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Eightyfourth Edition of the Gallery Calapooia Newsletter
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Gallery Calapooia Newsletter
September 2020

Featured Artists for September 2020
Cindy Conder and Lori Garcy
Cindy Conder of Corvallis and Lori Garcy of Brownsville are the featured artists for September at Gallery Calapooia.
Cindy Conder,    Glass, Silver Fish
Cindy Conder
 
As a fused glass artist, I’m constantly exploring new techniques to stretch the limits of kiln-formed glass. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with methods like glass combing, pot-melts that allow the glass to flow through the mold, and on-edge strip construction that showcases the cut surface of each strip of glass.

This collection is designed to highlight the limitless variety of colors, textures, and forms that fused glass can create using these exciting new techniques. There is so much potential within each piece of glass, the combinations and possibilities are truly endless. I hope that they’re able to bring a bit of color into your life the way they have to mine.
 
Cindy Conder, Sunflower on left. 
Detail of Green Pot Melt on right.
Cindy Conder, detail Venetian
Lori Garcy
 
Lori is a metalsmith who constructs jewelry, sculptures and yard art from copper, brass, silver and precious metal clay (PMC). Precious Metal Clay is a combination of water, binders, and small particles of either silver or gold. It is molded by hand into a desired shape then heated in a kiln or by torch to remove the binder and fuse the metal powder into a solid form. PMC originated in Japan in 1990.

You can use silver or gold metal clay to make extraordinary jewelry; it's a material that looks and feels like clay and yet, when fired, it becomes pure, precious metal. Model it, give it texture, shape it, and fire it as you would any other clay. Once it's transformed into metal, it can be buffed, burnished, polished, enameled, or patinated. Virtually anything you can create with traditional fine silver or pure gold, you can craft with metal clay, and so it's the perfect material for jewelry-making.


 
Lori Garcy, PMC Pendant
Lori Garcy, PMC Pendants
Her yard art, flowers and sea creatures, is constructed of copper sheets that are hand cut, hammered and riveted together.  They eventually will weather to a dark copper or green patina.

Nature is her inspiration. Sea creatures, flowers, leaves and even bark on trees can be stimuluses for creating items from metal. She finds it exciting to take a sheet of metal and move it from a flat surface into a three-dimensional object or form a lump of PMC into a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry.

Her work can be found in Albany at Gallery Calapooia and in Brownsville at Brownsville Art Center.
 
Lori Garcy, Copper Wall Flowers
Lori Garcy, Bundle of Copper Yard Art Pieces
 
We Are Open!
New Gallery Procedures
Masks will be required for all visitors and we will have some disposable masks available if you don't have your own. In addition, two of our members (Karen Miller and Pat Spark) will have wonderful cloth masks for sale.  We encourage people to use the hand sanitizer station at the door.  The number of customers in the Gallery will be limited to no more than 8 at a time, with a couple being counted as one person. This is to help maintain social distancing. For the time being, our restrooms are  closed to the public.
 
We have a new credit card system that should make things faster and will not require a signature on the tablet device. This will help keep things cleaner when you are making your purchases. In addition, we are cleaning touched surfaces, such as the sales desk after each transaction.

Our tentative operating hours are 11 – 3 and we are open Tuesday through Saturday.

However, remember that you can always make an appointment to come into the Gallery. We would love to meet you personally at the gallery at another prearranged time so that you can shop for that special item.  Call 541-971-5701.   

Until Further Notice
All Face-to-Face First Friday Receptions Have Been Cancelled

However, we will continue to have
Virtual First Fridays!

On September 4, 6:00 PM, Linda Herd and Lori Garcy will host a Virtual Tour of the Gallery. Cindy Conder and Lori Garcy will be on hand to explain their work. You can go to our Facebook page to view the tour as it is happening, or you can see it on the FB page later.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/GalleryCalapooia/posts/

 
News from Gallery Members
Lori Garcy has an outdoor show of her copper flowers and sea creatures at The Oregon Garden in Silverton.  This show runs until September 27, 2020.  Called Art in the Garden, the exhibit is open 10am-4pm daily. In addition to Lori, other local artists will showcase their handcrafted pieces throughout the summer, giving guests an opportunity to purchase new pieces for their home and garden! Artwork ranges from smaller, glass-blown items to large-scale, permanent art installations. A majority of the art will be for sale, while some may become permanent installations in the Garden.

https://www.oregongarden.org/art-in-the-garden/
 

Karen Miller will be exhibiting two of her wall pieces in the upcoming exhibit called Journeys. This exhibit is a juried show from High Fiber Diet, a community of fiber artist from NW Oregon and SW Washington. The show will be exhibited first at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum from October 28, 2020 through January 31, 2021. Check with the venue for updated hours. The museum is located at: 112 Morris Street; La Conner, WA 98257 www.qfamuseum.org

It will then travel to The Latimer Quilt & Textile Center, July through August, 2021. 2105 Wilson River Loop Road; Tillamook, Oregon 97141 Email: latimertextile@centurylink.net Facebook: Latimer Quilt and Textile Center
Karen Miller -  Hunger in a Time of Quarantine
Based on a haunting photo by Colombian Camilo Rozo. The red flags indicate hunger in a Bogota apartment building for families already victims of Colombia’s long civil war. (This is one of the wall pieces in the traveling exhibit.) 
Karen Miller - One Hundred Days of Solitude, detail on right

Stay Safe Everyone!
 Outside Venues
Sybaris Bistro
 
How exciting that Sybaris is open again for the public! Besides the fact that their amazing food is available for sit down meals again, this also means that we can hang art work from our Gallery on their walls. 442 W 1st Ave, Albany, OR 97321  

Mary Ridler will be exhibiting during the months of September and October. Visit Sybaris to see her delightful paintings.
Mary Ridler - “Acorn Stove with Squirrel”
 
Japanese Garden - Portland
Karen Miller -
If you travel to Portland to the newly reopened Japanese Garden Gift Shop, you will see some of Karen Miller's work represented there. 611 SW Kingston Ave., Portland, Oregon 97205

Gift Registry and Gift Certificates


Let Gallery Calapooia help you with special gifts by using our Gift Registry. Come in, note items in our gift registry that you would like to receive as gifts, and let your loved one know so that he or she can get you the perfect gift at Gallery Calapooia. We also have Gift Certificates available.

 
Gallery Calapooia is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Donations to the gallery are tax-deductible.
 


Artists Invited to Apply for Membership 


Artist Application form for membership in Gallery Calapooia
Membership and application information

 
Visit our Events Calendar to keep up with classes and events that will be
occurring at the gallery.
 
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Gallery Calapooia Inc. receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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