:::UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION

Umpqua Valley Arts Association

Hallie Brown Ford Gallery

Featuring original, innovative artwork in a wide range of styles that showcases some of the best local and regional artists of the Northwest. Artists' receptions are free and open to the public.

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Current HBF Exhibit 2010

The UVAA Annual Membership Open

June 18th through August 20

The membership show is hanging throughout every gallery in the building. This is one of the annual favorites of many; the show being made up of one art piece per member/creator. Age, media and profession set aside, the galleries are full of an eclectic array of artwork including hand made dolls, carousel horse, jewelry, journals and everything else.

Current membership is and was the only requirement to hang. In fact, if it fit through the door we accepted it!

Be thinking of next year's project now, the UVAA Open show applications will be on the website soon for 2011!

Past HBF Exhibits 2008 - 2009- 2010 Seasons

Below is the Juror's Choice Award:

Debi Bates, watercolor, Portland Steel Bridge.

All Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

12 CUBED ART SHOW HAS ARRIVED!

April 30th through June 11, 2010

140 total images were submitted for UVAA's current Halley Brown Ford Gallery small works exhibit and Juror Ken Roth has included 65 two and three dimensional pieces. Here is the list of those accepted artworks!

Congratulations to everyone who took on the submission challenge! Keep working, keep submitting. The old adage "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" is a fact!

A bid Congratulation to Debi Bate for winning the "Juror's Award" for her watercolor, "Portland Steel Bridge."

Thank you too, to Ken Roth, UVAA's 12 Cubed Juror for the wonderful job of putting together a beautiful exhibit! If you made it to the reception you had an opportunity to meet him!

(Juror's are hired professionals from out of the area and are sent only the images, an ID inventory number, the title and size of the piece from which to base decisions).

"ArtRageous"

BIENNIAL DOUGLAS COUNTY ALL STUDENT ART SHOW

March 5th through April 22, 2010

FUNNY, INTUITIVE, FRESH, ONE-OF-A-KIND, ADORABLE, THOUGHT PROVOKING.......

You will just have to come into the Arts Center before this year's Student Art Show ends to enjoy the 400+ art pieces that hang on every wall in every gallery on the main floor of the building!

This show provides the Arts Center reason to celebrate since it is responsible for funding so much of the work you will see.

Thank you to so many artist volunteers who are sent out with the mission to bring and maintain art in our schools; unfortunately so many schools within the district do not provide these experiences to our area children.

Thank you to all of you who continue to support the Arts Center through membership and volunteerism to help fund and make these community projects possible!

All Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

PILGRIMAGE - by LiDona Wagner

January 22 - February 27

Wonder - Encounter - Witness

To go on a long journey, to confront obstacles, to be grateful for kindness

To pay homage, to do penance to find meaning

To seek answers to ones deepest questions, to find ones self through testing

To see the world, to know the world, to become the world.

LiDona Wagner has created a cohesive and creative exhibit that describes her travels with a 21 person grassroots team around the world. She uses color, form, stories, fabrics and artifacts to relay to the visitor her unique experiences.

Join her in her travels by stopping in to view this exceptional and heartfelt body of work. You may want to come by more than once so you can take time to pause and reflect.

Above Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

How I See Myself - a Self Portrait Exhibition

This exhibit is sure to make you smile, think, and wish you could meet the artists who took on the challenge. Juried by John Benjamin, Elee Hadley, J. Lynn Peterson, Renee Couture, Greg Price and Vinita Pappas; with one hundred works submitted, this team had to work hard to narrow thier decisions down to the 40 on display.

The artwork represents a wide array of media and a broad conception of how they see themselves; you will surely want to see this first hand.

VICKI COOPERS "LEGACY" TOOK THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD FOR THE THE SELF PORTRAIT EXHIBITION! IT SOLD THE NIGHT OF THE RECEPTION TO AN OUT OF TOWN BUYER; CONGRATS VICKI!

MARICO FAYRE'S "LAKE WATER" WAS A VERY CLOSE SECOND!

Vicki Cooper's - Legacy

Mel Murray's - Guilded Grouch

3RD ANNUAL HUNDRED VALLEYS NORTHWEST ART SHOW AND COMPETITION

August 28th through October 30th

The Umpqua Valley Arts Association is excited to present The Third Annual Hundred Valleys Exhibit in the Hallie Brown Ford Gallery from August 28-October 30, 2009. This year’s Hundred Valleys transitioned from a state-wide juried exhibit to a regional exhibit open to artists from Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Northern California.

Juried by Walt Padgett the exhibit includes 52 works by 31 artists. Padgett stated, “[it] was a difficult selection process given the breadth of artwork there to choose from,” which shows in the quality of the work on display. This year’s exhibit includes a full range of media, style and theme. From painting to photography, ceramics and woodworking and more, Padgett used his unique perspective to coordinate a wide variety of works to create a strong show that is sure to please any viewer.

Artists exhibiting in this year’s Hundred Valleys are:

Peter G. Alsen

Martha Anderson

Sam Collett

Susan Comerford

Vicki Cooper

Renee Couture

Oksana Davyda-Lencki

Marico Fayre

Marjorie Feldman

John R. Galvin

Bernie J. Herr

Judy Hyde

Karen Ilari

Susan Lehman

Letha Mitchell

Vinita Pappas

Betty J. Powell

Franklin O. Pratt

Shirley Reade

Bruce S. Richardson

John Rodarte

Susan Rudisill

William Shedd

Ellen Thorsen

John Waller

Nancy Watterson Scharf

Gail Werner

Diane Williams

Irv Williams

The awards were given as follows, congratulations to the winners!

The J. Lynn Peterson Award, 1st Place - Susan Comerford

Autumn, Cavitt Creek Oil

2nd Place - Diane Williams

42 Fish Oil

3rd Place - Nancy Watterson Scharf

Whispers Acrylic on canvas

People's Choice Award - John Galvin

Storm Eagle Acrylic

We are already working on next year's Hundred Valley prospectus which will be posted on the website by the first of the year if not sooner. If you missed this great opportunity, begin getting ready for next year's by marking your calendar. Next year's show will open on August 27, 2010!

ANNUAL UVAA MEMBERSHIP SHOW "DELICIOUS"

The building is bursting with color, flavor and just a lot of testament to talent! The Membership Show is one of the benefits to being a member of UVAA! This is held once a year throughout the building and is a time for each member to submit without jury or charge one piece of choice that has been completed within the last two years.

If you are not a member this would be one good reason to join in!

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Members of High Fiber Diet -

April 17 through June 5, 2009

"Line Dance" Fiber art pieces that all share a common thread....a green line that runs through every unique piece.

Come and see this Washington and Oregon based fiber art group's 2009 show as it debuts right here at the UVAA. Each original artwork will contain one constant factor in its composition: A horizontal line that will dance around the gallery, from piece to piece, from vision to vision, from dream to fantasy! This is fiber art at its best and most creative!

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Thirty seven pieces complete this exquisite gallery showing of fiber artistry. Twenty top fiber "goddesses" have created works so finely stitched, dyed, cut, quilted, woven and designed that one must see it to appreciate it. Two of the pieces are scarves created and embellished to perfection.

The artists include: Mary Arnold, Diane Born, Christina Brown, Bonnie Bucknam, Caroline Burton, Gerrie Congdon, Georgia French, Mary Goodson, Terry Grant, Amy Hahn, Carol Heist, Laura Jaszkowski, Sandy Keating, Shirley MacGregor, Karen Miller, Barbara Neill, Maarja Paris and Zee Wilks.

Thanks to Douglas County Farmers Co-Op and Apex Store of Roseburg the Hallie Gallery has a beautiful water feature that will draw you in and keep you there for a while to enjoy these new works.