Sisters Arts Association Fourth Friday Art Stroll

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 The Collection Gallery. Reared on a ranch in Montana, veterinarian Berryman's talents include pencil and oil art and wildlife photography. He has traveled to Africa, India, and South America to search out his wildlife subjects. He has a passion for exotics and portrait painting.

Clearwater Gallery features new work by Dan Rickards and Chris Nelson. Rickards unveils his latest National Park painting, "Joshua Tree National Park," and "Path of Totality," depicting this year's solar eclipse. Posters and giclee prints are available. Nelson shows new landscapes, flowers and animals in oil.

Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop introduces "The Sunset Series" by Sisters artist Mike Stasko. His renderings use graphite, pastel, and charcoal. Stasko explores the changing effect of light over distance, particularly at sunset. He works from photographs taken in Central Oregon, locales recognizable to those who travel or fish on the Deschutes River. Complementing these are Wendy Birnbaum's golden photos on metal, set with glass by Suzie Zeitner.

Nina Walz is featured at Ken Scott's Imagination Gallery. An artist with skills in several media, her focus at the Imagination Gallery has been on thoughtful and humorous works of clay.

Raven Makes highlights new canyon country watercolor and ink paintings by Navajo artist Douglas Yazzie, unique hand-painted gourd and deer skin rattles, and fine silver jewelry from the artisans of Arizona's Hopi Mesas.

Twigs Home and Garden's exhibit, "Launched from the Backroom," features art quilts by Betty Daggett, Jody Rusconi, and Marion Shimoda. One serendipitous day, following a workshop on minimal quilt-making, Daggett, Rusconi and Shimoda gathered in the classroom for some after-workshop sewing. This show evolved from time shared in the classroom, and reflects their individual styles as well as the influences of teachers such as Jean Wells and Bonnie McWilliams.

The Jewel specializes in unusual handmade jewelry, from rare gem materials set in sculptural precious metals, to national artists using Japanese paper and pearls, or fabrics set under quartz. Two new additions are large architectural alabaster and mokume gane (ancient Japanese marriage of metals creating woodgrain-like textures) by Master Bryan Brown. Owner Jan Daggett's latest designs incorporate rare agatized oak wood set with golden south-sea pearls and gems.

Zosel Harper Realtors will host Jill Haney-Neal and her Wild (but tasteful) Women. Stop at 170 W. Cascade Ave. for light appetizers, beer and wine. Ten percent of all sales during the Art Stroll will go to Circle of Friends. Haney-Neal's art has been a fixture in Central Oregon starting with a boutique in downtown Bend and now her gallery and studio at 207 N. Fir St. in Sisters. Her art exaggerates the feminine to celebrate the universal spirit of women transcending their cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Other stroll locations include Beacham's Clock Co., Dyrk Godby Gallery, Studio Redfield, Bedouin/Navigator News, Grizzly Ridge Upcycle, Cha for the Finest, Sisters Library Gallery, Bigfoot Wellness and Nature's Bling.