For ‘Life Abundant’ … Artist Emily Miller.

“Anemone Study” watercolor by Emily Miller

Ocean-inspired artwork from Oregon

“My painting and sculpture grow from a lifetime of joyful exploration of our vastly abundant, living environment.” 

 

 

 

“Nudibranch Study” watercolor by Emily Miller

Ocean-inspired artwork from Oregon

 

 

Q: What is a nudibranch, you ask?

A:  The bottom-dwelling, jelly-bodied nudibranch (NEW-dih-bronk) might seem an unlikely canvas for Mother Nature to express her wildest indulgences of color and … learn more at

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/group/nudibranchs/

 

 

“From a single tidepool and a turtle’s nest, to vast oceans and the forest floor, my artwork approaches conservation issues with the beauty and richness of the natural world.”

 

Emily Miller

“I have spent my life on the coast, and all my artwork has its roots in my love of the sea. I see the coast as a border between the known and unknown, amid constant cycles of change. My work explores these transition environments to illuminate our connection to the larger network of natural systems. I believe that joyful exploration of the unknown creates a positive, active environment that enriches our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our world.

I am a lifelong artist with a passion for materials. My work in different media ranges from watercolor painting to glass and metal sculpture, functional porcelain ware, digital and darkroom photo processes, and interactive installation work. So far I haven’t met a medium I didn’t like.”

 

 

Emily Miller with her ‘Life Abundant’ art at Fairweather’s.

 

 

“I got an inquiry from Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation group, asking if I could create new work for their summer fundraiser in July. They wanted to see a few samples, and selected two Ukidama baskets on display at Fairweather’s. The baskets were with rope from Japan found in Oregon and  named for the Japanese fishing floats that came with them.” Emily Miller

 

“Exciting news, my ghost net baskets will be going to Oceana! They’ve requested 34 large blue and aqua baskets for their 12th annual gala fundraiser, SeaChange Summer Party. It’s in Laguna Beach California on September 7. This year’s theme is ocean plastic pollution. They’re partnering with several ecological artists for the event, which is so wonderful to see, and I’m excited to be one of them!”

Emily Miller

More info about SeaChange Summer Party: http://seachangesummerparty.org/

More info about Oceana, which is the world’s largest ocean conservation organization: https://oceana.org/

 

More news from Emily Miller

Ode to the Tides

Group show in partnership with The Wetlands Conservancy

Opening May 2 at Oregon State University, Corvallis

Traveling to Seaside. June 01-30, 2019,  as well as additional Oregon venues thru Dec 2019!

 “Eelgrass Meadow” watercolor by Emily Miller

Emily Miller’s  painting was selected as the logo art for the 2019 “Ode to the Tides” exhibition!!!

“The “Ode to the Tides” exhibit will present scientific programming about Oregon’s estuaries and tidepools along with artwork from 90 local artists. I am so excited to be a part of this exhibit, partnering local ocean conservation with education and outreach through art.” Emily Miller

 

For more about the artist, please visit artist tab Emily Miller at www.fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

 

Copyright © 2019

March exhibition. Reset.

Featured artists for ‘March’ exhibition displayed on the west showcase wall: whimsical paintings by Marga Stanley, pastels by Leah Kohlenberg, fused glass necklaces by Mike Fox, fresco paintings by Agnes Field.  Accessories made by hand:  willow bird nests, felt bunny, hand turned wood candlestick and hand forged bronze candelabra.

Featured artists for ‘March’ exhibition displayed on the west showcase wall.  Left to right: Abstract “March Grasses” original by Leah Kohlenberg,  impasto oil by Melissa Jander, fused glass by Mike Fox, hand-made glass by Bob Heath and pastel pen and ink by Lori Wallace-Lloyd.

Featured ‘March’ exhibition artists.  Left to right:  Penelope Culbertson calligraphy, en plein air original by Bev Drew Kindley, miniature oil by Barbara Rosbe Felisky, acrylic “Dune Grasses” by Bev Drew Kindley, oil landscapes by Lisa Wiser, couture jewelry by Mary Hurst, hand-made glass platter by Sandy and Bob Lercari, pastel by Gretha Lindwood and fine art hardbound books selected for the spring season.

Displays by D. Fairweather, gallerist/ allied member A.S.I.D., American Society of Interior Designers.  

Photos by Linda Fenton-Mendenhall/ Seaside First Saturday Art Walk photographer.

‘March’ on exhibit through March 31.

Fairweather House and Galllery

612 Broadway

Seaside

From traditional to transitional, representational to contemporary, realism to impressions, The Fairweather House and Gallery has presented an eclectic collection of fine art by an exceptional group of living Northwest regional artists for over 12 years.

Save the date and time.

Celebrating 15 years in 2019, the next Seaside First Saturday Art Walk, will be held 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday April 6.

The free event takes place between Holladay Drive and Broadway Street in the Historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside.

Fairweather House and Gallery

612 Broadway St.

Opening artist reception for “Life Abundant” featuring regional artists Bill Baily, Diane Copenhaver, Barbara Bacon Folawn, Emily Miller, Veronica Russell, and Jan Shield.

“For April the works are full of energy to create a feeling of the air merging with the trees and fields where from the earth they grow.  They express a sort of witness to the soil becoming the grass and how plant life abounds joined in a harmony of space and form,” Jan Shield, Professor Emeritus of Art at Pacific University.

Painting demonstration, artist lectures, LIVE music by Shirley 88 and local habitat lecture by Neal Mail at 6:pm.

To read more about the gallery, please visit www.fairweatherhouseangallery.com

Reprinting arts and culture article from Seaside Visitors Bureau.

Photo: Rick Mickelson

 

 

March 1, 2019 | by Seaside Visitors Bureau/ City of Seaside

As one of the best known beach destinations in the Pacific Northwest, Seaside has a reputation for stunning sunsets, inviting sand, and proximity to incredible hiking trails that wander along both the sandy shores and rugged bluffs. In addition to its scenic beauty, though, Seaside is also full of rich history and embraces artists from all walks of life. From art walks to museums to festivals, this Oregon Coast gem has an ocean’s worth of art and culture to explore during your next visit.

 

Seaside First Saturday Art Walk
For a decade and a half, Seaside has organized an Art Walk to celebrating the work of residents and visiting artists. On the first Saturday of every month, the art galleries and boutiques located between Holladay and Broadway in the downtown Historic Gilbert District host the Art Walk from 5 to 7 pm. The Art Walk is free and open to the public and gives everyone a chance to see the incredible art of the region. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet artists, watch demonstrations, and even listen to live musical performances.

 

Visiting Seaside when there is not an Art Walk?

 

Don’t fret. Seaside’s art community is well represented all year-long. Must-stop art galleries include the Oregon Gallery, the SunRose Gallery, the Fairweather House and Gallery, and the numerous murals spread all throughout town.

 

One-of-a-Kind

Along Broadway Street just east of the Necanicum  River, Seaside’s Historic Gilbert District is home to several distinctive galleries and shops known for both locally and regionally produced artwork and gifts.  Fairweather House and Gallery (612 Broadway) is one of the preeminent fine-art destinations on the North Coast, with works in a variety of media by both local and regional talents, from larger-than-life abstract paintings to woodwork, bronzes, pottery and even handmade furniture.

 

Map featuring four major historic building blocks in the Historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside.

The Seaside murals are an attraction in themselves and capture the spirit and culture of this idyllic coastal town. Colorful, iconic, and full of the coastal spirit you’d expect to see, the murals, which are perfect for selfies in the salty air, adorn buildings all around town.

 

Mural located in the Menzel Buidling block of the Historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside.

 

To view the latest and greatest murals, pay a visit to the Seaside Visitors Bureau, where you can get directions and personalized recommendations for other things to explore in the area.

Seaside, Oregon, is known for its downtown murals and active arts scene.

 

Promoting Seaside
by Jon Rahl/ City of Seaside
How do you describe Seaside to your friends, neighbors and relatives? Better yet, how would you, if asked? You may have an answer on the tip of your tongue. Perhaps you have a different description depending on who you are talking to? There’s no right or wrong answer. However, in the world of destination marketing, the task is to make sure that description resonates with prospective visitors. We want to inspire them to visit and we want to be authentic in our portrayal of this great place.

For the past two months we’ve been working side-by-side with Portland-based Lookout Consulting, and a team of three branding experts, to reimagine Seaside’s identity and determine how it is that we should and will talk about Seaside.

This decision to rebrand our communications did not come overnight. As I look back on it, it was an evolving decision that gained steam in mid-April during my attendance at the 2015 Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism. I was asked if Seaside would serve as a case study during a session on developing an integrated marketing plan. Never one to shy away from constructive feedback – and free I might add – I had no hesitation in agreeing to the exercise.

While the session offered a holistic look at our content development, the team of panelists also recommended a simple yet impactful new approach to Seaside’s advertising creative; this new thinking really encouraged me to take the next step towards rebranding. After consulting with my Tourism Advisory Committee, the decision was made to hatch this project.

Beginning in early January, the descriptions, colors and identity of Seaside marketing will change dramatically and I could not be more excited about the new direction and opportunity it will give us. A new primary logo (pictured) features various icons that celebrate the unique identity of our town, echoing the love and nostalgia visitors have felt for Seaside for generations, while introducing a visual abundance of what to see and do here in vibrant coastal colors. With this new logo, we will also roll out a new tagline.

It’s easy to Seaside will become our new consumer facing tagline. It speaks to our audiences leading hectic lives in nearby urban areas about how easy it is to have a fantastic time in Seaside. The tagline will anchor our new brand campaign, which tells visitors how to experience all the amazing things to do and see in and around town through fun, informative “how to” instructions.

It will not entirely replace More Than Just a Day at the Beach – which has been our tagline since the late 1990s. We look at it instead as an evolution. There are times where the More Than… can and will be used. But as we develop new advertising creative, we will want to use It’s easy to Seaside to play off of the new “how to” executions we’ll be introducing.

This “how to” campaign will not only give us a way to have fun (by telling people how to eat taffy), but also allow us a way to describe to new visitors how to do something that maybe didn’t seem so obvious (like finding the perfect hike or learning how to dig for razor clams).

It’s difficult to summarize a 48-page style guide down to a 600-word column, but whether you are a life-long resident, a casual part-timer with a second home or a prospective new visitor, the ceiling is truly high in the number of ways we can tell everyone that It’s easy to Seaside!

 

For more information,  go to http://www.seasideor.com

 

Take a note.

Q: Who visited Fairweather House and Gallery recently (on a Thursday in March), you  ask?

A:  A group of ladies from Taiwan,  a group of college students who were working on an assignment of visiting galleries and writing about the pottery artists  (on mid-winter break from Seattle) and a couple from Vermont… all on a day when there was snow just six miles out of Seaside on Highway 26 (indeed, it is the bridge season between winter  and spring).

 

Spring Break 2019

Oregon Schools

Portland, Beaverton and Seaside area high schools     March 25-29

Willamette University, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon State University, Pacific University and University of Oregon    March 25-29

 

Washington Schools

Seattle    April 8-12

Tacoma,   Olympia/ Thurston County, Mt. Vernon and Clark County/ Vancouver   April 1-5

University of Washington    March 23-31

 

Idaho Schools

Boise schools March 18-22

Coeur D’ Alene March 25-29

The art of healing and building article.

Scratch Pad

A healer and harp builder

Duane Bolster found musical success through medicine

Q:  To Coast Weekend Arts and Entertainment/ The Daily Astorian: “Your article on March 6, 2019 about Duane Bolster, the Celtic harp builder. Lovely timing for the article came out right before St. Patrick’s Day. May I reprint your article and share it?”

A:  “Please do. Thanks.”  Erick Bengel, Coast Weekend

 

For decades, Duane Bolster, a harp builder from Portland, tried to learn one instrument after another — piano, clarinet, coronet, accordion — but reading music remained mysteriously difficult for him. He couldn’t comprehend how musicians sight-read so fluidly.

Then, about seven years ago, an ophthalmologist discovered growths on the focal points of Bolster’s retinas. His center of vision is gone in both eyes. He couldn’t notice the disorder; his brain fills in the missing visual information automatically. For example, a word with six letters might, to him, appear to have four. He can read text in his peripheral vision, but tracking sheet music, it turns out, is nearly impossible for him to do.

He told me this story in the presence of a Celtic harp he built, now displayed in the window of Fairweather’s House & Gallery, during the year’s first Seaside Art Walk, held earlier this month.

Bolster, 70, hails from a family of engineers and inventors, and can figure out the physics of a thing just by looking at it. He has been making harps for about 15 years. The harp at Fairweather’s took him about 60 hours to complete.

The harp that took longest to make — an elaborate, circular work of Bubinga, a hard, heavy African wood — was made for the Children’s Cancer Association in Portland and required 200 to 250 hours. He crafted it so that the inside opens outward to project the sound — a design that led appraisers to remark, “You don’t build harps like that,” he recalled.

“I could never stand doing something like somebody else did,” Bolster said. “You don’t get progress unless you improvise.”

Bolster could probably have foregone the final 50 hours of detailing — the sanding, polishing and perfecting of the roundness — without really changing the look. But it was only his second harp, and everything had to be just right.

Bolster spent his career working as a registered nurse at Pacific Northwest hospitals, doing dialysis and aphaeresis, specializing in children and newborns — kids who were critically ill and those suffering from chronic conditions.

He remembers harpists who would visit the children and play for them, a ritual that at times eased the distress in the room better than pain meds and physical therapy. “The children just loved it,” he said. “And that was one of the things that inspired me to make a lot of harps.”

When he retired from the medical field seven years ago, he did so knowing his harps would be used in medical ministry, to sooth sick children and other patients in hospitals and care centers.

“They just do magic stuff,” he said. “Kids in pain … you’d just see them relax,” he said. “It was amazing. I watched that for many years.”

He hasn’t taken up harp lessons; he’s been so busy making them and can’t stop. But he can tune them by ear. If he were to start all over with music, “I’d learn how to play by ear, and that would have solved it all,” he laughed.

 

 

 

 

Indeed, ’tis time for a wee bit of Irish. Fairweather’s. March 2019.


 ‘Shannon’ crystal candle sticks.

Ireland is home to some of the world’s most impressive crystal designs, among them ‘Shannon’  crystal. The craft of Irish crystal making is an art form that has been developed and modified over hundreds of years, going back as far as the Celts, who brought the first glass to Ireland in for jewelry making.

Table design featuring ‘Shannon’ crystal, mixed-media beach stone and lichen art by Peggy Stein, ‘Great Blue Heron’ oil painting by Paul Brent, miniature abstract by  Jo Pomeroy-Crockett, semi-precious gemstone necklaces by Mary Bottita.  Tables by D. Fairweather, gallerist/ allied member A.S.I.D., American Society of Interior Designers. Photo collage by Linda Fenton-Mendenhall.

Green art glass: no other medium captures the dance of light and color so perfectly, mouth blown gracefully into a free-form shape. Approximately 20’ diameter at rim.

Pastels on table by Leah Kohlenberg,  raw edged coffee table by Ray Noregaard, birch wood framed acrylics on grass cloth  by Barbara Bacon Folawn, abstract 12×12 by Diane Copenhaver, pen and ink framed and matted art by emerging artist Brenda Gordon, paper cloth beaded origami by Peggy Evans and table display featuring the liquid beauty of a hand blown fluted glass bowl. Photo collage by Linda Fenton-Mendenhall

One-of-a-kind hand-crafted art jewelry at the Fairweather Gallery. Distinctive  NW artist-made necklaces and earrings.

Concert grand piano display for ‘March’ featuring calligraphy by Penelope Culbertson and earrings by Mary Boitta, Mary Hurst, and Karen Johnson.

Contemporary Celtic cross necklace

Couture Celtic jewelry by Mary Hurst, oil landscapes by Lisa Wiser, large painting by Bev Drew Kindley and antique poem framed

Vintage Celtic cross

To read about the history of the Celtic cross, please visit https://www.gaelicmatters.com/celtic-cross-meaning.html

To read more about past Irish and March articles about  Fairweather’s go to:

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.wpcomstaging.com/…/a-round-of-applause-for-after-pa…

Mar 12, 2017 – A round of applause for after party images from IRISH LANDS, an exhibition opening at Fairweather’s.

IRISH LANDS  a bit o’ history …

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.wpcomstaging.com/…/irish-lands-sneak-peek-2-from-…
Feb 14, 2017 – Posted by Fairweather House and Gallery under Q&A | Tags: Art Galleries, … Kate Hegarty came to America from Ireland with a spinning wheel …
http://www.coastweekend.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2016160309995
Mar 2, 2016 – The Wildlife Center of the North Coast will bring a live American kestrel to FairweatherHouse and Gallery during …

 

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com/Inspirations/dollar.html
Making the Dollar: Fairweather House & Gallery. Published: March 26, 2009. During 25 years of interior design experience she …

Top left: mixed media 12 x 12 painting by Jan Rimerman, mini words in wisdom by Diane Copenhaver, ceramics, lava vases and pottery by Emily Miller, mouth blown glass platters by Sandy and Bob Lercari, pastel “Pond Reflection” by Dan Mackerman, as well as calligraphy by Penelope Culbertson.

Top center: “Great Blue Heron” oil painting by Paul Brent.

Top right:  pair of whimsical art by Marga Stanley.

Bottom left: Seaside Visitors Bureau/ Tourism booklet 2019 open to a page about the Fairweather Gallery.  Nature photography by Neal Maine.

Bottom center:  Wood boxes by Ray Noregaard.

Bottom right: IIumne  candle collection on piano,  Fine Art lamps,  mirror by Currey and Co., indoor/outdoor garden stool by Art Interiors and limited edition rabbit lithographs.

2019 March postcard by Linda Fenton-Mendenhall.