Oregon Spinners and Weavers Guild. It's been a constant communication with more than 700 members of WeGO, a... Full story
It's three days before Christmas and all through the town, folks are visiting galleries, up street and down! It's the monthly Fourth Friday Art Stroll through the galleries of Sisters, from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, December 22. At Hood Avenue Art, it's "Holiday Magic," as gallery artists exhibit handcrafted, original fine art. Drop by for refreshments and live music. Simon Haycraft is an artist and a fisherman. He's fascinated with lakes and rivers and the creatures that inhabit them. His portraits of fish look real, like they... Full story
Caroline Stratton-Crow stepped back from hanging the last piece of art on the wall and exclaimed, "This is really pretty scary - seeing all of my art in one place!" This month, Stratton-Crow's whimsical, natural watercolors and acrylics are hanging on the walls of the Community Room at Sisters Library. This collection is not a comprehensive view of her creative art. She left the three-dimensional spirit masks and horses at home. More than 20 paintings in the library represent... Full story
The 2018 "Oregon Wings and Feathers" calendar is now available. Wildlife photographer Douglas Beall has assembled this year's calendar from his favorite photographs of birds taken in the past year. Beall photographs and writes the Sisters Country Birds feature for The Nugget. Beall, who lives in Camp Sherman, is donating the proceeds of sales to Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center, a nonprofit organization that provides injured and orphaned animals a second chance at life, and promot... Full story
Is there a term for animals that share their familiar names? If you know the answer, please tell Dennis McGregor. Over the years, the Sisters artist and musician has painted hundreds - maybe thousands - of animals, birds, fish, and insects. He is widely known for his many illustrations for the Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, and Sisters Rodeo, among many others. If there is a deer, fish, bird or fowl in Sisters Country, McGregor has probably painted it. One... Full story
When Wendy Birnbaum was tooling around Ireland one day, a total stranger tapped her on the shoulder and said, "I love your sweater! I knit it." She'd purchased the Kelly-green sweater several days previously in a shop in the town of Doolin. The sweater's knitter was named John, one of two brothers who own the Glencoe Woolen Mill Shop in the town of Glencolmcille, County Donegal. She then visited John's shop, where she was so taken with the spools of hand-dyed yarn that she... Full story
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at throwing a pot, or color your world with pastels on paper? Maybe you've always wanted to see how a sculptor works on a large piece of art, what it takes to turn sheets of glass into fine art, or how an artist creates "knitting stitches" in paintings. Sisters Arts Association celebrates Sisters' community of artists at its first Artist Studio Tour, Saturday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is a first for the Sisters Arts... Full story
Celebrate the arrival of summer by strolling through the galleries of Sisters during the Fourth Friday Art Stroll, June 23 from 4 to 7 p.m. Grab your friends and enjoy the warmer weather and art while sampling light refreshments. Hood Avenue Art is featuring Central Oregon pastels and oils by Kathleen Keliher and original Oregon sunstone jewelry by Elyse and Steven Douglas. Gary Cooley's Collection Gallery features Cindy Briggs' luminous watercolors inspired by her many journeys. Briggs' work has been featured in major public... Full story
Sisters Arts Association's Fourth Friday Art Stroll is this Friday, May 26, from 4 to 7 p.m., in local galleries. At Hood Avenue Art, Katherine Taylor and Blaine Cyr are showing their work. Taylor's oil paintings use mood, color, and palette knife to form two-dimensional images that suggest a three-dimensional experience. Cyr creates segmented wooden bowls with upward of a thousand handcrafted pieces chosen for color and character. Clarke Berryman is the featured artist at... Full story
The 2017 "Oregon Wings and Feathers" calendar is now available. Sisters wildlife photographer Douglas Beall has assembled this year's calendar from his favorite photographs of birds taken in the past year. Beall photographs and writes the Sisters Country Birds feature for The Nugget. This month, Beall's photographs of Oregon Waterfowl are featured in the computer room of the Sisters Library. Beall, who lives in Camp Sherman, is donating the proceeds of sales to Turtle Ridge... Full story
"Icarus on The Metolius" is a varnished watercolor by Sisters artist Paul Alan Bennett. The original owner of the painting died recently. In his will, he asked that this rare painting should be re-sold to raise funds for the Sisters Library. As sellers of Paul Alan Bennett's fine art, Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop is managing this process. "Icarus On the Metolius" was originally completed in 2003 as a donation piece for Sisters Folk Festival's My Own Two Hands fundraiser. That... Full story
During the heart of the recession, Francesca Russo faced a major challenge and changed her life. She left her home and business after 30 years on the Oregon Coast, and with her German shepherd, Yogi, drove to Central Oregon. Circumstances that led to the move were difficult, but ultimately proved constructive. Russo turned her life's experiences into a book, "Becoming Change: A Journal for Mind, Spirit, and Body." "I have learned that compassion for my mistakes has allowed me to forgive and love myself and has helped me love... Full story
Two Ford Family Foundation (FFF) representatives visited Sisters last week to as part of Ford's new initiative to "Listen and Learn" what's happening across Oregon in rural communities like ours. Rocque (pronounced "Rocky") Barros, director of FFF, and Carrie Thompson, a member of the foundation's board of directors, met dozens of people and talked over needs, obstacles, and opportunities for growth and development. "We call these visits Listen to Learn visits," Barros said. He explained the Ford Institute has adopted a... Full story
March is Student Art Exhibit Month at Sisters Library and Sisters' next generation of artists is marching ahead, inspired by ancient and contemporary arts. The Computer Room blasts color, with Clay Warburton's 4th grade students' bold abstract paintings based on Japanese kanji, logographic Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system. Each symbol represents a word, such as "cow" or "fire" or "tree." A haiku, a 17-syllable poem in three lines (5-7-5), accompani... Full story
A horse and rider on a frigid winter night, a Cuban tobacco farmer, some whimsical fish with faces and feathers in their fins, and a magnificent view of Steelhead Falls - all took People's Choice Awards at the 2016 Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit. "Ghost Rider," by Jennifer Hartwig; "Louis, the Tobacco Farmer," by Linda Hanson; "Don't Be Koi," by Steve Mathews; and "Steelhead Falls," by Randall Tillery took the four awards of equal merit this year. All four artists are... Full story
Gov. Kate Brown has declared a drought emergency in five counties - Crook, Harney and Klamath Counties, Lake, and Malheur - and others may not be far behind. The five are the driest in a state that's facing record dry conditions, having experienced the warmest winter since 1895, low snowpack, and lack of rain. "As you know, we cannot talk about prosperity and economic recovery without acknowledging the crucial role water plays in our quality of life and our livelihoods," the governor said in her State of the State message... Full story
Oregon's Lake Abert is an internationally important migratory bird habitat with an uncertain future. Between 2012 and 2014, when all of the lakes in south-central Oregon were drier than normal, Abert shrunk to a tenth of its normal size. Because it's remote, the event was barely noticed, save for a small group of private citizens who collected documentary data. Abert is - or was - Oregon's fifth-largest lake, with a recent maximum surface area of 64 square miles: 16 miles... Full story
Lake Abert, our state's only salt-water lake, is hardly capable of supporting a human community these days. But Dr. Richard M. Pettigrew of Eugene claims archaeological evidence that human occupation of the lake's margins was once extensive. Pettigrew says, "Concentrations of prehistoric habitation sites around the lake, on terraces at different elevations, suggest that ancestral Native American hunter-gatherers were able to support surprisingly large populations from the... Full story
Lake Abert in south Central Oregon has no fish, is too shallow for boating, too harsh for swimming, and far from scenic with its barren shoreline, teeming with rattlesnakes. You wouldn't want to pitch a tent or build a cabin on the shore. But if you're a Wilson's phalarope or an eared grebe, or other migrating bird, it's prime dining on the north-south flyway, a buffet of brine shrimp and alkali flies. Lake Abert and nearby Summer Lake are the remains of the pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which once covered 500 square miles in the... Full story
Douglas Beall has been looking for a second pileated woodpecker nest ever since he first saw the first one in 1970. This year, he found it - populated by mom, pop and three babies - and its photograph is the cover image for Beall's "Oregon Wings & Feathers: Central Oregon 2015" calendar. This is the fourth year that Beall has produced Oregon Wings & Feathers calendars, and the first one he's created specifically for Central Oregon. All photos were taken in Oregon, and all proc... Full story
