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Coast Culture
[Updated May 14, 2008]
LCCC supporters will
go Joey Bananas
The Lincoln City Cultural Center will be hosting an open house on Saturday, May 17, at 540 NE Hwy. 101. They encourage the curious to drop by between 2 and 5 p.m. to see all the projects, both completed and ongoing, that are taking over the historic Delake School building.
LCCC board members will offer tours of the new visitor information center and the handicapped accessible east entry. There’s a new Mike Meyers glass mobile hanging in the west entry, and an informative automated kiosk at the south entry. The stage expansion is in progress.
Painter Jeurgen Eckstein, whose work is hanging in the Chessman Gallery, will be on hand along with contractors, designers, consultants, staff, instructors and board members.
Later that evening, at 7 p.m., Joey Bananas will play classic rock. “Johnny Cash, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis won’t be there, but Joey Bananas will!” according to the event poster. Admission to the concert will be $5 at the door. No-host refreshments will be available.
For details, call 541-994-9994.
A raft of crafts floats
into Yachats Commons
The 11th annual “Crafts on the Coast” Spring Arts and Crafts Festival offers yet another reason to visit scenic Yachats during the Memorial Day Weekend holiday.
Set for Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, the festival will feature 65 professional, juried exhibitors from Oregon, Washington and beyond. The Yachats Commons, a charming, refurbished vintage elementary school, will be bursting with talent as the exhibitors showcase their gallery-quality hand crafts, art and gourmet specialty foods.
The festival will be held inside Yachats Commons at Hwy. 101 and 4th Streets in Yachats. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free at this family-friendly event.
Shop and explore vendors selling everything from kelp art and tole painting to beaded jewelry and underwater photography. The Yachats Ladies Club will have craft items and quilt raffle tickets for sale. The Yachats Volunteer Fire Department will have craft items and safety information for the public. Both booths are fund raisers for these organizations.
Interludes of Ecuadorian flute music will be provided by Alex Llumiquinga. At the Festival Cafe, Chef Jacki Vokos will serve blueberry muffins, creamy roasted vegetable soup, old fashioned egg salad sandwiches and cookies. For more information, call 541-547-4738.
Artists express their ‘Grantitude’ at exhibit
The William T. Colville Memorial Foundation, in conjunction with the Lincoln City Cultural Center, will present the work of four recipients of the WTC grant. Oregon artists, Diane Archer, H’sa Brown, Liisa Rahkonen and Jane Salmons combine into a show that offers a compelling human and social narrative. Their work, which includes mixed media, jewelry, painting, clay sculpture, and photography, will be on display at the LCCC from May 23 through June 22. The opening reception is scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 24.
The gallery, located at 540 NE Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City, is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Diane Archer explores the emotional and physical sense of “place,” using maps, drawings and found objects in her mixed media work. The paper maps are stained with dyes she makes from vegetation found in each place.
H’sa Brown’s work in jewelry is an extension of his spiritual philosophy and medicine work as a Native American. His use of silver and copper wire twisted into coils and combined with beads and natural materials symbolizes a unique “life-walk” story, a prayer manifest into jewelry.
Liisa Rahkonen is a painter and clay sculptor whose work encompasses a broad scope of subject matter and media. She has been acknowledged as one of Oregon’s strong regionalist landscape painters, although her current work explores the inner landscape. The animal and human forms of her ceramic sculptures evoke a sense of ancient origins, and are of a deeply spiritual nature.
Jane Salmons’ natural light photography of people, places and things share how even small, seemingly inconspicuous details express the greater whole. Her photographs, combined with writings, offer the viewer an experience that is both personal and indicative of the interconnectivity of all life.
Her work has been accepted into The Best of the Northwest art show, and she has taught photography at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
The William T. Colville Memorial Foundation serves to support and encourage artists, art teachers and art groups through providing grants to assist them in their artistic endeavors through advanced training and monetary support.
For details, call the LCCC at 541-994-9994.
Send your event notices to editor
Niki Price, niki@oregoncoasttoday.com.
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