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Jenene Nagy will be an artist-in-residence at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency this fall. The residency takes place at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon.

The Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency was established in 2002 to provide working artists with little or no printmaking experience the opportunity to explore a new creative medium with guidance, instruction and technical assistance from a professional etching printer, Julia D'Amario. 

For more information: https://www.sitkacenter.org/sitka-artist-residency/jenene-nagy

Heather Watkins was recently interviewed by David Schell for The Semi-Finalist.

Heather talks about her practice and process, her use of language and material, and her exploration of the unknown and the unnameable.



Read the full interview here:
https://www.thesemi-finalist.com/artist-interviews/the-semi-finalist-is…

Heather Watkins' current exhibition still—moving at PDX CONTEMPORARY has been extended until October 9, 2021.
Welcoming you Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Sitka Center for Art & Ecology are celebrating 20 years of the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency with a show in Lincoln City

Marie Watt invites you to an Open-to-the-Community Sewing Circle.

“Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24 we will be hosting in-person sewing circles in Portland, Oregon and look forward to connecting with our community through shared embroidery and conversation. This is an all ages event and no experience required.

Friday, July 23, 2 - 4:30pm
Sellwood Park, Picnic Area H
714 SE Miller St.
Portland OR

Saturday, July 24, 10am - 12pm
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art
8371 North Interstate Avenue
Portland OR 

Sewing circles are inclusive by nature and design. Everyone’s voice is equal in a circle; circles can expand or contract as needed to create space. The panels being stitched often start with an Indigenous point of view in relation to site, histories, and Iroquois teachings, and these themes then become touchstones for conversation, connection, and cross-cultural knowledge generously exchanged by participants. Our stories connect us. 
 
No sewing experience necessary
All ages welcome (participants to date have included individuals from ages 3 to 93) 
Come and go as you wish
I will trade a print in exchange for your stitches
Bring a friend and feel free to pass the invitation on 

These outdoor sites are new to us. As table space will be limited, consider bringing a blanket to gather and stitch from. 

RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.”

RSVP July 23 at Sellwood Park:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRPykVpYYe72QGaG-Q79WvIJY6_4L…

RSVP July 24 at Oregon Contemporary:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci6qXiqC9ZZwgBnULZ479WRuK5FLE…

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is delighted to announce a pop up show July 16 - 26 at the Lostine Tavern in Lostine, Oregon.

Jane Beebe, Owner and Director of PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, has been visiting Wallowa County for forty years to spend time at a family place. Last January, noticing a "For Sale" sign in the Lostine Tavern window, Beebe wondered if Peter Ferre, owner of the Tavern, would let PDX have a pop up in the space. Ferre welcomed the idea and thus plans began.

While the Lostine Tavern is currently closed, the Tavern continues to host classes and community events and remains a beautiful, two-story, local stone building in the center of town. The Lostine Tavern was built in 1900, renovated in 2013, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Like a visit from an old friend, the show hopes to say hello, share what's new in work and life, and have a fun summer visit. The show will feature twenty eight artists with work ranging from prints, paintings, and photographs to ceramics, bronzes, and books. All art will be for sale and a portion of proceeds will be donated to the Lostine basketball court effort.

The Artists: Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Tina Beebe, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Bean Finneran, Jacques Flèchemuller, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Elizabeth Knight, Justin L’Amie, James Lavadour, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Jeffry Mitchell, Megan Murphy, Jenene Nagy, Georgina Reskala, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Terry Toedtemeier, Molly Vidor, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, and Yamamoto Masao.

We hope you will stop by!

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Lostine Tavern
125 Hwy 82
Lostine, OR
97857

Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Iván Carmona and Justin L'Amie's exhibition at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is open July 1 - 31, 2021.
They will be discuss their work during an opening reception for the first in-person show in the East Oregonian Gallery at Pendleton Center for the Arts in 16 months.

The reception is Thursday at the arts center, 214 N. Main St., from 5:30 - 7pm.

For more information on the reception and exhibition: https://www.eastoregonian.com/community/news/arts-center-welcomes-ceram…

Jenene Nagy is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of June.

Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.

Additionally, there will be a live, virtual studio visit on the Iris Project's Instagram LiveTV on June 26th from 2-5pm. To tune in visit their Instagram @irisprojectresidency

For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/nagy-smith
To tune in for the studio visit on Instagram LiveTV: @irisprojectresidency

Congratulations, Jenene!

Jeffry Mitchell is currently in a group exhibition, Breakfast Under the Tree, at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate, UK curated by Russell Tovey of TalkArt.

“Breakfast Under the Tree brings together a diverse range of depictions of contemporary social scenes, group portraits and shared spaces. Populated by characters both real and imaginary, and wide-ranging in style, from neo-realism to cartoonish dreamscapes, they together form a pictorial survey of how we live now.”

The exhibition includes works by Ana Benaroya‌, Susan Chen‌, Caroline Coon‌, Lenz Geerk‌, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings‌, Oscar yi Hou‌, Cheyenne Julien‌, Jon Key‌, Doron Langberg‌, Lindsey Mendick‌, Jeffry Mitchell‌, Cassi Namoda‌, Toyin Ojih Odutola‌, Sola Olulode‌, Benjamin Senior‌, Salman Toor‌, Charmaine Watkiss. 


Breakfast Under the Tree is on view from 4 June – 14 August 2021.

Marie Watt's exhibition Each/Other with Cannupa Hanska Lugar at the Denver Art Muesum was featured in The Art Magazine.

"The American artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger originally envisioned their joint exhibition Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum (until 22 August) as a project that would activate the galleries with collaborative, hands-on events evoking Indigenous art-making and community-building traditions. But with plans upended by the coronavirus pandemic, the artists shifted their focus “toward the idea of shelter, both as it relates to the global health crisis but also the civil unrest in the US that ensued over the last year”, Luger says. The show comprises more than 20 mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, installations and two crowd-sourced works."

To read the entire article visit: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/marie-watt-and-cannupa-hanska-l…