Special Event!
AGA Annual Student Show
Featuring Ashland High School Students
March First Friday will have a very special added attraction when the Ashland Gallery Association celebrates student art. Each year the AGA hosts a student show. Alongside art by well-known local, regional and national artists, a dozen galleries will feature works by budding young student artists from the Fine Arts Department of Ashland High School.
During the First Friday Art Walk on March 6th, and throughout the month of March, visitors to AGA galleries will be dazzled by the beauty and uniqueness of the art made by these creative young minds. There will be paintings, drawings, mixed media, fiber arts, special woodworking and jewelry pieces as well as photography on display.
Uptown, downtown and Railroad District galleries will participate in the student art show. Participating galleries include: Adelante! Gallery, Art & Soul Gallery, Ashland Art Works, Creekside Pizza, Enoteca Wine Bar, Nimbus, Oak Leaf Studios, Push Gallery, Studio AB, as well as the SOU student-run gallery in the basement level of the Marion Ady building on the University Campus.
These galleries will host the following 23 local high school students: Alex Roberts, Alli Haynes, Clara Baxter, Dannae Stewart, David Lehrburger, Ellie Stanek, Ivy Connelly, Kianna Stupakoff, Kreshana Belias-Baker, Lars Filson, Mariposa Tratensek-Contor, Mel Elshalom, Miriam Alba Ochoa, Raven Borgilt, Reid Higley, Samara Diab, Sarah Lynch, Sonora Jessup, Sonora Mindling-Werling, Stephanie Kutcher, Sunshine Love, Tereza Stott, and Theo Whitcomb.
During First Friday events, the student artists will be present at their hosting gallery from 5:00-8:00 p.m. to proudly discuss their work. All are invited and the community is encouraged to support these emerging artists by visiting the galleries.
Visit “First Friday Art Walk” page under “Events” on the AGA website home page to download the map of participating galleries: www.ashlandgalleries.com
The Ashland Gallery Association is a non-profit organization promoting the visual arts in Ashland.
For more information, please contact:
Whitney Rolfe at (541) 951-4452; whitney.rolfe@gmail.com
Image caption: student artist, Sonora Mindling-Werling
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Houston’s Custom Framing
New artist Sean Bagshaw!
We are delighted to be now showing the works of acclaimed local photographer Sean Bagshaw. Recognized for its beauty and power, Sean's work has won numerous awards including Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards and International Conservation Photography Awards. Sean's photographs hang in the collection of many Rogue Valley businesses as well as gracing the covers of numerous magazines including Northwest Magazine and Outdoor Photographer Magazine.
Please join us for the First Friday in March as we will hosting an artist reception for Sean with wine provided by Platt Anderson Cellars - Ashland's only urban winery.
Image caption: ECLIPSE OVER MT. SHASTA REVISITED, Sean Bagshaw, Photography
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Special Event!
Oregon Chocolate Festival Kicks Off During March First Friday with artist demonstration at Ashland Springs Hotel Lobby!
Paper artist, Candy Wooding, will be demonstrating making boxes in the lobby of the Ashland Springs Hotel during the First Friday Art Walk on Friday March 6 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. What could be more perfect for a Chocolate Festival than boxes for chocolate? These decorative boxes can display the perfect truffle or be given as a gift (with chocolate, of course).
Candy has her studio on the second floor of the Ashland Art Center where you can see many more of her paper creations. There, during the First Friday Art Walk, Paul Littell will be demonstrating how to make mice out of Hershey's Chocolate Kisses. Candy includes instructions for making the mice and templates for making many of her boxes on her blog: www.mypaperarts.com
For more information visit:
http://www.ashlandspringshotel.com/oregon-chocolate-festival/first-friday-art-walk-demo/
Image caption: Decorative boxes by Candy Wooding
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JEGA Gallery & Sculpture Garden
The 21st Annual Women With Attitude and Men Who Love Women With Attitude Art Exhibit!
This year's art event opens March 6th 2015 for Women's History Month and runs through April and the Ashland Gallery Association’s A Taste Of Ashland weekend. Accepted artwork includes: paintings, sculptures, multimedia, and photography.
Each year JEGA encourages artists to submit original paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and poetry or performance art for jury selection to be considered for the annual art show.
J. Ellen Austin, the resident artist of the JEGA Gallery believes, women with 'Attitude,' and the men who LOVE us, exhibit courage in their daily lives and strive to give back to others, their communities and society at large.” J. Ellen goes on to say, I’m talking about women and men who do something with their lives and keep on doing, keep on learning, growing and contributing.”
“Attitude” symbolizes an outlook and respect for other peoples’ philosophies, lifestyles and cultural diversities while retaining a youthful willingness to learn and grow from new knowledge and experiences.”
JEGA is welcoming artist entries for April! Each artist may submit up to two entries with the application form no later than March 23, 2015 for April 2015 Exhibit. There is a $10 submission fee per entry, which will be waived for students with proper I.D. Applications are available at the JEGA Gallery, 625 A street, or call: 541-488-2474 or email: jega4art@gmail.com
JEGA looks forward to each year’s entries because “one of the wonders of “Women With Attitude” is creativity, in all senses, all forms.” Each year an incredible array of entries have come in from talented Women AND Men in our Rogue Valley and beyond! These works comprising photographs, sculptures, drawings, paintings and performance art provoke a whole spectrum of thoughts and bring forth a whole range of emotions.
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Hanson Howard Gallery
"Scenerios": Peter VanFleet and David Masters
PETER: “I would like to think my paintings form at a precognitive juncture of the senses. As an abstract artist I think it important to understand this stance.
According to the neuropsychologist Donald Hebb, 80% of all feedback from our senses comes from sight, so the major conveyance tool artists obviously use is sight. However, it is the other 20% of what we ingest from the outside that truly makes a painting, the profoundest being music:
Harmony and cacophony building to a crescendo.
Both part of the same whole
Obviously or subtly
Manifest in the painting.
The tactical and taste senses
Texture and relief
To feel and touch with your eyes
The rawness and flavor in the composition
Yes, Yes, Yes
I hope to convey the unity of inner-outer, material-spiritual, accidental-preordained so to feel life as a hosanna to joy. In the moment of creating this does occur.
To take charge of my fate while being asleep at the wheel.”
DAVID MASTERS reconstructs fragments of rooms creating scenerios and becoming “……..places torn loose from context, that recall a world and a state of the self ruined by time and circumstance. Yet masters fragments can also be seen as the cornerstones of new understanding, based on a recognition of the importance, and the indelibility of times past in their relation to the rapidly changing present.” Douglas Max Utter
Image caption: painting submitted by Hanson Howard Gallery
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