Artists in the Vineyard Art Festival
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07.04.2010 Listen up. This sounds super great.
Art, food, wine and music will be featured at the first annual Artists in the Vineyard art festival on Saturday July 24 from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday July 25 from noon to 4 p.m. Come and meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine while you stroll the bucolic setting at Confluence Vineyard and Winery. Artists will dedicate a portion of their proceeds to support the Oregon Food Bank and Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Representatives from glassybaby will be on hand selling their hand blown glass votives, and a portion of their sales will also go to OFB and Neighbors Helping Neighbors.
The winery is located at 19111 NW 67th St. in Ridgefield. For more information contact Kathy Winters 360-887-2160.
Also, go to Paper Tiger Coffee Roasters today for the Ethiopian pour-over. It’s open LATE tonight and it’s making me very happy this afternoon.
J
Join Windows into Art co-curators artist K.C. Madsen and Dr. Dene Grigar, director of the Creative Media and Digital Culture Program at WSU Vancouver, on a free curatorial walk-and-talk through downtown Vancouver. The walk, which features a discussion of regional contemporary artists displayed in the windows of DT businesses, begins at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 30 at North Bank Artists Gallery, 1005 Main St., Vancouver.
windows into art
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Windows into Art has an interactive map online now. What a great project, bringing to life downtown Vancouver storefronts: http://www.windowsintoart.org/vanusatourist.html
Lincoln’s Gallery is fresh and laid back
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By Jessica Swanson
Photo by Todd Gunderson
Last September, an art gallery Vancouver was looking for opened on West Ninth Street. Lincoln’s Gallery, born by local alternative folk band Lincoln’s Beard, is fresh and laid back. You won’t find framing or art supplies here – you may not even find the doors open, but when they are, feel free to sit on the couch, nurse a bottle of water and soak up the Renaissance aesthetic of its owners, Tyler Morgan, Kris Chrisopulos and Dwayne Spence.
Kris is an art teacher at Prairie High School, while Tyler teaches history in Camas. Dwayne is long a music promoter in the Vancouver area and an artist who has shown in other venues. In the band, Tyler plays trumpet, keys, glockenspiel, mandolin and sings; Kris plays guitar and sings; and Dwayne plays bass, banjo and sings back-up. The band has one full-length record, Our American Cousin, and will soon be releasing another.
“There aren’t too many relationships you have where you can do something like this,” said Tyler.
Tyler and Kris have no experience running a gallery and say they had no loftier intentions than creating a space where they could play, practice and hang friends’ art, as well as their own. But they are already booking months out and have shown local artists such as Reid Trevarthen, Selfless Creations, Anni Becker, Mitch Tarbutton and James Jacob. While Tyler said most of the off-the-street inquiries are about the coin shop next door, the first opening was shoulder-to-shoulder people. The band plays at each opening and uses the space primarily to practice.
Kris said the concept for the gallery came together organically, and stays together because people keep supporting them. He said it was something “I’d like to see in the place where I live.”
Artists and friends sometimes volunteer to keep open hours for the gallery – otherwise it’s open on First Fridays, other Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment.
The gallery fronts a space leased by fellow artist Brian Ripp, owner of Divergent Clothing.
“Brian has been a great influence,” said Kris, who collaborates with him on artwork. Kris said running a gallery and working with other artists inspires him to stay in the studio.
“From the art standpoint, I have produced more art than I ever have,” said Kris. And he added, “if somebody backs out, it’s up to you to fill the wall.”
Lincoln’s Gallery
106/108 W. Ninth St., Vancouver
lincolnsgallerymail@gmail.com
Salmon Creek Farmers Market is looking for you!
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05.16.2010 The newly formed Salmon Creek Farmers Market will locate behind the Three Creeks Library next to the Fred Meyer on 139th St. The market plans to open July 15 and run through Sept. 30 every Thursday from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Currently the group is looking for farmers, producers, artisans and entertainers. There is also an immediate need for volunteers for planning and sponsorship.
For more information on becoming a vendor, visit www.managemymarket.com. For information on volunteering, send an email to info@salmoncreekfarmersmarket.com or call Ann Foster at 360-574-5093.
More awesome veggie opps — woo!
J.
Whoa. First Friday madness
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05.05.2010 The West Vancouver Art situation has never been more enticing. This Friday, May 7, marks the grand opening of The Space Art Collective and Tryckpress Galleri, Guerrilla Gallery’s first First Friday and the opening of the second season of Craft in the Village. Check out Lincoln’s Beard at Lincoln’s Gallery; The Shivas, We Play Quiet, Padraic Finbar Hagerty Hammond and Oigen at Guerrilla; Auxillary, Glitter Zombie, Briz and This Infernal Machine at The Space, plus drum circle and poetry. Downtown, find Angst Gallery, Gallery 21, Art on the Boulevard, Firehouse Glass (which is now doing their open houses on Saturday afternoons, but will still be open on First Fridays), Sixth Street Gallery and North Bank Gallery. And on 4th Plain and Esther, The Stray.
And I know, the art shouldn’t take a backseat to the action. But the action? Well, that’s what’s new.
Find it all, obviously, on your friendly local social networking system.
J.
Live Music Sundays at Paper Tiger
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Guerrilla art opening
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Guerrilla Gallery is opening to the public with an evening of art and music in the space over Rosemary Cafe (1001 Main Street) in Vancouver. Check out abstract, neo-contemporary and graf-inspired art by voidc, drop, ecru and atoms. Julio Appling opens with a set of solo upright bass at 8 p.m., and North Next Entertainment crew features DJ Wels, Level Headed, Skeptikal and Mac Smiff from 9 p.m. to 11:55 p.m. Drinks available with ID.
So many new art spaces, so much awesomeness.
J.
Slocum House entertaining on Saturdays
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Slocum House is opening its doors to concerts and performances on Saturdays during the market season, to entertain the throngs of people in Esther Short Park during the Vancouver Farmers Market. The theater will feature a monthly improv troupe, local bands and choirs, short musicals and shows as well as sneak peeks at our own main stage productions.
Saturday performances will be at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. & 2 p.m., April through October, at the Slocum House Theatre, 605 Esther Street. Check out www.slocumhouse.com for more. What a great idea.
J.
Maker of iconic Northwest-and-other themed t-shirts Chris Stevens is celebrating the grand opening of his new retail store and printshop at 807 Grand Blvd. in Vancouver on Dec. 5. Northwest Shirts will be open from 11-6 on Saturday for shopping and free coffee from local roasters Paper Tiger and in the evening from 7-10 for beers and music.
Help Chris end shirtlessness (and support other local artists and crafters, too!)-
J.
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