Kaylynn wins Loree Harrell's signed metal print of Environ 39; and
Jo Ellen wins Kathy Kollenburn's gorgeous fused glass bird feeder.
Whoot!

We had a great turnout and an immensely good time at the July 5th First Friday BBQ & Art Night Out... 
... so we're installing the party for the rest of summer. 

We have determined that the Chipotle / Cheddar hot dogs need to be kept in inventory at twice the level of the Cheddar and (!even!) Steakhouse hot dogs, and will willingly comply; that there are children in the world WHO DO NOT KNOW S'MORES, and are moderately appalled and on a mission to fix that immediately; that sending Loree to buy the mustard means you get five kinds of mustard, and are okay with that;  that Kathy's double batch of stuffed mushrooms needs to be a triple [and know she's deluding herself and that it's more like quintuple]; that Bernice bakes the best iced homemade carrot muffin you'll ever meet, and shall encourage her to carry on; and that - even when the deviled egg potato salad is left forgotten in the cooler for the first half of the party, it still is gone by the end, so that works out well and we shall leave it in the cooler for half the party again so we don't run out.

Oh, yes, and that Matt does an excellent job at building fires that cook stuff. 
Although, for a fireman, he doesn't do a very good job of taking a step back when he opens the barbeque. 
However the good news is he had beautiful healthy color (sort of like a week of twelve hour days on the beach) by the end of the evening.  And we're keeping him.

​FIRST FRIDAY BARBEQUE & ART NIGHT OUT .2 / .3
​.2   Friday, August 2nd   5:00p - 9:00p                                                                                                                                                   
​.3   Friday, September 6th   5:00p - 9:00p
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​Come for the food and stay for the art, or come for the art and stay for the food. 
We're good either way.
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ARTISTS
Caswell Sculpture - Rip Caswell
Loree Harrell           
Roadshow Photography - Matt Eaton
Wildflower Fusing - Kathy Kollenburn
Beaver Creek Gallery - Bernice Wright
Elisa Gusdal

When I texted Matt on December 16th to see if he was near to come meet a client who was buying his beautiful (big!) Cannon Beach oceanscape for his wife for Christmas, I got back, "At the coast shooting waves".  

Of course you are.  Because it's nasty wet cold blowing weather, and that makes great oceanscapes.

Matt was out in it for two days to get this shot.  Exposure time was 3.5 minutes (think about that in terms of what happens when your hand shakes in the 1/60th of a second that it takes your camera to get the shot). 

This is what gives "Stand Alone" that beautiful soft alive look... Tilly and her rock held their spot on the planet, while ocean and fog and light moved around them. 

​This is a color photograph, grayscale courtesy of Mother Nature.

​- LH

Join us for the last day of TAC's 2018 Holiday Arts Open House
11-6 Sunday, December 9th!

Loree Harrell's studio is to your right in the hall between the entry gallery and
Caswell Sculpture Studio, and she is gifting a free ornament to everyone who comes in,
plus has a lot of great stocking stuffers under $25!

"Power's Out"
Matthew Eaton - Roadshow Photography
​40"x20" signed Metal Print

This photo was taken in Tygh Valley along the White River.  It depicts the turn of the century (1902) hydroelectric technology of the day.  It produced power until abandoned in 1963.  - ME​

 So.  About that big bare spot on your wall that needs a large piece of amazing visual fascination...

​On Sunday, December 9th at 6:00pm, one of the grand prize drawings at the close of TAC's 4th Annual Holiday Arts Open House.  All you have to do to be in the running is to show up and fill out an entry form (which we won't use against you.  Promise.).

Bonus entry for finding Matt at The Great American Christmas Bazaar at the Expo Center.

See, it's easy.  And just look at that beautiful big piece of amazing visual fascination!